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Tbt  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
December  22,  1923 
One  Farm  Engine 
Does  It  All 
Read  the  Amazing 
Facts  about  thisWoii' 
derful Far m  Engine 
V 
“I  set  out  to 
build  a  farm  en¬ 
gine  that  would 
have  every  fea¬ 
ture  the  farmer 
wanted  and  none 
he  didn’t  want. 
It  has  now  been 
on  the  market  six  years. 
Thousands  of  satisfied  users 
tell  me  I’ve  succeeded.  I'm 
proud  to  have  this  engine 
bear  my  name.” 
A.  Y.  EDWARDS. 
/ 
Read  What  These  Users  Say 
LIGHTING  HOUSE,  BARN  AND  GARAGE 
“I  want  to  tell  you  the  Edwards  Is  the 
smartest  little  engine  that  you  ever  hitched 
a  belt  to.  I  am  running  a  seventy  light, 
direct  current  generator  to  light  the  house, 
bam  and  garage,  and  as  for  general  farm 
work  you  could  not  purchase  a  better  one. 
— L.  G.  DAVIS,  Plymouth,  N.  H. 
BEST  ENGINE  EVER  BUILT 
"I  do  not  hesitate  to  recommend  the 
Edwards  Engine  for  all  general  farm  pur¬ 
poses  from  lMs  to  6  H.  P.  I  have  tested  it 
on  feed  grinding  and  sawing  and  it  gives 
perfect  satisfaction.  It  gives  a  steady  flow 
of  power,  and  it  always  starts.  I  think  it  is 
the  best  engine  ever  built."  —  IV M.  H. 
LCTZ,  Sugar  Grove,  Ohio. 
EASY  TO  MOVE— EASY  TO  RUN 
"I  run  wood  saws,  cement  mixers,  thrash¬ 
ing  machines,  etc.  i^et  me  tell  you,  it  is  the 
most  wonderful  engine  I  have  ever  seen  or 
run.  It  is  so  easy  to  move  around  and  so 
easy  to  run.  I  would  not  have  any  other  en¬ 
gine.  I  would  advise  any  farmer  to  buy  the 
Edwards.”— FRANK  FOEEL,  Cologne,  JL  J. 
THE  ONLY  FARM  ENGINE 
"My  Edwards  Engine  has  proven  most  sat¬ 
isfactory.  I  have  used  it  neaTly  every  day 
for  two  years.  Hot  weather  or  cold,  it  starts 
easily  and  it  has  never  once  gone  back  on  me 
or  given  the  slightest  trouble.  I  have  given 
it  hard  use  and  it  has  never  cost  me  one 
cent  for  repairs." — -OTT  FISHER,  Leffel 
Lane,  Springfield,  Ohio. 
WONDERFUL  POWER 
"We  hitched  the  Edwards  to  a  30-in.  saw 
and  could  not  phase  it.  The  next  thing  1 
hitched  it  to  was  a  Sandwich  four-hole  corn 
sheller.  The  man  that  owned  the  sheller 
said  that  it  was  equal  to  steam  for  regular 
power.  I  would  advise  any  farmer  to  buy  an 
Edwards.”— PARKER  LICHTY,  Carlisle, 
Pa.,  R.  D.  7. 
My  engine — the  Edwards  Engine — will  do  the 
work  of  six  ordinary  farm  engines.  And  I  am 
willing  to  prove  this  to  your  entire  satisfaction. 
I  don’t  want  you  to  risk  a  cent  or  to  place  your¬ 
self  under  any  obligation. 
No  Other  Engine  Like  It 
For  thirty  years  I  have  been  designing  and  building 
engines  of  all  types  and  sizes,  from  one  horsepower  to 
one  thousand  horsepower.  Every  working  day  of  my 
life  in  business  has  been  devoted  to  internal  combus¬ 
tion  engines.  The  farmer’s  power  needs  have  been  up¬ 
permost  in  my  mind  during  these  years.  My  experi¬ 
ence  on  a  farm  proved  to  me  just  what  kind  of  an  en¬ 
gine  a  farmer  needs.  It  was  a  problem  that  required  a 
complete  knowledge  of  what  could  be  done  or  should 
not  be  done  in  building  engines. 
