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General Farm Topics 
A Farm Without Horsepower 
One of our readers on Long Island has 
had some success in keeping chickens, and 
he has an idea he can go to a larger farm, 
keep more hens, and raise all or most of 
his feed right on his own place. His 
scheme is presented about as follows: 
“My farming idea is to get about 100 
acres in New York State not too far 
north, say Dutchess County, and do my 
work with a tractor, making eggs my 
main crop, keeping about 1.000 to 1.500 
layers with poultry for meat, pigs, etc., 
as side lines. Raising all feed except 
meat scrap, bran, etc. Doing all work 
possible by machinery. I am .'52 years 
young and willing to work. What do 
you think of the scheme? Will a tractor 
entirely replace horses on a farm?” 
It Is a Doubtful Proposition 
I am running a comparatively small 
farm. I have also bad considerable trac¬ 
tor experience, and know something of 
their wonderful value under certain con¬ 
ditions. and have been figuring on the 
possibility of using one to advantage, or 
rather economically, or exclusively. So 
far in my case it is absolutely out of the 
question. I would not want to say, 
positively, a farm could not be worked 
with tractor and tractor cultivator alone. 
I believe, however, it would lie very un¬ 
satisfactory in most cases. Where some 
horses must ie lccpt. if the work on the 
place can be done with these, unless the 
greater efficiency is sufficient to offset the 
extra expense, a tractor is more or less 
a luxury. In the case of the questioner, 
he would probably include corn, cabbage 
and root crops. How large a proportion 
of his crops required cultivation should, 
I believe, determine his equipment, which 
of the “plowing tractors” can be used 
for cultivating corn with two to three-row 
machines. It is probable that some of 
the “one-horse tractors" will take the 
place of the one-hoi’se cultivators. If the 
farm is on an improved road deliveries 
of goods can he made whenever the snow 
is not too deep. I am informed that a 
man living a few miles from here sold 
his horses about two years ago and 
bought a tractor and a ear. When he 
was asked how he would get to town 
when the snow was too deep to run the 
car he said that a man ought to have 
sense enough to stay at home in such 
weather. I have had no report on him 
this Winter. 
In any region where the roads are not 
likely to be blocked by snow for more 
than two or three weeks at a time it 
should be possible to discard horses. The 
question of whether it would pay depends 
on tho man who is doing it?. lie would 
have (1) an automobile engine; (2) a 
truck engine (one of these might be 
left out) ; (3) a tractor engine; (4) a 
motor-cultivator engine; (5) a spray 
pump engine, (6) and probably a pump 
eugine to keep in running order. lie 
must be enough of a mechanic to make 
ordinary repairs and to know when it is 
necessary to enlist the services of a 
skilled machinist. At least four of the 
above engines he must have because he 
cannot replace horses with less. There 
is hardly a farm in the East which can 
afford to be without a power sprayer and 
the pump to furnish running water m 
house and barns is worth all it costs. 
With this amount of equipment a man 
could farm about a hundred acres, if his 
crops did not require too much intensive 
work. It should be as level as possible 
and still have slope enough for good 
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A Simple and Inexpensive Corn Grader that Does the Work 
After a farmer has been interested in having bis seed corn tested, the county agent 
finds little difficulty in inducing him to grade it properly and is often useful in putting 
him on the track of a practical type of grader that can be either made at borne or 
purchased 
should lie probably between a good team 
and business auto, or a tractor, a good 
horse, and a business auto. 
