Hardware merchandising March-June 1917 . from the stop,an unsightly crack between the stop and thedoor, plus an extra stress on the butts byreason of their being out of alignment isabout the total extent of the damage, but ifthe door happens to spring toward the stop,there is a very different story to be told. In the incipient stages, the centre of thedoor will bind against the stop, and the refuse to be closed by a gentle must be taken by the knob and firmlypulled into place. That the finish of the doorWhere it rubs the stop is ruined, goes withoutsaying. As the door conti
Hardware merchandising March-June 1917 . from the stop,an unsightly crack between the stop and thedoor, plus an extra stress on the butts byreason of their being out of alignment isabout the total extent of the damage, but ifthe door happens to spring toward the stop,there is a very different story to be told. In the incipient stages, the centre of thedoor will bind against the stop, and the refuse to be closed by a gentle must be taken by the knob and firmlypulled into place. That the finish of the doorWhere it rubs the stop is ruined, goes withoutsaying. As the door continues to spring, its cornerwill catch against the edge of the stop, andshortly we have a beautifully splintered stopand door-corner to repay us for oureconomical foresight in using but two batts!That isnt all. Every time that do u- is ,lthere is a heavy tension imposed upon thebutts by reason of the leverage of the dooracting with the step as a fulcrum. Some idea (Continued on page 33.) March 31, 1917. 29 A Plot Against the Muskrat. Novel yet practical display of game traps by Kingan Hardware Co., Peterboro, Ont. HOW would you like to be themuskrat? might >be the localparody on the Coal Man orthe Ice Man these days. His fatehas been sealed, or we might bettersay. clutched, or snapped, hardware men can do it. They areafter him with their windows and hehas a very poor show with a foe like thedisplay that is shown above. It is adeadly weapon upon the imagination ofthe small boy, the Indian grown up andeven the white man trapper. And why, the muskrat; why is a cam-paign against this little fur-bearing ani-mal thought worth while just now? Peterborough is in one of the mostimportant muskrat areas in Canada,HARDWARE AND METAL was the Otonabee River and RiceLake they are caught by thousands, andthey say—this with a proud inflec-tion—that the Rice Lake rats cant bebeaten anywhere. Some trappers this year will net $200,$300, even $400, for the prices pa
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