Six  years  ago  the  Edwards  Farm  Engine  was  put  on 
the  market,  and  today  thousands  of  farmers  who  own 
Edwards  Engines  tell  me  that  I  have  solved  the  prob¬ 
lem  of  farm  power.  There  is  no  other  engine  like  it. 
It  will  do  more  for  you  than  any  other  engine  possibly 
could  do. 
6  Engines  In  1 
It  is  only  one  engine,  yet  it  takes  the  place  of  six  en¬ 
gines.  It  will  give  from  1  %  to  0  II.  1*.  You  can  change 
power  instantly  while  the  engine  Is  running.  Change 
it  as  you  need  it — 1%  II.  P.  when  you  need  1%,  or  0 
II.  P.  when  you  need  G.  Or  any  power  needed  in  be¬ 
tween  these  two. 
Wonderful  Economy 
Fuel  consumption  is  always  in  proportion  to  the 
power  used,  and  is  remarkably  low  at  all  times.  It 
burns  kerosene  or  gasoline  and  will  do  the  work  at  a  | 
fuel  cost  so  low  it  will  surprise  you. 
Easy  to  Operate 
The  Edwards  Engine  is  so  light  that  two  men  can 
carry  it  easily  from  job  to  job.  Pick  it  up  and  set  it 
down  anywhere.  It  is  so  perfectly  balanced  that  it  re¬ 
quires  no  anchorage.  This  wonderful  balance  and 
smooth  running  also  make  for  long  life  and  durability. 
Easy  starting,  no  cranking. 
For  Every  Farm  Job 
The  Edwards  Engine  will  run  a  feed  cutter,  corn 
sheller,  fanning  mill,  light  plant,  saw,  washing  ma¬ 
chine,  small  silo  filler,  fodder  cutter,  pump,  milking 
machine — these  and  many  other  pieces  of  power  equip¬ 
ments  on  your  farm.  And  it  does  each  of  these  jobs 
economically  with  fuel  consumption  according  to  the 
load  pulled — not  another  engine  on  the  market  can 
duplicate  this  guaranteed  performance. 
Prices  Lower  Than  Before  War 
My  prices  today  are  lower  than  before  the  war. 
They  offer  you  real  economy  in  first  cost  as  well  as  in 
operation. 
Nature  Notes 
Snowshoe  Rabbits  and  Trees 
Someone  wishes  to  know  if  the  so- 
called  snowshoe  rabbit  will  damage  apple 
trees.  lie  could;  but  in  this,  his  natural 
home,  does  not ;  100  years  of  apple  trees 
and  snowshoe  rabbits  locally  leaves  no 
complaint  about  them.  With  over  1.000 
young  trees  in  a  good  rabbit  country,  I 
have  never  had  a  tree  touched.  He  likes 
the  woods  and  largely  stays  there.  What 
any  animal  will  do  when  placed  in  a  new 
section  no  one  knows ;  but  to  us  it  seems 
wholly  unnecessary  to  borrow  trouble 
over  the  snowshoe  rabbit.  w.  M.  H. 
Maine. 
On  page  1427  you  want  to  know  if 
snowshoe  rabbits  will  damage  fruit  trees. 
I  should  think  they  would.  •  I  lived  25 
years  in  the  mountains  of  Colorado,  in 
some  parts  where  these  “critters”  were 
plentiful.  They  are  the  color  of  a  cotton¬ 
tail  in  Summer,  and  perfectly  white  in 
Winter.  When  the  snow  is  deep  they 
browse  on  trees  altogether,  principally 
pine  and  spruce.  When  the  lower 
branches  of  these  trees  are  bent  down 
and  buried  in  the  snow  and  thus  easy 
for  the  rabbits  to  get  at,  they  have  regu¬ 
lar  trails  around  such  trees  where  they 
feed.  Their  meat  has  a  strong  pine 
flavor  in  Winter.  I  would  suppose  that 
if  they  can  make  a  meal  off  pitchy  pine 
boughs,  their  main  or  sole  diet  during 
Winter,  that  the  tender  tips  and  bark  of 
fruit  trees  would  be  pie  for  them.  I 
once  caught  six  or  seven  of  them  alive, 
and  'tried  to  cross  them  with  Belgian 
hares  I  was  raising.  Every  time  I  put 
them  together  they  fought.  One  day 
while  absent  from  home  a  stray  dog  got 
into  my  backyard  and  tore  the  wide  net¬ 
ting  off  the  hinges.  My  wife  got  out  just 
in  time  to  see  the  whole  outfit — rabbits 
and  dog — go  up  the  alley,  making  for  the 
hills.  That  was  the  end  of  my  experi¬ 
ment  trying  to  raise  a  new  breed  of  rab¬ 
bits.  C.  E. 
