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By W. A. RADFORD . Mr. William'A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all problems pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for the .readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on the subject Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 407 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111., and only inclose two-cent stamp for reply. Modern farms have two sources of power—the tractor and horses. Tractors and the machinery and implements which they haul cost money and the Investment in this equipment on most farms is considerable. However, a great many farmers desire to sup plement their mechanical power with horses. Both have to be housed, in tlte accompanying illustration is shown a design sot a combination horse barn and machinery shed with a second or mow tloor for the storage of roughage for the horses and for other live stock on the farm. This is a most unusual farm building. However, the idea used by the ■ ?*xit‘A>isT?4‘o.c ; -> | 2 ■■■' i ■' 1 -i ' . „ 4-kxlO‘bmiTUPGißDep ~ j J -U.CeaXT’' ' I . 1 MANdeo-, ' • -A? <r « I IWINPOV4 I" 1 s I / ' j:x4‘CAr "J" ;’i \ . ; JOrtALLOW J?LXNKSrAILIkHT|TiOS|SnI \ | C • DSfllN liL Detail Os ki Horse Stall ® E&3 architect who designed this building will appeal to a great many farmers whose equipment is extensive and who also maintain a few head of b° rs eS' The details Qf the interior of the first Concrete Floor Will Not Warp or Settle Although it is subjected to more and harder usage than any other structural part of the house, the first floor usually gets a minimum of attention. As long as it holds up and the surface remains reasonably intact, it is given little or no thought by the house owner. Not that a floor should be a constant care—far from it. But. unless it is a good, sound affair it may easily become a hazard and a source of various kinds of trouble. A floor has two purposes. First, it must provide a strong, non-squeak-ing surface for walking feet and for furniture; if it is also beautiful, so much the better. Second, a good floor serves to tie the frame of a house securely together, adding strength to resist high winds and to minimize the evils of warping and settling—evils which ruin the hang of doors and windows. A third function has recently been added to the other two. The modern floor must protect the occupants and furnishings of the house from the hazards o. fire. A large proportion < f residence fires originate in basements, in the vicinity of the furnace, fuel stores, laundry stoves and heaps of “odds and ends’’ •which, almost inevitably, accumulate below stairs. A pile of old and oily Store Heat in Water; Try to Cut Fuel Cost By storing up heat in water, engineers of a Milwaukee company hope to provide away without great expense for warming homes. Their plan is to heat the water by electricity in highly Insulated tanks at night and keep the temperature at a useful height during the day by a small amount of current. The hot water would be made to circulate through the house in much the same way that it does in an ordinary furnace-heating system. The value of electricity as a heating agent is recognized, but in daytime, when current consumption is great and capacity is taxed at peak hours, sufficient electricity for heating purposes could not be delivered without the expense of erecting additional plants. It is hoped that by the water-stor-age plan, no extra generators will be needed and the equipment used at night will be available for service during the day. The idea is to be tested out in competition with an ordinary furnace.

