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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
November 29, 1919 
Simple Science 
By Dr. F. D. Crane 
Sweeping Powder; Waterproof Enamel 
IIow is sweeping powder made? ('an 
I get a white enamel which will stand 
water? mrs. h.g. p. 
Skillman, N. J. 
Most of the sweeping powders we have 
seen are proprietary articles, and the 
method of manufacture is not published, 
but if you will get a few quarts of clean 
and not too tine sawdust and work into it. 
with constant stirring, :i very little thin 
lubricating oil in which you have dis¬ 
solved a little creosote, you will have a 
sweeping powder which will compare fav¬ 
orably with the purchased article Of 
course, if the green color charms you. 
you can add that too. but it will gather 
no more dust from being green. Just how 
much oil you are to use depends on the 
sort of sawdust- and the sort of oil: we 
cannot give exact figures. And you will 
find the stirring in a little work; on a 
large scale it is of course done mechani¬ 
cally. The creosote is largely used for 
the mental effect ; you can omit it if it is 
any trouble to obtain. Creosote shingle 
stain will do well enough. 
Many concerns advertise waterproof 
white enamels, and they are quite per¬ 
fect. You will find them advertised for 
sale in various magazines, and the large 
paint stores and department stores all 
carry them, and will give you details for 
a letter of inquiry. 
Carbonate of Lime in Apple Syrup; 
Keeping Cider 
Why is powdered calcium carbonate, 
or carbonate of lime, used in making 
apple syrup? What i.s your idea of keep¬ 
ing apple cider? Is benzoate of soda or 
salicylic acid, one ounce to the barrel, 
45 to 50 gal., advisable? w. c. M. 
Huntington, N. Y. 
Polish for Automobile Bodies 
What can I use to rub up auto bodies 
which will not hold dust and will keep 
them looking well? T. M. 
There are a number of things on the 
market which are probably better than 
anything you can make on a small scale, 
but if you must experiment, try a little 
cannahuba wax dissolved in carbon tet¬ 
rachloride and colored with an oil soluble 
dye, if you can get. it. The wax alone 
makes a good polish if you have the pa¬ 
tience to rub it up, and if you want a less 
volatile solvent, try turpentine, which 
may dry sticky and may attack some var¬ 
nishes. As much as half the volume of 
Michigan State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Detroit. Dec. 2-5; Geo. 
B. Law, Bangor. Mich., secretary. 
Missouri State Poultry Show, Mar¬ 
shall. Mo., Dee. 2-0. 
Greater Arizona State Fair. Phoenix, 
Ariz., Dec. 3-8. 
National Farmers’ Exposition and Ohio 
Apple Show. Terminal Auditorium, To¬ 
ledo. 0„ Dec. 4-12. 
Ohio State Grange, animal meeting. 
Columbus, Dee. 9-12. 
Pennsylvania State Grange, annual 
meeting, Pittsburgh. Dec 9-12. 
Michigan State Grange, annual meet¬ 
ing, Saginaw. Dec. 9-12. 
Ohio Apple Show, State University, 
Columbus, Dec. 11-13. 
American Bornological Society, St. 
Louis, Mo.. Dec. 30-31 and .Tan. 1. 1920; 
secretary. Ej R. Lake, 2033 Park Road 
N. W.. Washington. D C. 
Winter courses.-Ohm State College, Co¬ 
lumbus. .Tan. 5-Feb. 27. 1920. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, thirty- 
fourth annual meeting; Chestertown. Md., 
Jan. 6-8, 1920. 
Vermont State Poultry Association, an 
nual show. St. Albans,' Jan. 6-9, 1920. B 
P. Greene, secretary. 
New York State Horticultural Society, 
Rochester. Jan. 13-15, 1920. 
Agricultural Week, Trenton, N. J., 
Jan. 12-17, 1920. 
Farm Products Show, Harrisburg, Pa., 
Jan. 20-23. 1920. 
New York State Agricultural Society, 
Albany, .Tan. 21-22. 1920. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, fifty- 
third annual meeting, Jan. 28-29, Ohio 
State University, Columbus; secretary, 
R. B. Cruickshank. Columbus. 
. New York State Grange, annual meet¬ 
ing, Rochester, Feb. 9-12. 1920. 
Philadelphia Markets 
BI'TTER. 
Best prints. 77 to 79c; tub creamery, 
best, 73 to 75c; common to good, 65 to 
70c; packing stock. 50 to 52c. 
EGGS. 
Choice candled. 80 to 82c; gathered, 
best, 6S to 70c; common to good, 56 to 
60c. 
Great Hog Protits 
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MUON 
/Hustles Heavy Hogs to Market 
Cuts your feeding costs. Have bigger 
pigs, fatter hogs. Get them ready tor 
market in far less time. You can do it. 
Prove at our risk that Milkoline is the 
surest farm money maker known. 
