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February It, 
Handy Book on House Painting 
ALTHOUGH it is desirable always to have important jobs 
of painting done by an experienced painter, there are 
some plain facts about painting that you should know 
for yourself. Let us send you a book filled with useful in¬ 
formation. It tells how much paint is required for a given 
surface, how many coats to apply, how to mix paint, how to 
produce any color effect, etc. It shows just why 
Dutch Boy Painter 
Pure White Lead 
and pure linseed oil make the most durable paint for use anywhere; 
and not only the most durable, but the most economical as well. 
White lead paint will not crack, blotch or blister. It holds to the 
wood like a nail, is worn away only by slow degrees and can be tinted 
any color desired. 
Send a Postal for the Book 
Ask for Farm Painting Helps No. 471. \ 
If there are children in your home or your neigh- f \ 
bor’s home, ask also for the Dutch Boy Painter’s / 
Book for the Children. ( -WSp 'iftV-- 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY IfjPpTO 
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hundreds of the season’s choicest fabrics, 
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In any and every case we guarantee your entire 
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qualities. It for any reason you are not satis¬ 
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least investigate before you buy your spring or 
summer suit. You owe that much to your 
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1. Paints. 
5. Roofing. 
6. Vehicles, _ 
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9. Wall Paper. 
1 0. Typewriters. 
1 1. Grocery List. 
14. Wire Fencing. 
1 6. Building Plans. 
1 7. Baby Carriages. 
19. Sewing Machines. 
2 0. Gasoline Engines. 
21. Cream Separators. 
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25- Automobile Sup¬ 
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26. Bicycles, Motor¬ 
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27. Baby’s Dress and 
Toilet 
29. Circular and Drag 
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30. Women’s Spring 
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33. Men’s Spring 
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You Know 
What You Are Getting 
When You Buy 
ED LAND Lime 
as it is sold under a Guaran¬ 
teed analysis. Every bag has 
attached to it a tag stating 
this guaranteed analysis. Any¬ 
one planning the use of lime 
this year will find it to their 
advantage to secure a copy of 
our free illustrated booklet. 
Write today 
to our nearest office. 
Rockland & Rockport Lime Co. 
Rockland, Me. 
Basten, 45 Milk St.; New Y«rk, Fifth Ave. Bldg. 
LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Cattle or Horse hide. Calf, Dog, Deer, 
or any kind of skin with hair or fur on. 
We make them soft, light, odorless, 
wind, moth and water proof, and make 
them into coats (for men or women), 
robes, rugs or gloves when so ordered. 
Your fur goods will cost you less than 
to buy them, and be worth more. It 
will certainly pay you to look into it. 
Our illustrated catalog gives a lot of 
information. Tells how to take off and 
care for hides; how we pay the freight 
both ways ; about our marvelous brush 
dyeing process which is a tremendous 
advantage to the customer, especially 
on horse hides and calf skins; about 
the goods we sell, taxidermy, etc., but 
we never send out this valuable book 
except upon request. If you want a 
copy send in your correct address. 
Tbe Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 Lyell Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 
HOW TO BUY TREES. 
From one year’s end to another you 
devote a lot of space telling fruit grow¬ 
ers to “get their trees from honest deal¬ 
ers,’ “avoid the fakers,” etc. Of course, 
you do not for one moment believe that 
growers wilfully select dishonest dealers 
to get their stock from, though they may 
be won over their low prices. If, there¬ 
fore, you have discovered some rule or 
recipe by which the true-to-name may 
be identified infallibly give it to us 
please, or do you prefer to pose as the 
only wise one in the business? Is “Hope 
Farm" never taken in ? fruit grower. 
R. N.-Y.—Usually we pay no atten¬ 
tion to questions which are not signed. 
If this man will send his address we 
can tell him where to get good trees 
with reasonable surety that they will be 
true. Nurserymen are like all the rest 
of us—fallible—and we have known the 
best of them to make mistakes. Some 
of them, however, have a better system 
of packing and checking than others, and 
are not so likely to send misfits. The 
Hope Farm man has been “taken in” a 
few times, but the great majority of his 
trees have come true. He has had most 
trouble in buying from dealers. In a 
few instances cases of plants came with 
two different addresses scraped off. This 
showed that the goods passed through 
three hands with no effort to open or 
inspect. They were the poorest kind of 
trash—and did not cost much. The 
surest thing has been made when we 
went to the nursery and selected certain 
trees ourselves and paid a good price 
for them. When a man has a fair-sized 
order it will pay him to do this. We 
certainly have no sure way and as for 
being the “only wise one” we decline the 
nomination. You simply invite disaster 
when you deal with wandering agents 
who tell big stories and claim their stock 
is superior to all others. There are some 
reliable agents in the trade, but they 
must be paid, and you generally pay 
them wages in the price of the trees. 
We go to the mail order nurseries 
which have been in business for years 
and tell them what we want. A good 
judge of human nature can tell from 
their prices and their actions whether 
they are reasonable and fair. We can 
safely state that no snide or fake can 
continue to offer trees through The R. 
N.-Y. year after year. You will make a 
mistake if you try to beat these men 
of good reputation down. Be prepared 
to pay fair prices and if possible, go 
yourself and pick the trees out. At this 
stage of the business no one can be 
dead sure of getting all trees true to 
name, though several smaller nursery¬ 
men are preparing to give a guarantee. 
Phosphate and Potash on Clover. 
