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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 24, 
A CAPE COD DRILLED WELL. 
E. L. No. Truro, Mass .—For a long 
time we have needed a water supply. Our 
present inadequate supply is two wells 10 
or 17 feet deep, one at thp house and an¬ 
other at the barn. Right at this part of 
Cape Cod is a clay formation cropping out 
on the ocean in cliffs of blue clay that ap¬ 
pear like rocks at a little distance. Where 
our house stands, one-fourth mile from 
ocean, the blue clay is covered with a 
few feet of red clay containing the water 
courses. The blue clay is impervious to 
water, and a cavity in that acts as a 
storage basin for the water that leaks 
from the red clay veins. Not over 100 
feet down is the water table of pure soft 
water, while our surface water is very 
hard, and the open wells are unclean and 
the supply scanty in Summer. Ninety 
paces west of our house well we bored IS 
feet with an earth auger and then found 
water, indicating that clay was near. 
Thirty-three paces northwest we got water 
at 28.5 feet and at 29 feet the clay was 
so dense the auger would not work. Also 
next above clay was sand that appeared 
to run into the hole, indicating that if 
we persisted we should get a cave-ln that 
would cost us the auger. I have some 
3.5-inch casing. If I could get through 
the clay would then feel warranted in 
starting to drive a strainer. It is impos¬ 
sible to drive very far in clay. Can I 
start the casing and use the three-inch 
auger to take out the core of the clay, or 
is there any better method? I can go 
further from the house and across the 
road, but of course do not know what I 
may find, and I want the well where I 
started it. 
Ans.— If it is quite certain that only 
clay without rock or bowlders or coarse 
gravel in it will be met before the soft 
water stratum is reached, the casing can 
be put down into the clay and then a 
churn drill can be improvised which can 
be raised and allowed to fall by means 
of a rope over a pulley, to loosen up the 
clay, first pouring water into the well 
and baling this out with a bucket pro¬ 
vided with a foot-valve. If the clay 
is very firm it is quite possible that a 
hole can be drilled through to the sand 
or water-bearing stratum. If it is not 
rigid it is very probable that the casing 
itself can be driven forward as the hole 
is excavated with the drill. Whether this 
will be less expensive than to employ a 
well-driller with proper tools I cannot 
say. F. H. KING. 
NORTHERN NUT GROWERS’ ASSOCIA¬ 
TION. 
This new society was organized in New 
York, November 17, 1910. The committee 
on organization presented the following re¬ 
port, which was adopted by the meeting: 
The society shall be known as the North¬ 
ern Nut Growers’ Association. Its object 
is the promotion of interest in nut-pro¬ 
ducing plants, their products, and their 
culture. Membership in the society shall 
be open to all persons who desire to further 
nut culture, without reference to place of 
residence or nationality. There shall be 
a president, a vice-president, a secretary- 
treasurer, and an executive committee of 
five persons, of which latter the president 
and secretary shall be members. The asso¬ 
ciation shall hold an annual meeting on or 
about November 15 and such other special 
meetings as may seem desirable, these to 
be called by the president and executive 
committee. The fees shall be of two kinds, 
annual and life. The former shall be $2, 
the latter $ 20 . 
In addition to a large number of letters 
from nut growers, North, South, East and 
West, several papers of present-day interest 
were presented. Among these was one from 
Prof. W. N. Hutt, State Horticulturist of 
North Carolina, on nut growing in that 
State, and another from Henry Hicks, of 
Westbury, Long Island, containing practical 
and pointed remarks and suggestions, which, 
taken together, clearly defined the probable 
field and scope of the society's work. Some 
discussion took place as to whether the 
association should organize independently, 
or in affiliation with the National Nut 
Growers’ Association. It was thought best 
to organize independently for the present, 
and the question of affiliation could be taken 
up later on. 
After the report of the committee on 
constitution and by-laws was presented 
and accepted, those desiring to qualify for 
voting privilege were given the opportunity 
of paying their fees, after which the elec¬ 
tion of officers took place, resulting as fol¬ 
lows: President, Dr. Robert T. Morris, 
New York City; vice-president, Mr. T. P. 
Littlepage, Washington, D. C ; secretary- 
treasurer, Dr. W. C. Deming, Westchester, 
N. Y.; executive committee, Prof. John 
Craig, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; 
Mr. Henry Hales, Ridgewood, N. J.; Prof. 
C. P. Close, College Park, Md. The ex¬ 
hibits included grafting tools and fine 
specimens of nuts from Henry Hales, Ridge¬ 
wood, N. J.; Mrs. Joseph T. Lovett, Emllie, 
Bucks County, Pa.; L. C. Hall, Avonia, Pa.; 
Elton B. Holden, Hilton, N. Y.; W. E. 
Howard & Son, Holley, N. Y. ; T. P. Little- 
page, Washington, D. C.; Simpson Bros., 
Vincennes. Ind.; C. K. Sober, Lewisburg, 
Pa.; .1. F. Jones, Jeanerette, La.; J. W. 
Kerr, Denton, Md.; Standard Pecan Co., 
Bloomington, Ill.; Dr. W. C. Deming, 
Westchester, New York City; Harper Se- 
cord, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada; 
George Febrey, College St. James, Mary¬ 
land ; A. M Johnson, Milwaukee, Wis.; J. 
F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga.; J. Eliot Coit, 
Whittier, Cal. w. c. D. 
LOOKING UP “THE CONSUMER’S 
DOLLAR.” 
