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^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 27, 19IS 
With 
a Universal out¬ 
fit one man can do 
the work of three —^thus actu- 
ally eliminating the work of 
two men. 
You can solve your labor prob¬ 
lem—save time—and inestim¬ 
able hard work—and do the 
milking better with a 
Universal Milking Machine 
Considerithese exclusive features: 
Milks with alternating action—two 
teats at a time. Massages and relieves 
two teats while the other two are 
being milked—the natural way— 
and the correct way. 
Equipped with Universal Teat Cup. Fits 
any cow. The flexible rubber lining 
gives a gentle massaging action that 
soothes the cow and stimulates the milk 
flow. The massage or squeeze is inter- 
mittant and always from the bottom upward— 
exactly like the action of the calf’s tongue. 
Pulsator is guaranteed for a lifetime. 
Write forpricem and complete 
descriptive booklet. 
Universal Milking 
Machine Co. 
220W. Mound St. 
COLUMBUS 
OHIO 
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Moline Haying Machinery 
Saves Time and Improves the Quality 
riTH Moline Haying Machinery you 
» » can put your crop up in less time 
and with less labor than by any other 
method, and at the same time you will 
get a better quality of hay. 
After your grass is cut rake it into loose, 
fluffy windrows with a Moline Cylinder 
Side Delivery Rake and Tedder. In this 
manner it will cure rapidly, retain its 
natural green color and nutritive value 
because it is not exposed to 
the direct rays of the sun in 
curing. In case you desire 
to ted the hay before put¬ 
ting it up you can do so by 
simply shifting a lever on the 
Moline Cylinder Side Delivery 
Rake and Tedder which re¬ 
verses action of the cylinder. 
Then straddle the windrow 
with a Moline Hay Loader 
attached to your wagon and 
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Com P}anter$, Cotton Piant^ 
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Harrows Hoy Loaders^ Hoy 
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Plows fchitled and steeljL Reap* 
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Trucks. Wagons and Stephens 
Saiient Six Automoh'des. 
roll on a load in the shortest possible time, 
avoiding the back breaking work of hand 
pitching. If you desire you can load just 
as well from the swath with a Moline 
Hay Loader. 
Moline Hay Loaders are built in two 
types, gearless and cylinder. Either one of 
these will take care of your work. 
In addition to hay loaders and side 
delivery rakes, we build a complete line 
of haying machinery including 
mowers, sulky rakes, sweep 
rakes, swinging rakes and 
overshot hay stackers. 
The Moline Line of Harvest¬ 
ing and Haying Machinery is 
complete in every respect and 
no matter what your requirements 
may be we can supply you. Write 
for booklet entitled "The Moline 
Way of Making Hay" and name of 
your nearest Moline 'deetler. Ad¬ 
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MOLINE. ILUNOIS 
FARM IMPLEMENTS SINCE IS6^ 
Farm Mechanics 
Filter for a Cistern 
My way of building a filter for a cis¬ 
tern would be to build a small circular 
column of hard porous bricks (bringing 
it to a point at the top, as shown in side 
view), having the base three feet wide, 
its height three feet, and its depth being 
aliont 18 inches. The pipe leading from 
the pump may enter this filter at any 
Jirick Filter jor Cistern. Fig. .322 
point. Tlie bricks, of cour.se, are cement¬ 
ed together tighter than shown, ii. c. B. 
Morristown, N. J. 
Drag Saw for Cutting Wood 
Replying to .T. C, R.’s inquiry, page 
.522: One contractor furnished me with 
four hundred thousand feet of veneer logs 
cut with the saw shown in the illustra¬ 
tion at Fig. .822. He tells me this saw 
made it possible for him to fill his con¬ 
tract, and he was highly pleased w'ith the 
work. While I have never used one in 
our own camps, I believe they are the 
pulley. It is arranged so I can run the 
logs up under the saw ready to saw the 
ne.xt block; with engine power I can stop 
the saw almost instantly without stop¬ 
ping the engine by shifting the belt onto 
tlie loose pulley with a lever. We cut 
our limb wood on the circular saw, but 
all the large logs up to four feet or more 
go under the drag saw. My saw is nearly 
si.x feet long. I would not think of try¬ 
ing to get along without it. 
/Massachusetts, e. e. tiiayer. 
