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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, APRIL 10 1919 PAGESEVEg COAL TAR CREOSOTE TREATMENT MAKES \MV Automobile Tourists •,\V FENCE POSTS MORE DURABLE IN GROUND 'U liiiil! When In Minneapolis Stop at Hotel Lincoln VJS'::v"N NICOLLET AVE. AT NINTH ST OPENED SEPT. 1st. 1918 Especially convenient for auto parties as Nicollet Avenue is the leading road from all point, and has no* car tracks. Within two squares of 5 large garages. Adjoining the cities' largest stores. Rooms at $1.00 per day. With private toilet 25 cents extra with private bath 50 cents extra. In addition there MXSii s, V.«V are suites of rooms with separate toilet, each room having connecting bath—an ideal arrangement and only found here. Mother's Health Post-Treating Outfit in Which Threshing Engine Is Used to Supply Steam for Heating Hot Bath—The Posts Are Set Vertically in the Hot Treat* affects Cafe in connection—Hotel Lincoln guarantees an atmosphere ment and Then Are Laid Horizontally in the Large Tank Which Contains of home refinement. the Cold Creosote—Note the Beveled Tops of the Posts. the whole family (Prepared by the United States Department WM. B. CAMFIELD- -Proprietors- A gasoline drum with one defective When mother is feeiing "out of -F. S. GREGORY of Agriculture.) head to be chiseled out can often be sorts" the home life is "out of The fence-post problem is easily obtained at a cost of $2 to $3. The For past ten years with Minneapolis leading hotels. tune." When suffering from solved on the farm by means of a simple tank for the hot treatment obviously headache, or any of the various method of treating wood with coal must be of steel and in all cases fitted tar creosote. Sap pine, red oak, ailments causedby constipation for heating either with afire underneath maple, beech, sycamore, black gum, she is obliged to neglect her in an earth pit or by means of sweet gum and other abundant or inferior home duties. Children and husband steam pipes. Except in midsummer,' up on woods by this means are made miss the hundred and one WISQ some heat must be supplied to the cold durable In the ground for 10 to 20 little things she does for them. tank. Where dressed lumber is relativly years of service. cheap, a satisfactory cold vat tobacco/ It is essential that the timber be Read how Mrs. Lillie Smith of Burlington, Vt.. can often be made at less cost by being found relief. peeled and thoroughly seasoned before I built of dressed 2 by 4 pieces laid "For years suffered from chronic constipation. attempting to treat it. Small flakes I grew steadily worse and was on a heavy flooring. It should be fitted Pleasant to take— says Buck I unable to do any work. used different of inner bark left on the wood check Taste Like Candy for heating by means of an iron remedies but to no avail. I used DR.MILES* or prevent proper absorption at those LAXATIVE TABLETS and they gave me pipe circuit either extending over a prompt relief." places. Peeling is done most easily fire on the ground or connected with Women, men and children find in DR. during the spring months, but is carried. a steam engine. MILES' LAXATIVE TABLETS a on at other seasons of the year. splendid and effective medicine for constipation Use Good Preservative. "A lot of you fellows Good taste,a smaller A spade is about the best common implement and it's ills. Keep a box always for use when the bark slips It is important to use a good preservative, chew,longer life is what are cheating on hand. Delicate women and children and coal tar creosote has easily, otherwise an ax or draw-knife makes Genuine Gravely can take them with safety. Money back yourselves out of should be used. proven by far the most satisfactory if first box fails to satisfy. All druggists. cost less to chew than substance. Ordinary gas or coal tar Because they have a uniform absorbing real tobacco satisfaction. ordinary plug. has been occasionally used, but it is surface of sapwood, round LAXATIVE TABLET^ That's too thick, even when heated, to give sticks are more satisfactory than spilt Write to:— a fair degree of penetration and timber.