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lahe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DecemDer 29, 1917 
Sale of Bed Furnishings 
Each January this Store has a great Sale of Bed Furnishings at which time 
thousands of people buy a season’s supply. This year we have planned to make 
it bigger and better than ever because it is our GOLDEN YEAH”—we will 
celebrate the 50th Anniversary' of the business. 
Each of These Items is a Special Value 
Sheets, Blankets and Bed Furnishings of all kinds have increased in cost very 
much, and will, undoubtedly, go higher—you will save money by laying in a liberal 
supply. We pay the parcel post charges (none sent C. O. D.) and accept your 
order with the understanding that if you are not satisfied with your purchase, it 
can be returned AT ONCE and your money will be refunded in full. These goods 
will be sold at the prices quoted only wliile the lots last, and many of them will be 
sold very quickly. Order at once. 
Sheets, Pillow Cases, 
Bolster Cases 
Lot P-1 
The Sheets, Pillow Cases, and Bol¬ 
ster Cases in this lot are made from 
bleached muslin of standard quality 
and in the most wanted sizes: 
A-lOO—Pillow Cases, 42x36 inches, 
special at 28c each. 
A-101—Pillow Cases, 45 x 30 inches, 
special at 31c each. 
A-102—^Pillow Cases, 45 x 38J^ inches, 
special at 37Mc each. 
A-103—Bolster Cases, 45x72 inches, 
special at 60c each. 
A-104—Sheets, 63 x 90 inches, special at 
95o each. 
A-105—Sheets, 81 x 90 inches, special at 
81.08 each. 
A-IOG—Sheets, 76 x 90 inches, heavy 
bleached muslin, center seam, 
special at 85c each. 
The following are carefully made 
from bleached sheeting of superior 
quality: 
A-107—^Pillow Cases, 42 x 38J-4 inches, 
40o each. 
A-108—^Pillow Cases, 45 x 3814 inches, 
45c each. 
A-103—^Pillow Cases, SO x 38J^ inches, 
SOo each. 
A-110—Bolster Cases, 42 x 7614 inches, 
75o each. 
^ A-111—Bolster Cases, 45 x 7614 inches, 
80c each. 
A-112—Sheets, 63 x 90inches, 81.15 each. 
A-113—Sheets,81 x 90inches, $1.35 each. 
( A-114—Sheets,72 x99inches, $1.50each. 
A-llS—Sheet8,81 x99inche8, $1.65each. 
IA-116—Sheets, 90x99 inches, $1.75 each. 
Bleached Muslin Sheets of fine 
quality, hand-drawn, hemstitched: 
A-117—63 X 99 inches, special at $1.50 
each. 
A-118—72 X 99 inches, special at $1.65 
each. 
A-119—81x99 inches, special at $1.75 
each. 
Bleached Muslin Pillow Cases with 
embroidered initial, hand-drawn, 
hemstitched: 
A-120—Size 45 x 36 inches, special at 
50c each. Make first and second 
choice of initials. 
Lot P.2 
Bedspreads 
Two thousand White Bedspreads 
specially priced for the January 
Sale: 
A-121—Crochet Bedspreads, 76 x 86 
inches, $1.65 each. 
A-122—Crochet Bedspreads, 80 x 90 
inches, $2.00 each. 
A-123—Satin-finish White Marseilles 
Spreads, 78 x 88 inches, $3.25 
each. 
A-124—Satin-finish White Marseilles 
Spreads, 80 x 90 inches, $4.00 
each. 
A-126—Embroidered Scalloped-edge 
Bedspreads with corners cut for 
large size metal bedsteads, $4.00 
each. 
A-127—Satin-finish White Marsei!Ie.s 
Bed Sets, including Spread and 
Shams to match, finished with 
embroidered, scalloped edge, 
$6.00 each. 
A-128—White Crinkled Dimity Bed¬ 
spreads, 72 X 90 inebee, $1.85 
A-129—White Crinkled Dimity Bed¬ 
spreads, 80 X 90 inclieSj ?2»00 
each. 