Douglas,  Ariz. 
Fish  Moth  or  Silver  Fish 
Can  you  tell  me  what  we  should  use 
among  books  or  the  back  of  pictures  or 
papers  to  destroy  what  may  be  called  a 
bookworm?  It  is  very  soft,  very  lively 
and  would  look  like  a  very  small  fish 
about  a  quarter  of  an  inch  long. 
New  York.  MRS.  F.  N.  E. 
The  little  creature  you  describe  is  the 
silver  fish  or  fish  moth.  It  is  found 
among  books  or  papers,  especially  among 
those  long  undisturbed,  and  in  drawers  or 
trunks  where  starched  clothes  are  stored 
away.  It  eats  starch  or  paste,  and  is 
often  quite  destructive,  eating  the  paste 
in  bookbindings,  or  injuring  the  fibers  of 
starched  clothing.  It  may  be  poisoned 
with  arsenic  in  flour  paste,  which  is  made 
rather  thin,  and  then  allowed  to  dry  on 
strips  of  pasteboard,  which  are  slipped 
into  cracks  where  the .  silver  fish  con¬ 
gregate,  or  put  between  books.  They 
may  also  be  killed  by  puffing  pyrethrum 
or  bubach  powder  into  craeks  infested 
with  the  insects.  Sometimes  these  fish 
moths  loosen  wallpaper  by  eating  away 
the  paste. 
and  if  there  are  signs  of  a  mouse  once 
in  a  great  while  we  get  out  the  little  red 
mousetrap,  and  that  does  the  trick  every 
time.  No  more  mice  for  months,  and 
there  is  no  cat  to  upset  the  bean-pot,  get 
stuck  up  with  fly  paper,  and  howl  all 
night  on  the  piazza.  Next  to  man  the 
cat  exacts  more  toll  of  bird  life  than  all 
other  animals  combined.  Restrain  the 
cat  and  protect  the  birds  for  the  good  of 
all.  WILLIAM  E.  SMITH. 
Massachusetts. 
Protecting  Wood  from  Rats 
Someone  in  Vermont  is  having  trou¬ 
ble  with  rats  in  the  barn.  In  this  section 
there  is  much  wood  preservative  used, 
some  made  from  distillation  of  pine 
stumps,  and  other  concoctions,  and  an¬ 
other  class,  creosote  and  its  derivatives, 
one  of  which  is  sold  under  name  of 
“Carbolineum.”  Crude  creosote  or  any 
of  its  refined  derivatives  will  preserve 
wood,  and  it  is  reputed  that  no  rat  nor 
mouse  will  ever  gnaw  wood  so  treated. 
I  cannot  say  that  they  positively  will 
not  gnaw  treated  wood,  but  will  say  that 
I  have  never  seen  a  piece  of  treated 
wood  gnawed,  and  feel  absolutely  sure  if 
strips  of  wood  were  nailed  over  all 
cracks  and  then  given  a  good  coat  of 
creosote  there  would  be  no  trouble  with 
rats  getting  in.  Creosote  is  very  cheap 
in  the  crude  state  and  old  scrap  lumber 
is  probably  lying  around,  so  I  believe  a 
cheap  and  effective  preventive  is  at 
hand.  I  have  creosoted  very  light  and 
flimsy  houses  for  hens  and  broods,  pack¬ 
ing  boxes  and  the  like,  and  creosoted 
them  to  prevent  vermin  like  mites,  etc.,’ 
and  have  never  had  a  rat  to  gnaw  a  hole 
in  one.  Be  careful  not  to  let  creosote 
stay  on  the  hands  or  face  as  it  may  blis¬ 
ter,  and  do  not  shut  up  the  place"  tight 
while  applying  it,  as  the  fumes  will  be 
trying  on  the  eyes.  It  is  not  easy  to 
burn,  so  there  is  no  fire  danger  connected 
with  applying  by  artificial  lamps. 
