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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 2, 
PRAISE FOR SLATE ROOFS. 
On page 322, E. H. Miller cites in¬ 
stances within his knowledge of slate- 
roofed buildings being struck by light¬ 
ning. This of course is true, as there is 
no such thing obtainable as an absolutely 
lightning-proof roofing. Slate comes 
nearest to being this because being 
formed from solid rock its very nature 
repels rather than attracts electricity, 
while otherwise is the case with metal 
roofs. Personally I would feel safer un¬ 
der a slate-roofed building than anything 
else. For 40 years I was in the roofing 
business during which time I roofed 
thousands of buildings with every kind 
■of roofing ever made. Giving your read¬ 
ers the benefit of my experience, I can 
say that every roofing has good and bad 
points, so that it is “up to” the owner to 
select that one affording the most ad¬ 
vantages with the fewest drawbacks, and 
this in my judgment is a good slate roof. 
Its merits come from it being a rock 
product, or in other words split from 
rock already thousands of years old be¬ 
fore made into roofing. A slate roof 
does not need painting, and very little 
A GOOD FARM 
repairs, and of course wear and decay 
is impossible. The rock surface protects 
ou from spark, fire and to a large de¬ 
gree from lightning. There is a very 
with the other side, clipping the hair 
and thoroughly rubbing the place with 
moistened caustic. By this time the ap¬ 
plication to the first horn treated will 
be dry and a second application should 
be made which should conform exactly 
to the first. Follow the same procedure 
with the remaining side, and if the ap¬ 
plications have been properly made to 
a calf not more than two or three days 
old the horns will never grow. Older 
calves may be treated in the same way 
by first shaving off the ends of the horns 
with a sharp knife until the blood starts 
before applying the caustic. If the stick 
caustic is used a piece of paper should 
be wrapped around one end for a handle, 
so as not to injure the hands, and care 
should be taken not to let the caustic 
touch any place except just where the 
little horns are starting to grow. When 
not in use the caustic may be kept safely 
in a bottle having a glass cork. I would 
not advise dishorning a bull in this way 
if he was to be kept for breeding, as it 
has been found that by allowing the 
horns to grow for two years and then 
sawing them off he realizes that he has 
TEAM. Fig. 167. 
been deprived of his weapons of defense, 
therefore making him much safer to 
handle. c. s. G. 
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large class of roofing on the market, such 
as paper and thin galvanized iron which 
are cheap and therefore well suited for 
temporary structures, but many owners 
make the fatal mistake that soon must 
be corrected of putting short-lived roof¬ 
ing on long-lived buildings, such as 
houses and barns. Slate is a trifle high¬ 
er in cost, but in the long run it is the 
cheapest roofing on the market, nothing 
excepted. When in the roofing business 
owners would come back to me for a 
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ing, this being the case when shingles, 
paper and metallic roofing had been used 
but I never had a single job of reslating, 
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Do you know of a safe preparation to 
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it. j. n. j. 
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