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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The Readers ' Service will give you 

 information about motor boats 



April, 1909 



THE SEPARATOR USED BY 



PROMINENT 

 DAIRYMEN 



W. J. Gillett of Rosendale, Wis., owns 

 the Holstein Cow COLANTHA 4th's 

 JOHANNA that holds the World's 

 Record for milk and butter. 



F. H. Scribner of Rosendale, Wis., 

 owns the celebrated Jersey Cow LOR- 

 ETTA D. No. 141,708, who won in 

 the most famous dairy cow test held in 

 America. 



Chas. L. Hill of Rosendale, Wis., owns 

 the famous Guernsey Herd and 

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All these Famous Dairymen Use the 



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Remember the U. S. Separator holds the 

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The 1909 Model 



has Greatly Reduced Diameter of 

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The marguerite or Paris daisy in full bloom is an 

 effective porch plant 



which are always single, are much larger than those 

 grown in the East, and are produced in great 

 numbers. 



The accompanying illustration shows a single 

 plant in full bloom. A charming idea is to have 

 a hedge of these daisies. Clip the hedge each time 

 the flowers begin to fade, and prevent the seed from 

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 growth and becomes again a dazzling mass of white. 



California. Ann Adams. 



Quick Results with Corn 



ANEW method of watering tomatoes by filling 

 sections of pipe laid between the rows, was 

 described in The Garden Magazine for Febru- 

 ary, page 30. I have also successfully tried this 

 with sweet corn, the result being large, well-filled 

 ears of corn at a time when it was almost impossi- 

 ble to buy it in this locality at any price. 



The soil in the space allotted to the corn was 

 thoroughly spaded and raked, and the seeds planted 

 (with a little sand about each kernel) a foot and a 

 half apart — not in hills. They were covered with 

 an inch and a half of soil, old glass jars being set 

 over the little plants as they appeared. The jars 

 were removed whenever the sun shone brightly, 

 but were always replaced in the cool of the evening. 



When the plants were a foot high, well-rotted 

 cow manure was thoroughly worked into the soil 

 about each plant with a small hoe. I did not put 

 the manure into the ground before planting the 

 seed, because I find it occasionally causes the seed 

 to rot during the cold, wet weather which we often 

 have in this locality in early spring. I used the 

 sand directly about the corn seeds, treating them 

 exactly as if they were lily bulbs, manuring after- 

 ward. Watering was done in dry weather through 

 the pipe. 



After the corn was used, we added more manure 

 to the soil and used the same patch for celery. 



Ohio. Mrs. Joseph C. Brown. 



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