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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The Readers' Service is prepared to 

 advise parents in regard to schools 



April, 1911 



An I H C Gasoline 

 Encjine Has 



Been Built 

 Especially 



ForYoii/ 



No matter what kind of work you want your engine to do. Whether you 

 need 1-H. P. or 45-H. P.— whether you want a vertical or horizontal engine, 

 one that is portable, or of the stationary type — there is an I H C that will 

 just meet your requirements. Also a line of Traction Engines in 12, IS, 20, 

 25, and 45-H. P. sizes — varied types. 



The I H C line of Gasoline Engines has been developed to cover every 

 farm power need. The men who are responsible for their design and con- 

 struction know conditions on the farm, and they know what is required 

 to do all farm work efficiently and economically. 



The next time you are in town call on the I H C local dealer — explain the 

 work you want your engine to do, whether operating cream separator, feed 

 grinder, fanning mill, thresher, spreader, turning grind-stone, sawing wood, 

 etc., and he'll show you the engine to do it— do it quickly — efficiently— and 

 economically— just as others like it are doing for thousands of other farmers. 

 He'll show you, too, the many advantages of IHC con- 

 struction — points you ought to know about if you want the 

 most satisfactory farm power you can buy. 



If you prefer, write for the IHC Gasoline Engine 

 catalogue. It gives all the facts. Address 



International Harvester Company of America 



(Incorporated) 

 Chicago - - USA 



IHC Service Bureau 



The purpose of this Bureau is to furnish farmers 

 ■with information on better farming. If you have 

 any worthy questions concerning soils, crops, pests, 

 fertilizer, etc., write to the I H C Service Bureau, 

 and learn what our experts and others have 

 found out concerning those subjects. 



10 Broad-Leaved Evergreens for $1 



One each of *Rhododendroii maximum, *Kalmia, *Leucothoe, *Am. Holly, Boxwood, Euonymus 

 Japonica, Hardy Evergreen Bamboo, Euonymus radicans variegata, Abelia grandiflora, Vinca minor. 

 Ten of any starred sort (thrifty young seedlings) for $1. 



3 Conifers for 25c— 1 each of Carolina Hemlock, White Pine, Red Cedar, Or 3 Conifers and any 3 

 Broad-Leaved Evergreens for 50c. 1 Galax, 1 Trailing Arbutus, 1 Mitchella Repens for 25 cents. 



All good plants of mailing size. Larger plants by express at reasonable rates. L. Greenlee, Route 1, 

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Weighted with Water. 



A lawn roller whose weight can be adjusted to the conditions of 

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 or too light to do your lawn the most good, paying for two or three hundred pounds of useless 

 metal — and freight on it as well — when less money will buy the better, more efficient 



"Any weight " Water Ballast Lawn Roller. 



WILDER 



Remember that a difference of 50 pounds may mean success or ruin to your lawn — a half ton 



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^ If you desire a fine, soft, springy turf of deep green, instead of a coarse, dead looking 



patch of grass, use an "Anyweight." 



The "Anyweight" Water Ballast Roller is built in 3 sizes, all of 24 inch diameter and of 24, 



27 and 32 inch widths. The machine shown here (our smallest) weighs but 1 1 5 lbs. empty, 



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Spring Work for Every New 

 Englander 



IT IS not too late this season to do serious damage 

 in the ranks of the gypsy and brown tail moth 

 army, which is menacing the existence of our foliage 

 and fruit trees in northeastern United States. 

 But this is the last call for active spring work, 

 which is, by the way, the most convenient and 

 most effectual phase of this kind of fighting. As 

 long as the leaves are still in the bud we can easily 

 distinguish the unkempt winter webs of the brown 

 tails, and the neat, compact egg masses of the 

 gypsy. Let us sally forth, therefore, and destroy 

 them wherever they may be found, before the 

 increasing warmth quickens into devastating 

 activity the myriads of worm enemies in egg and 

 leafy nest. 



A word or two as to the life habits of these pests 

 will explain the efficiency of the spring campaign. 

 The adult moths of the gypsy (Porthetria dispar) 

 appear from the middle of July to the middle of 

 August; of the brown tail (Euproclis chrysorrhcea) 

 from July ist to 20th, both depending on the season 

 and the prevalence of the moths. The female 

 gypsy cannot fly, but, crawling into some more 

 or less sheltered position lays, within a few days, a 

 mass of eggs. This would be approximately in 

 August, but the larvae do not hatch out until the 

 following May. Of course the late fall, and any 

 time through the winter, when the snow is not 

 too deep, offer excellent opportunities for destroy- 

 ing these nests and the many hundreds of potential 

 worms in each one. But upon the supposition 

 that this task is one of those "easy, little jobs 

 that we can do any time," and that, therefore, 

 it has been put off again and again, I want to stir 

 up some excitement now, before it is too late. 



The most powerful weapon we have for use in 

 this crusade is creosote, plain, undiluted; of 

 pungent, disinfectant odor, and persistent, caustic 

 power. Whether you have an orchard, a woodlot, 

 or merely a few shade trees, put some creosote in a 

 tin pail or wide-mouthed bottle, take a good, 

 strong brush, round, perhaps an inch in diameter, 

 then set out with an unflinching determination 

 to examine every tree on your place, thoroughly. 

 Pay particular attention to the white birch, the 

 willow, the cedars and the fruit trees, especially 

 the wild straggly seedling apples in pastures. The 

 moths seem to prefer a smooth area on which to 

 lay their eggs, but more valuable than this, they 

 deem a hidden crevice or a sheltered corner. For 

 this reason, look with extra care about the base of 

 trees right among the grass blades, in cavities, 

 (although there really should be no such refuge 

 for diseases and decay in your trees), under bits of 

 bark and, most of all, in the chinks and crannies 

 of stone walls and fallen trees or logs. I have 

 even found them in old tin cans and wooden boxes, 

 as well as on the under side of the top of a step 

 ladder left in the woods in egg-laying time. Paint 

 the mass thoroughly with the creosote, and those 

 eggs, at least, will give you no further trouble. If 

 the nests appear well up the trunk or on the 

 branches, attach the brush to the end of a light 

 pole; you can dab the masses sufficiently at long 

 distance. But if you do much of this up-in-the- 

 air work, wear automobile goggles. Creosote is 

 a most unpleasant substance in the eyes. 



Any one who lives within the gypsy moth area 

 will know what the egg mass looks like. For 

 fortunate others I can say that it is an oval or 



