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Popular Science Monthly 



To protect themselves from Russian vermin, the Germans are disinfecting all trains from 



Russia. Large cylinders, into which railway cars are run, are closed by tight end-covers, 



whereupon poisonous gases are turned on 



Fumigating Tank That Contains a 

 Railway Coach 



EX'^ERY railway train which returns 

 to Germany from Russia is usually 

 so infested with vermin that the German 

 Government, in self-preservation, has 

 had to resort to wholesale fumigation 

 methods. 



Fumigating tanks so large that stand- 

 ard-sized railroad coaches can be rolled 

 into them, have been installed bv the 



Twenty-eight box-elder shoots were 

 planted in a square. They were bent 

 and trained to form a garden-chair 



government at several railway centers. 

 When the car has been placed inside 

 such a tank, gigantic steel disks are 

 clamped tightly over the ends of the 

 enormous tube and fumigating gases 

 forced in. All germs lurking in the car 

 are killed in a few minutes' time. 



A Nailless Chair Made by Good Soil, 

 Fresh Air and Sunshine 



HERE is a chair made by Mother 

 Nature. Fresh air, sunshine, and 

 fertile soil were her only tools. 



In 1903 John Krubsack of Embarrass, 

 Wis., decided to make a chair different 

 from any he had seen. He planted 

 twenty-eight box-elder shoots in a five- 

 foot square. He watched over them 

 carefully; for if a single shoot had died 

 his plan would have been spoiled. 



After five years the little shoots at- 

 tained a height of seven feet. Mr. 

 Krubsack Avas then ready to begin real 

 work on his chair. He bent the tender 

 shoots and then fastened them. When, 

 after several years, the joints became 

 solid, the owner cut the shoots and 

 trimmed the branches. 



The chair has eighty-seven joints, and 

 weather conditions will never cause it 

 to fall apart. 



