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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 2, 1918 
Concrete Barns and Silos 
Are Cheapest By the Year 
A concrete barn is warm and dry in winter and cool in sum¬ 
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It is fireproof, insures the safety of valuable animals and never 
wears out. Concrete silos will not burn, rust, shrink, burst, 
crumble or blow over. They are smooth, sightly, tight and 
leakproof. Eliminate repairs and painting by building the 
permanent way—with concrete made with 
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—'Wrilkway 
—Driveway 
—Small Bridge 
—Culvert 
—Foundation 
—Barn 
—Water Trough 
—Gutter and Curb 
—Silo 
—Poultry House 
-Corn Crib 
-Storage Cellar 
-Small Dam 
-Greenhouse 
-Hotbed 
-Hog House 
-Steps 
-Porch Floor 
-Cellar Floor 
-Stable Floor 
-Cold-Weather 
—Feeding Floor 
—Smoke House 
—Milk House 
—Ice House 
—Spring House 
—Manure Pit 
—Septic Tank 
—Dipping Vat 
—Tanks 
—Tonnis Court 
Concrete Work 
—Concrete Koof 
—Piers for Small Boats 
—Garden Furniture 
—Fence Posts 
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—V/alls 
-Sills 
-Lintels 
—Garages 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, .333 W.* 30 TH-STREETv NEW YORK 
All Sorts 
Bean-picking Table 
[ saw an iin(uiry about a beau table. 
'I'lie accompanying rough sketch shows 
one for family use. W'e luive never seen 
tlie e(]ual yet . As shown, table has a 
I'aised edge U'.j inches liigh. 'I’lie spouts 
are made of 14 -iiich l«)x matcudal; hodtom 
f»f spouts Wood, fastened on with side 
ideals. 'I’lii.s tyi)e of beau table <-an 
he made easily l)y almost aii.xoue; it 
]>ermits rajtid work, and jilaced near 
windows does not t.-i.v the eyes. One 
bushel per d.ay in spaie time can he done, 
lu the pa.st fe\\' yeai-s different requests 
liave been printe<l as to a sure method 
of killing out willow stumps and tree.s. 
The following is only good in Spring. 
^^'hen bark will loosen lamdily, cut tree 
down, leaving stump .-ihont two feet 
high; then tear hark in strips thoroughly 
fear it is), I think I .am duly bound to 
yell tire, murder, or anything that will 
iiring the matter seriously to the mind of 
th<‘ com growers. w. c. Kli’i*. 
Yates Co., N. Y. 
A Country Community Outfit 
We .are in need of a pressure canning 
ontiit for canning i»ea.s, beaus, etc.; also 
an evaporator for drying fruit and ber¬ 
ries. We are planning to build an oiit- 
dooi- shed witli screen sides and put the 
canner .and drier, with tables, etc., nec¬ 
essary for the work, in this sIkhI, and u.se 
it as a .sort of commnnlty place for the 
women to do their canning .and drying in 
a comfortable place, with the dirt ami 
Hies away from the kitchen. What dn 
you think of the ideaV a. k. thkashkk. 
Virginia. 
The idea is a good one. The work can 
be done better and more esisily umh'r such 
/Raised edge in. high 
to the routs, leaving tiaink h;ire to sun 
and liglit. If well dont* th<*y will surely 
die out. a. si 
London, X. 11. 
Danger ! Test Your Corn Seed 
I have been testing ,some seed corn of 
lale, and th*i t«‘st Avas a surprise to me. 
My P. 1 I 7 ta’op of corn was the best in 
yield I ever grew, hut not fully mature<l, 
So 1 got three hu.shels from a jieighhor. 
'I'he com was of .a Dent variety, tli(‘ best 
matured iii this ssection, luisked and 
crihix'd e.arly. About two weeks .ago I 
got this corsi ; ,seh‘cted the best ears from 
the top of the taih. 'I’liis <'oru looked 
mighty good to me. I was just about 
dead certain that T was all right 011 seed 
com for ipiS, hut as I do almo.sl always 
test .seed com, I thought best to make a 
test, and did .so by selecting two kernels 
each from 25 ears, total of .50 keiaiels. 
