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GARDEN MAGAZINE 
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Water For Your Country Home 
F you live in the country there is a way for 
you to enjoy all the comforts and con- 
veniences of a city water supply without 
a penny for water tax. 
It is accomplished by the Kewanee System. 
With the Kewanee System you get even 
more than city service, because, in addition to 
every benefit the latter affords, you may have 
—Sojt water in your bathroom and laundry. 
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The Kewanee System is easily explained; it 
consists simply of hav:ng a Kewanee Pneu- 
matic Tank set in your cellar or buried in the 
ground. 
The water from your own well or cistern is 
pumped into the Kewanee Tank. 
From the tank the water is delivered under 
pressure to the laundry tubs, kitchen sink, bath- 
rooms, outside hydrants or wherever wanted. 
When the tank is half full of water the air 
which originally filled the entire space will be 
compressed into the upper half of it. 
It is this pressure exerted on the water 
which delivers it to the plumbing fixtures and 
hydrants. 
An average pressure of 40 pounds may be 
maintained under ordinary conditions This 
will carry water to a height of 80 feet, thus af- 
fording splendid fire protection. 
You see that the method, while perfectly 
simple, is based on a thoroughly scientific plan. 
The Kewanee Water Supply Company was 
the first to apply this principle successfully in 
supplying water to country houses, and after 
ten years of experience the system has proved 
to be entirely practical and it is rapidly grow- 
ing in favor. 
Over 5,000 Kewanee Outfits now in use. 
Kewanee Water Supply Company, Drawer S, Kewanee, III. 
The old stvle elevated tanks are passing 
— Because they stand no show in competition 
with the modern, no-trouble system—the 
Kewanee System. 
The old fashioned gravity system meant 
pumping water up in order to get it down again. 
Now, to give the necessary pressure for fire protection 
and service, the elevated tank must be located on top of a 
tall tower. This is expensive, unsightly and unsafe. 
The water freezes in winter, becomes warm and stag- 
nant in summer, and repairs are a big item of expense. 
The attic tank doesn’t give sufficient pressure for fire 
protection. 
Its weight is apt to crack the plastering, and when it 
leaks (as it is pretty sure to do) your house is flooded. 
Tust one such exnensive accident may cost you many t:mes 
the price of a Kewanee Outfit 
—Which cannot flood the house, because the tank is 
resting on solid ground where it can do no damage. 
The installation of a Kewanee Pneumatic Water 
System in your country home means 
—Plenty of pure, fresh water, 
—Cool water in the summer, 
—No freezing water in winter, 
—Absolute protection from fire, 
—Decrease in insurance rates. 
—A plant that will last a lifetime, 
—No expensive repairs. 
It solves the country water problem completely 
The Kewanee System will take care of al] your needs 
—for home, garden, lawn, stables, poultry houses, etc. 
* * * * 
Our Kewanee Outfits are completc. 
Not an engine only, which in itself cannot give you a 
water supply—nor a tank only, which is useless unless you 
have some form of pumping power— 
But, we furnish the whole thing—a complete system of 
water supply. 
Our engineering department is prepared to solve vour 
water problem—no matter how difficult that problem 
may now appear. 
Kewanee Outfits are made in sizes suited to the small- 
est cottage—or largest building—or group of buildings. 
We guarantee every Kewanee Outfit to give perfect 
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Few Bugs in Clean Gardens 
HERE is entirely too much of the so- 
called ‘‘hind sight” and far too little 
foresight in our warfare against the bugs. 
When in midsummer we suddenly find a crop 
being destroyed by hundreds of hungry cater- 
pillars or beetles, we wonder where they 
came from and proceed to combat them 
when they have already partially ruined the 
crop. One of the worst contributary causes 
is the neglect to clear out the remains of 
the gathered crops leaving the stumps, 
stubble, or vines lying in the garden where 
. they grew, or in piles, serenely indifferent to 
the fact that our insect enemies are thriving 
and increasing upon them. 
There are many simple methods of effectu- 
ally checking the increase of these insects 
and thus obviating the necessity for expensive 
remedial measures. In warfare against in- 
sects as against disease, we need more hy- 
giene and less remedial treatment. 
In the cabbage patch after the crop has 
been gathered, the stumps, which have 
sprouted out, will be found in the field where 
The dead and de. 
caying vegetation left after gathering a crop furnishes 
Raising next year’s insect pests. 
food and winter protection for the insects. Clean up! 
they grew or sometimes gathered into piles. 
The sprouts furnish ample food for the 
bugs during the balance of the season and 
form snug quarters in which the winter is 
safely passed. In these stumps or piles 
may be found the chrysalids of all the com- 
mon cabbage caterpillars and the adult 
harlequin bugs so injurious in the South. 
Had the stumps been uprooted and piled 
as soon as the crop was gathered, all of 
these pests would have assembled upon 
the piles, which might then have been de- 
stroyed in the fall or early spring and thus 
caught the greater part of the insects. 
The same principles apply to most of the 
pests of melons, cucumbers and squashes. 
Both the squash bug and striped cucumber 
beetle hibernate under the old vines and 
other rubbish always found in the melon 
patch, where they feed and breed unmolested 
