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Vht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 15, 1924 
Lead gives light 
when darkness conies 
B LACK clouds hide the midday 
sun. A storm breaks over a 
community. Everywhere people 
turn on electric lights. 
In the emergency the power 
plant must supply electricity up 
to capacity. But only two of the 
generators are running. Where does 
the additional current come from? 
The electrician turns on the cur¬ 
rent from many storage batteries. 
These batteries, made mostly of 
lead, provide the extra current un¬ 
til other generators are started. 
Lead storage batteries are an 
essential part of the nation’s life. 
They provide power for running 
farm machinery. They furnish elec¬ 
trical energy for ignition systems of 
tractors; for starting, lighting and 
ignition systems of automobiles. 
Lead storage batteries propel 
street cars and electric vehicles. 
They operate drawbridges and 
railroad signals. They help to fire 
guns on warships and to propel 
submarines under the water’s 
surface. 
Where lead serves as paint 
Lead aids man faithfully and well 
in the storage battery. Many mil¬ 
lions of pounds of lead are in stor¬ 
age batteries in this country. 
But lead serves the nation more 
generally as paint. For protecting 
metal surfaces against the attacks 
of rust, red-lead paint has long 
been the standard. It guards city 
skyscraper skeletons, bridges, gas 
tanks. Red-lead should protect 
your farm machinery and all metal 
surfaces on your farm equipment 
against rust. 
Rust costs millions 
Every year about $600,000,000 
worth of machinery, tools and 
metal implements is made useless 
by rust. Farmers bear a great deal 
of this loss —a loss which paint 
would help to prevent. The harrow 
that lies half buried in dead weeds 
outback of the wagon shed; the hay 
rake that stands next to the fence 
near the end of the lane that leads 
to a marsh; the binder that is 
not under shelter — all these 
become sacrifices to rust unless 
protected by paint. 
Where farmers keep their 
metal equipment protected by 
red-lead paint, that equipment 
is safe from rust, from rapid 
deterioration and eventual 
destruction. 
Just as red-lead saves metal, so 
white-lead keeps wood and non- 
metallic surfaces from rotting away. 
White-lead has been a standard 
protective paint for generations. 
Today you can see it everywhere 
in city and country. Like red-lead 
it sticks tightly to the surface, is 
impervious to air and moisture and 
lasts long. 
Many pages of paint facts 
If you want to know how to save 
the surface of wood, masonry or 
metal on your farm with paint, 
write for our “Handy Book on 
Fainting.” This book is a store¬ 
house of essential paint facts and 
formulas and will be sent to you 
free on request. 
Producers of lead products 
Dutch Boy red-lead and Dutch Boy 
white-lead are the names of pure 
red-lead and white-lead made and 
sold by National Lead Company. 
On every keg of these Dutch 
Boy products is reproduced the 
picture of the Dutch Boy Painter 
shown here. This trade-mark guar¬ 
antees a product of the highest 
quality. 
Dutch Boy products also include 
white-lead, linseed oil, flatting oil, 
babbitt metals, and solder. 
National Lead Company also 
makes lead products for practically 
every purpose to which lead can 
be put in art, industry and daily 
life. If you want information re¬ 
garding any particular use of lead, 
write to us. 
NATIONAL 
LEAD COMPANY 
New York, 111 Broadway; Boston, 181 
State Street; Buffalo, 116 Oak Street; 
Chicago, 900 West 18th Street; Cincin¬ 
nati, 659 Freeman Avenue; Cleveland, 
820 West Superior Avenue; St. Louis, 
722 Chestnut Street; San Francisco, 485 
California Street; Pittsburgh, National 
Lead & Oil Co. of Penna., 816 Fourth 
Avenue; Philadelphia, John T. Lewis 
& Bros. Co., 487 Chestnut Street. 
Horticultural Notes 
The J. H. Hale Peach 
There has been considerable discussion 
of this peach, so loudly trumpeted several 
years ago. We think most growers have 
abandoned the variety; yet there are 
others who regard it as a great peach. 
Here is a note about it from W. F. Allen 
of Maryland: 
We note your remarks about the J. H. 
Hale peach. Two years ago we would 
have told anyone that we would never 
plant another tree of this variety. Nev¬ 
ertheless, after harvesting our crop dur¬ 
ing the Summer of 1923 we went to work 
last Winter and planted another orchard 
of this variety. While it is hard to grow 
and somewhat tender in regard to the 
growth of tree and bud, we decided it was 
worth while. I am frank to say that the 
Hale peach when well grown is about the 
finest fruit I have ever seen in the way 
of a peach. Of course, one thing that has 
been against the Hale is that none of us 
realized until recently that the blossoms 
of the Hale peach were sterile and needed 
fertilization. In planting our new or¬ 
chard of this variety we have planted four 
rows of Hale and two of Ililey all through 
the orchard. We believe the Hiley will 
furnish pollen and in this way we will 
find the Hale a surer cropper than we 
have done in the past. 
You may be interested to know that we 
sent the President one-half bushel of J. 
II. Hale peaches the past Summer, con¬ 
taining 34 peaches packed as tight in the 
half-bushel basket as we could get them. 
Of course, most varieties do better in 
some sections than some others. We re¬ 
alize it is easier to grow some other 
peaches than it is to grow the Hale, but 
the American people at this time seem to 
be clamoring for big fruit, and the Hale 
meets that demand. It is harder to grow, 
but easier to sell. 
Persistent Potato Growth 
When planting Northern Spy potatoes 
last Spring I threw out some considered 
too small for seed. One of these by 
chance was laid on an old piece of glass 
on a table under a tree, and remained 
there undisturbed more than five months, 
having no contact with the earth and no 
moisture other than the rain and dew, 
Northern Spy Potato That Determined to 
Live Whether Planted or Not 
which quickly dried off the glass. The 
picture, made in October, shows the stur¬ 
dy sprout that developed under these hard 
conditions, in its determination to grow. 
