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February 2S, I'.tls 
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Chicaao, III. 
BELLOWS FALLS, VT. 
Portland. Ore. Salt Lake City, Utah 
Oakland, CaL 
Potato 
Planter 
Pays for Itself in Labor and Time Saved 
One man and team with an Eureka Potato Planter needs no help to plant 
' the whole crop. Whether you plant 4 acres or 400, the Eureka Planter will pay for 
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23 Factories assure a wide and economical distribution 
Rais or Profits? 
Every rat on your place, according to ex¬ 
perts in the U. S. Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, will cause a loss of more than $2 
during the coming year. It is no un¬ 
common thing for farm buildings to harbor forty to fifty 
rats and great numbers of mice. The resulting loss amounts 
to a pretty big sum. Build your granaries and bams with 
Nafeo Hollow Tile 
Natco buildings are vermin-proof and fire-proof as well. WUl stand 
for generations—save painting. The smooth glazed walls will not 
absorb odors and are easy to clean. Air chambers in the walls keep 
out the bitter cold of winter and the scorching heat of summer. Al¬ 
so keep the buildings dry and free from mildew. Save coal in the 
house and grain in the bin. Natco buildings will reduce your insur¬ 
ance rates yet add to your real protection. 
Your building supply dealer 
will gladly show you sam¬ 
ples, also building plans. 
Perhaps he has one 
you can use for 
that farm build¬ 
ing you are go¬ 
ing to erect. If 
so, it’s free. But 
write usatonce 
for new illus- 
trat^ "Nat¬ 
co on the 
Farm”book 
—1918 Edi¬ 
tion. 
Building an Ice House with Cold Storage 
(Continiiod from page 208.) 
To get rid of the drainage water from 
the melting ice the concrete floor above 
the storage chamber could be water¬ 
proofed and made to slant to one side 
where a down spout could be put in to 
carry it to a drain. This would require 
a trap to prevent the entrance of warm 
air by way of the drain pipe. A false 
floor of plank placed on 2 by 4 sleepers 
should be laid over the concrete on which 
the ice could be placed. As to trouble 
from packing material, if the walls wew 
well insulated none would be required, 
the ice pile being left bare. 
An arrangement of the icehouse as in- 
‘dicated in the sketch will secure a circu¬ 
lation of air through the cooling chamber. 
A liberal opening is left through the 
upper floor each side of the building, but 
not across the ends. On one side, as in¬ 
dicated, an insulated partition is built up 
be.side the ice storage space, making a 
boxed-iu opening connecting the cold 
storage space with the ice chamber above. 
This is insulated as indicated for two rea¬ 
sons, one being to aid circulation as far 
as possible by natural means, and the 
other is to keep the refrigerator dry. The 
cold-air duct on the opposite side is the 
same, a narrow boxed-in passage extend¬ 
ing the length of the building. It is. how¬ 
ever. built in the cold-storage room in¬ 
stead of the ice chamber above, and leaves 
the ice pile exposed on one side so that 
the air is cooled in flowing down past 
it. All opening along the floor of the 
cold storage room penults the circulation 
of air as shown by the arrows. 
The action is thus: 3Iaterial brought 
into the cold storage room will be some¬ 
what warmer than the air surrounding 
it somewhat. This expands the air 
slightly, making it a very little lighter, 
and the colder and heavier air over, and 
surrounding the ice pile, flows down the 
fold air duct and forces it up the flue on 
the other side as indicated by the arrows 
in the diagram. The insulated partition 
keeps the air away from the ice, heljiing 
it to retain its heat and buoyancy until it 
reaches the top and starts to flow over 
the ice pile, where it becomes cooled and 
ready to flow down to the cold storage 
room again through the cold-air flue. This 
partition also aids in keeping the refrig¬ 
erator dry. b.v preventing the air from 
folding before it ieaches the top. 'Warm 
air will carry more moisture than cold, 
and if this air were allowed to cool in the 
warm-air flue condensation would take 
place, and the resulting water would run 
back into the storage chamber. As it is 
now most of the condensation will take 
place over the ice pil?, and the water will 
find its way out by means of the down 
spout. 
For the same reason, to prevent cou- 
den.satiou and to aid circulation, the cold- 
air flue is boxed in and arranged to dis- 
I'harge its air at the bottom, the coldest 
part of the room. The cold air current is 
thus kept from contact with the warmer 
upper air of the refrigerator. An insu¬ 
lated ceiling would be needed to prevent 
dripping from aboA-e. and of course an 
anteroom with tightly fitting stuffed 
doors would be required between the out¬ 
side air and the storage room. This 
scheme is offered only as a means of 
fitting up an icehouse as A. D. E. desires, 
and is not recommended as being better 
than the ordinary type. 
