THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
815 
THE MAILBAG 
Another Three-Horse Evener. 
I am using a three-horse evener ar¬ 
rangement, measurements as given 
in diagram. Are the three horses 
pulling equal parts of the load? 
I have had several arguments on 
this question, some advancing the idea 
that horse A is working at a disadvan¬ 
tage, inasmuch as the end of the iron rod 
is attached to the tongue, and that he is 
pulling against himself. The three horses 
apparently work even, and I am satis¬ 
fied that measurements are correct. If 
not, what correction should be made? 
Sherman, N. Y. j. p. 
Compressed Air Drill. 
Many of our New Hampshire farms 
could be vastly improved by blasting and 
removing the large stones from the fields, 
but they have to be drilled, which is a 
very slow and laborious operation when 
performed by hand. Would it not be 
possible to obtain some kind of an air 
compressor, such as are used in mines, 
so that a drill could be run by the power 
of a gasoline engine, and thereby make 
it practicable to remove these nuisances 
more cheaply and expeditiously? Can 
you give us any information on this 
point? NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
It will be necessary to use an air com¬ 
pressor as well as engine and drill. No 
doubt some of our people have done work 
of this sort. If so, will they give us 
facts and figures? 
Plowing Under Millet. 
I have just seeded two acres of fairly 
good soil with Japanese millet after giv¬ 
ing it a half ton of lime. When the mil¬ 
let is cut I intend to disk the field and 
sow it to Cow-horn turnips, rape, and 
buckwheat. What time should they be 
sown and would it be well to add some 
Crimson clover to the mixture? When 
should this be plowed under, this Fall or 
next Spring? E. L. F. 
Dukes Co., Mass. 
Under ordinary conditions of growth 
this millet should be ready to cut early in 
August, varying a week or so either way 
with the season. If the soil can be 
worked we should fit it immediately after 
cutting the millet: seed the mixture you 
name. Crimson clover will not pay sev¬ 
en times out of 10 in your locality. We 
should let the crop die on the ground and 
plow in Spring. 
The Little Brown Wren. 
On page 730 H. It. B. recommends 1%- 
ineh hole for purple martins’ as a larger 
hole will let in starlings, a small 
hole being made for light. The lit¬ 
tle broAvn wren’s worst enemy is the Eng¬ 
lish sparrow. The hole in wren boxes 
should not be over 1 y 8 inches; one inch 
will answer, but 1 % is preferable, but it 
should never be larger as 1% will ex¬ 
clude the English sparrow. The first 
wrens seen in Southern Connecticut this 
year were on April 29; they generally 
make their appearance from May 1 to 10. 
Any old box five or six inches square will 
answer for these little birds. In putting 
them up do not get them within 100 or 
-00 feet apart; they prefer going it alone 
and do not like the colony system as the 
purple martins do. Ninety-eight per cent 
of the wren’s food is insects; that is why 
they do not arrive here until May. They 
are one of the smallest as well as the 
busiest birds. A pair of them when rear¬ 
ing their young consume hundreds of in¬ 
sects a day, and are also one of our sweet¬ 
est singers. T. F. 
Connecticut. 
Fighters in the Grange. 
I hope you will keep “stirring the ani¬ 
mals up.” as in your recent editorial, 
“Who Will Fight for the Farmer?” I 
note in current number of the “National 
Grange Monthly” there is a whole page 
written by Professor Atkeson, of West 
Virginia, commenting on and quoting 
from your editorial. There are altogether 
too many “uplifters” in the Grange as 
well as elsewhere who are trying to up¬ 
lift themselves into a soft job by using 
the farmer for a footstool. Too many of 
the agricultural educators are men inter¬ 
ested in making a case of the farmers’ 
dense ignorance and therefore the great 
need of the State or nation paying them 
big salaries to act as “Moses” to lead the 
farmers out of the sea of “ignorance” in 
which they claim he is submerged, rather 
than in a real desire to help the farmer 
in his distress. 
The farmer is being swamped with or¬ 
ders about what to do or what not to do 
by “advisers” most of whom summer and 
winter in town or city until between 
these and the oily-tongued soothsayers 
who are after his vote or cash such a fog 
is raised that the real causes of his 
troubles are obscured and lost sight of. 
Keep on “stirring the animals up” until 
every farmer who reads can tell the 
beast of prey at first sight. 
Massachusetts. F. A. PUTNAM. 
Killing Brush in Fence Rows. 
From my experience I should try kill¬ 
ing brush by the use of sulphur; dig 
around and apply to roots. R. b. d. 
Cut the bushes in the Fall. After a 
light snow, burn the brush. In the 
Spring, persuade some kind sheep to 
browse. Have some rig for shelter and 
change now and then ; the sheep does it, 
otherwise it is no easy job. I should hire 
the job done and get some one that al¬ 
ready swears. J. b. bryant. 
Maine. 
Regarding question on page 725 I ad¬ 
vise that the applicant buy an old mow¬ 
ing machine, with knives not too sharp, 
and run it as close to the wall as pos¬ 
sible. but not too quickly. An old steady 
horse should be used, and the driver 
should be a quiet, patient man. Or buy 
a few quiet sheep; Dorsets will be best, 
as their horns are a protection. 
Rhode Island. wm. williams. 
The Rome is a good keeper, and is 
called for in families in preference to 
most other varieties. It is a fair grower 
and about as susceptible to twig blight 
as Greening. As all the Rome trees I 
have seen in this valley are 12 years old 
or less, an opinion to be of any value 
should come five years later. We have 
500 planted five years in an old peach or¬ 
chard. While they are satisfactory so 
far I think we have plenty for the pres¬ 
ent. E. W. BARNES. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
Concrete Chimneys. —I want to take 
out of my house an old brick chimney, 
and put in a new straight one. Have any 
of the Rural readers had any experience 
with a concrete chimney? I have been 
thinking of building a square one on the 
outside with a round flue inside. I would 
be g^ad to get the experience of any read- 
ei when he has had such a chimney in 
use long enough to compare with a brick 
one as to safety and lasting qualities. 
Dudley, Mass. f. a. p. 
The Auto Truck Problem. —We haul 
our milk every morning about six miles 
over State road. Theoretically, an auto 
truck ought to pay, but our observation 
of how often trucks have to go to shop 
when they are no longer new, and the 
necessity of having it worked by the 
average hired man, and as it has seemed 
almost necessary to have a horse avail¬ 
able for emergencies, I could hardly see 
the wisdom of attempting to use one. 
There seems to be a disposition here to 
buy trailers for automobiles. A neighbor 
has one which cost $100, four wheels, 
and he is drawing a half ton or more 
around behind his automobile. It seems 
to be working good, but I am inclined to 
believe there will be excessive wear on 
his tires, and perhaps more of a strain on 
his machine that may make the idea 
hardly as feasible as it now seems. 
F. e. r. 
III 
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Box 20, Canton. Ohio 
“Jan. 31, 1915. 
“I have run Nos. 11, 13, 15 
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“ARTIE WOOD, 
Leslie, Mich.” 
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SILO FILLEKS AND 
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New 
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SILOS to ears cost first—then pay. HOW? Ask, giving size. 
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364 Broadway 
Salem, Ohio 
“Modem Silage 
Methods ,” tSi payee 
eent postpaid 
for 10c. 
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| „ Inward Shear, of tempered steel 
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This took explains so arranged that they eut toward 
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