Having two hundred or so of the tough¬ 
est old hard maple, bodies, w^ell sprinkled 
with red beech and yellow birch con¬ 
fronting ns late one Spring, we consid¬ 
ered the drag .saw. 'When we felled this 
timber in the Fall or early Winter, as 
we had done in previous years, we expect¬ 
ed to have a chance to get at the logs 
with a gang of men and reduce the lot 
to stove wood where the.v lay. A heavy 
snow made the woods impassable, and 
buried the logs .so deeply that sugar¬ 
making time found us with the lot still 
on our hand-s. AVe hauled them out into 
the open, and the collection, when we 
got them together, of twisted, gnarly 
trunks lying in a distorted mass, took 
the hearts out of us. AVe saw ourselves 
sweating over them even to dog days, 
with the long, two-man saw’. Somebody 
dreamed of a drag-saw’ outfit, arid we 
obtained a second-hand one without delay. 
A one-horse tread power and all the 
gear, including the log carriage, which is 
one of the main features of the outfit, 
came with it. The .saw’ w’as gaited to 
about 150 full strokes per minute, and 
W’ith one horse all the power, it bothered 
onr man to keep the blocks rolled away 
from the saw’, giving them only a coarse 
slabbing. Then, too, its back never ache<l, 
and it never stopped to rest, as the log 
can be sliifted for another cut without 
stopping the pow’er. By using one horse 
in the forenoon and another in the after¬ 
noon the motion can be kept up. 
I w’ould caution you to stake the track 
and carriage roller securely to the grovind 
with iron pins, if the frost w’ill allow’, 
.«o the log and its holdings w’ill lie still, 
thereby elimiuatiug a loss of motion. 
.1 Standard Type of Drag Saw. Fig. 323 
I)est solutiou of the crosscut labor prob¬ 
lem, and next AA'iuter I shall surely try 
them out. ciiAS. A. parikey. 
AA'iscousiu. 
R. N.-Y.—Such a saw as Mr. Parfrey 
mentions is show’ii at Fig. .82.2. There 
are several of much the same construc¬ 
tion, and they seem to be giving general 
satisfaction. 
One of my neighbors called my atten¬ 
tion to your iu(iuiry on page .522 from 
.T, C. R., Liviugstou Co., New Y'ork. 
The accompauyiug cut show’s a friction- 
drive combined sawing machine, which, 
with a six or eight-horsepower gas or 
kerosene engine makes a good outfit. I 
use au eight-liorsei)ower, and have aver¬ 
aged on custom sawing 50 cords of either 
circle or drag w'ood during the AA inter. 
Potsdam, N. Y. c. ii. 
In answ’er to J. C. R.’s inquiry about 
using a drag saw to cut up large logs, I 
will tell him my experience in using one. 
There are many kinds of drag saws at 
various prices; all are practical. I ow’u 
a five-horsepower gasoline engine, w'ith 
circular saw atachment. I bought a 
drag saw’ four years ago; saw cuts both 
w’uys same as crosscut saw. I have this 
rigged so as to give me a loose and tight 
Two men and a horse can accomplish 
more and do it easier than .six men with 
the long saw s. c. i'. patte.ngill. 
Leaks in Watering Trough; Cinders for 
Concrete 
1. I wish to fill the cracks of au old 
pine watering trough with coal tar and 
cement. Is there anything about the coal 
tar injurious to stock? Do you know any¬ 
thing better for the purpose? 2. Can coal 
ashes be substituted for sand wdth cement 
where only tenacity and hardness are re¬ 
quired, and in what proportion? c. S. 
Canajoharie, N. Y. 
1. Hot coal tar or roofing cement is 
often used in the joints of watering 
troughs to make them tight, and is quite 
effective if applied freely to the edges and 
joints of the new planks before the trough 
is put together. So far as I know, no 
harm will result to the cattle from driiik- 
iug from such a trough, although they 
might dislike the water for a time until 
the tar odor has disappeared from it. 
There is, however, a danger to the person 
heating the tar, and great care should be 
exercised W’hen boiling it to avoid fire. If 
the trough is au old one with leaky seams, 
hut still iu a good state of preservation, 
it can be made serviceable by putting 
rods through it to draw’ it together and 
calking the seams with oakum—the fibrous 
material the plumbers use for “yarniug” 
the joints of soil pipe before filling them 
W’ith lead. This is drawn out in a fine 
roll between the hands and driven into 
the seams with a calking tool—a blunt 
chisel serving this purpose very well. 
2. Coal ashes should not be used in con¬ 
crete. The clinker w’ith the ashes sifted 
out is sometimes used, especially for fire¬ 
proof w'ork, w’here ordinary limestone ag¬ 
gregate might calcine in the heat and de¬ 
stroy the concrete. Cinders vary widely 
and should not be used w’ithout testing, 
gravel and broken stone making better 
and more easily handled material for farm 
use. R. II. s. 
