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Farm Management. 
Spring Work. 
opposite side. This condition of bark is 
more noticeable in deciduous trees than 
in evergreens, while the difference in the 
branches is rather more marked in ever¬ 
The time for Spring work will soon 
be on band. One of the most important 
things is draining land. With our short 
seasons and scarcity of help, this is often 
postponed for another year, and so on. 
As one of the great family of The R. N.- 
Y. readers, I thought it would interest 
some to learn how we overcome the hard¬ 
est work in draining, by a homemade 
tool, with which we can beat any ditching 
machine, horse or steam power, on stony 
aiid heavy land, such as we have here in 
Central New York. I send a rough 
sketch, and this is the way it is made: 
One hardwood plank, oak or maple, eight 
greens. 
If E. D. A. is willing to wait for re¬ 
turns and if the 240-acre farm is situated 
so he could ship puli) timber to advan¬ 
tage, he might purchase the farm, and 
set the 150 acres to Norway spruce. This 
species should not be set for lumber. 
After 15 or 20 years he can thin the 
trees and get an income, and after 10 or 
15 years more he can get quite a cut of 
pulp. Most of our mountain land is 
better adapted to forest growing than to 
farming. 
Tt seems strange that Vermonters 
should purchase land in New Jersey ex- 
1IOMEMADE DITCHING TOOL. 
or 10 feet long, three or four inches thick, 
12 or 14 inches wide; three teeth of 
round iron or steel 1*4 inch thick, 10 or 
18 inches long, with braces, welded to it, 
as shown in sketch. There is a shoulder 
on standard and braces for thi plank to 
lest on, threaded on top. The lower end 
of teeth are flattened out and shaped like 
a cultivator tooth. The front tooth is 
sot to the right, the middle to the left, 
and the last one to the right. Irons are 
about eight inches apart, and will make a 
ditch 10 to 12 inches wide. A pair of old 
cultivator handles will do to hold it. The 
depth is regulated by a wheel, as seen. 
I hope that some one may profit by this 
tool, which can be made for about $10 
or so. j. b. 
Central New York. 
Sensible Talk About Vermont Farms. 
I see by Tiie R. N.-Y. on 
page 395, that E. D. A. of New 
Jersey thinks, because land is cheap 
in Vermont, he can buy a farm here and 
make his fortune. The probability is 
that if the farm is in the southern part of 
the State the land may grow apples; if 
it is in the central or northern part it 
probably will not at an altitude of 1,000 
feet. It is generally thought that a north¬ 
ern slope is better than a southern, as 
in the latter case the blossoms are more 
apt to be nipped by a late frost. 
Your advice is good. By all means 
see the farm in the Spring—and in the 
Summer—and in the Fall; then make 
up your mind. It is as reasonable for a 
farmer to go down to New York City 
and purchase a dry goods store and en¬ 
gage in that business, as for one green 
at farming to engage in that business and 
expect to succeed. Fruit raising is good 
business and some succeed in it, but most 
do not. If E. D. A. wants to raise fruit, 
let him begin working for someone who 
understands the business and has made a 
success of it. There are a few such in 
Grand Isle, Chittenden and Addison 
Counties—possibly elsewhere—but I am 
not acquainted in the east part of the 
.State. Planting trees, cultivating, trim¬ 
ming, spraying, digging borers, thinning 
apples and properly picking, grading and 
packing the fruit are different parts of 
the business which must be thoroughly 
learned if one expects to succeed. After 
E. D. A. has worked at the business a 
year or two, he will know whether he is 
adapted to the business, what varieties do 
well in any locality. The probability is 
that E. D. A. will not purchase a farm 
on the mountain for fruit growing. The 
Fameuse and crab apples are the only 
kinds that I think are really adapted to 
the mountains. 
Look out for windy locations on the 
mountains. They can be known by the 
branches on the trees and by the bark. 
In Addison and Chittenden counties the 
western slopes of the mountains are 
swept by northwesters—either is fatal to 
fruit raising, since much of the fruit 
would be blown off in the Fall. In a 
region where southeast winds prevail, the 
branches of the trees in open positions 
are much shorter on the southeast side 
and the bark is smoother than on the 
pecting to go there and make their for¬ 
tune raising peaches, and that people in 
New Jersey should purchase farms in 
Vermont with the same ultimate object. 
I suppose such is the method of land 
agents. A. V. 
Concrete Porch. 
I wish to build a eoncrete porch 20x9 
feet. The ground where I build is raised 
about four feet above surrounding soil. 
Ilow deep do I need to go for founda¬ 
tion? L. C. M. 
The foundation supports of a concrete 
porch should be carried below the frost 
line to avoid trouble from heaving. The 
necessary depth varies, of course, with 
the nature of the soil; from your dia¬ 
gram, I should judge that the cobble¬ 
stone filling would prevent any heaving 
from frost, and that you would need to 
go only deep enough to secure firm foot¬ 
ing for the concrete wall. M. b. d. 
“Now the first thing to learn about the 
shoe trade is this: As soon as a customer 
comes in. take off his shoes and hide ’em.” 
“What’s that for?” “Then you can wait 
on ’em at your convenience, my boy. 
They can’t walk out.”—Winnipeg Tele¬ 
gram. 
Rapi.etgh : “How much money do you 
think a man ought to accumulate before 
he can safely ask a girl to marry him?” 
Miss Keen: “It depends on the man, 
Mr. Sapleigh. You will probably have to 
accumulate several millions.” — Boston 
Transcript. 
^DON’T 
Let Her Do This 
Her part of the 
work on the farm 
is just as important 
as the rest. Here is 
an opportunity to 
take some of the 
drudgery off from 
her shoulders and 
give her more time 
to devote to other 
important things. 
Get her a 
FULLER & IOHNSON 
Pump Engine 
It is no trick to run it and it 
is perfectly safe. With it, she 
can pump all the water that is 
wanted, both for stock and 
household use. She can make 
it turn the washing machine, 
the cream Reparator. the erind- 
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Comes ready to set up to 
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no braces or special platforms 
needed. Costs very little to run. 
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They Say He’s 
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than three and a quarter million 
homes (3,250,000). 
Big Ben is only four years old, but 
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You’ll find him on all of the big 
farms—helping to get the farm hands 
out on time—helping to get the big¬ 
ger, better yields. You’ll see him 
'round the house telling the women¬ 
folks the time all day so they can 
have the meals on time. 
You’ll see him in the parlor on the 
mantelpiece—7 inches tall, sturdy, 
handsome, triple nickel-plated, tick¬ 
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In the bed rooms in the morning 
you’ll hear him calling different peo¬ 
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with one straight “hurry-up” five- 
minute ring, and in “thatother room,” 
with ten short “reminder” calls last¬ 
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you. 
Call on Big Ben at your jeweler’s. 
His price is $2.50. Let him show you 
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(205) 
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