Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
769 
THE MAILBAG 
Sugar Sirup from Beets 
With regard to the making of sirui) 
from sugar beets for household purposes, 
a fail- sirup can be obtaineVl in the fol¬ 
lowing manner: After the beets have 
been cleaned they are sliced and the 
slices dried in the sun, or still better, by 
artificial heat. When thoroughly dry, 
break up into small pieces the size of peas 
or beaus, (’over with water and let stand 
K>r a few hours, and filter through a 
collander or sieve covered with cheese¬ 
cloth. If the resulting siruii should be 
too acid neutralize with lime water, not 
lime milk. Lime water is made by pour¬ 
ing water over air-slaked lime: let it 
stand a few days and pour the clear 
liquid off. If the lime water is mixed 
with the sirup there will be a sediment. 
Let stand a day or so. and pour the 
clear sirup off. By boiling, the thin .sirup 
may be condensed to any degree of thick¬ 
ness, and may be flavored with lemon 
peel, ginger or any other spice to suit in¬ 
dividual tastes. H. WIXICELMAN. 
District of Columbia. 
Without oil bearing Heat breaks up Perfect unbroken 
would burn out poor oils film of oil 
Heat does not break down 
Beans for Replanting Cornfield 
Much poor seed corn has been ii.sed. 
and many fields will show a poor stand. 
What can be done with them? The ()hio 
Kxperiment Station advises beans for 
some cases. 
To replant such fields with corn, even 
though the seed be sound, means a re¬ 
duced yield. In many cases it may be 
* better to replant with beans, using either 
the well-known navy beau or the Soy 
bean. At the Ohio Experiment Station 
navy beans, planted on the fourth of last 
June, jn-oduced about 20 bushels pei- acre, 
which sold at ,$8 a bushel above the cost 
of hand-picking. Corn would have had 
to yield a hundred bushels per acre, and 
to sell at a dollar and a half a bushel 
to bring in as much money.” 
Sunflowers and Corn Silage 
I have just read the experience with 
sunflowers for silage in Montana. I see 
there is a question whether it would do 
under Eastern conditions. I have mixed 
sunflower .seed in my silage corn for the 
past five years, and I would no more think 
of planting a crop for silage without sun¬ 
flower seed than I would without corn. 
The first season I planted only part of the 
field and I put the part with the sun¬ 
flowers in the silo last. I began feeding 
at once and when the sunflower silage was 
all gone I fed the clear corn silage. I was 
milking 10 cows at the time and I noticed 
a falling off of about 10 (piarts of milk a 
r’ay when I changed from the corn-sun- 
llowt'i- silage to tlu' clear corn silage. 
I have no rule to go by for mixing the 
seeds. I always use a coininon grain 
drill to sow the silage, and when I put in 
seed I mix in a small amount <if sun¬ 
flower seed. Care should be u.sed not to 
g(‘t in too many seeds. I have found that 
one. sunflower (-very two or three feet 
is jilenty enough when mixed in the corn. 
'I'he only trouble I ever found was the 
extra weight to handle in the bundles of 
corn, for if there are several stalks with 
large sunflowers in the Siime bundle they 
are very top heavy and quite hard to pitch 
with ;i fork. Besides making good silage 
and extra fine hen feed, I have found that 
hogs like the seed head very much and 
fatten very fast if fed all they will eat. 
Schuyler (’o.. N. Y. stkimikx kei.loug. 
English Tenant System 
‘■Renting to Anti-R(d)bers,” which aj)- 
peared in a recent issue, contained some 
mighty good suggestions about tenants 
and why they are soil robbers. It re¬ 
ferred to the excellent tenantry laws of 
England, wlnu-e S(} per cent of the farinei-s i 
are tenants and the iiercentage has been I 
even higher. The land is steadily build¬ 
ing up. A part of the Agricultural Hord¬ 
ing Act of BIOS, amended shows the 
very practical way in which some of our 
worst iiroblemsl have been solved over 
there. The incoming tenant jiays the out¬ 
going tenant the value to him of the im- 
jirovements made. This value is fixed by 
two aiipraisers, one aiipointed by each 
tenant. If these two cannot agree they 
a]ipoint a third whose decision is final in 
most cases. Improvements a tenant may 
wish to make and for which he will be re¬ 
imbursed when he moves come under three 
heads : 
1. Those to which consent of landlord 
is necessary, as planting orchards, jnit- 
ting up buildings or silos, imiiroving 
waste land. etc. 
2. Those of which landlord must be no¬ 
tified, but his con.sent is not nece.ssary, as 
tile-draining, and minor improvements. 
‘5. Those to which neither consent or no¬ 
tice is necessary, as buying fertilizer, lime, 
sowing clover, etc. 
This sfystem has made tenants stick. 
Lorain County, Ohio, goroox pixon. 
Killing Jerusalem Artichokes 
I have a piece of land that I want to 
seed down. It is full of artichokes and I 
want to kill them first. Can you tell me 
how it can be done? R. \v. B. 
Madison Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y’’.—We have submitted this to 
several farmers, but they have had no ex¬ 
perience. We know that when artichokes 
run away it requires much art to choke 
them off. Who can tell how to do it? 
HAVOLINE OIL 
A 
BOVE is a vivid picture of the difference between 
good oil and inferior oil and no oil at all. 
At the right the bearing is protected by a fine film 
of good oil. Note how evenly and smoothly it separates 
the moving surface from the stationary one. Moreover, 
this thin film of oil protects the bearing from the in¬ 
tense heat always generated in fast moving machinery. 