As the questioner's future happiness 
may depend quite largely on a full 
knowledge of things to lie considered be¬ 
fore starting, I take the liberty of some 
suggestions: Stony land that has been 
plowed shallow and is seemingly free 
from stone, may cause all kinds of 
trouble when you start a tractor. In 
Dutchess County, as in our own, unless 
you are mighty close to market or ship¬ 
ping station, there will be lots of days a 
good horse will be tlie only possible 
means of making connections. Since 
horses and rough fodder have slumped in 
some sections to almost nothing above the 
cost of marketing, while tractors have ad¬ 
vanced, gas and oil nearly doubled, is of 
much poorer quality, and the end not 
yet in sight, we surely must revise our 
figures in comparing cost of operation. 
tin a farm such as questioner describes, 
unless cows were kept, there should be a 
lot of cheap horse feed. Again, with the 
exception of oats, most crops the ques¬ 
tioner would grow would not be what 
are considered rush crops; corn (flint), 
beets and cabbage should have a latitude 
of 30 to 40 days in Dutchess County, 
which would not make sliced so import¬ 
ant. I hope this will not lie taken as a 
knock on tractors, but rather what I 
would advise, or do myself in this one 
particular case. I believe the tractor 
has great possibilities. However, when 
it comes to working a farm with tractor 
alone, I do not believe it is yet prac¬ 
ticable. WM. HOT A LING. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
A Farm Can Be Motorized 
It is surely possible to run a farm with¬ 
out using any horses. There are automo¬ 
biles, trucks and tractors which will do 
the work. It has been shown that many 
drainage. It is very expensive to work 
hillsides with a tractor. Last Spring I 
prepared a piece of ground for oats. It 
was disked over three times and partly 
over a fourth time. It took as long to 
go over the six acres as to cultivate It! 
acres of reasonably level land, and was 
much harder on the driver. The farm 
should he laid out to give fields as long 
as possible. It seems to require about 
twice as much power to turn around as 
to go ahead the same distance. In plant¬ 
ing a motorized farm it is especially nec¬ 
essary to be careful to have the rows 
straight. The cultivator will move faster 
than a horse ordinarily goes and will 
not be so easily dodged around a hill 
out of place. A motorized farm will not 
need any interior fences and should have 
no more than are absolutely needed. On 
the motorized farm there should be a 
fairly well equipped machine shop with 
press drill, forge and a full set of tools, 
including taps and dies for putting va¬ 
rious sizes of threads on bolts, nuts and 
pipe. The motorized farm is possible, it 
is operation, but it needs a man with a 
knowledge of machinery in addition to 
all the other things a farmer must know. 
ALFRED C. WEED 
Wayne County, N. Y. 
It Ought to Be Possible 
It is quite possible, I believe, to work 
a reasonably level farm by tractor power 
alone, and besides, such power would be 
most advantageous on a poultry farm 
where the crops grown ought necessarily 
to go to chickens instead of horses. There 
are. however, a great many odd jobs 
Which can be done by the horse more 
economically. But as far as the tractor 
doing those same jobs is concerned. I feel 
safe iu saying that by some diligence and 
skill, and also by the addition of more 
modern and practical tractor implements 
—there are new ones appearing on the 
April 17, 1920 
market nearly every day—one would he 
fully capable of accomplishing the work 
efficiently. 
I should think that on a poultry farm 
which is generally free from many fruit 
trees a small tractor, with a belt at¬ 
tachment for grinding grain, etc., would 
lie just about the ideal power. On our 
farm, which is practically covered with 
apple orchards, we have found so far 
that a tractor of one of the above types 
is able to do all the necessary orchard 
cultivation with the exception of plowing 
away from the larger trees. But- I be¬ 
lieve that there are special orchard plows 
made now that by the proper hitch are 
able to get up close enough to the trunks 
of the trees to do neat work. 
The R. N.-Y. and other farm papers are 
advertising lately a kind of one-horse 
tractor outfit for cultivating coni, sowing 
seed, harrowing and doing all sorts of 
light work. As I have had no experience 
with this form of tractor I cannot say 
just how practical it is. but it sounds 
well. Any of our moderately level Dutch¬ 
ess County farms with a larger tractor 
and then with one of these smaller ones 
(if they’ll do what they say they will), 
would be. I am sure, perfectly well 
equipped in power to do all the traction 
work that is ordinarily done on a modern 
farm, making at least horse-hire—if such 
thing should by chance arise—a negli¬ 
gible item. ROSCOE TEATOR. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
Transplanting Vine; Spraying Questions 
1. I would like to transplant a three- 
year-old grape vine which is iu the way 
of a tree this Spring. Would you tell 
me the best method of transplanting it? 