floor of this building are shown on the plans accompanying it. There is a floor plan showing the space for implements and machines, which is’ approximately 30 feet by 34 feet. At one end is the stable floor which has been divided into a feed room, stalls for ? A s I ' > “OhA J' 1 ' . .TrVSSEDRaFTERS \\ \ Spaclo Z4"o.C„ .. \v\ \ ■—y Floor? I -2xlo ——w 1 < £ tZ. rfc , A‘7?” , iz » 63i “ a!t4t ’ cs \ 11 I sudinoF; 1 ■ * 8 I.) i I £ 9J? S ' ■*-‘?CONCREIS .Io | | x fuo< ? > ll Pw>lt *~l I 11 four horses and a harness room. A cross-sectional view of this barn will give those familiar with building, a good idea of how it is constructed and of the types and dimensions of the materials used. There also is a crosssection of one of the stalls. There is an old saying that more farm machinery rusts out than wears out. There is one good way to keep it from rusting out and that is to clean it thoroughly, grease the polished steel or iron parts, and put it away where i.t is safe from the weather when it is hot in use. That is the idea of this ’building—to provide a safe weatherproof Louse for the. machinery and also a place where it can be cleaned and cared for. rags can be the source of a fire without any outside assistance. And a fire, onee started, tends to work its way upward. If there is a definite fire-stop, a barrier beyond which fire cannot climb, the home is given an initial and vital protection from fire. Recent experience on the part of progressive home builders has shown that the principle of tne concrete floor, is used in commercial buildings such as hotels, hospitals and skyscrapers, can be applied with great success and economy to the small bouse. , Such floors perform all the functions of the perfect floor. They are structurally strong, tnereby eliminating costly warping and sagging—not to mention squeaking. The upper surface may be finished in any desired I fashion. Conventional wood flooring may be placed over them snugly and without danger of distortion. Tile or linoleum has been used repeatedly. In some cases the upper surface of the concrete itself has been stained and polished to produce a truly beautiful ! color. And the concrete is fire safe, a distinct asset from every poiht of view. But, however the modern first floor is built, it should be considerably more important than a mere surface for walking or one from which the rugs may be rolled when there’s music and somebody waiting to dance. No Season in Building Game in These Years Builders used to be like bears and groundhogs—they hibernated in the winter. But now they realize that winter construction means they can continue their work without a gap straight through the year and spread overhead expense over 12 months Instead of 8, as formerly. Especially In concrete work, which makes up a large part of construction, winter construction has proved not only practical and economical, but really desirable. Only a few simple precautions are necessary to keep the concrete from freezing while hardening, and while this adds slightly to the cost of construction, the difference is more than made up in several ways. Steel Clamps Steel clamps for builders’ use need be well made as they are subject to hard usage.

OTARD PROTECTORS WILL SAVE MUCH FRUIT Rabbits Damage Trees by Persistent Barking. How many farmers let the rabbits rob them of fruit? One farmer told me he had planted three orchards ind the rabbits had killed all of them inside two years after planted. I did i not tell him what I thought of his management, says a writer ip the Successful Farming. There is not the slightest use of letting the rabbits bark the trees. If you don’t want to i take the trouble to make protectors 1 you can buy them already made. If you don’t care to take them off and put them back again just leave them in place. The only reason why rabbits get the trees is that you don’t object to it enough to protect them. Galvanized window screen wire is an 'excellent protection, for it does not i need to be so roomy to protect, and if cloths are forced in around the top and the lower end goes below the surface an inch or two, it protects from mice and borers as well as rabbits. A pocketful of lathing nails and the wire cut to strips make putting on easy. Pin the wire around 1 the trees with the nails. One-inch poultry wire is all right if it is made into cylinders large Enough to prevent the rabbits reaching the tree through the holes. It has ;no value for mice or borers. This wire lasts longer but if the screen : orotectors are removed in midsummer ! after danger from the' borer moths is past they will last long enough. Cornstalks tied around the trees serve very well for protection but should be removed during the growing season. Some use building paper, but the labor and short life of this is against its use. Better do something, though, for the first snow that stays on a couple of days will make you wish you had. Preparation Essential to Success of Orchard Thorough preparation is essential to . ! the success of an orchard. The roots : ; nf fruit