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LUJL.' isi-.'.i?. Lr ?*rii'..Vl 1 ?wLV No Farmer Can A"ord to Ailow His implement xo R'.:st Cut-Cover the Machinery. Of all thc people doing business, tho farmer is the most careful and eco nomical in the use of grease. It is seldom that the farmer touches grease and yet there are few kinds ol' work demanding a more frequent use of it. The farmer is a user of mure kinds of tools than any other artifice-, if he is not a mechanic it is his ow:; fault, ard his own disadvantage and loss, because he handles and operates all scrts cf tcois. machines end im plements usual to the common me chanic. The farmer, above all cher tcol handlers and tool u^ers, wcrks at a disadvantage. It matters not how careful lie tides to be in the care of his tools to keep them dry. he will find occasion to go out in the rain, snow or damp and use the saw, auger, chisel or other tcol, and if it is not carefully dried and oiled or greased it is very apt to rust from this exposure. No farm tool need rust out, used or unused. Every farm tool, imple ment and machine shculd be oiled, greased or preserved from dampness, wet and rust. They should be care fully wiped when used and then bo ready to lay aside. Grease is the best application and lasts longer than mest oils. All hand tools of the edged sert should have a dry place to be stored in, and kept in this place when not in use, and by all means carefull? cleaned, wiped and greased when put away. The machines of the farm-mowers, reapers, etc., should be put in out of the weather and oiled, greased, cleaned off, preserved from rust and decay. See how many machines and tools there are on the farm that are Intended for use next spring and sum mer that are cow under roof and not in the least liable to the damaging in fluences of rust. No farmer can af ford to rust out his farm equippage, no matter how much he is making in feeding -cattle and hogs or raising grain. WAYS OF DOCTORING TREES Fallen Leaves and Wood Ashes Fed to Rcots to Give Natural Food Another Good Plan. In one of our pastures there grew ?an immense oak tree which gave signs of dying and so manifest were they that we chose to remedy from several suggested and began treating ft. A bar of two and one-half-inch iron tipped with a sharp steel point was used in drilling holes in the soil at specified distances just under the tree. In the holes were crowded fall? .. Fine Shade Tree With a Decayed Trunk Which Has Been Filled in Order to Preserve lt. A Good Way to Save Shade Trees That Have Be come Decayed. en leaves and some wood ashes. The holes remained open and occasion ally more leaves were packed in. Be fore winter set in the tree presented a rejuvenated appearance. Seemingly all it needed was natural food. Here is another treatment. Open wounds are generally left to decay right along, but we had all these and the open cavities well cleaned and carefully filled. Some were filled with cement and over the hollows and holes where water or dampness could collect small tin caps were tacked on. An old tin gutter from the house makes a protector where the breach 'to be covered is long. Effective Insect Pest Remedy. Fall plowing is one of the most ef fective remedies known for insect .pests. It is, however, more of a pre ventive than a cure, for the insects de stroyed by this method are, for the most part, in a dormant or resting ?stage, doing little or no damage, but .getting ready for the next season's .'depredations. This remedy alone is ?not to be relied upon for the com plete eradication of any insect, but ias a supplementary method it is valu table. Clean Churn Promptly. Don't get the idea that it won't mat ter if you don't wash the churn right ?away after churning. The cleaning of -the churn should be prompt. A Silage Cutter at Work, SF (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Once a year the farmer has to fill his silo. The operation is outside of the regular routine of farm life, and unless considerable thought is given the matter beforehand, it is likely to prove unnecessarily expensive. Infor mation collected by investigators in the United States department of ag riculture will, therefore, prove useful to farmers who have not worked out for themselves the most economical system. Because the silo has been in use for some years in these states, the inves tigators selected Wisconsin and Mich- j igan for their work. Cost records on 31 farms were carefully kept, reveal- I ing a wide divergence in the cost of la- I bor per ton of filling the silo. It was found, for example, that one farmer did this for 46 cents, while another had to spend SR cents. The average cost was 64 cents. The cost of labor varies considera bly, and in order to ascertain the most satisfactory method, the investigators adopted for their comparisons a uni form rate of 15 cents an hour for men and the same rate for a team of two horses. Engine hire, including the engineer, was placed at $4.50 per day, coal at $5 per ton and gasoline at 13 cents a gallon. Ten hours were con sidered a day's work While these figures cannot of course be consid ered as absolute, they afford a conven ient basis for the individual farmer's calculation of the expense of filling his silo The various methods em ployed on the farms that were in vestigated were classified in three groups. M i The mc?t common practice vas tc have one man with three horses on a cor:' harvester cutting corn in the ?irlt?: two mon to load the wagons in the field: three or tour men with teams, depending on the distance from die fi? id to the silo, tu haul the corn ?i Where a Blower ls Used the Pipe Shculc Stand cs Nearly Perpendicu lar ab Pcssibie. to the cutter: one man to run the en gine when steam was used for power, and, occasionally, when gasoline en gines were used, one man to feed the cutter and one man in the silo to spieao and tram]) th.? silage. Each teamster pitched off his own load. This makes a crew of eight or nina men. exclusive of the man who tends the en g i no. (2) In cases where there is a short age of teams the following method is generally practiced. One man, with three horses, cuts the corn; two men load the wagons in the field; two men, or boys, with teams, haul the corn to the cutter; one man unloads the wagons; one man feeds and one man works in the silo. As soon as a load arrives at the cutter the teamster changes his team for an empty wagon and goes back to the field after anoth er load. When a wagon is unloaded it is run out of the way by hand. With this method, boys who are not strong enough to handle tho green corn, can be utilized to drive the teams. This method requires a crew of six men and two boys, exclusive of the engine tender. (3) When enough horses are avail able and help is Bcarce, the following arrangement of men and teams is a good one. One man, with three horses, runs the harvester in the field; four men with teams haul the corn to the silo: one man feeds and one spreads the corn in the Bilo. Low trucks or wagons with racks suspend ed below the -axles should be used, so that the teamsters can put on their FILL ORDINARY SILO 1 _i 'IPW-TS *v.v! ? ? -.v.r ?ir- .. .,,>y< . ....... ... .-, . -, , ?/ lowing Connection With Engine. own loads. This requires a crew of seven men, besides the engineer. Number and arrangements of men em ployed in filling silos by various metlr1 ods. 3| g Kind of Work. Operating binder . 1 Loading wagons . 2 Driving ieams . 3 of 4 Unloading wr.gons .T Feeding cutter . 1 In silo . 1 Total number of men.. 8 or 9 Number '* teams haul ing .3 or 4 2 .-Boys. T- Teamsters. The relative merits of these meth ods depend upon the conditions pre vailing on each farm. The best meth od is that in which the working force is most evenly balanced, that is, where all are working continuously. In the majority of cases in which the cost rose to an unduly high figure, a poor arrangement of the help was found to be chiefly responsible for the extra expense. It is not necessary to rush men and teams to their fullest extent in order to get ?ie work done cheaply. If all are working continuously and no one hindered by the others, econ omy will result. Two or three men aud teams waiting to unload at the cutter or to load in the field represent loss of valuable time. The factor that should control tire size of the crew is the capacity of the silage cutter. On one farm, for example, on which the cost of filling the silo was found to be SO cents a ton, 14 men were employed. The work could have been done just as well with ten, fer as much silage would have been cut in the same time ii iii? ri.- n.id been only two men in stead of tour, pitching on the field; three men instead of four hauling with teams, and one mau instead of two in the silo. Deducting the wages of the four men and one team that were not needed, would lower the cost of iillins at this place from SO to 64 couts a ton. In this case the cutter was of medium size. With the prop er arrangement of help, such a cutter may be used almost as economically as a larger one, but mo?t farmers wish to push the filling through as fast as possible and prefer therefore when ever possible to uae a large sized cut ter. T!u> five men who fil'rd their siios with the greatest economy used blow ers to elevate the silage instead of the .slat carrier. The chief objection to the blower is that it taires so much . .-.wer to run it, but as a matter of Tact, it was found that the power used on these farms would have been in most cases, quite sufficient to han ?le the largest machines; and in only one case was there too little power to run a medium-sized blower. Where a blower is used care should be taken to have the pipe stand as nearly perpendicular as possible. In one case where the cutter was set too far from the silo and the pipe at an angle of 30 degrees from the perpen dicular, a 12 horse-power engine could not handle the cutter satisfactorily when it was operated to anything like its full capacity. After the owner changed the position of the cutter, put ting it cio.se to the Bilo and thus mak ing the pipe more nearly perpendicu lar no more difficulty was experienced with clogging. Tho details of this investigation have been published as Farmers' Bul letin No. 292 under the title of "Cost of Filling Silos." As long as the de partment's supply lasts this bulletin will be sent fre? on request to the Division of Publications, United States Department of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C. Further information in re gard to the construction of silos, the feeding of Bilage to farm animals and kindred subjects is contained in Farm ers' Bulletin No. 32, "Silos and Silage," and Farmers* Bulletins Nos. 292, G56 and 578. Fresh Air Is Essential. In building poultry houses do not neglect to provide for fresh air. Be sure to avoid drafts. Fresh air and crafts do not mean the same thing. Discard Boarder Cow. Swat the boarder cow and save the high priced feed. Make the Old Suit? Look Mew We are bettor prepared than ever to do first-class work irj cleaning and press ing ol' all kinds. Make your old pant- or sui! new by let ing us clean and press them. 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