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T LI hO RUFtA-L, NEW-YORKER 
WAGONS BUGGIES HARNESS 
A STUDEBAKER THAT 
HAS SAVED MONEY 
FOR ITS OWNER 
I bought my Studebaker from your 
agent, D. M. Smith, at Flint, Mich., 
in 1876, and have used it continu¬ 
ously on my farm. 
1 have a farm of 140 acres, with 
good buildings, and this wagon 
Hauled all the material. 
Two years ago my son put on three 
tonsof sugar beetsand hauled it over 
frozen ground to the scales. 
Last summer we hitched a loader 
behind it and drew our hay to the 
barns. 
The wagon had not been sheltered 
half the time for the last twenty 
years yet has never broken a wheel 
or an axle. 
John H. Wood, 
Flushing, Mich. 
Hitches other wagons 
to his 37 year old 
Studebaker 
A WAGON thirty -seven 
year old that can stand the 
strain of having another laden 
wagon hitched to it might be 
called a remarkable example of 
wagon building. 
But it is a Studebaker—and Studebaker wagons are built 
to withstand any reasonable strain; and to last, not ten or 
twelve years, but a lifetime. 
An investment that pays 
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Think what it means to get 37 years 
■nd more of work out of a wagon. 
Cuts down the cost — doesn’t it ? 
Especially if you compare 37 years 
with the 12 years an ordinary wagon lasts. 
Studebaker wagons last a lifetime — 
because they are built to last. Wheels, 
body and gear are the work of experts. 
Air-dried lumber, tested iron and steel 
make for strength and lasting qualities. 
Don’t be imposed upon by the wagon 
salesman who wants to sell you a farm 
wagon "Just as good as a Studebaker." 
Remember this — a Studebaker farm 
wagon is so'd as cheaply as it is possible 
to sell a good wagon. 
Studebaker Buggies and Harness are 
also built to last. 
STUDEBAKER, South Bend, Ind. 
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MINNEAPOLIS SALT LAKE CITY SAN FRAN Cl CO PORTLAND. ORE. 
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Studebakers last a lifetime 
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This Steel Forge-, 
Will Sava It* Comt In 30 
D*y* on Your Farm 
Make black¬ 
smith bills 
smaller by 
doing repair 
work at 
home. Our 
Forges are 
used by 
farmers i n 
every State 
and foreign 
Countries. 
Blower is 
11}4 inches 
diameter. Hearth la SOW inches high. Total 
height of Forge 43 inches. 
Positively Guaranteed 
much work as any $10 forge made and to be 
as represented or money refunded. 
Special Winter Offers 
Until March 31,1915 we offerourtwo sty lesof Farm 
Forges at S3.7S and $4.00 each. 1 pair of tongs and 
1 Anvil and Vise combined $1.76 extra. Prompt ship, 
ments. This offer may not appear again. Write today 
Send stamp for Catalog No. 11 and testimonials' 
C. A. S. FORGE WORKS, Saranac, Mich. 
Will pro- 
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heat one 
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gff^ WAITING FOR you 
Yes, waiting for every farmer or farmer’s son —any in¬ 
dustrious American who is anxious to establish for him¬ 
self a happy home and prosperity. Canada’s hearty invi¬ 
tation this year is more attractive than ever. Wheat 
is higher but her farm land just as cheap and in 
the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta 
160 Acre Homesteads are Actually Free to Settlers and 
Other Land at From $15 to $20 per Acre 
The people of European countries as well as the American continent must be fed — thus an 
even greater demand for Canadian Wheat will keep up the price. Any farmer who can buy 
land at $15.00 to $30.00 per acre— get a dollar for wheat and raise 20 to 45 bushels to the acre 
is bound to make money —that’s what you can expect in Western Canada. Wonderful 
yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed Farming is fully as profitable an industry 
as grain raising. The excellent grasses full of nutrition, are tne only food required 
either for beef or dairy purposes. Good schools, markets convenient, climate excellent. 
Military service is not compulsory in Canada but there is an unusual demand for 
farm labor to replace the many young men who have volunteered for service in the war. 
