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Insulating A Storage Cellar 
I am building a cabbage home which is 40 feet wide, 
50 feet long and 15 feet high, with space over the ceiling 
to store baskets. Stone walls are 8 feet high and 2 J 
inches thick. The studs are 2 x 4’s with matched boards 
on the outside. This building was formerly an eva¬ 
porator with two floors and basement. - I would like to 
know if I sheathe the outside with heavy paper and clap¬ 
boards and add 2x8 studs inside the 2 x 4’s, makng 
12 inch studs, and also sheathe the inside as I do on the 
outside, and fill the space between with sawdust, as 
well as a sawdust-filled double ceiling, would this keep 
out the frost?— P. M., New York. 
T HERE is every reason for us to be¬ 
lieve that the alterations as you are 
planning them, will give satisfaction 
except in the case of very low tempera¬ 
tures. Under those conditions it may be 
necessary tc put an oilstove in the 
cellar to keep the temperature above the 
danger point. One place that should be 
especially protected is where the roof 
joins the walls. If there are, as there 
usually are, any open places, they should 
be packed solid so that frost cannot 
enter. Considerable cold is likely to 
enter at the doors and it would therefore 
be advisable to put on double doors or to 
build a vestibule. There is one other 
factor that you should not overlook and 
that is the ventilating system, which is 
very important. We would advise that 
you write to the New York State College 
of Agriculture at Ithaca and ask for their 
latest bulletin on underground storage 
houses. 
A Feeding Problem 
I have a dairy problem that I wish you would help me 
solve. I have oats, rye, corn fodder and mixed clover 
and timothy hay. I can spare very little corn as I have 
a lot of chickens to feed it to. I am grinding oats and 
rye and to this mixture I am adding a little oil mea[. 
What preparations would you suggest for best results. 
Would you mix gluten or cotton seed meal in it also?— 
J. R., Pennsylvania. 
A BOUT the cheapest feed that you 
can put together this year to give 
you satisfactory results, would be as 
follows: Grind the oats and rye in the 
proportion in which you have them and 
add to the mixture all of the corn that 
you can spare. Then make the following 
mixture for your dairy cows: 300 pounds 
ground oats and rye, 100 pounds wheat 
bran, 300 pounds oil meal, 300 pounds 
gluten feed. Inasmuch as you have corn 
fodder in stead of silage, it is much more 
desirable to use oil meal than cotton seed 
meal. 
Horse Has Nasal Discharge 
I have an eleven-year-old horse that had distemper a 
year ago. Since that time he has done poorly. He has a 
discharge at the nose occasionally and this spring his 
appetite is very poor. He is losing flesh although I feed 
him well. At times he won’t touch his oats. I have seen 
so much good advice in the American Agriculturist I 
thought I would write and see if you could tell me what 
to do.—R. E. B., Bradford County, Pa. 
T O OVERCOME the discharge that 
you speak of it would be well to 
steam the animal’s head. Place a hot 
brick in a pail and pour over it one ounce 
of tincture of Benzoin which has been 
diluted with six ounces of vinegar. The 
animal will inhale the fumes which will 
pass through the nasal and bronchial 
passages and have a healing effect. No 
doubt a tonic will also be beneficial. The 
following may be compounded at your 
local druggist and administered at the 
rate of one teaspoonful in the feed three 
times a day. Ferri sulphate, pwd. 1 oz.; 
nux vomica, 3 oz.; gentian 2 lbs. 
A Remedy for Worms and Bots 
HAVE been reading with much in¬ 
terest about horses in the American 
Agriculturist. I am a man sixty-five 
years old and have had the care of 
horses all my life, so I would like to have 
you put in your paper one of the best 
recipes for worms and bots there is on 
earth. It is as follows: one quart wood 
ashes, one quart salt, one quart ground 
flax seed, one pound sulphur, one pound 
ginger, half pound salt-peter. Mix all 
together and feed a small handful in 
grain for four or five weeks. 
For worms or bots feed the wood ashes 
and salt mixed half and half. A good 
handful at night in grain. I am a great 
lover of horses and like to see them 
looking well. My horses are never sick 
and always ready for their feed and work. 
More than five years ago I was called 
in to see a sick mare. The man that had 
her said that she had sick spells very 
often. He said he would sell her very 
cheap. He said: “Maxim, you are a 
neighbor and I don’t want to cheat you.” 
I said, “Never mind, what will you 
take?” And he’named his price. I 
bought her and led her home. 
The first thing I gave her was a bran 
mash and all the wood ashes I could hold 
in my two hands. The next day I got 
two large worms—one measured 9 inches 
and the other 3, and lots of small ones. 
I kept her in the barn for four weeks and 
fed her the salt and ashes and the rest 
of the recipe. She hasn’t had a sick day 
since and is fat and sleek and always 
ready for her grain.—F. E. Maxim, 
Watertown, N. Y. 
Remedy for Calf’s Cold 
Please inform me what to give a young pure bred calf 
three or four weeks old that caught a cold being out in a 
tornado and storm two weeks ago. He has a cough 
sometimes, but never had it before the storm as he is 
from strictly tested parent from T. B. That is why we 
want to get this cold cleared up. We gave him a dose or 
two of epsom salts. This calf eats grass, has the clear 
cow’s milk still and feels good. Runs and plays, but 
occasionally coughs. 
C OUGHS are only symptoms of some 
disease. It may he caused from a 
sore throat, or some lung trouble. We 
would suggest that you apply a stimulat¬ 
ing liniment to the throat. Also have the 
following compounded: FI, extract of 
Belladona 1 ounce, Syrup Hypophosphitis 
with Quinine 8 ounces. Sig. One 
tablespoonful three or four times daily. 
Too Little Air Pressure In 
Pneumatic Water System 
I have installed a pneumatic water system equipped 
with a hand pump. It takes a lot of pumping to supply 
the kitchen, bathroom and range. Can I hook up a 
small engine, U 2 or 2 h.p., to the pump. What would be 
the best way to do it, to put up a shaft with a large puley 
attaching a pitman to it and the pump handle, or shall 
I get a pump jack, or shall I discard the jack and get a 
power pump? I have just installed this system, got it 
second hand. I would like to keep this pump if possible, 
as it is a good one. I have an engine at the barn, \% h.p. 
that pumps the water there, using a jack on the pump. 
Would this engine be big enough to run the house out¬ 
fit, which takes too much work when we get pressure up 
over 25 pounds and the water in the gauge registers the 
tank as two-thirds full. Several times I have pumped the 
tank two-thirds full and had the pressure up to 40 pounds 
and in 24 hours it would be practically empty. I can find 
no leaks but it hardly seems possible that we could use 
that much water in such a short time.—F. M. H., New 
York 
I T would be more advisable to purchase 
a pump-jack, being preferable to a 
pulley and pitman. Your pump should 
prove satisfactory when operated with 
an engine. The only objection to it 
that we can see is that it will take longer 
to fill your tank than if you had a pump 
of larger capacity. 
Altnbugh there is no question but what 
the engine you have will be able to handle 
the job very nicely, nevertheless we can¬ 
not state definitely, not knowing the size 
of the pump. 
Has your pump an air valve on it so 
that it will pump water and air? If so, 
we would suggest that you pump air with 
the water so that when your glass shows 
the tank is two-thirds full, the pressure 
will read 60 pounds. If it has not an air 
valve, drain the tank and while it is 
empty pump in air with a hand pump 
until the pressure reads fifteen pounds. 
Undoubtedly the reason you have to 
pump so often is because you do not have 
enough air in your tank. Therefore your 
tank delivers but a portion of its water 
before it is necessary to pump in more 
water. 
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