trees require a much more favorable condition of the soil than do the roots of the forest trees, espei cially the coniferous forests which ; cover large parts of this province. It is not advisable to plant on land ‘ immedately after clearing or breaking. After clearing plow to a depth of five to seven inches in the fall, and let stand in the rough during the win- i ter. This exposes more soil surface to the weather, which tends to ameliorate the condition of the heavier soils. There is also less run-off of the winter precipitation, the land being in a better condition to absorb it. In the spring work the land into a good seed bed with a disk or spring tooth, followed by some sort of i smoothing harrow. Strains of Delicious Apples Are About Alike There Is no great difference in the i quality of the several strains of Delicious apple, and the striped variety ts perhaps just as good for eating as the red variety, so if you are planting on a small scale for homo use you can plant either variety with perfect confidence that you will raise apples of wonderful flavor and good keeping quality. Golden Delicious is also a wonderful apple, fully as fine in quality and flavor as the red and striped strains, and also a good keeper. The trees are very vigorous, and make rapid growth in a few years. It is not at all uncom- j mon for them to bear apples the third ; or fourth year after being set out, or even sooner if given good care and I carefully pruned and sprayed. Reduction in Acreage Will Improve ProfiU I One of the programs that will im- j prove profits on many fruit farms Is a reduction in acreage of fruit. New conditions are facing Illinois growers under which better care will be absolutely necessary for success, says the Illinois Farmer. , j Those growers whose acreage is modest in most cases need more equipment. The businesses in other lines ] that are successful are those with ample and up-to-date equipment. It is n"> unusual matter for a business to junk a machine that is far from worn out simply because a new model will give greater economy of operation. It is along these lines that fruit ■ growers must go. Pruning of Grapes Grape pruning should be done late in the fall or early in the spring before the sap flows. The graces are borne on new shoots each year. For the leaf lice, oil soap emulsion or a nicotine spray will be good materials to check them. The oil soap emulsion can be made at home. Dissolve onehalf bar of laundry soap in two quarts of water and add to it while hot three quarts of kerosene, stirring until the kerosene and soap water are a creamy mass. r ; Mulch Is Needed Strawberries on sandy, well-drained soil will usually go through the winter pretty well without being mulched. They’re much safer, however, under a ! winter blanket of straw or manure. On heavy soils the plants should always be mulched. Even in the South, ■ where winters are mild, a covering of straw or manure pays well. It saves moisture and helps to keep down weeds, except when ycu mulch with manure—that is likely to make more words.

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DAIRY. \ DAIRYING MUST BE 7 SPEEDED UP MORE Scientists Facing Several Serious Economic Problems. (By K. L. HATCH, Agricultural Extension Service, University of Wisconsin 1 Dairying is a business, a big and a serious business, both for the producer and the manufacturer. The dairy farmer is just awakening to the fact that he is a business man employing both capital and labor or no mean scale. Dairy manufacturers are realizing as never before, that their problem is one of producing an article that will please the trade and stimulate, through quality, its owe demand. These are the big and vita; that the dairy scientists must face-t-are now facing. They are economic problems and must be facet with facts not now obtainable. Everywhere in experiment station literature do we find feed costs of milk production, but rarely do we find la- , bor costs, or dry cow costs, or depre- ! elated herd costs, or bull costs, or cap- j ital charges, such as interest, taxes I insurance and depreciation which 1 , submit as the principal costs of milk production on the up-to-date dairj farm. On the manufacturing side we are equally weak. We continue to use small, insanitary and wholly inefficient plants. Neither have we studied the demands of the consumer who makes our market nor have we mad 6 much effort to produce what will especiallj appeal to his tastes. And yet every other business of national scope, be it ever so small, has done all these things, and for the most part borne its own costs. A great dairy industry with nationally en dowed research laboratories should de these same do them sot the sake of the industry. ■ Potato Flavor in Cream Not Caused by Feeding 1 The common assumption is that po ! tato flavor in cream is caused by feed ing the cows potatoes. This antiquat ed idea has been placed in the discarc through experiments conducted bj North Dakota Agricultural college The trials with feeding potatoes t< \ cows indicate