Mobile,  Ala.  m.  b.  p. 
Squirrels  in  the  House 
I  see  where  someone  wants  to  know 
how  to  get  rid  of  squirrels  in  the  house. 
We  have  had  them.  Our  attic  cannot  b« 
used,  as  it  has  just  an  opening  in  ceiling 
to  get  up,  and  roof  is  low,  but  sometimes 
it  sounds  as  if  large  animals  were  walk¬ 
ing  around  up  there.  The  squirrels  come 
down  the  walls  into  cellar  and  eat  po¬ 
tatoes  and  apples.  We  have  used  traps, 
but  do  not  seem  to  do  much  good.  We 
put  our  cat  in  cellar  at  night  and  she 
catches  them.  One  time  we  found  seven 
dead  squirrels  in  a  heap  that  she  had 
caught.  They  seem  to  come  from  the 
trees  onto  the  house.  If  one  can  find 
place  they  come  into  the  house  it  could 
be  closed.  Ours  was  right  up  at  the  cor¬ 
ner  of  roof,  where  the  trimming  looks 
like  a  box,  right  under  the  edge  of  the 
eaves.  One  does  not  see  the  opening 
from  the  ground.  Poison  does  not  seem 
to  do  much,  good,  but  we  are  very  seldom 
bothered  with  them  now.  IVhen  we  hear 
them  we  put  the  cat  in  the  cellar. 
Elwood,  N.  J.  MRS.  m.  c.  B. 
PERFECT  BALANCE 
"Several  of  us  were  discussing  the  bal¬ 
ance  of  the  engine  the  other  day  and  we 
picked  up  the  Edwards  Engine,  while  it  was 
running  and  placed  it  across  a  trestle.  It 
was  not  fastened  or  supported  in  any  way, 
merely  placed  on  the  trestle  which  was  only 
3  inches  wide.  We  had  it  running  in  this 
manner  for  about  twenty  minutes  and 
changed  the  speed  through  the  entire  range 
— a  truly  wonderful  demonstration  of  bal¬ 
ance."— HARRY  TEACH,  Chief  Inspector, 
The  Edwards  Motor  Co. 
Guaranteed 
For 
Life 
& 
-UJCUJZ, 
You  can  prove  all  my  claims  to  your  own  satisfaction. 
I  am  willing  to  send  you  an  Edwards  Engine  for  absolutely 
free  trial.  I  don’t  want  you  to  send  me  one  penny  or  to 
obligate  yourself  in  any  way.  I  just  want  you  to  take  the 
engine  and  try  it — use  it  for  all  your  farm  work,  put  it 
on  every  job  you  can  think  of.  After  that,  if  you're  not 
satisfied,  you  can  return  the  engine  to  me  without  the  pay¬ 
ment  of  a  single  cent. 
Free  Book  . 
Without  any  obligation  to  you,  I  will  send  you  a  free 
booklet  describing  the  Edwards  Engine  iu 
detail,  giving  proof  of  every  claim  I  make  and 
telling  you  all  about  my  Free  Trial  Offer 
Just  fill  in  and  mail  the  coupon. 
A.  Y.  EDWARDS 
The  Edwards 
Motor  Co. 
112  Main  Street, 
Springfield,  Ohio 
Edwards 
_  FARM 
Engine 
The  Edwards  Motor  Co., 
112  Main  St.,  Springfield,  Ohio 
Gentlemen: 
Please  send  me  your  free  book¬ 
lets  and.  details  of  your  free  trial  of¬ 
fer.  This  does  not  obligate  me  in 
any  way. 
Name 
A  (ldress 
Cats  and  Bird  Life 
I  was  much  interested  in  the  article 
by  Mrs.  A.  D.  J.  on  page  1378  entitled 
“Cats  as  Rat-catchers,”  because  of  the 
slighting  remarks  in  regard  to  the  destruc¬ 
tion  of  bird  life,  when  she  says  “a  robin 
or  sparrow  now  and  then  for  the  cat  is 
no  great  crime  as  these  birds  are  nuis¬ 
ances  anyway.”  I  wonder  if  Mrs.  A.  D. 
