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For Threshing 
When you wantpowerfor 
threshing' you very likely turn to 
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There are many gas tractors that 
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but do not have enough power to drive 
it to full capacity. A thresher needs 
ample steady power. If its speed drops 
down, poor separation follows. Bad 
cleaning results or the wind stacker 
may clog. 
You need not only a powerful gas 
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Pruning and Heading Apple Trees 
On page 274 there is a note about 
pruning. You say you find it impossible 
to tell a man just how to prune, as he 
must be able himself, in order to do it 
right, to imagine just how the tree will 
look when it is in foliage. He must 
surely do that, and further, to do a first- 
class job, he must be able to see the tree 
as it will be after another year’s growth. 
You cannot apply the same treatment to 
all varieties. It is a fight, to keep the 
head open in a Yellow Transparent tree, 
and some others of the same kind of 
growth, while the Greening and trees of 
that shape are very easily kept open. It 
is not so very difficult with any of them 
if you can have plenty of time and do 
not let them get the start of you. Also 
you will find that trees as they begin to 
bear and the limbs become loaded with 
fruit will sag down, and leave the heads 
open much more than they promised to 
when smaller. I make it a point when 
pruning to get into every tree and look 
through the head from the top down, as 
well as from the 'bottom up, cuttiug out 
all crossed limbs and all that are point¬ 
ing iu such a direction that they will 
cross near each other as they grow. I 
also make it a point, to arrange the main 
limbs so as to allow easy movement in 
the tree while picking, and never let main 
limbs grow out near together one right 
over the other. I have trees (Northern 
Spy and others) on which I can travel 
around almost as .easily as I can 
on the ground, going from limb to 
limb, and can nearly pick them clean 
without the use of a ladder except a 
short pair of steps to get onto the first 
limbs, which are about the height of my 
head. 
What do you call a low-headed tree? 
As for me, from this date and for two 
years back, no apple tree in my orchard 
will ever be allowed to send out a main 
limb lower than the top of my head, which 
is five feet seven inches from the ground 
when I stand up straight. Some years 
ago there was lots of talk and many 
pretty pictures of young orchards with 
the lower limbs sprawling out almost on 
the ground. At that time I was setting 
out about. 200 trees, and I swallowed it 
all and let my trees limb out anywhere 
around a couple of feet or three feet from 
the ground, but today most of those limbs 
have been sawed off even after they were 
three and four inches in diameter. No 
more of that style for me; I want my 
apples to grow up where the air cau cir¬ 
culate around them, and not down iu the 
musty grass and decaying vegetation. 
Pick a Northern Spy from a limb 12 or 
15 feet up iu the air and another a foot 
and a half from the ground, and taste 
them one after the other; you may have 
the low-hanging one; the other is good 
enough for me. A limb growing out six 
feet, from the ground after it has carried 
a load of fruit for one or two years will 
be as near the grouud as I want my 
apples to grow. Besides, I want my trees 
so I can get under them to harrow, as I 
am trying out a plan this year for the 
third time, and I think it is going to 
come out right. I am doing it with about 
two acres to test it. and so far I find I 
am getting a much larger yield per acre 
than from the rest of the orchard. I 
start the wheel harrow as soon as I can 
work the land, and keep it going as much 
as I can, until about the second week in 
July, when I sow it to buckwheat and 
barley, about one bushel of each to the 
acre. Roll it down when ready to har¬ 
vest fruit, and leave it until next year, 
when I will repeat the operation. I think. 
Only this year I think I shall put in 
a few pounds of clover seed with it, for 
I am quite sure it will not hurt it any. 
Last year I used about. 400 pounds to 
the acre of tankage, harrowed in early, 
but have bought nothing yet this year. 
As I used the tankage all through the 
orchard of course I cannot tell how much 
good it did me, but think I shall try it 
again this year. What would you think 
of it? z. c. B. 
Connecticut. 
R. N.-Y*.—The pictures of the low¬ 
headed trees were given iu describing sod 
culture—where the trees grew in grass 
without cultivation. We have a block of 
trees grown in this way and permitted to 
head themselves in their own way. They 
have grown in bush shape with lower 
limbs .close to the ground, and the head 
short and broad. The fruit, is very fine 
in quality. Where trees are to be culti¬ 
vated of course they must be headed 
higher, hut many of them are started up 
too high, so that they catch too much of 
the wind. We consider three feet liigli 
enough iu our own orchard—which is on 
a rough and windy hillside. 
Sediment in Pipe; Cowpox; Dishorning 
On page 314 is a question about sedi¬ 
ment in pipe. I would suggest that if it 
is a loose, soft sediment, the water be 
put through the pipe at higher speed, so 
as to carry the sediment through with it 
and keep the pipe clean. 
For cowpox on cows’ teats I use a mix¬ 
ture of kerosene and tallow, applied after 
milking. 1 found this very satisfactory. 
For dishorning calves 1 use nitric acid, 
and prefer it to caustic potash. I keep 
the nitric acid in a b< ttle with a ground- 
glass stopper, aud apply to the horn with 
a stick. Dip the stick in the acid and 
wet the horn with it. and keep horn wet a 
few minutes until it soaks iu. 
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