that potato flavor in thf cream is not caused by feeding thf potatoes, but by exposing cream to ail heavy with potato odor. Potatoes were fed in varying amounts and immediately before milking time The cream or milk that was stores ! in a cellar where the air was heavy i and potato odor prevailed took on ? marked potato flavor in a few hours Once the cream acquired the-potatc flavor it could not be removed. No or. : dinary treatment, such as pasteurization. will remove potato flavor froir the butterfat. Satisfactory Ration of Roughage and Legume Hay Heifers should have all the gone • roughage they will eat. Silage anc i any one of the legume hays make s very satisfactory combination. In ad dltion to this they should have some grain, the kind and amount depend ing somewhat on the kind and qual ity of roughage supplied. If the qual ity of the legume hay is good, twe to four pounds per head daily o1 a simple mixture, such as equal parts of ground corn, ground oats, and ground barley, is satisfactory. If the hdy is not so good add one-half part i each of bran anil linseed or cottonI seed meal. For heifers within throe months of calving the grain should , be increased to from four to six pounds pey head daily depending or 1 condition. —, Dairy Hints Barley is a good feed for finishing calves. In fact it equals corn foi gains. Any cream separator that leaves over four-one-hundredths of one per cent of butterfat in the skimmilk is stealing money from the farmer who owns it. Grass seems to have a stimulating effect on dairy cattle, and ft is a matter of common knowledge that cows turned on good pasture increase in production. • « • Pasture grass is the natural feed sot the cow, and it doubtless is the best feed which the cow receives during the year, but too many dairymen expect too much of pasture grass. * * • Any farmer sufficiently interested in dairying to keep 10 milk cows will find a silo profitable. « ♦ * Do not forget to provide salt for dry cows and heifers on pasture. There should also be a good water supply and extra feed when pasture gets short. * * * Grain rations adapted to pasture are relatively low in cost, because they need to carry only a small amount of protein, grass being quite high in this j important nutrient. * « • Calves should never be over-fed. The general tendency is to fted calves too much. • • • In modern dairy farming, calves are ! not allowed to suck the cow for more than two or three days. • « • It takes a large amount of nutrients to make a large flow of milk, and the j cow’s digestive organs are not of suffl- ( cient capacity to handle the grass neces- . sary to furnish all the nutrients for I body maintenance and heavy milk pro- [ duction.

pwiiy GIVE PLENTY OF ROOSTING PLACE Pullets Need Room and Fresh Air to Develop Properly. Give the pullets plenty of roosting space and encourage them to roost early, says L. M. Hurd of tha New York State College of Agriculture. Roosting helps to prevent crowding and allows the individual chicken more freedom of action and better air. Uncrowded pullets make better growth. Clean and disinfect the houses and supply them frequently with fresh litter. Shavings, oat straw, or sand make the best covering for the floor during the summer. When more than one house is in use take care that too many pullets do not form the habit of roosting in one building. The buildings should be at least 100 feet apart I to help keep the birds evenly distributed. It is not advisable to try to house more than 125 growing pullets I in one colony house. Provide good ventilation on hot j nights. In addition 'to the regular ven- ! tilators take out the glass sash in the front of the house. To prevent possible infestation from red mites paint the perches and side wplls close by with carbolineum. or spray the colony houses several times during the summer with a mixture of equal parts of crude carbolic acid and kerosene. When there are many hatches and several weeks difference in their ages, provide each hatch with a separate range, or place the houses farther apart than for groups of the same age. Otherwise older pullets will annoy the young and prevent normal growth. Fireless Cooker Good > Idea for Egg Layers Hens need warm water. It's cheaper for you to warm it on the fire than to make the hen warm it with expensive feed. You can save lots of trouble by insulating the water pail. You can make a sort of tireless cooker by placing the drinking vessel in a box large enough to stuff two or three inches of straw, excelsior, or torn newspapers, packed tightly below and all around the vessel. Keep the material dry by covering it with tin. fitted closely under the top rim of the pail, and sloped slightly to the outside of the box so the spilt water will run off. The water keeps warm several hours. Profits Increased by Culling Flock Closely Whether the poultry producer keeps pure breds or grades, he will increase his profits very materially by culling his flock closely every year. Though the trap nest is the most accurate means of selecting the