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THE RURAL NR W-YORKER 
February 28, 
Chimney Cleaning. 
The kitchen stove and the furnace were 
both smoking badly, so rne good man de¬ 
cided the pipes and chimneys would" bet¬ 
ter be cleaned. Armed with pans, 
scraper, shovel and and accom¬ 
panied by the hired man, he attacked 
the job. The pipes were duly taken 
down, and rapped out, the soot was shov¬ 
eled from the chimneys, then the ques¬ 
tion arose, how to remove the heavy coat¬ 
ing of soot that encrusted the whole in¬ 
side of the chimney. Finally a handful 
of straw was placed in the chimney and 
ignited. It blazed up quickly, setting fire 
to the soot. In a few minutes the chim¬ 
ney was as clean as though newly built. 
This method of chimney cleaning was 
new to me; it may be a useful suggestion 
to someone lose. N. c. B. 
Heating Upstairs Room. 
I notice in a recent issue a query as 
to some convenient way of heating up¬ 
stairs rooms. As I have until recently 
lived in western New York I have had 
experience in that line. We have found 
the best and most economical way to be 
this: With the stove on the first floor 
we place a drum or radiator of sheet iron 
in the room above so the pipe passes 
through this drum. We find that the 
room with the drum will heat as quickly 
and as well as the room below containing 
the stove. If wood is used the upper 
room will get the better heat, with coal 
not quite as good, yet very satisfactory. 
By this plan we save much of the heat 
which under other circumstances is wast¬ 
ed. In fact it gives us about twice the 
heat for the same expense. 
Collins, Miss. F. M. S. 
A Simple Towel Roller. 
A great many housewives prefer the 
continuous towel mounted on a towel rol¬ 
ler. It is easy to make a towel roller, 
and the material is at hand in practically 
every home. The articles required are 
two hooks of the kind used to suspend a 
window-shade roller, an old broom handle 
and two nails. Saw the broom handle 
the desired length of the roller. Drive 
a nail in the center of each end. One 
of the hooks may be closed, and the head 
of the nail should be removed either by a 
cold chisel or by clipping it with wire 
pliers. The other roller holder should be 
open and this will not be necessary. Se¬ 
lect a place for the towel, and mount 
the roller the same as one would the 
window shade. A window-shade roller 
might be used in place of the broom han¬ 
dle. The end in which the spring is 
placed should be removed. One end might 
be left and a nail driven in the freshly 
cut end. Walter jack. 
Ashtabula Co., O. 
Burning Zinc to Clear Soot. 
On page 1253, November 22 last “In¬ 
quirer” asks regarding the use of zinc 
scraps to remove soot from stove pipe, 
when burnt in stove. Some years ago, 
I worked the night turn at a telegraph 
office which was heated by a small stove, 
burning bituminous coal, with a five-inch 
smoke-pipe running horizontally for 
about 12 feet with a right angle turn 
about midway,, with a rise of six inches 
to the chimney. Steam coal, which is 
the smokiest of the soft coals, was the 
fuel supplied, with the result that the 
pipe soon showed indications of being 
filled with soot. We had heard of burn¬ 
ing zinc to remove soot, and as there were 
a lot of old crowfeet from the battery 
cells on hand, the day man burnt zinc 
and I burnt, too, with the drafts open 
and drafts shut; made no difference. The 
zinc burned with a blue-white flame and 
white smoke but the draft was just as 
poor after burning as before. So we 
took the pipe down and dumped out the 
soot, which had filled the pipe so only 
a 2*4 inch hole remained for the smoke, 
in spite of all the zinc we burned. After 
further experiment we found the only 
way to clean the pipe was to put paper 
and dry wood in the stove until the soot 
ignited, and then tap the pipe with a light 
rod, loosening the soot and ashes so the 
draft carried them into the chimney. Of 
course such a procedure would be rather 
dangerous with a shingle roof. 
I know of one instance where the 
smoke flue from a steam boiler was run 
up from the basement through a radiator 
on the first floor and into the chimney, 
which was taken out after a short time 
because the radiator filled up and spoiled 
the draft. This radiator had a number 
of small tubes running across the path 
of the smoke. w. j. M. 
