The RURAL NEW. YORKER 
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Running Water 
In Your Buildings 
Quickly and easily you can clean 
your barn and stalls, your hog 
pens,your poultry houses and yards 
—when you have a Milwaukee Air 
Power Water System. 
The turn of a faucet—and your stock gets 
fresh, pure watertodrink—“directfrom the 
well”—no water is stored in tanks by this 
system. 
In your house—the many advantages of 
running water there are well known. 
A simple machine, easy and cheap to oper¬ 
ate, does the work—and will run your 
lighting plant if you want to add one later. 
Near you there is a Water and Light 
Expert “who can tell you r what it 'will 
cost to put a water system on your 
farm. Write us for his name. 
Milwaukee Air Power Pump Co. 
863 Third St., Milwaukee, Wis. 
50 
POST 
PAID 
LIGHT S-D WORK SHOE 
SEND NO MONEY 
Wonderful Bhoe for work. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Would cost $6 at store. 
Buy from factory. Save $1.50. C-J 
pattern as illustrated. Color dark 
chocolate. Keeps feet dry. Soft as a 
glove and will stay so. Upper 
chrome re-tanned leather. With care 
should last several aeasons. Insole oak- 
tanned leather better than outaole of 
most work shoes. Middlesole also oak- 
tanned leather. Single-piecesole leather 
box toe. Patented outsole. Rubber heel. 
State size, wide or medium width. 
Munson or London last. Within three 
days after arrival send $3.50 or re¬ 
turn shoes. 
Rubberhide Company 
(ESTABLISHED 1902) 
212! ESSEX STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 
'c/et the hair go with the hide. 
^Attractive, handsome Fur Coats, 
Wraps, Scarfs, Robes made to 
order from Horse, Cow, Calf, 
Skunk, Muskrat or any hide or skin 
with hair on it. Save 50% by using 
your own furs. Prompt, exact, 
economical service. 
Free Catalog 
Don't order any fur garments this year until 
you have seen our new 32-pa^e catalog that 
shows styles, gives sizes and prices, shows rlso 
fu»w to prepare skins for shipping. Send your 
name for this free booklet 
Cuatom Fur Tanning and 
Fur Manufacturing 
Also taxidermv work. Large and small game, 
birds and fish mounted. Prompt service, 
expert attention, 
Rochester Fur Dressing Co, in<_ 
674 West Ave. Rochester. N. Y. 
Tan 
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a Quick reply and a "square deal. ” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
Heating Plant Bed with Hot Water 
We are anxious to get all the informa¬ 
tion ve can in regard to the heating of 
outside plant beds with hot water pipes. 
Flas this boon tried out on large beds, say- 
on beds 10x200 ft.? We would like to 
know how far apart to lay the pipes, size 
of same and depth to place them. We ex¬ 
pect to install over one acre in beds this 
Winter for the raising of pepper plants. 
Experiment, Ga. s. D. r. 
1 suppose that you refer to the heating 
of frames with glass sashes or cotton 
cloth cover. I once saw a contrivance for 
heating bed for bedding sweet potatoes. 
The man had a boiler in a pit and Tan 
pipes through the soil with no cover over¬ 
head. Such an arrangement was, of 
course, very wasteful. He had to run a 
tremendous fire to maintain heat, in the 
bed. and this, over the lines of the piping, 
made it too hot. Whether the frame is 
heated by hot water or a flue from a' fur¬ 
nace, the apparatus should be used to heat 
a hot air space under the bed in order to 
give a uniform heat in the bed, an open 
space along the upper side of the bed be 
ing left open 2 in. the length of the bed to 
admit the warm air into the frame over¬ 
head. Making such a frame the usual 
width to accommodate 6-ft. sashes. I 
would locate the boiler in a covered shed 
at west end of a frame facing south. The 
shed should be high enough to place the 
expansion tank at an elevation above the 
bed, making it the highest point. Then 
take the flow of a 2-in. pipe direct to the 
tank, and from it run the 2-in. pipe. Make 
a coil of pipe connected by headings at 
each end of about six lines of the 2-in. 
pipe laid flat, but slightly elevated on the 
north side so as to give a fall for the 
water to the return, for hot water or 
cold will run faster down hill than you 
can force it up with burning coal. Hence, 
to avoid friction in forcing the water up 
hill I take it by the shortest route to the 
expansion tank, and from there do all the 
heating on the return. Over the hot-air 
space make a platfotm on which to place 
the bod. Leave, as I have suggested, a 
space 2 in. wide along the north side to 
allow boated air to rise into the frame. 
The best and most lasting material for 
this floor is slate carried on T-iron cross 
bars, but thin cypress boa rds will answer. 
Then the heating and ventilation will be 
just like an ordinary hotbed. But the 
boiler should be of size large enough to 
maintain heat of 180 degrees in the piping 
without unduly driving of the fire. But 
do not try t.• heat all outdoors, like my 
sweet potato man. w. f. masset. 
