The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Insist on Corbin 
Duplex Equipment 
The coaster brake on your 
new bicycle should be se¬ 
lected with great care. If 
you choose one of the few 
wheels on which it is not 
yet standard equipment, 
insist on getting the 
Corbin Duplex 
Coaster Brake 
Built for wear, for ease of 
operation, for comfort, for 
absolute safety in emer¬ 
gency. The outcome 
of eighteen years’ of de¬ 
velopment of those practi¬ 
cal features which a coaster 
brake must have to be of 
lasting value. Guaranteed 
by a ten million dollar 
corporation. 
Write (or 1919 Corbin Du¬ 
plex Coaster Brake Catalog 
—an entertaining and in¬ 
structive booklet every bi¬ 
cycle rider should have. 
Corbin Screw Corporation 
American Hardware Corporation, Sncceuor 
203 High Street New Britain, Conn. 
Branches: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia 
Makers also of Corbin-Brown Speedometers 
for Automobiles, Trucks and Motorcycles 
Experience 
Counts 
Especially in producing a 
thresher ana engine that will go 
into the hands of the farmer or thresh- 
ertnan and do the very best in thresh¬ 
ing. saving and cleaning the grain. 
To design and build a pood thresher 
a man must know by experience what i 3 
needed. Nichols & Shepard Company, 
builders of the famous 
Red River 
Special 
has devoted its whole lifetime to tha 
building of threshers and the power to 
drive them. 
Mechanics and experts have grown 
old in its service, and in passing, their 
6onshave grown up to take their places. 
ror nearly three-quarters of a cen¬ 
tury the resources, ability and energy 
of our organization has been devoted to 
the building of threshing machinery. 
For this reason this Company was 
able to produce the great Red River 
Special line, and are able to maintain 
it as the best, most capable and effec¬ 
tive threshing machinery that the world 
has ever produced. 
The RM River Special has the only 
true principle of taking the grain away 
from the straw—that of beating ii out. 
It s big cylinder, the Man Behind the 
Oun, the Beating Shaker5 enable it to 
save more grain than any other machine 
made. It saves the fanners' thresh, bill. 
\\ rite tor special circular. 
Nichols & Shepard Co. 
In Continuous Business Since 1848 
. Builders exclusively of Red River Spe- 
' cial Threshers, Wind Stackers, Feeders 
Steam and Oil-Gas Traction Engines 
Battle Creel* Michigan 
FEEDS AND FEEDING, by Henry and 
Morrison. Price, $2.50. The best book on 
this subject. For sale by Rural New-Yorker 
THE MAILBAG 
Value of Silage 
Some years ago I filled my silo with 
corn planted as for an ordinary crop (not 
sown purposely) on land bringing from 
25 to 40 bushels of corn per acre. This 
corn was hauled from the river flats, 
about three-quarters of a mile from the 
barn, thus somewhat increasing the cost. 
Corn was at that time selliug for $1 a 
bushel. Will you give me what you 
would consider a fair estimate of the cost 
of such silage per ton? w. d. d. 
Virginia. 
It would be impossible to give the cost 
without knowing more of the details, such 
as cost of labor, fertilizer, value of land, 
etc. The commercial value of silage is 
figured by comparing it with hay. The 
rule is _to call silage in the silo worth 
about 35 per cent of the selling value of 
mixed clover and Timothy bay. Thus if 
hay is worth $20 per ton, silage would 
be worth $7. 
Removing Old Orchard Trees 
The method employed in this Western 
country for removing old orchard trees is 
simple and cheap. It consists of two or 
three pieces of ^fj-inc-h steel cable and two 
or three steel blocks; these need not be 
very large. An outfit like this can re¬ 
move a green tree of considerable size, up 
to about 12 inches diameter, without the 
. Bioj'r k 
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Choker 
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Removing Trees with Blocks and Tackle 
use of dynamite. Length of cables, 40 or 
i’0 feet, and do no digging, for this is un¬ 
necessary. The little drawing explains 
the plan. H n 
Washington. 
