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Kill Apjji 
Before'ApHis^i 
Milts Your Profits 
/This tiny.sap-sucking insect,$ 
scarcely larger thanapin-head,^ 
is destroying apple profits allv 
over the country. Feeding with 
its sharp, mosquito-like bill, it 
causes dwarfed, deformed, un- rv I 
marketable fruit. Curls foliage. 
Weakens tree*. Spray with 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 5, 1919 
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Aphid highly 
Magnified 
and control Aphis, Red Bug, Leaf Hopper and other soft- with Aphis, 
bodied, sucking insects. Aphisismaking itsappearance m Besttime 
many sections for the first time. Regarded by many grow- to spray A 
ers as the most destructive apple insect. One aphid pro¬ 
duces thousands in a few weeks. Spray with Black 
t Leaf 40 and save your profits. Can be used with lime- 
sulphur, arsenate of lead, bordeaux and other sprays as 
recommended, or may be used separately, if desired. 
Mixes perfectly with water. Costs only about 1c per 
gallon diluted for the trees. Recommended by agri¬ 
cultural colleges and experiment stations. Send for 
F’ree Spray Chart and Leaflets 
lv, showing when and howto spray and how to protect fruit trees, 
vines and vegetables from these pront-killing insect pests. 
The Kentucky Tobacco Product Co. 
Incorporated 
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Prevention of 
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MATERIALS 
Mean ‘'Cumulative Insurance 
because each year’. Spraying 
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Lead Pipe for Soft Water 
I have a spring that ueeds repiping. I 
have a gravity fall of six feet from bot¬ 
tom of spring to faucet level at the 
house, in the distance of 700 feet. I 
wish to have the overflow from the house 
return to the barn for the stock. This 
water is very soft, and cannot be run 
through iron pipe because the pipe will 
soon plug up with rust. You advise a 
recent inquirer to use wood pipe because 
it can be bought at a reasonable price 
and is long-lived. I laid wood pipe in 
1912, and am not satisfied with it. I 
have bad to mend leaks in this wood pipe 
for the last two years, because the pipe 
rots. This piping is white pine and is 
all coated with asphalt on the outside. 
Perhaps this is not the right kind of 
wood, or there may be something about 
the water that causes it to give out so 
soon. I have only said this to give you 
mv experience with wood pipe. Can you 
give me any reason why I could not use 
lead pipe? I wonder why I could not 
leave this old wood pipe in the ground 
and by means of a long stiff wire pull 
the lead pipe inside of it. in 100-foot 
lengths, and have the joints wiped _ to¬ 
gether and thereby save digging the ditch 
all up again. The bore in the wood pipe 
is Hk inches. I therefore could us % 
or Vo-inch lead pipe if you thought it 
advisable to pull it inside of the old pipe. 
I have also been told that lead pipe is 
poisonous. Do you think so?. This is a 
good spring and flows a half-inch stream 
into the tank continuously, and I have 
for this reason wondered if the water 
would he poisoned. J. P. F. 
West Vienna, N. Y. 
There are several things which are 
against the use of lead pipe. One of the 
first is the small diameter pipe that you 
would he able to use in the way sug¬ 
gested. It is very unlikely that, it would 
furnish water enough. The resistance to 
flow or friction increases very rapidly 
when smaller pipes are used, and your 
old wood pipe probably delivered water 
six or more times as fast- as would the 
small lead pipe that you speak of using. 
The cost of lead pipe is another item 
that is against its use, and the fact that 
the water of your spring is so pure and 
soft makes its use dangerous. Pure 
water is an almost universal solvent, and 
if left in contact with almost any sub¬ 
stance long enough will dissolve a small 
portion of it and carry it away in solu¬ 
tion. Proof of this is shown by the 
scarcity of pure soft water in nature, 
nearly all ground water carrying greater 
or less amounts of mineral matter in 
solution taken from the rocks and soil 
through which and over which it. has 
flowed and been in contact. The solvent 
action of this water on the lead pipe 
might result ip poisoning, and although 
this would be likely to occur only when 
the faucet was closed and the water was 
left standing in the pipe for a time, still 
the danger is there, and I would rather 
not recommend it. 
I know of nothing better to use under 
the circumstances than the wood pipe, 
which- seems to have given you poor serv¬ 
ice. This, as far as I am ■\ xla to ascer¬ 
tain. has given general sat;. ' u else¬ 
where and is in use by many large com¬ 
panies. It relies upon the state of sat¬ 
uration in which it exists to resist de¬ 
cay. decay-producing organisms hot being 
able to live where the water content is 
too high. The white pine pipe with the 
asphaltum outer covering is the usual 
construction, and the reason is not ap¬ 
parent. why it failed so quickly. It is 
possible that it may be due to the type of 
soil through which it is laid and that 
deeper laying which would tend to keep 
the air from it more completely and also 
to keep it wetter might result in longer 
life. K. n. s. 
FEEDS AND FEEDING, by Henry and 
Morrison. Price, $2.50. The best book on 
this subject. For sale by Rural New-Yorker 
should be deducted from the total fall, for 
it is probable that the 40 feet mentioned 
represents the difference in level of the 
ground surface at the srping and at the 
buildings. 
