CAc RUKAl. NEW-YORKER 
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A New England Storage House 
A .siicrossful type of frost-proof store¬ 
house WHS put up by .T. W. Clark of North 
Iliitiley about 2') years ago. It was built 
to be used with ice, but proved more 
profitable without. Mr. Clark has 40 
acres of matiu-e Baldwin apple trees. He 
u.sually puts fhe best fruit into regular 
cold storage in a city plant and uses his 
own storage house mostly for windfall.s. 
Said Mr. Clark : “T was just beginning, 
in the middle of .Tanuary, to sell my wind¬ 
falls. I get more for them than my neigh- 
lairs got for their hand-picked fruit, be¬ 
cause T was .able to hold them until the 
other windfalls were o>it of the market. 
I he house holds about SOO barrels. It is 
really a mom insidi' a mom. 'I'lie outside 
Construction of Storage House 
is like any tight building. First clap- 
hoards, then paper, then sheathing. Then 
(lie imside part; first a two-inch air space 
ill the studding to keep off the first force 
of the outside cold. An e.xjiert from 
Washington told me that the filled space 
wliieli comes next is really my main de¬ 
pendence. alnuKst the whole thing in fact, 
hccau.se the filling holds a great many 
very small air s’lmces and very tight 
spaces if the filling is properly done. I 
jait sheathing ovm- my two-inch air space, 
(lien six-inch .studding, then more sheath¬ 
ing. The six-inch space between this 
Madding is packed tight with dry planer 
shavings. 'I’hey must be rammed down 
hard. 'I'he ceilin;; over this room must 
lie I'onstructed the same as the sides; 
that is with a two-inch air space and a 
six-inch filled space. 1‘erhaps a single 
filled siiace, if wider, would answer for 
the top. The bottom of the building is 
of common flooring. It might have paid 
me to have insulated the floor. A good 
deal of heat comes up from the ground in 
mild weather. Our trouble is not with 
frost. The building is jiractically proof, 
and will keep aiiiiles without injury in 
Winter. The difliculty is with warm 
wiather in Fall, but we manage pretty 
well hy opmiing the building nights. The 
d'Hir is doubh* with entr.v between, fl, H. K. 
Silencing a Pump 
What kind of jnimii may 1 u.se that 
is le.ss noi.sy than a gasoline engineV I 
have a large poultry plant and use a 
great deal of water, which I have beim 
inuapiiig into large cisterns from a driv¬ 
en well. I am using a small ga.soline 
engine at pre.sent, which I am compidled 
to run about half the time. This is an 
unnoyance to my family and to my 
neighbors as well, who have corniilained 
about this endless thumping of the gas¬ 
oline engine. Will you inform me fif some 
Quieter means of pumping water into my 
cisterns, and if .so where T can get a less 
noi.sy pumidng apparatu.sV H. e. h. 
The noi,se from the pump itself can be 
<(uieted by taking up alt loose bearings, 
putting in leather wa.shers and using 
l)lenty of heavy grease. But we judge 
that your main trouble is from the en¬ 
gine itself. All explosion engines are 
more or less noisy, but can usually lx* 
muffled. One device which has worked 
very vvell is a 4-inch pipe into which the 
exhaust is tightly sealed which then 
makes one right angle turn into a buried 
barrel, from which another 4-inch pipe 
rises at lea.st 10 feet. The lower end of 
the barrel is open, and it also act.s as an 
oil drip and .soot catcher. F. D. C. - 
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To 
John Deere Spreader 
>The Spreader with 
the Beater on 
the Axle 
Mounting 
the beater on 
the axle simpli¬ 
fied the con¬ 
struction, elimi¬ 
nated troublesome parts and 
made possible a successful low- 
down spreader with big drive 
wheels. Therearenoshaftstoget 
' out of line, no chains to cause 
' trouble, and no clutches to 
adjust. The only spreader with 
beater and beater drive mount¬ 
ed on axle. 
.ULLl. 
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Low down, with big 
drive wheels out of 
the way. Easy to load. 
Revolving rake, 
driven by manure 
moving toward the 
beater—no bunching 
of manure. Ball bear¬ 
ing eccentric apron- 
drive—a new and ex¬ 
clusive driving device. 
Makes uniform 
spreading certain. 
Widespread 
attachme nt 
for spread- 
in g seven 
feet wide can 
be furnished 
for the John 
Deere 
Spreader. 
No chains 
nor gears. 
Quickly re¬ 
moved. 
Syracuse Chilled Plows—General 
Purpose Series 
Syracuse Plows have 
an enviable field record 
among farmers in chilled 
or combination plow territory. 
Here is a feature that is ap¬ 
preciated by the man who buys 
a Syracuse Plow. Extras order¬ 
ed will be duplicates of the origi¬ 
nal parts. Bolt holes will be in 
the right place. Every part will 
fit. In fact all necessary parts 
that go into a Syracuse Plow 
could be ordered as repairs and 
when received built into a com¬ 
plete plow. Extra parts are 
exact duplicates—no trouble re¬ 
sults. 
Syracuse quality 
Syracuse Chilled 
Plows—General Pur¬ 
pose Series are un¬ 
surpassed for use in 
hard, dry ground, 
gravelly soils or stony 
fields where plows 
ordinarily will not 
stay in the ground 
—unusually well bal¬ 
anced. 
Long moldboard of 
good turn and scour¬ 
ing qualities. 
Detachable chilled 
iron, keen edge shin 
piece. Cutting edge 
of moldboard can be 
renewed easily, quick¬ 
ly, and at small ex¬ 
pense. Not 
necessary 
to renew 
(e n tire 
Imoldboard 
f each time. 
