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regarding this matter from our farmers 
here in Vermont. At this season of the 
year, I can see no particular hardship 
w hich will result to agriculture from the 
operation of this plan. When it come.s to 
haying and harvesting, however, and any 
other operation in which work must be 
delayed until after the dew has dried off, 
I can .see, if the hours are strictlj' ob- 
•served, that there might be some loss to 
our farmers. E. .s. nuioiiAM. 
Vermont. 
Wc have conformed to the new rule as 
to hours of work. We do not notice any 
great difference, except we burn more 
electricity in the mornings in our dairy 
department that we did. ^lost of the 
farmers about here have accepted the new 
h(>ur.s. Some adhere to the old and some 
go about half way. They accept it in a 
g<) 0 <l-humorcd tolerance as one more fool 
rule to live up to. I do not see that it 
makes any special difference to iis here. 
It will doubtless bother us in haying 
time, and we likely shall turn the clocks 
hack during haying and harvest. It does 
give our men more time after .supper to do 
their home work, and I believe they like it 
better. E. E. u. 
Ontario Co.. X. Y. 
THE MAILBAG 
Mustard Seed 
Several of our people have a.sked us 
what becomes of the wild mustai’d seed 
wliich is cleaned out of gr.ain when the 
latter is thoroughly cleaned. Some of our 
people seem to think this wild mustard 
seed is used for making the table prepara¬ 
tion or for making mustard oil. From 
the best information we can get, tliis 
mustard se<'d goes for the most part with 
the other weed seeds and screenings, and 
is made into stock feed. Some of the 
stock feeds, and particularly molasses 
feed, seem to contain a considerable (pian- 
tity of these seeds, although they are usu¬ 
ally cooked or sterilized before being used. 
A part of this wild mustard seed seems to 
be used in the manufacture of mu.stard 
fdl. It seems that wild mustard is rarely 
if ever found in wheat without a heavy 
mixture of the seed of charlock. Now the 
use of charlock for prepared mustard is 
ju-ohibited, and it is doubtful, therefore, if 
very much of the wild seed is used in 
making table mustard. 
Ill-flavored Water-glass 
Replying to the inquiry as to whether 
anyone else had trouble with ill-flavored 
water-glass eggs, I had that difficulty last 
year, although I followed instructions to 
tlie letter. The eggs did not spoil, but 
some of them were most disagreeable, 
luning a taste very much like ether. I 
ate one and for mouths could not eat an 
egg of any kind. I am trying again this 
year, and find the water-glass is entirely 
different. That of last year was much 
thicker and of a milky color; this is 
al)solutely clear and -I am hoping for 
better success. J. K. 
Frozen Water Pipes 
[ see in TirE It. N.-Y. you have had 
trouble with frozen water pipes. If you 
liad the pipe in tile I think it would not 
fn'eze. For one-inch pipe I use two or 
three-inch tile. w. T. ci.uCas. 
Indiana. 
Cold Storage Potatoes 
I tried a plan last year for keeping po¬ 
tatoes through the Summer that worked 
.«<> well I should like to pass it along for 
the benefit of your readers who have 
never tried it. In the Spi'iug just be¬ 
fore they began to sprout, I placed a 
boxful of them in my ice-house, directly 
on the ice, drew the sawdust around the 
box and covered them with a double thick¬ 
ness of old carpet. We used the last of 
the.se potatoes in September', and they 
were as sound and hard as when taken 
from the cellar, and we did not have to 
sprout them. E. A. 1>oktek. 
Massachusetts. 
Feeding Potatoes to Hogs 
You speak of farmers feeding potatoes 
to stock; will give my experience feed¬ 
ing to hog.s. I made an airtight vat that 
held 50 bushels, putting in a crate in 
bottom so that it kept the potatoes from 
the bottom so the steam could circulate 
under them. I carried a pipe from a 
large kettle cover by which I made the 
steam. The 50 bushels were cooked in 
an hour. I had 200 head and fed the vat 
full each day, feeding corn to keep the 
teeth hard. When I got the hogs I 
weighed them in ; at the end of 75 days 
Imd fed my potatoes. After deducting for 
corn at the highest price it was while 
feeding, 45 cents per bushel, the balance 
between the buying and selling price, I 
had for my potatoes 29 cents per bushel 
when hogs were only 0 cents per pound 
live weight. Why don’t the farmers feed 
potatoes at home, save hauling, get ^ 
cents for them at i)resent prices of pork? 
M'hen I did this potatoes were at 15 cents 
per bushel. andkew uean. 
Michigan. 
Marsh land—stiff sod—heavy weeds— 
gumbo—the toughest soil conditions 
everywhere find their master in Oliver 
Tractor Plows 
If you chance to own such land, 
remember that thousands of just such 
acres have become easily tillable when 
Oliver plows were put on the job. 
Oliver plows are built for the tough 
jobs—and built to do them right. 
Oliver Tractor Plows are furnished with 
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detachable shares, with chilled or steel bases. 
2 Bottom Plow, $175^3 Bottom Plow, $220-^ 
4- Bottom Plow, $310—Plus Freight Charges 
Oliver Chilled Plow Works 
V South Bend. Indiana 
The two Oliver factories, South Bend 
Indiana, and Hamilton, Ontario, have a 
daily capacity of 500 tractor plows alone. 
Oliver can always make deliveries. 