Write for literature and particulars as to reduced railway rates to Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, 
Canada, or to 
J. S. CRAWFORD 
301 E. Genesee St. Syracuse N. Y. 
Canadian Government Agent, 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply 
and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
NOTES FROM OHIO. 
S parrows and weeds— it is a 
great relief to one’s feelings during 
this spasm about English sparrows and 
their ravages to have the United States 
experts tell us that last year these 
detested birds saved the farmers $89,- 
200,000 by eating the weed seeds of the 
fields. We cannot understand how this 
can be, unless this bird hunger so short¬ 
ened the weed seed supply, that it pre¬ 
vented their being ground—the weed 
seed, not the birds—into dairy food, and 
sold at $00 per ton. The question is, 
who made, or lost this $89,000,000, the 
birds, the millers or the farmers? 
Improving Dairy Stock. —Over in 
Portage County, Ohio, is a county im¬ 
provement society with about 2,000 
members, who each pay $10 into the 
common fund, and in a community way, 
are doing things, like actually building 
part each year of 100 miles of brick 
roads and other road work. They hire 
a county agriculturist, who is doing 
things too, and this company is looking 
after the dairy industry, as shown in 
their annual report. Their slogan is, 
“Better dairy cows, to be raised on the 
farm, not bought.” So the company 
bought 15 Holstein bulls of strong dairy 
lineage, seven Jersey and three Guernsey 
besides, and stationed them about in the 
dairy sections of the county, with service 
free to the members of the society. Last 
season 1,500 cows, the best ones the 
farmers had, were bred. 
Silage Corn. —Your answer on page 
108 to the silage corn query was right. 
You have to plant a corn that will ma¬ 
ture between frosts wherever planted. A 
frost does not ruin a silage crop, but it 
stops its maturity there and then. As to 
the size of the variety making a differ¬ 
ence with its quality where it can be 
grown to maturity, I have my doubts. 
If a stalk grows an ear in proportion to 
its size, you will find the quality goes 
with it. The Ohio Experiment Station 
for years has had this matter under test, 
and every year the great, growing “Blue 
Ridge” silage corn from Albemarle 
County, Va., has distanced all rivals, by 
an average of 1,200 pounds more of di¬ 
gestible food units per acre, based on a 
15-ton growth per acre; but look upon 
reports of yields from 20 to 50 tons per 
acre with reserve for further confirma¬ 
tion.' Ten thousand acres of this silage 
corn was grown in Northeastern < >hio 
last year, and can be grown anywhere 
to maturity, if about 120 days of corn 
weather can be promised. 
General Farming.' —We are hearing 
much about the back-to-the-lander, but 
a condition is fast forcing itself upon 
the farmers in many sections of back to 
a more general farming; in place of the 
seeming general buying of everything, 
and only one thing to sell, milk. The 
old side lines of farming seem to have 
about disappeared. In this section the 
butter is all bought from Wisconsin, and 
the oleo from the thrifty dairymen of 
Chicago. While all dairymen have silos 
and silage in abundance, practically all 
of the grain is shipped in from some¬ 
where, and sold at around $80 rates. 
The chief stock of the country store now 
is tinned goods from every dime under 
the sun. The horses we drive are three- 
fourths of them Westerners, and buying 
cows from “droves” was always the 
fashion. Milk has not advanced very 
much in price, while all sorts of goods 
that are bought are 100 to 250 per cent, 
higher. Our new “county agricultur¬ 
ists” are telling of better ways, the more 
home-grown way, and community buying, 
and selling. There is a reason, scarcity 
and high price of labor, and its too oft 
unreliability and utter inefficiency. 
