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Oafs and Peas for Horse Hay. 
Are oats and Canadian peas good for 
horse hay, or what would be best to put 
in with oats? Soil is heavy loam in a 
run-down apple orchard. o. ii. 
Iron delimit, N. Y. 
Oats and peas properly cured will 
make a good feed for horses. We have 
fed it for exclusive roughage for many 
months, and the horses did well upon it. 
The oats help out the peas in feeding 
value, and also keep them off the ground, 
so that they cut and cure to better ad¬ 
vantage. This crop requires good soil, 
or a fair amount of manure and fertilizer 
in order to give a good yield. 
Adding Nitrate to Fertilizer. 
I have on hand one ton of fertilizer 
containing 1-8-4, and I wish to know 
how much nitrate of soda to add to make 
if 2V&-8-41. I also have one ton of 2-8-7 
that I wish to increase to 
New York. G. if. V. I). 
Your ton of fertilizer contains one per 
cent, or 20 pounds of nitrogen. You 
want 2% per cent, or 50 pounds. Thus 
you must add .‘10 pounds of nitrogen. Ni¬ 
trate of soda contains 1<5 per cent, of ni¬ 
trogen or It! pounds to each 100 pounds. 
Thus if you use 200 pounds of nitrate 
you add 22 pounds, which will give 
what you want. This will make 2,200 
pounds instead of one ton. To be exactly 
accurate you should add a few pounds 
each of acid phosphate and potash. Eight 
per cent, of 2,000 is 100 pounds of phos¬ 
phoric acid, while eight per cent, of 2,- 
200 is 160. You can add 100 pounds of 
acid phosphate and 25 pounds muriate of 
potash if you wish to be exact, but we 
should use the 200 pounds of nitrate and 
go ahead. 
The Cost of hawing. 
The article on page 435, “Over-rated 
Professions,” by A. O. Hill, will hear 
reading and considering. Mr. Hill brings 
to mind a matter that demands serious 
attention. I am an old man, and can 
well remember the time when lawyers 
did not generally charge extravagant 
prices for their services, and all kinds 
of court officials had very moderate pay 
compared with what they now have. No 
one objects to a proportionate rise in 
prices all round, but we do not want 
to increase the cost of the courts tenfold. 
Statistics which I have examined and 
can furnish show that the cost of the 
courts of Vermont have increased more 
than tenfold within what may he culled 
a recent period. It is well understood 
by many people who belong to the com¬ 
moner class that $100 or more will not 
go far in obtaining justice in the courts 
against a couple of unscrupulous lawyers 
opposed. All are educated to advocate 
either side, whichever employs them. 1 
am glad to know, however, that there 
have been cases which a lawyer has been 
found with honor enough to decline. 
The constitution of Vermont, Part 1, 
Sec. 4, reads (italics added): “Every 
person within this State ought to find a 
certain remedy, by having recourse to the 
laws, for all injuries or wrongs he may 
receive in his person or property, or 
character; lie ought to obtain right and 
justice, freely and without briny obliycd 
to purchase it, completely and without 
any denial; promptly and without delay; 
conformably to the laws.” m. o. it. 
Freezing Water Supply, 
Regarding the article on page 447, W. 
<’. 11. “Freezing Water Supply," I have 
a water supply on my farm almost like 
the one mentioned, but with the ther¬ 
mometer 35 below, as it was here this 
last Winter, and the ground frozen solid 
all around the pipe, it has never given 
any trouble. If I had a system in the 
way ho has I would expect the same re¬ 
sults as he got. My pipe is about 1,500 
feet long with not more than a 10-foot 
fall. The first half is inch pipe, re¬ 
mainder % inch. I have no branch pipes. 
The water comes first to the cow barn, 
and makes a circuit of the barn, next to 
the hoghouse, makes a circuit of this, 
then on to the house, the same here, 
winding up in the horse barn. In the 
end of the pipe I put a plug and let a 
small continuous stream run; this will 
allow all faucets on tin* pipe to flow 
water when open. In each building that 
the water goes through I put a faucet 
on the turn of the pipe. These faucets 
will freeze up in extreme weather, but 
a pint of water will thaw them and you 
will find the running water there every 
time. I am unable to see why W. C. 
II. puts one-inch pipe in the center, I 
should think it. should be at the intake. 
Hamilton, N. Y. F. t. 
Fresh-water Clams. 
From your seemingly inexhaustible 
Sources of information, can you inform 
me whether or not fresh-water clams are 
edible? c. w. G. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
This question nearly ran the “inex¬ 
haustible sources” dry, but we have 
finally obtained the following from the 
highest, authority: 
“You are informed that, the fresh¬ 
water clams ure not generally regarded as 
edible. They presumably contain about 
the same quantity of nutriment as other 
shellfish, but. are tough and insipid and, 
in some cases at least, have a disagree¬ 
able odor. They were eaten to some ex¬ 
tent by the Indians and possibly, if prop¬ 
erly prepared, might prove a fairly ac¬ 
ceptable diet to white persons. 
II. M. SMITH, 
U. 8. Irish Commissioner.” 
Want to Know. 
Root Cellar.— Wo are going to con¬ 
struct a root cellar this Spring outside 
of any building, and would like to know 
the best method of constructing such a 
cellar. A. c. c. 
New York. 
