1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1363 
Training an Airedale Dog. 
I LIVE on a main street where lots of 
autos and cars pass. My Airedale, 10 
months old, well trained except he 
will run at time to play with any child 
he sees, and at times will follow some 
particular team he takes a fancy to. I 
have 29 acres, but only 250 feet frontage. 
I have never taken him on the street, 
he will rush out to play and I cannot 
stop him. I have whipped him, but he 
cannot be trusted. I have ln.d him on a 
chain for four weeks. Would you give 
me some advice in regard to him? What 
would you do to train him to stay in the 
yard? H. F. it. 
Massachusetts. 
If II. F. R. has an Airedale, the Aire¬ 
dale can be taught to mind—the mate¬ 
rial is in the dog to work with, and the 
rest is with the master. By nature and 
by the art of breeding, the Airedale has 
been endowed with the gifts fitting him 
to do whatever a dog may be called upon 
to do, but proper training enables him to 
do it more easily and better. The Aire¬ 
dale has exceptional brains, consequently 
easily taught, obedience becomes a habit 
with him. In training him be sure he 
knows what you want him to do, and 
see that he does it. When you call 
“Come” see that he comes, or to “lie 
down” see that he does lie down. When 
the dog misbehaves, such as rushing out 
on a pike, to follow a team, bark at an 
auto, especially if you live on a main 
road, like in my case, the main thorough¬ 
fare between New York and Philadelphia 
where traffic is great, it not only endan¬ 
gers the life of your dpg, but tries your 
patience also. I have no trouble in that 
respect, my dogs are not permitted to fol¬ 
low my own team or car, their place is 
home, and home they stay. Teach your 
dog from puppy up to mind, punish him 
in the “act” otherwise he will not know 
for what offense he is being punished. 
Don’t beat your dog, nor hit him over 
the head; that causes deafness, broken 
bones, etc. Smack him on the haunches, 
or a smart slap under the jaw, and 
above all a cross tone of voice, as the 
voice works wonders. The tone of voice 
make my dogs obey. Don’t beat a dog 
into submission, nor break his spirit, but 
impress upon him that he is to do just 
as you say. It is not wise to chain an 
Airedale, he is too full of life, and as 
lively as a cricket. If you have any 
difficulty in training a dog, that has not 
been made to mind at the start, rather 
than chain him, make a pen for him 
out of chicken wire, about 30 feet run. 
That will give him exercise, as an Aire¬ 
dale is against his nature chained. 
When you go walking take him with you, 
he will then soon learn to mind. When 
you have owned one or more Airedales, 
you will learn to appreciate their worth. 
They are the best of watch dogs, are 
cross, but not savage or vicious. As for 
fighting, he is slow to take offense, but 
when once his “dander is up” he is game 
to the core, and will stay by till the fin¬ 
ish. When the Airedale develops to ma¬ 
turity at about a year and a half, he 
loses his puppy ways, and becomes the 
practically useful all-around dog. His 
character is sterling; he is honest, trust¬ 
worthy, a disposition of the very best. 
W. A. L. 
Sewage Disposal. 
1 WISII to build a sewage disposal 
plant for a small family of three, with 
one bathroom and general kitchen 
water. My soil is a sandy loam three 
or four feet deep ; then it is coarse sand for 
30 or 40 feet deep. Will you advise 
what is the best thing to build? What 
do you say about the system of two com¬ 
partments made of concrete, square, with 
tile to carry off the water? What is 
the best and cheapest system to use, 
what size and how to build it? 
Catskill, N. Y. G. H. P. 
The simplest method for disposal of 
house sewage in such soil as you describe 
is the ordinary cesspool, or pit, made by 
excavating a hole six or eight feet across 
and as deep, or a little deeper; this to 
be stoned up without mortar to within 
about two feet of the surface and covered 
with soil. If such a cesspool can bo 
dug 100 feet or more from any well and 
on the down-hill side of neighboring 
wells, it is reasonably safe and many such 
cesspools are in use. Where it is not 
practicable to carry house sewage to a 
safe distance from wells concrete septic 
tanks with tile disposal systems are be¬ 
coming very popular and have the advan¬ 
tage of greater safety. They are much 
more expensive to build, however, and 
have not entirely superseded ordinary 
cesspools. They have been frequently 
described in these columns and are very 
fully discussed and illustrated in a bul¬ 
letin entitled “Sewage Disposal for Coun¬ 
try Homes,” issued by the State College 
of Agriculture at Ithaca, N. Y. A re¬ 
quest will bring this bulletin to any citi¬ 
zen of the State. m. b. d. 
Turning Under Corn Fodder. 
