Tbt RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1275 
THE MAILBAG 
Will It Be a “Hard Winter?” 
Several readers have written us about 
published weather reports which are 
credited to the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture at Washington. These reports in¬ 
dicate a very severe Winter in prospect, 
it very confidently stated that the 
W T eather Bureau has made a forecast to 
that effect. We did not believe that this 
bureau ever made such long-range pre¬ 
dictions, and therefore wrote to Wash¬ 
ington about it. Here is the answer: 
The forecasts referred to were not is¬ 
sued by the Weather Bureau, nor does it 
attempt to make weather forecasts for so 
long a period in advance. The subject 
of long range forecasting is one that has 
engaged the attention of our scientists 
for many years, and thus far no laws of 
weather sequences have been discovered 
whereby reliable forecasts .of the weather 
for long periods in advance can be made. 
Reputable scientists throughout the world 
agree that the development of meteoro¬ 
logical science, up to the present time, 
does not admit of the making of forecasts 
of this character that are at all trust¬ 
worthy. C. F. MARVIN. 
Chief of Bureau. 
Green or Frosted Corn 
This late season presents a hard prob¬ 
lem to many farmers in filling the silo. 
Some corn must be cut while quite green 
or left to be frosted. The Ohio Experi¬ 
ment Station gives this advice: 
Corn ensiled before the ears have 
passed the roasting-ear stage is very 
high in moisture and low in dry matter 
content. Studies at the Ohio Experiment 
Station show that a large and valuable 
part of the food material contained in 
such corn may be lost in the juice, by 
what is known as “leaky silage.” 
This loss of juice from immature corn 
may be prevented by cutting the corn 
and allowing it to partly dry before en¬ 
siling. Or hay, straw, or other dry ma¬ 
terial may be chopped and mixed with 
the green corn at the time of filling the 
silo. One part by weight of such dry 
material to five or six parts of green corn 
will yield a mixture of about the same 
dry-matter content as silage made from 
properly matured corn. 
Green corn may be safely ensiled alone 
near the top where danger of losing juice 
is less than under the greater pressure 
deep in the silo. 
Frosting of corn does not impair its 
value if ensiled promptly to avoid loss 
through breaking or leaching from the 
frozen leaves. 
Clogged Water Pipe 
I read the troubles of G. B. T. on page 
1153, “Clogged Water Pipe,” and the 
answer suggesting a solution of his 
dilemma. I believe if you had advised 
him that his trouble with the pipe is 
“air” you would come nearer solving the 
problem. There is some chance that the 
pipe is lower at some point than the 
outlet, and the pipe in some way got 
charged with air. This will hold the 
water back until it is relieved. I had a 
similar case here. When the water in the 
spring gets below the pipe the air will 
get in, and forms in a pocket at lowest 
point in the line; then there will be only 
a small stream until I disconnect the 
pipe or drop the outlet below the line. 
Then it will clear itself and flow the 
capacity of the pipe. J. C. berbang. 
Oregon. 
Mixing Thoroughbreds 
I think the following is quite good 
enough for publication: Recently a 
farmer was looking at my flock of several 
hundred White Wyandottes and Rhode 
Island Red youngsters. He asked if they 
were all purebred stock. I said yes. and 
he replied that another year I should be 
able to produce some fine birds by mixing 
them together—“as it stood to reason 
that two thoroughbreds mixed together 
must produce something better than one 
thoroughbred,” and nothing I could say 
would persuade him to the contrary. I 
presume that he figures that pure water 
mixed with pure milk has a similar result- 
I wish someone would tell me what to do 
to a man like that. f. w. S. 
R. N.-Y.—You can do nothing except 
keep good-natured and patient and ex¬ 
plain the matter until it is understood. 
Cotton picking has just begun on a 
few farms and it will not be long until the 
roads will be lined with wagons loaded 
with the fleecy staple, coming into town 
from all directions. The rural schools 
dismiss for one to two months in order 
that the farm children may help gather 
the cotton crop. Oklahoma has had one 
of the best seasons for years, and crops 
of all-sorts are better than usual, which 
means that the farm folk are happy and 
better contented than they have been 
since the close of the war. The fruit and 
berry crops are also good, and there will 
be little lack of these delicious foodstuffs 
on the farms this Winter. L. Y. 
Oklahoma. 
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