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<Px RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 26, 1924 
UNADILLA SILOS 
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W HY is the UnadiUa selected for many of 
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The owners of these estates can well afford to 
buy the most costly. They select the Unadilla 
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better silo service. Because it keeps silage per¬ 
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easier to use. Because it is strong and durable 
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own one or more Unadillas and are proud to 
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Any silo that has proved its worth there will 
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From the Mail Bag 
• 
Careless Mail Delivery. — One of 
our readers tells of an experience in de¬ 
livering the mail. He formerly lived m 
New York State, but left in May to make 
a- new home in New England. After 
about six months he had occasion to go 
back to the old place to settle some 
business matters. In looking about the 
old home he found a bundle of letters 
tucked away in a knot-hole of an old ap¬ 
ple tree. They were reduc'd to a mere 
pulp by snow and rain. It seems that 
just before he left the old home a neigh¬ 
bor brought a bunch of mail from the 
post office. While he w-as taking care 
of the car he tucked these letters into 
the apple tree, intending, of course, to 
take them out later and give them to 
their owners. As sometimes happens 
•when gentlemen bring letters home for 
their wives, this man forgot this bunch 
of mail, and it remained in the apple 
tree all this time. When finally discov¬ 
ered it could not possibly be of any use. 
We have no doubt that many pieces of 
mail have been lost or destroyed in this 
way. Some times they are of such a 
character that both the sender and the 
for that is the only thing that I know of 
to give a man satisfaction after he has 
worked all his life. It is rather late in 
life for me to pick up the reading habit 
or the habits of study, and when a deaf 
man has nothing to do he is a victim of 
all the fears and prejudices that ever 
come down the road.” 
This man got it right, not only for deaf 
people but for those who can hear a pin 
drop. A good healthy job that will inter¬ 
est the mind and keep it busy is the best 
thing that anyone can have. 
Hay Substitutes. —About the same 
proportion as usual of our farmers find 
themselves with less meadow land than 
in former years, and they will be obliged 
to seed something to take the place of 
hay. We do not know of anything bet¬ 
ter for this proposition than oats and 
Canada peas seeded together. We use 
one bushel of the peas and three bushels 
of oats to the acre. The seed may be 
mixed and put in with the drill, or the 
peas may be scattered over the ground 
and plowed in, thus following with the 
oats, which are harrowed into the upper 
soil. This combination "when cut as the 
“Arizona Products” is the name they gave this picture. It shows a milk goat and a 
goat’s milk consumer, and the latter is a fine advertisement for the former. The 
consumer has his friend and foster-mother by the beard, and she does not seem to 
object. No question about the fact that the milk goat, or backyard cow. is coming. 
Very likely the expert breeder will add 50 per cent to the milk yield of her grand¬ 
daughters, and make them certain members of the practical dairying associations. 
person who should have received them 
failed to accept any explanation even 
though it may be the full truth. 
An Old Church Becomes an Office 
Building. —As many of our readers 
know, The R. N.-Y. is now published in 
the building which formerly sheltered the 
congregation of the Chelsea Methodist 
Church. That congregation moved up 
town in New York, and some years ago 
we purchased the building and fitted it 
over for our purpose. We have just had 
a letter from E. R. North, who tells us 
that his father formerly preached iu this 
building. The editorial department is 
now located about where the choir sang, 
and the organ boy pumped the necessary 
wind into the organ. We do not pretend 
to be very strong on music, hut at least 
we try to make a noise and do our best 
to keep our readers awake. 
Goats on Brush Land. —Every now 
and then we have questions from people 
who want to know if goats will really 
clean up a piece of brush land. One of 
our readers in the Hudson Valley says 
that last year he bought a flock of 15 
Angora goats and put them at work 
cleaning up brush fences and fields. He 
claims that these goats turned out to be 
an excellent investment, and have done 
great work in cleaning up the brush. The 
neighbors were critical at first, but since 
seeing what the goats accomplished they 
are interested, and feel like trying the 
plan. 
The Idle Deaf. —One of our readers 
purchased a copy of “Adventures in Si¬ 
lence” and turned it over to an elderly 
man who has been deaf for some years. 
This man brought back the book with the 
following comment. 
“The author of this book knows the 
silent life all right, but there is one thing 
he does not seem to realize. He has 
evidently got a job which takes up his 
mind, and his time. Some years ago I 
got tired of working, and made up my 
mind that as soon as I was able I would 
stop all work and have a good time. So, 
when the time came I sold out my farm 
and started in to enjoy life. I am deaf, 
however, and I find that idleness is any¬ 
thing but enjoyment for a man with my 
trouble. I have often wished myself back 
on my hill farm with a mortgage over 
me, so that I should be obliged to work, 
and plan, and put my mind on the job. 
little neas are forming in the pod makes 
a very good substitute for clover hay. 
Potatoes on Old Sod. —Several of our 
readers tell us that they are planning 
to plow up old pasture for this year’s 
planting. In some cases they propose to 
plant potatoes. They must remember 
that such old pastures are generally well 
filled with white grubs, and these insects 
will do great damage to the potato crop. 
There are some cases where a fine crop 
of potatoes has been grown on this old 
sod land but we do not like to take the 
risk as generally the white grubs will 
cause great damage. 
Reseeding Old Pastures. —Some of 
our readers have old pastures which have 
passed their usefulness. These farmers 
are planning to plow the old pastures 
and re-seed as promptly as possible. Some 
of them say the pastures are not sour, so 
that lime is not needed. We have a num¬ 
ber of such reports but in our own ex¬ 
perience we have never known an old 
pasture of this sort that was not sour, 
and in practically every ease a good 
dressing of lime will greatly help. We 
think it is one of the necessities of re¬ 
viving an old pasture to make a thor¬ 
ough use of ground limestone. 
Another point in regard to these old 
pastures is the fact that some farmers 
expect to plow up the old ground, fit it 
fairly well and immediately seed to 
grass once more. It would be far bet¬ 
ter to put in a crop like corn; plant it 
in hills so as to give a thorough culti¬ 
vation both ways. This will clean up 
the field and give a very much better 
chance for the new seeding. Unless the 
ground is well broken up and cleaned 
many weeds and foul grasses will work 
in and spoil the new seeding. A good 
many farmers expect to plow these pas¬ 
tures, and put in a crop of oats, adding 
the pasture grasses. The oats will be 
cut early for hay and the grasses left to 
come on. That is not the best way to do 
it, but in some cases it is necessary to 
work that way. We should add a small 
quantity of Sweet clover seed and con¬ 
siderable Alsike along with the grasses. 
The Sweet clover will give some pasture 
the first year it is seeded, while it would 
be hardly safe to turn stock on a new 
sedding of pasture right after the oats 
were cut. Sweet clover should be used 
far more than it is as a pasture plant. 