Guaranteed Trial Otter MJL 8 i‘h.?™ 
barrel, or a barrel. Take 30 days- feed half to your 
Iiors and poultry. If not absolutely satisfied return 
the unused part and we will refund every cent you 
paid us—no chargo for the half you used. 
MilLnlino bus a base of Cure Modified Butter- 
ITIIIIVUIUIC milk to which essential fats and 
acids are added. Milkoline comes in condensed form. 
Will keep indefinitely in any cliimate. Will not 
mould, sour or rot. Flies will not rome near it. 
On o Cull An for feeding mix one part Milkoline 
u\j a UdllUII with 50 parts of water or swill and 
feed with your usual grain feeds. It helps keep hogs 
healthy, their appetites keen and makes moro pork 
per bushel of grain. Stop buying buttermilk of un¬ 
certain quality. Dse Mllkolino and you will al¬ 
ways be sure of uniform acidity, and at a cost of 
2c a gallon or less when fed as directed. Many 
users say Milkoline saves them one-third on feed 
bills because it makes their hogs and poultry as¬ 
similate all their feed. 
1 AnnOZL PcnGt W. H. Graham. Middleton, 
l'it/V/O ri Util Mo., writes that he got an ex¬ 
tra $120 worth of pork from $30 worth of Milkoline 
in a sixty day feed. He made an actual test of this 
lot of hogs in comparison with another bunch. Wo 
could quote hundreds of testimonials, but the best 
proof is that wo legally guarantee Mllkolino to be 
satisfactory or refund your money, (you aro the 
judge) and refer you to S. W. Blvd. Bank of Kan¬ 
sas City, Mo., and R. (1. Dunn & Co. MILKOLINE 
Is just as good for Poultry as for Hogs. 
Order from Nearest Dealer or Direct from this Ad. 
Send check or money order and ask for free book¬ 
let. “Hustles Heavy Hogs to Market. 1 
5 Gals. 
at Creamery 
$1.50 
per 
Kal. 
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1.25 
per 
gal. 
15 *• 
1.10 
per 
Kal. 
32 “ 
1.00 
per 
sal. 
55 ** 
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per 
gal. 
No Charge tor kegs or barrels. Prices F. O. B. 
Nearest Dealer or Kansas City, Mo. 
THE MILKOLINE MFG. CO. WnSITO. B ^ s 
Distributed by: 
W. J. Blanchard. 880 Plymouth St.. Abblngton, Mass. 
Anderson & Scofiold, Fishkill, N. Y. 
Hoffer & Garmon, Harrisburg. Pa. 
Frank S. Jonos, 305 Lanvalo St., Baltimore, Md. 
Carbonate of lime is added to the apple 
juice and the precipitate removed to re¬ 
duce the acidity. It its a harmless ad¬ 
dition, for, even if you get in too much, 
it is so insoluble that it is all filtered nr 
strained out later, and you have a better 
syrup as a result. 
Opinions differ as to the use of the 
preservatives you mention. We do not 
think they should be used if the eider is 
to be offered for sale, unless that fact is 
clearly stated to the buyer, and even then 
there may be some State or local health 
regulation against it. But we are unable 
to share the prejudice against these pre¬ 
servatives when used in small amounts in 
cider or similar fruit juices for domestic 
use. The quantities which you quote are 
quite small, in fact rather too small to 
much good unless the cider is very fresh 
indeed, and even if you doubled them you 
would not get as much of either acid in 
an ordinary drink of cider as you would 
if you ate a dish of cranberry sauc*- or 
chewed a few wintergreen leaves. Tt 
would be quite another matter if cider 
so preserved made up a large aud regular 
portion of your daily diet. After all. the 
one sure preservative is heat, but the 
flavor.of apple juice is so delicate that it 
is somewhat the worse for sterilization. 
Removing Rust from Drive Well Point 
What acid will cut the rust from a 
drive well point and not harm the brass 
screen? s. e. r. 
I do not know of any that you can use 
if the point is in the well. If it is out 
of the ground, where you can watch the 
action, you might try hydrochloric (mu¬ 
riatic) acid, using it with great care. But 
this will attack brass slowly. It may be 
you have a bronze screen, which will not 
be much affected. 
Thinning Asphalt Paint 
T have a can of asphalt paint which 
has been open to the air two years, and it 
is thick, like jelly, floating does not seem 
to help it much. What will thin it? 
McDonough, N. A. L. G. 
There are so many mixtures known as 
asphalt paint that we can only guess at 
this distance, and suggest that you take 
out a little and try it with kerosene or 
gasoline or naphtha. Tf none «>f rhese 
are a solvent, try benzene (not benzine, 
which i.s the same as naphtha), and then 
spirits of turpentine. It is possible that 
linseed oil will thin it if it is warmed. 
But there is a chance that, the stuff was 
mixed with China wood oil in the first 
place, and that this has “jellied.” and if 
so there is small chance of thinning it to 
work well. 
Cleaning Sink Drain 
The terra cotta drain from my kitchen 
sink has become clogged with something 
like soft soap. I have tried lye, but it 
does not clean it. What will? a. R. 
