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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
DECEMBER, 1908 
|A Glass Enclosed 
Grapery That 
Costs Nothing 
For Coal 
about how we come to be 
building these leanto cool 
graperies. 
Several years ago one of our 
New York friends went up in 
the Green Mountains of Ver- 
mont to live. The growing 
season there is so short that 
grapes won’t ripen satisfactorily 
without protection. So we built 
him this leanto grapery, 50 feet 
long and 16 feet wide, against 
his garden wall. It proved such 
a success that his neighbor had 
us build one for him. 
1,800 pounds of grapes were 
cut from it this season. 
Then it is also used in the 
spring for growing quantities of 
bedding plants and getting early 
lettuce, spinach and such garden 
things. 
Used in this way no heat is nec- 
essary—the glass draws it in the 
day time, and the wall stores it 
up, giving it off again at night. 
These houses do not cost a lot 
to build either. 
We shall be glad to tell you 
more about them. 
Just write us or drop in at any 
of our Offices. 
LORD AND BURNHAM 
CeO OneMe ose As Ne ¥. 
Main Sales Office 
1133 Broapway, NEw YORK 
IE: IS AN interesting story 
PHILADELPHIA 
1215 Filbert St. 
BOSTON 
819 Tremont. Bldg. 
NO MORE NO MORE 
POORLY DANGER OR 
FITTED DAMAGE 
" FIRE- FROM 
PLACE FLYING 
SCREENS SPARKS 
SYRACUSE SPARK GUARD 
Not the cheap flimsy kind that you buy at the hardware 
store; but a carefully shaped wire guard made to order to 
fit the opening of your fire place. Sparks cannot get 
through or around it. Write for booklet “Sparks from the 
Fire-Side,’? and send dimensions of fire place opening. 
Working sketch and estimate free of charge. 
Syracuse Wire Works 1°? University Ave. 
Syracuse, N. ¥ 
The Winter Care of Hens 
N COMPARISON with records one 
often reads in farm journals, my hens 
are very ordinary winter layers; but in com- 
parison with those of all my neighbors who 
have provided the modern conveniences for 
their layers, my hens are truly remarkable. 
I converted an old cow shed, rz x 13 ft., 
with leaking roof, into shelter for the hens 
by covering the roof with tarred paper, and 
lining the inside with building paper. ‘There 
were three small windows, two on the south 
side and one on the west side, out of which 
most of the panes of glass were broken. Over 
the casings I stretched heavy unbleached 
cloth. I put in a wooden floor eight inches 
above the ground as the drainage was poor. 
A place on the floor, 4 x 4 ft., was kept 
covered with sifted coal ashes, replaced 
monthly. Another space was filled with 
excelsior and straw for scratching. The 
roosts are all two and one-half feet from the 
floor to prevent crowding in the highest 
roost. 
About November ist seventeen White 
Leghorn hens and one rooster, and seven 
Plymouth Rock hens were put in this 
enclosure and not allowed any outdoor 
freedom. ‘The three-year-old hens, nine in 
all, and the May pullets, did not begin to lay 
until about the middle of December. ‘They 
steadily increased the number of eggs until 
by February first they averaged fifteen eggs 
a day, and this record was not lessened by the 
cold weather so unusual for the vicinity 
of Philadelphia. Other people’s flocks aver- 
aged five and eight eggs from fifty to seventy- 
five fowls. 
January 1st I put the seven Plymouth 
Rock ina shed, 9 x 7, with a window of cloth, 
2x 14 ft., dividing the floor into a dust bath 
and a scratching pen. ‘These seven hens 
have averaged five eggs a day all through 
January. 
These twenty-five fowls did not have the 
variety of foods recommended in poultry 
guide books, but only such as every house- 
wife can provide, namely, wheat and cracked 
corn (heated during the coldest days) thrown 
into the straw morning and night, all the 
scraps from the table, a little clover hay, a 
pan of skimmed milk, and occasionally apples, 
potatoes, or onions chopped fine and fed at 
noon. A box of charcoal, ground bone, and 
oyster shell was kept before the fowls, fresh 
straw or excelsior was put in the scratch- 
ing pen once a month, the roosting part 
was cleaned every three or four days, and 
the roosts brushed with coal oil once a month. 
Delaware. H. O. DUERR. 
Poultry, Kennel and_ : 
Live Stock Directory 
Information about the selection or care of|} 
dogs, poultry and live stock will be gladly 
given. Address INFORMATION DE-}} 
PARTMENT, THE GARDEN MaGa-]/ 
ZINE, 133 East 16th Street, New York. 
Cures Strained, Puffy Ankles, Lym- 
phangitis, Poll Evil, Fistula, Soies, 
Wire Cuts, Bruises, Swellings, Lame- 
ness from Spavin, Side Bons, Splints 
and Allays Pain Quickly without 
Blistering, removing the hair, or laying the 
horse up. Pleasant to use. $2.00 per bottle, at 
dealers or delivered. Book 5-D, free. 
W. KF. YOUNG, P. D. F., 152 Monmouth S8t., Springfield, Mass- 
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 prolificand 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 pedigree, 
whether you are ready to buy or not. 
H.C.&H.B. Harpending, Dundee,N.Y. Saeausan 
Scottish Terriers 
Offered as companions. Not 
given to fighting or roaming— 
Best for children’s pets. 
NEWCASTLE KENNELS 
Brookline, Mass. 
Start your hens to lay—and keep them laying—by pro- 
viding comfortable quarters and feeding plentifully with the 
celebrated ‘“‘Vigor” Beef Scrap and Egg Food. All the 
“Vigor” Foods are described in my free illustrated Poultry 
Supply Book. Drop mea line and I’llsend itto you. Let 
me solve your poultry problem. 
STOKES’ SEED STORE 
Dept. W, 219 Market Street 
Mal 
Philadelphia 
JERSEY REDS GET HEAVY FAST 
Its “Pounds that count.” Buy Jersey Red Pigs—the rapid 
growers. Strong, vigorous, small-boned, long-bodied. Nine 
months pigs often dress 350 lbs. Buy a pair now. Get quick 
profits. Send to-day for FREE Catalog. 
A, J. COLLINS Box T Moorgstown, N. J. 
- Mated pair 
billing or SQU AB BOOK 
kissing. 
From eggs FREE 
to squabs Send for our handsome 1908 Free Book, 
in 4 telling how to make money breeding squabs. 
We were first; our birds are largest and 
outsell all others. Our methods are 
widely copied. plymouth Rock Squab 
Co., 151 Howard St., Melrose, Mass. 
Na 
TRIUMPH LAWN CARTS 
BUILT ESPECIALLY FOR THE 
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Removable rack. Wide tired wheels. Fine finish. 
Steel gears. Write today for price list “A” 
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