1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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QUICK FILLING FOR SPRAYER TANK. 
Harnessing the Electric Motor. 
OME weeks ago we printed a brief note from 
F. W. Cornwall of Wayne County, N. Y., tell¬ 
ing how water was rapidly pumped into the 
spraying tank. This thing of rapid tank filling is 
one of the big problems in successful spraying. 
With the wind and the weather tricky, we often are 
held up just when the poison should go on the trees; 
it becomes vitally necessary to lose as little time as 
possible in filling the tank. Many a spraying job 
has been partly ruined by the long delays in ob¬ 
taining water. In some cases 20% of the time is 
spent in pumping water by hand, or dipping it up in 
pails. An efficient job requires a prompt and rapid 
water-filling outfit. Mr. Cornwall told us how he 
had solved this problem by the use of an electric 
motor for raising the water. The two pictures at Figs. 
.124 and 325 show something of the way 
this works. The first one shows a power¬ 
ful pump with the electric motor in 
place. This is put down into a brook or 
creek which could not be reached direct¬ 
ly from the spraying tank. Happily in 
this case there is an electric current 
which can be wired down to the motor, 
so as to give the necessary power. Then 
when it is ready the power is applied, 
and the water is rapidly thrown up, as 
shown in the other picture, directly 
into the tank, saving more than half 
the time formerly spent in obtaining 
a water supply. 
In another case, on a nearby farm 
the electric current is used to pump 
water up into a large tank. Then the 
sprayer is driven under the tank or 
below it, and the water rapidly runs 
in through a large pipe. We have 
seen half a dozen different devices 
rigged up by various farmers to meet 
the requirement of rapid tank filling, 
for everyone who lias spraying to do 
realized the absolute importance of a 
quick, strong water supply. As lias 
been said, the worm waits for no man. 
The weather is no respector of per¬ 
sons, and the wind pays no atten¬ 
tion to the proprieties. As man is 
master of no one of these three things, 
it simply becomes necessary for him to 
become as efficient as possible in the 
few things over which he may obtain 
control, and the water supply is cer¬ 
tainly one of these. 
day by the big packers, less a commission of about 
.$12 a car, and the business is fairly honestly con¬ 
ducted. One cannot sell except through a commis¬ 
sion firm, but can buy from either the regular firms 
or speculators. There is on every load of feeder 
stock the selling commission, usually a speculator's 
profit, and usually a buying commission. I expect 
you are familiar with the process, but I will give my 
view of it. The horse sales are too crooked for a 
square pen, and are held in a ring, and jumping the 
bid by the auctioneer is so common as to excite no 
comment. Each horse is described and blemishes 
told as he is led in, but “a little rough about the 
hock” may mean a cripple from curb or spavin, and 
a little cut on the leg may mean a barb wire cut 
to the bone. However, they usually deliver the 
horses you buy and load them on the cars for you, so 
they compare favorably with the New York dealers 
as frequently described in The R. N.-Y. 
MOTOR CAR AND MOWER. 
USING THE CAR ON THE MOWING MACHINE. Fig. 323. 
whole crop on the trees to buyers from the larger 
cities at a purely nominal price. The last few years 
have seen a great improvement in growing methods, 
and last year an association was formed which sold 
the crop from the sprayed orchards at from $1.50 
to $2.50 per barrel F. O. B. Nebraska City, buyer 
furnishing one man in each packing crew to over¬ 
see and help pack. The association also buys spray¬ 
ing and barrel material, and is proving its value. 
The local market is well supplied with garden pro¬ 
duce by nearby gardeners, many of whom peddle 
their own, while some sell to the stores. On this 
place of 500 acres I shall have 40 acres for truck 
and canning factory. The factory pays $7 per ton 
for sweet corn, 30 cents per bushel for tomatoes and 
$3 per ton for pumpkin. We have a man handling 
the garden produce, except for canning, on a commis¬ 
sion of one-third the selling price, he doing all the 
gathering, preparing and delivering, but using our 
team and wagon. Bunch stuff brings 
30 to 40 cents per dozen from the 
stores, and five cents retail. Tomatoes 
start at 10 cents per pound from stores 
and drop to 30 cents per bushel. Cab¬ 
bage starts at four cents from stores 
and drops to nothing. 
