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A Gas Engine 
ThatGoes 
The Nichols-Shepard 
Oil-Gas Tractor 
does not “lay down” on the 
job. A heavy engine for 
heavy duty. Successful be¬ 
cause simple and built with 
nothing but work in view. 
The Nichols-Shepard Oil- 
Gas Engine has never been 
a compromise. It is de¬ 
signed for work—any kind 
of work that a traction en¬ 
gine should do—and it does it. 
It will plow, haul, thresh, or 
work with the belt with the 
ease and certainty of steam. 
It is ready for another job 
and not the repair shop when 
it gets through. 
Two sizes—25-50 h. p., 35- 
70 h. p. 
One kind —a Worker. 
Uses gasoline, kerosene, 
naptha or distillate at all 
loads. 
Nichols & Shepard Co. 
In Continuous Business Since 1848 
Builders exclusively of Red River Spe¬ 
cial Threshers, Wind Stackers. Feeders, 
Steam and Oil-Gas Traction Engines 
Battle Creek Michigan 
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Y OU take no chance in ordering BUCK¬ 
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them on a money-back guarantee. 
And they save you from $20 to $60 a set, de¬ 
pending on the size and make you now use. 
They’re guaranteed to give 4,000 miles hard service, 
though many users get 8,000, 9,000 
Our A/troclivc and 10,000 miles. We also repair all 
BUCKSKINS free .i any time, no 
matter now far they have been run. 
Plain and Non-SkidlGuaranieed 
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plant by skilled workmen. We sell 
to you direct—thus saving cost of 
middlemen’s commissions and credit 
losses. This is why we c.an sell liigh 
quality tires at prices from to 
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other flrst-class tires. 
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10 New York City 
Japanese Millet on Gravelly Soil 
I have one acre of light brown soil, 
somewhat gravelly w’ith pebbles ; has not 
been worked in about 10 years. I would 
like to put it in Japanese, millet. Should 
I scatter the seed by the handful and 
rake it in? Would it require manure? 
Can two cuttings be made? j, c. 
New Jersey. 
The millet will give one good cutting, 
but it is doubtful if the crop will pay in 
such soil unless you are willing to use 
fertilizer or manure freely. Millet is a 
rapid growing plant and takes most of its 
food from the upper surface. Thus it 
needs a moist strong .soil. T^nless you 
can use manure or fertilizer we think 
corn will do better than millet. 
Ash from Wastes 
There is within about 200 ft. of my 
house a large iron cylinder, iu which has 
been burned during the past Winter 
quantities of wrapping paper, excelsior, 
etc. Cylinder is open to the weather at 
all times. Is this ash worth .spreading 
around plants, on grass, or the land gen¬ 
erally? I realize that the plant food 
value is very small, and the labor would 
be the only cost. Is it worth while? 
Massachusetts. G. a. b. 
By all means save and use these ashes. 
They have been leached so that part of 
the potash has been lost, hut the lime and 
phosphate left in them will more than 
pay. In a year like this every pound of 
ashes (including coal) should be used. 
Bees in an Attic 
I read with interest inquiry of S. IT. S., 
Connecticut, as to keeping bees in an 
attic. Perhaps my experience might help 
him. I.ast March I was located where I 
had no chance to keep my het's on the 
ground. I had one hive of hybrids, and 
so I built a shelf level with the window 
sill in the attic, raised the lower sash 
just enough to allow the entrance to ex¬ 
tend under and out, blocked the openings 
on either side, and the bees could come 
in and out hut could never get into the 
attic. I had a large swarm in .Inly. 
They swarmed near the ground on a 
small tree, and I easily hived them and 
put them in another window in the attic 
after the same manner as the first. I 
also made another colony from the two. 
later on, so at the end of the sea.son I 
had tlu'ee strong colonies and about 00 
pounds surplus honey. 
In working with the bees quite a few 
will get into the attic while the hive is 
ojien. .lust lower the top sash and by 
night they will all be out. I still have 
my three colonies. They are on the 
ground in a fine location now. They were 
for three weeks in a freight car with 
household goods during March, but seem 
to be all right at present. I shall in- 
crea.se to 10 colonies this Summer, and 
make a good surplus, by artifittal siii'arm- 
C. H. WILLARD, 
New York. 
Crops ox Tobacco Plaxtatiox. —Just 
to_ give you an idea of the work accom¬ 
plished on a tobacco plantation for food 
production I will state last year we grew 
about 000'bu. potatoes, 50 acres corn, 
acre of cabbage, two acres mangels and 
carrots', about one acre of garden which 
took care of our boarding-house. We 
keep 2’.i head of cows and heifers, 28 
[lorses and 100 sheep. The main crop is, 
of course, tobacco, but tobacco growers 
are doing their bit also in the food pro¬ 
duction. This year we plan to grow at 
east 110 acres of corn, hay, potatoes, etc., 
besides giving plots to our tenants for 
such gardens as they can attend to. This 
year of all years we must speed up and 
ju’oduce as never before. Keep up your 
good work. c. E. F. 
Connecticut. 
“Cextlemex of the jury,” exclaimed 
the attorney for the plaintiff, addressing 
the twelve Missouri peers who were sit¬ 
ting in judgment in a damage suit against 
a (’orporation for killing a cow, “if the 
train had been runninr. as slow as it 
should have been ran, if the bell had been 
rung as it ought to have been rang, or a 
whistle have been blowed as it ought to 
have been blew, none of which was did. 
the cow would not have been injured 
when she was killed.”—Credit T.ost.' 
RURAL- NEW-YORKER 
Fertilizer Value of Feathers and Chips 
Can you tell me whether chicken feath¬ 
ers are of any value for manure; also, if 
the chips and bark of trees are good for 
sweet potatoes in sandy ground? I am in 
a position to get a good quantity of both, 
Lakewood, N. .1. "w. j. 
Chicken feathers contain considerable 
nitrogen, hut they are so slow to decay 
that they would be of little use as a fer¬ 
tilizer. We have used them worked in 
around trees as a mulch, but for feeding 
plants they are of little value. Chip dirt 
is often sour and should be used with 
lime. It has some plant food, but is not 
equal to manure. 
Do You St31 Guess 
At the Time? 
Long; before noon, observe how 
men pitching hay begin to look 
up at the sun. They are per¬ 
forming the hardest farm-work. 
They are guessing the time. 
The boss may have guessed time 
in this primitive way once, but 
no longer. Hecarriesa Hamilton. 
He guesses the weather because 
he has to, but the time—never! 
His Hamilton tells him the true 
time. 
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hard the usage. That is why they arc 
demanded by railroad men and are the 
most satisfactory timepieces for farmers 
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DELCO-LIGHT 
Attracts Labor to the Farm 
The back-to-the-farm movement is made 
practical when the conveniences afforded 
by electric light and power can be 
had in the country. 
Delco-Light is a complete electric light 
and power plant for farms and 
suburban homes. Easy to oppor* 
ate, economical, very efrici- 
ent. Runs on kerosene, 
DISTRIBUTORS 
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52 Park Place, New York City 
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. i Philadelphia, Pa. 
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Engineering 
Company, 
Dayton, 
Ohio 
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