^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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FreshWbicr On 
Ti'aspan.d'iKe 
Hired Man 
I T’S hard to get good men now m 
—and hard to keep them. 
But a National Fresh Water System 
helps a lot in solving this problem. 
No pumping or carrying of water. No 
frozen pumps or tanks in winter. Just 
turn a faucet and a steady, fresh stream 
straight from the well, flows out. The 
NATIONAL 
Fresh Water System 
will furnish an unfailing flow of water 
any place in the house or outbuild¬ 
ings. Compressed air operates a 
powerful air-driven pump in the well 
itself. No storage tank—water is al¬ 
ways fresh from the welL Always 
the right temperature. 
Let us tell you how this remarkable 
system fits your needs. Write today 
for details and full description and 
name of your nearest dealer. 
United Pump & Power Co 
793 Larkin St., Milwaukee, Wis, 
NATIOf>tAI.^ 
FresK Water System^ 
DIT(^NG NOW 
You imperil your next year’s 
crops, your next year’s profits, if 
you let fall and winter rains 
stand on your land. Give your 
land a chance to keep breathing. 
Uo the farm ditchinfr and terrac¬ 
ing now. Do it the quickest way, 
the cheapest way,the easiest way. 
Use the Most Rapid 
Farm Ditcher, 
Terracer and Road Grader 
'o.O.i 
All-Steel—Reversible—Lasts a Lifetime. 
Cuts a V-shaped open-drain, irriKation or 
“■ tile ditch down to 4 feet. Cleans old 
ditches. Builds farm terraces, dikes, 
levees, and grades 
roads. Works in any 
soil — wet or dry. 
Does work of lOO 
men the old way. 
Write for free copy 
I of valuable Drain¬ 
age, Irrigation and 
'f erracing Book and 
Special Introduc¬ 
tory Offer. 
^Owensboro Ditcher & 
Grader Co.. Inc. 
Box 434 
Owensboro 
Ky. 
Your cimnce is ill Canada. Ricli lands and 
inisine.ss opport unit its offer j'ou independenee. 
Farm la mis Sll to $30 an acre; irrittated lands 
$3r> to $50. 'rwenty years to pay; $2,000 loan 
in improvements, or ready-made farms. Loan 
of livestock. Taxes av’era^e under twenty 
cents an acre; no taxes on improvements, per¬ 
sonal property or livestock. Good market.s, 
oliurclies, scliools, road.s, telepliones. Excel¬ 
lent climate—ci-ops and livestock prove it. 
Special homeseeker.s’ fare certificates. Write 
for free booklets. Allan Cameron, General 
Superintendent Lami Branch, Canadian I'a- 
cilic Railway, 511) Ninth Avenue. Caltcarj, 
Alberta. 
Vermont Stock FarmForSalc 
Situated miles from a yomm maiiufarturine aity 
cf C.OUO people. 4.50 acres of tillago, pasture and 
wood land. Kstimatod 800 tliousaml ft. of timber. 
New sheep barn, now cow barn, old fasldoned 
square house, remodeled. Parm capacity, 50 head 
cattle. 300 sheep. Price, KS 10,000; pa''t cash. 
LllWRENCEli WHEELER. Inc. FARM AGENCY. Springfield. Vt. 
1 SO FARMS FOR SALE 
Valley, Hucks Co.. I’enn., from 5 to 200 acres; now is the 
tiiiio to buy. New catalogue. HORACE 0, REEDER, Newlowii, Pa. 
STUMP PULLER 
^^.Smith Grubber .Co. ^ 
CATALOG FREE-DEPT.49, LA CRESCENT. MiNN. 
I 
How to Resilver a MiiTor 
Ctin Dr. Crane tell us how to resilver 
mirrors at home? Local glazier asks 
about .$1 per .square foot to do the job, 
and new mirror gla.ss is very high in price. 
Monmouth Beach, X. J. G. w. 