Farm Butchering in Massachusetts 
V ill you inform me concerning the 
laws regarding the killing of animals for 
home consumption in this State? Is it 
necessary for nie. to hire the services of 
a butcher, or is it permissible for me to 
do it myself? Also, is it required to have 
the animal inspected before killing and 
after it is dressed? v w 
Oxford, Mass. * ‘ 
According to the laws of Massachusetts 
any farmer can kill animals for his own 
use without hiring a butcher, and with¬ 
out having the carcass inspected. He 
may even sell some of the meat to his 
neighbors. If. however, he does what 
might be considered in any way a butcher¬ 
ing business, he must have an inspector 
examine each animal before it is killed, 
and examine the carcass afterwards. 
E. i. f. 
Top-dressing Wheat 
I sowed a small field last Fall to Win¬ 
ter wheat; ground was not well fertil¬ 
ized. . \\ ould it be advisable to give a top¬ 
dressing of commercial fertilizer this 
Spring? Would acid phosphate he as 
good as anything? I do not have stable 
manure sufficient for two acres of Spring 
wheat I intend to sow. What fertilizer 
would be the best? j. f. l. 
Brookfield, Vt. 
Yes, a top-dressing of about 300 lbs. of 
fertilizer ought to pay on the wheat. A 
mixture of one part nitrate of soda and 
three parts acid phosphate would be good, 
or the same amount of one of the mixed 
fertilizers for grain. The acid phosphate 
gives phosphorus, but some nitrogen will 
be needed, too. 
Cover Crop in Orchard Poultry Run 
I have a small space 20x00 ft., with 
two quince, three pear and two cherry 
trees on it. All young trees, just start¬ 
ing to bear. This space is used as a 
poultry run ; it was forked over last Fall 
and has had no birds on it since. I 
would like to plant it to something that 
would be of some benefit to these trees if 
possible, and be able to turn about 25 
young chicks onto it about June first. 
The soil is a dark clay loam. What is 
the best thing to do? W. T. M. 
North Touawanda, X. Y. 
We should spade or plow the ground 
well and then seed one-half peck of barley 
or oats, and about two ounces each of 
seed of Dwarf Essex rape, and Alsike 
clover. Work the seed well in with a 
rake. This will give a thick growth and 
make good hen pasture. 
‘I WANT to know." id the grim-faced 
woman, "how much money mv husband 
drew out of the bank last week.” “I can¬ 
not give you that information, madam." 
answered the man in the cage. “You're 
the paying teller, aren’t you?" "Yes. but 
Fm not the telling payer.”—Melbourne 
Australasian. 
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J. Sibley, Benton, Ohio, saved 12c a rod. 
You can make a saving like that, too, if 
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& WIRE CO. 
CLEVELAND. OHIO 
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Rich Soils 
Every farmer takes pride in having 
a rich, productive soil and big crops. 
The right fertilizer used properly 
will transform a poor soil into a rich 
one. This is what the 
AAC* Fertilizers 
have been doing for others. Let 
them do the same for you! The 
larger the crop, the greater the 
amount of roots and other crop 
residues remaining to further en¬ 
rich the soil. Write for prices and 
also for 
Corn and Its Culture 
a 62 page book by Dr. H. J. Wheeler, formerly Director 
of the Rhode Island Experiment Station. It contains infor¬ 
mation concerning all phases of corn culture, including vari¬ 
eties, seed testing and selection, soils adapted to its growth, 
methods of planting and cultivating, fertilization, crop rota¬ 
tions, liming, harvesting and storing, and many other essential 
features. Every farmer who grows com should have this 
book. It can be secured by addressing any of the offices 
named below. 
T he American Agricultural Chemical Co. 
Atlanta Cincinnati- Detroit New York 
Boston Cleveland Jacksonville Philadelphia 
Baltimore Charleston Los Angeles St. Louis 
Bukfalo Columbia Montgomery Savannah, Etc. 
Agents Wanted in Unoccupied Territory 
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