Tf you are planning to build the Readers’ 
256 Service can ojten give helpful sug gestion 
THE GARDEN 
MAGAZINE Mass 1908s 
“BONORA” 
The great boon for plant life of every variety 
and description. 
“BONORA” will make your vegetables take 
root quickly, maturing them two 
to three weeks earlier, almost 
doubling the production. 
“BONORA”’ will make your rose bushes 
bloom in profusion, and your 
strawberries sweet and large. 
‘‘BONORA”? will make your lawns look like 
velvet. 
Going to Build? 
What about Heating? 
qis is just one right way to warm a house and that 
is with fresh air direct trom out-of-doors, warmed 
to the correct temperature and then FORCED to 
every room in the building. 
The KELSEY Warm Air Generator with the ZIG- 
ZAG Heat Tubes is the only warm air heater 
that will accomplish these results under all conditions. 
qr KELSEY has double the weight and heat- 
ing surfaces of the ordinary furnace, warms air by 
a better method and saves 20 to 30 per cent in fuel. 
THE ZIG-ZAG Heat Tubes do it 
Send for RBoozlet about the KELSEY and r12.page book 
of Opinions with pictures of 250 KELSEY Heated Homes 
KELSEY HEATING CO. 
Main Office, 203 Fayette St., Syracuse, N.Y. 
154 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. City 
Read what an eminent authority has to say: 
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS 
Seeds, Bulbs and Plants 
Floral Park, N. ¥. 
Borora Chemical Co., New York City. 
Dear Sirs:— 
I received the ‘BONORA”’ you shipped me some time 
ago, and it is certainly a fine fertilizer for plant life of every 
variety. Extensive trials in our greenhouses leave no doubt 
whatever as to its efficiency. Plants which received but two 
applications showed decided improvement almost from the 
Start. 
Therefore, I can strongly recommend it to any one grow- 
ing plants, asit is entirely odorless and easily applied. 
Very truly yours, 
ADOLF JAENICKE, 
Supt. of Trials and Private Department of John Lewis Childs. 
Ask your dealer for it or order direct. 
Put up in dry form inall size Be as follows: 
1lb. making 28 gallons postage 65 
Splbse lO » $2.50 
TO Mos, “Ax  ° see aye 75) 
Bonora Chemical Co. 
488-492 Broadway New York 
$1.00 Mexican Palm Leaf Hat t 50 
A comfortable, durable hat for fishing, outings and i 
gardening. Guaranteed genuine Mexican hand- 
woven from palm fibre. Double weave. light @@ 
weight; colored design in brim. Retails at 
$1.00. Postpaid for soc, to introduce our 
Mexican and Panama hats. Same hat 
plain 4oc, both 75c. All sizes. 
Special Offer. For $1.00 we will send post- 
paid 2 hats like cut, with a nice specimen of 
Genuine Matrix Turquoise free. Art catalog Mexican and Panama hats pice 
THE FRANCIS FE. LESTER CO., Dept. J. 5, MESILLA PARK, N. 9 
THE FARM LIBRARY 
SOILS by S. W. Fletcher FARM MANAGEMENT by F. W. Card 
FARM ANIMALS by E. V. Wilcox COTTON by Charles W. Burkett and Clarence H. Poe 
Each Illustrated from Photographs $2.20 Prepaid 
COUNTRY LIFE THE WoRLD's WORK (2) THe GARDEN 
IN AMERICA MAGAZINE 
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE &Co. NEW YORK, 
Burke’s Automatic Vacuum Hose Coupling. 
Paints buildings, whitewashes, pumps 
water from cellars, empties cesspools, etc. No odor. 
BURKE, 78 Hudson St., Boston, Mass. j 
Great Seller 
ALPINE 2 Gentians, Edelweiss, 13 other $2 
plants, postage paid, $2.50. 
PLANTS Send for catalogue, 600 varieties 
English Home of Alpine Plants 
Southport Kingsbridge Devon, England 
Agents Wanted 
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THE MT. DESERT NURSERIES, BAR HARBOR 
err ction aka ie sisapelal mga 
Hardy Stock from a Hardy Climate 
Northern Trees and Shrubs for Landscape Planting and for Gardens 
Hardy Herbaceous Garden Plants 
in their most beautiful kinds and finest forms, a long developed specialty 
Write for Catalogue 
Bar Harbor, Maine 
Packing done with greatest care 
The Mt. Desert Nurseries 
which is accessible at all times. Under 
such circumstances, they pick up insects and 
green stuff which they cannot get earlier 
in the séason, when some substitute must 
be provided. 
Chicks hatched in incubators and kept in 
brooders entirely separate from old’ birds, 
are not so subject to attacks of lice, but 
they do sometimes hecome infested. Vig- 
orous treatment of the chicks with insect 
powder and of the brooders with lice killers 
and disinfectants is necessary. The brood- 
ers should be cleaned frequently and kept 
as clean and sweet as possible, but don’t 
confine the chicks in them too quickly after 
treatment. 
To sum up, the chicks must be kept warm, 
dry, clean, out of drafts of air or high winds, 
given plenty of good feed, and as much 
outdoor exercise and as extended range 
as possible. 
The secret of successful chicken raising 
early in the season is to supply what the 
chicken would get for itself later in the year. 
New Jersey. F. H. VALENTINE. 
Testing Seed in the Incubator 
AN INCUBATOR may be _ utilized 
for testing seeds with very little 
trouble. If the machine is not in use, a false 
tray may be made to take the place of the 
egg tray. Fill it with sand, put the seed in 
this sand, moisten thoroughly and cover with 
a moist cloth. This cloth is divided into 
squares which are numbered, and under each 
square are planted seeds corresponding to the 
number on the square. Keep the temper- 
ature at about 80 or 85 degrees. It will not 
_ be necessary to water the sand more than 
_ once or twice, and as the heat is uniform 
all over the tray the seeds will germinate 
simultaneously. 
When the machine is in use for hatching, 
use platters instead of the false tray, placing 
the seeds between two pieces of flannel. 
Keep the seed moist. The platters are 
placed under the egg tray in what is called 
the “chick nursery.’ While the tempera- 
| ture is Somewhat higher than is necessary, 
it will not injure the seeds, but will cause 
them to germinate more quickly. 
Missouri. H. F. GRINSTED. 