« Lot PF-3 
Sheeting and Pillow 
By the Yard 
Casing 
A-130—^Pillow Casing, 42 inchM,'2Sc a 
yard. 
A-131—^Pillow Casing, 45 inches, 31c a 
yard. 
A-132—Sheeting, 63 inches, 45c a yard. 
A-133—Sheeting, 72 inches, 50o a yard. 
A-134—Sheeting, 81 inches, 55o a yard. 
A-135—Sheeting, 90 inches, 60o a yard. 
Extra Special 
A-136—4,000 yards of heavy. Round- 
thread, Bleached MusUn Sheet¬ 
ing, 81 inches wide, 48c a yard. 
Lot P-4 
Comfortables 
A-137—Cotton-filled Comfortables, size 
about 6x6 feet, covered with 
silkoline in Persian designs, spe¬ 
cial at $2.50 each. 
A-138—Cotton-filled Comfortables with 
silkoline covers in various dainty 
color combinations, size about 
6x6 feet, special at $3.75 each. 
A-139—Scroll-stitched Wool-filled Com¬ 
fortables, fibred satine cover¬ 
ings with solid-color satine bor¬ 
ders, size about 6x6 feet, at 
$7.50 each. 
A-140 —Wool-filled Comfortables, figured 
silk top with solid-color mull bor¬ 
ders; solid-color mull back; size 
about 6x6 feet, at $10.00 each. 
Lot P-5 
Blankets 
Four excellent grades of White 
Blankets, wool, with just enough 
cotton mixture to make them 
warmer and wear well: dainty bor¬ 
der colorings: desirable in every 
way and very durable: 
A-141—66 X 80 inches, special at $4.75 a 
pair. 
A-142—72 X 84 inches, special at $6.50 a 
pair. 
A-143—70 X SO inches, special at $7.50 a 
pair. 
A-144—76 X 84 inches, special at $8.50 a 
pair. 
Army Blankets, very popular for 
camping and outdoor sleeping: 
A-145 —54 X 78 inches, silver grey, $6.50 
each. 
A-146 —62 X 82 inches, olive drab, $10,00 
each. 
Strawbridge & Clothier 
Philadelphia 
For Sale-Four Splendid Farms 
guiia, and one in Louisa County, Virginia, on 
booklet, address 
R. B. CHAFFIN & CO., Inc., Richmond, Va. 
A Small California Farm 
crops you know about—alfalfa, wheat, barley, etc.— 
also oranges, grapes, olives and figs. Ideal for 
<iairying. pigs, and chickens. No cold weather; rich 
soil; low prices; easy terms; good roads, schools 
jind churches. Enjoy life here. Newcomers wel¬ 
come. Write for our San Joaanin Valley also Dairy- 
mg and Poultry Raising Illustrated Folders, free. 
C. L. SEAGRAVES, Industrial Commissioner A.T. &S. F. RY., 
1963 RAILWAY EXCHANGE, CHICAGO 
tJOSFPH ROGERS, Jr., Farmingdale, N. < 
Hare for Sale Seven (7) Farms J™,“ 
The Farm Brokers'Association, Inc. 
farms and other country real estate everywhere in Nei 
York State. Personally inspected properties. Carefri 
descriptions. Right prices. CENTRAL OFFICE A' 
ONEIDA, N. y., other offices throughout the State. 
Kerosene 
121 
Gasoline 
251 
Callon 
Gallon 
TWO FUEL HEAVI-DUTI ENGINES 
Are you t^d to an ensrlne using: only gasoline ? Are you tied to an engine that will not use the heavier 
erasohne that is coming: ? When you buy an engine, buy the Two Fuel Heavi-Dutl that uses either gas¬ 
oline or kerosene equally well. It uses the fuel of today and it uses the war-time gasoline you are 
fiToingr to g:et, which other engines will not. The Heavi-Duti has rifle barrel cylinders, hardened steel 
piston and rin^^s, Iarg:e cylinder bore for rated horsepower, comes complete with our famous higrh 
tension hot spark oscillatingr magneto; no brushes, nothing: to g:et out of order; i^ives a lightning hot 
spark that igmites any kind of fuol; no batteries needed. 
