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For Better Grain Crops 
D RILL planting saves seed, gives the crop 
a better start, increases yields, and pro¬ 
duces grain of better quality than any other known 
method of planting. These are the years when 
every acre of small grain must produce every 
possible bushel and these are the drills to plant 
with. 
If you are growing small grain, and are not using 
an Empire Jr., Hoosier, or Kentucky drill for plant¬ 
ing, you are losing money and the world is losing 
grain. Buy the right drill from your local dealer 
who has in stock, or can get for you, the drill best 
suited to your soil and crops. 
The dealer will show you all about feeds, furrow openers, 
bearings, attachments, the regulation of quantities, and all 
the other things you will want to know. Talk this over with 
him or write to us, and we will send you complete informa¬ 
tion about the Empire Jr., Hoosier, or Kentucky drill that is 
best for you to buy, or about any other machine in the list 
below. 
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Peg-Tooth Harrows 
Orchard Harrows 
Soil Pulverizers 
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Hayinf Machines 
Mowers Tedders 
Side Delivery Rakes 
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Rakes Bunchers 
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Planting & Seeding Machines 
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Broadcast Seeders 
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Binders Pickers 
Ensilage Cutters 
Shellers 
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Other Farm Equipment 
Cream Separators 
Feed Grinders 
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Farm Trucks 
Stalk Cutters 
Knife Grinders 
Tractor Hitches 
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The original 
Eclipse planter 
has never been 
equalled for the 
thoroughness 
and accuracy of 
Its work. Only 
planter with con¬ 
caves on each side 
of plow. Drops ferti¬ 
lizer wet or dry each side 
of seed and covers with moist earth. Plants 
perfectly, corn, beans, peas, or puts seed 
in hills or drills. 
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Embraces Plows, all kinds; Harrows,Spring,Spike, 
Tooth or Disc: Field Markers or Kidgers; Land 
Rollers; Corn Planters, Single or Double Rows; 
Fertilizer Sowers; Corn Shellers or Huskers; Root 
or Vegetable Cutters; Fodder or Ensilage Cutters 
for Hand or Power; Bob Sleds; Chicopee Hay Ted¬ 
ders; National Hay Rakes, etc. Catalogs mailed 
you for the asking. 
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Box 76 Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
DO YOU 
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FARM 
HELP? 
We have many able-bodied 
young men, with and without 
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THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
176 Second Avenue N. Y. City 
PRODUCTIVE POULTRY HUSBANDRY, 
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Making the Dug Well Safe 
(Continued from page 424) 
points just outlined above, particular at¬ 
tention being paid to the features making 
for pure drinking water and safety, as 
from the description given of this well it 
is quite evident that considerable surface 
water found its way into the well before 
its purchase by him. Building the top 
of the well up above the surrounding 
land and then grading up to it is effective 
in turning away surface water when the 
ground slope .is wrong in the first place. 
Ventilation should be provided by a pipe 
bearing a screened opening facing down¬ 
ward. as shown, and if these precautions 
are taken in locating, digging and con¬ 
structing, as well as cleanliness about the 
well, remembering that it is a drinking 
vessel and keeping it as clean as the pail 
with which the water is carried to the 
house, as good a supply of water as the 
country will afford may be expected. 
R. II. s. 
Old-fashioned Stone Work 
The picture shows a fireplace which 
was built over 100 years ago. The house 
has been down over 25 years. The boys 
have been trying to knock it down, but 
without success so far. There was no 
lime or cement used in building this 
chimney. It has been built from some 
It Plants- 
Sows Fertilizer 
Covers theRows 
An Old-time Fireplace 
kind of mud or clay: whatever it was it 
seems tough and strong yet today. Do 
you think that any of the cements or plas¬ 
ters of today could stand the weather as 
long as this has? Raymond schulster. 
New Jersey. 
R. N.-Y.—No, they would not. We 
have seen such work in the old houses 
in our home neighborhood. Apparently 
the stones are held together by clay with 
rye straw added in some cases. It is al¬ 
most impossible to break the stones apart. 
Ask a modern mason to do stonework 
without either lime or cement and he 
would surely think he was called to “make 
bricks without .straw,” yet with all his 
modern helpers he could not beat this old 
work with stones and clay. 
Creosote Drip in Chimney 
My chimney is plastered on the inside 
but not the outside. There is some brown 
water that comes out between the bricks 
from the roof and down six feet. Last 
year I was troubled the same way, so I 
built a new chimney, and now it is worse 
than ever. Could you tell me what I 
should do for it? J. C. 
