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MIXTURE ARSENATE OF LEAD, 15c. 
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Save Money with Paint 
How I Stopped a Lot of Little Financial Leaks 
T)AINT is a valuable By C. A. UMOSELLE majority of farmers 
1 -stopper of finan- g i ve so little thought 
cial leaks about the farm. The pres- to the painting of their buildings, 
ence of it on buildings and machinery I saw a report recently, however, that 
indicates pretty clearly that one is look- fully ninety per cent of the buildings 
ing after his business affairs, including being erected are also being painted, 
his bank balances, in pretty fair fashion. Why is this? Simply beeause the farmer 
So good advice to you farmers would be does not learn his lesson until he is com- 
to contract the paint habit early, and to pelled to pay three times as much for a 
never get over it. I want to admit right barn, for instance, as he did fifteen years 
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now that I am a crank on the care of 
farm buildings. 
I figure that I have made and saved 
hundreds of dollars because of the care 
I have given the buildings. 
ago. Or, in other words, it costs $1,000 
to build a barn today that could have 
been built of the same material, if not 
better, for from $250 to $350. I know 
this from my own experience. The 
How have I done it? With the paint farmer who has not built since the big 
pail. Paint ought to be the farmer’s 
best friend. I read in a scientific maga¬ 
zine last December that if 'the people of 
the country used paint as they should they 
would save something like $45,000,000 a 
year, and I believe it. Take your wagon, 
for instance. Are its sides cracked, 
warped, and filled with checks? Are its 
spokes and hubs in the same condition? 
Is the tongue showing weather-beaten 
and seamy? Notice carefully and you will 
be surprised to see how much" of this is 
so. It means, according to statistics, 
that the life of tlje average farm wagon 
is not more than six years. It should last 
advance in the price of lumber natu¬ 
rally does not take this into considera¬ 
tion. There are thousands of barns 
throughout the country, now well on the 
road to ruin, that could be saved by the 
addition of ten years to their usefulness 
if paint were used upon them this com¬ 
ing fall. 
Adding Years to the Barn 
Take your own bam, for instance. It 
may be so bad that you are worrying 
about the building of another within a 
couple of years. If you have such a 
twenty. For the first ten years of its barn, instead of going to the expense of 
life your wagon should hardly show a 
check or a crack. 
Facts from Experience 
Bah, you say, how can this be accom¬ 
plished? Get out your paint pail and 
paint your wagon every other year at 
least. This sounds like an enormity to 
those who never paint their wagons; 
sounds like a lot of work and expense. 
But it isn’t. During the year 1910, I 
painted three of our wagons accomplish¬ 
ing each job in about two hours’ time. 
I did the work with not quite one gallon 
of paint, at $1.85 for the three wagons. 
These three wagons have received a coat 
of paint every fall, and today they are 
practically as good as new. I have 
figured that I have saved $100 on 
these wagons by the use of $10 worth 
of paint. 
I want to say that so apparent has my 
saving been that a dozen or more neigh¬ 
bors near our place have taken the hint, 
and are doing the same thing. The 
average farmer can save at least $50 each 
year by thus caring for his farm tools 
and buildings. Take the mower, for in¬ 
stance. Ordinarily it is exposed to rain 
and wind, sleet and snow. One hour, 
and thirty-five cents worth of good paint 
will suffice to protect this mower for at 
least half a season. Usually the beam of 
the farmer’s plow is checked and cracked. 
A single coat a season, ten minutes’ work 
and five cents worth of paint will save it. 
Rake, hoe and shovel handles can be 
painted while your boy is harnessing 
your team for you. 
Chief Value Is to Protect 
The scientifically prepared paint of 
today has two purposes, to protect as 
well as to beautify. Its chief value lies 
in its protection. One trouble with the 
home-made mixture (which I used long 
ago) is the loose way in which it is mixed, 
simply by hand power and it soon begins 
to peel off. The best kind of paint should 
be put upon your fence within a week 
after its erection. It should be given two 
coats and after that one coat every three 
years, will be sufficient. By doing this a 
fence, instead of looking disreputable 
within a year, will be in good condition 
at the end of fifteen years or more. 
If a first-class paint is purchased it 
may be thinned with linseed oil for the 
first coat. This makes the paint thin 
enough for the wood to absorb a part of 
it. The second coat should not be ap¬ 
plied until at least four days after, by 
which time the first coat will have be¬ 
come hardened. But it is the buildings 
on the farm that one can save most and 
make most. It is a curious fact that the 
putting up a new one, use about $35 
worth of paint and a little of your spare 
time on the old one. By doing this you 
will add ten years to the life of this old- 
looking barn. Take a dozen evenings, 
or two or three spare days this fall, and 
first repair the building as best you can. 
See that the boards are on solidly, and 
repair the worst cracks and holes. Mean¬ 
while go to some reliable dealer and buy 
ten gallons of the best prepared barn 
paint and five gallons of raw linseed oil 
which you can get from any country 
dealer. 
Good paint will bear thinning. For 
your first coat take one gallon of paint 
and one of oil and mix them, and apply 
this liberally all over the barn. The first 
coat will be so thin that it will soak into 
fhe boards and into the cracks, acting 
as the best preservative in the world. 
Allow this first coat to dry and harden 
for four days. For your second coat use 
two gallons of paint to one of oil, and 
by the time this coat is on you will re¬ 
gard the result with unbounded surprise. 
Why build a new barn when you can 
save the old one at a very small cost, in 
spare time? 
Sand in Spring Stops Water 
I am Laving trouble with sand in the spring which sup¬ 
plies the house and the barns. The spring is about 1800 
feet from the buildings. It is located in a hill, surrounded 
with shrubs and trees. It has a feeder, then the water is 
piped to a cement box. The sand falls into the feeder 
and thence into the box and pipe, thereby stopping the 
flow of water to the house. Is there any arrangement 
which I can install to prevent this?—J. M„ New York. 
T T is not just exactly clear to us what you 
A mean. Do you mean that the pipe 
from the feeder to the spring reservoir 
or the pipe from the reservoir to the house 
fills with sand? If it is the pipe between 
the reservoir and the house, it would be 
well to try a trap in the pipe that goes 
from the feeder to the reservoir. This 
trap could consist of a barrel sunk in 
the ground. Run the pipe from the feeder 
into this barrel. Have the pipe that 
runs to the reservoir leave this barrel 
through an elbow. Screw a short length 
of pipe in this elbow so that in leaving, 
the water must rise through the pipe. 
The sand should settle to the bottom of 
the barrel instead of being carried on 
into the spring reservoir. 
Before you install the barrel try placing 
a short piece of pipe and an elbow on the 
pipe that goes to the house. That is, it 
is installed inside the tank itself and 
should keep the sand from the house 
pipe. If the sand accumulates in the 
box you already have, so rapidly that it 
stops the water to the house, the barrel 
could then be installed as described. 
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