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THE GARDEN 
MAGAZINE 
1908 
AvuGuUsT, 
LITTLE a 
THEFTS : 
from the 
DAIRY- 
MAN 
The difference between the Tubular and 
“bucket bowl’’ separators is measured in hun- 
dredths of one per cent of butter fat which the 
Tubular saves and the ‘‘bucket bowls’’ let go 
into the skimmed milk. 
Hundredths of one per cent are hard to 
realize. Let’s call it one ounce of butter fat lost 
each milking by a ‘‘bucket bowl,’’ which 
The Tubular <2" 
Save 
This would amount to 45 pounds of butter 
per year, worth at least $11.25. 
“But will the Tubular make this saving over 
a ‘bucket bowl’ separator—every ‘bucket bowl’ 
separator? Will the Tubular prevent or stop this 
sort of little twice-a-day theft in my dairy?’’ 
We’re ready to stand the cost of a tryout and 
proof. Write for catalogue No. 215, then tell 
us how many cows you have, and how you now 
dispose of the milk. Then we’ll tell you and 
prove to you what the Tubular can do for you. 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR 
COMPANY 
West Chester, Penna. 
Toronto, Can. 
Chicago, Ill. 
San Francisco, Calif. 
Protect your chickens, ducks, fruit trees, vegetable gar- 
den and lawn against rats and mice. 
Every gardener and every farmer should exterminate 
RAT KILLO 
drives them out and kills them away from the premises. 
It does not harm dog, cat or child. Ask your dealer for 
Rat Killo, put up in boxes, small, medium and large at 
15,25 and soc. Send to Alejo Chemical Co., 12 Pearl 
St., Boston, Mass., for pamphlet. 
NOW IS THE TIME 
To Use “BONORA” 
It creates moisture and retains it, an absolute 
necessity at this season. ‘‘Bonora’’ will make 
your plants bloom in profusion, make your lawns 
look like velvet, your vegetables mature two to 
three weeks earlier and in abundance. Use it 
and be convinced. Order direct or through your 
seedsman. 
Put up in dry form in all size packages as follows: 
1 lb. making 28 gallons, post paid 65 
5 lbs. a > = sy Aes) 
10 lbs. st > = 4.75 
50 lbs. i > - 22.50 
100 Ibs. a 2 . 40.00 
200 Ibs. + - = 70.00 
BONORA CHEMICAL CO., 
488-492 Broadway, cor. Broome Street, 
New York 
ROOT APHIS ON PEAS 
F. S., Mass.— For aphis on the roots of sweet peas 
give abundant dressings of tobacco dust, cultivated in 
lightly and followed by copious waterings. Being an 
annual, the full growth of the plant is very quickly accom- 
plished, and once it has become a victim there is but little 
hope of waging a systematic and successful campaign 
against a root pest. 
GROWING ANNUALS FOR SEED 
C. S. F., Ill.— The large growers of asters for seed 
purposes grow the separate colors apart, not because of 
danger from cross fertilization by bees (which do not work ° 
on the flowers to any great extent) but to avoid mixing the 
seed in harvesting. Varieties of Sweet William may also 
be grown together without danger of cross fertilization. 
Pansies, however, must be grown quite apart as they are 
much visited by the bees. 
WORMS IN THE LAWN 
G. H. L., Penn.—Tite best method of exterminating 
worms in the lawn is by watering with a solution of corro- 
sive sublimate (bichloride of mercury). Dissolve one 
ounce in seven and one-half quarts of water. For watering 
the lawn add three or four pints of this solution to a barrel 
(forty-five to fifty gallons) of water. Bichloride of mer- 
cury is a deadly poison, so the greatest care must be used 
in handling it; but after the lawn has been watered it is 
said that cattle or sheep may graze without danger One 
watering will probably be sufficient to kill the worms. 
PLANTS UNDER TREES 
P. W., Ill.— There is little use in trying to grow plants 
directly under oak trees as their shade is likely to be too 
dense for satisfactory results. Elm trees are notorious 
robbers of soil moisture, so that for a plant to succeed 
near them the ground must be soaked often, particularly 
during a dry spell. The following plants, which are either 
| annuals or may be grown as annuals, will probably give 
a good return of flowers: Godetia, musk, monkey flower, 
nemophila, pansy, tarweed (Madia elegans) and the 
wishbone flower (Torenia). The tarweed remains open 
in the morning and evening but is closed during the middle 
of the day. Forget-me-nots and tuberous rooted begonias 
(plants of which you can buy from any florist)may do well. 
The begonia is tender so must not be set out until all danger 
of frost is past. 