Ludington, Mich. 
Most troubles with chimneys arc caused 
by defective draft. The purpose of a 
chimney is to carry away the waste gases 
of combustion. To enable it to do this 
some heat must he discharged into the 
chimney so that the column of air and 
other gases contained in it is'expanded 
and by this expansion made lighter, hence 
rising and flowing out at the top, being 
replaced during the meantime with other 
gases flowing in at the bottom. Prac¬ 
tically the onlv force then causing an up¬ 
ward flow in a chimney is the difference 
in weight between the somewhat heated 
column of air in the chimney flue and the 
colder surrounding outside air. To get 
the fullest effects of this force certain con¬ 
ditions must be met. 
The chimney should be tight, so that 
air cannot be taken into it at any point 
without first passing through the burning 
material on the grate, or at such other 
points as may be regulated to control the 
draft and resulting combustion. It should 
be about 30 feet high, and should extend 
to a point about two feet above the high¬ 
est part of the roof by the most direct 
route possible. It should extend above the 
roof to permit the wind to blow straight 
across the top, and not subject it to eddy 
currents that frequently blow down the 
flue and cause the puffs of smoke and 
gas sometimes seen coming from a stove 
in windy weather, and should be as 
straight as conditions will permit, to get 
rid of offsets that serve as places for soot 
and ashes to pile up, obstructing the 
draft. Sometimes an obstructed draft is 
caused by a pipe being thrust too far into 
the chimney,' so that there is very little 
opening for the smoke to come from the 
end of the pipe. All of the conditions 
mentioned, if not ns they should be, tend 
to lessen the heat in a chimney because 
the air current is made slower and less 
heated air is discharged through the flue 
in a given time. Even in a perfect chim¬ 
ney the draft may he so controlled by 
dampers that practically the same effect 
is obtained, and this is often the case in 
the effort which everyone makes to con¬ 
serve fuel. 
When wood is burned there are certain 
liquids that are discharged into the chim¬ 
ney as gases, hut which, if the tempera¬ 
ture is permitted to get too low from any 
of the causee-men tinned; are condensed on 
the inside of the flue surface and form the 
brown liquid mentioned. This may also 
bo caused in an outside chimney where 
the walls are unprotected. Burning cer¬ 
tain kinds of wood, as beech or green 
woods of any variety, makes this trouble 
much worse. Sometimes storm water will 
beat into the top of the chimney and 
cause some trouble from the resulting so¬ 
lution of ashes, etc., that seeps down. 
The indicated remedy seems to ho to first 
see that the flue is so constructed that it 
meets all ol the requirements, and if 
found to be right in this respect so to 
control the drafts that the air in the 
chimney is kept warm enough to prevent 
condensation. In some cases where the 
trouble is very bad and the creosote ex¬ 
tends back into the pipe, the pipe is put 
together backward and given a slope to¬ 
ward the stove, so that any liquid dis¬ 
charged into it will find its way back to 
the stove. r. n. s. 
Improving the Flashlight 
I would like to tell the many readers of 
Tiie It. N.-Y. who use the ordinary elec¬ 
tric flashlight, how the light can be im¬ 
proved. Use a ground or frosted glass 
over the bulb instead of the plain glass. 
The ground glass makes a soft, broad 
beam of light that is of far greater utility 
near at hand than the usual harsh and 
uneven rays, yet has long-carrying power, 
too. I got this idea from using frosted 
headlight lenses in auto headlights. You 
can grind the glass by using emery cloth 
and turpentine or oil. or by rubbing two 
pieces of glass together with a paste of 
powdered emery and oil between them. 
Glass is frosted in the factories by means 
of the sand blast, but grinding as above 
gives good results. Flashlight makers 
should supply flashlights with ground 
glass, as they would greatly enhance the 
usefulness of this handy device. 
Ohio. W. E. DUCKWALL. 
This is a dairying community, five 
miles from Canton, seven miles from 
Troy. Milk is sold to the Sheffield Com¬ 
pany at League prices; nearly all the 
patrons are League members. We are 
paying $2.SO for gluten, $2 for middlings, 
.$2 for buckwheat shorts. Hay is selling 
for- $25, baled and delivered to car; po¬ 
tatoes, $1 per bu. We have had very lit¬ 
tle snow here • yet. Old meadows are 
heaving some; new seeding quite badly. 
The outlook for Winter grain is below the 
average. h. j. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
