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February 23, 1924 
The RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
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Three Gladiolas 
Send for catalog and in¬ 
clude the names and ad- 
■ dresses of two friends 
Ixrb* bnv seeds and get Gladiolaa 
f for your trouble. 
Redhead Tomato 
I One of the many specials in my cat- I 
I alogthat are different. GIANTS INI 
I size, blood red color, meaty, fine 1 
I flavor, holds record of 9,000 lbs. on 
V one-fourth acre. You can do as well 1 
I with Field high quality seed, famous ( 
I for big yields. 1 
Giant Watermelons 
Another wonder. Exhibited 2 melons I 
at fairs, weighed 95 lb9. each. They 
surprised everybody. After the fairs 
we cut them and fed 100 people. 1 
They were solid, sweet, juicy. 
Grow- some yourself and sur- ' 
prise your neighbors. Hav<^ 
. only a limited supply of ^ 
seed, so act quickly. 
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Get my seed catalog, filled with ear- \ 
prises, on special and standard varl-Y 
ties Vegetable, Flower,Farm Seeds! 
Shrubs, Trees, Fruits, etc. Tells! 
story how quality and ldw price gave me * 
one million customers. 
HENRY FIELD SEED CO. 
Box 26 Shenandoah, Iowa 
Quality and Profit 
In Garrahan Seeds 
Garrahan believes in quality— 
and quality begets profits when 
it hits the market right. Garrahan 
Seed has quality—and is timed 
exactly for best prices. 
Early Wakefield Cabbage 
maturing early in large sturdy 
heads like the Charleston. 
$10 lb., $5 y 2 lb., $1 oz. 
Garrahan Easy Blanching Celery, 
$20 lb., $10 y 2 lb., $2 oz. 
C. E. GARRAHAN 
393 Northampton St., 
Kingston, Pa. 
If Your Dealer Does Not Sell 
N eedham 
crown 
GRAIN DRILLS 
Write CROWN MFG. CO., Bex 112, PHELPS, N. Y. 
Cook’s Northern Grown 
Russet Seed Potatoes 
Ilifrid field inspection safe¬ 
guards you as to purity. Clean, 
vigorous stock, at farm prices 
on bushel, barrel or car lots 
Circular 
IRVINGE. COOK 
Munnsville. N. Y. 
INGEE TJOSFS 
i Qn Own Roots 
are always grown on their own roots. 73 years’ 
experience. Satisfaction and safe arrival guar¬ 
anteed. DinQee “Guide lo Rose Culture.” 
Offers 500 Roses, other plants, bulbs and 
seeds, and tells how to grow them. It’s free 
THE DINGEE i C0NARD CO., BOX 295. WEST GROVE, PA' 
HEAVY 
CLUSTER 
ALBERTAQATC 
X, CANADIAN GROWN 
(Weight 16 lbs. to measured bu.) 
$1.25 per bn. of 32 lbs. Freight paid on 9 bu. or more. 
B. F. METCALF & SON, Inc. Genesee st ri. y 
CORNELLIAN OATS 
Grown in Dutchess County for sale for seed. Price 
»1 per bushel in used feed Backs 1. O. B. Pawling. 
FA1RYDALE FARM - Pawling, N.Y. 
-omgrOUND 
be liable to a 
years in prison 
ODD A V C Lime-Sulfur, *8 Barrel, Bordeaux dry, 
Or It AI 0 copper. 15c lb. Lead and Calcium Arsenate 
etc. Agents wanted. TV. a. ALLEN Pittstown, N. J 
CEKT1FIEI) SEED SWEET POTATOES. 
Yellow and Red Jersey. *3.00 per bushel hamper. 
Order from this ad. N, WYNIA. COLOGNE. X. J. 
■» m nr/vi ETC Surplus bulbs from private 
ij collection. An unusually line 
mixture. 30, prepaid. St ott. Many Rural New ; 
Yorker readers who ordered last year wrote how well 
pleased they were. Send for list best named varieties, 
all sizes and lmlblets. . „ „ „ 
ALBERT LOWENFELS. 33 Laurel Place, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
TDCCCft PLANTS Thousands of Fruit trees. 
• REcbarLAII I » Privet hedging, etc., di¬ 
rect to you at lower prices. Large assortment.Listfree. 
WESTMINSTER NURSERY, Desk 129, Westminster, Md. 
DOMESTIC.—Twenty-six indictments 
against alleged purchasers and vendors of 
liquor in a “mail order” distribution 
scheme said to have been devised by Isaac 
Bulifant of Philadelphia were returned 
by the Federal Grand Jury February 8. 
