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APPLE-GRADING GAUGE. 
The accompanying drawing shows a 
gauge for grading apples, which we find 
very convenient. After using it a short 
time a person can very nearly judge the 
correct? size. The holes can be bored with 
Keep them dark and in a cool place for 
good seed. W. L. HANNAH. 
Maine. 
Since we are growing a variety of early 
potatoes which sprout early in the 
Spring, and since w T e do not wish to plant 
until about June 1, it is a problem to 
an expansion bit which can be purchased 
for 50 cents. • d. r. g. 
Bed Ilook, N. Y. 
NEW BUSINESS FOR FARMERS. 
W E have a report of a Massachusetts 
man, who lives back among the 
hills where there was not much business. 
Among other things, he had a little store, 
and has been depending upon the stage 
or farmers’ wagon for hauling home his 
goods. Finally he tried an experiment 
with an auto truck. With this, he was 
able to make rapid trips to the county 
town and come back quickly with such 
goods as he needed. lie was able in 
this way not only to supply his own 
goods, but do errands for the neighbors, 
and also carry passengers. This latter 
business finally developed very well, and 
he has established a regular route and a 
time for traveling back and forth be¬ 
tween his country village and the town. 
By adopting a regular route and timing 
himself, so that people may know when 
he would reach certain points, he has 
developed a steady business, and people 
along the way are greatly accommodated 
by this service. This is only one ex¬ 
ample of the way country people are 
making use of these automobiles and 
trucks. There are a good many locali¬ 
ties where, for a long time, people have 
impatiently waited for a railroad or a 
trolley service. In many cases, the cost 
of establishing such service would be 
altogether too great for the returns, 
but by making use of large automobiles 
or trucks, people in these outlying towns 
may be well served in the transportation 
of both passengers and freight. An¬ 
other man that we hear of in a New 
England college town has developed a 
business of buying second hand furni¬ 
ture from farmers and others and sell¬ 
ing it at a fair price, after cleaning and 
repairing, to college students. All sorts 
of things are being tried out in the way 
of developing a business, and many of 
them are succeeding in the line of put¬ 
ting to profitable use, things that would 
otherwise be thrown away. We have 
all got to remember that profit in mod¬ 
ern business is now made by saving and 
utilizing things or opportunities which 
were formerly not considered or wasted. 
How to Store Seed Potatoes. 
S EVERAL of our readers have asked us 
for the best method of storing pota¬ 
toes. in order to obtain fairly good seed 
for next year. These persons want to use 
selected seed of their own growing and 
have the ordinary farm facilities for 
handling seed. What would you advise 
such persons to do with their seed in or¬ 
der to hold it to the best advantage? 
Prime essential is to keep tubers from 
freezing and dormant until planting. I 
have never enjoyed other facilities than 
dwelling-house frost-proof cellars, but 
utilize every weather advantage of tem¬ 
perature to get them cooled down to 35 
degrees as soon as possible and keep them 
there. I obtain desired temperature by 
opening to outside air when cool and clos¬ 
ing when warm. I do not think exces¬ 
sively moist air desirable, nor ventila¬ 
tion. I prefer dry soil at digging and no 
exposure to sun. I was for ten years a 
potato dealer, and the best kept potatoes 
1 ever handled were from an unused 
dwelling cellar that had been heavily 
banked well up against nouse and un¬ 
opened until July 1; cellar bottom was 
earth, neither wet or dry. My customers 
in absence of assurance to contrary, be¬ 
lieved them of that season’s growth. 
New York. e. a. hill. 
On storing my seed potatoes I put 
them in the house cellar when dug and 
leave out the cellar windows until freez¬ 
ing weather, but cover the windows dur¬ 
ing the day to keep cellar dark. The idea 
is to keep them in a dark place and at a 
low temperature, 35 to -40 degrees, and 
tlnn they keep dormant and firm ; warm 
cellars would be liable to cause them to 
heat and start decay and lower the vital¬ 
ity of the seed. In a long, cold spell I 
have seen the frost stand on the cellar 
walls on the north side of the cellar, but 
does no harm unless it gets cold enough 
to freeze the potatoes, which it does not. 
store the seed in such a way that the 
sprouts will remain dormant until a 
short time before planting. For a num¬ 
ber of years we stored the seeds in a 
house cellar, but the vitality of the seed 
was very often seriously injured by early 
sprouting. We have, therefore, adopted a 
method of wintering our seed potatoes 
out of doors in a pile covered with alter¬ 
nate layers of straw and dirt. We choose 
a well-drained spot for the pile, prefera¬ 
bly on the north side of a building where 
it will not be exposed to the sun. We set 
up two boards on edge, four feet apart, 
and pile between these boards all the po¬ 
tatoes that we can. making an A-shape 
pile as long as is necessary to store the 
number of potatoes we wish for seed. 
Then beginning at the base of the pile we 
plact? forkfuls of straw about one foot 
thick, lapping them carefully so there 
will be no thin places. We build up each 
side of the pile in this way, and finally 
lay forkfuls of straw along the ridge. 
Then we cover this pile with about four 
inches of dirt, which we allow to freeze. 
The dirt may be taken from the ground 
near the pile, but not nearer than three 
feet to it. After the first layer of dirt is 
frozen we put on another layer of straw 
like the first, then a layer of about six 
inches of dirt. In a normal Winter the 
pile will go through with this covering 
without any loss from freezing, but it will 
be safer after the last layer of dirt has 
frozen to pile on more straw, corn husks 
or any material which is handy in order 
to protect the pile from too severe cold* 
and to keep the layers of earth frozen un¬ 
til late in the Spring. 
A cool day should be chosen for making 
the pile, so that the potatoes will be cool 
when they are stored. If this point is not 
observed the pile may heat and potatoes 
start into growth. We have no difficulty 
in keeping potatoes stored in this way 
until May 20 in a perfectly dormant con¬ 
dition. I would advise anyone who con¬ 
templates trying this method to be very 
careful in getting the layers of straw and 
dirt evenly distr : buted and of uniform 
thickness. If this is done and the pota¬ 
toes put into piles when cool, and the 
first layer of dirt allowed to freeze before 
the second one is put on you may expect 
the seed to keep perfectly. 
Vermont. e. s. brigham. 
R. N.-Y.—Let everyone remember that 
this advice is for a cold country like 
Northern Vermont If the pile is put up 
properly and the seed put into the pile 
when cool this is the best method for 
storing seed potatoes in cold climates. It 
would not. however, do farther south, 
where Winters are warm, and it may be 
rather dangerous to recommend to people 
for fear that they will not be careful in 
putting on the layers of straw and dirt 
according to directions. 
A farmer living not far from Boston 
was disappointed the other day when 
Mrs. Blank, one of his regular customers, 
refused to buy any more eggs from him. 
“They are not satisfactory,’’ she told him. 
“Some of the last lot were not fit to use.” 
“But, Mrs. Blank.” remonstrated the old 
man, “a hen is bound to lay a bad egg 
now and ag’in.”—Boston Transcript. 
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38 years ago 
N 1876, Mr. R. F. Dewey, of Millersburg, Inch bought a Stude¬ 
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“I have a Studebaker wagon that I purchased of E. A. Welch in 
Goshen in the spring of 1876. 1 paid $105.00 for it. It was a high 
wheeled, narrow tired wagon when I got it but I later had it cut 
down and made into a wide tread. I am still using the wagon on 
my 160 acre farm, 8 1-2 miles southeast of Goshen. It has had all 
sorts of hard work. At present I am using it to haul cordwood.” 
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