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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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verAlls 
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Blue Buckles give you the best-wearing indigo blue 
denim, guaranteed unbreakable seams, solid reinforced 
back band that makes ripping 
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impossible, real brass fittings and 
a fly that is cut into the garment, 
not separate and sewed on. Blue 
Buckle coats have free-sway rag- 
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Whether you are a farmer, en¬ 
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Jobbers Over All Co., Inc. 
Lynchburg, Va. 
Largest Manufacturers 
of Union Made Overalls 
ExclusivelyintheWorld. 
SELLING AGENTS 
W. T. Stewart Dept., 
Leonard Sales Co., 
64 Leonard Street. 
New York 
UP-TO-DATE FERTILIZERS FOR 
UP-TO-DATE FARMERS 
Are you a business farmer? Do you buy simply “Farmers’ Delight” or do you 
purchase unite of plant food? Now that the war is ended we can offer for the first 
time in quantity, two high-grade fertilizers: 
, AMMO-PHOS 
10.7% Nitrogen, (13% Ammonia), 47% available Phos. Acid 
Think of a “ 13-47”—sixty units of plant food in one ton! This phosphate of ammonia 
is a nearly pure chemical with its nitrogen in the form of ammonia and its phosphoric 
acid mostly soluble in water. Ammo-Phos is endorsed by experiment stations and 
agricultural scientists everywhere. It is especially suited for use alone for pushing peas 
and beans and for grains, or in conjunction with manure or tankage for general crops. 
AMMO-PHOS AND TANKAGE MIXTURE 
10% Nitrogen, (12% Ammonia), 25% available Phos. Acid 
Approximately one-half of the nitrogen is mineral and one-half organic, phosphoric 
acid mostly water soluble. . , 
These fertilizers leave no objectionable salines in the soil, are non-caustic, clean, 
fine-ground, dry, and are packed in 100-lb. bags. Prices extremely low, analysis 
considered. Potash furnished if desired. . , 
We arc also offering a full line of all fertilizer materials. Write us lor prices and 
formula suggestions for 1919. 
A. W. HIGGINS SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASS. 
Sows Any Fertilizer j 
ALLcommercial fertilizers and nitrate,phos- 
f-\ phate, guano, lime ashes, etc. Has the 
x only force feed that will sow any fertilizer 
made in large or small quantities. No springs 
or gears in box. Gauge quickly and easily set. 
Stevens Fertilizer Sower 
Let us send you the book showing how evenly and 
accurately this sower distributes in any amount from 
one hundred to several thousand pounds per acre. The 
book should be in your bands. It describes briefly 
many valuable farm tools. Write for it. 
Belcher & Taylor Agricultural Tool Co. 
Box 7S Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
ieal use. In its purest form quartz js a 
six-sided crystal capped with a six-<sided 
pyramid. Ilere and there you will find 
one with both ends perfect, though it is 
unusual to find them very symmetrical, 
but mostly the crystals are stuck fast, or 
have at some time been stuck fast to an¬ 
other stone. Sometimes *you will find a 
hole in the rock all stuck full of these 
crystals, and we think that sometinV that 
hole was full of quartz in solution, since, 
like, carbon dioxide, it is quite soluble 
in water with heat and pressure, and that 
the crystals grew as it cooled just as the 
crystals grow from a sugar solution to 
make “rock candy.” 
Quartz will also conic out <>f its solu¬ 
tion as tin 1 salt of an alkali in the form 
of a jelly. Silicate of soda, water glass, 
is,;i good example, for, treated even with a 
weak acid like vinegar, the jelly appears 
And in time this jelly sets to the rock we 
may call agate or chalcedony, or. it it has 
myriads of little cracks in it which re¬ 
flect the light, it will be an opal. The 
hands in agate have long been a puzzle. 
In the iast few years it has been- shown 
that they can he duplicated in quartz 
jellies and it has been called “rhythmic 
precipitatim,” hut we are about as far 
as before from knowing the real reason. 
Still, if you can make a thing work to 
order you are not far from knowing irhy 
it works. 
The quartz crystals, as well as the 
agates and chalcedonies and jaspers, are 
often colored with traces of other ele¬ 
ments. Iron usually gives reds or browns, 
manganese gives the purple we call ame¬ 
thyst. and we get that name from the 
Greeks, who had a tale that the owner 
of a cup of this stone could drink all the 
wine from it he wished and still walk 
steadily. Quite a number of these colored 
quartzes are true gem stones, and are 
well worth looking for, especially if you 
are in a region where they are known to 
be. But quartz is mostly found massive, 
semi-crystalline usually at the same time 
and this is the source of the white peb-, 
hies which are so frequent on the sea¬ 
shore, sometimes making up the whole 
beach for miles Worn by the waves 
into round and oblong forms, they slowly 
go to sand and from such sands, the relics 
of ancient beaches, come the sandstone 
rocks which sometimes show the original 
pebbles here and there. 
