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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1910 



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Lessens 

 Wash Day Labor 



The HILL DRYER saves half the time and work of 

 hanging out the wash. 

 In use it is a neat, compact, revolving clothes line on which you 

 can hang all the clothes without moving from one spot. 

 When not in use it folds up like an umbrella, leaving the lawn 

 clear of unsightly spots and ropes. 



HILL CLOTHES DRYER 



is the modern clothes dryer — clean, compact, convenient. Saves all 



the wash and bother of putting up and taking down long lines and 



heavy poles, and the tiresome dragging of basketfuls of clothes in all 



kinds of weather. Keeps clothes up out of the dirt and dries 



them quickly. Costs very little. 



THE HILL BALCONY DRYER 



is just as great a convenience as 

 the lawn dryer. Holds six times as 

 many clothes as the dangerous pulley lines. 

 Insist that your landlord provide 

 one. 



Write for Free Folder 12. Handsomely printed 

 in colors and showing the Dryer in use. 



HILL DRYER CO., 312 Park Ave., Worcester, Mass. 



Centre Pole 



Poultry, Kennel and Live Stock Directory ItZtltTr 



care of dogs, poultry and live stock will be gladly given. Address INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, 

 The Garden Magazine, 133 East 16th Street, New York. 



YOUR HENS 

 LAY BETTER 



When housed in clean, sweet, well- 

 whitewashed quarters. One of America's 

 ^.very noted poultrymen, who uses two, 

 \says that as the best money can buy 

 $ every fancier should have a 



Deming Spray Pump 



whitewashing building and fences, and for all 

 kinds of spraying work, get the Deming — the pump 1 

 that's used by the people who know. We make pumps 

 for all uses. Sold by leading dealers. Catalogue free. 

 'The Deming Co.. 734 Depot St., Salem, Ohio 



Utility Flocks — Silver Laced Wyandottes 



To make room for growing stock, I offer utility 

 flocks of choice young birds at bargain prices. Each 

 flock consists of twelve hens and one cock — all 

 vigorous, well developed birds, hatched early in the 

 spring of 1909. Price per flock, $15, $20 and $25, 

 according to quality. Send for circulars. 

 W. B. LLOYD, KINMUNDY, ILLS. 



SHETLAND PONIES 



An unceasing source of pleasure and 

 robust health to children. Safe and 

 ideal playmates. Inexpensive to keep. 

 Highest type. Complete out- 

 fits. Satisfaction guaranteed. 



Illustrated catalogue. 



BELLE MEADE FAKM 



Box S3 Mnrkham, Va. 



RARE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 



Wanted silent partner with ample capital, by young man who has 

 built a successful foundation for immense future business in grow- 

 ing and improving SCIENTIFICALLY, flower seedsand plants. 

 Gilt edge reference required and given. Address 

 JOUR S. WEAVE!!, (Men lluwr Seed Farms, Kin/crs, Lancaster Co., Pa. 



Large Berkshire Swine 



Both imported and American breed- 

 ing along the most approved lines. 

 Bred sows, service boars and young 

 stock of all ages. We have never 

 bred a cross animal nor had a sow 

 molest her pigs. All animals regis- 

 tered free of charge. Your money 

 back if you want it. 



Write for booklet 



H. C. & H. B. HARPENDING 

 1»UNI>EE, N. Y. 



HOM ' T R I T ¥ I Fl tha , t n ? w hen - hr,use or fix up the old one t.ut get our large ioo pp. catalog 

 IJUll 1 DLlljJJ l"A,f'^i*l S J r J,V- r \™,, muStatt ° ns > deming POTTER I'OR I'ABLE 

 , . -r- , „ ,. „ SAN1 rARY POULTRY HOUSES, Roosting and Nesting Outfits Per- 



fection Feed Hoppers, Trap Nests, Feeds, and supplies of all kinds. Potter Fixtures have been on the 

 market near y io years. They are made in 3 styles and 12 sizes, and are complete, convenient and sanitary. 

