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Can you do without a greenhouse much longer? 

 Write to the Readers' Service for suggestions 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1907 



A Greenhouse Moral 



YOU know when all those beautiful 

 balmy days are with us, it dulls the 

 memory to the last winter's barren garden 

 and the longing for the flower friends 

 that you missed so. You don't want to 

 be bothered with thinking seriously about 

 anything just now, but there is only one 

 way to have and grow flowers all the 

 year round, and that is with the assistance 

 of a U-Bar greenhouse. Not alone some 

 of the general plants that serve so 

 acceptably to decorate the home, but 

 queenly roses and spicy carnations to 

 grace and beautify your table. If with 

 this realization that a greenhouse is indis- 

 pensable, comes the wish for one com- 

 partment all to yourself, to fuss around 

 in and grow just what you like, then the 

 U-Bar house is especially fortunate, be- 

 cause of its general cheeriness, due to 

 the wide glass spacing, light construction 

 and curved eaves. The raised beds are 

 just a convenient height to prevent back- 

 ache. Every metal part is given a coat 

 of aluminum paint. It is an ideal house 

 in every way and you will like it. 



The moral is, now is the time to build, 

 frost comes before you know it. So send 

 for our splendidly illustrated catalog, or 

 one of us will come and talk it over. 



PIERSON U-BAR COMPANY 



Designers and Builders 



U-BAR GREENHOUSES 



Metropolitan Building 



4th Avenue and 23d Street 



NEW YORK 



Everblooming Roses 



500 Madam Chatenay, 2 yr. old in 5 and 5£ 

 inch pots. 



500 Killarney, 2 yr. old in 5 and 5J inch 

 pots. 



200 Richmond, 2 yr. old in 5 and 5£ inch 

 pots. 



200 American Beauty, 2 yr. old in 5 and 5£ 

 inch pots. 



Also other choice varieties. $25. per hundred. 



SIEBRECHT & SON, 



Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochelle, N. Y. 



Improving the Dairy Herd 



TO GET the largest profits from his herd 

 the dairyman must study and care 

 for each animal as a distinct individual. 

 The stable must be kept clean, also the 

 animals, utensils, and attendants. The water 

 must be from some source where there is no 

 danger of its becoming polluted. The venti- 

 lation must be such that it will remove all 

 impure air and foul odors. There must 

 be plenty of windows so as to admit an 

 abundance of sunlight. 



To know what each individual is pro- 

 ducing, keep the milk separated and test it. 

 The only practicable method is by the use 

 of the spring balance and Babcock tester. 

 As each cow is milked, the milk is weighed 

 and recorded to the animal producing it. 



The Babcock test is used to determine the 

 percentage of butter fat in the milk. Having 

 found the number of pounds of milk pro- 

 duced and the percentage of fat in the milk, 

 it is an easy matter to determine the number 

 of pounds of butter-fat produced in a given 

 period. This gives a basis from which to 

 select the profitable cows from the unprofit- 

 able ones. 



The following is a list with cost of the 

 apparatus required for weighing and testing 

 milk. 



I Spring balance % 2.50 



I Babcock tester, 10 bottles 12.00 



10 Test bottles 1 .20 



I 17.6 cc. Pipet .15 



I 17.5 cc. Acid measure .15 



Total 16.00 



A cow cannot produce her maximum, 

 unless she has a well-balanced ration. By 

 balanced ration is meant one that contains 

 the nutrients in such proportions as to give 

 the largest milk yields from the smallest 

 amount of feed consumed, above that 

 required for maintenance. The ration must 

 consist of four or five different feeds; this 

 will give it the greatest producing value. 



By choosing a good sire and selecting the 

 calves, the standard of the herd can be raised 

 steadily until each cow produces fifty dollars 

 net per year. If it is possible to raise all 

 the heifer calves the best ones can be selected 

 after they are about two years old. Where 

 one is restricted to only a few, the selection 

 must be done while the calves are still young. 

 The wisest thing then is to select those that 

 most resemble the sire, if he is a good one, 

 or those that show the greatest improvement 

 under the new care and treatment. In this way 

 a herd of good milk producers can be had 

 in a few years, and in many cases a more 

 profitable herd than if of pure-bred stock; 

 and there is no more capital invested in the 

 improved herd than in a poor one, and about 

 the same amount of labor is required 

 whether good or poor ones are kept. From 

 every point of view a cow that produces the 

 largest returns in the shortest time is the most 

 profitable one. Beginning with an inferior 

 cow producing only 225 pounds of butter- 

 fat a year, Prof. Wing was able to improve 

 the descendants so that in the fourth gener- 

 ation the product was raised to 406 pounds. 



New York. E. E. Eldredge. 



Evergreens 



jfor august planting 



|TT Specially SelecteO Zxees, as 

 TdJ follows : 



Colorado Blue Spruce (Abies pungens 



glauca), all sizes with ball. 

 Nordmann's Silver Fir, 2 to 3 ft. with ball. 

 Compact and Globe Headed Arbor Vitse, 



2 ft. with ball. 

 Pyramidal Arbor Vitse, 2 to 4 ft. with ball. 

 American Arbor Vitse, 2 to 8 ft. with ball. 

 Hemlocks, 2 to 3 ft. 

 Irish Juniper, 2 to 3 ft. 

 Yews, 18 to 24 in. 



In addition to the above we have 

 White Pines for screens, etc. Evergreens 

 for hedges, including American and 

 Siberian Arbor Vitae. Other Hardy 

 Evergreens. All carefully grown. Prices 

 on request. Inspection invited. Illus- 

 trated catalogue free. 



jEIlwanger & Barrp 



TTlursersmen— Ifoortfculturists 



IRocbester, IRew l?ork 



Don't Pay Two Prices 

 for Stoves and Ranges 



Order direct from our Stove Factory and 

 save all dealers' profits. H O O S I E R 

 Stoves and Ranges are the "Best in the 

 World;" Fuel savers and easy bakers. 



Sol d on 30 days' free trial. We pay the freight. 



Guaranteed two years. Our large illustrated 

 ' steel R»n"e catalog gives descriptions, prices, etc. Write 



for our catalog. 



HOOSIER STOVE CO., Factory 199 State St., Marion, Ind. 



MARY'S GARDEN AND HOW IT GREW 

 by Frances Duncan. A practical treatise on making a 

 flower garden, told in the form of a story in a way to 

 interest young people and help them to lay out and tend a 

 garden. Illustrated, $t. 25. Postpaid by the Century Co., Union 

 Square, New York. 



Write to-day for our art booklet " How 

 "oses" and our New Flo- 

 —FREE. 

 CONARD <fc .rONKS CO., Rox P, West Grove, Pa. 



Growers of "the Best Roses in America." 



■"■v Write to-da^ 



lYV^^^ ral Guide- 



MAULE'S SEEDS 



Once sown, always sown. Illustrated catalogue free. 



Wm. Henry Maule, iroi Filbert St., Philadelphia 



IN AUGUST SOW 



ALL PERENNIAL SEEDS 



for blooming next season 



H.E.FISKESEEDCO.,l2&l3Faneuil Hall Sq., Boston, Mass. 



Choice Pot-Grown ^-^ 

 Strawberry Plants ^* 



All the time-tried standard varieties, and 

 later good ones at the lowest prices for 

 guaranteed stock. Write for List and prices 

 and order early. Deliveries made as desired. 



Cornwall Nursery Co. 



Box 164 ... Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



