531 
Locomotive Rig 
Sizes 5 to 60 H.P. 
Mounted on either 
Wheels or Sills 
Standard 
Portable Sawmill with 
Double Belt Feed 
Cornish Rig 
Burns offal lumber and sawdust 
15 to 30 H.P. 
MODERN SAWMILLING 
The Farquhar Sawmill equipt with our new 
Double Belt Peed means fast accurate sawing. It 
is convenient to operate, and always ready for serv¬ 
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Beam typo of Carriage, as preferred. 
Farquhar Cornish Rig is a wood burning outfit 
specially designed for supplying economical saw¬ 
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purpose Engine. All Farquhar Boilers are built in 
accordance with A. S. M. E. Code specifications. 
Our Ajax CenterCranfc Engine is the resultof sixty 
years’ progressive manufacturing experience. 
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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Poorman Gooseberry 
One of the latest introductions in 
gooseberry varieties is the Poorman. Its 
origin was in the Western States, prob¬ 
ably Utah. For several years experi¬ 
menters in the East have had it on trial, 
and its merits and demerits are now 
fairly well known. Here in the Middle 
West, and a little too far south for the 
gooseberry to do its best, it can be crit¬ 
icized only for a lack of vigor in growth, 
but this may be due to its immediate en¬ 
vironment. which is not the most favor¬ 
able. At the New York Station the 
Poorman is given the honor of being the 
most vigorous grower on its grounds. 
Its fruit is described as intermediate in 
size of berry between the Downing and 
Chautauqua, oval in shape and pinkish 
red when fully ripe. I find this descrip¬ 
tion true. My four bushes bore their 
second crop last Summer, and the size 
and beauty of their fruit attracted every¬ 
one who saw them. The berries are a 
very light shade of green until they turn 
pink on maturity. They are more oval 
or long in shape than any of the old 
kinds and larger in berry, ranking next 
to the Chautauqua. It is easy to see 
that, the Poorman would readily outsell 
Downing or Houghton on the market. 
In fact, if it proves to bo vigorous and 
productive, the country over, it may .be 
expected to become exceedingly popular. 
Tin* Chautauqua, as originally grown 
here, was worthless on account of mil¬ 
dew. but for some unexplainable reason 
this variety and kindred crosses between 
American and English stocks have ap¬ 
parently overcome this weakness, and re¬ 
ports from New York toll us that they 
are beginning to be grown for commer¬ 
cial purposes by the acre. 
The berries of the Chautauqua are so 
large that they invariably attract ex¬ 
clamations of astonishment from those 
not acquainted with this giant among 
gooseberries. It seems to be fairly pro¬ 
ductive. as grown here now, and of aver 
age vigor. If the tendency to mildew 
has really been overcome, there is no rea¬ 
son why the fruit of the Chautauqua 
should not presently make its appearance 
in the general markets of the country. 
Among the old standard kinds I have 
found the Downing a shy bearer. Hough¬ 
ton. although its berries are small, com¬ 
pared to the above sorts, is the old re¬ 
liable that can always he depended on 
for a big crop. l. r. Johnson. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
Tapping Maple Trees 
I am a new man in New York. East 
Spring we made a shy trial with maple 
syrup. This season I want to go in a lit¬ 
tle stronger. I notice that people around 
here are putting two spouts to a pail, put¬ 
ting them about an inch apart. The in¬ 
formation I drew from The: It. N.-Y. last 
year said “if you put two spouts to a 
tree, set them about a foot-apart.” Now. 
which is which? Will I get more sap if 
I follow the common practise here, or 
will it pay better to put the spouts a 
foot apart and hang two pails instead of 
one? t, a 
Sap is forced from the maple tree by 
the pressure of certain gases which are 
generated within the tree during the pro¬ 
cesses of digestion. The more properly 
placed tap-holes that are made in a tree 
;lhe more sap it will yield, but to secure 
| the maximum yield the tap-holes should 
he placed as far apart as practicable. 
This calls for tapping upon opposite sides 
of the tree and the use of two buckets. 
This involves an additional expense for 
equipment, labor and depreciation, and it 
is not now considered profitable to hang 
more than one bucket upon trees less than 
16 in. in diameter. In the matter of 
double tapping, which is the placing of 
two spiles to each bucket, it is found best 
to make the tap-holes as far apart as 
possible. With ordinary spouts this calls 
for a distance of 8 or 10 in. If placed 
but 1 in. apart, as suggested, there will 
|be no appreciable increase in the yield. 
However, after each “run” the sap seems 
to flow less freely, and it is often advis¬ 
able to ream out the tap-holes. This is 
done by the use of a “reamer,” which cuts 
a thin shaving from the inside of the tap- 
holes. Instead of this it is customary in 
! many places, more especially in Ohio, to 
make a second tap-hole about 1 in. to oue 
side of the first, and about 2 in. higher. 
It was formerly thought that plural tap¬ 
ping of a tree must seriously impair its 
j vitality; but the general consensus of 
[opinion at the present time, based upon 
many years of experience and observa¬ 
tion, is that a tree tapped only to the 
limits of profitable production will not 
yield enough sap to lessen its own vitality 
in the least. c. o. ormsbee. 
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may sit in the solitude of 
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will, order the far-distant 
city brought to him. And 
the telephone obeys his 
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Time and space become 
of small account when, 
through desire or neces¬ 
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This is what the “Long 
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You take the telephone 
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changing seasons. You ac¬ 
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the company’s ability to 
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great nation in constant 
contact. 
By so doing you offer 
a fine tribute to the Bell 
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no other country has at¬ 
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A Planet Jr. brings a bumper crop 
A Planet Jr. makes the difference between poor crops 
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