The T’. S. Government has made quite 
a study of icehouse requirements for farm 
use. and ’the following bulletins on the 
subject are well worth obtaining: Bulle¬ 
tin 98, "The Application of Refrigeration 
to the Handling of Milk,” (professional 
paper) ; Farmer’s Bulletin 475, "Ice 
HousesFarmer’s Bulletin 62.3, "Ice 
Houses and the Use of Ice on the Dairy 
Farm.” The above bulletins may he ob¬ 
tained from the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture at Washington, D. C., and aside 
from de.scribing the actual construction 
of farm icehouses of different sizes and 
costs, deal somewhat with the underlying 
principles of ice storage, so that one can 
apply them to a house designed to suit 
his needs. K. ir. s. 
An Invasion of Foreign Germs 
A number of the daily papers have 
printed scare stories about a German 
plotter’s plan for importing "poisonous 
pollen" which is to destroy the grain 
crops. We think this is somewhat like 
the .stories we have read of ending the 
war by scattering potato beetles on the 
•German potato fields. The plan was to 
gather the hard-shelled bugs and drop 
them from flying machines. There is 
little to the "poisonous pollen” story, hut 
it would be possible to introduce the 
germs of grain smut or other diseases 
in seed grain. We must remember that 
the dangerous Hessian fly is a present 
from Germany—brought over by the Hes¬ 
sians during the Revolution. The In¬ 
diana experiment station has this .sensible 
statement, regarding the danger: 
While botanists in the Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station of Pnrdqe University 
scout the theory of pollen being spread in 
the oats or other small grain seeds, they 
state that smut or other disease germs 
might be mixed in seed stocks with dis¬ 
astrous effects. Several serious plant 
disea.ses exist in Germany which are not 
found in this country, and these might he 
introduced in this country in this way. 
These diseases could not be detected on 
the seed by an ordinary examination, and 
the only way to guard against the chance 
of this deadly work by Teutonic plotters, 
if they have been busy in this way. would 
be to treat the seed as it is treated for 
smut prevention. Investigations are un¬ 
der way to determine the source of these 
rumors, but to be safe, every farmer is 
urged to take precautions in buying his 
seeed oats this Hpring and to see that all 
of it is treated properly with formalin. 
Tims it will be more necessary than 
ever to treat the oat seed this year. It 
pays in any year, but if those new dis¬ 
eases are around we should make doubly 
sure. Take one pint of formalin and mix 
with 60 gallons of water—or in that pro¬ 
portion. Sjiread the seeil oats ou the 
barn floor and sprinkle them well with 
this mixture. Shovel the wet oats into 
a pile and cover with a blanket, and leave 
them for three hours. Then spread out 
to dry, and they are ready for seeding. 
The theory, and fact, of this treatment 
is that the gas from the formalin is gen¬ 
erated under the hlankrt and penetrates 
all through the jiile, killing the germs of 
smut disease without injuring the oats. 
• Fighting Sows 
On page 163 I read the account of M. 
C. P. headed "Fighting Sows.” We have 
a few hundred hogs ou this estate, and it 
is our experieuce that sows seldom fight 
seriously when reared together. It is. 
however, quite common for strange sows 
to fight when put together, and in a good 
many cases the fighting results in the 
death of one or more animals. I have ex¬ 
amined several animals that have died in 
this way. and in some instances have 
found a ruptured heart, and the thorax, 
or chest cavity, full of blood. It is either 
the fattest hogs, or animals that are 
physically much weaker than the rest, 
that die. and I believe that over-exertion 
is the direct cause of death in practically 
every case. Usually there are no ex¬ 
ternal wounds. A ruptureil blood vessel 
near a flesh wound was undoubtedly the 
cause for the flow of‘blood from the sow 
owued by M. C. P. Hogs are very fond 
of blood, hence it is not strange that the 
victor made the bes-t of the opportunity. 
In turning strange sows together it is a 
good plan to turn.both herds into a new 
yard, where there is plenty of riiom. 
Preferably a run into an open field that 
is strange to all. I have never known of 
a death resulting from strange sows fight¬ 
ing one another after being turned to¬ 
gether under these conditions. 
New Hampshire. J. w. barfohd. 
“I hear you are thinking of buying a 
farm.” “That’s my intention.” said the 
city man, with a complacent air. "Well, 
don’t forget the importance of silos.” 
"Trust me for that, sir. By the way— 
er—do those things consume much gaso- 
lenc ?”— Birminph am Age-Herald. 
