216 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
“Produces Cream in Fine 
Condition’ 
So say buttermakers who win prizes and premiums on their butter made 
from U.S. Separator cream. ‘Probably you know that much of the but- 
ter made to-day is churned from separator cream, but you 
may not also know that there is a big difference in the 
quality of cream delivered by different separators. The 
result of this difference shows up very plainly in the butter 
scores at the various State Fairs and Conventions. At these 
prize exhibitions, year after year, users of the Improved 
U. S. separa 
B e SEPARATOR 
demonstrate the superiority of “U.S.” cream for making the fin- 
est butter. 1906 continues the proof, and among many Highest 
Scores, won by the U.S., here are several of special prominence : 
Minnesota State Fair, Ohio State Fair, Ohio State Dairymen’s Convention where the U. won the Sweep- 
stakes in all classes, Dairy Sweepstakes at the ‘Valley Fair’’—a noted New Englard Fair, rerenaes State 
Dairymen’ s Assn., Grand Sweepstakes, Wisconsin, Grand Sweepstakes, North Dakota state Fair, etc. Remember, 
too, that “U.S.” “butter wonevery highest score on Dairy Butterat the St. Louis Exposition, and at the Lewis 
& Clarke Exposition. butter made from cream separated by U. S. Hand Separators was awarded a Gold Medal. 
Not only does the U.S. give you the best cream, but it gives you ALL the cream, 
for the U. S. Separator holds the WORLD’S RECORD for Cleanest Skimming. 
Ifinterested in the production of the very best butter, let us send you our new catalogue, No. 71. It explains 
the reasons back of these results. Fine engravings of the different parts of the machine and a plain, easily under- 
stood explanation of every detail of the construction and operation of the U.S., will appeal to your judgment 
that in efficiency, quality of product, simplicity of design and ease of operation, also durability in construction— 
the U. S. does not have an equal. Please ask for ““New Catalogue No. 71,’ and we will send it promptly, It’s 
worth reading. 
Vermont Farm Machine Co., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
PROMPT DELIVERY from 18 Distributing Warehouses centrally located in U. S. and Can. 
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Th CG d M 2 home and grounds, and advice where equip- 
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Specimen Trees and Shrubs 
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We have over one hundred acres filled with the choicest varieties, includ- 
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Our collection is the result of careful selection from the most famous nurs- 
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If you contemplate doing any planting we invite you to correspond with 
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NovEMBER, 1906 
An Attractive Exchange Garden 
That Works 
eee spring the Home Gardening Asso- 
ciation of Cleveland established an ex- 
change garden in connection with the work 
reported i in the March and April issues of 
TuE GARDEN MAGAZINE, through which 
persons who were interested in gardening 
might find a medium of exchange for their 
surplus plants and to which florists, nursery- 
men, owners of large estates and others in- 
terested were invited to contribute such plants 
as they could spare. During the year, the 
garden received and distributed about 20,000 
plants. 
The exchange garden was made possible 
through the kindness of a friend who loaned 
the use of a vacant half-acre lot in the heart 
of the city. When this lot of ground was 
turned over to the association it had the usual 
appearance of a vacant city lot; if anything, 
it was worse, for tons of flag-stones were 
scattered promiscuously over its surface. 
To put the place in order was the first step. 
The president of the association gave $150 
to be used as was necessary, which was the 
only money the scheme received. The flag- 
stones were removed and the lot was laid out 
as a formal garden, for the purpose of sug- 
gesting, to persons who came for plants, ideas 
of proper arrangement and harmonious 
color effects. In order to make the garden 
attractive during the summer, seeds of an- 
nuals were planted. 
As the plants were brought into the garden, 
some were given out immediately, others 
planted in nursery rows, and many placed in 
the garden for beautiful effects, as well as 
for the purpose of increasing their number 
by propagation. 
We much preferred to receive hardy 
perennials, because they are permanent and 
increase so rapidly. 
Besides furnishing a place where plants 
could be exchanged, the exchange garden had 
such a large number that we were enabled to 
furnish some of the schools with plants. 
One school received enough peony roots to 
make a low hedge seventy feet long. 
Persons wishing plants applied at the 
office of the association, where they received 
a card stating they were entitled to plants 
from the exchange garden, which they could 
receive by applying Monday from g to 10 
a.m., or Friday from 1 to 3 p.m. Everybody 
who applied received plants, even if they did 
not have anything to give in exchange. 
LovisE Kiermn MILER, 
Curator of School Gardens, Cleveland 
Public Schools, Cleveland, Ohio. 
