'The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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‘KeepMusterole 
on the Bath-room shelf 
Years ago the old-fashioned 
mustard plaster was the favor¬ 
ite remedy for rheumatism, 
lumbago, colds on the chest 
and sore throat. 
It did the work all right, but it was 
sticky and messy to apply and my how 
it did burn and blister 1 
The little white jar of Musterole has 
taken the place of the stern old mus¬ 
tard plaster. 
Keep this soothing ointment on your 
bathroom shelf and bring it out at the 
first cough or sniffle, at rheumatism’s 
first warning tingle. 
Made from pure oil of mustard, with 
the blister and sting taken out, Mus¬ 
terole penetrates the skin and goes 
right down to the seat of the trouble. 
To Mothers: Musterole is also made 
in milder form for babies and small 
children. Ask forChildren’sMusterole. 
35c and 65c jars and tubes; hospital size, $3. 
The Musterole Co., Cleveland, Ohio 
BETTER THAN A MUSTARD PLASTER 
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three styles—Coat with or without collar, 
and vest. 
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Countrywide Situation 
SOME PRICES HIGHER—POTATOES OUT OF 
LINE—APPLE STOCKS LIGHT 
The general tendency of farm prices 
was upward in November. The raise in¬ 
cluded many things the farmers buy, as 
well as what they sell, but at this time 
of the year farmers are selling more than 
they buy. Combining the prices of grain, 
cotton, hogs, cattle, butter, apples and 
some vegetables, it appears they will ex¬ 
change for more goods than in any recent 
season. It may be we are in for a spell 
of high prices all around as a result of 
the great stocks of gold held by our banks. 
The farmers could stand this kind of in¬ 
flation as well as anybody, provided they 
did not lose caution and go into debt to 
buy land and expand operations, as so 
many did in 1919 and 1920. The time to 
go into debt, if at all, is at hard times 
when land and labor are cheap and 
money will do its best. 
POTATOES OUT OF LINE 
In a season when quite a number of 
farm products are bringing satisfactory 
prices, potatoes are out of line. Eastern 
States are shipping potatoes actively, but 
mid-Western shippers find the prices 
hardly high enough to meet their high 
freight costs, and some of them have been 
waiting. Far Western shippers have been 
favored by drought shortage in Pacific 
coast markets, resulting in prices 25c to 
$1 higher at Idaho and Colorado shipping 
points than in the East; in Maine, for in¬ 
stance, where at 45 to 55c per 100 lbs. 
potatoes are the cheapest in the United 
States. Fortunately the big yield in 
Maine is some offset to the prices. It 
costs more per acre to raise potatoes in 
Maine than in the West, because Maine 
growers use plenty of fertilizer and at the 
prices received for potatoes it is hard to 
see a profit even in a bumper yield. It is 
reported there is a nation-wide movement 
started among potato farmers to reduce 
acreage about 25 per cent. The trouble 
with all such plans is that too many 
farmers would stay out and double their 
acreage. It was really the yield, not the 
acreage, that gave an over-supply this 
year. - Probably this season’s low price 
will cut next year’s acreage, regardless’ of 
any special campaign to that end. 
Apple shipments so far are about one- 
third below last season, as might have 
been expected from the light crop. A 
few sections have surpassed last season’s 
shipments to date, notably Virginia, the 
New England States, Arkansas and 
North Carolina. The important apple 
shipping States, New York, Michigan, 
Illinois and West Virginia, run from one- 
third to three-fourths of last season’s 
shipments. The market continues strong, 
with some fancy tops at $10 per bbl. 
Standard kinds, No. 1 and Grade A, 
range $4 to $7 per bbl. The whole mar¬ 
ket may be summed up as “Supply one- 
third less and prices one-third more than 
last season. These conditions are espe¬ 
cially favorable for remote producing sec¬ 
tions subject to high freight. The North¬ 
west is shipping what they call in that 
section the fourth grade this season, a 
kind of No. 2 stock which they usually 
refuse to allow to be shipped East. 
Fourth grade apples sell at auction in the 
Northwest for 80c per box. or not far 
from one-third the price of the best mar¬ 
ket grade.” G. B. F. 
Destroying- Tent 
Caterpillars 
Your reference to tent caterpillars in 
a recent issue leaves something to be 
added. The prevention consists largely 
in destroying the young wild cherry trees, 
but it is essential to burn them. With 
regard to the apple trees and walnuts, 
this remedy cannot be applied. Here 
you must find the eggs and cut them from 
the tree before they hatch. You will find 
them in a dark band around the twigs, 
covered over with some glutinous mat¬ 
ter. Later in the season, when the eggs 
have hatched and the caterpillars are 
beginning to make their tents, these can 
be more easily observed and can be cut 
out and burned. I am fighting the same 
fight in my neighborhood, at my farm, 
under the instruction of Dr. Skinner of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences. If 
any farmer trusts to spraying I am 
afraid he will have an e^yiensive job on 
his hands. Francis rawle. 
