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Chestnut Shingles 
One of the best looking shingle roofs 
that I ever saw was made of shingles cut 
from chestnut, timber that had died of 
the blight. The shingles kept their shape 
well, and I think remained light colored 
and new looking unusually long. 
Pennsylvania. f. E. aspinwat/l. 
We have just had considerable good 
lumber sawed from blighted chestnut. 
Harvesting Vetch and Oats 
We are sowing Winter vetch in our 
oats. It grows well with us. Would 
you thrash them or cut for hay? Last 
year we thrashed, but it was hard to 
cure, and the tangled vetch made thrash¬ 
ing more expensive. s. S. s. 
New York. 
Our advice would be to cut and cure 
the entire crop as hay or fodder. In these 
times of short labor and high prices the 
point is to avoid all possible extra work. 
Repairing Cracked Saw 
An inquirer asks what to do for a 
cracked circular saw. Simply drill it at 
back end of crack, and do not rivet the 
hole—%-in. or Vi-in. hole—and it. will 
not. pass that spot unless it strikes a bolt 
or hard hemlock knot. Hemlock knots 
are very hard, and should be fed to the 
saw in slow feed. The saw should be 
kept perfectly round and sharp, as stated. 
My father used a 60-in. and 48-in. cir¬ 
cular saw; the 48-in. cracked. He had 
it. drilled at back end of crack. The 
maker said it would still crack, but did 
drill it. iand asked that, a report be made. 
The result was saw was used as if it had 
no damage for years. A. G. young. 
Connecticut. 
Sprouting Oats for Chicks 
I just read Charles W. Weidner. .Tr.’s, 
article, page 579, answering M. It., page 
451. Here is my plan for supplying 
green oats to mv chicks: I soak a large 
pail of oats over night, then next day 
shovel back soil in the yard about three 
inches deep, place wet oats one inch deep 
and cover with about two inches of soil. 
In three or four days they are in a mass 
of roots and shoots %-in. or longer, and 
as often as I pass the run I turn up a 
forkful, and how the chicks do love them ! 
They will soon learn where they are, and 
will dig and scratch and grow. I have 
used this plan for four years now. and 
think it-answers M. R., page 451, in that 
it supplies green feed and exercise at the 
same time. ('. A. I). 
Port Jervis. N. Y. 
Vandervere Apple 
I notice a recent inquiry in regard to 
Vandervere apple. I have the true Van¬ 
dervere: the trees are 100 years old and 
over. The apple is large and smooth. 
You seldom find an unshapely one. Apple 
is red striped, very tart, and free bearer: 
very choice eating apple and extra for 
cooking. It is in its prime from October 
to January. B. P. F. 
Newark, N. Y. 
Burning Meadows 
MoteManey 
WhetherVou 
or- 
FeedKour 
T HE amount of nutrition in the hay determines its 
grade — its value in dollars and cents. The way the 
hay is cured determines the amount of nutrition. 
Air-cured hay retains its nutrition — it is the best hay — 
the moisture evaporates through the stems — no loss of 
leaves — no sun-scorching of hay. It requires no extra 
tools or labor to air-cure hay. Instead of using a sweep 
rake or sulky, you merely use the 
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Hay 
With this rake you can follow 
the mower closely, rake while 
the leaves are still active, and 
place the hay on clean stubble in 
medium - sized loose, fluffy 
windrows through which the air 
circulates readily, the bu\k of the 
leaves inside and the stems out¬ 
side. The hay is not sun- 
scorched, but is air cured — the 
ideal way —“Nature’s Way” of 
curing hay. 
The Dain System rake does 
this most successfully because it 
is the rake with the inclined 
frame. The frame is low at the 
front end and increases in height 
toward the rear — its capacity 
increases as the volume of hay 
increases. The frame being low 
at the front end and set slightly 
ahead of the tooth bars causes 
the hay to come up against the 
frame and pitch forward into a 
loose windrow, placing the leaves 
inside and the stems outside; 
most of the moisture evaporates 
with no loss of leaves or foliage. 
Unusually big range of tooth adjust¬ 
ment to suit varying field conditions; 
curved teeth properly speeded to pick 
up all the hay gently but positively — 
no threshing of leaves. 
In case of rain, you can, with this 
rake, turn the windrows upside down 
as often as necessary, always keeping 
the windrows loose. 
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I mite on page 533 advice in regard to 
burning meadows given to J. J. G. Tell 
him not to do it on any account. I have 
had experience, and know whereof I 
speak. Timothy grass lias just above the 
fibrous roots at the surface of the ground 
a small tuber, and if you burn you will 
kill this, and with it your crop of Tim¬ 
othy. I had a fine patch of Timothy ac¬ 
cidentally burned over a few years ago; 
got a few daisies, a liltle Red-top and 
some weeds in place of the two tons of 
Timothy to the acre T bad expected. The 
only way to clean this land without dam¬ 
age is to mow it. now and rake it off. 
The heavy stand he speaks of will make a 
very hot fire, and the damage would be 
apt to bo even greater than in my case. 
Red-top can sometimes bo burned without 
serious damage, but Timothy, never. 
Torrington, Conn. A. w. b. 
Variations in Japan Walnuts 
l notice in a recent issue that TI. O. 
Mead, Massachusetts, gives his experi¬ 
ence with the Japan walnut, and states 
that, when the nuts borne by them were 
planted they reverted to the butternut 
type, and states his desire to buy grafted 
or budded trees of fine varieties of Japan 
walnuts. It is entirely possible for him 
to do this, although there is but one nur¬ 
seryman in the country at the present 
time propagating such trees, as far as I 
am aware. 
The matter to which lie refers, Japan 
walnuts growing on trees in this country, 
when planted producing trees that bear 
rough-shelled nuts like butternuts, is one 
on which a good deal of study has been 
put. I wrote an article some over a 
year ago which appeared in the American 
JVut Journal. The matter has, I believe, 
been quite definitely proved to he due to , 
hybridization with the native butternut. 
The Japan walnut is a rapid grower, 
bears young, hears large crops, and cer¬ 
tainly offers much promise. 
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