Dunnsville, Va. 
It seems probable that you have an ac¬ 
cumulation of lime aud perhaps also mag¬ 
nesia soaps, especially if your water is 
rather hard, and these are not affected by 
lye and are almost insoluble, even in boil¬ 
ing water. It’ this is the case, you will 
probably have to take up the drain and 
swab it out. 
A Small Farmer 
Above we give a picture of the coining 
farmer, Andrew Griffin. lie has just 
passed his third year. His happiest time 
i.s when he can be with the older folks do¬ 
ing farm work. This picture represents 
ittle Andrew and the good result of 
Dibble’s Russet potatoes. G. w. G. 
Long Island. 
gasoline may be added to the tetrachloride 
before you get a seriously inflammable 
mixture, aud will much cheapen it. 
Sticky Fly-paper 
What is the sticky coating on fly pa¬ 
per? A. F. K. 
Walton, X. Y. 
The makers do not say exactly what 
they use. but a very similar substance can 
be made by melting equal parts of rosin 
and rape oil together, with good stirring, 
and adding about a third of the weight of 
a thick turpentine. So much depends on 
the quality of the oil and rosin that you 
will have to “cut and try” till you hit a 
mixture that is just right when cold. It 
may be coated on the paper with a wide 
brush when warm. The manufacturers 
use a coating machine, of course. 
White Lead Paint for Tin 
I have white lead paint which I want 
to use on tin roofs, but am told it will 
corrode the tin. Is this so? b. J. n. 
The white lead will not hurt the tin, 
hut a white lead paint will not stay on 
tin roofs, and the moisture will get be¬ 
neath it and the tin will rust. If you 
must use it. get a mineral paint made 
especially for tin roofs, and put on a good 
first coat of that, aud then the lead. But 
at l est the lead is not suitable ; you may 
far better get a paint made for the pur¬ 
pose and use your lead where it will give 
real value in paint protection. 
Sweetening Power of Sugar or Molasses 
IIow many pounds of granulated sugar 
would be equal to a gallon of molasses 
for sweetening? s. D. w. 
Impossible to say. .i' moFiskes'is not all 
alike. The best sorts Imv* about half the 
sweetening power of sugar, and a gallon 
would take the place of 5 or 6 lbs of 
sugar. But the effect would not be the 
same, as the flavor is not the same, and 
the sweet of molasses is a complex of 
several sweet tastes. 
Cominq Farmers' Meetings 
Tri-State Farm Products Show, Cin¬ 
cinnati. Ohio. Nov. 29-Dec. 6. 
Pen-heron Si.ciet.v of America, annual 
meeting of stockholders. Congress Hotel, 
Chicago; Ill.. Doe. t. * 
Inter-State Milk Producers’ Associa¬ 
tion. animal meeting. Continental Hotel, 
Philadelphia. Dec. 1-2: secretary R. W, 
Balderstou, Kennett Square, Pa. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting. Atlantic City, 
Dec. 1-3. 
Virginia Star- Horticultural Society, 
annual meting, Roanoke. Dec. 2-4. 
Virginia State Coro Growers, annual 
convention aud exhibit, Roanoke, Va., 
Dec. 2-4. 
FRUITS. 
Apples, bu. bkt., $1 to $2.25; bbl.. $3.50 
to $8.50; pears. Kieffer. bu., $1.50 to 
$2.25; grapes, 4-lb. bkt., 25 to 40c. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potato market firm. Potatoes. 100 lbs., 
$2.60 to $3; %-bu. bkt., 60c to $1.10. 
Sweet potatoes, bbl.. $2 to $4. Cabbage, 
ton. $20 to $32. Onions, 100 lbs., $4 
to $5.50. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls. 32 tn 34c; chickens, 25 to 28c; 
ducks, 30 to 34c; turkeys, 35 to 40c; 
roosters, 21 to 22c. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Fowls, 30 to 36c; chickens, 30 to 34c; 
ducks. 35 to 40e; squabs, doz., $7.50 to 
$9.25. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. No. 1, Timothy, $33; No. 2. $28 
to $31 ; No. 3, $24 to $28; clover mixed, 
$26 to $30. Straw, rye, $14 to $15. 
Creamery Patrons’ Circular No. 21, 
TT. S. Dept, of Agriculture. Dairy Divi¬ 
sion. says: “The amount of water that 
a cow drinks will be found to have a di¬ 
rect relation to the amount of milk she 
produces: in general, the more water, the 
more milk. .It is essential, theu. to pro¬ 
vide all the water that a cow will drink, 
at any season of the year. In the Winter, 
especially in the Northern States, water 
must be warmed in order to produce the 
best results. Probably the easiest aud 
cheapest way to accomplish this is by 
using a tank heater.” 
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and all other kinds of 
Raw Furs Wanted 
for price list and ship, 
ping tags. Twenty-three 
years in business. 
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Trade Mark 284 Bridgo St., MONTGOMERY. N.Y. 
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