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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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In every locality there’s plenty to do. 
You’ll be busy 7 to 10 months in the 
year. The income is from $15 to $20 
a day, the expense little. Mr. Opfer is 
only one of many of our friends who are 
making that much and more with a 
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Traction Ditcher. 
With one helper jmu can dig more 
ditches each day than can fifteen men 
by hand. You make a perfect ditch at 
one cut. Farmers want traction ditch¬ 
ing—it’s better, can be done quicker and 
at less cost. When they know you have one, 
you’ll be kept busy; you won’t have to look for 
work, it will come to you. Many Buckeye own¬ 
ers have six to twelve months’ work ahead. 
$15 to $20 daily is the net average earnings of 
hundreds of Buckeye owners. .Here is a propo¬ 
sition that will give you a standing and make 
you a big profit each year. 
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A book of solid facts, tells how others are 
coining money, how they get the work, how 
much it costs to do it and all the details of 
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SMALL INVESTMENT 
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When You’re Ready 
PAYS GOOD PROFITS 
Capacities from 20 
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SMALL THRESHER 
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Even with a small acreage of grain, you need this thresher. It will thresh out your grain cleanly, quickly 
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to 40 bushels of oats per hour. We would like to tell you more—the advantages to you, aud the reason* 
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Sires to fit your requirements at prices you can afford. Weigh light and 
Stand heavy service. Staunch construction—little repair expense. “A 
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for hilly districts. Before getting a thresher, get our figures, 
A.W.GRAY’S SONS, Inc. POULTNEY’, VT. 
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It gets those weeds 
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BOOKS WORTH BUYING 
Animal Breeding, Shaw. 1.50 
Breeding Farm Animals. Marshall.... 2.00 
Principles of Breeding, Davenport. 3.00 
Study of Breeds, Shaw. 1.50 
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Cheese Making, Decker. 1.75 
Business of Dairying, Lane. 1.25 
Dairy Bacteriology, Conn. 1.21; 
Dairy Chemistry, Snyder. 1.00 
W. 30 TH STREET, NEW YORK 
Simple Science 
By Dr. F. D. Crane 
Fire Extinguishers 
Can you give me some formulas for fire 
extinguishers for use on the farm? 
Bridgton, Me. F. C. c. 
The best one its water, with some salt 
in it during the Winter, kept in heavy 
galvanized pails. These can be bought 
with half round, bulged bottoms, espe¬ 
cially for the purpose, and not well 
adapted for anything else. They are kept 
in racks here and there, usually two or 
three in a place, aud must, of course, he 
kept full of water. The water will evap¬ 
orate a little slower if there are a few 
drops of heavy lubricating oil on the sur¬ 
face, and this trace of oil will not help a 
fire any to signify if the contents of . the 
pail are used. The trace of oil will also 
prevent the pails being mosquito breeders. 
The next best thing is probably the 
liquid fire extinguisher, which has to be 
purchased. It is filled with a solution 
of carbonate of soda and a little acid is 
so arranged that it mixes, in use, and 
the pressure sprays tin 1 contents through 
a short hose. Another device, also to be 
I purchased, is the little tube of carbon 
■ Letruehloride, sold under a fancy name, 
land so arranged that it can be sprayed on 
the flame. This is especially for gasoline 
tiros, and one should bo handy if you 
keep your car in the barn or near it. 
Baking soda, which can be bought in bulk 
I Snutj Place far a Quiet Xap 
*cr a few cents a pound, is a good fire 
killer if you can get it on the fire. It is 
frequently sold at. a fancy price in two 
long, thin, telescoped tubes. 
Milk Chocolate and Almond Bars 
IIow are milk chocolate aud almond 
bars made, and what would be the equip¬ 
ment needed to make them in a small 
way ? F. K. i). 
North Adams, Mass. 
We have looked this up in professional 
candy-makers’ recipe books ami it looks 
to be rather too much for the amateur. 
The chocolate, sugar and powdered or 
condensed milk are mixed and warmed 
just to the point where the chocolate and 
sugar cream together, water being added 
if dried skim-milk is used, and they are 
very thoroughly stirred. For this you 
must at least have a steam jacketed kettle, 
4tml. better, a vacuum pan. and the stir¬ 
ring calls for quite a little power. The 
“almonds,” which may he from a North 
China apricot tree, it. is said, are then 
added and the mixture run into the molds. 
The sort with a softer center have the 
molds lined with a the harder cream first, 
the center is run in from another mix, 
and the top, which is finally the bottom, 
run on from the first mixer. 
You might try five parts cocoa, three 
parts powdered sugar and one part dried 
skim-milk, with a few drops of vanilla 
j flavor, well mixed dry and then creamed 
under constant stirring in a double boil¬ 
er, and see if you feei encouraged to in¬ 
vest in a larger outfit. But a power- 
drive and steam kettle will surely be need¬ 
l'd. If you decide to go ahead we can tell 
I you who will sell them to you. 
Harness Dressing 
IIow can I make a good oil for harness? 
We have tallow, lard and beeswax on the 
farm. I like nentsfoot oil, but it lias been 
scarce and high, and 1 think the last I got 
was something else, as it dried out. 
Mohawk, N. Y. o. P. B. 