Mulching Strawberries 
Which is the better for covering straw¬ 
berries for Winter, coarse horse manure 
or bean straw? j. m. c. 
Th“ horse manure contains more plant 
food and will pack closer to the berry 
vines. It will be less likely to blow off 
than the bean vines. Otherwise the 
vines are just as good, and in some ways 
superior. It is a mistake to try to cover 
the berry vines completely. Some people 
use fine manure, forest leaves, or even 
sawdust. These pack down over the 
plants, and often kill many. We do not 
use a mulch to prevent freezing of plants 
or soil. The plants are better off if the 
ground freezes early and remains solidly 
frozen. The damage is done when there 
is first freeze and thou thaw, alternating 
from day to day or week to week. The 
freezing soil expands and this pulls the 
plant a little from the ground. The 
thaw does not pull it ‘back, and so, after 
this process goes on a few times the 
plant i< lifted out and the roots are ex¬ 
posed. The object in using a Winter 
mulch is to permit the soil to freeze and 
then hold the frost in it. and at the same 
time enable the plants to obtain air. A 
thick close mat over them would smother 
many of them. A coarse covering will 
prevent thawing, and at the same time 
give air enough. Cornstalks, bean vines, 
millet or coarse straw are all good, hut 
naturally manure contains most plant 
food, in addition to covering the plants. 
“It says here: ‘One ofthe idols most re¬ 
vered by any heathen is a figure of a 
woman, seated, resting her chin in her 
hands,” said Mrs. Smith, reading from a 
book. ‘‘Which proves they are about the 
wisest people on earth,” suggested her 
husband. “How so. Joshua?” “Well,” 
said Mr. Smith, with emphasis, “because 
they make a deity of a woman who has 
sense enough to give her chin a rest.”— 
New York Globe. 
UsteliorSe Sensfein buying 
your FurnaCe 
Your furnace is either an asset or a 
liability. The fuel it eats is either 
turned at once into warmth and 
comfort, or a large percentage goes 
up the chimney as waste.^Buy 
your furnace as you do your horse. 
Look under the casing as you look 
under the horse blanket. And see 
that it’s sound in all those details 
that mean long life, the details you 
find in your 
M P Sterling Furnace 
The One Register Furnace 
Its excellent construction eliminates 
bothersome repairs. It costs a few dollars 
more, but in fuel saving, long life and 
satisfactory service soon repays this 
many times. 
A postal will bring you full informa¬ 
tion on Sterling construction and Ster¬ 
ling saving. Why not mail it today ? 
Toi| 
Tractor 
Christmas 
SPRAT 
r Rigs of 
All Sizes 
For All Uses 
Send for One Today 
Looks like a big Avery Tractor—only small. 
Cast iron—beautiful red and black enamel—gold 
striping — rolling wheels. Makes dandy toy. 
Every child want9 one to play power farming. 
Send 25c with the name of one possible truck, 
tractor, thresher or motor cultivator buyer—and 
get this beautiful toy postpaid. 35c in Canada. 
AVERY CO. 2001 Iowa St., Peoria, Ill. 
been 
AVERY- 
Arery prices hare 
ieduced. Ask for catalog 
The OSPRAYMO LINE 
You must spray to get lino fruits, vegetables, shrub¬ 
bery, flowers. Let our catalog tell you about the 
t.unoU3 High-power Orchard Rigs, Red Jacket and Yel¬ 
low Jacket Traction Potato 8propers. Bucket, Barrel 
and knapsack Sprayers, Hand Pumps, etc. 
An OSPRAYMO 
sprayer means one 
that will make your 
work effective. Suc¬ 
tion strainer brushes, 
mechanical agitators. 
High pressure guar¬ 
anteed. Send today 
for late catalog. Don't 
buy any sprayer till 
it comes. Local deal¬ 
ers at many points. 
Address 
' Elmira, N. V, 
LEADER 
Power Orchard 
Sprayer 
Field Force Pump to., - Dept. S 
BISSELL HANDY CONTROL 
Delivered prices Quoted on 
request. 
THE E. BIGL0W CO., New London, 0. 
TRACTOR DOUBLE-ACTION 
DISK HARROW 
Great 
Tillage 
Implement 
for Horse 
Tho Only Blssell ’Ik' or I raclor 
See Sample Harrows at Annual Fruit Grower’s Shoio 
Manf’d only by T. E. BISSELL CO., Ltd.. Elora. Ont., Can 
Light 
Draught 
Easy to 
Control 
Great 
Capacity 
m? 
THE FOUNDATION 
OF GOOD CROPS 
"As ye sow”— Solvay Pulverized Limestone—“so shall 
reap”— bigger, better, more profitable crops. Solvay 
brings crops to quick, complete maturity 
by making soil sweet; releasing all plant- 
food to the growing crops. Guaran¬ 
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ground fine, furnace dried, easily 
spread. Crop improvement shows 
first harvest. 
Keep posted on lime and Its ut> 
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THE SOLVAY PROCESS CO. 
501 Milton Ave. Syracu»e, N. Y. 