Trouble in the Well 
I live in a deep well country and have 
a tubular well 125 ft. deep. This is a 
well with no casing, with a 2-in. pipe 
serving as piping and casing both. On 
the end of this pipe is a 3-ft. brass cyl¬ 
inder. Within this cylinder is the work¬ 
ing chamber; %-in. wood (oak) rods are 
used, and on the end of this rod is a 
bucket with two leathers. The rod has 
broken, leaving bucket and about 2 ft. of 
rod in well. I have worked all Summer 
to pull this, but cannot. Can you tell me 
any add or chemical that I could put in 
to eat these leathers up? There is 23 ft. 
of water on top of this bucket, but most 
of this could be baled out. If I can eat 
these leathers up the bucket can easily be 
pulled. Is there any way to use dynamite 
with effect without ruining the well? 
Colorado. c. P. 
R- N.-Y.—This is a case to submit to 
the great army of readers. No doubt 
some of them have had the same trouble. 
Lead gives to chinaware 
its beauty and lustre 
G LAZED china is nothing 
more than clay shaped in 
various forms and covered with 
a thin skin of glaze. It is this 
thin coating that transforms the 
rough, porous clay body into a 
beautiful, smooth, lustrous china 
plate or cup or saucer. And in 
making this glaze, lead has al¬ 
ways been one of the most essen¬ 
tial ingredients. 
Any one of the three lead prod¬ 
ucts — white - lead, red - lead, or 
litharge—can be used in making 
lead glazes. Makers of fine china- 
ware will use as much as 80,000 
pounds of white-lead a year and 
only 1,000 pounds of red-lead. 
Others in the industry use large 
quantities of red-lead. They will 
reverse the above figures and use 
80 times as much red-lead as 
white-lead. 
Where most lead is used 
Although lead in pottery is con¬ 
stantly serving and helping to 
beautify your home, the tonnage 
of lead used in this way is not so 
great as that used in paint. Every¬ 
where you go you see white-lead 
'paint protecting houses from the 
attacks of weather. 
There is no finer paint than 
pure white-lead and linseed oil 
for protecting exterior wooden 
surfaces from rot and decay. And 
nowhere is such protection so 
needed as on farm buildings. Ex¬ 
posed to the full sweep of wind 
and storm, all houses, barns, and 
other wooden structures should 
have adequate coverings of white- 
lead paint. 
In these days when building 
costs are so high, the far-seeing 
farmer protects with white-lead 
paint the money he has invested 
in his property. In other words, 
he believes in the slogan, “Save 
the surface and you save all.” 
Ask any experienced painter 
what you should do to save your 
property from the attacks of the 
weather. He will tell you to keep 
it covered with white-lead paint. 
He and his fellow craftsmen have 
used it for generations. Painters 
know its qualities and have con¬ 
fidence in it. 
Red-lead for metal surfaces 
Red-lead paint is to iron and 
steel surfaces what white-lead is 
to wood. It prevents rust, and 
rust is just as sure to destroy your 
unpainted machinery, your tools, 
as rot is to destroy your unpaint¬ 
ed house or barn. Save wooden 
surfaces with white-lead paint, 
and the metal with red-lead. 
This man is giving the farm house white-lead 
■protection against the attacks of the weather. 
A hundred pages of paint facts 
If you want to know how to save 
the surface of wood, masonry or 
metal on your farm with paint, 
write for our “Handy Book on 
Painting.” This book is filled with 
essential paint facts and formulas 
and will be sent free at your 
request. 
Dutch Boy white-lead and 
Dutch Boy red-lead are the names 
of the pure white-lead and red-lead 
made and sold by National Lead 
Company. On every keg of these 
products is reproduced the pic¬ 
ture of the Dutch Boy Painter 
shown below. This trade-mark 
guarantees a product of the high¬ 
est quality. 
National Lead Company also 
makes lead products for practi¬ 
cally every purpose to which lead 
can be put in art, indus¬ 
try, and daily life. If you 
want information regard¬ 
ing any particular use of 
lead, write to us. 
national lead company j - 
New York, 111 Broadway; Boston, 131 State Street; Buffalo, 116 Oak Street; CSave the «urfk7l7T' 
Chicago, 900 West 18th Street; Cincinnati, 659 Freeman Avenue; Cleveland, \ you save 
820 West Superior Avenue; St. Louis, 722 Chestnut Street; San Francisco, \ --- 
485 California Street; Pittsburgh, National Lead & Oil Co. of Penna., 316 
Fourth Avenue; Philadelphia, John T. Lewis & Bros. Co., 437 Chestnut Street 
