CONCLUSION

"Facts are nothing, but the ideas they signify, the analogies that they evoke, are everything."

     —Jean Moréas.

Guided by study of the phenomena pertaining to the subject-matter-that is, oil paint-and reasoning by analogy and inference from practice and experiments, at the present time, the following conclusions have been reached in regard to structural steel coatings:

1. That the surface of steel must be in fit condition to receive paint, provided a worthy paint is used; otherwise, it is better to use a cheap paint or tar preparation.

2. That to know the probable results to be obtained from the use of  any paint  ma-

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