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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1909 



The New Improved 



De Laval 

 Centrifugal 



Cream 

 Separator 



It Will Save You Money, 

 Time and Labor If You Own One or More Cows. 



Those who keep one or more cows either for profit 

 or for supplying the home table with milk, cream and 

 butter, can ill afford to be without a De Laval Cream Sep- 

 arator. Its benefits and advantages are many. 



First of all, the separator secures every last bit of cream in 

 the milk, whereas one-third to one-half is lost by any other method 

 of skimming. 



Secondly, the separating can be done as soon as the cow is 

 milked, which means that the cream is always perfectly sweet, of 

 fine texture and any desired thickness, without taint or odor, and 

 may be churned into a butter readily worth from two to ten cents 

 more per pound. Likewise is the skim-milk delivered pure, fresh 

 and warm and worth a dozen times more for stock-feeding pur- 

 poses or human consumption than the skim-milk from any gravity- 

 setting or dilution system of skimming. 



The separator also does away with the setting and handling 

 of the milk in crocks and pans, with skimming, ice and water, and 

 all the work and room which the old way involves for everyone. 



In short, the separator reduces your dairy work to almost 

 nothing. All this means time, money, better product and more 

 of it with less work and less trouble. 



Usually the Separator Saves Its Cost in Less than a Year and 

 Will Last Anywhere from Ten to Twenty-Five Years 



Send at once for our handsome new catalog, illustrating and 

 describing the New Improved De Laval machines in detail. You 

 will be surprised and your only regret will be that you did not in- 

 vestigate this big money and labor-saving machine sooner. 



THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 



General Offices: 165 Broadway, New York. 



42 E.Madison Street 1213 & 1215 Filbert St. 



CHICAGO PHILADELPHIA 



Drumm & Sacramento Sts. 

 SAN FRANCISCO 



173-177 William Street 14 & 16 Princess Street 



MONTREAL WINNIPEG 



107 First Street 



PORTLAND, OREG. 



PLANTS FOR AN UNFAVORABLE 

 SITUATION 



Q. — Between our house and the next is a dark 

 passageway about three feet wide. All the light 

 there is comes from an east and west exposure, and 

 a little filters down between the houses. No sun- 

 shine ever gets to the ground. Is there anything 

 that could be made to grow in such a place ? 



Pennsylvania. K. McM. 



A . — In a passageway such as you describe there 

 would possibly be serious problems of air drainage 

 — it may be that plants would not grow there 

 because of the air becoming stagnant. If the 

 ground is moist, however, and the space is 

 ventilated, rhododendrons and royal ferns 

 should thrive. For flowering plants, use begonias 

 and fuchsias. 



STARTING GLOXINIAS 



Q. — For gloxinia culture do you advise placing 

 the tuber at once into a 6-inch flowering pot, after 

 starting, or working up to that size? 



New York. R. C. S. 



A . — Start the gloxinias first in a flat, in sphag- 

 num moss or leaf soil and sand. Pot up in small 

 pots as soon as they commence to make roots, using 

 a light compost of leafy soil and sand. When the 

 first pots (3 or 3$ inch) are full of roots, repot into 

 larger flowering size, using a soil considerably 

 stronger, with a small quantity of good fertilizer, 

 such as bone meal. They want a light, free soil at all 

 times, but will require lots of liquid feeding as soon 

 as the flowering pots are filled with roots. Grow 

 on in a temperature of 60 or 65 degrees. J. T. S. 



PLANTING SWEET POTATOES 



Q. — Please tell me how much sweet potato seed 

 is required to plant an acre of ground 



New York. P. K. S. 



A . — Sweet potatoes are not cut into sections and 

 dropped like Irish potatoes, but are started as young 

 plants. They are prepared for field planting by 

 bedding in sand or soil in either a specially prepared 

 frame where artificial heat can be supplied, or in a 

 greenhouse; or sometimes even on a sunny slope 

 where the young plants would not be affected by 

 frost. The farm price of sweet potatoes for seed 

 purposes is usually about $1.00 a bushel, always 

 varying with the market and local conditions. 

 Two bushels of sweet potatoes are required to start 

 sufficient plants for an acre of ground, but it would 

 be necessary to plant eight or ten bushels of Irish 

 potatoes for the same space. J. A. B. 



HOW TO HAVE A GOOD LAWN 



Q. — Last July I had the ground about my house 

 spaded and raked. Grass seed was sown and the 

 ground rolled. By September the lawn was in 

 good condition. In November it was covered with 

 horse manure which will be removed during April. 

 How can I keep the lawn in good condition with the 

 minimum of care ? 



New Jersey. A. L. 



A. — Rake off the manure from the lawn immedi- 

 ately. After growth has started for the season the 

 mulch, remaining on any longer, will do more harm 

 than good. After raking if off, roll the lawn well, 

 having previously scattered a light top dressing of a 

 good lawn-seed mixture. Encourage, always, the 

 young growth. For helpful information, read 

 Barron's "Lawns and How to Make Them," price 

 $1.20 by mail. 