Sometimes we ship a little truck to 
Omaha, but the firms there do a whole¬ 
sale as well as commission business, 
pay what they please, make returns 
when they get ready, with no control 
whatever, so the results are not always 
satisfactory. The staple crops here, 
are corn, wheat (Winter) and Alfalfa, 
with small amounts of Spring wheat, 
oats, prairie and Timothy hay. I am 
a town-raised factory hand from 
Massachusetts myself, but have had 
charge of large farms for the past 32 
years, and this country is the best I 
have seen for the three staples above, 
and high-flavored long-keeping dessert 
apples such as Jonathan, Grimes Gold¬ 
en, and standard market apples, as 
Ben Davis, Winesap, York Imperial 
and Black Twig. c. e. dwyeb. 
Nebraska. 
readers driving 
along 
PUMPING THE SPRAY WATER BY ELECTRIC POWER. Fig 324. 
O NE of our 
the road last year, saw across 
the field the outfit pictured at 
Fig. 323. He went close to it and took 
a picture. Here we have an ordinary 
driving car arranged so as to provide 
the motive power for the mowing ma¬ 
chine. A short tongue is put on the 
mower and fastened so that the ma¬ 
chine follows the car. One man sits 
on the machine to guide it properly, 
while the car is driven by a careful 
driver. With the mower knives kept 
sharp, this outfit travelled about one- 
third to a half faster than the average 
team of horses, and did excellent work, 
stopping neither for sun, nor to be 
watered or fed. As a rule, it requires 
a man of considerable mechanical 
skill to fit up an outfit of this sort so 
that it will work properly, and as a 
rule we do not advise the average man 
to tinker very much with an expensive 
car in his efforts to make it do more 
than carry matter swiftly about the 
country. Where a man has the skill, however, and 
enough knowledge of mechanics to fix the attach¬ 
ment properly, there is no doubt that the car can 
often be used for the lighter jobs at farm work. 
AN EASTERN MAN IN NEBRASKA. 
I N regard to stock—horses, cattle, sheep and hogs 
are sold at private sale, auction, to traders from 
the large markets, and to local traders, but the 
price is based on the South Omaha and St. .Toe mar¬ 
ket, from which nearly every farmer who handles 
stock at all gets daily reports from his commission 
man, either by letter or by subscription paid by 
commission man to the market journals. On cattle, 
sheep and hogs the shipper gets the value set for the 
QUICKLY FILLING THE SPRAYING TANK. Fig 32 
This is more of a beef and grain than a dairy 
country, and most of the milk as such is sold direct 
to the consumer by the producer, who runs a retail 
route of his own with the usual overlapping, each 
man going all over town. The general farmers sell 
cream to the ice cream factory. I do not know the 
price. Others trade butter to the grocers at more 
than it is worth, 20 to 25 cents per pound, and it is 
barreled and sent to renovators. Eggs are sold to 
the grocers at 10 to 15 cents per dozen, occasionally 
as high as 25 cents in November and December. 
Poultry to dealers at three to four cents under 
Omaha wholesale per pound. There are a great 
many apples raised here, but mostly by general 
farmers, who neglected the orchards and sold the 
THINK your answer to J. K„ on 
page 091. as to manure, must be 
modified in Connecticut. I bought 
a farm here some years ago, and after 
the contract was signed, the seller 
raised the question about the manure. 
Thinking there was no doubt on the 
point. I offered to leave it to a well- 
known local lawyer, who said that in 
this State manure was personal prop¬ 
erty and could be removed by the seller 
of a farm. This settled my own case, 
but having been a lawyer, and being 
surprised that Connecticut should be 
in such a very small minority on the 
question, I took the trouble to look 
it up. 
I found that about 75 years ago, if 
my memory serves me rightly, the 
highest court in the State had ex¬ 
pressed an opinion that manure was 
personal property. This question was 
not involved in the decision of the case 
then before the court, and the expres¬ 
sion of opinion is, therefore, known as 
a dictum, has no binding force on the 
court if the question should come be¬ 
fore it again, and, technically, leaves 
the question still open in the State, as 
there has uever been another case upon 
it. I say technically the question is 
open, since the highest court might, 
not follow the old dictum. Prac¬ 
tically, however, lower tribunals would probably 
consider themselves bound to follow an expression 
of the opinion of the highest court, so that it would 
be necessary to carry a case to that court to secure 
any other decision. This would probably involve 
more expense than the value of the manure, so that 
we must be content to see Connecticut in a situa¬ 
tion where, as you say, only New Jei'sey and North 
Carolina agree with her and where she gives en¬ 
couragement to a bad principle of farming. The 
simplest way to change matters would be to get 
the Farmers’ Club in the Legislature to get together 
and pass a law declaring manure made on a farm to be 
a part of the real estate, and to pass as such. a. f. 
or might 
MANURE OWNERSHIP IN CON¬ 
NECTICUT. 