 Our Portable (K. D. made in sections) Hen-houses. Brood Coops, Pigeon Lofts, are made in 20 styles and 

 sizes, from a coop 2 ft. square to a complete house 8 x 80 feet, or longer, at lowest prices House shown is 

 8 xio tee., complete with 8 ft Potter Outfit for 30 hens, for {40. A fine house at a low pric" If ™° need 

 a house or coop of any kind do not fail to find out about the Potter line before buying or buildin?. 



nnN'T K I I I V.. ""/T ' avin K >»»■ use <he POTTER SYSTEM and pick out~the layers 



DUll 1 IllLL ^™ n ''' e '™f"=» n d .''ceased hens Keep only healthy laying hens. The 

 . ... ,. , , .1. POTTER SYSTEM is a secret and the greatest discovery of the centurv 



in the poultry world on the subject of l-.gg Pr ducing Hens. Used by over 30,000 satisfied poultry keepers 

 who are saving dollars every year. Our New ,00 pp. Potter System book. "Don't Kill the Laving Ha,™ 

 contams the secret and knowledge about laying and non-laying hens. It's a rev, lation .0 poultryS.eepe'rs 

 and you will learn how you can use the Potter System on your flock; keep less hens, get more e-s and make 

 more money usiir.- it. Write today sending 2 RED STAMPS to cover postage on our larS catalog ,nH 

 circular, telling all about Potter Poultry Products made for Particular Poultry People If you are t aVtirula? and „,=,„. ,„„, t 



u#*l*» ,, c t™l a u t ip T»A-i'iri,.-l, . l ,alKl1 " n nd " ant to make more money on your flock 



1 . * ■ HO I 1 LB & CO., Box 83, Downers Urove, Illinois, V. 8. A. 



will write us today. 



Britton and Brown's Illustrated Flora and you will 

 .remember the old sinner. 



What are the worst weeds of the roadside? 

 There are only four: poison ivy and ragweed which 

 cause diseases, nettles which sting folks, and bram- 

 bles that teat flesh and clothing. 



Any foreman will know these four plants. Let 

 him destroy only those and leave everything else. 



There's a policy for you! It may not be ideal, 

 but is there any that is cheaper? And isn't it the 

 most important? It must be, for health and com- 

 fort come before beauty. 



Join the Roadside Gardening Club now. It has 

 only one aim, viz, to make every foot of your daily 

 ■walk or drive delightful the year round with little 

 or no expense. 



Write me what you are doing or wish to do to 

 make your daily walk or drive more beautiful, and 

 if I can help I will. 



New Jersey. Thomas McAdam. 



FERTILI 



How to Apply Fertilizer 



THE question of handling farm manures is a 

 broad and important one. I am firmly 

 convinced that on fairly fertile soils the use of 

 stable manure in sufficient quantity will maintain 

 high average yields of general crops indefinitely 

 and to better advantage than the use of commercial 

 fertilizers. 



According to the generally accepted theory I am 

 wrong, but the disagreement between theory and 

 practice, in this case, is probably due to lack of 

 understanding of the importance of the vegetable 

 materials, and the bacterial influence furnished by 

 manures and lacking in the chemicals. 



A successful cotton grower in South Carolina 

 has used for ten to fifteen years one thousand pounds 

 per acre of high-grade home-mixed fertilizer on that 

 crop. He has furnished annually more than five 

 times the phosphoric acid removed by the crop. 

 This excess should accumulate in the soil, an 

 impervious clay subsoil, yet the owner cannot grow 

 a successful crop without using his excess of phos- 

 phoric acid, and chemical analysis fails to show 

 its accumulation in the soil. Therefore, it may be 

 assumed the excess must exert some action we do 

 not understand. 



A farmer, seventy-two years of age, living on a 

 farm in Pennsylvania, who asserts his father and 

 grandfather owned and managed the same place 

 in practically the same manner as he has done, 

 uses only moderate amounts of manure and no fer- 

 tilizer. He grows corn, wheat and grass in a four- 

 year rotation, selling all the wheat and part of the 

 other crops. According to the theorists, this should 

 be a ruinous policy and rapidly deplete the phos- 

 phoric acid of the soil so that wheat would not 

 make an average yield. On the contrary, his 

 records covering many years show average yields 

 of wheat ranging from twenty-five to forty-five 

 bushels per acre. The soil is in fine tilth, and 

 evidently above average fertility. 



The happy medium is the best practice, but grain 

 crops are grown at such a small margin of profit 

 that heavy applications of commercial fertilizer on 

 them seldom return their actual cost. The South 

 Carolina man mentioned above averages seventy 

 bushels of oats per acre, using only one hundred 

 pounds of nitrate of soda as a top-dressing. We 

 average fifty bushels in Western New York, and 

 yet have never used any commercial fertilizer. 

 The natural barnyard manure is far preferable to 

 commercial fertilizer, if you can get it, well kept, 

 for $3 a ton. 



New York. F. E. B. 



