Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1903 — Letter to Stoner & Day. [ARTICLE]

Letter to Stoner & Day.

Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Sirs: You understand grinding wheat, buckwheat, rye, oats and corn. We understand grinding paint-things. The two sorts es grinding are not much alike. Very likely oats and wheat behave very differently in the mill, and you manage them differently—we know very little about your work; don’t need to; we’d rather depend on you. But we paint youi house and mill, and out-buildings; perhaps you’d be glad to know about grinding paint; for some people mix their paint with a stick in a tub. We use lead and zinc. And our zinc is as tough as your oats. Tub mixers imagine they mix it. They don’t; they can’t. Takes grinding to mix lead and zinc. They are both white. Tubmixers don’t know it; but tubmixed lead and zinc is a streak of one alongside of a streak.of the other. We grind as you grind; and our pa>nt is lead and znc ground together,, mixed intimately; it is neither lead nor zinc, but lead and zinc; the lead is lost, and the zinc is lost: each lost in the other: both lost in the mixture. Lead chalks —and zinc peels; lead and zinc ground together hang on and protect each other. We take care of your mill outside; you take care of it inside. Yours truly, DbvOB & Co.