It is very appropriate for The R. N.-I. 
to see if the producer may not get a larger 
share of the consumer’s dollar. I believe 
we are not very fully informed as to the 
extreme smallness of the producer’s share 
at present. It was my privilege to talk 
with some of the consumers in your great 
city recently. One gentleman who occupies 
a position which it would seem should 
guarantee him a pretty liberal salary, asked 
me what we ace getting for potatoes up 
here in the country. I replied that the 
market price seems to be about 35 cents 
just now. “I pay eight cents a quart for 
them,” he remarked. I thought to push 
this inquiry a little further, and got a re¬ 
port from some very poor people who oc¬ 
cupy two small rooms. There are four 
in the family and their only furniture in 
the “front” room was two chairs and a 
table, besides a small stove. That front 
room did not face the street, and it was 
dark and dreary. The two children were 
thin and unhealthy. Probably some of 
the pure milk agitators would think that 
the milk of some of our country cows has 
been given the children, causing them to be¬ 
come sickly and emaciated. These people 
buy potatoes, sometimes as many as two 
or three at a time. At other times only 
a single one is purchased. It has been com¬ 
puted that these people pay between $4 and 
$5 a bushel for the potatoes they get, while 
the other person mentioned buys for $2.56 
a bushel, provided he gets good measure. 
In the case of the man who buys at eight 
cents a quart, the producer gets about 12 
or 13 cents of the consumer’s dollar. 
H. H. LYON. 
R. N.-Y.—It would do many a farmer 
good to come to New York or some other 
great city and see for himself just what 
people pay for their food. The above cases 
are extreme, yet there are many who pay 
for food more than three times as much as 
the farmer receives. It is only a question 
of making the producers actually know the 
facts. That is why we keep at it so per¬ 
sistently. Just as soon as the farmers 
really know what is going on they will 
make such a fight that the present out¬ 
rageous system of distribution must be 
changed. 
OHIO CROP REPORTS. 
The corn area for 1910 was 3,074,292 
acres; estimated yield, 105,512,245 bushels. 
Seven per cent of the crop was put into 
silo. The crop for the last six years 
amounted to 671,556,961 bushels. Apples 
were 56 per cent of an average crop; to¬ 
bacco yield, 818 pounds per acre. About 
79 per cent of the average amount of cattle 
and 81 per cent of sheep are being fed for 
meat. 
POULTRY AND PARCELS POST.—I was 
mightily pleased to note the warm words 
of our veteran western agriculturist, Prof. 
W. A. Henry, of Wisconsin, on the parcels 
post, in The R. N.-Y. of December 3. I 
suggest that every poultryman in the 
United States pen postals to his Congress¬ 
man urging that the parcels post be acted 
on promptly. There are over five million 
keepers of poultry in this country. The 
parcels post will help push poultry pro¬ 
gress more than any other means that could 
be mentioned. It will benefit both the pro¬ 
ducers and consumers of poultry products. 
If the “infertile” politicians can't pass a 
bill establishing the longed for parcels 
post, let the prolific poultrymen replace 
them in Congress and there'll be good legis¬ 
lation successfully incubated. We pay too 
high a price to the express companies for 
having our packages of “eggs for hatching ’ 
used as footballs. a. a. buigham. 
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New England Corn Exposition 
at Worcester 
BEST ACRE DENT CORN-OPEN TO ALL NEW ENGLAND 
Raised on Hubbard’s “Bone Base” Soluble Corn and General Crops Manure by E.W.Theinert, Albion, R.l. 
117 f-5 bushels of Shelled Corn from one acre. 
Mr. Theinert describes his Crop and Methods as follows: 
Albion, R. I Nov. 15,1910. 
In the Fall of 1908 I broke up about three acres of RUN OUT meadow land, a 
heavy loam soil, sloping to the East on rather high land in Lincoln, K. L, where 
my farm is located. 
During the winter of 1908-1909, a medium application of barnyard manure was 
applied broadcast. In the Spring of 1909 the land was prepared for planting with a 
Clark Busli and Bog Plow and 800 lbs. per acre of Hubbard’s “Bone Base’’ Soluble 
Corn and General Crops Manure was broadcasted and worked.into the soil with a 
smoothing harrow, after which the field was planted with Dibble’s Dent Corn 
from which a good crop was harvested. 
In the Spring of 1910 the same field was again prepared for planting to Corn 
with the same Clark Bush and Bog Plow and 1,200 lbs. per acre of Hubbard’s 
“Bone Base” Soluble Corn and General Crops Manure, broadcasted and harrowed 
in at hist harrowing with smoothing harrow. Absolutely no other MANURE or 
FERTILIZER was applied for the 1910 crop. 
Brewer’s Yellow Dent Seed Cora was planted May 17th, 1910, and thorough flat 
cultivation kept up through the season. On the acre selected for the test, there 
were 68 skipped hills. The measurement, harvesting, weights and testing for dry- 
matter were all made by and under the direction of the Rhode Island Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station. 
I attribute my success to the combination of intelligent application of methods 
and material, especially Hubbard’s “Bone Base” Fertilizers. I was formerly an 
advocate of home-mixed Chemical Fertilizers until the General Agent, Allen N. 
Hoxsie, explained Hubbard’s “Base Bone” Fertilizers and induced me to try 
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When 1,200 lbs. of Hubbard’s “Bone Base” Fertilizer per acre wins the Acre 
Prize against all New England, it leaves nothing for me to say except “go and do 
likewise.” The total harvest of Husked Corn was 8205 lbs., equalling 117 1-5 bushels 
Shelled Corn at 70 lbs. per bushel on cob. The Dry Matter report from the Rhode 
Island Agricultural Experiment Station was 4.800 lbs., which won the First Prize. 
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Edward w. theinert. 
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