1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
23i 
PURE\yiTEl!p 
on the label and Pure 
White Lead in the keg are 
two different things. The 
question of purity in paint 
is far too important to every 
house-owner to allow any 
room for doubt. It means 
much more than the cost of 
the paint because of the 
cost of labor involved. 
Our booklet "What Paint and 
Why” tells you how to make sure 
of getting PURE White Lead in 
the Keg. Sent free from any of 
our branches. 
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Largest makers of White Lead in the world 
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Catalog FREE. Hercules 
GAIN ACRES 
clearing that stumpy piece 
land. THK liLnCLLES 
Puller pulls any stump, 
time, labor and money. 
Co., Dept. PS Centsrvilla.la. 
KEYSTONE 
Weeder and Cultivator. 
Makes sure crops, increases yield. Kills weeds, 
stirs soil, preserves moisture at plant roots. Vfy. 
feet wide, narrows to 30 ins. Famous Hallock 
flat tooth (under license). Ask for book of many 
photographed field scenes 
of weeder at work. 
KEYSTONE 
Cultivator Attachment 
for any cultivator. Runs 
on the row, where shovels 
can’t go. Weeds, cultivates, un¬ 
covers corn, levels. Makescorn 
cultivation complete. Send for elrcu- ; 
lars of Weeders, Cultivators andl 
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KEYSTONE FARM MACHINE CO.. 
1547 N. Beaver Street, York, Pa; 
Don’t Bind on Track 
Can’t jump off, don’t break fork pulley, 
trips easily— 
Louden Hay Carrier 
We make a specialty of Carriers, Steel 
Track, Switches, Pulleys, Hay Rack Fix¬ 
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Barn Door Hangar, best in the world. Send for 
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specialties. Mailed free. 
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3B Broadway, Fairfield, Iowa. 
TW Olds Portabli Enpm 
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Insending out their last specifications for" 
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War Department required them “to be 
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It requires no experience to run them, and 
Repairs Practically Cost Nothing. 
Send for catalogue of our Wizard Engine, 2 
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OLDS 
GASOLINE ENGINE 
WORKS, 
Lansing, Mich., 
. DevoA Co.. Binghamton, 
AIR SUPPLY FOR A FURNACE. 
One reply to your correspondent M. 
M. M. (page 122) would be that he can 
take air for heating either all from out¬ 
side, partly so, or all from inside, if he 
so arranges his cold air box or chute. 
As ordinarily put up the cold air box is 
provided, near the furnace, with a slide 
to cut off supply of cold air, but this often 
so reduces the supply as to stop circula¬ 
tion, and furthermore on windy and ex¬ 
tremely cold days altogether too much 
cold air will get into the house by leak¬ 
age through the cold-air box between 
the intake and slide. The accompanying 
diagram shows a plan that works well 
with me. I have dispensed with slide 
altogether. At mouth of cold-air box a 
door, D, is hinged. It can be shut tight 
as at A, half way as at B, or let all way 
down as at C, then closing the inlet from 
house. A wire or wooden peg inserted 
in hole made in one side of cold-air box 
will hold the door at half way or other 
position. In very cold or windy weather 
I keep the door at A, excluding the cold, 
and yet the heating flues are fully sup¬ 
plied with air at all times. Previous to 
adopting this plan, water pipes often 
froze; now there is no such trouble. 
Hackensack, N. J. g. w. 
After using a hot-air furnace for 12 
years, I think the best plan for M. M. M. 
(page 122) is to take the cold air from 
in the hall, near the door, which will give 
fresh air every time the door opens, and 
the expense for fuel will be much less. 
Woodstock, Vt. t. s. 