Nentsfoot oil is the best, just because 
it does not dry at all. for a drying oil is 
very bad. While made from the feet of 
entile, that from the feet of sheep is prac¬ 
tically the same, and all you have to do is 
pound the bones so the oil can escape, and 
then cook them for a while, skimming off 
the oil when cold. Castor oil comes next, 
but that 1ms been scarce and high also, 
although the price is now going lower. 
The best local substitute for nentsfoot is 
probably lard oil, which will drip from 
lard hung in a cloth in a rather warm 
place. Cotton oil may be used to make 
lard or suet softer so they will penetrate 
better, and three parts of tallow to one 
of nentsfoot will do very well. The idea 
is not only to keep water out of the leath¬ 
er, but to grease the little fibers of the 
leather itself, so they slide and bend witli- 
jout breaking. 
' Oils which also give a polish are not in 
so much demand as in the dear old days 
when ten thousand tunes ten thousand in 
sparkling raiment bright would go out 
buggy riding most every Sunday night, but. 
they can be made by adding more or less 
wax to the oil, taking one part by weight 
of oil, wanning and adding one-quarter 
part mutton suet and one-sixteenth part 
each of spermaceti ami beeswax, and con¬ 
tinuing to warm and stir till all is dis¬ 
solved. Turpentine is often advised, hut 
it has a poor effect on the leather, al¬ 
though more wax can be gotten into so¬ 
lution by using some of it. This mixture 
is polished after allowing it to soak in 
for a time. More beeswax makes it easier 
to rub up and is harmless. F. u. c. 
Prepared Gelatin 
What are prepared gelatin prepara¬ 
tions made of? Are they clean and tit 
to eat? I have used hut very little of 
it. The other day I turned the boiling 
water on the contents of a package of 
raspberry flavor, and the steam arising 
from it was anything but appetizing. My 
youngsters '•smelled” and declared they 
would not eh I it. I set it away to cool, 
and when cold the" taste was like the 
smell;, did not seem tit to eat, and we 
threw it out. 1 have another package 
purchased at the same time, only different 
flavor, but I hesitate to try that. 
New York. MBS. A. ,T. S. 
All these prepared gelatins are about 
the same tiling, that is, a high-grade glue 
or gelatin with a flavor added, and you 
seem to have had the hard luck to get a 
package which was not quite up to 
standard, or else the flavor was below 
par. The whole lot have a gluey smell 
when the hot water is added, but it 
ought not to be unpleasant if you know 
what it is. The preparation you mention 
is as good as any of them, so far as we 
know, but you will probably get a better 
finished article if you get. one of the 
standard unflavorod gelatins, and flavor 
it yourself .with vanilla. lemon or some of 
your own excellent preserves. 
Discolored Water Supply 
We have water in the house from a 
spring well up on a knoll, and some dis¬ 
tance from the house, which has always 
given satisfaction until lately. It runs 
clear and cold, but if boiled or allowed to 
stand it becomes brown in color and has 
a large amount of sediment, which resem¬ 
bles iron rust. I have looked at the spring 
and it is all right, walled and covered, 
and the water directly from the spring 
does t.he same tiling. Is there anything 
which can be put in the spring to improve 
the wafer? w. n. 
Washington Depot, Conn. 
Nothing at all can bo put in the spring, 
and why it should begin to give a water 
heavily charged with iron, held in solu¬ 
tion by a little carbonic acid, no doubt, is 
more than anyone can tell. It is not an 
unheard-of tiling, however, and it may 
correct itself in a short time. Then again 
it may not. and you will have a "chaly¬ 
beate” spring, which some people think 
has great health-giving virtues. It has 
one lliing in its favor, at any rate, and 
that is that the water is entirely harmless, 
and even the iron rust cannot hurt you 
any. But if you wash with the water it 
is apt to be annoying, ami there is little 
that can be done. A few drops of am¬ 
monia and ammonium sulphide, or sodium 
sulphide, solution, will send all the iron 
out as a black precipitate, which can 
easily be filtered out, but that is quite a 
little trouble all the time. If the water 
does not get better after a while you may 
have to hunt another spring. A large, 
shallow settling tank would help some, 
but the water would taste pretty flat after 
going through it. Of course a little quick¬ 
lime would take all the iron out, but you 
would have a very hard water after the 
treatment, and you would not be the 
gainer. Take it all in all it looks as if a 
miracle was your only hope. 
Hard Rainwater 
Since putting a galvanized roof on my 
house the rainwater has been hard. Is 
there anything to do except paint? 
Savannah, N. Y. 1. i). B. 
Nothing. But are you very sure there 
is no leakage of ground water into your 
rainwater cistern? If you had sent your 
full name and address you would have 
promptly received directions for a test to 
determine if it was trouble from the roof 
or from something else. 
Removing Quicksilver from Gold 
I noted what an inquirer wrote about 
spilling tl*e quicksilver on gold. I had 
this happen once, and took it to a jeweler, 
and the jeweler said that about all that 
would take it out was to steam it out with 
steam at a very high degree of tempera¬ 
ture. lie did this and the gold was as 
good as new. o. u. w. 
“I like that clergyman’s preaching.” 
“Why?” "Well, he dives deeper into his 
subject, stays under longer, and comes up 
drier than anyone 1 have ever heard.”— 
Medbourne Australasian. 
