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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Use Oxide of Zinc Paints 



THE Strictly Modern Residence is painted inside as 

 well as outside. Sanitary science is responsible 

 for this practice. 



The modern flat wall paints are washable. 

 They are also adaptable to a great range 

 of decorative effects. Oxide of Zinc is an 

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THE NEW JERSEY ZINC COMPANY 



Lists of manufacturers and 

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 THREAD & THRUM WORKSHOP, Auburn, N. Y. 



KEEP WINTER PLANTS IN HEALTHY CON- 

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iflS^TGuide on fruit trees,berry plants, small 

 fruits, shrubs, asparagus roots, 

 decorative plants, etc. Only practical varieties, 

 of proven value, included. Before you plan, be- 

 fore you buy — get this valuable guide. It is free. 

 Write to-day. Arthur J. Collins, Box 23, Moorestown, N. J. 



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Grow Your Own Vegetables 



Cut down your living expenses. You'll be astonished how healthful it is 

 to cultivate a garden and how easy if you use 



Planet Jr Ga 



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Adapted to more uses than any other implement. 



Opens furrows, plants, covers, and marks next row 



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 \v y W%& VTDYTfT An instructive 64-page illustrated 

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DO YOU LOVE BIRDS? -HELP SAVE THEM 



(Feeding Shelf) 



Dodson Automatic Sheltered 



Feeding-Table. 



The Dodson Feeding-Table, 

 or the Dodson Sheltered Food- 

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Thousands of birds starve 

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TheDodsonShelteredFeeding-Table 

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Banish The Sparrow 



Here's the Dodson Sparrow Trap. It is 

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The Dodson Sparrow Trap works automatically. Catches as 

 many as 75 to 100 sparrows a day. Made of tinned wire, size, 



?6 x 18 x 12 inches. Price, including receiving box, $5.00 f. o. b., 

 Chicago. 



Don't complete your Christmas 61ft list until you've seen DedsOR's Book about Bird Houses. If you are Interested in native birds, write to 

 • o the birds love." Ask for Illustrated folders about Bird Houses, Shelters, Food Houses, Feeding Car, Sparrow Trap, ete. 



1209 Association Bldg.. Chicago, HI. 



(Mr. Dodson is a Director of the Illinois Audubon Society) 



JOSEPH H. DODSON 



Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard. 



By E. Dwight Sanderson. John Wiley & Sons, New- 

 York. Illustrated; 684 pages; price, $3.00 net. 



When any one chapter, or even a single page, 

 may mean hundreds of dollars' worth of bettered 

 or rescued crops, six hundred odd pages of highly 

 important facts and excellent illustrations for three 

 dollars is assuredly good measure. This is the 

 best and most complete work of its kind ever pub- 

 lished. Discussing in the first six chapters the 

 extent of insect injury, the various beneficial 

 insects, the typical structure and development of 

 "bugs," the general and specific methods of com- 

 batting them and the making and application of 

 insecticides, Professor Sanderson then takes up in 

 turn each type of farm, garden and orchard crop, 

 describes its important enemies and gives clear 

 directions as to when and how to exterminate them. 



Handbook of Nature Study. By Anna Botsford 

 Comstock. Comstock Publishing Co., Ithaca, N. Y. 

 Illustrated; 950 pages; price, $3.25 net. 



A book of nature lessons based on the plan of the 

 Cornell Leaflets. The book is full of useful and 

 easily available information. Children could use 

 it as a reference book, for it is written in language 

 which the children, at least of the upper school, could 

 follow. 



Poultry Foods and Feeding. By Duncan Forbes. 



Laurie. Cassell & Company, New York. 186 pages; 

 price, $1 net. 



The author calls this a "Manual for All Breeders." 

 About eighty-eight pages, containing practical, 

 useful data on the physiology of digestion, direc- 

 tions for actual poultry feeding and valuable analy- 

 ses of various feeds, justify the sub-title. The 

 remainder, discussing in highly technical manner 

 the chemical composition of foods and comparing 

 the several proteins, hydrocarbons, etc., will prove 

 of value, in our opinion, only to the scientific 

 student or investigator. 



Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits 

 and Plants. By Charles M. Skinner. J. B. Lippincott 

 Company, Philadelphia, Pa. Illustrated; 300 pages; 

 price, $1.50 net. 



To those who love the mystical this book will be 

 a real treasure. It is full from cover to cover of 

 quaint tales and legends which surround the history 

 of plants. It is as interesting as our old fairy tales. 



Practical Agricultural Chemistry. By S. J. M_ 



Auld and D. R. Edwards-Ker. E. P. Dutton and 

 Co., New York. Illustrated ; 243 pages ; price, 



$1. 75, net. 



A concise, clear, well arranged manual of labora- 

 tory technique for the use of those already familiar 

 with general qualitative and quantitative analyses. 

 Successive sections deal with Plant Constituents 

 and Germination Phenomena; the Constituent 

 Properties and Physical and Chemical Analyses of 

 Soils; the Composition of Manures, Fertilizer and 

 Feeding Stuffs; the Chemistry of Dairy Products; 

 and the Examination of Waters and Soaps. The 

 more complicated types of apparatus are described 

 and illustrated and the latest, more technical 

 methods explained in detail. For all who plan a 

 serious study of any phase of farm chemistry, this 

 book will be of great value. 



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