2. I also have a half-dozen apple trees 
in clay soil, with about oik* foot of black 
soil on top. What would be the best 
thing to use for fertilizers for the trees? 
I saw iu The R. X.-Y. that lime-sul¬ 
phur. which 1 use every Spring for scale 
would he good for codliug moth and scab 
at 7 to I. If so, bow should I reduce 
it for the codling moth, or should I add 
anything to the lime-sulphur, or would 
that do for currants and grapes? j. g. 
Lancaster, I*a. 
1. This vine should be dug just as soon 
as the soil thaws sufficiently with a ball 
of earth of perhaps a diameter of two 
feet. The roots that extend outside of 
this can be cut entirely away. The hole 
in which the vine is to stand should be 
just deep enough so that the vine will 
stand at practically the same depth in 
the new location as before transplanting. 
The top should ho pruned back severely. 
Assuming that this plant has made the 
usual growth of a three-year vine, it may 
be pruned to about 10 buds on one or 
more canes of last season’s growth. If, 
on the other hand, the growth of the past 
season was scant, but half this number 
of buds is sufficient. A liberal applica¬ 
tion of well-rotted manure should he 
given soon after planting. If this lie not 
obtainable, about eight ounces of nitrate 
of soda should be spread about the vine 
as far out as the roots extend. 
2. Tf the apple trees are not making a 
satisfactory growth, the above materials 
will serve to promote the desired amount. 
3. Lime-sulphur should he diluted one 
part to 40 parts of water for apple scab. 
For codling moth 3 lbs. of paste arsenate 
of lead should lie added to 50 gallons of 
the above mixture. Lime-sulphur will 
control San Jose scale on currants, but 
it should never be applied' to grapes. 
F. E. GLADWIN. 
Salt on Asparagus 
My asparagus bed is badly infested with 
a weed that propagates very rapidly un¬ 
derground. It has a fine yellow blossom, 
blooms very profusely and has a loaf (as 
you see it in mass) not much unlike 
watercress. It grows about 0 in. high, 
and when in bloom is 15 or 20 in. high. 
In my mind it beats anything in the way 
of weeds. It will grow in the hardest 
ground, and thrives every place in the 
vegetable garden. Dan I use salt enough 
on an asparagus bed to check the weed 
and yet not injure tho asparagus? How 
much. say. for 100 square feet? J. M. 
Stockbri dge, SI ass. 
From the brief description given of the 
plant or weed referred to. T am rather 
inclined to think it is the Tansy mustard. 
This plant is common from the Arctic 
Sea to Florida, and in some sections is 
a very troublesome weed. On account of 
the bi-pinnate divided foliage, it very 
closely resembles cress, particularly when 
the plants are without seed stalks. It 
grows from one to two feet high, has quite 
small yellow flowers, and seeds profusely 
(hardy annual). Of course, I may be 
mistaken in the identification, but f; 11 ' 
main thing in mind is how to get rid of it. 
Unless the plant should be. like the as¬ 
paragus, a maritime plant, the liberal use 
of salt will quickly put it out of business. 
Common meat salt applied at the rate 
of S00 to 1.200 lbs. to the acre ought to 
be quite effective. Tt is a question just 
how heavy an application of salt aspara¬ 
gus will stand without injury, and one l 
have never yet had an answer to. I have 
used it so heavily that the ground was 
fairly white on both young seedlings and 
old plantations, without the least injury 
to tin 1 asparagus, but till weed growth was 
effectually destroyed. It should be sown 
broadcast, and perhaps the best tune 
would be some time in the forepart or 
May, while the weed plants are young 
and tender. K - 
oon 
West 30th Street 
Now York 