I have a 15-acre lot lying on top of hill, 
inclined to be dry in certain portions ; soil 
varies from cut gravel and loam on knolls to 
stone and more loam and then, to loam 
nearly free from stone ; lot nearly level and 
nice to work. It was sown to oats last 
Spring and seeded to eight quarts clover 
and four quarts Timothy, no fertilizer being 
used. Oats were light crop; seeding of 
clover and Timothy nice stand. I wish to 
prepare this field for potatoes in 1913; 
cannot manure it, and can spare the hay 
crop. The soil needs feeding, and I am 
thinking of sowing broadcast with drill 
teeth off either 200 pounds fertilizer, about 
10 phosphoric acid and eight potash, or 
same fertilizer with 100 pounds land plas¬ 
ter added. I can get the 10-S for $18.50 per 
ton, plaster about $6; can get ground lime 
for $5 per ton. What would you advise 
as to fertilizing this meadow in one of these 
ways and which, then cutting down hav 
about July 1 to 10, and leaving that with 
the aftergrowth? Could I reasonably ex- - 
pect enough increase in hay to warrant the 
use of the fertilizer? I have often cut 
back good crops of hay for potatoes and 
think it pays well when I cannot manure. 
New York. m. m. s. 
We think it will pay to use the fertilizer 
on the clover. We should expect more hay 
as a result, and more clover to plow under 
for the potatoes. We would not use the 
lime now. Lime on top of ground seldom 
gives best results, and it might show next 
year in potato scab. 
WOOD ASH 
SUBSTITUTE 
Contains all the valuable elements of natural wood 
ashes (lime, potash, phosphoric acid), with less 
objectionable features. Used with stable manure, 
it makes the ideal fertilizer for orchards. 
CALEDONIA CHEMICAL CO., Caledonia, N. Y. 
Power at Low Cost 
Kerosene as Fuel 
H ERE is Power for you that can ahvavs he 
relied upon. The Colton Modern Kerosene 
Engine is the most economical, simplest and 
most reliable Farm Power Plant yet invented. Its 
many new improved patented features are most 
valuable and are not found on any other engine. 
Power is constant, speed regulated without stopping 
engine—adjusts itself instantly to any overload—nq 
cranking to start it. 
Let this wonderful engine demonstrate its unusual 
value to you. Connect it «to your water svstein. 
lighting system, pumps or any other machinery, if 
it doesn’t prove a great money and labor saver, 
return it and get your money back. 
The Colton operates perfectly on kerosene, the 
most economical and satisfactory fuel. Kerosene can 
be purchased anywhere at about half the cost of gas- 
oline, is much safer to handle and gives more power 
gallon for gallon, than gasoline. Gasoline, alcohol’ 
distilate, and other fusel oil may jilso be used. 
Positive^ Unconditional Guaranty 
Every Colton is sold under a positive, unqualified 
guarantee to give satisfactory service or money re¬ 
funded. Our company has been established 27 years. 
You need an engine on your farm—so investigate 
the Colton—the latest 
development in en¬ 
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Get it on trial and 
compare its simple, 
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materials and high 
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You will see it oper¬ 
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at once. 
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201 Hrusli St. 
Detroit - Mich. 
15 Days’ 
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To Make $100 Per Month 
Above Expenses 
About 2000 Men Eg " m °~ 
our Medicines, Extracts, Spices, Soaps, Per¬ 
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fastest growing, most progressive, most suc¬ 
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U/n Nnui U/ant one man > n each unoccupied 
tie IlUff WcfllK locality to tako full chargo of 
all deliveries to farmers and others from a wagon sim¬ 
ilar to the ono below; in short, a man able to take full 
charge of everything pertaining to our business in his 
district. Not every man can fill this position nor can 
we afford to contract with one who is too extravagant 
or too old or too young. Wo want to hear from men 
who have been fairly successful—honest, industrious 
men who will lie satisfied to make not less than 
$100 Per Month Clear Profit 
above expenses the first year, $1800 the second 
year, and $24-00 the third year. 
If you aro fairly well acquainted in your locality and 
think you can fill the position, lose no time in writing 
us for particulars as wo aro now rapidly filling all 
vacant territory. Vto do not want to hear from men 
under 21 or over 50 years of age, colored people, or 
women. To get this position a man must bo ablo to 
furnish 1 or 2 horses to conduct the business, also good 
business men as references. If you cannot meet theso 
requirements do not write; if you can meet them, write 
us; you are the man wo aro looking for. The position 
pays big, is honorable and permanent. 
Mr. FARMER 
Investigate this 
Outfit! YOU 
We have good sleighing up here now. 
Cold weather, 20 degrees below zero. I 
am wintering 23 head of cattle, 87 sheep, 
seven horses and colts, about 100 hens. 
The spring below my barn (in which a 
barrel is set) runs into a 16-foot trough, 
a big hollow log, and below trough an 
Iron pipe carries water out to roadside, 
where there is an iron kettle holding two 
barrels—public watering place. With tem¬ 
perature 20 degrees below zero water has 
not skinned over with ice, either In trough 
or kettle. How is that for waterworks 
up In the Adirondaeks? s. c. a. 
This Rig Makes You 
Money and Saves 
Hard Work 
WATERLOO 
can make farm work more easy and 
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it as a portable when you want portable work by taking 
off the saw. Then when the portable work is done 
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I Simply write us your name, addre 
freight station and size of engine wanted 
I We’re a little behind on these engines, 
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When it gets to your station look it 
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