Goon Roads. —Some think that good 
roads will cure the existing condition of 
things, and that 100 miles of brick roads 
in each county, the rest graveled, and all 
to border the great Lincoln Highway 
from sea to sea, would bring not only 
prosperity, but double, and more, the 
price of real estate! Would they? Labor 
would not be more abundant, or cheaper, 
markets and marketing would remain the 
same, the railroads get more for freight, 
Congress never adjourns, and taxes still 
climbing higher. Yes, there is a partial 
remedy. Make the farm in some way 
be made more self-supporting, nearer pro¬ 
ducing its farm needs. The farmer should 
February 13, 
not be less the man, but actually more 
in person in public affairs, be part of the 
“doing things” at the public end of a 
general uplifting of country life. Yes, it 
wants farm “boosting,” and the farmer 
is the only one who can, or will, do it. 
True, he feeds the world, but that does 
not imply that he needs to carry it on 
his back, after it is fed. He has his 
right to his half, but he will need to go 
after it, if he secures it. JOHN gould. 
I 
Concrete Boats and Other Wonders. 
HAVE read a statement about a boat 
made of concrete. Can it be possible 
that such a boat would float? 
s. w. j. 
We have seen a report of a boat made 
of concrete, which was in successful use 
for transporting freight. The boat was 
said to be built in the form of a scow, 
with a flat bottom and low sides, slant¬ 
ing upward in front and behind. A num¬ 
ber of light wires were used to re-enforce 
the . concrete, and with a large surface 
the boat apparently floated and gave 
fair satisfaction, except that of course 
in event of a collision the concrete would 
break, and then there would be no way 
of saving the boat. It is doubtful if 
such boats would ever become practical, 
yet it simply shows the wonderful things 
that are being done with concrete work. 
Farmers of 30 years or more ago will 
remember the crude work that was then 
done on the farm mostly with lime 
mortar. No one thought at that time 
that concrete would actually prove a 
strong competitor with lumber. In fact, 
20 years ago the average man was sure 
that lumber would go to $60 or more 
per thousand, because he could see no 
way for increasing the lumber supply, 
while it seemed evident that the demand 
for building would increase rapidly. At 
the time this seemed like a fair con- 
conclusion, but year by year knowledge 
of concrete construction has increased, 
and with this knowledge there has grown 
a wider application, so that now hun¬ 
dreds of things are made of concrete 
which it was formerly thought could not 
be produced without lumber. The item 
of concrete posts alone has made a vast 
difference in the business of cutting and 
selling fence posts. In many cases some 
years ago plantations of tre es were set 
out for the express purpose of growing 
fence posts, with every assurance at that 
time that it would prove a profitable 
enterprise. The use of concrete posts has 
put many of these plantations out of 
commission, as there is little or no de¬ 
mand for the timber. Concrete houses 
are now built, not only with solid walls, 
but of concrete blocks. 
There has been considerable discus¬ 
sion about the value of a concrete block 
louse, and it is still an open question 
about them, but as reports come to us 
more and more we judge that they are 
on the whole giving good satisfaction. 
On the average farm 20 years ago there 
was a tool chest and a work room, where 
farmers handled timber, repaired then- 
tools, and made many things about the 
farm. To-day on most farms in addi¬ 
tion to the tools and room for wood 
working, there is an outfit for making 
and using concrete; in fact, many farm¬ 
ers have become experts in its use, 
greatly to their advantage and profit. 
It will be impossible to enumerate half 
of the things which an ingenious man 
can make out of concrete, and on most 
farms you will be quite sure to find a 
supply of cement all ready for any 
emergency, or for any job which offers 
itself. There are concrete tanks, and 
troughs, concrete posts, floors for the 
barn and henhouse, doorsteps, walks 
through the yard, and even roofs upon 
the buildings, all giving excellent satis¬ 
faction and proving a solid economy in 
farm construction. In fact, the quiet 
revolution which has been going on with 
the use of concrete on many of our Amer¬ 
ican fflrms has been remarkable, and is 
now showing results which were little 
dreamed of 20 years ago. There are no 
indications whatever that there will be 
any falling off in the use of concrete 
for farm purposes. The indications an- 
rather that new uses will be found for 
the material, so that more and more of 
it will be used. It is an excellent thing 
for a farmer to know how to handle this 
material to good advantage, almost as 
much a part of his education as the 
handling of tools for working in wood. 