You can rosilver mirrors at home or 
anywhere else if you are willing to prac¬ 
tice awhile and take gre.at care and be 
very clean, hut it is pjirtly an art and 
has to be learned and practiced. The 
basic formula, the reduction of a salt of 
.silver to the metal, is so simple that any 
liigh-school student of chemistry will 
write it out on paper for you, but. like 
so many easily written formulas, the 
thing that happens is probably very com¬ 
plex. One dictionary of [iroccsscs gives 
uo less than l.o recipe's for this one 
thing, and when you find a lot of ways to 
do an apparently simple thing, you may 
ho sure that none of them works any too 
well. The simplest of the lot works fairly 
wi'll, aud is as follows: 
^[ake HI) a solution of nitrate of silver, 
one part by weight, in rain or distilled 
water, K! jiarts by weight, let it stand a 
day and filter through filter paper or ab¬ 
sorbent cotton. Take out about a third 
of it and set it one side while you drop 
into the other two-thirds, drop by drop 
with constant stirring, strong ammonia 
water. The silver solution will first 
cloud and then slowly clciir. When it 
has cleared, add a portion of the thiyd 
you set aside: it will darken again and 
you again clear it with the ammonia 
water a drop at a time, with constant 
stirring. Then add another portion of 
the third and again clear. The object of 
this division and repeated addition is to 
avoid getting too much ammonia in. You 
must leave the .solution just a bit cloudy, 
then let it stand for a day and then filter 
it into a very clean bottle. Dork it. set 
it in a dark place and it will keep in¬ 
definitely. 
Xow take one-iiuarter jiart by Aveight 
of Bochelle .salt (so^lium aud pota.ssium 
t:irtr:ite), to IG parts by weight Av.-iter, a 
quarter of an ounce to a pint Avill give 
you plenty, and. if you have chosen this 
amount, add 10 grains of silver nitrate, 
and bring to a sharp boil in an enamel 
di.sli. It will speedily get very black. I^et 
it cool and filter with care into a very 
clean bottle, 'and make up to the former 
vidume if you have boiled away any sig- 
nific.ant amount. This will also keep 
if well corked and in the dark. 
Xow prejiare your glass. It must be of 
the best quality, and very white, for if it 
is wavy you will get a distorted image 
and if it is of a bluish or greenish ca.st 
your reflection Avill be “^off color,” and 
the ladies will not like the effect. The 
side which is to take the silver must he 
very ch'an indeed. I’robably the best way 
to make it so is to Avash with soap and 
water and then coat with a paste of bi¬ 
chromate of pota.sh and sulphuric acid 
and leave this on for an hour or so, Avash 
in running water and dry by evaporation 
in a room free from dust, keeping the side 
to he silvered the hottom side during-the 
drying. When dry, put a walTof wax or 
putty about a quarter of an inch deep 
all around the side to he .silvered and set 
the gla.ss on a level surface. Protect from 
falling bits of dust :ind lint now, for 
there is a few moments’ wait Avhile you 
take equal parts of the two .solutions you 
have made, in quantity such that the 
united volumes will just fill your little 
wall, and warm them to Mood heat, say 
100 degrees Fahrenheit. 
It is advisable to find out what the 
volume is that you Avant by using a sim¬ 
ilar glass with ])utty wall and plain 
water. Wax is far better than putty for 
the wall, and the jirofossionals have stand¬ 
ard sizes of di.slu's into which the glass 
fits. 
X'ow mix the warmed solutions and 
pour at once onto the prepared glass and 
let it alone. Deposition is over in an 
hour or less : pour off the exhausted so¬ 
lution, remove the wall, and wash vei’.v 
well in running water, hut look out you 
do not pour on the water too hard. Then 
set on edge to dry When well dried 
flow with some good varni.sh. and when 
this is dry add a heavy varni.sh or jiaint. 
If I stop here .somebody will promptly 
write in and tell you to use formaldehyde, 
as it is a much better reducing agent. 
Pcrhajis it is, hut it did not work as well 
with me. However, here is the formula : 
Prepare a solution of nitrate of silver 
one to 14 and add ammonia as before till 
the clond has almost gone. Add to each 
8T-> ounces of this ,S0 drops of the com¬ 
mercial 40 per cent formaldehyde solu¬ 
tion. and at once jionr on the prepared 
gla.s.s. washing, drying and varnishing a.s 
before after the deposition ac'tion is over, 
which is sooner than in the first case. 
