Thursday, October 94
10
1901.
How to Make the Loose RocR WorK
for You.
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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
Mr. French Suggests a Good Way in Which These Farm Annoyances
May be Converted Into Farm Utilities.
went to using the long handle five
Messrs. Editors: The fall is a
splendid time to make repairs and
clear up things on the stock farm.
In fact, any time of the year is a first
rate time for the cleaning-up busi
ness. - "
Good Time to Get the Rocks Out.
The fall season is generally dry and
large loads of rock, etc., may be
moved without doing damage to
teams, wagons or land. I have been
around among the farmers of our ter
ritory a good deal during the past
three years and have noticed that on
the farms of Piedmont and Western
North Carolina especially, loose rocks
are very plentiful and the getting rid
of them is quite a problem. So " in
this talk we want to tell our people
of several uses to which we have put
these broken rocks whereby they are
now working for us, where formerly
we worked for them. But first let
me tell you of an easy way to pick
these loose rocks off the fields. Pick
ing up rocks by hand is very injurious
to the average man's spinal column,
you know- If you don't know, just
try it for a day and then syou will
know. So a number of years ago we
tine manure fork for handling all
small-sized rocks, and it is a great
help; try it.
Are Your Farm Roads Good?
Have you any low wet places in
your farm roads where, during the
winter and spring, the wagons will
bury themselves to the axle? We
had such a place two years ago, but
in the fall of that year we began to
haul rock on to that road, using thfc
dump-cart for the purpose. Last fall
we finished,: the strip and now have
thirty rods of road on which the rock
is from one to two feet deep, rolled
down hard and covered with a sprin
kle of gravel. We will never get lost
in the mud on that piece again, and
it is certainly a great pleasure to be
able to load the manure right over
that bad place with two tons, where
the empty wagon made a fair load
before the work was done. We were
obliged to get rid of the rocks some
way, so why not make permanent im
provements of them and have them
out of our way forever?
A. L. FRENCH.
R. F. D. 2, Byrdville, Va.
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How to Make a. Concrete
TrotigH.
Mr. French Tells How, to Make a Watering Trough That Doesn't Have to
Be Made Over A Big One That Cost Less than in Money'and Less
Than Two Hours of Time. v
Messrs. Editors: Nearly every far
mer has to have some sort of a water
trough. Some will construct them "of
plank, others will chop out a log,
while a few will take the horses to a
mud-hole and avoid all trouble. Now,
if you have never ' used a concrete
water trough, you don't know what a
great improvement it is over other
sorts. But you say at once, "That's
all right for the fancy farmer, but I
have to make my living farming."
Well, so do I. And that is exactly
why I can't be forever doing things
over and over; must have time to
work at farming.
However, a cement water trough is
not as expensive as it looks by a good
deal. That solid substantial appear
ance and everlasting quality are two
of the things the farmer can" get, with
a very small outlay' of cash when he
once knows how to do the work.
Here is how . we made ours four
years ago this fall. We bad about
half a load of good coarse creek sand
left over from another job we had
been at. The man was hauling rock
again that day so we had him to dump
a cart load near where we wanted our
trough to be. We fixed up a mortar
box three feet by four, put in this two
buckets of sand and one of best Port
land cement, then more sand and ce
ment, until there was about six bush
els of the pile. We then shoveled this
over four times so the sand and ce
ment was very thoroughly : mixed.
The next move was to make two boxes
2 4 Inches high one three feet by
seven feet, the other two feet by six
feet both inside measure. Neither
box had any bottom. The first was
set right on top of the ground where
we wished our trough to be located
and the other set inside of the first,
so there was a six-inch "space all
around between the two boxes. Now
we sprinkled about a bushel of the
cement and sand so it was wet, but
not dripping, mixing It well while
sprinkling. Spread this between the
two boxes, then pounded down all the
: rocks, into the cement that we could
and still have the concrete cover all
This made about six Inches deep of
concrete in our space.
We then got an old piece of one
half inch iron rod, about twenty feet
long, bent It the shape our trough
was to be and laid it In on top. of the
concrete already in; mixed some more
concrete, dumped it in, pounded In
more rock until the space was full to
the top of the boxes. -We went to
shucking corn then "and forgot all
about the water trough, except that
we sprinkled it once in a while when
passing that way with the 'water
bucket. "After about four days we
took out the 'inside box (made so It
would come apart easily), dumped a
couple of bushels of wet cement in
the bottom'of the enclosure, pounded
in a lot more rock, troweled oft the
entire Inside - smooth, and our trough
was done at a cost of $2.80 cash and
one hour and forty minutes' time.
We turned the water In after three
days, and it has been in ujjje evei
since. We left the outer box in place
for about two weeks so the stock
would not disturb the concrete until
it was thoroughly hard. Try one of
them. A. L. FRENCH.
R. F. D. 2, Byrdville, Va.
Alfalfa Among Peach Trees.
Messrs. Editors: I have planted
my patch of alfalfa. It is ud from
1 to 3 inches, and barring the dry
weather is doing well. It is on old
ground rich from an old garden, and
I will cover it with fine stable ma
nure later.
I am seeking to demonstrate a
theory which is that a swath 6 to 8
feet wide : between my peach rows
will not only give me a hay crop
but the excess of nitrogen drawn
from the air will prove of advantage
to the roots of the 4 and 5-year-old
peach trees, planted 18 feet aDart
It Is too big a subject to go into
in detail, but if I prove mv theorv
I will have doubled the value, of the
ground. I. C. WADE.
Habersham Co.1 Ga.
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