T he center section shows how an inferior oil breaks 
down under heat. And all films so broken permit 
dry metal to rub against dry metal, thus giving friction 
its deadly chance. This illustrates why, although there 
may be plenty of oil in your motor, if it is not the 
kind for the work, you may hear ominous knocks, 
grinding, or similar indications that something is wrong. 
Be safe — always use Havoline. 
T he section of the bearing at the left is running 
without lubrication — dry steel against dry steel. 
The resulting heat of the great friction would burn out 
the best piece of steel in the world. 
Havoline Oil is made in light, heavy, and medium 
grades for different uses. Your dealer knows the kind 
of Havoline Oil and Havoline Grease for the motor and 
gears of your truck or passenger car. Havoline Greases 
are compounded of Havoline Oil and pure, sweet tallow. 
Ask the advice of your dealer. 
FIVtUSCaiLOHSKET 
HAVOLiNE 
OIL 
d'jtiii ngm 
Indian RehningCo 
New jioRK City 
HAVGLiNE OIL 
AEO. U.S.PAT. OFF. 
makes a difference 
99 
Snbian Company of Petroleum New York 
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WATER! 
When-Where You Want It! 
"“DON'T DEPEND ON WIND""^ 
For the Summer’s water supply! Our small pump¬ 
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tough jobs easily handled too. Order now the com¬ 
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Only $3.50 Yearly Cost on Investment 
Which is interest charc^e. Cheaper, moro reliable than 
wind mills. For simplicity Galloway EnRinos j^e unex¬ 
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300,000 satisfied Galloway customcrs^some near you 
—testify to the quality of Galloway Enirines. Tractors. 
Spreaders, Separators. Until further notice this price of 
EVERY SIZE-_ - . 
cnsrine sizes from to 16 h.p. heavy duty portablM 
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Box 275 
VVatorioo, la« 
CompletD 
WELL 
DRILLING 
PAYS 
WELL 
Own a machine of your own. Cash or easy 
terms. Many styles and sizes for all purposes. 
Write for Circular 
WILLIAMS BROS., 432 W. State St., Ithaca, N. Y. 
EATXMCAT 
^1 
this Simplex 
Dltcher-Terracer. 
Equals 100 men. 
Low cost. Builds 
terraces and lev- 
ees. Grades 
roads. Mostly all 
steel. Reversible. 
Ten days’ trial. 
A Mile a Day 
Is EasyWIth’^;^ 
Write 
for prices and 
money-back guarantee. 
Simpler Farm Ditcher Co.,Inc. 
Box 68 Owensboro, Ky. 
CUP YOUR WEEDS 
with a COLT 
Wood Beam 
Cultivator 
Ask for 
alog No. 
The S p e c i a 
shape teeth cut 
the weeds close 
to the hill and 
do not cover 
ea?lh"ToycA'r» 
actual service. . ^ 
Rear wheel furnished if desired. 
BATAVIA CLAMP COMPANY, 215 Center St. Batavia, N.Y- 
Free Catalog 
In colors explains 
how you can save 
money on Farm Truck or Road 
Wagons, also steel, or wood wheels to fit 
any runni ng 
pear. Send for 
it today. 
Electric Wheel Co. 
48 Elm St.,Quiacy3ll. 
to 
Where in Western Canada you can buy at from $15. 
$30. per acre good farm land that will raise 20 to 
45 bushels to the acre of $2. wheat— it’s easy to figure 
the profits. Many Western Canadian farmers (scores of them 
from the U. S.) have paid for their land from a single crop. 
Such an opportunity for 100% profit on labor and investment is worth investigation. 
Canada extends to you a hearty invitation to settle on her 
FREE Homestead Lands of 160 Acres Each. 
or secure some of the low priced lands in Manitoba, Saskatoh-; 
ewan or Alberta. Think what you can make with wheat at; 
$2. a bushel and land so easy to get. Wonderful yields also of ^ 
Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed Farming and cattle raising. 
The climate is healthful and agreeable, railway facilities excellent, good 
schools and churches convenient. Write for literature and particulars as 1 
to reduced railway rates to Supt. Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to 
o. 
301 E. Genesee St. 
RUTLEDGE 
Syracuse. N. Y, 
Canadian Government Agent. 
VfestesNot 
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THE 
SHORT-CUT^.^ 
TO THE dvjTME MAN BEHIND TMECUN; 
CRAIN SACK 
IS 
rouNO 
RIGHT 
HERE 
ft Saves the Farmer's Thresh £iU 
Ask for the Records Made 
It Savesthe Farmers’ 
Thresh Bill 
I N the Red River Special it 
would be possible to detach 
the rest of the machine and 
still have more separating capac¬ 
ity in the two parts shown than 
many other makes possess in 
their entire mechanism. 
Ask for the records made with. 
The Big Cylinder and “The Man 
Behind the Gun.” 
Red Riirer 
Speciei 
Seventy years of successful busi¬ 
ness does not come to a concern 
that cannot deliver the goods. 
Nichols & Shepard Co. have been 
on top for a long time with 
threshing machines. 
The reason is because an earnest 
effort backed by ample means 
and resources have always been 
applied in efforts to do the best 
possible for Thresherman and 
Farmer. Write for circulars. 
Nichols & Shepard Co. 
In Continuous Business Since 1.848 
Builders exclusively of Red River Spe¬ 
cial Threshers. Wind Stackers, Feeders. 
Steam and Oil-Gas Traction Engines 
Battle Creek 
Michigan 
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