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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The Readers 1 Service is prepared to 

 advise parents in regard to schools 



June, 1911 



A SHARPLES 



Cream Separator 

 Delivered at Your Home 



No Money in Advance 

 No Freight to Pay 



You don't have to unbox it. You don't 

 have to put it together. You don't have 

 to start it. You don't have to do anything 

 by guess. You don't have to take any risk 

 or responsibility. 



You let us hear from you and 

 we will deliver the separator, 

 show you how to operate it, how 

 to make it pay you, and show 

 you how it costs you less than 

 any separator for which you are 

 asked tosend moneyinadvance. 

 ■ ■■■ . . . . J This machine will be 

 guaranteed forever by Amer- 

 ica's oldest and the world's big- 

 gest cream separator concern. 

 We can make that guarantee 

 because Tubulars are 

 TheWorld's Best— wear 

 a life-time — whereas 

 cheap separators last, 

 on the average, one 

 year. Write for catalog 

 ISto. 215, and saj T you 

 want aTubular set up 

 in your home— free — 

 with no expense or 

 trouble to you. 



THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. 



WEST CIIKSTKR, PA. 



Chicago, III. San Francisco, Cal. Portland, Ore. 



Toronto, Can., Wlnnipec? Can. 



Equip Your Garden 

 for All Seasons 



Remember in Summer that Fall, 

 „I Hot-beds Winter and Spring will follow. Get 

 and Cold-frames the new sash that needs no mats or 

 other covers. Have plants, violets 

 for example, ready to transplant into cold frames. Send for our catalog 

 (free) and Prof. Massey's booklet on cold frames (4c in stamps). 



SUNLIGHT DOUBLE GLASS SASH CO., 

 927 E. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. 



ANYBODY CAN GROW FLOWERS 

 OR FERNS SUCCESSFULLY IN 



"Illinois SELF-WATERING " Boxes 



Flower Growing No Longer a Knack 



You may think you can't grow flowers in 

 the house. You can. You can grow them 

 in the house or on the porch — if you grow 

 them in Illinois SELF- WATERING Flower 

 Boxes or Baskets. Water once a week, 

 that'sall. You pour a week's 

 supply of water down metal 

 pipe — see picture. Soil ab- 

 sorbs water as it wants it — 

 nature's way. No fuss. No 

 trouble. No leaky boxes. 



Water your plants in hanging bas- 

 kets without removing them. No 

 muss. Illinois SELF-WATER- 

 ING Flower Pots, Boxes, 

 Hanging Baskets have false 

 •bottom. Sponges in false bot- 

 tom supply moisture up 

 through the soil— nature's 

 way, supplying roots as 

 they call for moisture- 

 nature's way. Surface 

 soil kept porous and 

 mulehy — nature's way. 

 All sizes and styles. Made 

 of metal. Can'tleak. Ask 

 about our guaranteed 

 free trial offer. Catalog 

 on request. Write to-day. 



AMERICAN METAL 



BOX CO. 



183N Dearborn St., Chicago, IU. 



CONARD A JONES CO., Wist Grove, Pa. 

 Agents for S. ¥., N. J. and Pa. 



Plum Trees In the Poultry Yard 



TN NEW YORK STATE it is a fact that Euro- 

 L pean and Japan plums are, with the same 

 culture ordinarily given apples, sour cherries, 

 pears, and other hardy tree fruits, a much more 

 uncertain crop. I have planted European and 

 Japan plums in Southeastern New York in the 

 same orchard with other hardy fruits, and many 

 of the plum trees in the last ten years have died, 

 or become diseased and are not productive. The 

 European plums are still our main dependence 

 for dessert plums of high quality, but they are 

 not at home in the climate and soil of New York. 

 They generally bear well for a few years, then 

 show signs of weakness and decay, and become 

 infested by the black knot and curculio. 



The only place where one can grow an abundance 

 of European and Japan plums without the "eternal 

 vigilance" required for orchard culture, is in the 

 poultry yard. In order to keep a plum tree 

 vigorous and bearing, it needs good feeding, 

 frequent cultivation, and the total destruction of 

 the curculio and black knot. There is no place 

 where all these can be done so easily as in the 

 poultry yards. 



When feeding the poultry, shake the trees so 

 that the curculio will fall off and be eaten by the 

 fowls. At the same time, if black knot is 

 starting on the trees, cut it off immediately. Keep 

 the soil in the poultry yard loose by spading or 

 plowing. Then scatter some grain in the soil 

 around the trees, cover it with soil, and the 

 fowls will, by scratching, keep the surface con- 

 stantly stirred. The droppings of the poultry, 

 supplemented with wood ashes or potash in some 

 form, are a better fertilizer than one can buy. 



There is a right way to plant plum trees in the 

 poultry yard to get best results. Order two or 

 three-year-old, No. i trees from the nearest repu- 

 table nursery, and plant them early in the spring. 

 When the soil is sufficiently dry. plow it. After 



Plant plum trees in trie poultry yard and have 

 healthy trees free from curculio 



pio .ng plant the trees in straight rows, at least 

 fifteen feet apart. The plow will open up a deep 

 furrow. Root prune the trees . by cutting off 

 broken roots, and shortening others to about 

 one-third the length, with a clean slanting cut. 

 Place the tree in position, so that it will stand a 

 little deeper than in the nursery, and scatter fine 

 rich surface soil over the roots. Press it around 

 them with the feet; then draw in more soil, and 

 press down again until the roots are covered a 

 little above where the tree was budded, or grafted. 

 Place smill stones around the tree,, to prevent the 

 hens from scratching away the soil, and prune it 

 to balance the roots, but do not head the tree 

 quite so low as for orchard culture. Three or four 

 feet is about right. As. the trees grow prune them 



but none of its discomforts, are realized in 



The Burlington 

 Venetian Blind 



In your windows it makes your room delight- 

 fully cool. Enclose your porch with the 

 Burlington Venetian Blind and you have 

 added a healthful out-of-door room to 

 your home. 



The Burlington Venetian Blind can 



be raised or lowered at will, and can be 



adjusted to any angle to suit the height of 



the sun. 



The Burlington Venetian Blind is made to order only. 



Our illustrated catalog, telling about the various styles, 



will be mailed to you on request. 



Prof. Brooks 



Make the Farm Pay 



Complete Home Study Courses in Agriculture, 

 Horlicullure, Horieiillnre, Landscape Gnrdeniug, I or- 

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 Prof, lirooks of tlie Mass. Agricultural College, Prof. 

 Craig of Cornell University and other eminent 

 teachers. Over one hundred Home Study 

 Courses under able professors in leading colleges. 

 250 piijre catalog free. Write to-daT. 

 THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 

 l>e,.t. G. A., Springfield, Mass. 



Deadly Pills Kill Dandelions 



and all other weeds. Puts them permanently out 

 of business. No backache. 



500 Pills and "Jabstick" prepaid $1.00 



Money back if you are not satisfied 



WILLIAM A. SPINKS & CO. 

 362 West Erie Street Chicago 



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Write us and we will give you some t?ood pointers. We will 



also send information about Guns and Rifles. 



J. Stevens Arms & Tool to., Dept. 215, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 



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Our free booklet, 



"Water Supply for the Home 



will show you how easy it is 



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the Goulds Mfg. Co. 



82 W. Fall St. 



Seneca Falls, 



N.T. 



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