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Winter la Beit Time to
Paint Interior of Home
HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION'
THE greater part of the Interior
work on village and country
hornet should be done during the
Winter months. It Is Invariably post
poned until April or May, and tbe
patron must wait (lays, sometimes
weeks lor the painter, and when he
finally arrives the time is bo limited
that he cannot turn out a first-class
Job. If It Is paper to hang, he can
not take time to study out new ideas;
If It Is wall paint, he cannot put up
the decorations he likes and knows
look well. He canuot look after the
details as he should because he
knows he must be at Brown's the
next day or lose a job and a good cus
tomer as well.
Wall paper of all kinds can be
hung as well In the Winter as Sum
mer. The paper hanging season
should begin January 1. Woodwork
can be finished better in February
than in July because there Is no dust,
or flies, or exceedingly hot weather
to contend with. This applies to
varnishing, staining, waxing and
painting. Cold weather would not
interfere with outside painting if it
were not for freezing the painter.
As long as the surface Is dry, and
no frost flying, cold weather has no
effect on good house painting. Pure
linseed oil, turpentine and white lead
cannot freeze. The writer painted
buildings five and slit years ago when
the thermometer was hovering around
zero and they are in a number one
condition today.
These are not theories but facts
and It will not pay anyone to let a
new house or barn aland until Spring
and get soaked with rain. Get two
good coats of paint on it now and
finish with the third coat in May or
June.
Another reason for not having In
terior work done iu the Winter
months is that people think that
everything must be moved out of the
rooms while the work is being done,
and that it would get soiled before
Spring. This is not necessary. How
much time does it take to move pic
tures, curtains, a few chairs, and a
table, or maybe a bed? The average
painter would do it In 15 minutes.
Then he can throw his canvas over
the floor, leaving the rug or carpet
down, and bring in his tools and do
the work. When through, he rolls
up his canvas and takes out the waste
paper and dirt, leaving the room
clean and bright. When Spring
comes take the vacuum cleaner and
run over the rug, or take It out and
give It a good dusting, scrub the
floor and wipe off the woodwork and
housecleaning is about over.
As for the walls getting dirty, there
is nothing to it unless a very cheap
grade of paper is used. A good qual
ity of paper should last from five to
15 rears, and oatmeal patterns should
last even longer providing the walls
are good. The writer has seen water
color jobs put up by a decorator that
have stood for 22 years in a dining
room and hallway and were looking
fine even after that length of serv
ice. - ,
Give the painter a chance. When
he has time to do the work, let him
do it regardless of weather or time
of the year. Get his ideas. They are
nearly always good and are the re
sult of years of experience. Follow
the advice of the painter and the
work will be done better and the
owner will always have good work
men at his command.
' Good Wood and Feed.
Two fundamental factors enter
Into the making of a good farm ani
malblood and plenty of good, Ju
diciously given feed. To go Into the
Winter with a nice culf and feed and
manage the youngster so that it will
weigh very little if any more than at
weaning time is false enonomy.
Starving a young animal Is a practice
very much in keeping with that of a
heavy money lender. Ho said he al
ways took his notes up about the
20th of September each year for the
days were so short during the Wln
Mint his notes did not draw
enough Interest to pay him to give
them his serious auenuuu.
' Cholera Serum.
The practice of inoculating 'pigs
with cholera serum Is now extensive
In Hungary. In the fivo years pre-
.oinir Anrll. 1914. government re-
nnrta Bhnw thnt more than 1,000,000
animals have been operated on. Pigs
intanofl for fattenlnir are generally
treated with the serum shortly after
being put Into tne rattening sues,
and losses are thus avoided.
The total citrus shipments from
Florida for 1913-14 were 7,665,014
boxes.
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Join the 400,000 Who Take It
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Facts Concerning the
Panama-Pacific Fail
CELEBRATES the completion of
Panama Canal.
Gates opened ut 9 A. M., Saturday,
February 20; close Saturday, Decem
ber 4, 1015.
Forty-three states and 42 foreign
nations represented officially; other
nations by individual exhibitors;
more than hare been present at any
other exposition in history.
Investment represented, StO,O0O,-
000.
Concentration of exhibit palaces a
triumph of ground plotting. Con
tains the largest frame building under
one roof in the world -Mnehlnery
Hall.
Transportation facilities available
to handle 50,000 visitors aa hour to
and from the exposition gates.
Hotel facilities ample for any num
ber of visitors. Reasonable rates
guaranteed.
The only world exposition micro
climatic conditions make possible
mural paintings on canvas on exterior
surfaces.
Covers an area of two and one
half miles in length by one-half a
mile In width along the shore of San
Francisco Bay.
Tree Grows on Tower.
Occasionally Nature performs a
miracle seemingly for no purpose but
to keep in practice. One of such
feats Is the growth of a maple tree
on the Courthouse tower at Greens
burg, Ind. About 10 years ago the
tree started from a seed that had
lodged In the masonry. Nourished
by the rains it grew a little each year
until now It is a sturdy tree with a
trunk more than two inches In di
ameter and a height of about 12 feet.
Greensburg claims the honor of hav
ing the only tree-bearing courthouse
tower In the world.
On every hand is some evidence
that Nature dislikes nakedness. Moss
and other forms of growth are found
clinging to the face of rocks. Every
where there is some attempt on the
part of the great designer to clothe
places which would be otherwise re
pulsive in their barrenness.
That a tree should grow in such
an unusual place as a courthouse tow
er, Is of course, a novelty. It was
purely accidental that the seed be
came deposited. But the fact serves,
nevertheless, to bring out the truth
of the old law. Take as an addition
al illustration a mud flat formed by
a flood. All former vegetation has
been covered up; too deeply buried to
permit of growing up to the surface.
But the water in flooding the land
has brought with it seeds of many
kinds. Soon the ugly appearance dis
appears beneath the new grow th. The
nakedness lias neen cioineu.
By Number.
Puzzled Diner (to restaurant
waiter) What have you cot for
dinner?
Walter Roastbeeffricaseedchiok-
enstewedlambhasubakedandlriedpota
toesjampnddlngmllkandcoffee.
PitMled Diner Give me the third
fourth, fifth, sixth 18th and 19th
syllables.
A
Says War Will Cause a
"Back-to-Land" Movement
HIGH official of the Grand
Trunk system, on his way
through Chicago recently, pre
dicted that one of the immediate and
biggest results of the European con
flict to America would be an un
precedented "back-to-the-land" move
ment and that both the United States
and Canada are on the eve of the
greatest agricultural prosperity ever
known on this continent. He said
that the governments of the various
provinces In Western Canada were
making elaborate preparations for in
creased farm acreage and that, with
any ordinary kind of weather, Can
ada is sure to have a 300,000,000
bushei wheat crop this year.
He cited the fact that the home
stead entries the last few months
broke all records and that the Brit
ish Columbia government has just
made available for homesteading
nearly 1,500,000 acres of land along
the line of the newly-completed
Grand Trunk Pacific. Hallway. This
land may be had In blocks of 1G0
acres merely on the payment of a
small record fee.
He said that according to the an
nouncement made by the British Co
lumbia government a few days ago
the following lands have been sur
veyed and are open to homesteaders:
Casslar district, 146,931 acres; Coast
district, 443,000 acres, and Cariboo
district, 789,752 acres. Nearly all
this land Is tributary to the railway,
as nearly half of the Grand Trunk
Pacific line In British Columbia U
in the Cariboo district.