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7She RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 2, 191S 
For complete workivg plans, specifications and hill of materials for 
this Hog Ilozise and thirteen other farm buildings, send coupon below. 
More Hogs on Less Feed 
^HE Army needs pork—all the farmers can produce. And 
all foodstuffs must be conserved. It’s no time for hap¬ 
hazard farming. Hog raising and all other farming must be 
put on a scientific and business basis. 
Every farmer knows that next in importance to the selection 
a or breed comes a properly-designed and well-built Hog 
House—a Hog House designed to admit maximum sunlight 
at farrowing time, so as to make possible two litters a year 
instead of one, and bigger, healthier pigs. 
Weatherproof Hog Houses—warmer in winter and cooler in 
suimner—eliminate loss through disease and exposure. They 
let every possible ounce of feed go to pork production. 
White Pine 
assures warm, dry Hog Houses because the boards stay vdiere 
you i)ut them—the joints hold tight. 
White riiie is the most economical wood for all outside uses 
because it does not warp, twist, sjilit or rot—j^ou don’t have 
to make continual outlay for repairs. It’s easy to work and 
easy on tools. 
And the difference in cost between White 
Pine and the cheapest wood for the ex¬ 
terior of any farm building is negligible. 
Measured in terms of hogs, it costs less to build now than 
ever before. 
Your dealer lias White Pine or can get it for you. Insist 
on having it. 
White Pine Bureau 
13G1 Merchants Bank Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. 
Ilepresentinj' -nr. 
The Northern Pino Manufacturers’Association of Minnesota, V\ isconsin 
and Michigan, and The Associated White Pine Manufacturers of Idaho 
r~l Barns (2) 
r~| Hog Houses (8) 
n Corn Crib And Granary (I) 
r~| Milk House (1) 
r~’ Poultry Houses (8) 
TEAR OUT AND SEND NOW ... 
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1361 Merchants Bank Bldg., St. Paul, Miuii. 
Send me complete plans, etc., of the 
buildings which I have checked: 
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Try This Dairy Sum: 
One cow H- one hired man. -h one fixed-feed separator. Result: 
Loss of about lo lbs. of butter per year. 
Same cow + same hired man + SHARPLES SUCTION-FEED 
SEPARATOR. Result: All the cream saved; no butter lost 
because the Sharpies skims clean at any speed. 
Multiply this by your number of cows and you will at 
once see the extra worth of 
^ SUCTION —taw 
CreamiseparatopC 
No other separator has the suction-feed principle. 
Write for catalog. Address Dept. 12 
The Sharpies Separator Co., West Chester, Pa. 
Sharpless Milkers—used on half a million cows daily 
Branches: Chicago San Francisco 
DC-2 
Home and Farm Topics 
Character at the Back Door 
Look at a family backyard ami ymi get 
a good line on the family character. It 
surely gives a good idea of development in 
the family bump of neatness. U'liere 
there are many small children it is hard 
to have things as you would like. hut. as 
we all know, some liackyards and kitchen 
doors are little better than an outi-age. 
The iiictnro tm this page shows tlie kitclien 
aiiproach on an Ohio farm. In this <-ase 
tlie kitchen door open.s right out into the 
garden and it makes a fine place for the 
kitchen woi'kiw.s to cool ofl or read tlic 
mail. It does not cost much to have sncli 
a iilace. mostly thought and labor just in 
time. 
Cost of Operating an Automobile 
Although I am an e.x-farmer I still tak(‘ 
your iiaiier and en.hiy reading th(‘ jirac- 
tical first-hand experiences that ludp .so 
much to make it np- I would like to add 
my experience to that of others in hopes 
that it may he of use to .someone contem¬ 
plating purchasing an automobile. 
Wc have operated a five-passenger car 
for the past’two years, for jileasiire only, 
with the n'snlting costs shown in the 
tabic lielow. When wc bought the car in 
the S|iring of lUlG I took a small note¬ 
book :nid kejit it in a locker in the auto, 
.$0.07.S as a total cost of operating this 
cal’ to date. AVhen this cost per mile is 
compared with that of running a horse 
and buggy per mile oue will .see that the 
auto has it over our old-time friend, as 
they say. ‘‘like a tent.” I think that any 
farmer who by buying a small oi medium- 
jiriced car can thereby do away with oue 
hors<' that he would otherwise have to 
keep would he ahead in the end. K. w. c. 
North Tonawaiida, N. Y. 