I would expect very little difference in 
temperature of the water if - left constant¬ 
ly flowing in pipe placed live feet deep or 
four feet beneath the surface. Neither 
would I expect much difference iu temper¬ 
ature between the water discharging from 
a %-in. pipe or a 1-in. pipe, other con¬ 
ditions being the same. The water coin¬ 
ing from the %-in. pipe might be slightly 
warmer because it would he a smaller 
quantity, 1 and would remain in contact 
with the pipe walls slightly longer, the 
velocity of flow in the 1-in. pipe being 
somewhat greater because of lessened fric¬ 
tion. 
Using the total head of 40 feet as given, 
pipe friction tables give, as the velocity 
of. flow in %-in. pipe, 1.7 feet per second, 
and a discharge of 2.32 gallons per min¬ 
ute, while with the 1-in. pipe the velocity 
given is two feet per second, and the wa¬ 
ter discharged about 4.38 gallons per min¬ 
ute. On this basis it would take the 
water in the %-iu. pipe about 12 minutes 
to flow from source to outlet, while that 
iu the 1-in. pipe would flow the same dis¬ 
tance in about 10 minutes. The above is 
assuming that you have the total fall of 
40 feet and if this is cut. into by placing 
the house tank as suggested these quan¬ 
tities will he reduced considerably. 
The main question in my mind would 
not he one of temperature but rather one 
of whether the %-in. pipe would furnish 
sufficient water. Because of the high 
prices prevailing for galvanized piping, 
bored wood piping is being used to quite 
au extent, and as far as I can learn is giv¬ 
ing excellent satisfaction. Its lasting 
qualities seem to be good when it is laid, 
as it is, beneath the earth’s surface. The 
organisms that cause the decay of wood 
are not active when the wood is kept sat- 
‘ urated with water as is the case in a pipe 
line through which water is constantly 
flowing. This piping is made in several 
grades, wrapped piping for use where the 
pressure is considerable and unwrapped 
for use where the pressure is only nom¬ 
inal. R. h. s. 
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Corn and Soy Bean Silage 
I read in The R. N.-Y. many comments 
on corn and Soy beans mixed. They are 
planting the corn here from the first of 
May till last of July, and if planted for 
silo or any other feed I drill corn in first, 
then go over it with the same planter 
again and drill the Soy beans in in same 
rows. I had them last year in corn about 
10 feet long; Wilson Black Soy Beans, 
three to six beans in pod; some had 230 
on one stalk. We cut with the corn 
binder, and I think for silage it is hard 
to beat. The cows like it and do very 
well on it. For drj 1 feed they can bo cut 
with the mower. I tried some other kinds, 
but the Wilsou Black is what I like. 
F. NVEIDEMA. 
Pipe Line for Spring Water 
I intend laying 1,190 feet of pipe to 
carry water to house and barn. There is 
a 40-foot fall. The temperature of the 
spring is 45° F. Would water warm 
more iu %-in. pipe than in 1-in.? If so, 
how much? About what difference in the 
temperature of the water would it make 
if the pipe was laid 2 ft., or 3 ft. deep? 
and also 3 ft. or 4 ft.? w. H. s. 
East Springfield, N. Y. 
If the spring furnishes an abundant 
supply of pure water as cold as you say, 
you have a proposition well worth devel¬ 
oping. If it is properly protected to pre¬ 
vent flic entrance of surface water, email 
animals and other sources of contamina¬ 
tion. the addition of running water of this 
quality to the buildings will he a great 
improvement. From your description I 
understand that the water is to be left 
flowing through the pipe line constantly ; 
otherwise you would need to put the pipe 
deeper to prevent trouble from freezing. 
The usual way in an installation of this 
kind, where sufficient head can be ob¬ 
tained. is to pipe the water to a small 
tank in the attic of the house, letting 
the overflow from this tank go to the barn. 
If the entering pipe goes to the bottom 
of this tank and the overflow comes from 
the top there will be a constant circula¬ 
tion and change of water in the tank, in¬ 
suring cold, fresh water for household use. 
If this is done the height of the tank 
Success with Garden Peas 
I noticed a paragraph on page 256 on 
growing peas, and decided to tell you how 
we raise them in our garden. After 
ground is well fitted we dig a trench about 
six inches deep. Into this we scatter our 
seed peas and cover with a thin coat of 
soil, then cover with chicken manure, 
which is covered with another coat of soil, 
hut leaving the trench a little hollow un¬ 
til peas are up nicely. We set posts and 
string binding twine firmly about them 
at the same time we sow seed. We have 
used chicken wire, but the twine is best. 
Posts should not be over six feet apart. 
We have never failed in having growth of 
vines or a big crop of peas. When sowing 
Telephone peas have had vines six feet 
high loaded with pods. a. d. b. 
Oswego, X. Y. 
Market for Colts 
Can you advise me if there is any 
market near here for the sale of colts. I 
have one, half Percheron mare, three 
years old this coming May. which is 
nearly broken for team work as well as 
single. There seems t*> he no call locally 
for young stock. I will appreciate a 
suggestion as I wish to sell, or rather 
feel that I must, as I have but a small 
farm. 
Pequannock, X. .7. 
In this case we think an advertisement 
in a local newspaper would he most effec¬ 
tive. There may he some sales stables in 
Morristown or Paterson where such horses 
will he handled, hut since the advent of 
cars and trucks many of such stables have 
been given up. An advertisement in a 
paper read bv farmers and truck men 
would be most likely to find a customer. 
Mistress (to prospective colored 
maid) : “And you’re.sure if I took you 
I’d have in you a reliable servant?' 
Ebony Applicant; “Yes. lnmey. you kin 
trus* me. I ain’t got no habits at all, no 
habits wbatsomever.”—.1 udge 