Twenty-seven men were named in the in¬ 
dictments, each of which charged con¬ 
spiracy to violate the prohibition law. 
the indictments are believed to be the 
first ever returned naming persons as 
buyers of illegal beverages since passage 
of the prohibition laws. Each alleged 
purchaser was indicted on two counts, 
conviction for which would carry a maxi¬ 
mum penalty of four years’ imprisonment 
and $20,000 fine. According to Federal 
officials, the scheme comprised a distribu¬ 
tion of liquor in four States through mail 
orders sent there, the liquor being shipped 
by railway express by Bulifant and his 
agents, in some instances being billed as 
“rubber goods.” Bulifant, who is pro¬ 
prietor of the Novelty Glass Go., Phila¬ 
delphia, is named in each of the twenty- 
six indictments and the fifty-two counts. 
Should he be convicted, prohibition au¬ 
thorities says, lie would 
maximum penalty of 104 
and $540,000 fine. 
Warrants charging Nicky Arnstein and 
Charles Drucker, central figures in the 
$5,000,000 bond theft investigation in 
New York four years ago, and three 
others with obtaining $48,300 under false 
pretenses were issued at Youngstown, 
Ohio, February 7. The warrants, issued 
on application of M. W. Kasmerick of 
Boswell, Pa., charge that the money was 
obtained in a wire tapping swindle m 
Youngstown in July, 1922. Police are 
investigating another wire tapping scheme 
here the same year, in which a Hoboken. 
N. J., man was said to have lost $80,000 
in an attempt to connect Arnstein and 
Drucker. 
Stunned by the explosion of a portable 
gas heater, John Maston was found un¬ 
conscious in the bathtub at his home at 
75 Fifth Avenue, Long Island City, Feb- 
ruary ^soighbors found ]YIaston in the 
bathtub with his head under water. The 
bathroom was in disorder and the 
heater blown to pieces. An ambulance 
was summoned from St. John’s Hospital, 
Long Island City, where it _ was said 
Maston was in a serious condition from 
buYns about the face and body. It is 
believed the heater exploded as Maston 
was about to step into the bath. 
The town of Herrin, Ill., formerly the 
scene of a mine war that resulted in 
wholesale lynching, is now again under 
martial law. Strife between the wet and 
dry forces, which had continued for sev¬ 
eral months, culminated February 9 in 
the killing of Constable Caesar Cagle and 
the wounding of Deputy Sheriff John 
Layman. 
Four children and two men lost their 
lives early February 10 in a fire which 
destroyed a three-story building on Mer¬ 
rick Road, Rockville Center, L. I., for¬ 
merly a roadhouse and known as Jim 
Sally’s Inn. Fire Chief W. Raymond 
Wood said the fire was “unmistakably of 
incendiary origin.” The dead are: 
John Santilina, Lorenzo Camarana and 
his children: Anthony Camarana, 14 
years old ; Frank Camarana, 12; Fannie 
Camarana, 4, and Carrie Camarana, 3. 
Camarana’s wife, Andrenna, and their 
baby, Joseph, fine months old. were se¬ 
verely burned. 
Two prison officers were shot to death 
and several convicts were wounded, some 
seriously, February 11. at the Western 
penitentiary, Pittsburgh, Pa. After an 
hour’s fight, in which riot guns, tear gas 
bombs, clubs and bricks were used, the 
prison guards, assisted by county detec¬ 
tives and the Pittsburgh police force, 
quelled the disturbance, which started 
when the convicts used explosives in an 
effort to dynamite their way to freedom. 
No prisoner escaped. Warden J. M. 
Egan reported that the plot was con¬ 
ceived by four or five “bad men” re¬ 
cently transferred to the prison there 
from the Eastern penitentiary to be dis¬ 
ciplined. He added that lie believed tin 
plot was engineered by a quartet of con¬ 
victs known as “the four horsemen.” 
They had help from the outside, the 
warden said. 
Ownership and control of all water 
supplies by the State was advocated by 
Governor Silzer of New Jersey, February 
12 in a special message to the Legislature 
emphasizing the dangers confronting New 
Jersey through lack of adequate provision 
for the conservation and development of 
potable waters. His outstanding recom¬ 
mendation was that after acquiring the 
sources of water supply the State should 
provide the means for its distribution to 
municipalities at wholesale rates, which 
turn should distribute it to the 
the Employers’ Association of New Jer¬ 
sey, pointing that 100.000 commuters be¬ 
tween north Jersey counties and New 
York would be inconvenienced by diverse 
times at their homes and places of busi¬ 
ness. 
WASHINGTON.—A favorable report 
on the Mellon bill for tax reduction was 
ordered by the Ways and Means Commit¬ 
tee of the House February 7 by a vote of 
15 to 3. As it will be presented to the 
House the hill is substantially as recom¬ 
mended by Secretary Mellon, with the 
addition of a provision for a 25 per cent 
reduction on all income taxes which must 
be paid this year. The only other im¬ 
portant changes are: 
1. A definition of earned income which 
considers the first $5,000 of all income as 
earned, and limits the differential rate in 
favor of earned income to $20,000. 
