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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1909 



MV FAVORITES 



THE BEST CHOCOLATES IN THE WORLD 

 IN THE MOST ARTISTIC BOXES EVER MADE. 



THE BOXES CONTAIN ONLY CHOCOLATES 



WITH NUT CENTERS OF SUCH PURITY, 



QUALITY, FLAVOR, AND DELICIOUSNESS 



AS CAN ONLY BE PRODUCED BY 



LARGE SIZE MORE THAN A POUND, $1.00 



MEDIUM SIZE 

 HAN A HALF POI 



SMALL SIZE 

 IN A QUARTER P 



SOLD AT OUR 



. STORES AND 



AGENTS EVERYWHERE. 



UBET IKILL 



Exterminates field mice, house mice, and other rodents 

 in houses, greenhouses, hotbeds, barns and stables. Package 

 (containing enough Ubet Ikill to kill 1,000 mice) 60 cents, car- 

 riage paid. 



STUMPP & WALTER CO., Distributing Agents 

 50 l&arclay Street, New York City 



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J. D. A.TJG. HARTZ 



TO FLOWERLOVERS 



SPECIAL OFFER FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY 



A year's membership in the Flowerlovers' Club, a large packet of the 



choicest Flowerlovers' Club pansy seeds and Adams' Handy Little 



Green Book for the Garden ; 50c in value for 10c postpaid. 



iheAd°mJ Method HENRY SAXTON ADAMS, Wellesley, Mass. 



MEN AND WOMEN 



"Write to-day for our new 32-page FREE 

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B 



EST SEED POTATOES 



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A. G. ALDRIDGE, Fisher's, Ontario Co., N. Y. 



M ■" T[ A T A' than is deliv ered by any 



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than is raised by any other pump of the 

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"AMERICAN" CENTRIFUGAL PUMP 



It's because the impeller is accurately 

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P. ATBECK, (Fxport) 4 Stone St., New York 







A Profit of $3.28 per Hen 



AT THE Poultry Institute held in 

 Rocky Ford by the Colorado Agricul- 

 tural College, O. C. Frantz gave a state- 

 ment of his experience with poultry which 

 shows the profits under skilled management. 



Mr. Frantz started January i, 1908, 

 with ninety White Leghorn pullets. In 

 the seven months ending July 31st, they 

 laid 10,730 eggs, an average of 119 eggs 

 per hen. 



He spent for feed, grit, advertising, and 

 incidentals for his hens and for 500 chicks 

 which he hatched, $170.96. 



During the seven months he sold eggs for 

 $326.37, chickens for $107.15, and used 

 in the family eggs worth at market price 

 $33.15, a total gross receipt of $466.67, 

 and a net return above cost of keep of 

 $295.71. This is a net return in seven 

 months of $3.28 per hen. 



Mr. Frantz sold many of his eggs for 

 hatching at breeders' prices. Figuring the 

 eggs at market prices they would have 

 brought $214.60, and the cost of keeping the 

 hens alone was $78.75, a net profit in seven 

 months from ninety hens of $135.85 — 

 $1.50 per hen. 



Mr. Frantz exhibited a pen of five months' 

 old pullets at the Poultry Institute, August 

 22nd, and all of them laid eggs during the 

 meeting. He intends gradually to enlarge 

 his plant to the full capacity of his land. 



Colorado. H. M. Cottrell. 



Preserving Eggs for Next Win- 

 ter's Use 



WHEN eggs are plentiful and so cheap 

 that they hardly pay to sell, any 

 surplus should be put away for next winter's 

 use when the price will be high or against the 

 time when the hens do not lay. If the 

 eggs are perfectly fresh when stored they 

 will have the flavor of newly laid eggs when 

 taken from the preservative next winter. 



Water glass (sodium silicate) is perhaps 

 the best preservative for eggs. A solution 

 containing from 2 per cent, to 5 per cent, of 

 water glass gives the best results. To make 

 dissolve two to five pounds of water glass 

 in ten gallons of water. 



The eggs must be completely immersed 

 in this solution. Although not necessary to 

 the preservation of eggs in a sound condition, 

 a temperature of 40 to 45 degrees will mate- 

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 rather counteract any risk of that stale 



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Hardy 



Plants 



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for 



Cold Climates 



If you love flowers, you 

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 send ,for my new cata- 

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 to any address upon 



request. It describes 

 over 1000 varieties, the 

 kind of plants that will 

 stand the cold because 

 grown in cold Vermont. 

 We sell only the hardi- 

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 Write to-day for a copy. 

 FRED'K H. HORSFO 



Here are a few of the 

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 kind that will last for 

 years: 



Lilies, Perennial 

 Larkspurs, Colum- 

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 Hardy Ferns, Peren- 

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 Japanese Iris, Paeo- 

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 roses, Wild Violets, 

 Hardy Pinks, Roses, 

 Shrubs, Trees, Vines, 

 and hundreds of 

 others. 



RD, Charlotte, Vermont 



of CSS MUShrOOmS Growing hfySur Cellar 



4-0 rt< ' n P osta S e stamps together with the name of your 

 dealer will bring you, postpaid, direct from the 

 manufacturer, a fresh sample brick of 



Lambert's Pure Culture MUSHROOM SPAWN 



the best high-grade spawn in the market, together with large illustrated book 

 011 Mushroom Culture* containing simple and practical methods of raising, 

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 Address: American Spawn Co., St. Paul, Minn. 



Azal 



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 ZQLeaS Fragrant 



White 



Rhododendron Maximum, Kalmia Latifolia, 

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Fernald's Hardy Plants Grown 

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Plants that survive Maine winters can be 

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Send for catalogue of all the really beautiful hardy peren- 

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 W. LINWOOD FERNALD, Eliot, Maine 



