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UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCE 



Keeps Chickens in Their Yards and Out of the Garden 



Twisted wire cables (stronger than single wire) and single 

 wire uprights, made fast by the " Union Lock," form rec- 

 tangular mesh that permits fence to conform to inequalities 

 of the ground without cutting. Will not buckle or sag. 



This is impossible with netting. 



The bottom six rows of mesh are i %xt ) in., the next three 

 are 1^x3, then five rows are 2x3 ; all above this are 4x3. 



This arrangement prevents escape of chickens, young 

 or old. Union Lock fence is economical, as no top rail or 

 bottom boards are required and only half the usual num- 

 ber of posts are necessary. 



We make our own wire, galvanize and make it into fence, 

 and we know, from facts, that it 

 will outwear any other fence. 



Made in widths from 12 to 84 in. Sold by the rod — not by the square foot — in rolls of 10 and 20 rods. 



50 rods, or more, delivered f. o. b. nearest depot. 



May we send catalogue and booklet U A Short Story for Poultry Raisers " 



UNION FENCE COMPANY, Engineering Bldg., Liberty St., New York 



Mills at : New Haven, Conn.; De Kalb, 111.; Oakland, Cal. 



This Trade Mark in Colors Appears 

 on Every Roll 



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Make a Flower Garden 



A charming and practical book by experts 

 on every branch of the subject. The Los 

 Angeles Express says : " With all its wealth 

 of information the excellence of the illus- 

 trations and their number almost bring the 

 book under the classification of art works." 

 More than 200 beautiful half-tones. Price, 

 net, $1.60. Postage, 16 cents extra. 



Make School Gardens 



The first adequate and practical volume on 

 a subject which promises to become as 

 fundamental a part of popular education in 

 America as it is in Europe. By H. D. 

 Hemenway, Director of the Hartford School 

 of Horticulture. Illustrated. Net, $1.00. 



Plan the Home Grounds 



A very helpful book, by Samuel Parsons, 

 Jr., a well-known landscape architect, and for 

 many years Superintendent of Public Parks 

 in New York City. Illustrated. Net, $1.00. 



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IN MAKING A LAWN 



Do not spoil it by sowing cheap seed but 

 get the best to be had and that is 



Vicks Velvet Lawn Seed 



Our years of experience have taught us 

 just what varieties of grasses to use and 

 just how to mix them in the proper pro- 

 portions to make a beautiful rich velvety 

 turf, a turf thick with roots below the sur- 

 face and thick with foliage above. The 

 kind of a lawn that looks like velvet and 

 wears like iron. Per quart, 25 cents; 

 pound, 40 cents; postpaid, peck (5 lbs.) 

 $1.10; bushel (20 lbs.) $4.00, express or 

 freight at purchaser's expense. 



Our 1905 Garden and Floral Guide 



will tell you of many other good things we 

 have. It is mailed FREE on request. 



James Vicks Sons, r 



362 Main Street 

 ochester, N. Y. 