Laying Oilcloth. 
I read a suggestion on handling oilcloth 
or other similar covering for kitchen floor, 
and laying same. I have found the strip 
that runs around the room at bottom of 
base board, to be just the thing to hold 
the covering down at edges. Nothing 
can get under and you need no nails; 
see sketch. Pry the molding up and slip 
oilcloth under, then drive down again. 
j. DOOLAN. 
Boarding Elderly People. 
Can you do an old subscriber an odd 
favor? Could you put me in touch with 
an elderly couple or old person with 
means to pay their way who would like 
to make their home at a country farm¬ 
house with all home comforts included; 
warm room with fire, washing, plenty of 
milk and eggs and are willing to pay me 
for doing for them? I will board them 
reasonably. I am willing to take an 
invalid and do for them as I have no 
better way to earn money. There are 
only three of us in family; it is a quiet 
place. There must be some people who 
would appreciate such a home as I can 
give them, and are willing to pay me for 
it. I will do all I can to make it pleas¬ 
ant for them. I can send them the best 
of reference. Can you help me in this? 
I thought you might know of some such 
people. MRS. G. B. 
Troy, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—We have had several appli¬ 
cations of this nature before. It is a 
strange thing that only a few days before 
this letter came we had another from a 
farmer and his wife, who had been left 
with an elderly woman on their hands. 
Her sons, after contracting to pay for her 
board, have failed to provide for her. 
We give this as one of the sides of life 
which are to be met in the country. The 
plan as suggested by Mrs. B. is a worthy 
one. 
Old Rags as Labor Savers in Kindling 
Our rag carpet days are over, and as 
far as selling rags to the tin peddler, we 
have never realized any satisfaction from 
such transactions. We use our rags to 
build fires. To do this one may take a 
quart or two quart fruit jar, tear any 
old garment in strips or squares two 
thirds yard in size. Pack in several of 
these rags in the can and saturate with 
kerosene. A rag may be drawn from the 
can, lighted, and it will require but 
little kindling to start a fire. We have 
a soft coal stove and frequently have used 
no kindling only the rags in starting the 
fire. Many people have me kerosene oil 
practice well fixed in their fire kindling 
system, and rather than dash on a cup 
of oil on kindling, try a rag. Less oil 
will do more efficient service. When 
fires are low yet there are coals, some 
people take a chance pouring in a quan¬ 
tity of kerosene. This is dangerous, but 
by taking a saturated rag and crowding 
it below the kindling in the fire box or 
below the lumps of coal, by the use of the 
stove poker, there is no danger. 
MRS. GERTRUDE JACK. 
Removing Waste-Pipe Stoppage.— 
While washing out some bottles at my 
sink, I accidentally dropped one of the 
stoppers down the waste pipe. It lodged 
in the pipe some way, making it a very 
difficult job to remove it with a piece of 
wire. The water would run through very 
slowly, so I decided upon a plan in the 
following manner: I first placed a wood¬ 
en plug in the outlet of the drain. In the 
meantime I turned the water on, allow¬ 
ing the pipe to till, when I soon discovered 
the stopper floating on the top. The plug 
was then removed from the drain and the 
sink was clear as ever. s R. 
“Bliggins has a very orderly desk.” 
“Yes. He is one of these men who won’t 
leave a paper lying around. He prompt¬ 
ly puts it in a pigeon hole and loses it 
forever.”—Washington Star. 
“Do any of the good things you hope 
for come to pass?” “They all come to 
pass, but they come and pass so dog- 
goned swift I can’t grab ’em.”—Credit 
Lost. 
OATS 
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Strawberry Plants. ____ 
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VEGETABLE PLANTS 
Millions of them. All kinds. Also forty varieties 
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C AV Qol« “Wilsons” Soy Beans, $2.75 Bushel 
I Ul Dale Cow Peas.$2 25 to 2.50 
Crimson Clover Seed... 4 00 ” 
Red Clover Seed $8 50 to 9.50 “ 
JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Milford, Del. 