- With treated timber it is not GENUINE GRAVELY what get out of I leaches out more quickly than creosote. necessary to use the large-sized line DANVILLE. VA. good old Gravely. posts commonly cut and used in the for booklet on chewing plug. Present prices of coal-tar creosote past. By using a post from three to range mostly from 25 to 35 cents a four inches in top diameter and long Peyton Brand gallon in barrel lots laid down at the enough to allow only a few inches THE STUBEE nearest railroad point. The pre-war above the top wire, the cost is reduced price was about 15 to 20 cents a gallon. for creosote and for labor in REAL CHEWING PLUG A gallon of creosote is sufficient handling, the post lasts practically as to tyeat three posts from 3 to 4 inches long as larger sizes, and it affords Sash and Door Factory ample strength for the fence line. at the top, or two posts from 4 to 5 packed in pouch. These facts have been fully established inches in top diameter, thus making the cost from 10 to 15 cents per pest, by means of experiments and IS N«W OPEN F#R BUSINESS demonstrations carried on for more or in ordinary times from 5 to 10 cents. The other items would be the than ten years by the forest service, United States department of agriculture, cost of cutting and peeling the posts We Are Well Equipped t« All Kinds of at perhaps 5 cents each, the labor of do in co-operation with a number of treating which can be figured at from state agricultural colleges in different parts of the country. 2 to 3 cents, and a share of the equipment HILLWORK cost, which would likely average Preservative Should Penetrate. and you will make no mistake by getting about 2 cents each, using a two-tank In treating the posts it is important their prices before ordering "elsewhere outfit. This makes a total cost of to get a deep* penetration of the preservative from 15 to 25 cents each. of from one to two inches in Subscribe for The Press Joint Ownership Saves. the butt of the post for a height of .Building and Ctnifartctuf Specialty A saving in cost would be made by one foot above the ground level when two or more farmers jointly owning All Work Guirutadl the post is set in place. This is obtained and using a treating equipment. This by boiling the butt in creosote method in a number of instances has heated to about 210 degrees F. for one proved a successful form of co-operation LARS STUBEE, Prop. to two hours, depending upon the among farm owners. porosity of the wood, followed immediately Post timber for treating is very by a bath in "cold" (80 degrees 2nd AYS. and 6th St. Phtne 50 to 100 degrees F.) creosote for about abundant in the dense old-field pine stands throughout the Southern states, the same period of time. The wood cells, expanded and deprived of some The small trees which are being crowded out by the taller dominant of the air by being heated, during the trees are very often of just the right cooling treatment gradually absorb the desired amount of the creosote. The size for making treated fence posts. Cutting them for this purpose utilizes tops obviously require only a shallow She joined treatment to last as long as the butts. a forest product that would otherwise be wasted and improves the remaining Where only a single open drum or sitand by giving room for tank is used, top treatment may be accomplished our tires You can buy GOOD growth needed by the remaining trees. Latest Bargain Prices by means of thoroughly A wood with an interlocked and twist WASHINGTON AND painting the tops with a brush, or for less money from us, because we have cut out NEW YORK TIRES pouring hot creosote over the tops. ed fiber, such as black gum or sweet expensive travelling salesmen and sell by mail only. Firsts (not seconds') gum, are of the very best sort for A very satisfactory outfit for treating New,fresh selected stock, free from breaks, Non- Vulcan treating, since they are little subject cracks or patches, not "made over" or retreaded Size Plain Skid Tubes posts consists of an upright cylindrical Bankitvg 28x3 $11.55 $12.45 $2.10 to the deep checking apt to occur in All tires sold on 4,000 mile guarantee, tank for the hot treatment and 30x3, 11.25 11.95 2.45 30x3 VS 15.25 16.05 2.90 wood after 5 to 10 years of exposure on an adjustment basis. If you are not satisfied after a horizontal rectangular tank or vat 32x314 17.90 18.80 3.15 examination, toe will refund your money. 