On page 122 M. M. M. asks for the 
proper place to take the cold air for a 
hot-air furnace. I would agree with your 
answer, by all means from the outside, 
but instead of having the cold-air box 
running directly to the outside, as usu¬ 
ally constructed, have a cold-air room 
constructed in the basement of suitable 
size, say 4x6 feet, into which admit the 
cold air. Then connect the cold-air flue 
to an opening in the bottom of this room, 
thus reducing to a minimum the trouble 
usually experienced when the wind is 
blowing strongly toward the outside 
opening of the cold-air flue. j. s. s. 
Williamsville, N. Y. 
How Lime and Sulphur Kills Scale. 
IF. II. L., Wintcrset, Ioica. —I am much In¬ 
terested in what I have read in The It. N.-Y. 
concerning the lime-salt-sulphur preparation 
for scale. Is it necessary to use all these 
ingredients, or does one of them furnish the 
insecticidal quality? Would not the lime and 
sulphur in the form of bisulphide kill the 
scales? Has it been tried in this way? 
Ans. —It is probable that salt has little 
or no value. It does not make the wash 
more destructive to the scale, though pos¬ 
sibly making it stick a little better. The 
lime-sulphur wash appears to work slowly 
—that is, the insects are not killed at once, 
but gradually disposed of. The theory is 
that in boilinp numerous sulphides of 
lime are formed which are put on the 
tree when we spray, while the mixture is 
fresh. A chemical change occurs after 
spraying by means of which sulphurated 
hydrogen, a poisonous gas, is formed. The 
lime forms a coating over the tree, and 
under it this sulphur gas reaches the scale 
insects and suffocates them. Without 
doubt some of the insects are killed di¬ 
rectly by the caustic or biting action of 
the .wash, but it is thought that the 
chief action of the lime and sulphur is 
slow and gradual. Therefore it is nec¬ 
essary to have the wash well spread on 
the trees and to have it remain there. See 
Prof. Britton’s article—page 162. 
JOHNSTON MOWER NO. 
The bu yer of farm implements wants the best his money can buy. He wants imple- 
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the Johnston No. 10 is the cheapest mower to buy. It tells why 
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mower points you ought to know 
a postal to get Information that 
many dollars and much disap- 
Will also send our 1905 catalog 
the Johnston farm implements 
the highest a ward at St. Louis. 
The Johnston Harvester Co. 
Box C-l Batavia, N. Y. 
and costs but 
may save you 
pointment. 
which shows 
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Johnston No. lO 
It is the best that 
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and tells you why 
its three pawls 
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Every Style Garden Tool 
needed by the home or mar- ffftr? 
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Hand Seeders and Cultivators. 
For every condition of truck provring from drill and hill seeding to 1 m 4 
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AMES PLOW COMPANY, 54 
IsilUngs Planter and Fertilizer 
for corn, beans, peas, beets, etc. One 
operation. Seed and fertilizer dropped^ 
in hills any dis¬ 
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Trip and marker t 
attachments for 
planting in rowsj 
both ways if want¬ 
ed. 
It 
Makes 
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Grows 
Hand Wheel Plows 
(Matthews' Now Universal) 
Hoe, cultivator and rake attachments. 
_ A combination indispensible on farm. 
Ask for our free late catalogue of all garden tools. The up- 
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MARKET STREET, BOSTON, MASS. _ 
MOBILE GARDEN CULTIVATORS 
Four Complete Implements from one set of parts 
"Mobile” cultivators embody a new principle—the SPRING FRAME— 
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; wheel to two 
aD ONLY 2 BOLTS AND 4 
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I You can convert in a few moments a “Mobile” 
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THE ■ i^"ii Tandem Garden 
CULTIVATOR 
A Savings Bank on Wheels 
THE Greatest Time Saving garden tool ever invented. Built for more 
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EIjYRIA - - OHIO 
CUTAWAY TOOLS FOR LARGE HAY CROPS. 
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Higganum, Conn., U. S. A. 
DON’T BUY ANY OTHER 
Until You Investigate the Merits of a Machine 
That Hus Stood the Test of Time. 
Plants com, beans, peas, etc., without cracking a grain or 
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A Never Failing Water Suoply, 
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