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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 26, 
LINING A GALVANIZED TANK. 
R. A. F., Fern dale, A T . Y.—Could you ad¬ 
vise me as to lining a tank with some rust¬ 
proof material ? We have been using a 
heavy galvanized tank, the heaviest made, 
in the garret to hold the water pumped up 
by the windmill, but some mineral in the 
water causes the tank to rust. The tank 
has a capacity of about 12 barrels. We 
had the first one put in about eight years 
ago, and it rusted through so as to be 
worthless; then we had a much heavier one 
put in, and now it is full of partly eaten- 
through places, all over the bottom and 
sides of the tank. Spots form- about the 
size of a 10-cent piece. Do you think lin¬ 
ing with copper or some such material 
would injure the water? 
Ans. —The most serviceable coating 
readily applied to protect such a tank 
would be melted asphalt, applied hot with 
a brush. It would be well to add a little 
coal tar to the asphalt to make it less 
brittle, but not enough so but that it 
would be hard when cold; probably one 
part of cold tar to three parts of asphalt 
would give about the right consistency. 
The melting can be done in an iron 
kettle of the deep kitchen size, either 
over a small out-door fire or over the 
stove. It would probably be best not to 
melt more than half a kettleful at a 
time and cover the sides first, then the 
bottom can be covered by pouring the 
melted asphalt in and spreading it over 
the bottom, giving it a good heavy coat¬ 
ing. If the melting is done out of doors 
a cover should be at hand to put over 
the kettle to smother the flames in case 
the gas from the coal tar should take 
fire. It is very important that the inside 
of the tank should be thoroughly dry be¬ 
fore the coating is applied, otherwise it 
will not stick. It may be desirable to 
set a large kerosene lamp or kerosene 
stove in the bottom of the tank, letting 
it burn for some hours to ins'ure the dry¬ 
ing. F. H. KING. 
“CHEMICALS AND CLOVER” ONCE MORE. 
P. Q., Fulton, N. Y .—In “Chemical and 
Clover,” which I found exceedingly instruc¬ 
tive, you have given us the gross income 
from Mr. Lewis's farm for several years, 
ending with 1907. If possible, will you ob¬ 
tain for the readers of The It. N.-Y. an ac¬ 
count of the income for the year 1909, giv¬ 
ing the bushels and tons and the prices ob¬ 
tained for the produce sold? Also an ac¬ 
count showing the various expenses in¬ 
curred in producing and selling the crops 
for that year? I think such a statement 
would be very instructive to your readers. 
Ans. —“Chemicals and Clover” is a 
study of the farm operations of Mr. D. 
C. Lewis, of Middlesex Co., N. J. Mr. 
Lewis has 100 acres of strong level land. 
The tillable land, about 90 acres, is 
divided into five fields for a definite ro¬ 
tation. Starting with a two-year-old sod 
all the year’s accumulation of manure is 
put on that field. It is all plowed under 
for corn. The next year this corn ground 
is plowed and planted to potatoes, 1200 
pounds or more of fertilizer per acre 
being used. An early variety is planted. 
They are dug early and wheat is seeded 
with Timothy and clover in the Spring. 
The wheat is cut and the grass and 
clover cut two years, after which the 
same rotation follows in another round. 
A small herd of cows is kept, largely to 
eat up the cornstalks, which were for¬ 
merly thrown into the barnyard and 
used as manure. The theory is that the 
heavy application of fertilizer to the po¬ 
tato crop will give a good yield and with 
light applications of chemicals to wheat 
and grass give the needed plant food. 
The sod, straw and stalks provide humus 
to keep the soil in good condition. We 
have given the figures of sales from this 
farm for 34 years. They foot up $88,- 
343.72. Sales for the first 10 years 
averaged $2155 ; for the last 10, includ¬ 
ing 1907, this average was $3049, which 
shows that high-grade chemical fertiliz¬ 
ers can and do keep up the productive 
power of this farm. In regard to farm 
sales for 1909, Mr. Lewis sends us the 
following: 
I enclose herewith statement as you re¬ 
quest of last year’s results from the farm. 
If it had been this year I could have shown 
best results ever derived from farm in 
one year; it will crowd near $4,000, with 
less fertilizers, one short crop, which is the 
corn crop, caused by drought at time of set¬ 
ting. Our last year’s loss was principally 
on potatoes. This year’s potato crop will 
give over $2,000 on same acreage. 
Sales from farm, April 1, 1909, to March 
31, 1910: 
Milk and calves. $539.13 
Potatoes . 1,023.49 
Hay . 817.37 
Corn, personal sales. 149.94 
Wheat . 455.93 
$2,985.86 
Cow feed. $368.79 
Seeds . 322.62 
Fertilizers .=. 683.86 
$1,075.27 
D. C. LEWIS. 
MORE ABOUT CORN HARVESTERS. 
I read carefully the statements of J. 
Henry Rines on page 917, and also of J. P. 
K. on page 985. I did not reply sooner be¬ 
cause I wished to give others a chance but 
it seems there are few using corn cutting 
machinery. I wrote a really good safe mod¬ 
erate statement. Since I wrote one man 
with three light horses cut two acres in two 
hours. The amount one cuts depends some 
on the distance of the rows apart and 
whether it is field or fodder corn. Two of 
the machines we use here can be set to 
scrape the ground. One man this Fail cut 
50 acres, besides 15 for himself. A sickle 
is a very poor tool to cut corn by hand 
with, and no man can cut an acre of fod¬ 
der corn as we raise it here, and he will 
have to move lively to cut an acre of field 
corn. The trouble is with Mr. Rines, not 
the machines, and to the point I will men¬ 
tion a case I noticed a year ago. Three 
men bought a corn harvester. It did not 
make good, so one of them backed out. The 
farmers were at fault, and did not raise corn 
tall enough; they planted too thick. But 
one of them had brains, and said to the 
other: “We can raise taller corn than 
this; let us keep this machine and give it 
another trial.” This Fall if worked like 
a weaver’s loom. We have four makes 
here, and three of them have certainly 
made good. I firmly believe the manufac¬ 
turers are to blame and should be roasted 
soundly. They send out machines never 
set up and tested, and send out men to 
put them up who know nothing about them, 
and if they don’t work they are utterly 
helpless. I bought a grain drill and what 
was put together was wrong and it could 
not be made to work. After a close exam¬ 
ination I saw the gear levers were too for 
to one side, and would not even let the 
hoes rise up. In buying a machine ex¬ 
amine it carefully, and take the one that 
shows the most careful workmanship, even 
if it costs a little more; test it squarely in 
corn at least three feet high. We haven’t 
the labor or time here to cut corn by hand. 
Some have to. d. p. b. 
Standish, N. Y. 
Another Corn Harvester.— I have "care¬ 
fully read the statement of J. Henry Rines 
on page 917 in regard to corn harvesters. 
I thought it was so near right that no 
one could dispute it, but on page 985 I see 
a different experience by .7. P. K. of New 
York. He says he can cut five or six acres 
in a day. So he can if the machine works 
all right with three men, three horses, 
oil and twine. Well, three men with sickles 
can cut that much and do it fully as well 
if not better, and just as easily as with a 
machine. Where’s the advantage? 
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