Seventeen-Year Rocusth. —West Vir¬ 
ginia is to enjoy the society of a brood of 
seventeen-year locusts in 1!)14. 'Phis 
brood will appear in 37 of the 55 coun¬ 
ties, with perhaps straggling specimens in 
a few others. Most, of these counties 
lie in the northwestern part, of the State. 
The West Virginia Experiment Station 
at. Morgantown has issued a bulletin on 
this locust, which gives a very full de¬ 
scription of it. We had an extensive 
brood of this insect in Northern New 
Jersey two years ago. On our own farm 
it did very little damage, but on the hills 
a mile or so away, many young trees 
were seriously injured. We found no 
practical way of lighting the insect. 
Some remedies are suggested in this bul¬ 
letin, but from our own experience we 
have not found any practical way of 
preventing danger. Our advice to those 
who are in tin? district, where this locust 
is to appear, is not to trim their trees 
this Spring at. all, hut to leave the trim¬ 
ming until after the insect has come and 
gone. 
More About Ray Wax. Since writ¬ 
ing my reply to the bayberry wax inquiry 
a few weeks ago one of my boy friends 
down in Rhode Island has supplied me 
with a sample of fresh gathered berries, 
and I find that, simple boiling gives about 
a quarter of the wax present, about an 
ounce to the pound. Pressing hot gives 
more, removing the outer coat where 
all the wax is, and pressing that hot, 
gives more yet, and the largest quantity, 
all present in fact, which is about a 
quarter of the weight, is obtained by ex¬ 
traction with a volatile solvent, such as 
ether. Hut this process is inadvisable 
for the amateur on a small scale, and 
on a large scale requires special and 
rather expensive machines. I am told 
that the production of the wax is rather 
wide-spread, but that tin* fancy candle 
trade takes most of it, and the demand 
is irregular. Still, quite a quantity is 
made, one concern spoke of handling 15 
to 20 tons a year. Hut the wholesale 
price, which is apt to run below 25 cents 
a pound, does not offer much return un¬ 
less labor is very cheap. F. n. c. 
When you write advertisers mention Tub 
I t. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
"square deal .' 1 See guarantee editorial page. 
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“5130 
How a Number 
Achieved Personality 
The little tailor of the story books, sitting cross-legged on his bench 
snipped and stitched and pressed making a thousand motions to do 
what could better be done by a hundred, and never doing the same 
thing twice in the same way. 
He had no chemical tc9t to make sure his fabrics were pure wool, no 
test for strength, no expert to pass on his workmanship but himself. 
lie never realized what could be done l>y analyzing every operation in 
making a suit of clothes; and then perfecting those operations individually. 
The extreme opposite of the little tailor is the Scientific Tailoring of 
Clothcraft Ready for Service Clothes where each single operation is the 
task of a different individual, trained to do it in the one best and 
shortest way, helped by expert instructors, following methods es¬ 
tablished by the ability and experience gained in sixty-eight years of 
scientific clothes-making. 
Clothcraft No. “5130” Blue Serge Special, $15.00 
The number of ways in which quality has been increased and cost 
reduced by Clothcraft methods is literally measured by hundreds. 
The saving goes into better materials, better designing and many other 
points of added quality. 
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If It la better to do a tiling hy hand, 
it is done by a more skillful hand. If it 
can best be done by a machine, you get 
the benefits of the best machine to be 
bad. 
Why should each individual suit be cut 
separately — no one exactly like the pat¬ 
tern— when twenty can be cut at once, 
with mathematical accuracy f 
Why should material be trimmed hy 
hand, when a sharp knife attached to a 
swift-running machine, trims it with an 
accuracy no hand couhl achieve, and 
does it while ii is beinu stitched t 
Sometimes the best way seems more 
expensive. It costs more to heat irons by 
electricity than by gas; but it is better 
for the worker's health — for he docs not 
have to tabor In a heated, fume-laden 
atmosphere -and his increased efficiency 
offsets the extra cost. 
Thus we make better men and women 
of our workers, and better clothes for you. 
it enables us to make "5130,'' a blue 
serge suit for $15.00. in nine different 
models, suiting men of different tastes, 
size, weigtlt and age. 
The recent reduction in the tariff on 
wool has enabled us to give you this year 
a finer quality of guaranteed all wool blue 
serge than ever. 
“5130“ is merely the last concrete ex¬ 
pression of the Clothcraft idea. Cloth¬ 
craft includes many other fabrics and 
patterns. It is the one guaranteed all wool 
line at $10 to $30. 
'TUC* lACrDU JP CCICC nn 635 ST. CLAIR AVENUE, N.W. 
THE JOSEPH & FEISS CO. Cleveland, sixth city 
Established IS46—Oldest American Makers of Men's Clothes 
Thera Is also a fall-weight Clothcraft Blue Serge Special ut $15.50 known a* 4130 
This Label in Evory 
Clothcraft Co.it; our Signed 
Cunrunty in the Pocket 
Drop In at the Clothcraft Store 
nml try on one of the models of 
*'5130." Von will profinlily find an 
advertisement ol the local dealer 
lo the paper you read. If not, we 
nliall lie glad to send you u note of 
personal IntiixluctIon. 
Meantime write us for the new 
Kpilng Style Hook and a sample 
of the cloth used in No. 5130. 
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