2. Repeal of all taxes on beverages. 
3. Limitation of the admission tax re¬ 
peal to admissions of 50 cents or under. 
4. Repeal of the tax on candy. 
5. Rewriting of the board of tax ap¬ 
peals section to remove the hoard from 
Treasury domination and to have the 
members appointed by the President. 
6 . Striking out the section to prevent 
the making of separate returns, each for 
half of the income, by husbands and 
wives in eight States. 
7. Reducing the jewelry taxes. 
Senator David A. Reed of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, Chairman of the Veterans’ Com¬ 
mittee, presented to the Senate February 
9 the report of General John T. O’Ryan 
as the committee’s counsel, outlining the 
result of the investigation of charges of 
corruption and mismanagement in the ad¬ 
ministration of the War Veterans’ Bu¬ 
reau. The report reviews the testimony 
given before the committee and printed 
in the newspapers during the past two 
months. That the prosecution of some 
of those charged with wrong doing will 
follow the disclosures, is indicated by the 
committee’s report. The committee makes 
no formal recommendations for criminal 
proceedings, hut says that it lias deliv¬ 
ered to the Department of Justice all 
of the evidence for presentation to Lie 
Grand Jury. 
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Do the work Faster %Better and in half the time 
caia'ioe—- Fruit Growers SawCo.Scottsvilie, N.Y 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Nov. 7-Feb. 24—Short Winter courses 
in floriculture and ornamental horticul¬ 
ture, New York State College of Agricul¬ 
ture, Ithaca. N. Y. 
Feb. 16.—Open meeting for dairymen 
and friends. Norfolk County Agricultural 
School, Walpole, Mass. . - T 
Feb. 20-22 — Eastern meeting, New 
York State Horticultural Society, Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. Roy P. McPherson, secre¬ 
tary. Le Roy, N. Y. 
July 28-Aug. 1—-Summer Farmers 
Week, Connecticut Agricultural College, 
Storrs, Conn. 
Farm Mechanics 
By Robert H. Smith 
habitants at retail. 
New Jersey farmers staged an impres¬ 
sive demonstration before the House Com¬ 
mittee on Miscellaneous Business at 
Trenton February 11 in favor of the 
Stratton hill, which would establish 
standard time throughout New Jersey 
and prohibit any municipality from adopt¬ 
ing daylight saving time. Opposition was 
voiced by representatives of employers’ 
associations and some of the larger 
municipalities. Arthur M. Torrey of 
East Orange opposed the bill in behalf of 
Line-shaft and Puileys 
What size line-shaft and what size pul¬ 
leys on same do 1 want to run a washing 
machine, small feed grinder and 24 or 20- 
in. wood saw? Washing machine has a 
16-in. pulley and should make about 120 
r.p.m. I have for .power a 214 horse¬ 
power gasoline engine, with a 6-in. pulley, 
making about 450 r.p.m. T. C. S. 
Cay wood, N. Y. 
Pulley sizes are determined by rhe fol¬ 
lowing rule: The diameter of the driving 
pulley multiplied by its speed (r.p.m.) 
will equal the diameter of the driven pul¬ 
ley times its speed. Where but three of 
the above factors are known the fourth 
can be determined by multiplying the fac¬ 
tors of one couple together and dividing 
by the known factor of the other. For 
example,' if the speed and diameter of 
the driving pulley are known, divide their 
product by the speed of the driven pulley 
to obtain the diameter required. 
If the engine is belted to a 14-in. pul- 
ley on the line-shaft, the shaft will he 
driven at a speed of about 193 r.p.m. A 
10 -in. pulley used on the line-shaft as a 
driver and belted to the washing machine 
will give it an approximate speed of 120 
r.p.m., as desired. 
The standard rim speed of a wood saw 
is 10,000 ft. per minute. Speeds muen 
lower than this are used, however, and 
with your light engine a speed of about 
900 r. p.m. is about all that you can han¬ 
dle. Assuming a 5-in. pulley on the saw 
mandrel, a 22-in. pulley on the line-shaft 
will give it a speed of approximately 
S50 r.p.m. 
Definite information concerning the 
feed grinder cannot be given, as neither 
speed nor pulley size is given. It is prob¬ 
able a small one such as you would use 
with this light engine would have a pul¬ 
ley about 5 in. in diameter and a running 
speed of about 650 r. p.m. In this case a 
16 to lS-in. pulley would be needed on 
the line shaft. Feed grinders can be run 
at varying speeds with satisfactory re¬ 
sults, the quantity of grain ground de¬ 
pending to quite an extent on the speed. 
