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that poor separation puts in- 
When a Red River Special 
makesmoneybyre-threshingf 
the straw that other makes 
are through with, it shows 
just the kind of work it does 
when first on the job. 
Full sacks—empty stacks, that’s 
Red River Special separation, and 
it is done the first time through. 
It’s the “Man Behind the Gun’* 
that does the business by BEAT¬ 
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Soy Beans in Silage Corn 
On page 534 I see a question asked with 
regard to planting corn and Soy beana to¬ 
gether for silage. My experience is right 
the reverse to the answer given there. 
Several years ago a speaker at a farmers’ 
institute told us to plant the corn and 
beans together, and since then I have tried 
that way and as F, O. Minkler advised, 
and found planting with the corn much 
the better, asi-they are much better mixed 
with the corn than in layers, so that in 
feeding you are not feeding all corn or 
all beans. They do not bother in culti¬ 
vating or cutting with the corn harvester. 
In planting with the corn the beans 
should be inoculated, and I have always 
thought that they helped the corn, as the 
Soy bean is a nitrogen-gathering plant, 
like the clover. As they are very rich in 
protein they add much to the silage. 
New York._ w. E. ackabt. 
Wandering Hens in Connecticut 
I have just read with interest the ar¬ 
ticle on page 548 entitled “The Wande¬ 
ring Hen; What Remedy,” signed by H 
A. R. Connecticut has a statute that pro¬ 
vides the remedy; Sec. 1225, Chap. 84, 
provides that “Every keeper of domestic 
fowls who shall allow them to trespass on 
the property of another shall be liable for 
all damages done by said fowls, and if, 
after written notice has been given to the 
owner of said fowls, he neglects to prevent 
further trespass at any time within six 
months after service of such notice he 
shall, upon complaint, in each case of 
trespass be fined not more than $7.” Pro¬ 
ceed as follows: Write your notice at 
once after first case of trespass, warning 
him to keep his fowls at home, date it, 
give it to a constable to serve (by true 
<* 01 ^), constable to return original to yon 
with his indorsement on the same. If 
fowls trespass again, make a complaint 
to grand juror or prosecuting attorney 
for your town or city, who will bring a 
criminal prosecution against the offender 
without expense to IT. A, R. I have seen 
this tried out and never knew* it to fail. 
Goshen, Conn, R. F. K. 
Drying Corn Under Glass 
In regard to drying corn under glass, 
page 440, some years ago in Virginia I 
dried over one barrel of dried apples in a 
small greenhouse; they dried in about two 
days, as I remember it now, and the fruit 
was very bright and clean. I think it 
will work well with the corn, but I would 
put the aorn in only mornings or say till 
noon, on bright days. If corn is not 
dried at once it sours a little, and some 
people do not like the taste as well, and 
it will be darker. One will have to watch 
the ventilation so that the moisture will 
be carried off. If too close the moisture 
will be deposited on the glass. I think 
a little sulphuring will help the color 
without hurting the corn if not too much 
is used. _A. F. AMES. 
Linseed Oil as Liniment 
I wonder if many farmers know that 
raw linseed oil will take the soreness out 
of a torn udder or teats of a cow? We 
had a cow so badly torn we thought we 
could not milk her, and it relieved her 
almost instantly. K. E. 
New York. 
Silo in Barn. —On page 388 H. F. J. 
tells us to put our silos in the middle 
bent inside the barn. That is just where 
our silo has been located the past five 
years. This Winter the silage is frozen 
so hard that at this writing (March 12) 
you couldn’t chop it out with an ax. All 
signs fail in dry weather, and all silos 
freeze this Winter. This silo is not less 
than 10 feet from outside wall, and was 
buried in hay on two sides the forepart 
of the Winter. h. A. 
New York. 
^ Mountain Farmers.— Articles in late 
issues of the The R. N.-Y. from the 
Southern mountain farmers show what is 
in them, and what they have in their 
country, “if the people will work as God 
intended them to work,” to quote the 
“Hawkins Co. Farmer” on page 477. 
That expression is an index of the latent 
integrity there. “Six days shalt thou 
labor” is the specific for morality, power 
and worldly success. There are germs ©f 
power there, and future historians of 
America will give them prominent no¬ 
tice. Those people have some of the 
purest bipod in America, the descendants 
of the Huguenots and Scotch, banished to 
the sands of the southern coast, like 
criminals, because of their inborn ab¬ 
horrence of autocracy in church and state. 
They gave us the Mechlinbnrg Declara¬ 
tion, antedating the Declaration of Inde¬ 
pendence 14 months, and you can see in 
the autobiography of Jefferson that “he 
used freely from it.” Their fathers sleep 
in the Piedmont of the Carolinas, while 
the sous, loathing the autocracy of slavery, 
moved on, some to the great West, and 
others stopping in the mountain aii* of 
freedom, and the difficulties of communi¬ 
cation with the outside world has been 
against them, but. "Ms day of light and 
progress is calling ,iem back. You can 
see it in this. Enlistments have been so 
great in many counties there that con¬ 
scription is unnecessary. They are the 
unrelenting foes of all oppression. The 
mountaineer is a promise. 
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