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I NSTEAD of pumping to water the 
stock, just turn a faucet and get a 
Steady flow of frenh water—not stor¬ 
age water. 
Instead of pumping and carrying water to 
the barn on cold days, have freth water 
on ta[)—always at the same even well 
temperature. 
For spraying and for all household uses, 
there are a hundred ways in which you 
•ODC labor when you have a 
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Ihrotect yous I 
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year crop profits 
against injury 
by excessive water 
standing on land all 
winter. Can work land e _ 
Her in spring. Add 2 to 3 weeks to grow¬ 
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L t/yt^ Farm 
m Ditcher, 
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THE MAILBAG 
Flour Substitutes and Commercial Baking 
If I bake bread to sell, must. I add one 
pound of sub.stitute to three pounds of 
dour, or one pound of substitute to four 
pouuds of flour? mks. a. w. a. 
We printed the regulations several 
weeks ago. If you do a baking business 
you will probably be required to take out 
a license. What is known as “Victory 
Bread” must contain one pound of sub¬ 
stitute to four pounds of wheat flour, ex¬ 
cept in the case of rye flour. With this 
the combination is three pounds of wheat 
flour and two of rye. 
Blackbirds and White Grubs 
As to the white grub, this Spring while 
plowing for potatoes, I was followed 
around the lot hy a flock of blackbirds, 
and out of curiosity I watched them to see 
what they were after, and found that 
they were gathering up every grub in 
sight, and there were lots of them. A 
neighbor’s boy came over where I was 
at work and on seeing the birds started 
to drive them off. I stoppecl him and 
showed him what they were doing. lie 
thought that it would pay me to feed the 
birds, so as to keep them on the job. 
There were enough grubs in sight to have 
spoiled a good lot of potatoes. Yester¬ 
day (August 20) I pulled up a hill and 
found a grub and where he had eaten out 
one-quarter of the. inside of a potato. 
C. W. B. 
Cleaning Cider Barrels 
Will someone give me an effective way 
to render must.y eider barrels fit for use? 
Oswego, N. Y. D. D. s. 
Burn a little sulphur in them. Either 
get a tin lid just small enough to slip into 
the hunghole and hang this on three 
wires, or load a strip of very fuzzy “cot¬ 
ton flannel” with flour of sulphur, light, 
and lower into the hung. If the cider 
keeps sweet too long in the barrel, start 
it with a little actively fermenting cider. 
Rendering Beeswax 
On page lOOG i.s a question about ren¬ 
dering wax. While the answer was cor¬ 
rect in a general way, it seems to me that 
it did not meet the specitic point in the 
question, which dealt with rendering wax 
from brood combs. I have found that it 
is a difficult matter to melt down the wax 
from combs tluit have containefl brood, 
especially if they are old combs. The rea¬ 
son is that the cells are filled with a .series 
of cocoons left hy the bees reared in them. 
Those cocoons do not melt down readily, 
hut soak up the wax when it is melted. The 
result is a sticky, black mass of slumgum, 
which proves a puzzle to the amateur. 
Bee-keepers who use a wax press can 
press out their old combs readily enough, 
hut if the hot water and skimming method 
must he depended upon, it is better to 
turn them over to someone who deals in 
bee materials. They can be handled, 
though, if the cocoons are filled with 
water until they will absorb no rnore. 
You must have the combs cold, and it is 
best to break them into fine hits. I’erhaps 
.vou will have to soak them a day or two. 
Then you can follow the plan which you 
outline of putting the comb into a sack 
and the sack into u wash boiler on the 
stove, the boiler being partly filled with 
water. E. I. FARRINGTON. 
Massachusetts. 
Those Back Hill Farms 
I have been reading your comments on 
“back to the hills” farms and I thought 
the article on page 1110, in regard to 
what we shall do with our returning sol¬ 
diers, is a good argument in favor of our 
Ea.steru abandoned farms. I know of 
over 000 acres that arc jiractically aban¬ 
doned right here in this neighborhood; 
land that would raise and feed stock 
enough to take care of several families 
and make a profit for the proprietor be¬ 
sides. But there is one drawback, and 
it is that we do not have very good roads 
and have to deliver our milk 3% miles to 
creamery, hut get top-notch prices for 
milk. Ilere is where the Government 
could help. .lust put a small fraction of 
the money that would go into the West 
for reclamation purposes, and build us 
some decent road.s. and see to it that the 
back roads (as they are called) get a 
show with the otliers the autoists use. 
We will show you just as good flocks and 
herds as can be raised in the West, and 
I think better, ns we have some of the 
best natural hill pastures there are to be 
found in the Ifnitcd States. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. Tiios. E. clarke. 
Fire From Heating Manure 
At the end of a long laying-house I 
contemplate building an attached wooden 
building for compost storage, litter, etc. 
Would there he any possible danger from 
fire (spontaneous combustion) in storing 
in a wooden structure? Have you ever 
hoard of fire from manure heatiug? 
(Connecticut. J. C. B. 
The danger from combustion in an or¬ 
dinary compost of manure and litter would 
he very remote—hardly worth consider¬ 
ing. By using laud plaster scattei'ed 
througli the compost you would remove 
all danger. 
”Yepl I like milkings now 
Fve got a light to see by!” 
TITH that big globe of Carbide Light shining down on every- 
thing it seems as though I could almost fincl a needle in the 
* Y hay. Wlien Winter comes on and the days are short it makes 
a powerful sight of difference, now we’ve got a Colt Lighting Plant. 
Seems like living! 
"I got another light fixed outside the barn. When we come in at 
night from visiting,! can unhitch, as you might say, in broad daylight. 
*'The Lord was good to us last year. The crops paid fine. The 
one thing we’d been longing for was modern, up-to-date lighting. 
So we got a Colt Plant. Now we’re happy. Yep! real happy. 
"Why a Colt Plant? 
" Where is there a plant can touch it? Look at the light! Beats 
the others all to pieces! Makes them look like lightning bugs! 
"Listen! Once a month I drop a little of this carbide — it’s 
like crushed stone—into the generator that stands in the corner of 
the cellar — and add a little water. For the rest of the time we 
don’t even know the Colt Plant is in the house. 
"Couple of years ago, when I was down the river, I saw miners 
going down into the coal mines, each with a little carbide lamp on 
the front of his cap. They’ve got the whole town lighted up with 
Carbide Light down there. 
"Thinks I, if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for 
me! Later, I found a number of our neighbors have them. Judge 
Foster has a Colt Plant. 
*’Here comes the wife to tell me supper’s ready. She cooks it 
on the Colt Gas Stove, you know—’bout ten or fifteen minutes over 
the same gas that lights the house and barns. So long.” 
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who are enthusiastic in its praise. Over SSO.OOO families 
light their homes and do their cooking in this vsay. 
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