I 
And Prompt Shipment from New York City Stock 
You save money ; you get quick shipment; you get the best value and the most slmo* ' e»^gine 
made ; either the saw outfit complete or the engine only. Gasoline engines only 'f jjrefer^ 
but the Two Fuel Is the Twentieth Century engine. Money saving prices If qii/cw*?. 
R. CONSOLIDATED GASOLINE ENGINE CO., 202 Fulton Street, New York Cit^ 
Farm Mechanics 
Device for Measuring Land 
I am sending a picture of a cheap and 
roiighly-made device for measuring land 
which I find very convenient and more 
accurate than the usual practice of “step¬ 
ping it off.” It weighs only a few pounds, 
and can he easily carried anywhere. The 
hub is simply a round stick sawed from 
a pole, and about eight inches long, with 
bolt or wood screw in each end. The band 
or spoke socket is from an old buggy 
wheel hub, and the spokes are from an 
old hay-tedder wheel cut to fit. There is 
a bell from a discarded alarm clock fas¬ 
tened to a spoke, which strikes a piece of 
metal which is fastened to the cross-piece, 
and every time the bell rings it measures 
Device for Measuring Land. Fig. 968 
one-half rod if it is just 8 V 4 feet around 
the outer end of the spokes, as it should be. 
Wellington, (). c. E. F. 
Radiating Drum in Chimney 
. 1. My steam-heater is placed in the cel¬ 
lar beneath the dining room, the chimney 
passing up the side 0 : the room; a 10-foot 
pipe connects the heater with the chimney 
in the cellar. Would it be practical to 
pass the smoke up through a “drum” in 
the dining room into the chimney-hole 
there? The added length of the pipe 
would be about five feet, including drum, 
wbich would have to be about two feet 
high. Would this plan conserve the heat 
which now is wasted in the chimney and 
cellar? How would the drum have'to be 
made, plain inside, or should the passage 
of the smoke be obstructed by bars? 
2 . A sanitary closet is being much ad¬ 
vertised^ in several magazines. Are such 
closets a practical thing? The claim that 
they can he used for a month without 
emptying seems to be rather large. 
Brookfield, Mass. l. h. e. g. 
1. The n.se of such drums as you men¬ 
tion is common, and, so far as I have 
observed, they ^ive fair results. They 
act, of course, by giving more radiating 
surface to the smoke-pipe and so increa.s- 
ing its heating capacity. Such drums 
may be purchased, ready-made, from hard¬ 
ware supply or catalogue houses. They 
are made with either vertical or hori¬ 
zontal hot-air flues within the drum and 
opening to the outside air of the room; 
these flues are surrounded by the hot 
gases passing through the smoke-pipe. As 
for saving the heat which ordinarily goes 
up the chimney, they help a little, and 
that is about all that can he said. My 
recollection is that engineers estimate 
about 80% of the heat from fuel burned 
in ordinary household heaters goes up the 
flues. This is an enormous waste, but no 
one, so far, seems to have been able to 
devise any practicable method of prevent- 
: ing it. 
2. The sanitary closets that have re¬ 
cently become more or less popular fur¬ 
nish a convenient and practicable substi¬ 
tute for water closets in homes not pro¬ 
vided with the latter. For best results, 
they should be connected with a used 
will be of an inferior grade to that made 
from new grain. Buckwheat, either be¬ 
fore or after milling, appears to he essen¬ 
tially a cold weather, one-season product. 
It is not easilj' kept over in good con¬ 
dition ’ nless in cold storage. While some 
buckwheat flour is milled from old grain, 
it is of such inferior quality as to be 
easily distinguished from that made from 
the new product, and any particular lot 
might easily be unmarketable, sr. B. D. 
