1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
619 
Farm Management 
Conducting a Pea Cannery. 
What does it cost to equip and conduct 
a good-sized modern pea cannery? 
It requires a capital of from $100,000 
to $150,000 to equip and conduct a 
modern pea cannery, as the enterprise 
must compete with well-organized and 
favorably located plants, long established 
and having a recognized good will. A 
favorable location will be understood to 
cover questions of proper soil, climate, 
altitude, drainage, water supply and 
transportation, both rail and highway. 
In addition there must be easily accessi¬ 
ble a supply of labor that can be relied 
on for a period of six weeks in mid- 
Summer. It will be apparent that the 
above considerations limit pea canning 
operations to relatively few localities, 
and nobody should undertake the busi¬ 
ness without reliable expert advice. 
Will peas put into silage make as good 
cow feed as corn silage? 
Pea silage is much better cow feed 
than corn silage. This has been the ex¬ 
perience of many farmers located near 
Cazenovia. They are beginning to learn 
of its value and the demand for it is 
increasing each year. 
IIow many tons per acre of peas for 
silage would be a fair yield? 
Four tons of peas and vines per acre 
would be a good yield. h. b. 
Believes in Manure Spreaders. 
On page 225 H. H. asks for a discus¬ 
sion of implements necessary for a small 
farm of 40 to 60 acres. Just what tool 
or implement one should use depends on 
the team to be used and the character of 
the soil to be tilled. For a two or three- 
horse farm I would suggest that H. H. 
does not need a gang plow at all, which 
he seems to favor. But he should have 
a medium-sized sulky plow or a good- 
sized two-horse plow and a one-horse 
plow. I do not advise the use of a small 
plow for breaking purposes, for I prac¬ 
tice deep and thorough tillage, and so on 
my Maryland farm a one-horse plow does 
but a very small part of the farm work, 
but there are some jobs from time to 
time in the doing of which no other tool 
can take its place. There are several 
styles of harrows on the market, but 
if I were restricted to its use of but one 
kind, I would choose a big section spike- 
tooth drag or smoothing harrow. Before 
the introduction of the disk harrow 
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farms were tilled and crops were raised, 
it is true, but I wonder now how it was 
done. And so in progressive agriculture 
a disk harrow is now necessary on every 
well equipped farm. Then there is the 
plank drag, the roller, and the weeder. 
Of course a mower and rake are in- 
diruensable on every farm where hay is 
made. If corn and small grain are to 
be grown, as they should be wherever 
it is possible on every well regulated 
farm, a two-row corn planter, a riding 
cultivator, and a grain drill with grass 
seeder attachment will have to be added 
to the list. Experience is the farmer’s 
best teacher, and a beginner should be 
governed somewhat in the selection of 
his implements by what is generally used 
by successful farmers in his particular 
locality. In conclusion I beg to differ 
with H. H. in his estimation of the 
value of the manure spreader. Good 
makes of spreaders are on the market 
now for half the amount he mentions, 
and my experience in the use of the 
spreader warrants the assertion that, in 
my judgment, the manure spreader is the 
king of labor-saving implements, and if 
properly used, will pay a big dividend on 
the capital invested, jobdan b. wells. 
Maryland. 
“Don’t you want to dance the tango?” 
he asked. “Indeed I do,” said the sweet 
young thing. “I want to dance it the 
worst way.” “Oh, well, you’ll have to 
excuse me. There are laws against that, 
you know.”—Yonkers Statesman. 
GOOD SEED AND A FANNING MILL. 
Unless a tool is taken cax - e of, it’s a 
waste of money to purchase; on the other 
hand if farm tools and implements are 
given the proper care they are a very 
valuable asset indeed, and no farmer can 
get along without some tools to carry on 
farm work. I don’t like the idea of 
borrowing tools, and again if we can rent 
some implement to cut our crops, etc., 
we cannot always get it when most need¬ 
ed. The main thing to consider on any farm 
where grain is to be grown for chickens, 
sheep, hogs, etc., whether the farm be 
large or small, is the selection and plant¬ 
ing of good seed. Every well-informed 
farmer knows the value of good seed 
grain. Without good seed the fertility 
of the soil and careful preparation are 
wasted. This naturally raises the ques¬ 
tion, what is good seed? The first re¬ 
quisite of good seed is a strong grain 
which starts quickly into growth when 
the seed is sown in a warm, moist soil. 
In growing grain, and where you ex¬ 
pect to get your seed for another year, 
it should be harvested at maturity with¬ 
out exposure to the sun and rain. The 
more nearly perfect condition it is in 
when thrashed and put in storage, the 
more likely it is to germinate and grow 
well when used for seed purposes. The 
use of a fanning mill will eliminate to 
quite an extent the reproduction of in¬ 
ferior plants, and consequently raises 
the quality of grain grown on farms 
where one is found in use. Although 
the number of days the fanning mill is 
used is very small indeed, it has been 
my experience that no grain grower can 
farm properly unless preparing his seed 
for the seed bed, and no implement on the 
farm, large or small, can be used to 
greater advantage and fill a more import¬ 
ant place than this one piece of ma¬ 
chinery. Of course it is best to buy one 
if you can, but you can always find two 
or three in every community in the hands 
of some farmer who will only be too 
glad to let you run your seed grain 
through. A fanning mill will pay for 
itself the first year. This fact has been 
demonstrated to me twice on my own 
farm. I would advise the use of the lat¬ 
est improved machines, put out by a re¬ 
liable firm. ii. w. swope. 
Pennsylvania. 
Taking Kinks Out of Rope. 
C. M. W., Winterton, N. Y., wants to 
know how to treat a new hay rope so it 
will not kink. This is how it is fixed on 
Ferncliff Farm. I take the rope, tie one 
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KINKS OUT OF ROPE. 
end to a post and let a man hold the 
other end; pull the rope out tight, take 
fork handle, put rope once around handle, 
let two men walk from post to end of 
rope three or four times and the trouble 
is all over, but the man on the end 
of rope must let it twist in his hands. 
The diagram gives the idea. A. B. P. 
Tribes Hill, N. Y. 
Four years ago last Summer we 
bought 175 feet of %-inch rope. When 
the ground was dry we hitched a horse 
on one end and dragged it around for 
about an hour, drawing it around tele¬ 
phone poles, hitching posts and anything 
of the kind. This rope never bothered 
once. Perhaps it is not necessary to 
say it. but in unloading hay, always 
keep the horse on the same side of the 
rope. T. E. B. 
Clinton, N. Y. 
I notice that C. M. W. wants to know 
how to take and keep the kinks out of 
a hay rope. If he will put that rope in 
a barrel of water and let it stay there 
a week, or until it gets thoroughly wet, 
he will find it has developed all the 
kinks there are in it. Then take it out 
of the barrel and drag it on the ground 
until all the kinks have run out of it, 
and his trouble is out. As a fisherman 
for 2S years, I learned this in breaking 
in lines to hang in new nets, and also in 
taking the kinks out of the sheets and 
halyards of vessels. v. r. 
Maryland. 
C. M. W.. page 300, asks how to take 
kinks out of new hay rope. If he will 
fasten a round ball to one end, tie other 
end to his wagon and drag it up and 
down the road for a mile or two, it will 
remove all kinks. Or pass one end 
around a post (round) and pull back 
and forth with one end loose; it will do 
the trick. w. K. K. 
Dover, Del. 
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