New Jersey. \v. w. H. 
R. N.-Y.—iWe have found this North¬ 
ern Spy exceedingly vigorous. It is, with¬ 
out question, practically “blight proof.” 
For several seasons with us it has gone 
through the season to frost with green, 
vigorous vines, while all around it other 
varieties were killed by disease. 
Ventilation for Vegetable 
Cellar 
I am planning a vegetable cellar 28x60 
ft. by 11 ft. deep. Over this cellar I am 
placing a two-story building. I am plan¬ 
ning this cellar without any windows and 
expect to install an elevator for lifting 
potatoes out. I want to ventilate this 
cellar with pipes run down the outside of 
the foundation and coming up under the 
cellar floor, these for the cold air in¬ 
takes and for the warm air outlets. I 
want to run ventilators from the cellar 
ceiling up through the roof into^steel 
cupolas. I am also planning to ceu this 
cellar with %-in. ceiling, thereby making 
a dead air space between the ceiling and 
the first floor. I do not know just how 
many and what size cold air intakes to 
install and warm air outlets. Also what 
size the same should be, and where placed 
for the best results. My potatoes will be 
all stored in bins 8 ft. wide and 4 ft. 
high around the edge of the cellar, leaving 
a place approximately 10 ft. wide through 
the center of the cellar. These racks are 
on sleepers 2 in. off the floor and 2 in. 
away from the side walls, thereby leaving 
a circuit of air all around the bins. 
Would it be advisable to lead all the cold 
air intake ducts to one place in the cellar 
or pit, the said pit being filled with wa¬ 
ter? The lights used for working in this 
cellar will be electric. b. t. \v. 
Cornell University has been doing some 
experimenting along the line of vegetable 
storage and has prepared a bulletin on 
“Construction and Management of Root 
Storage Cellars.” This is listed as Ex¬ 
tension Bulletin 22, and can be obtained 
from the State College of Agriculture at 
Ithaca, N. Y. In it will be found com¬ 
plete answers to your questions, together 
with diagrams that I think will make 
everything clear. 
In regard to the ceiling overhead, if it 
is planned to use this as heat insulation 
it will be necessary to use other material 
with the ceiling or the desired end will 
not be obtained. To make an efficient 
dead air space it must be filled with some 
cellular material, as planer shavings, 
which will break the space up into many 
little dead air spaces and effectually pre¬ 
vent air circulation in the proposed dead 
air space. Better at least put building 
paper beneath the ceiling and fill between 
the floor and ceiling with packed planer 
shavings to conserve the heat of the cel¬ 
lar, as it must be remembered that the 
heat stored with the roots and coming 
from the ground is all that is available 
to prevent freezing through the Winter, 
unless artificial heat is employed, and 
must be conserved. R. h. s. 
Drying English Walnuts 
The 'Oregon Agricultural College de¬ 
scribes a new system of drying wal¬ 
nuts by means of a forced draft. Much 
larger quantities of nuts are treated at 
a time in the new system, as the heated 
air is forced through a 3-ft. layer spread 
over a wire netting 10x10 ft. in size. The 
air, at a temperature of 105 J F., is re¬ 
turned, to be used over and over again, 
thus saving heat and fuel, as well as 
speeding up drying, and increasing the ca¬ 
pacity of the plant. The process leaves 
the nuts in good condition. Only a few 
develop split shells. Some of the smaller 
nuts are dried too much, but soon regain 
the right supply of moisture on being ex¬ 
posed to the air under normal conditions. 
If the nuts are graded before drying this 
condition is averted, but natural shrink¬ 
age makes it advisable to regrade after 
drying. The bins in which the nuts are 
dried are cheaply constructed of shiplap. 
The nuts are scrubbed before being sent 
to the drier by means of a conveyor, and 
raked out through an opening after dry¬ 
ing. The entire process is simple and 
readily carried out. 
Apple Tree Tent-caterpillar 
I send sample of eggs of tent-caterpil¬ 
lar. Each sample is estimated to contain 
300 to 500 eggs, and supposed to have 
been laid during September. Peel off the 
gum-like patch, and the eggs will be ex¬ 
posed as stuck to the bark of these crab- 
apple twigs. They hatch in Spring as 
soon as the foiliage commences to grow. 
A freezing night kills them all. These 
eggs are supposed to be deposited on 
apple and wild cherry trees by butterflies 
or moths. How can we destroy them? 
Oak Ridge, N. J. e. l. w. 
The eggs of the tent-caterpillars which 
E. L. W. sent are laid somewhat earlier 
than he surmises. They are laid in July, 
on the branches of wild cherries and ap¬ 
ples, where they rest until the following 
Spring, when they hatch as soon as the 
buds start. The caterpillars build tents 
in the trees, eat the leaves, and when 
grown form thick, silken cocoons in vari- 
rious places on the trunks and in crev¬ 
ices that they may find, and after about 
three weeks the adult reddish-brown 
moths appear, which lay the eggs for an¬ 
other generation the next Spring. 
The best way to rid the country of 
these insects is to destroy the wild cher¬ 
ries and seedling apples along the road¬ 
sides and throughout fields. In addition 
the caterpillars can be destroyed by spray¬ 
ing the trees upon which they ar^ living 
with arsenate of lead, 3 lbs. to 100 gal¬ 
lons of water. If the insect is to be ef¬ 
fectively destroyed over large areas; every¬ 
one must co-operate in putting into force 
the methods of control which we have sug¬ 
gested. The matter of extermination is a 
community one, in which one individual 
can accomplish very little unless everyone 
in the community co-operates. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