Waste in Milling Buckwheat 
How much buckwheat flour, how many 
pounds of shorts and how many pounds 
of shucks should one get from 100 lbs. of 
buckwheat which has been run through a 
fanning mill and is fairly dry? 11. 11. G. 
Lockwood, N. Y. 
A buckw'heat flour manufacturer of long 
experience tells me that clean, dry buck¬ 
wheat should mill from 5.5 to 00% flour, 
22 to 25% middlings, and the balance 
hulls and waste. There is little waste 
nowadays; hulls are re-ground and be¬ 
come middlings, or, at least, are mixed 
with middlings to make buckwheat feed ; 
some get away and float down the creek, 
but not many. j[. j;. i)_ 
A Mechanic for the Country 
T am a young man with 18 years’ ex¬ 
perience as a wagon and automobile black¬ 
smith, and some experience as a horse- 
shoer; can handle horses and cattle, and 
have done some farming in a small way. 
I can do almost any kind of repairs, con¬ 
crete work, woodwork, etc., and am a man 
of good ideas and system, and only ask a 
moderate salary. As I have always had a 
great interest for agriculture and would 
Hke to change from the climate of New 
York City, I thought perhaps you might 
know of a progressive farm that would 
want a man of this type. f. t. e 
New York. 
This letter is so different from that of 
the ordinary back-to-the-lander that we 
print it here. Even in these war times, 
when the wage advantage all seem to be 
in favor of the town job, we have nu¬ 
merous letters from mechanics or similar 
workmen who want to establish themselves 
in the country. Some, like this man, 
want a job on a farm as hired help, others 
want to buy a place on easy terms where 
they can in time develop a place of their 
own. The country needs these skilled 
workmen, and opportunity ought to be 
made for them to locate in the country 
to good advantage.- There ought to he a 
fair chance for such people to show what 
they can do as hired helpers or owners. 
Some of them have tried to buy land in 
the country but say that they cannot ob¬ 
tain it on terms which would justify them 
in giving up their town jobs. It seems 
that such people could buy a house in 
town with less cash than they can buy 
farm property of equal value out in the 
country. Here is another problem that 
will come upon us like a shock at the close 
of this war, and something ought to be 
done to enable such men to Vuy property 
on easy terms. 
Shipping Tonnage 
When a ship is launched registering 
20.000 tons, does it mean the weight of 
the ship or does it mean the weight of 
cargo she can carry? For instance, when 
a vessel is sunk at sea registering 10,000 
tons, does it mean the weight of the vessel 
or the cargo capacity? A. C. J. 
Georgetown, Del. 
The dictionary says a merchant vessel’s 
tonnage in registration is its internal cu¬ 
bic capacity in tons of 100 cubic feet. Net 
chimney to carry off offensive odors. The 
length of time that one could be used 
without renewing the supply of liquid 
within it would depend, of course, upon the 
size and the number of people using it. 
M. B. D. 
Milling Old Buckwheat 
I have some buckwheat of last year, 
more than a year old. Do you think it 
will make satisfactory flour to sell on the 
market? W. S. 
New Paltz, N. Y. 
Old buckwheat is not likely to make 
satisfactory flour unless it has been kept 
under exceptionally favorable conditions. 
If perfectly dry and sweet, your buck¬ 
wheat may make usable flour, though it 
tonnage is this gross tonnage less deduc¬ 
tions for machinery, crew’s quarters, etc. 
The tonnage of war vessels is their dis¬ 
placement tonnage, or the weight of water 
displaced by them. 
Starlings and Apples 
Refi'rring to my recent letter about 
birds injuring apples, a few days ago I 
saw a flock of starlings eagerly devouring 
some apples still hanging on a tree. To 
be sure they were “frozen-thawed” apples, 
but this evidence should throw the burden 
of proof on the starling. Their long sharp 
beaks are well adapted to gratify a taste 
for fruit that must be forbidden them 
when it comes to making unmarketable 
5 to 20 per cent of our apples. 
Connecticut. w. c. DEMING. 
