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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 19 10 



THE BEST INVESTMENT 



ANY COW OWNER 



EVER MADE 



That's what more than One Million COW OWNERS the 

 world over have found the DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATOR 

 to be, after thirty years of separator use. 



A DE LAVAL FARM SEPARATOR costs from $45.00 to 

 $175.00 according to capacity. It saves butter fat and produces 



a cream of superior quality 

 over any setting system or any 

 other separator every time it 

 is used, — twice a day every day 

 in the year. 



It involves far less labor than 

 any setting system, and runs 

 easier, has greater capacity and 

 lasts from two to ten times 

 longer than any other sep- 

 arator. 



That's how a DE LAVAL 

 separator saves its cost at least 

 the first year, and frequently 

 in a few months, and then goes 

 on doing so right along for 

 an average of twenty years. 



So far as other separators are 

 concerned they leave off where 

 the IMPROVED DE LAVAL 

 machines begin, and the DE 

 LAVAL makers, with thirty 

 years of experience in separa- 

 tor construction and develop- 

 ment, have forgotten more about separators than all the others 

 know. In fact it's what the DE LAVAL has forgotten and 

 discarded that the others use. 



That's what makes the DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATOR 

 the best investment any cow owner ever made, and an invest- 

 ment no cow owner can have sound reason for delaying to 

 make. 



And in buying a DE LAVAL machine you don't have to 

 part with one cent until you have satisfied yourself that every 

 word of all this is simple truth. 



Any desired separator information can be had of the nearest 

 DE LAVAL agent or of the Company directly. 



DE LAVAL 



The World's Standard Cream Separator 



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 CHICAGO 



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 MONTREAL 



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 SEATTLE 



with beautiful bushes and vines in the same way. 

 A good plan is to spend an hour or two driving about 

 and seeing how nature holds the oldest clay banks 

 in the neighborhood. Select the two or three 

 plants that are commonest and, if you do not know 

 the names, give leaves and flowers or fruit to a botan- 

 ical friend or nurseryman. 



Moist banks are, of course, very easy, because 

 willows and the native red-twigged dogwood grow 

 so very fast that they are extremely cheap. You 

 could easily propagate enough of these at home to 

 cover any moist banks in your neighborhood that 

 are objectionable. 



A re you willing to do something of this sort? If 

 so, join the Roadside Gardening Club now. There 

 are no officers or expenses of any kind, but if you will 

 tell us what you want to do, we will help you accom- 

 plish it with the least expenditure of time and money. 



New Jersey. Thomas McAdam. 



Rocks in Prairie Gardens 



A PLEASING manner in which to utilize rocks, 

 especially out on the prairies where, in cer- 

 tain localities, as in the Red River valley, their 

 scarcity lends them a charm of their own, is shown 

 in the accompanying picture. Such an arrange- 

 ment filled with hardy ferns and lily-of-the-valley 

 is very effective, and is at times the only treatment 

 possible at the foot of a porch facing due north. 



As brought out in the picture, the result is more 

 satisfactory when the stones describe a slight curve. 

 Placing them in a straight line is apt to suggest 



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rigidity. Color may likewise be introduced into 

 such a scene by using the tuberous rooted begonias 

 which will bloom freely in the absence of any direct 

 sunlight, provided they are supplied with a fair soil 

 and sufficient moisture. 



In arranging stones in this manner some care 

 should be exercised that the smaller stones be used 

 at the curves and the larger ones nearest the build- 

 ing. If this is not done there will be an air of 

 abruptness about the stones and the whole will 

 lack the necessary coherence with the house. In 

 other words, the transition from the lawn to the 

 stones and from the stones to the porch will not be 

 gradual enough. 



North Dakota. M. 



