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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1910 



You Should at Once Investigate 

 the Remarkable Advantages of the U. S. 

 Incinerator 



Provides for accumulating and disposing of excreta and all forms 

 of waste and refuse matter conveniently, economically and in a sanitary manner 

 — positively emitting no odor, neither during accumulation or incineration. 



Can be used separately as a single toilet or in batteries 

 accommodating any number of persons. 



Fills a long-felt want in the hospital, sanitarium or any building 

 or institution housing people — in the mine or lumber camp — indis- 

 pensable to the contractor employing men in 

 excavation or construction work. 



Officially Adopted by the U. S. 



Government 



and ordered for army purposes. Portable, 

 economical — requires no special attention. In 

 the hospital nothing can equal it for the crema- 

 tion of dressings, bandages, infectious parts from 

 operations, sputum cups, etc. 



Solves the toilet problem in country homes, 

 hotels, railroad stations, summer resorts, factories, 

 etc. 



Write To-day for Complete Information 



so that we may place before you further facts 

 regarding the U. S. Incinerator and how it can best 

 be applied to your own particular requirements. 



United States Incinerator Co., Inc. 



Executive Office, 430 White Building, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Reverse View of Floor Installation 

 Showing Firing- Side and Position 



Sectional \'iew of Incinerator 



32 Union Square 

 New York 



OFFICES AT 



217 Chamber of Commerce BIdg. 

 Chicago. 111. 

 2120 First Avenue 

 Birmingham, Ala. 



ng Side. Battery of Three Equipped as Toilets 



Hardware dealers 



wanted everywhere to 



represent us 



Write for terms 



Reverse Side Which Shows Approach 



gSIatest Money Saver 



Cheapest to install, least attention, fewest repairs, 

 highest efficiency and economical and dependable 

 under every condition of service is the 



"American'* Centrifugal Pump 



There is not a valve or other gret-out-of-order feature about 

 it — just the easiest possible curved flow-lines without s sudden 

 cliangre of direction in passage through the pump, enabling- 

 water to be raised with less power than wiih 

 any other pump in existence. It's the modern 

 way in pumping. There's 41 years' of manu- 

 facturing experience behind it. All gold 

 medals given to centrifugals at the Alaska- 

 Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle in 1909 

 were awarded to this pump. 



.Made in both horizontal and vertical types, in any 

 si^e. in any number of stages 

 and equipped with any power. 

 Let us tell you of other sav- 

 ing features of this pump. 



THE AMERICAN 

 WELL WORKS 



Gen. Office and Works, 

 AURORA, ILL. 



Chicago Office, First National 



Bank Building , 

 420 First Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. 



LAWN ANT 

 DESTROYER 



Guaranteed not to injure grass, plants or shrubbery. 

 Can be used on lawns, golf grounds and gardens. 

 If, after using one-half can, it does not destroy the 

 ants, we will cheerfully refund purchase price, $1.00 

 per can. Testimonials and detailed information free. 



GRAND RAPIDS LAWN ANT DESTROYER CO. 

 52 KENT STREET GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



PAEONIES 



The best in the world. Every choice variety known 



Prices greatly reduced. 



Festiva Maxima 35 cents Marguerite Gerard $L00 

 Felix Cronsse 50 cents Baroness Schroeder $2.00 



Strong roots, well grown by one who has given ten 

 years to the study of Paeonies exclusively. List free. 



E. J. SHAYLOR Welli^dey Farms, Mass. 



Sulphate of Iron for Weeds and 

 Other Things 



LAST spring I received a circular from a maker 

 of spraying apparatus recommending the use 

 of iron sulphate to kill weeds in lawns, walks, 

 and driveways. It sounded so reasonable and 

 labor-saving that I tried it. I did not persevere on 

 the lawn, but I used it with great satisfaction on the 

 asparagus bed. If it is used before cutting is 

 stopped, a little care is necessary, because every drop 

 that touches a tip makes a tiny black mark. This 

 mars the appearance of the stalk, but does no 

 real damage. When I stopped cutting, I sprayed the 

 bed thoroughly with a solution of about a half- 

 pound of copperas to a gallon of water. I applied 

 it on a bright day, and the million or more weeds 

 just uncurling their third or fourth leaf simply 

 laid down and died. There have been no more 

 this season. It is a most delightful way of accom- 

 plishing a back-breaking task. 



Then I recalled having read that iron sulphate 

 has been used as a fertilizer. I looked the sub- 

 ject up in "Manures: How to Make and How to 

 Use Them," by F. W. Sempers, and found that 

 it has given good results on peas, beans, cabbage, 

 potatoes, and other crops. The work was done 

 in England, but the description of the soil, "chiefly 

 clay and loam derived from the new red sandstone 

 formation," sounded a good deal like my ground, 

 especially the clay part. 



The book said to apply the copperas as a top 

 dressing, at the rate of fifty to one hundred pounds 

 to the acre, when the plants are well started; to 

 apply it after a rain, not on dry, parched ground; 

 and to mix it with five to ten times its weight of soil 

 or sand to secure a more even distribution. It is 

 claimed that iron sulphate acts as an antiseptic, des- 

 troying mildews and fungi and their spores; that it 

 fixes ammonia and phosphoric acid, presumably 

 rendering them more available for the growing 

 crop; and that it increases the food value of the crop 

 by increasing the carbohydrates and albuminoids. 



I decided to try it on my potato patch. Prac- 

 tically the only fertilizer used on the ground was 

 chicken manure put on during the winter and early 

 spring, whenever the dropping boards of the hen 

 house were cleaned. I usually grow a crop of 

 buckwheat in the fall, which is turned under more 

 or less, and allowed to decay where it grows. Some 

 clover has been turned under, and I try not to plant 

 potatoes on the same ground two years in succession. 



I pulverized the copperas, mixed it with ten times 

 its weight of fine coal ashes from the hen house floor, 

 put the mixture through an ordinary gravel screen, 

 and scattered it between the rows of potatoes when 

 the plants were eight or ten inches high. The 

 amount was so insignificant that it was a real act 

 of faith to believe that it would have any effect 

 one way or the other. 



Almost immediately, the vines showed increased 

 vigor. Of course, they were cultivated and sprayed 

 as usual. In spite of the prolonged drought that 

 caught most of the potatoes in this vicinity — 

 many fields were not worth digging — we got a 

 very satisfactory crop; the quality was extra fine, 

 and the tubers have kept remarkably well. 



An interesting accidental application of the 

 sulphate was made to two peach trees growing in 

 the part of the garden devoted last year to the 

 potatoes. One is a Late Crawford, the other a seed- 

 ling. They have both borne good crops of excel- 

 lent peaches, but last year the fruit was wonderful. 

 Most of the Crawfords were from three to three 

 and a half inches high, many weighed half to three 

 quarters of a pound, and the color was most beau- 

 tiful. And as for flavor! They equalled any 

 peaches on grandfather's farm in my boyhood days, 

 which, as everyone knows, is the very top notch 

 of praise. 



New Jersey. A. C. Brown. 



Wire-Cutting Plier 



A REALLY necessary tool in the garden is a 

 pair of wire-cutting pliers that will always 

 cut. They are purchasable from six inches up to 

 twelve inches or more in length. I use what is 

 called the button plier; each size is made to cut 

 wire up to a certain size only. Each plier has three 

 cutters which will keep sharp for years. 



Pennsylvania. J- L. K. 