I HAVE about 1,000 bunches of corn 
fodder. I keep no cows, only one 
horse, liavo hay and straw. While T 
have not enough manure I had thought 
of cutting or shredding about 000 to 700 
bundles, and hauling it on the sod this 
Fall to be plowed down in November. I 
do not pasture the sod, and there is a 
good aftermath on it. This would help 
me out considerably. The manure I 
make, I want to use on the truck. I do 
not wish to buy any more fertilizers, 
than I can help, unless it is phosphoric 
acid and potash, as I have only three 
years to stay. Corn fodder is plenty and 
there is not much sale for it. E. R. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
This plan will work. You will get 
more available plant food by cutting the 
stalks and using freely for bedding or 
mixing with the manure. If you can 
rot the cut stalks down in a moist pile 
they will be more like manure, and wet 
horse manure mixed with them will has¬ 
ten their decay. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
T hat $i4o an acre from 
CORN.—It must be remembered 
that the prices for corn, corn stover 
and hay are much higher in the South 
than in the North. The long season 
gives the Southern farmer a great ad¬ 
vantage. I have known a crop of over 
two tons of cow pea hay made an acre 
after a heavy crop of Winter oats had 
been taken from the land the same sea¬ 
son, and the land then left in Crimson 
clover for the Winter. [ R. N.-Y.—The 
question on page 1234 was from a New 
York man about New York land.] 
Game Laws. —Connecticut farmers 
seem to be bothered with the deer. Down 
here we have a foolish law making a 
close season for rabbits. They are al¬ 
lowed to plunder our gardens all Sum¬ 
mer in order that idle men may shoot 
them in the Fall. There should be no 
close season for the pests, for no amount 
of shooting will ever exterminate the 
prolific rabbit or hare. Many of these 
game laws benefit no one but the idle 
loafers that trespass on other men’s lauus 
and are just as apt to shoot his cattle 
or poultry as anything else. Rabbits 
like deer, are a nuisance to gardeners, 
and should not be protected. The tur¬ 
key buzzards which carry the germs of 
hog cholera over the country are also 
protected at all seasons, and I have had 
them Hock down and drive the chickens 
from their food, and have had to drive 
them off with sticks. In fact I have taken 
them by the legs and thrown them over 
the fence, not specially caring whether 
I damaged them or not. 
Siieep Manure. —Dr. Jenkins, as you 
say, puts the matter in a nutshell. I 
have used the sheep manure as an ingre¬ 
dient in potting soil, and tried it with 
very poor results in the lettuce frames. 
For general outdoor purposes there is 
nothing better than stable manure. I 
get stable manure del'vered on my gar¬ 
den for 75 cents a good one-horse cart 
load, I suppose nearly half a ton. But 
our truckers pay $3 a ton on the switch 
by carloads from New York, and the 
manure I get is better and has less straw- 
in it, but the supply is too limited for 
the larger growers, and I get the pro¬ 
duct of one particular stable where a 
pair of horses are kept for city hauling. 
Just now I am covering my garden over 
thickly with this manure. It will lie on 
the surface all Winter, covering the va¬ 
cant spots and mulching the Winter 
crops of onions and spinach, and will be 
rotted by Spring without getting heated 
as it would in a pile. Then, knowing 
that potash is going to be hard to get 
and our sandy soil needs it, I took time 
by the forelock and laid in a supply from 
the stock the manufacturer had on hand 
ready made, and had to let the five per 
cent, of potash it contains go, though 
he will not sell any potash alone now at 
all. This fertilizer will be used in the 
Spring to balance the plant food in the 
stable manure. The ground where the 
spinach is growing was stuffed with ma¬ 
nure before sowing, but more will do no 
harm, for the more nitrogenous matter 
at hand in the soil the finer the leaves 
of the spinach. 
My last sowing of spinach was made 
the ninth of October. This I hope to 
get strong enough to winter over for 
Spring cutting, while the earlier sown 
is now being cut, and will be for use all 
through the Winter. The one crop that 
does not seem to have minded the dry 
weather is the chard. Now since spin¬ 
ach has come into use, it is no longer 
needed, and the growth is simply enorm¬ 
ous, leaf stalks and leaves fully four 
feet long. It is now the 16th of Octo¬ 
ber, and we are having a long deferred 
three-day easterly rain, and not a sign 
of frost yet. The manure is going on at 
rate of 50 big cartloads an acre, and 
the garden will have a splendid Winter 
blanket. w. F. massey. 
Be free from heating slavery! 
Few things in modem 
home-life are more mon¬ 
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on the patience, energy 
and well-being of women 
than old-fashioned heat¬ 
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up the rooms with dirt, 
damage the furnishings, 
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