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.Tilly T, 1!M7. 
Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
WriTE Engine Works 
1899 Oakland Ave., 
Kansas City, Mo. 
P^^^899 EmpireBldg., V 
Pittsburgh, Pa. K 
WRITE 
TODAY 
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On SOo Filling Power* 
For Immediate Shipment ^ 
Save your crops!—Save $25 to $100 on first cost— 
Jk Save 65 per cent on operating cost, using tny Special Model 
’■ Kerosene Engine. Don’t overlook the big money-making pos- 
Bibilities in having reliable power on your farm this year, or 
the fact that I cangiye you more engine equipment, better 
prices and better ser^dce. You cannot afford to be without 
( power for farm work NOW,when 1 will sell you a high-grade WITTK 
practically on your own terraS'-Cash—Pasmients—Bank depositor No 
Money Down—put your engine on the cars ready for business the 
r same day I receive you; order. Write for latest prices. 
WITTE Engines: 
2 to 22 H-P.—90 Days’ Trial—5-Year Guarantee ^ 
My Special Model Kerosene Engine is a jim dandy for ensilage cutters, 
blowers, threshers, and other heavy farm machines. No need to pay double to get the 
samequality as a WI'fTE, or take a cheap make to get a favorable price. Write today for 
my i'YeeBook, which tells “How To Judge Engines’’—why my engines have full- 
length bed, detachable, water-cooled cylinders that require no packing, 
vertical vtJves, and many other desirable improvements—years 
ahead of old-style engines. Every WITTE is shipped ready 
to run. No charges for Speed Regulator—Batteries— 
Pulleys, etc. Free Equipment—No extras to buy—No i 
"catch” prices—Just a plain, square deal—Yon keep the 
middleman’s profit—Get your engine when you want 
it. TRY ME.-Ed. H. Witte, Pres. , 
Green Mountain Silos 
Cannot IJlow Over 
Our new system of guy wires holds 
the silo Arm in any wind (we 
guara/ntee it). All staves are 
treated with creosote oil preserva¬ 
tive; hoops are extra strong; doors 
fit tight—like a refrigerator. Write 
today for Green Mountain Silo 
literature. 
BEFORE YOU BUY WRITE POU 
NEW CATALOG DESCRIBING THE 
GUARANTEED MONEY-SAVINQ 
on tile market. Adjustable automatic take-up hoop^. 
continuous open-door front—air-tight door and pel* 
manent ladder are some of the unusual features.. Tli« 
ii.lt-rniitioiutl Silo Co., 113 flood Itidg.. fi1eud*ii4c, I'u 
For Sale-Delaware Farms: 
ity. Fruit, (irain, Stock an<l Poultry fanuB. Write for list 
doscribiiig 100 bar^ain.s. OKO, »', TI.HO, Dover, Delaware 
IF you want books on farming of 
any kind write us and we 
will quote you prices 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West Thirtieth Street, New York 
Ensilage Cutter and 8-10 iH.P. 
Gasoline Q 7 C5 
Engine • O 
Buy the 
wonderful 
MokuI en- 
silaifc cut* 
ter. t h o 
easy driv- 
Inir cutter. 
It cuts 
more and 
better 
corn. Put 
with thia 
the 8-10 Ucavl Diiti entrino and you have a winningr 
You can buy the two at $375, everything complete, or you 
cither separate, prices are low now. l^ey will be much 
Heavi Duti engines use gasoline or kerosene. There 
another engine just as good. Catalog of both engines and cutter 
sent on request and a special price to the first man in each 
locality. 
R. CONSOLIDATED GASOLINE & ENGINE CO. 
202 Fulton Street • New York City 
Compare the 
GLOBE SILO 
with other stave sUos. An 
improvement over any of 
them. Pixclusive features 
found in no other. Exten¬ 
sion Koof adds 5 feet to 
capacity. Window Free. 
Double spline with tightest 
sealed joints. No waste of 
strength ]oo.scning pinched 
doors. Other iioints you 
should know about. Kndorsed 
by State Graiig*‘S in East. 
Save Money NOW 
Send for informatiou about the Globk Silo anil 
our proposition right away. We can jiositively 
save you money now. Drop a postal to 
GLOBE SILO CO., 2-12 Willow Street.SIDNEY, N.Y- 
Raise High Priced Wheat 
on Fertile Canadian Soil « 
Canada extends to you a hearty invitation to settle on her M 
FREE Homestead lands of 160 acres each or secure some of 
the lowpriced lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. 
