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AMISOB vee IDB UN MUG BZ JUIN Ie , Juny, 1908 
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policy of “ WaterInsurance.’’ It is a life pol- 
icy, with no premiums after the first payment. 
The policy is transferable, and may be sold or 
bequeathed to your descendants. No physical 
examination is required, and we insure the sick 
or well at any age. Our policy is more com- 
prehensive than a fire insurance policy, in that 
it not only protects you from fire but insures to 
you many of the comforts and conveniences of 
life, which are in no other way obtainable, such 
for instance as the morning bath, running 
water in every room, also in the barn and 
garden. It insures the luxury of beautiful 
flowers and succulent vegetables, of a fresh 
green lawn, and sprinkled driveway. It in- 
sures to you all those advantages of abundant 
water, always ready to hand, which are so 
sorely missed by the city dweller when he 
removes to the country, and which the 
country resident will never do without when 
The New Century Lawn Sprinkler 
Revolves freely with any pressure. Equal spray 
over circle from three to fifty feet in diameter. 
Head and 
Arms of : Black 
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SIMPLE AND DURABLE 
Your money back if not entirely satisfactory. Sent 
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Lincoln Ave., Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. 
211 N. Oanitol St. Lexington, Mass. 
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‘*‘Water Insurance” 
One of Life’s Blessings 
once he has experienced their comforts, and 
how wonderfully they save time and labor. 
Instead of the drudgery of carrying a bucket 
of water, you turn a faucet, instead of carry- 
ing many pailfuls to water your plants, you 
turn on the hose. Our water insurance policy 
is one of the real blessings of life. It costs 
only a little, so little for what it gives that you 
will be surprised when we tell you. 
Write to our nearest office for descriptive 
Catalogue “‘U,”’ sent free on application. 
Take out your policy now. 
Rider-Ericsson 
Engine Co. 
35 Warren Street, - - = - New York 
239 Franklin Street, : eof oe ee Ge Boston 
40 Dearborn Street, - - - - - = Chicago 
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A scientific remedy which has been 
Harriaburg, Pa. London. England. 
In the Melon and Cucumber 
Patch 
Pee worst thing about growing melons 
and cucumbers is that very often 
just when the crop appears to be growing 
at its best it suddenly succumbs to the attack 
ofa subtle disease. ‘These troubles are more 
apparent on hot soils and locations than 
on cool ones. This collapse of the cu- 
curbits may be due to one of four distinct 
diseases: 
Yellow leaves in the centre of the plant, 
then angular spots on the leaves, faint at 
first but later well defined are the marks 
of the downy mildew, which is the mcst 
destructive disease of the cucumber; but 
it is not confined to that alone. If the 
weather be moist or humid, upon inspecting ~ 
the under sides of the leaves, these spots 
will be found covered with a faint coating 
of violet colored spores. The disease works 
outward, the young leaves on the tips of 
the branches being the last to die. The 
downy mildew does not appear in New York 
until August, and in particularly dry seasons 
may not cause any injury, but it is a wise 
precaution to spray with Bordeaux mix- 
ture as a preventive. 
If your plants are affected with small, 
round spots, in which there are ‘(usually) 
faint concentric rings, the leaf blight, the 
chief cause of most of the failures among 
melons, is present. The spots rapidly 
grow larger. The cantaloup, on account 
of its very thin and delicate leaves, suc- 
cumbs in a few days, the leaves first curl- 
ing and then shriveling. Spraying is bene- 
ficial to a certain degree. 
Large, circular, dead spots, one-fourth 
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Downy mildew, most destructive to cucumbers 