Rightand 
left hand;;^^^”- 
styles. 
Remember, 
is uniform. 
The New Deere 
Gang is the most 
widely used plow of 
its type. 
It is light draft, 
durable and is equip¬ 
ped with John Deere 
bottoms, known all 
over the world for 
superior work, easy 
scouring and light 
pulling qualities. It 
cuts and turns full 
width of furrow. 
A simple, practical 
foot lift and auxiliary 
hand lift lever—easy 
to raise bottoms out 
^of the ground. 
John Deere Quick 
Detachable Shares— 
great labor and time 
savers. Share can be 
taken off easily, only 
one nut to remove. 
NewDeere Light 
Draft Gang 
Plow 
For twenty years 
. the New Deere Gang 
has had the good 
opinion of enough 
farmers to make it 
the one best seller— 
And, today, it is the same plow 
it was twenty years ago, with the 
usual minor refinements added. 
Correct in design, always rep¬ 
resenting the highest develop¬ 
ment of the plow-maker’s art, 
the New Deere Gang is a leader, 
and has been every single year 
for twenty years. 
Go to your John Deere deal¬ 
er’s and look 
this plow 
over — yoUj 
will readily* 
see why it is, 
such a popu- t’-nsva 
lar plow. 
fooK Free 
I book—tells all about a com¬ 
plete line of farm implements 
and how to adjust and use 
many of them. A practical 
encyclopedia of farm imple¬ 
ments. Worth dollars. 
Describes and illustrates 
Plows for Tractors; Walking 
and Riding Plows; Disc Plows; 
Cultivators; Spring Tooth and 
Spike Tooth Harrows; Disc 
Harrows; Alfalfa and Beet 
Tools; Farm and Mountain 
Wagons; Manure Spreaders; 
Inside Cup and Portable Grain 
Elevators; Corn Shelters; Hay 
Loaders; Stackers; Rakes; 
Mowers and Side Delivery 
Rakes; Hay Presses; Kaffit 
Headers; Grain Drills; Seed¬ 
ers; Grain and Corn Binders. 
This book will be sent free to 
everyone stating what imple¬ 
ments he is interested in and 
asking for Package No. X-33. 
JOHN Deere, Moline, III. 
John Deere Corn 
Planters 
-L 
ft 
John Deere No. 999 
is accurate. It has 
the John Deere Nat¬ 
ural Cell Fill, Edge De¬ 
livery Seed Plate, Sur¬ 
face of hopper bot¬ 
tom and openings to 
seed cells are oblique, 
or sloping. Kernels 
move toward and 
enter the cells in 
their natural posi¬ 
tion. They do not 
have to be tipped on 
edge. 
Merely move foot 
lever to change 
numberof kernels _ 
per hill. 
Drilling distan¬ 
ces varied, and 
change hilling to 
drilling or back 
to hilling made 
easily. 
Accuracy in a corn 
planter means uni¬ 
form drop—number 
of kernels the same in 
each and every hill. 
If the planter misses 
only six kernels in every 
100 hills, the loss in yield is 
nearly two bushels per acre. 
Accuracy in planting has been 
the main object in designing 
John Deere planters. One of the 
many advantages of using a 
.John Deere planter is that with 
proper handling it will plant 
practically 2, 3 or 4 kernels in 
every hill, as desired. 
.-If 
The Model “B”pul¬ 
verizes at even depth 
its entire width. 
Patented spring 
pressure third lever 
—inner ends of gangs 
can be given light or 
heavy pressure to 
disc over ridges or cut 
out dead furrows 
without burying the 
harrow. 
Independentgangs. 
All tendency of gangs 
to crowd to one side 
is easily overcome by 
giving them the prop¬ 
er relative angle. 
Flexible—only that- 
K art of the Model “B” 
arrow passing overj 
an obstruction is lift¬ 
ed out of the ground. 
Rear section can be 
furnished to make a. 
double action harrow. 
John Deere 
Model “B’* Disc 
Harrow 
Using a disc harrow 
before plowing pulver¬ 
izes surface lumps, 
work4 trash into the 
seed bed and prevents 
the escape of moisture. Then 
when the furrow slice is turned, 
the trash decays rapidly and no 
large air spaces are left between 
bottom of furrow and the turned 
furrow slice. Water in the sub¬ 
soil can make its way into the 
seed bed and plant roots can 
penetrate to deeper soils. 
Discing after plowing removes 
the weeds, and makes the seed 
bed compact, but not hard. The 
discs break up lumps of soil. 
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Your Home Town Dealer 
There is a big advan¬ 
tage in buying imple¬ 
ments of your home¬ 
town dealer. 
He gladly “backs up” 
the implements he sells, 
and he is on the ground 
to see that they make 
good. He makes his 
home in your locality— 
the place his goods are 
sold. 
He handles a line of 
high-grade implements 
—and you can see before 
.you buy. In the busy 
' season, when work is 
pressing, he can furnish 
repairs promptly for the 
goods he sells. 
If, by chance, he has¬ 
n’t in stock just exactly 
the style of implement 
you want, he can give 
you quick service in get¬ 
ting it to you. 
John Deere factory 
warehouses with im¬ 
mense storage rooms 
have been established in 
various sections of the 
country. Every John 
Deere dealer is conven¬ 
iently located to one of 
these houses. 
This, really, gives you 
two supplies of imple¬ 
ments—the stock carried 
by your home-town deal¬ 
er and that of the factory 
warehouse. 
John Deere, Moline, Illinois 
