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suggestions as to garden furniture 
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EVERGREENS 2 to 10 FEET HIGH 
You have over 30,000 to select from that have been especially trained for successful transplant- 
ing in September. They have been recently transplanted or root pruned; tops pruned in June to make 
them dense and symmetrical. PINE, CEDAR and HEMLOCK up to 25 feet high. 4 
Now is the time to select from our stock of SHADE TREES which save 10 to 20 years wait- 
ing. They are grown 12 to 25 feet apart and prepared for successful shipment. : 
Will a group of shade trees 25 to 30 feet high make your place more beautiful and comfortable? 
Call at the Nursery or send for our beautifully illustrated catalogue and price list. 
ISAAC HICKS & SON, Nurserymen, Scientific Treemovers 
WESTBURY STATION, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 
NEW ENGLAND EVERGREENS 
Are Hardy and Best for Northern Climate ; 
We furnish transplanted specimens for every practical 
purpose. Our large Illustrated Catalog, mailed 
free, contains full description and planting 
advice. Secure a copy g 
before placing your | 
order. 
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(Incorporated) 
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Bedford 
BEAUTIFY YOUR GROUNDS NOW 
with shrubbery and hardy plants that bloom from 
early spring until after frost; the kind that do not 
“| require annual replacing but grow more beautiful 
every year and with which the modest little home 
lawn or the most elaborate and extensive estate 
(if can be made charming and attractive. 
BY PLANTING IN THE FALL A 
YEAR IN EFFECT IS GAINED. 
We prepare planting plans free to our cus- 
tomers. Write for our fall booklet, it describes all 
the most desirable plants, bulbs and trees for 
creating fine landscape effects. Our landscape 
gardeners go everywhere to plant or prepare plans. 
Write us today. 
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
ts SEPTEMBER, 1908 
Sanitary Milk vs. the Family Cow 
Nee G is gained by ignoring facts, 
and it is a fact that a cow kept under 
the conditions existing in a small place can- 
not be depended upon to give milk as pure 
as that obtained from modern certified milk 
plants. In these latter the most scrupulous 
care is exercised to have everything not only 
clean but sterilized and germ-proof. Even the 
milkers wear antiseptic suits of white duck 
and close fitting caps, so that the dust that 
may settle in their hair will not contaminate 
the milk. New York State allows a dairy- 
man to call his output certified, provided 
there are less than ten thousand germs in a 
cubic centimetre (a quarter of a tea- 
spoonful). Under the worst dairy conditions 
of dust and filth, the number of germs may 
be a hundred million in the same quantity 
of milk. If you keep a cow your milk pro- 
duction will fall somewhere between these 
two extreme limits. 
The question is, since we cannot possibly 
compete with the certified milk producers, 
shall we keep a cow? 
The answer is yes, if you are in the position 
to do so, because while the certified milk 
is purer than that which you will obtain, the 
chances are that you will obtain purer milk 
than you are now getting, as the quantity 
of this certified milk is limited. 
If we eliminate the cost of labor in keeping 
a cow, there is a real economy in it because 
she will produce from twelve to twenty 
quarts of milk a day or sufficient to supply 
five or six families. The surplus which 
you will not need for yourself will either 
find a ready market in your neighborhood, ~ 
or can be churned into butter. A good 
Jersey or Guernsey cow should supply an 
ordinary family with all the milk and butter 
they need. Of course, it is much simpler to 
go to the grocery store for a bottle of milk and 
a print of butter than to carry out all the 
operations incident to the care of a cow. 
Even on a comparatively small place it is 
possible to keep a family cow because in the 
absence of pasturage one can practice 
intensive dairying and raise fodder crops. 
It is estimated by this method one can keep 
five times as many head of cattle on the same 
acreage as on ordinary pasturage. 
A cow is at her best usually when she is 
seven years old. After she is twelve it is 
doubtful if she pays for her keep. In buying 
a cow select one in which Jersey or Guernsey 
blood prevails. Do not buy a nondescript 
or a mongrel, and do not buy a cow with 
horns. A polled cow is the only safe kind 
where there are children. | 
No one should keep a cow unless some 
member of the family knows how to milk. 
In these days when it is so difficult to secure 
good servants, it is extremely risky to depend 
entirely on the whims of the gardener or 
stable man to care for the cow. If he should ~ 
leave suddenly the whole family would be 
thrown into a panic, unless some one knew © 
how to milk. It is perhaps too well known 
to be worth mentioning that a cow must be 
_milked regularly night and morning, no 
matter what other work is left undone. 
Delaware. Joun HARRISON. 
