THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1161 
Farm and Home Notes 
Cars with the Circle-H 
Are Good Cars to Buy 
A Bachelor Back-to-the-Lander. 
I am having troubles of my own, and 
don’t have time to look what the other 
fellow is doing. Years ago I learned the 
horseshoer’s trade and finally drifted to 
sea and followed the sea for several years, 
until I got the farm bug in my head. I 
conducted a horseshoeing shop for nine 
years, paying for my farm. I had my 
farm of 63 acres grown up in brush and 
wild blackberries, buildings in bad shape. 
This is my second year, and between 
fighting weeds and briars and rubbing 
blisters off a grubbing hoe handle I have 
enough to keep me busy. I went behind 
last year, will go behind this year, but 
have a nice peach orchard coming, also 
some asparagus. 
I raise quite a lot of okra, which I 
ship; get 30 to 12 cents a hundred. It 
pays at 6 cents; I have a field of toma¬ 
toes (six acres) for canning factory at 
$10 per ton, a very light set, about quar¬ 
ter crop; diseases have not hurt me. 
I make quite a lot during the Winter 
months in blacksmith work, and am try¬ 
ing for fruit and asparagus and grass to 
get the farm in shape. It is all work 
and no play, but I am game and expect 
to stay until the sheriff arrives and chases 
me out on the lane with a gun. Being 
unmarried maybe I can pull through by 
hard work. W. E. H. 
New Jersey. 
To Make Wallpaper Stick. 
I note the inquiry about how to make 
wallpaper stick to a ceiling which had 
been kalsomined, also the answer. As I 
had years of experience in hanging paper 
on all kinds of walls and ceilings, I may 
say that for the purpose of cleaning ceil¬ 
ings preparatory to papering I found a 
good sharp steel wall scraper goes ahead 
of vinegar. First wash the ceiling with 
glue water, when dry the lime will be 
in loose flakes which can be easily scraped 
off. For kalsomine a good large sponge 
and a pail of water in which two ounces 
of sal soda has been dissolved will clean 
the ceiling nicely. Then after washing 
with a kalsomine brush, size the ceiling, 
with alum water, made by dissolving one- 
fourth pound of alum in a gallon of 
water. 
For a hard finished ceiling dissolve four 
ounces of rosin in a half gallon of gaso¬ 
line and one pint linseed oil. Ileat the 
linseed oil, then add the rosin. When it 
is dissolved remove the kettle outdoors 
away from any fire (do not have a light¬ 
ed cigar or pipe anywhere near), mix 
the gasoline with the oil and rosin, apply¬ 
ing immediately to the ceiling with a clean 
wall brush. Make your paste from wheat 
flour and laundry starch. Use two tab’e- 
spoonfuls of starch for each quart of flour, 
dissolve to the consistency of ordinary 
cream in cold water, then pour in boil¬ 
ing hot water until the paste is cooked. 
The flour and starch mixed as above 
will make a 10-quart pail of good paste, 
to which add for ordinary wallpaper two 
ounces of pulverized alum. Do not use 
alum in paste for satin finish paper. 
Sometimes paperhangers prepare hard 
finish walls or ceilings with a coating of 
French zinc mixed with turpentine. I 
would not advise it, because the zinc is 
expensive, yet it is good. M. u. D. 
A Talk About Whitewash. 
Hardly a week passes without a dozen 
or more calls for what is known as “Gov¬ 
ernment whitewash.” Many people seem 
to have the idea that a lime whitewash 
can be made which will take the place 
of a lead and oil paint. This is a mis¬ 
take, for while a fairly good covering of 
whitewash may be made with certain 
combinations of lime and water, there is 
nothing in such a mixture that will equal 
a genuine paint. The old recipe'for white¬ 
wash which is issued by the Lighthouse 
Board of the Treasury Department is as 
follows. This is considered to be very 
good or an outdoor exposure: 
Slake half a bushel of unslaked lime 
with boiling water keeping it covered dur¬ 
ing the process. Strain it and add a peck 
of salt, dissolved in warm water: three 
pounds of ground rice put in boiling 
water and boiled to a thin paste; half a 
pound of powdered Spanish whiting and 
a pound of clear glue, dissolved in warm 
water; mix these well together and let 
the mixture stand for several days. Keep, 
the wash thus prepared in- a kettle or 
portable furnace; and when used, put it 
on as hot as possible, with painters’ or 
whitewash brushes. 
What is known as a factory whitewash 
is made by slaking 62 pounds of quick¬ 
lime in 15 gallons of water. Keep this 
stirred while slaking. Take 214 pounds 
of rj e flour, beat it up in half gallon 
of cold water and then add two gallons 
of boiling water. Take 2 y 2 pounds of 
common salt and dissolve in 2 y 2 gallons 
of hot water. Mix the rye flour and salt 
solution and add it to the lime wash, 
well stirred up. This whitewash is rec¬ 
ommended by insurance companies and 
used on the interior of buildings. What 
is known as a waterproof whitewash is 
made as follows: . 