Aftt'r .a wait of (>0 houis .an e.\'amiuation 
showed a growth of live kernels, or 10 
per cent. Not .satisfied with ^tliis te.st, 
and lliinkiiig tliat sometliing might he 
wrong. I repeated the test, with the same 
results exactly. This brought to my mind 
(he fact that if any com is going to he 
'town on tills ranch this sea.^on I shall 
Lave to find se d com tlmt will germinate. 
I then went to a iieighhnr who Inid about 
25 bushels of 101(5 <-om, very onHjiary 
stulT of a Dent variety, and secaired a 
sample of 50 k(“mels sehafed from 25 
ears. Then .ai-other neighbor gave me a 
sample of (lint corn to test. I llien se- 
le<-red from my own a sample' of flint and 
of D(‘nt com of 1017 crop, all of which 
was husked and crihlx'd e'arly in Dece'in- 
ber, 1017. and the test .showed tin' folhiw- 
ing results: Of 101(5 com, 40 out of 50 
kernels grew. The Hint com furnished 
by neighbor, o kernels grew; of my 1017 
dent, 4 kernels grew; of my 1017 Hint, 
met one kernel germinated. 
Tills test was made by taking an old 
pia'.ssed felt ixx)t, cutting two pieces from 
tlie log the size of a dinner plate, dipiung 
them in warm water, placing one felt on 
plate, laying or. corn, covering with .sec¬ 
ond felt, then jmnring on more water, 
wat<‘r not too hot, Jis too hot water Avill 
kill the germ. Lay on' second plate to 
prevent evaporation. In 24 hoiir.s apply 
I water again. Keep near stove, and in 
al)ont (50 hours yon get results. This is 
the Ix'st test I know to find the germina¬ 
tion of any seed. Of course, the individ¬ 
ual ear test for the field crop of com is 
far better. 
l-‘ If this eouditiou>is general ( which I ' 
conditions, and more of it will he doin'. 
It may h'ad to a community hnsiue.ss in 
.selling goods, as well as making a home 
supply. Send to the Agricultural 1><‘- 
ji-artnu'iit at IN’iishingtou for bulletins. 
Use of Salted Corn 
'Phere is one serious rreommendation 
going through the agricultural press now 
that will lead to disastrous results if 
there is not some check put to it, or some 
caution given to it, and that is this salt¬ 
ing of soft com in the crib. Thi.s practice 
may be all right to save this corn, and it 
may be all right to feed .some kinds of 
.stock, but none of tlii.'' com should be 
permitted to be sold of!’ th<( farm where 
salted, or used commerciall.v. It shonhl 
be classed as! adulterat'd mid it.s sale i>ro- 
hibite<l. 
This danger in its use of which we 
.speak of is its use iii jionitry feeds. A 
little salt might not <lo very niiK'h harm 
to poultry, but when the poultrymaii buys 
his feeds he might not know how much 
this com was salted, and he would be in 
danger of a total loss of his entire flock, 
or of .serious injury to it, as salt is a 
dangerous poison to jxniltry. 
Orli'ans Co., N. Y. .skti.ifi- jmos. 
Buckwheat and Potato Bugs 
I A\ ish to do my hit, so will send .von a 
r<'ci])e for kei'ping the potato hugs olT of 
potato viiie-s. It is .so simple the farmers 
here will not try it. 4'his is my experi¬ 
ence when on a farm in Nebraska. Forty 
years ago there I had one-fourth acre of 
buckwheat that hla.sted wliile in the bloom 
from hot weather, so did not amount to 
much. 1 did nnl (‘ut it, hut plowed under 
in Fall, planted potatoes on the ground ; 
also one-fourth acre more next to it. 
Some spears of buckwheat came nii all 
over tin* i):itch. I cultivated the ]x)tat<x's 
as tJnnigh there was no hnckwhe.at there, 
as I wanted to kill it out. I’nt some 
came up among the lulls tlmt did not 
catch the cultivator, and I let them go. 
IVlieie the buckwheat wa.s there was not 
a bug, but the other one-fourth acre tojis 
were eaten bare, what wa.s not saved b.v 
killing them. IMy idea is this; if a little 
buckwheat is sown among them the bugs 
won’t touch them. w. L. cook. 
R. N.-Y.—We do not believ*' the l)uck- 
wheat had anything to do with it. A 
few years ago we [danted jiotatoes under 
much the same conditions. A scatter¬ 
ing gi'owth of buckwheat and rye came 
up. and the bugs nearly mined the pota¬ 
toes: ■ ■ ' ■ 
