Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — REAL RURAL READING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REAL RURAL READING

WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DEPARTMENT. Wonderful Effect of Foreign Pqllen on Plante—Home-Made Device for Keeping Milk Cool—Advantages of ■a Low-Hung Farm Wagon. Effects of Artificial Pollination. The most Important plants showing the effects of foreign pollen are the pea, kidney bean, American corn and possibly the orange. W. N. Munson, of the Maine experiment station states that sweet corn shows the effects of foreign pollen- more frequently than other varieties, but plants in the cucumber, potato and rose families frequently show the effects of foreign pollen to a wonderful extent. The most important examples of agamic development of fruits result In the egg plant and the English forcing cucumber. The latter is usually deformed by the production of seeds

tnd the consequent enlargement of the apex, though the amount of pollen does not usually determine the extent of the deformity. The amount of fruit produced by certain varieties of strawberries appears to vary in some Instances with the amount of pollen supplied by the variety used as fertilizer. The form and size of tomatoes are directly dependent on the amount of pollen furnished, as shown in the illustration. But not alone in garden vegetables are the effects of artificial or of cross fertilization apparent. Prof. Waite, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, a few years ago clearly demonstrated that certain varieties of pears and apples were unprofitable to plant unless grafted with some fertile variety or planted among trees whose pollen was fertile. The same rule applies to many of our best strawberries, notably the Crescent, and flowers partake of the same peculiarity In nature to a remarkable degree.—Farm and Home.

An Effective Well Creamery. Over a well of cool water I erected a suitable covering to protect it from the hot sun, and the dairy operator and his appliances from inclement weather as well. A three-block fall and tackle is fastened in the roof over the center of the well. Two pieces of wood 2x6 inches are nailed one end to the well curb and the other end to the roof frame; these are set parallel fee't apart and have holes of suitable size Into which are inserted the ends of an iron pipe inches in diameter and three feet in length. To one end of the pipe is attached an old cutting box balance wheel with handle. The rope from the pulley block is secured to the iron pipe, and, turning the wheel, very easily lowers or raises the cage, Which is fastened to one of the pulleys. The cage or elevator Is constructed of wood (galvanized iron would be better), as follows: To a 4x4 timber, four feet long, are attached two circular platforms three feet in diameter; these platforms are twenty-two inches apart. On the lower one the cans containing milk and cream are placed, on the upper one crocks of butter or other articles that one desires to keep cool. The cans are made of heaviest tin inches in diameter and 20 in height. To them are secured handles five inches from the top; on these handles set the can covers, which are nine Inches in diameter at the closed end, flaring to ten inches at the other end. These covers are six Inches deep, and when in proper place on the cans there is considerable air space over and around the top of the cans, allowing the gas and odors to escape, but preventing the water from entering when all are submerged in the well. Milk is set for twentyfour hours. Each morning and even-

TOMATOES WITH MUCH AND LITTLE POLLEN.