Farm & Garden.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3613, 21 December 1905, Page 4

Farm & Garden.

WINDMILL GRINDER.

How to Armsse end Pat Up One That Will Saw Wood and Grind Corn for Feeding. One of the best plans is to .secure, in the first place, a good windmill, and second, a good thoroughly-automatic feed grinder, which will regulate the amount of feed strictly in proportion to the speed at which the mill is being driven, and w’ Vh will stop empty whenever the mil: :viops. Willi such a feed grinder as arranged preferably directly upon (he driving shaft of the geared mill, a large amount of feed may be ground wherever there is any considerable amount of steady wind above a velocity of 12,t0 15 miles per

A WINDMILL GRINDER, hour. In order to get the maximum amount of work out of the mill in the way of feed grinding, it is necessary to provide a large bin a bovejhe gi ciriftonjeground can be placed, and then have lhi» arranged in such a way that the grain feeds directly into I’ e 11: i 1 1 whenever the mill isrunning. V\ ;ththisarrangrmentmust also of coiii.-e be- jnuvided a bin into which the ground meal can fall out of the way of the grinder. Such an arrangement is slid-.. •! by the cut, taken from the Wisconsin agricultural experiment station bulletin No. 82. The grinder there shown is arranged directly on the driving- shaft of a 12-foot geared windmill, and upon the same shaft is shown a driving pulley, to which a belt may be attached for the purpose of sawing -wood or driving any other piece of machinery which .the mill has the capacity of handling. This driving pulley*can be used to drive a machine set anywhere on the circumference of a circle surrounding the shaft and without disturbing the feed grinder; it only being necessary to throw the grinder out of use when the driving shaft is desired for some other purpose.—F. H. King, in Rural New

BOGUS FOOD PRODUCTS.

Vhmr Caa Live Only So Least m* Theif Real Character I* Hidden by Lylaer Labele.

After all, something is to be hoped for from national and state laws. While it is true that many laws on our statute books are. dead as to enforcement, or only partially enforced, yet it is also true that some of the laws that we supposed would be of little effect have been enforced to the letter and have accomplished all that could be desired. We will instance the national law against “filled cheese.” It was not many years ago that one could hardly buy a piece of cheese and be sure it waswhiatit claimed to be. Filled cheese has demoralized the home market and destroyed most of the foreign demand for cheese made in the United States'. The filled cheese law was passed, and the result has been the almost complete obliteration, of the industry of making filled cheese. It can still be mad© and sold, but It cannot be sold for anything besides what it is. What is the result? It is found that no American wants to buy the stuff, and so none is sold in this country. Two factories in Illinois still make filled cheese and sell it to English firms. But even there the demand is growing less. English merchants last year imported 636,944 pounds, made in the United States and Holland. It is made in no other country. The amount used in England last year was not half of the amount used two years before. Recently there have been some prosecution© in the English court on account of tradesmen having sold filled cheese for the pure article. It is probably true that, all of thi© cheese now leaving the United States is going out fully branded under its o wn name, but it is altogether probable that the consumer on the. other side of the water buys it for full cream cheese. Its decadence proves that it and all things like it can live only so long as their real character is hidden by a mask. We need therefore only tear off the mask to destroy most of the imitation food products.—Farmers’ Review. Wu Popular Year* Abo, The great reputation now being given the cow pea is not new. Many years ago the praises of the cow pea were heard everywhere, and the cow pea is also one of the oldest and best known plants in this country. The fact is that the cow pea will not make much headway where clover is a leading crop. It will prove serviceable where clover is not easily grown, but as it is expensive to save the seed of the cow pea, much difficulty is in its way. It is a valuable plant, however, and should be grown on every farm.