This year wheat is higher but Canadian land just as cheap, so 
the opportunity is more attractive than ever. Canada wants 
you to help feed the world by tilling some of her fertile soil 
— land similar to that w hich duri ng many years has aver¬ 
aged 20 to 45 bushels of wheat to the acre. Think of the 
money you can make with wheat at over $2 per bu. and 
landsoeasytoget. Wonderful yieldsalsoof Oats,Barley 
and Flax. Mixed farming in Western Canada is 
as profitable an industry as grain growing. 
The Government this year is asking farmers to put in¬ 
creased acreage into grain. There is now a great de¬ 
mand for farm laborers to replace the many young men 
who have volunteered for service in the war. The cli¬ 
mate is healthful and agreeable, railway facilities excel¬ 
lent, good schools and churches convenient. Write for 
literature as to reduced railway rates to Supt. of Immi¬ 
gration, Ottawa, Canada, or to 
O. G. RUTLEDGE 
KOI E. Genc»ee Street 
Syrneii.e. N. Y. Canadian Government 
rite for 
Immi- H 
I 
Agent. ■ 
Insulating a Cellar 
On account of the cold Winters we 
are obliged to imt heavy bankings 
around our lioiise. This is hard work, 
and it takes two men and a jiair of 
horses two days each year to bank tlie 
house and take the banking away. I 
desire to eliminate this costly work. In 
the cellar is a boiling siiring, which 
furnishes a large .stream of water. If I 
.should lay a double wall with a dead air 
space between, and should lay a pipe 
so that the water could be siphoned 
through the dead air space on two and 
a half sides of the house, would it pre¬ 
vent freezing in the cellar? ii. v. l*. 
Enfield, Me. 
The construction of a non-freezing cel¬ 
lar is (luitc an art. especially in a sec¬ 
tion where the Winters are ^very severe. 
In the attemiit to seeilre a frost-proof 
cellar it must be remembered that it is 
the escape of heat from within rather 
tliau the entrance of cold from without 
that must he guarded against. Cold is 
a negative quantity—the absence of 
heat—consequently when enough heat 
eseape.s from a body the temperature is 
lowered and when this reduction of tem¬ 
perature reaches a certain point, depend¬ 
ing upon the object, it freezes. 
In a cellar—unless artificially heated 
—we have only the heat coming from 
the ground and the things stored in it 
to provide warmth through the Winter, 
and with a low temperature outside, 
every precaution has to he taken to con¬ 
serve this heat and prevent fns'zing. 
The double wall mentioned by II. V. I*, 
is one of tlu' best means of protecting a 
ci'llar. To si'cure jirotection in tliis way 
though, it is iH’cessary that both walls— 
outi'r and inner—are absolutely tight, 
otlu'rwisc a circulation of air is start¬ 
ed and the dead air sp.ace between them 
—the blanket which serves to hold the 
heat—destroyed. 
Along with these double walls must 
go warm floors overhead and carefully 
jirotected openings into the cellar, many 
farmers filling their outside hatchway.s 
with straw at tlie opening of cold weath¬ 
er. It goes without saying of cour.se 
that all windows should be protected by 
carefully fitted storm sash. lu fact every 
precaution that would be taken in build¬ 
ing an ice storage hou.se should be used 
here for the principle is the same—ar¬ 
resting the passage of heat. In one case 
you are trying to prevent its entrance 
and in the other its escape. 
I take it that the “boiling” spring 
mentioned by II. V. P. i.s simiily a good 
flowing one and not one of the hot water 
variety. If I am right in this there 
would be little advantage in piping it 
through the walls. It is true that water 
is a great storehouse of heat but it gives 
this heat up slowly and reluctantly, and 
would have little warming effect upon the 
air in the w.-ill. I would expect this ar¬ 
rangement to be a source of trouble 
rather than otherwise. The very fact 
that the cellar freezes -with the naked 
spring in it shows how little heat could 
be expected from the water when en¬ 
cased in a pipe. The circulation of 
air in a cellar is necessarily so slow that 
not enough of it is brought in contact 
with the water to absorb an appreciable 
amount of heat from it. 
Driveways near a cellar, by packing 
the soil, and in the Winter, the snoAv as 
well, are conducive to freezing, as the 
hard packed soil :ind snow offers a much 
better avenue for the escape of heat than 
does soil in its natural condition covered 
with sod and loose snow. On the other 
hand shrubs planted about the walls 
may tend to prevent freezing by collect¬ 
ing and retaining a snow blanket—Xa- 
ture's means of conserving heat in the 
North. B. H. S. 
Objections to Square Cistern 
C:Hi you to 1 me the objection, if any. 
to a square cistern? Forms for concrete 
work are more easily made square, and 
bricks are high-priced. c. 0. ,s. 
Jeffer.son, O. 
