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House & G ar den 
The New Britain Tractor 
P OWER on the farm of less than a hundred 
acres has been a problem. Big tractors are 
costly—they don’t pay on a small place. Animal 
power is low in first cost, but wasteful. New 
Britain presents the answer—a reliable junior 
tractor at moderate price. 
The oats and corn required to feed a horse 
would supply cereals and flour for an entire 
family. New Britain saves that crop. It allows 
the land so used—over five acres—to be culti¬ 
vated more intensively. 
New Britain will do more work than a horse, 
for it is speedier and tireless. A farm horse 
averages about goo hours of work per year— 
three hours’ work a day. New Britain will hustle 
all day, for much less than the cost of animal 
power. Several men with hand equipment 
couldn’t cover as much ground. 
At present New Britain is made in two models:— 
NEW BRITAIN NO. 1— 
at $400—has wheels 26% 
in. high, width 17% in. It is 
narrow enough to work be¬ 
tween the rows and do one- 
horse field cultivation in 
average planting of beans, 
corn, potatoes or other 
crops that are spaced 24 or 
more inches apart. Espe¬ 
cially designed for general 
farm and garden work. It 
has clearance of 9 in.—suffi¬ 
cient for “over-row” work 
on low growing plants. 
NEW BRITAIN NO. 2— 
at $450—has 32 in. wheels 
and a longer axle. One 
wheel is adjustable along 
the axle to meet all condi¬ 
tions. It will straddle one 
or more rows, having a 
clearance of 13 in. under the 
axle. It pulls all the horse 
tools that No. 1 will pull, 
and in addition, is equipped 
to handle a multiple-row 
seeder or a multiple-row 
cultivator. An ideal ma¬ 
chine for the market grower. 
“ New Britain does the job ” 
It hauls, plows, disks, har¬ 
rows, pulverizes, drills, cul¬ 
tivates, hills, weeds, covers, 
marks, mows, and sprays. 
It drives off the belt—fur¬ 
nishes power to operate a 
saw, grinder, ensilage cutter. 
corn sheller, cream separa¬ 
tor or any farm equipment 
that can be operated with 6 
H. P. gasoline engine. 
Low first cost, low oper¬ 
ation and upkeep cost, full 
traction and easy operation. 
Distributors Wanted 
The New Britain Machine Co. 
{Thirty-two years' success in None Better Products) 
For a little boudoir where the floor is waxed, use braided rugs, 
taking the color and perhaps the design from the fabric used at 
the windows and for upholstery. Agnes Foster Wright, decorator 
The High Cost of Rugging 
(Continued from page 76) 
ticularly good effect is procured by us¬ 
ing a glazed chintz for slip covers and 
curtains, and having the pattern copied 
in the hooked rugs. One before the 
fireplace and one before the sofa are suf¬ 
ficient. A rather fascinating small li¬ 
brary could be made by using English 
crewel worked curtains in shades to 
harmonize with the book-bindings, and 
on the floor a warm brown ingrain 
with one small fur rug, in front of the 
grate. 
Marbleized Floors 
There are many unusual treatments 
for porch, hall, entrance ways, sun par¬ 
lors and breakfast rooms, treatments 
that range from the bizarre to the in¬ 
dulgence of a little try-out of one’s 
own. For nothing is more enchanting 
than to try out an idea, and be able 
to put it across with success. 
For any of the above places, where 
the less conventional thing is permissi¬ 
ble, try marbleizing wood. In a sun 
porch paint the floor black. Have it 
well filled so the surface is perfectly 
smooth. Then get a good painter to 
marbleize it. It’s best done with a 
feather and is most amusing to watch. 
The best combination is black and 
green, toned to the blue to imitate 
“verde.” The safest way in case the 
man is not expert is to borrow a good 
piece of marble and copy it. After the 
marbleizing process, the surface requires 
a coat of heavy varnish, which should 
be renewed at intervals. 
Linoleum makes a good surface for 
marbleizing. A small foyer may be in¬ 
terestingly treated by using two mar¬ 
bleized papers in the wall panels, one 
laid over the other in a diamond shape. 
The molding should be painted and a 
color rubbed into the grooves and the 
whole surface antiqued, paper and all. 
The floor is of linoleum marbleized white 
on which is painted a seven pointed star 
and border of black. A soft tannish 
coat is rubbed all over it, then varnish, 
and then a coat of antiquing, like the 
walls. The room has been inexpen¬ 
sively done but has a delightful feeling 
to it. An amusing simple Pompeian 
group is done on either door panel. 
The most popular entrance hall floor 
seems to be of black and white marble. 
This is imitated by an excellent black 
and cream squared linoleum. The 
floor also can be painted to reproduce 
the marble effect. In a small hall no 
rugs are necessary, but on a large floor 
a black bear rug should be used to 
break up the hard surface. 
A wood floor can be painted a ground 
color of tiling and banded off by wide 
lines in the manner of a tiled floor. 
This is very simple and with an oak 
rush mat, it gives a satisfactory floor 
for a sun porch at small expense. Tiles 
laid in cement make an expensive floor¬ 
ing if you want to imitate this. 
Cement and Rugs 
Cement floors can be given the finish 
of an expensive tile floor if they are 
marked off with large 9" squares or 
diamonds, and the bandings are wide 
lines of black. The floor should be 
waxed. 
Fine rugs should not be put over a 
rough cement floor. The backing will 
soon be cut through, and the rug worn 
right out. Rush rugs, too, are apt to 
be ground out. That is one reason I 
advise the fine cement waxed surface. 
If the tiling is conspicuous, and the 
cement of large squares, I do not think 
the squared rush matting should be 
used. It gives too criss-cross an effect. 
A plain oval or a plain oblong is better. 
These are less expensive also. 
For a porch room a dark stained 
floor with braided rugs in two or three 
self tones are excellent. Use one round 
mat and two oval. 
Braided rugs, when not of conglom¬ 
erate colors, are splendid floor coverings 
if one is lucky enough to have an old 
lady make them. Pick out a color in 
the curtain, make up the strips and 
have them dyed two tones of the same 
color and one background color, say 
gray, and two tones of mulberry, or 
taupe and two tones of bright rich 
blue. Then get the nice old lady who 
lives in every country town to braid 
them, and when the porch is finished 
they are ready to put down. 
You will feel you will have partially 
solved the problem of the High Cost 
of Rugging. 
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