J.  has  any  knowledge  of  the  great  value 
of  the  song  sparrow  and  chipping  spar¬ 
row,  and  that  a  large  per  cent  of  their 
food  consists  of  the  most  injurious  in¬ 
sects  which  infest  our  gardens,  and  they 
make  their  home  in  our  gardens  almost 
entirely  during  seven  mont’  in  the  year? 
Does  she  know  the  State  (Massachus¬ 
etts)  ornithologist  counts  the  robin  as 
one  of  the  most  valuable  bird  -  we  have? 
These  are  the  birds  the  cat  is  most 
likely  to  get,  and  a  good  hunter  such  as 
hunts  the  mice  she  speaks  of  will  get  on 
the  average  50  birds  a  year,  and  one  has 
been  known  to  destroy  six  broods  of 
young  and  two  old  birds  in  one  day.  Few 
cats  have  the  nerve  to  tackle  a  rat,  but 
a  few  are  good  mousers.  However,  a 
•pair  of  barn  owls  will  catch  more  rats 
and  mice  around  the  barn  than  a  dozen 
cats.  An  article  on  hawks  and  owls  in 
the  National  Geographic  Magazine  of  De¬ 
cember,  1920,  says,  “While  it  cannot  he 
denied  that  certain  species  of  hawks  and 
owls  are  destroyers  of  poultry  and  bene¬ 
ficial  birds,  let  it  be  said  here  in  paren¬ 
thesis  however  that  man’s  self-introduced 
pet,  the  cat,  kills  as  many  little  chic¬ 
kens  and  vastly  more  beneficial  and  de¬ 
sirable  birds,  than  do  all  the  birds  of  prey 
in  America  many  times  over.” 
I  have  had  much  experience  with  birds 
and  animals  of  many  kinds,  cats  included. 
We  were  at  one  time  overrun  with  rats 
and  mice  in  the  neighborhood,  although 
nearly  everyone  had  cats.  We  now  have 
fewer  cats,  and  rats  and  mice  are  much 
reduced  in  number  by  systematic  trap¬ 
ping  and  poisoning.  We  did  away  with 
our  cat,  she  was  such  an  inveterate  thief, 
That  Spotted  Man 
On  page  1174  there  was  a  note  about  a 
piebald  or  spotted  man — who  showed 
various  colors  of  skin.  The  case  reported 
was  from  a  town  in  North  Carolina.  We 
wrote  the  postmaster  of  that  town  and 
received  the  following  reply  : 
There  is  no  doubt  about  there  being  a 
spotted  man,  as  I  have  known  him  all  his 
life.  His  name  is  Genus  Hoke,  and  he  is 
now  living  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  His  father, 
whose  name  was  Roy  Hoke,  was  very 
black  ;  his  mother,  whose  name  was  Lad 
was  a  mulatto.  This  child  was  born  with 
spots  of  white  and  black  of  different 
shapes  and  sizes,  with  about  the  same 
amount  of  eac-h  color.  The  spots  were  just 
like  any  spotted  animal.  The  white  was 
the  color  of  an  average  white  person,  and 
the  black  was  about  the  same  of  the  av¬ 
erage  negro.  Where  the  white  spots  are 
on  his  head  the  hair  is  very  white.  This 
man  seems  to  be  normal  in  every  other 
way.  He  married,  and  there  were  two 
children  born  to  them,  one  of  which  was 
spotted  like  himself ;  the  other  was  a 
solid  color  like  the  mother.  He  was  of  a 
large  family,  but  was  the  only  one  who 
was  spotted.  a.  w.  titman. 
Lowell,  N.  C.  Postmaster. 
A  Piebald  Human 
There  are  piebald  humans  (page 
1174).  There  was  one  by  the  name  of 
Hoak  in  the  village  of  Lowell  in  North 
Carolina  when  I  worked  there  in  1901 
or  1902,  and  he  lived  on  the  farm  where 
I  worked  at  that  time.  If- it  was  a  skin 
disease  he  was  born  with  it,  and  the 
white  spots  (he  was  a  black  boy)  were 
well  distributed  over  his  body.  His  father 
was  a  slave  of  Judge  Hoak.  and  of  course 
took  that  name.  He  was  at  one  time  of¬ 
fered  a  good  sum  of  money  by  a  man 
who  wished  to  exhibit  the  boy,  hut  he  re¬ 
fused.  H.  A.  s. 
New  Berlin.  N.  Y. 