Cost of a Car 
The following is an actual recoi’d of 
the ripeiMiing expmise of a small auto¬ 
mobile since April 10, 1017, at which 
time the car was new. The mileage cov¬ 
ered has been almost exactly .^,000 miles: 
Insurance. .$11.00; license for car ami 
driver, .^lO.!.!; accessories (pump, 
chains, etc.), ,$0; repairs, .$20.07; tires. 
.$.03.00; gasoline (302 gallons), .1'02.00; 
oil and grease, .$10.1.0; total. .'‘^214.12. 
A leaky crank-case eventually resulting 
in a burnt-out bearing, is responsible for 
a rather high cost for oil and i-cpairs. 
Connecticut. E. u. iiahokk. 
Crows and Potatoes 
Last year I liad tnuihle with crows 
digging up my potatoes after planting. 
The Backdoor of an Ohio Farmhouse 
and every lime an expenditure was made 
it was set down under its jiropt'r claii^i- 
fication. About 70 per cent of onr tr.avid- 
iug has bi'en made on the imiuoved roads 
of New York State. I have made nearly 
all of my own repairs (most by anticipat¬ 
ing tronblf), also have washed the* car 
and cleaned the engine when necessary. 
I'he first set of tire.s gave us an average 
mih'age of 0,200 miles each, and the ones 
we now have on are about half worn out. 
We used great care to kce)) them iiroperly 
inllated and drove carefully over rough 
places. They gave us little trouble until 
they, like the ‘‘wonderful one-horse shay,” 
were ready to go. T’lider mi.scellaueoiis is 
chai'ged repairing storage battery once at 
$7. State tax twice, and other items that 
wonhl not classify umler the other head¬ 
ings. I'o date we liav(‘ hnrnefl Id.") gallons 
of gasolim' at a cost varying from 20 to 
27 cents. 
SfM.M.VitY 
1010 
(lasoli lie . 
. . . $03.70 
Tires . 
. . . 20.40 
Oil "nd grease. 
8.80 
Garage . 
... 14.05 
Mi.scolla neons. 
. . . 10.‘22 
1017 
.S40.07 
fiS.OO 
S.IO 
‘2.‘’,.(K) 
22.11 
Total..$i:’.ri.77 
Total mile.s. 
Cost per mile 
.$0,027 
Total, 1010-101 U 
Total miles. lOm-1017—0,0;) 
$100..34 
4.000 
,'t;o.oiO 
) 0 . 
Cost per mile, 1010-1017—,$0.03.‘>. 
Our running expenses*'t<^^?fl^rrom the 
above are ,$0,033 per mile. We estimate 
the car now to he worth .$4.)0. Subtract 
this from ,$785. the original cost, and we 
have a depreciation charge of .$335. which, 
added to tlic interest on $785 for 21 
mouths, equals <$417. This sum. divided 
by the total mileage covered and added 
to the operatiug cost per mile, gives 
also in pulling tlicm np after they had 
coiiK' tlirongh the ground. I planted iu 
two .separate gardens, one of whicli con¬ 
tained 7.'^0 hills, in anothei- 310 hills. 
4'hey were ])lanted Ai)ril 20. As I did 
not visit the i)hice for six weeks, and no 
one was living oa the place, crow.s could 
not he drivmi away, but I was told by 
pei’sons passing that crows w»'re there 
often, and were seen peeking out the 
l)lantings. When I did visit the pla<-e 
they had taken all the hills of the 780 
lot hut one hill; that one was close to 
a stone wall. Of the 310 lot they had 
taken all the hills hut 21. On this lot 1 
saw many of the tops on the ground 
■when* they had been pnlhal up. I then 
planted both gardens again with i)ot;i- 
toes. ])utting up a scarecrow iu each, 
also i)utting up stakes with rope, ’tying 
on white, also red, cloth, and old hottle.s, 
to see if that would soai*e them away. 
About that time my family came and 
occupied the house near the gardens, yet 
the crows came and were driven away. 
The scarecrows seemed to make no dif¬ 
ference. I want to plant potatoes again 
this year with no one around to drive 
ci’ows away. How would it do to put 
t.ir ou th(‘ i) 0 tatoos, same as we do iu 
l>lanting corn ; or can you advise some 
better and surer way to get rid of them? 
•By tlie, ^xyay.^the potatoes were planted 
• '\i7?ir ('fl^*'’-ed- Tftli sulphur ‘dried on. 
^ Massachusetts. s. E. a. r. 
R, N.-Y".—This is a. new one to ns. 
The crows in our country pull coru and 
kill chickens, and we think peck into 
apples and other fruit. AVe have not 
had great trouble with their eating pota¬ 
toes. Tar on the seed coru helps, hut we 
.should not advise it on potato seed. Who 
knows how co handle such a situation? 
