July, 19 10 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



// a problem grows in your garden write to 

 the Readers' Service for assistance 



373 



A pan fall of disks the 

 maker says "souse" 

 as one piece. 



After "Sousers" 



"Sousing" or rinsing 

 complicated cream separa- 

 tors is both unsatisfactory 

 and unlawful, for laws are 

 being passed to stop it. 



Here is the South Dakota 

 law : "Cream shall be un- 

 merchantable for batter- 

 making if it has been skim- 

 med by a filthy, unclean, 

 unsanitary or unwashed separator." 



Other states are passing similar laws. Makers 

 or agents who advise "sousing" are willing to 

 make a law breaker of you, to cause you the loss 

 of your cream or make you liable to fine or im- 

 prisonment, in order to sell you a complicated 

 machine. Wise dairymen let disk-filled and other 

 complicated machines alone. They prefer simple, 

 sanitary, easy to clean 



Sharpies Dairy Tubular 

 Cream Separators 



for Dairy Tubulars have neither disks nor other con- 

 traptions, yet produce twice the 

 skimming force of common sepa- 

 rators. The World's Best. 

 World's biggest separator works. 

 Branch factories in Canada and 

 Germany. Sales exceed most, if J 

 not all, others combined. Prob- f 

 ably replace moix common! 

 separators than any one maker! 

 of such machines sells. Write" 

 for Catalogue No. 215. 



The only piece in- 

 side Dairy Tabular 

 Bowls. 



THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO., 



WEST CHESTER, PA. 

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

 Toronto, Can. Winnipeg, Can. 



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Ten years' experience enables me to give prac- 

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 '' without interfering: with regular occupation, no 

 natter where located. Send for Free Book and particulars 

 how to start, etc. 



JACKSON MUSHROOM FARM 

 709 N. Western Ave. Chicago, III. 



V/'OU are cordially invited to 

 the ridiculous solemnities 

 of an English week-end house- 

 party by 



A Plain American 

 in England 



CHARLES T. WHITEFIELD 



This shows what may happen 

 to you when you go abroad. 



$0.50 

 DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 



133 East 16th Street, New York 



Our friends are incited to visit our ' ' Library Sales- 

 room " where they may leisurely look over our books, 

 magazines, etc. Our " Quide to Qood Books 

 mailed free. 



Making Money With a Greenhouse 



Set aside for the time being the fact that having a 

 greenhouse is one of the most delightful, health giving 

 hobbies, and let's get down to the question, can they 

 be made to pay? Take so minor a question as 

 tomato plants, for instance : wouldn't you be willing 

 to pay a good price in the spring for stocky plants 

 that never stopped growing for a minute after their 

 transplanting in your garden ? Of course, you 

 would ! Do you know where to get such plants ? 

 That one thing then you can do in a portion of 

 your greenhouse in the early spring. 



Same way with some of the dimcult-to-grow sec- 

 ond season blooming perennials, so much sought for 

 nowadays by lovers of old-fashioned flowers ; no 

 one sells them and yet everybody wants them. 

 You can grow them and sell every one you grow 

 and guarantee blooms the first season. 



Good head lettuce retails for 75c. to $ 1 .00 per 

 dozen — cucumbers the first in the market often bring 

 as high as $3.00 per dozen with an average of 60 

 to 75c. the season through. Greenhouse grown 

 tomatoes easily yield seven pounds to a plant, and 

 when packed in splint baskets bring 40c. a pound. 



So much for the things easily grown in the small 

 house — but suppose it proved so interesting and 

 paid so well that you wanted to devote all your time 

 to it, and build larger ; what are then your chances ? 



Well, take violets for instance : We can direct 

 you to one person within twenty miles of New 



York, who started a few years ago with a house 

 less than 1 00 feet long, and year by year has added 

 more until now there are three houses 30 feet 

 wide and 125 feet long. Violets did it. 



Carnations are not especially difficult to grow, 

 are free bloomers and generally find a ready mar- 

 ket, and can be followed in the spring by an early 

 crop of tomatoes. 



But the best part of this greenhouse question is 

 the right down pleasure of such a business, and 

 nothing could be more healthful. 



Don't make the mistake, however, of thinking 

 any local carpenter can build a satisfactory house 

 for you. There are two distinctly important facts 

 to consider — the first, that the builders should 

 have an accurate knowledge of plant growth and 

 its requirements — second, that the construction be 

 one that will withstand the varying conditions of 

 moisture and dampness. Otherwise you will be 

 putting your profits into endless repairs. 



Quite the best thing for you to do, is drop in at 

 any of our offices and have a heart to heart talk with 

 us. We will tell you frankly just what is practical 

 and just what is likely to be only a bubble dream — 

 we will do all we can to help you to success. 



If you can't get away just now to come and see 

 us, then drop us a line and we will give your 

 question every care possible by correspondence, 

 or, if advisable, go and see you. 



Lord and Burnham Company 



Irvington, N. Y. 



New York 

 St. James Bldg. 



Boston 

 Tremont Bldg. 



Philadelphia 

 Heed Bldg. 



Chicago 

 The Rookery 



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 FACTORY, CLINTON, MASS. 



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