31x4 22.80 23.40 3.30 in the weather. The "seeds" or spores for the cold bath. For applying the 32x4 23.05 24.15 3.55. 'CLUB TERMS. All goods shipped C. O. D. by express, subject 33x4 24.10 25.20 3\65 of wood-decaying fungi find entrance hot creosote to the butts one of the to your examination and approval. Order NOW. 34x4 25.15 26.55 3.9534x4% 29.75 30.85 4.9ft through such cracks or checks and be large-sized gasoline or oil drums, LONG SERVICE TIRE CO. 35x4V? 35.95 37.20 5.2036x4 witK gin feeding on the wood cells. about 27 inches in diameter, is 32.00 33.25 4.8fe Cor. Fifth and Cedar PAUL, ST. MINN. (Other sizes in proportion) Thorough treatment of well-seasoned very satisfactory for small operations, posts poisons the food of the fungus, but for larger or co-operative thus giving many years of useful treatment a cylindrical steel tank Gold Leaf on Wcoa. our imperfect minas were aenvea~ana /Mext service. 3 feet in diameter by 4 feet in upon which they do depend.—Ralph The following method is given for height should be used. In either case Cudworth. applying, gold leaf on wood: The surface Xmas, there will be needed a horizontal steel Drain Alfalfa Soil. must first be carefully cleaned tank about 3 feet across by 3 Alfalfa cannot stand wet feet. If and prepared, and when quite dry Not a Joyous Occasion. she will feet in height and 8 feet in length, treated with the appropriate gold size, the ground is poorly drained, tile A pig belonging to James Newman or large enough to accommodate the which is laid on with a very soft hog'shair drainage is the remedy. The land can of San Francisco was unusually obstinate, corner posts. brush or camel's-hair pencil several be drained either in the spring or fall. and he tried calling it "nicepiggie" HAVE coatings are applied, each being and a lot of other pet names, dry before the application of the but the animal snorted and refused to other, and finally smoothed down. To come along. Then its owner called this surface the gold leaf, cut into the hog names that indicated he was suitable sizes, Is taken up by the tip very angry, but the harsh words had of a special brush and laid on, being no more effect than those of honey. pressed down by a dry camel's-hair At last Newman lassoed the animal brush, and so on piece after piece until and was at once arrested for cruelty If yon haven't joined our Christmas banking club, come the whole surface Is covered. Finally, to animals. "The hog didn't seem to when dry, certain parts of the in and do so today. be very cheerful, judge," the policeman gilded frame are burnished with a told the judge. "He was on the flint or agate burnisher specially made Men, Women, Boys and Girls all should join and we ur?« way to his own funeral," Newman for the purpose. The whole operation pointed out. "You wouldn't expect you to join for you own good. requires a certain amount of experience him be laughing, hardly, would you to obtain satisfactory results. now, judge?" There are clubs to ft every purse—I cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, where you increase your deposits each week with The Perfect Mind. HUNS USE HUMAN BONES the amount you started with. Truth is bigger than our minds, and we are not the same with it, but have Returned Prisoner Says They Were a lower participation only of the intellectual We also have 50 cent, $1.00 and $500 clubs where you pay Employed in Phosphorus Factories. nature and are rather apprehenders in the same amount each week. Human bones from the battlefields than comprehenders thereof. were used by the Germans in their This is, indeed, one badge of our creaturely But join-—join today. phosphorus factories at Dittefleld, according state that we have not a perfectly to Private Fred Rugg of the comprehensive knowledge, or FIRST NATIONAL BANK .• famous artists' rifles, who has Just such as is adequate and commensurate returned to England after imprisonment to the essence of things from at a camp near Berlin* run* whence we ought to be led to this acknowledgment IntarnatienarF alls, HinMMta "I was put to work In a phosphorus that there is another factory tipping bones out ut of tfagims perfect mind or understanding being rfr A Treating Posts With^Creosote. Into chutes." he said. "I didn't fieea above us in the universe from which -v ASK