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Show "PAINT PAY8 FOR ITSELF." Query. I have a quantity of old paint n hand. Caa I use It for the first coat la repainting my barn? Answer. Oa no account should old paint which has become fat be used for priming either old or new work. Old paint In that condition la best used on a fence, brickwork or tlnwork. If you value) your barn sufficiently to paint It, do It the Justice ot a good Job. U. 6. Invents Anti-Rust "Dope." Incident to the war, the government has faced the problem thnt has so long proved baffling to commercial concerns con-cerns ot protecting Iron and steel from rust. In an attempt to solve this federal fed-eral specialists have perfected various forms of protective coatings. In this connection It may he pertinent to ask whether commercial uses will not he found also for the so-called "dopes" which the government has Invented to ho applied to airplane wings and which nie possessed of valuable weather-re- |