In the above list of pulleys the diam¬ 
eter to the nearest full inch has been 
given in each ease, making the speed a 
close approximation only. Unless the belt 
is to be shifted from tight to loose pul¬ 
leys, crownface pulleys should he used, as 
the belt tends to run to their center. Sat¬ 
isfactory bearings can be made from hard 
maple or birch, soaking them in oil. .1 
would suggest the use of cold rolled steel 
shafting of IV 2 in. diameter. A smaller 
shafting can be used, but there is little to 
he gained in price saving, and the larger 
shaft is rigid and free from springing. 
Well for Watering Stock 
Will you give me advice about wells? 
I wish to supply a stock barn, and do not 
know how Jo proceed, nor which system 
would be most satisfactory. I suppose 
the water isupply must be first settled be¬ 
fore locating the barn, and that only a 
driven deep well could supply 40 head 
of cattle. Must the water be raised to 
a high tank for gravity flow to the barn, 
or is there a pressure system to carry 
water direct to barn? A. H. 
Dover Plains, N. Y. 
Undoubtedly the drilled well makes the 
best supply for farm use. It is less likely 
to become contaminated from surface 
water or seepage, and if a good flow is 
struck, furnishes a good supply of water. 
Where conditions are right for a dug 
well, however, there is no great difficulty 
in supplying a herd of 40 cows from one. 
Also if it is located outside of the zone 
of seepage from possible sources of con¬ 
tamination and protected with a good 
curb to prevent the entrance of surface 
water and small animals a supply of good 
drinking water can be obtained from it. 
You can be guided somewhat in your 
choice by an examination of the wells in 
use about the place where the barn is 
to be located. 
As to type of water system the gravity 
system that you mention is satisfactory 
for use in a cow stable, and is perhaps 
more simple and less likely to give trouble 
than other types. The supply tank need 
not be high, however. If placed on the 
floor above the cows sufficient elevation is 
secured to carry water to the drinking 
buckets. The best arrangement, where 
possible, is to have the service pipe from 
the tank couple into the center of the 
pipe running along the top of the stanch¬ 
ion which carries water to the buckets. 
This lessens pipe friction. 
A pressure system can be used if de¬ 
sired and the buckets connected directly 
to the pump pressure storage tank. The 
use of the pressure system gives the ad¬ 
vantage of having water under pressure 
for flushing down the stable floors and 
other work of this kind. 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, FEB. 23, 1S24 
FARM TOPICS 
Cotton Growing and Poor Soils 
Notes on Seeding Alfalfa .... 
A Few Observations . 
Great Men in Agriculture .... 
Seeding Down Pasture . 
Destroying White Gruhs . 
Lime on Potatoes . 
Hope Farm Notes .. • •. 
303, 304 
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. 315 
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.319 
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320, 321 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Fattening Steers . ; . 328 
Feeding Carcasses; Improving Land . 328 
Butter Off Flavor . 330 
Sweet Butter . 330 
Lime for Live Stock . 332 
THE HENYARD 
Keeping Eggs in Water Glass ... 
Improving a Ration ..... 
Comparing Milk With Meat Scrap 
New Plan for Hen Keeping . 
Bergen County Egg Contest . 
Egg-eating Hens . 
Ventilating a Chicken House 
Poultry-house for Winter Chicks . 
Roup ... 
Turkeys and Goats . 
Construction of Henhouse . 
Circular Brooder House . 
The Two-egg-a-day Hen . 
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339 . 340 
HORTICULTURE 
Transplanting Old Grapevines . 306 
Treatment of Grape Cuttings . 306 
Fertilizing Strawberries in Spring .. 307 
Using the Kieffer Pear .. 307 
Seedlings Damping Off ... 308 
Gum on Peach and Plum Trees . 308 
Hotbed Details, Part I .309, 311 
Cover Crop in Garden .. 319 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Mother’s Day Any Day ... . 
Talk With Trained Nurse . 
Boys and Girls .324, 325, 
The Home Dressmaker . 
Growing Old . 
Always Christmas . 
Country Thoughts for February ...... 
“These Are My Jewels” . 
312, 315 
.... 316 
331, 332 
.... 326 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Winter Life in the North Woods . . 303 
Liability of a School Wagon Driver . 304 
New Argument in the School Discussion.. . 304 
Results of Community Education in Iowa.. 305 
An Insult to Farm Intelligence . .. 305 
A Fish Ball Man . 307 
Freezing of Chemical Closet; Flowering 
Quince . 308 
Events of Week . 310 
Old Days in New Haven, Cor.n . 311 
Pastoral Parson . 314 
Injury to Roadside Trees . 317 
De’ayed Settlement of Estate . 317 
Wife’s Claim on Husband’s Livestock .... 317 
Gravel Pit Affecting Well . 317 
Trespass on Vacant Lot . 317 
Denaturing the Auto Hog . 319 
Human Waves; A New Language . 321 
Editorials . 322 
Countrywide Produce Situation . 341 
Publisher’s Desk .. 342 