Another sort of stone which often at¬ 
tracts attention, but which is of no value, 
is that which contains bits of the scaly 
mineral called mica. This is a complex 
silicate, and if it is found in fairly large 
plates is rather valuable, but it is rare 
in that form. It is oftenest found in 
little glittering scales, which frequently 
have a yellow sheen. An examination 
with a hand magnifying glass will show 
what it is. , 
But the mineral which has been treas¬ 
ured by many is the sulphide of- iron, 
often called fool’s gold. It is known as 
pyrite because some samples strike fire 
very nicely, and it is one of the most 
attractive of the worthless rocks. A red 
hot shovel will drive out some of the 
sulphur and blacken it. so it is easy to 
tell it from real gold. Further, it is 
very brittle, which gold is not, so a rap 
with a hammer is the qpiekest test. Ir 
often occurs in quantity, and then, if it 
is near shipping facilities, it may have 
some value, since many tons of it are 
burned in order to make sulphuric acid 
from Ihe fumes. If it has copper in it 
as well as iron the cinder may be of 
considerable value, and a copper pyrite 
is well worth examination for gold, but 
the gold is in such a form that it takes 
an expert to find it. 
There are hundreds of other attractive 
minerals, and many that are worth col¬ 
lecting and studying, and as soon as you 
you can recognize the common forms tin* 
subject is hound to increase in interest, 
even if it is only taken up as an amuse¬ 
ment. 
Sunday as a Day of Rest 
Is it true that "there is no rest for 
farm women on Sunday,” as Eliza¬ 
beth Sears declares in her article 
"Who Feeds the Nation” in Harper’s 
Monthly ? Or has Miss Sears in mind 
conditions as they existed up to the 
last two or three years ? 
It is quite certain that the men 
rest on Sunday—and eat—and the 
women who cook the big Sunday 
dinners do not get much rest until 
they learn how to take the "short 
cuts” that save unnecessary work in 
‘hot kitchens. One of the most im¬ 
portant of these "short cuts” is the 
new method of dessert-making. In 
place of the heavy puddings and pies 
which have always accompanied the 
heavy Sunday dinners, fruity 
desserts are served—desserts that 
are sparkling and beautiful and de¬ 
licious beyond comparison. 
These Jell-0 desserts, which just 
fit the Sunday appetite are made by- 
dissolving Jell-O in boiling water. 
It is done in a minute, and adds a 
good many minutes to woman’s 
share of Sunday rest. 
There are six flavors of Jell-0: 
Strawberry, Raspberry, Lemon, 
Orange, Cherry, Chocolate. Two for 
25 cents at any grocer’s or any gen¬ 
eral store. 
The new Jell-0 Book is the most 
beautiful ever issued and it contains 
more useful information for house¬ 
wives than any other. Send u > your 
name and address and we will mail 
you one of the books, free, of course. 
THE GENESEE PURE FOOD COMPANY. 
Le Roy, N. Y., and Bridgeburg. Ont. 
Acid for Cutting Rust: Roof Paint 
1. What acid is used to cut the rust 
out of galvanized iron pipe? How much 
does it cost aud how is it used? 2. What 
can I best use to paint corrugated steel 
roofing? L. u. u. 
Vermont. 
1. Hydrochloric, also known as muri¬ 
atic, is the acid used, and the commercial 
grade costs only a few cents a pound, 
wholesale, hut how much some retailer 
will charge you is more than we can 
guess. It is diluted about one to four or 
five of water (you have to use judgment 
as well as acid), run into the pipe, which 
is plugged at one eud. and allowed to stay 
1 a few honrs, run out, the pipe Hushed 
and the treatment repeated. Several 
treatments with rather weak acid are 
much better than one or two with strong 
acid, the actual acid used being the same. 
Of course, if the rust is nearly through 
the pipe in spots the aeid will help it 
along, but if the pipe is in fair shape it 
will not be much attacked. 
2. There are ready-mixed roof paints 
with tar or asphalt bases which are much 
the liest thing for roofs. Better get. one 
of these from a reliable maker. Doing the 
mixing yourself is quite a job, as the in¬ 
gredients should be mixed hot. though the 
finished paint is put on cold, like any 
other paint. 
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Potato 
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r. Plants more acresper day. 
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hments for peas, beans and 
Mr furnished 
when desired. Write for FREE HOOK 
containing valuable information on 
this important crop, also attrac¬ 
tive folder illustrating the 
Aspinwall complete line of 
potato machinery—Cutters, 
Planters, Sprayers, Digger^ 
and Sorters. 
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Largest Makers of 
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Aspinwall Mfg. Co. 
660 Sabin St. 
Jackson, Michigan 
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order. 10 per cent, deposit on nil 
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837 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
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Lady (to colored servant) : “I’ve told 
you several times, Lily, to put your hand 
over your mouth when yon yawn.” Lily : 
“Yas’m. but 1 got bit the last time I tried 
it.”—Credit Lost. 
FEEDS AND FEEDING, by Henry and 
Morrison. Price, $2.50. The best book on 
this subject. For sale by Rural New-Yorker 