I know of no objection to the square 
cistern. The round cistei'u would i)e 
more nearly self-supporting than the 
square one, and would need less rein¬ 
forcement. Economy of material would 
also be in favor of the round .structure. 
It will require about one-eighth le.ss 
wall to close 100 square feet in the form 
of a circle than in a square. However, 
ease of construction will probably over¬ 
balance thft points in favor of the round. 
F. L. A. 
miy 
waste of 
your silo? 
Silage settles nearly one- 
fourth when the silo is quick¬ 
ly filled. That means 25 tons 
less silage in a 100-ton silo 
than you really should have. 
Make your silo earn full di¬ 
vidends. Fill and refill your 
own silo with a 
Papec 
Ensilage Cutter 
Your gasoline engine—^3K.P. and 
up—will run it Grover McGurer, 
Middlefield, O., says: ‘ We use a 
5 H. P gasoline engir»e (on our 
Papec) and can put in more en¬ 
silage than either of tlie two ma¬ 
chines in this community with 
12 and 15 H. P. engines.” 
Every Papec is guaranteed to fill 
the highest silo. Made in four 
sizes—2 to 30 tons per hour ca¬ 
pacity. 
Our 1917 Catalog explains just 
how a Papec will save you $75 to 
$150 yearly, It’s free. Send a 
postal today. 
Papec ^ 
Machine 
Company 
10 Main St. 
Shortsville, N. Y. 
1 
25 Distnh^ U 
uting Points 
GHr Hook 
FBod 
Tablo 
^Alfalfa Racutting^ 
. Attachmant 
Down 
they go¬ 
to smash! In 
scads of cases cut down ^ 
a HALFl Thousands of farm¬ 
ers are selling their No. 1 hay, 
milling off - grades. They’re 
making the grandest alfmfa 
chop; fatteninir hqgs^ cattle, 
eheop, poultry ana purses! 
makmff It cheaply, easily, with 
our famous patented Recutter 
Attacbment(68izesforfielduse)» 
Handles loaves, stems andalll 
No wastel no Injuriofr color 
of hay- Makes dandy comblna* 
tion feeds from clover, rice, 
straw, cornstalks, bean straw, 
pea vines, oats and rye. Bigfirest 
R uaranteed capacity 11200 to 2700 
»s. Mr hour. 600 to 900 lbs. of 
meal per hour with Junior Mill (run 
with D to 8h. p. engine). Cracks peas, corn and beans. 
SMALLEY FflltOR 
SEVEN SIZES 
Tremendously simplifies silo filling. Grip Hook Force Peed 
table automatically feeds cutter—saves wage and board of 
from one to three moD. Makes richest feod.Increases silo 
toniiagre. 
Blower built Independent of cotter. Let your fan spin fast 
or slow* the speed ox knife shaft is unebang^. No belt to 
slip, wear out, ana waste time, 
money, power. Patented low-snoed 
one-pulley cr^in 
drive is faster, 
cleaner. Saves 1-6 
to 1*4 power costs! 
Powerfully built. A 
fourth heavier with 
wonderful record for 
lontf service. Write for 
latest catalog and sam¬ 
ple of chop to 
HARDER MFG. CO. 
Coblesklll, N.Y. or 
I Junior 
Smalley MfK.Co. 
, Department 47 
' 6 to 8 H. P. Eagtae, Manitowoc, Wis. 
BAD SILAGE in a GOOD SILO 
Is caused by the silo filler macerating the corn 
instead of CUTTING it, thereby creating air 
pockets and preventing proper settling. To be 
assured of GOOD SILA(jE fill your silo with a 
DOQQENSILAGE cutter 
IVV- rOO and SILO FILLER 
Furnished for individual or com¬ 
pany requirements. 
No. 30—4 to 6 H.P. Gasoline 
No. 40-6 to 8 H.P. 
No. 50-8 to 10 H.P. “ 
No. 60-12 to 15 H.P, “ 
Conservative capacity 1 ton per 
hour per horsepower at LOW 
SPEED. No Silo too high for the 
ROSS as Mr. E. E. Heckman, Sal- 
ona. Pa, says:- “Will your Cylin¬ 
der type machine fill a 108 ft. Silo 
as easily as your No. 60? Your 
No. 60 has the v/indiest blower I 
ever saw.” 
Exclusive features that prove 
the superiority of the ROSS fully 
explained in Catalog. The USERS of 
ROSS Silo Fillers for the past 67 years 
are our references. Our Catalog is of 
great assistance in selecting a Silo 
Filler and Ensilage Cutter. Investigate 
the ROSS before you buy elsewhere and 
avoid regrets thereafter. FULLY 
guaranteed. Manufactured by 
THE E. W. ROSS COMPANY 
Box 113 Springfield. Ohio 