F.'n. CR.\XF.. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a “square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
Above the Fke.vcii Li.xes, by Stuart 
Walcott.—A Collection of letters home 
from a young American airman, who 
went abroad before the I’^irtcd States de¬ 
clared war, to fly for Fr;mce. The rec¬ 
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with boyish entliiisiasm, give us some of 
the most absorbing stories of the war. 
Stuart Walcott’s letters have the same 
appeal as Victor Chapman’s, and like his, 
cea.se suddenly with the end of the young 
writer’s life. Published by the Priuceton 
University Press, Priuceton, N. J.; price 
$ 1 . 00 , 
What Are Dry, 
Comfortable Feet 
Worth to You? 
A MAN with wet, uncomfortable feet isn’t at his 
best, nor is he happy. A great army of over ten 
million people wear “Ball-Band” year in and year out 
and are assured of the great durability, economy and 
foot comfort which is found only in “Ball-Band”— 
the kind marked with the Red Ball. 
'BAUMAN D~ 
It will pay you to look for the Red Ball. Keep this round, 
red mark firmly in mind. Over 60,000 of the best dealers 
in the United States sell “Ball-Band.” Ask your dealer. 
If your dealer is not able to supply you promptly with the particular type of 
**Ball-Band” Boots or Arctics you desire, we can only ask you to be patient. 
Many of our boys in France are wearing “ Ball-Band” Rubber Boots and Arctics. 
Meantime we are doing our utmost to supply, as quickly and as fully as possible, 
the wants of Ball-Band ” wearers at home. 
MISHAWAKA WOOLEN MFC. CO,, 333 Water St., Mishawaka, IncL 
*‘The House That Pays Millions for Quality" 
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UNITED STATES 
GOVERNMENT 
Wealher proof— J Roofing Products 
For lasting service and fire protection use metal 
roofing—adapted to rural and city properties. 
APOLLO-KETSTONE^alvanixed Sheets are carefully manufac¬ 
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For lino residences and public buildings KktstoneOoppkb Stkel 
Roofing Tin Plates are unexcelled. Look for the Keystone added 
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AMERICAN SHEET AND TIN PLATE COMPANY, Plttsbunth, Pa. 
Ill 
Odorlesa—Sanitary—Germ-Proof [ 
Every home without sowerapo, plumbinir or I 
runninir water needs one. Anyone cun install. I 
Placed m any room in house. 10,000 in use. I 
U, S. HEALTH BUREAU APPROVES 
Says:* "Chemical Closet complies with Ye* I 
quirements." Abolish cold outdoor closet. I 
Germ-life killed by chemicals. State Hoards L 
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Delivered prices quoted on 
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THE E. BIGLOW CO., New London, 0. 
USHMAN 
Light - Weight Farm Motors 
Cushman Engines weigh only one-fourth as much as ordinary farm engines, but 
they are balanced so carefully and governed so accurately that they run much 
more steadily and quietly. Light weight and higher speed mean less gasoline, 
more jobs, easier handling and steadier nmning. 
4 H. P. weighs only 190 lbs., being only 48 lbs. per horsepower. 
Besides doing all ordinary jobs, it may be attached to any grain 
binder, saving a team, and in a wet harvest saving the crop. Also it 
may be used on com binders and potato diggers. Very easy to 
move around from job to job. 
8 H. P. weighs only 320 lbs., being only 40 lbs. per horsepower. For 
all medium jobs. Also may be attached to hay presses, com pickers, 
saw rigs. etc. 8 H. P. and larger Cushman Engines are all double c ylind er. 
15 H. P. weighs only 780 lbs., being only 52 lbs. per horse-^ 
power. For heavier farm jobs, such as 6-hole com shellers,^ 
ensilage cutters, large feed grinders, small threshers, etc. 
20 H. P. weighs only 1200 lbs., being only 60 lbs. per, 
horsepower, hor heavy duty jobs, such as shredders, ^ 
shellers, grain separators, heavy sawing, etc. 
Cushman Engines stand up under wear and tear and do 
not wear unevenly and lose compression. Every running 
part enclosed, free from dust and dirt and properly lubri¬ 
cated. Equipped with Throttling Governor, Carburetor, 
Friction Clutch Pulley and Water Circulating Pump. Ask' 
for book on Light-Weight Engines. 
CUSHMAN MOTOR WORKS 
847 North 21st Street Lincoln, Nt^brasAa 