Seed Potatoes- L 1 i ;'S t , ”4“'i,; h n » 
ner potato, grown especially for seob from my 
pare, select strain. $1.25 per btt.; 10 bu. ormore, 
$1.20 per bu. F. O. B. in sacks. CHAKLE-. L. 
TODD, Hartwick Seminary, Otsego Co., N. V. 
T ESTED ALFALFA SFED—Choice, dry, land 
grown. $9.50perhu. Sample and county agents’ 
tost on request. ENTERPRISE FARM, Beatrice. Nebraska 
SWEET CLOVER SEED^ 
HIGH BRED SEED CORN 
We have a limited amount of solected ears of corn, 
that has been bred by the ear-to-row method for 
EARLINESS and YIELD for'tlie past six years in co-oper¬ 
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nell University. It is a yellow dent corn and last 
year yielded 103 bnshelsof dry shelled corn peracre, 
and this year over 100 bushels; tlio the season was 
very dry. Price, per bushel of 70 lbs. of eat s or 56lbs. 
of sheiled corn, $4. BROAD BROCK FARM, Bedford Hills,N. Y. 
For Sale-SEED POTATOES 
round, white, medium late. Of the Raleigh type 
but far superior in both yield and quality, variety 
originated locally about twelve years ago. Grown 
from hill-selected seed. $3.25 bbl.; Seconds, $2 25. 
S. L. COLWELL, - - Canton, Pa, 
(—Pure white and bi¬ 
ennial yellow. Prices 
-1 and circular how to 
grow it, sent on request. E. Barton, Box 29, Falmouth, Ky. 
ALFALFA FOR SALF - ^ have 50 tons of first 
HI.rHL.rH run OMLL cutting Alfalfa, bright 
color and fine. I can ship at once at reasonable 
price. JOHN McLENNAN, Fayetteville, N. Y. 
fll m/FR SFFn- Goo <l« 0 P°ffin e Quality. If in- 
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CLOVER SFFn All varieties shipped. 
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We are among the A| C||/C pi nurn i n this country 
laroest growers of MLOIIU. ULUYCn an( j o ff 0r eoo j 
clean seed. Bushel. $11; half bushel. $5.75; peck. $3. 
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SECOND CROP SEED POTATOES 
^are the best seed grown. 
Irish Cobblers and other varieties. 98 percent pure. 
Catalog Froo. JO HN W. HALL, Marion Station, Md. 
MAINE SEED POTAT0ES^£ c * n ^ s £ 
ver Kings. Price $1.00 per bu. Order now for Spring 
shipment. H. S. Webber, M onroe, Me. Maple Hill Farm. 
Strawberry Wants oiaiKXS 
plants, well rooted and budded. 100 other varieties, 
'"oney makers. Write for catalogue. Address 
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lienjumiti & Son, Nunic*, Ottawa Co., Midi. 
CTRAWBERRY PLANTS—$1.65perl00n. Most valuable il- 
lustrated catalog. M ayer’s Plaef Nursery, Merrill.Mich. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS K.SafiK 
Asparagus Plants. All leading varieties, catalog 
FKEE. Harry L. Squires, Kemsenbnrc, N. Y. 
Meet the Demand 
For fruit by planting an orchard this spring. 
You can’t start earlier—you can’t afford to 
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Specialists in Strawberry Plants. Peacb and Apple Trees 
Our stock is grown right, priced right and 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
We have eight that have been selected out of a 
hundred; eigdit that are TRUE BLUE. If you wish 
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AND TRUCK FARMS, Caleb Boggs 4 Son, Cbeswold, Delaware 
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I Frank Wielantl, 
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Egg Harbor, N. J. 
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St. Regis, Ranere bearing Red Raspberry 
Ward Blackberry plants, by mail, $1 per doz. Fa¬ 
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333 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
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to 
The Sweetest Sweet Corn 
The Earliest Tomatoes 
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These are only two of the many superior varieties of vegetables wo 
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DIBBLES SEED POTATOES 
at the great Cornell Potato Show held at Ithaca, N. Y., 
during Farmers’ week, Feb. 9-13, 1914. were entered in 
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