€—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 26, 1959 For tl Farm Wife and Family Efficiency in Housekeeping Cleaning your floors regularly rather than letting them build up into one big job can pay off in dividends in the long run. Floors need to be kept clean so that grit and lint aren’t ground into the floor. This will help to keep your floors from looking dingy. Regular cleaning also will give them the protective fin save you money It is much ish that makes cleaning easy, less expensive to give your The type of wax you use de- Iloor frequent care than to re- pends on the wear and tear new its appearance after it on your floor. has become scratched and dull Patting down small rugs £wo to eight week Intervals or mats in front of your en- jf y OU c j e an, wax and polish tryways will also help to cut y Q ur floors, they will last down on the wear on your anywhere from one to three floors months Paste was should last You should use equipment on a floor between one and to pick up the lint on your six mon ths floor without scratching it Coats f wax will build up Such items as a soft hair- Qn floors when you use broom or the smooth floor ulh repeat brush on your vacuum clean- edl / and it isil>t worked ofl er work very well. You can b wear and tear Qr ord , nar sprinkle a dust mop or a cleaning This wax often ye i. string mop with water and lows or darkens your floors . they will pick up lint easily To prevent thls wax “build To clean the floor surface use thm coats of wax as it is needed you can use Wax entire floor Qne a sponge mop that has been tune and the next time just dampened witii water. wax the trafflc lanes R e A b ™ o ™’ vacuum brush move wax coating after a or a slightly dampened mop certain eriod of time . wdl do a good job of cleaning You should be able to re . asphalt tile, rubber tile, or move some o£ this wax waxed surfaces in your daily through ordinary wear and cleaning Don t use a mop c i ean - ng Special wax re with ofl m it because it movers have been dev eloped m>ght soften the suifaces of and are on the market ut these floor coverings. need to be carefilll in To cut down on your daily usin these d follow the cleaning job, keep spilled direc tions carefully, liquid wiped up These pick Plard scrubbing^ will also up lint and dirt which makes take oft part of the polishing your caning job more work type wax but probab B . than it should be ly have to use turpentine to WHAT KIND OF KLOOR take it off completely If you WAX TO USE? use steel wool to remove the Waxing your floors can wax, me sure to use plain m I W W-.J..J ■ 1960 / . The Directors, Officers and Employees wish Everyone A Happy and Prosperous New Year ([first federal]! ™ and/opn • AtfoeiASPN ir lancaStiii 25 North Duke St. W Phone ex 7 -2818 Gilbert H. Hartley Emlen H. Zellers Treasurer Secretary Geo. L. Diehl James N. Esbenshade Asst. Treasurer Asst. Secretary A FLOORS Floors waxed with a water base wax should be done at steel wool rather than pads study showed that the most Gloss, semi gloss and one that have been prepared for dirt was removed during the coat paints rated good in kitchen use. first runs of the cleaners soil resistance and were easy * * * the first 12 minutes with a 9 to wash. So did rubber-base by 12 rug; increasing am- and casein paint Flat paint ounts of dirt were removed soiled easier and was harder as the time increased. to wash Most homemakers know Wallboard materials made that some rugs are easier to with a baked-on gloss pa'nt, get clean than others. In a laminated plastics and wall close woven pile rug, dirt tiles were all highly resist may become so deeply em- ant to stains and easy to bedded that vacuum cleaning clean. The soap and water or will not remove all of it; detergent cleaner solution periodic cleaning by pro- both washed these surfaces fessional rug cleaners is rec- easily. ommended in such cases Stains that gave the most trouble on wall surfaces were WALLS ink, lipstick, crayon, shoe Washing walls with a mild polish, mustard and shaving soap and warm water seems cream. Usually it took a mild to do as good a job as pow- scouring powder to remove dered detergent cleaners, ac- these cording to a recent U S De partment of Agriculture re search. When you have IRONING sta’ns that have stood for Even with modern fabrics sometime you may need to there seems to be some iron use a mild scouring powder, ing that needs to be done. If All three cleaning methods it still seems to take too tested on 11 different wall much time, you might look materials showed that either for some ways to cut down the soap or detergent cleaner on ironing worked well on all types of Start by taking time to wa’ls hang things straight on the Some walls washed more ]ne so they wil 1 come off as easily than others but wall- smooth as possible, paperes were the hardest to If you use a dryer, you’ll clean. Even washable papers learn to dry clothes until were harder to get clean than they are just right for ironing any of the six kinds of paint or to fold Too much drying tested just puts in lots of wrinkles The findings in a recent of vacuum cleaning of all wool rugs all wool mcd um to high grade wiltons and and velvets - may be helpful to homemakers at this season when much dirt may be brought in from outside. Manufacturers of vacuum cleaners advise emptying the dust bag after every cleaning but this is not always done in home practice The study emphasized that cleaning ef ficency declines as the bag fills with dirt. All air entering the cleaning nozzle must be drawn thru the bag, and as the bag fills with dirt, less air—and less dirt-are drawn in. However, keeping the bag free of dirt is more important to the cleaning efficiency of some vacuum cleaners than others, the study showed. Twelve different cleaners were used m the study—four sweeper cleaners of different makes, four canister clean ers, and three horizontal tank cleaners With one make of cleaner, the cleaning efficien cy dropped only 9 per cent as the bag filled, while anoth er showed a 31 per cent drop Sweeper-type cleaners re moved more dirt from rugs in the test than other types (The newer canister cleaners w th a rotating power driven brush in the nozzle were not included in the test.) The I GREETINGS TO ALL OUR WE SINCERELY P ' APPRECIATE YOUR U FRIENDS EVERYWHERE PATRONAGE Lancaster EX 4 0541 RUGS ,c. coa Need ... HAY-STRAW-EAR CORN Buy Now and Save! More and more farmers are buying from us for better value and all around satisfaction. Delivered any quantity Phone Strasburg OV 7-3211 ESBENSHADE TURKEY FARM PARADISE, Pfi. , S»3^»33K^Ssl%SgssSSSjagsjKsSs3g4sKs^cj!«3s£?.jag)| Manheim MOhawk 5-2466 OWNED and CONTROLLED by Lancaster County FARMERS New Holland Quarryville ELgin 4-2146 STerling 6-2126 * * * on'f % \ ' - \ J ..’l if t. \ V A j ifa&sskA'*' •VV •vvA* rt „ -a*A\V» *•'<* v* * ' **"• „,. A /{***&* C 19347 c 1959 \ I s x & X 2 i