best layers in the flock, its use is only practicable for those who make poultry breeding a specialty. The trap nest usually has no place on the general farm. On the average. the pullet laying year is more profitable than any other. Yearlings and two-year-olds are likely to be kept at an actual loss unless they are carefully culled. ********-K--SC-*********-X-****-X*-Poultry Facts -if************************* The average fenced farm geese are the most profitable of all. « « • A dust bath aids materially in the elimination of body lice and should be installed. * *. • Pure-breds usually lay eggs that are more uniform in size, shape-and color, and are more productive than mixed flocks. • * • Hens should stand a lot of dry still cold, but not drafts. There should •be no opening in opposite walls, not even cracks, to draw a shivery current of air through the house. * * ' * Overcrowding in the poultry house discourages production of high priced eggs. • • * Feed hens balanced rations. Watch flock for sick birds and remove them on discovery. Keep house dry, warm and well ventilated. The first rule in feeding the poultry flock in the winter is to be sure to feed plenty. Hens cannot lay in cold weather unless they have enough feed to keep them fat and thus have a surplus for making eggs. • * ♦ Squash and pumpkin make a good succulent feed for poultry, helping to keep the bowels In good condition. * • • Increase the size of your poultry house to keep pace with the size of your flock. Poultry is not city bred and does not like crowded conditions. Moist mash often helps to get more feed into the crops—a warm, slightly moistened mash fed at noon during cold weather. Liquid skim milk or buttermilk is especially valuable for moistening the mash. • • * One way to provide sunlight is to let the sun shine through the front openings of poultry houses. « • « Culling out the “boarder” hen .reduces,the feed bill and also brings tn extra money through sale of the nonproducers. * • • Os the farm feeds corn is the most 1 widely used and probably the most [ valuable feed. Hens iike it and find . it very digestible. It Is an “energy” I feed, but its protein is not of a high. [ quality. i

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Children will fret, often for no apparent reason. But there’s always one sure way to comfort a restless, fretful child. Castoria! Harmless as the recipe on the wrapper; mild and bland as it tastes. But its gentle action soothes a youngster more surely than some powerful medicine that is meant for the stronger systems of adults. That’s the beauty of this special children’s remedy I It may be given the tiniest infant—as often as there is any need. In cases of colic, diarrhea, or similar disturbance, it is invaluable. But it has everyday uses all mothers should

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Doctor Gives Hint i to Lucky Salesman IT’S a wise man that knows when he is slipping. Mr. R.F. Myers of 711 Rosedale Street, Baltimore, had the good for- I tune to get his tip straight from one of his doctor customers (he was selling for a phar- I maceutical house) and since i that Jucky visit he has increas- ’ ed his business 50 per cent For two years he had been driving from town to town, and naturally this threw his elimination out of shape. He felt himself slipping. Cathartics only made him worse. Then one day he was calling on a wise old physician, and asked his advice. “What you need, my boy,” said the doctor, “is a simple, easy, normal way to clean the poisons out of your system—we all have them—and with your kind of work they certainly cut down efficiency. Why don’t you try Nujol?” “Well, believe it or not,” says Mr. Myers, “in a few days I felt like a new man. ‘What’s got into you?’ lowa Motto “Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Maintain.” is the state motto of lowa. Monsters The real monsters abroad today, as always, are prejudice and intolerance. —Woman’s Home Companion.

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U*e the End of the Holder The first post office in this country was opened in 1G35. It Is said that the pens in use didn’t write even then. —London Opinion.

''M J asked the home office, ‘your business has increased 50 per cent!’ ” That’s the great thing Nujol. As soon as it begins to cleltn the poisons out of your system it makes you feel so well that you can almost always do a much better job. Nujol is not a medicine and contains no drugs. It is perfectly harmless, forms no habit. It is simply bodily lubrication, which everybody needs. You, like everybody else! Why put off good health any longer? Go into any good drug store and get a bottle of Nujol in a sealed package. Costs so little and means so much! Maybe you can increase your efficiency 50 per cent too Still With u* “What has become of the end seat hog?” “He drives in the middle of the road.”—Louisville Courier Journal. His Modest Conclusion The great trouble with the people who don’t like us is that they have such poor taste. —Los Angeles Times.