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Re-enforcing the Plow Point 
A piece of steel or ^x2x10 in. wagon 
tire can be successfully fastened to under 
side of plow point by 2% in. countersunk 
rivets. Extending the point 3 in. or 4 in. 
and having the extra point slanting down¬ 
ward greatly assists in holding the plow 
down in hard, gravelly soil, but does not 
stand submerged boulders, b. a. foust. 
Pennsylvania. 
Storing Chopped Hay 
What would be the result, if, instead 
of mowing hay in the usual way, we were 
to run it through the silage cutter and 
blow it into the mow? Would it keep? 
Would it not take less room and handle 
easier and feed as well? ,r. s. B. 
Connecticut. 
In case you attempted to run your 
freshly cut hay through a silo cutter and 
then into the mow you would find that the 
fermentation would be so great that the 
material would all decompose and spoil, 
and you would have nothing but a manure 
heap instead of a mowful of hay. A num¬ 
ber of instances have been reported where 
oat and pea hay .or Alfalfa have been par¬ 
tially cured and then run into a silo, but 
here again the fermentation is so great 
that the material burns badly, and it does 
not yield a palatable feeding combination. 
It is true that this would take less time, 
but the material would not keep and you 
would probably lose your entire crop. 
Alfalfa in Delaware 
I have just finished cutting Alfalfa. 
The one article on sowing Alfalfa on 
frozen ground in the Fall was worth more 
to me than The R. N.-Y. will cost if I 
live to be 110 years old. The big stories 
of cotton in the South, and cattle in the 
West, and apples in some other part, do 
not reach the small landholders about 
these market towns as The R. X.-Y. 
I doubt if the Cossack Alfalfa 
be any better here than the tap- 
I have dry gravel on top. sand 
below and water about 10 feet down. The 
Alfalfa is fine on the hardest of the gravel 
knoll, and no more plowing to do. 
State Road. Del. A. E. R. 
does. 
would 
root. 
A Sure-catch Moustrap 
Pack into a thimble, cheese, cracker, cake 
Qr something that you know mousie likes ; 
place a large pie plate on a shelf in the 
cupboard where the mouse hole is: invert 
a bowl on the plate, allowing one edge of 
the bowl to rest upon the thimble. The 
mouse goes under the bowl, and while 
tugging to get the bait out of the thimble, 
pulls the thinble under the bowl with 
him and is a prisoner. One day a 
friend of mine bad set such a trap on her 
pantry shelf. Her husband came home 
and went into the pantry to get some 
lunch. Seeing an inverted bowl on the 
shelf lie-lifted it. thinking there might be 
some dainty morsel beneath, when piff! 
out ran a much frightened mouse, to his 
chagrin. Tie never had much to say in 
favor of this kind of a trap. a. n. 
Last Fall I built an outside brick chim¬ 
ney on the north side of tin* house. Id in., 
with an 8-in. clay lining. We burned 
wood in an airtight stove, and when the 
wind came up suddenly from the north or 
west there would be such a down draft 
as would drive the smoke out into the 
room, obliging us to put out the fire in 
order to stay in the house; on a still day. 
or wind from the south, have no trouble. 
We have tried covering the top. closing 
the north and west sides, with no success. 
A neighbor says if two 4-in. pipes were 
placed in the top of chimney, protruding 
about 12 in., the wind would suck down 
one pipe and up the other, creating draft 
upward. Have you any knowledge of the 
success of this plan? I thought perhaps 
some of your readers may have had ex¬ 
perience with a chimney similarly placed. 
An inside chimney in the ell of house 
never gives us any trouble with down 
drafts ,t. p. a. 
Springfield, Mass. 
This is in reply to W. D. It., Essex Co., 
\ Y.. who asks, on page 932, about su- 
iac. Do not try to dig out sumac ; to do 
* will multiply your troubles with it. as 
ich piece of root left in ground wi'l be- 
>me a sumac true to name. On July 1 
imac is in full blossom. Cows then are 
md of them. “Break over some sumac 
ne or two feet from the ground : need 
entirely oil'. The cows 
and leaves. In August. 
shoots appear, break 
year, should any green 
appear, break them off 
15. The time when in 
ossom may vary in different latitudes, 
'hen in blossom is the time to discour- 
;e them. It won’t be long before the old 
iots will come out easily, and dead: they 
lrn nicely. j. h.p. 
Oswego, N. Y. 
it break them 
ill eat blossoms 
lould any new 
lem off. Xext 
ants or shoots 
lout July 1 to 
Central Indiana is in the midst of the 
17-year locust belt, and they are certainly 
making the woods ring with their drowsy, 
sleepy song; but my former acquaintance 
with them has taught me that they are 
almost harmless, so their presence does 
not alarm me. F. W. 
Hamilton Co., Ind. 
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