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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Incubator in House Cellar 
It is running a great risk to use an in¬ 
cubator in a house cellar or in any room 
of a dwelling-house or attached building 
without getting a permit from the insur¬ 
ance company which carries the insurance 
on your property. FIven if the incubator 
carries the underwriter’s label, the insur¬ 
ance company should be notified of the 
owners intention to use it as stated. It 
is customary to charge a small fee, the 
size of which depends upon the amount 
of the insurance carried and the make of 
the machine, as well as the method of 
heating employed. It is the insurance 
companies’ contention that the use of an 
incubator (or, for that matter, a brooder) 
within the insured property constitutes 
an additional hazard, under the terms of 
the policy. It is so construed, even if no 
reference to an incubator or brooder is 
made in the policy itself. While there 
may be a slight difference in the regula¬ 
tions of the different companies in differ¬ 
ent localities, what T have said consti¬ 
tutes, I think, the general rule every¬ 
where. If a poultry keeper uses an in¬ 
cubator or a brooder in his house cellar 
and fails to obtain a permit from his in¬ 
surance company, he runs a serious risk 
of getting no insurance whatever, even 
though his buildings he wholly destroyed. 
E. I. F. 
Removing Lime From Tea Kettle 
The way we find quite satisfactory for 
the removal of the lime in our teakettle, 
and we have a lot of it, is to place about 
two or three inches of water in kettle and 
allow it to freeze hard for about 10 hours; 
zero weather best. Then place bottom up 
nnd pour on boiling water. Ice and scale 
go together. This way is very simple, 
inexpensive and safe. c. .t l 
Olcott, N. Y. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. FEB, 19, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Can a Farm Be Worked with Tractors Alone 
. 267, 268 
A Prize Pumpkin . 268 
Improved Methods in Asparagus Production. 269 
The Tractor on a Small Farm. 269 
Notes on Stacking Alfalfa Hay. 269 
Spreading Chemical Fertilizers Separately., 270 
Cottonseed Meal for Fertilizer. 271 
Viability of Alfalfa Seed. 271 
Cow Pasture for Maryland. 271 
Nut-grass and Potatoes . 271 
Indian' Grass . 276 
Lime and Potatoes ..... . 276 
State Grange Constructive Policies. 282 
Meeting of the Grange-League-Federation 
Shareholders . 282 
Increasing Fertility an 1 Destroying Weeds.. 282 
Hope Farm Notes . 284 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Now the Time to Buy Sheep. 269 
The Spotted Poland China Hogs. 290 
Pasture for Hogs. 290 
Fattening Hogs . 290 
Dairy Rations . 292 
Cows Hold Up Their Milk. '... 292 
Protein Ration . 292 
Popcorn for Cows. 292 
Bone Spavin . 294 
Shrink in Milk. 294 
Colic . 294 
Brittle Hoof .294 
The Revival of Oxen. 298 
Milk Required for a Pound of Butter. 298 
Reddish Milk . 298 
Sunflower and Millet for Silage. 300 
Merits of the Devon Cow. 300 
Ration Without Silage. . 300 
THE HENYARD 
A Hopper for Green Feed. 285 
Some Facts About Incubation. 302 
Feather Eating . 305 
The Care of Geese..'. 305 
Cure for Roun. 305 
Egg-laying Contest . ’304 
Bantams as “Squabs”. 304 
foot u rr 
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HORTICULTURE 
Grafting Trees in the Pasture. 268 
Grafting a Girdled. Tree. 268 
Treatment of Asparagus. 274 
Cherry Stocks . 274 
Propagating the Quince.274 
Cherry Trees Dying. 274 
Pruning Black Raspberries. 274 
Removing Old Blackberry Patch. 281 
Regina Lettuce . 281 
Pruning Grapevines .281 
Inspect the New Trees. 283 
Applying Fertilizer in Small Garden. 283 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 288 
Doughnuts . 288 
Tested Method for Rendering Lard. 288 
Additional Points on Winter Churning. 288 
A Helping Hand from the Cotton Belt. 288 
Auntie’s New Year’s Cakes. 288 
Tested Rye Bread . 288 
Bolivars. ’ . 288 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Loss in'Milling Buckwheat. 270 
Waterproof and Interior Finish for Concrete 270 
Homemade Putty .271 
A National Tree. 271 
Land Speculation in Iowa. 272 
Suggestions for Game Laws. 272 
The Nurserymen’s Side of It. 272 
Silver Fox or Costly Cattle. 272 
Diagram of a Cistern. 275 
Glazed Tile for Water Pipe. 275 
■Avoiding Furnace Dust. 275 
House Fly in Winter. 276 
Co-e of Tame Rabbits. 277 
Dr" Feed for Cows; Physical Examination 
-f School Children. 277 
Wp**r-supply Problem . 279 
A Homemade Ferrule. 279 
Removing Snow from Roofs. 279 
Ce~>ent for Reservoir; Drinking Trough in 
Henhouse .285 
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