TREES ROBBING FLOWER BEDS 
W.B.B., Ill— Unquestionably the proximity to the elms 
is the reason for your flower beds not doing well, and it is 
not likely that you can very greatly improve the conditions 
without removing the elms or in some other way controlling 
them. The roots are most likely running all through the 
soil. Something might be done by digging a very deep 
trench (eight or ten feet deep and two feet wide) behind the 
bed and filling it with clean sand, thus cutting off direct 
communication between the flower beds and the roots of 
the elms. The best fertilizer under these conditions would 
be heavy dressings of stable manure, as that would help to 
retain the moisture which is necessary, persistent rainfalls 
throughout the year notwithstanding. Peonies are not 
likely to do well in such a place because they demand an 
abundance of moisture in thoroughly well-drained land. 
The ideal situation for them 1s on a gentle slope in heavy, 
moist soil having thorough drainage. They will not grow 
satisfactorily in either dry soil or soil that is constantly 
moist through stagnation of water. 
CORN AND COB MEAL FOR STOCK 
L. M., Texas.— Corn cobs are indigestible, contain practi- 
cally no nutriment, and are a detriment to a highly organized 
dairy animal, in the opinion of most expert feeders. Where 
other fodder or roughage is scant there is some excuse for 
feeding corn and cob meal to cattle, as a certain amount of 
“filling” is essential to their digestion. Corn meal is rarely 
considered as a horse feed where oats can be obtained at a 
reasonable figure. Throughout the South corn feeding is 
| common, and if ground corn must be fed it is certainly 
preferable to have the corn and cob ground together, as the 
meal alone forms a pasty, fermenting mass in the horse’s 
stomach. Corn and cob meal was quite a fad in this section, 
Northern Pennsylvania, some ten years ago but sucha mill is a 
curiosity here now. I got one from a local miller which he 
had no further use for and use it to crush oats for the dairy 
cattle. With valuable animals it generally pays to furnish a 
higher class of roughagethan groundcorncobs. Where a horse 
is unable to masticate whole corn the corn and cob mea! is 
much to be preferred to clear meal.—F. E. B. 
=. tetera 
For Autumn Planting 
Flowering Shrubs and 
Hardy Perennials 
Roses, Irises and Paeonies. 
Catalogue sent on application. 
SHATEMUC NURSERIES, 
BARRYTOWN, DUTCHESS COUNTY, N. Y 
CILAIN 
uangine STANCHION 
Gives animals perfeet freedom ; absolutely 
no chafing. Thousands have testined to its 
simplicity, completeness and durability, 
among them Ex-Goyernor Goodell of New 
Hampshire, who writes, ‘‘After considerable 
4 investigation we have decided that your 
stanchion is the best cattle fastener on the 
} market." Shipped subject to 32 days’ 
MW trial in your own stable. Send for de- 
# scriptive pamphlet. 
W.B. Crumb, Day St., Forestville, Conn. 
Large English Berkshires 
Size, with quality and early maturity 
We have never bred a cross animal 
nor have we ever had a sow molest her 
pigs. Our sows are prolific and tractable. 
Breeding herd of 150 to select from. 
Both English and American breeding 
and only the most desirable strains. 
Write us your wants. We willbe pleased 
to describe stock and furnish pedivree, 
whether you are ready to buy or not. 
H.C.&H.B. Harpending, Dundee,N.V. “Games 
Scottish Terriers 
Offered as companions. Not 
given to fighting or roaming— 
Best for children’s pets. 
NEWCASTLE KENNELS 
Brookline, Mass. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
After your hens start to moult, feed plentifully on nourish- 
ing ‘Vigor’ Foods and bring them into laying condition by 
October or November. Push the pullets, too, with “Vigor” 
Foods, and start them laying earlier than ordinary feeding. 
Write for free illustrated Poultry Supply Book which de- 
scribes all kinds of poultry supplies. Let me solve your 
poultry problems. STOKES’ SEED STORE 
Dept. W, 219 Market Street. Philadelphia 
SQUAB free 
Send for our handsome 1908 Free Book, 
telling how to make money breeding squabs. 
We were first; our birds are largest and 
outsell all others. Our miethods are 
SA widely copied. plymouth Rock Squab 
Co., 151 Howard St., Melrose, Mass. 
French Bulldogs, Scotch Collies 
Highly bred, pedigreed stock, farm-raised. Puppies 
and housebroken dogs usually on hand. 
BRAEBURN KENNELS. 
LARGE EVERGREENS 
A fine lot of Colorado Blue Spruce, Hemlocks, Norway and 
Oriental Spruce, Nordman’s Fir and other choice conifers, 4 
Mated pair 
billing or 
kissing. 
From eggs 
to squabs 
in 4 
weeks g 
Berwyn, Pa. 
to 16 ft, high, recently transplanted. Ask for list. 
SAMUEL C. MOON 
Morrisville, Pa. 
Morrisville Nursery, 
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