Take 62 pounds of quicklime and slake 
with 12 gallons of hot water. Take two 
pounds of table salt and one pound of 
sulphate of zinc and dissolve together 
in two gallons of boiling water. Mix 
the salt and lime solution and then add 
two gallons of skimmed milk well mixed 
up together. In some cases Portland 
cement is added to the lime and salt 
mixture. A quantity of alum added to 
a lime whitewash, one ounce to the gal¬ 
lon, will prevent rubbing off. Molasses 
one pound to five gallons of whitewash 
makes lime more soluble and causes it 
to penetrate more deeply. In some cases 
water glass one part to 10 is added to 
the whitewash to make a fireproof sur¬ 
face ; one pound of cheap soap dissolved 
in boiling water and added to five gal¬ 
lons of a thick whitewash will give it 
a gloss somewhat like a paint. In apply¬ 
ing whitewash no attempt should be made 
to rub it in, as with an oil paint, but 
simply brush it in lightly over the sur¬ 
face. 
What to Do First. 
When the unexpected happens in the 
private home it is not always the house¬ 
hold system that is put to the test, but 
the housewife’s ability to discern be¬ 
tween an immediate task and one that 
can best wait. At such times both the 
rural and town housewives are confront¬ 
ed by the same question, what to do 
first. 
More than one home woman has 
learned by experience from an unex¬ 
pected occurrence what to do after stack¬ 
ing the breakfast dishes and caring fir 
the left-over food. The unexpected may 
have been simply a passing embarrass¬ 
ment or a real or a near-tragedy—a sud¬ 
den death, a serious accident or sickness 
in the family, but it settled the question 
as to the morning tasks—what to do im¬ 
mediately in order to be the better pre¬ 
pared for the unexpected, and in the 
meantime avoid the distressing habit of 
too much apprehension—borrowing trou¬ 
ble. 
The present writer has frequently ob¬ 
served that when a rural or town house¬ 
wife is to leave her home for the day, 
both proceed to put their house in order 
and depart with a clear conscience, if 
whatever must be done can be done quick¬ 
ly and easily under stress of circum¬ 
stances, why not systematize the morn¬ 
ing tasks, and adhere to the order < f 
their doing from day to day? The fol¬ 
lowing order is suggested for the lone 
woman: Having cared for food and 
placed dishes a-soak, care for rooms and 
stoves, then beds, floors and lastly 
dishes and lamps. These morning duties 
are of more consequence than any task, 
big or little, assigned for any day of the 
week, and constantly keep a home pre¬ 
pared for the unexpected and a house¬ 
wife free to devote her attention to spe¬ 
cial work assigned to each day. 
MEDORA CORBETT. 
The visitor watched the old angler 
who for some considerable time had been 
fishing without the slightest success. 
“How are the fish in these parts?” at 
length asked the visitor. “Well,” replied 
the aged one grimly, “I really can't say. 
I’ve dropped them a line every day for a 
week, but I’ve got no reply yet.”—To¬ 
ronto Sun. 
Both the Ilupmobile trademark and the 
ranchman’s brand are marks of identi¬ 
fication. 
But, while the brand merely indicates 
ownership, the Circle-II of the Ilupmo¬ 
bile has a deeper and more important 
meaning. 
The trademark signifies the sincerity of 
our belief that the Ilupmobile is the 
best car of its class in the world, and 
the earnestness of our effort to keep it 
so, to the end that every buyer may 
receive the greatest possible value for 
his money. 
Every farmer should recognize it—as 
thousands do now—as the symbol of 
motor ear service and economy in their 
highest form. 
Ilupmobile farmers know that the record 
behind this little blue-and-white em¬ 
blem is clear of a single unsuccessful 
car; clear of a single off-year. 
Their experience has proved to them—as 
your’s will prove to you—that in qual¬ 
ity the Ilupmobile stands at par with 
the highest priced cars; that its per¬ 
formance is even better, at a far lower 
cost, per mile or per season, for gaso¬ 
line, oil, tires and repairs. 
Every time you see the Ilupmobile trade¬ 
mark, on a car or in print, remember 
that the car's record for owner-satis¬ 
faction has never been surpassed and 
seldom equalled. 
Recall the Ilupmobile features rarely 
found in a car of this price, such as 
Tungsten steel valves, vanadium main 
leaves in the springs, tubular propellor 
shaft, spiral bevel gears in the rear 
axle, Bijur starting and lighting sys¬ 
tem, genuine leather and curled hair 
upholstery, etc. 
Finally, remember the Ilupmobile nation¬ 
al free service system—better and 
broader than any other car provides— 
which makes Ilupmobile ownership 
even more of a satisfaction than it has 
been heretofore. 
Write for the complete catalog of the new 
Ilupmobile and details of the service 
system; or call on the Ilupmobile deal¬ 
er next time you go to town. 
HUPP MOTOR CAR COMPANY, 1345 Milwaukee Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 
Hupmobile 
5-passenger Touring Car 
7-passenger Touring Car $1225 
2-passenger Roadster $1085 
All prices f. o. b. Detroit 
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WATER POWER 
is free. It is the best 
power to drive your 
electric light plant or small machinery. If 
you have a brook or a branch on your 
farm, write for Bulletin No. 16 . 
FITZ WATER WHEEL COMPANY, 
Penn & George Sts., - Hanover, Pa. 
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terms. Many styles and sizes for all purposes. 
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