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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1918 



HODGSON Bird Houses 



The little touches of artistry about your grounds count con- 

 siderably in making your surroundings pleasant. 



You cannot add a more appropriate feature than a Hodgson 

 Bird House. These houses are exceptional in their conception 

 — built to harmonize with the architecture of your home. 

 Constructed of red cedar and carefully painted. Hodgson 

 Houses are made strong, durable and vermin-proof. 



Write for a Hodgson Bird House Catalog, right now. And 

 be sure to mail your request today. 



Suet Box 



Bunprnlow 



Old Homestead 



Colonial 



Dutch Colonial 



Tree Boxes 



95c each— $9.00 per dozen. 

 24" x 28"— 6 rooms— $12.00 

 16" x 18"— 10 rooms— 12.00 

 16" x 24"— 28 rooms— 25.00 

 18" x 36"— 32 rooms— 30.00 

 $1.25 each or $10.00 per dozen. 



E. F. HODGSON CO., Room 228, 116 Washington Street. Boston, Mass. 

 6 East 39th Street, New York City 



Colonial 



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Move Your Poultry Yard When and Where You Want 

 It By Using "BUFFALO" Portable Poultry Runways 



This new fencing sys- 

 tem enables you to 

 ^PORTABLa^jr make any size yard de- 

 sired and move it to 

 other locations at will. 

 To erect simply push, 

 legs into the ground. 



Substantially constructed from i}-4 inch 

 Diamond mesh heavy galvanized wire fabric 

 and galvanized round iron frames with one 

 inch galvanized Hexagon Netting along the bottom, 

 twelve inches high. Strong and durable and its portable 

 featur- makes it readily adaptable for fencing in young 

 chicks or ducklings as well as grown chickens, ducks, 

 geese, etc. Also used to advantage for enclosing small 

 vegetable garden plots, dog runways, etc. 

 Made in Standard size sections as follows: 



7' long x 5' high $3.75 per section 



2'6" " x 5' (gate) .... 1.60 " " 



8' " x 2' ' 2.00 " " 



6' " x 2' " 1.60 " *' 



fLUS 10% TO THE ABOVE PRICES. 

 These are effective April 1st, 1918. f.o.b. Buffalo and are for orders consisting of six 

 sections or more. Above sizes can be shipped from stock immediately. Special sizes 

 made to order on short notice. Send money order, check. New York Draft or cur- 

 rency by registered mail NOW! Don't delay, freight conditions are bad and delay 



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Our booklet No. 67AA will be sent upon request with six cents to cover postage 

 trial order will convince you of the merits of this system. 



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No. 4 Poultry Hoi, 



'"FHE Hodgson- way is the ideal way to house your poul- 

 -*■ try and pet stock. Every style of Hodgson house is 

 designed with full knowledge of requirements. Poultry 

 houses are made of red cedar, vermin-proofed. ALL 

 houses are sanitary, storm-proof and well-ventilated. 

 They^ will give you better results because of their scien- 



for 200 hens — 5 units No. J Poultry House /or JO hens 



tific construction. Hodgson houses are shipped in 

 painted, fitted sections which can be quickly put to- 

 gether. Send for completely illustrated catalogue. 



E. F. HODGSON CO., Room 311, 116 Washington St., 

 Boston, Mass.— 6 E. 39th St., New York City 



HODGSON PORTABLE HOUSES 



{Concluded from page 162) 

 abandoned the idea of irrigation. I have no 

 means of knowing what that crop produced 

 other than that at least fifty people had their 

 fill of lima beans from about September first 

 until December sixteenth, when we had our 

 first good rain. 



I afterward asked a Chinese grower, who 

 grew them on the same sort of soil on one of 

 the islands in the Sacramento River Delta 

 what his crop averaged. He answered six 

 hundred sacks — ninety pounds to the sack — 

 of green lima beans to the acre annually. 



As I have heard people in Central Cali- 

 fornia complain that they could do nothing 

 with lima beans — Ventura was their only 

 home — I am hoping that my fortunate 

 experience, repeated year by year, may 

 prove a help. 

 , California. Effie Egbert. 



Scuffle Hoe Tillage 



*pHE EXTENSIVE farmer has found that 

 _■*■ fall plowing not only stores up moisture 

 in the ground for summer use and improves 

 the physical condition of the soil as the 

 result of freezing and thawing, but that it 

 also saves labor at a season when time is pre- 

 cious. Spring disking of fall plowed land 

 makes a fine seedbed, and may be done earlier 

 and much more rapidly than spring plowing. 

 The intensive back yard gardener, who works 

 with hand tools, may follow somewhat the 

 same method. We all agree that it is good 

 practice to spread a thick layer of manure over 

 the garden in the fall and fork it under, leav- 

 ing the ground rough so that it may have the 

 benefit of winter weather changes. By spring 

 the alternate freezing and thawing and the 

 pounding of the rains will have broken down 

 the clods and done much in the way of level- 

 ing. 



When planting time comes the early 

 spring winds and sunshine will have dried 

 out the ground to a depth of three or four, 

 or perhaps even five, inches. Deeper than 

 this is mud, and an attempt to use the digging 

 fork will turn up stiff" pasty clods that cannot 

 be put in condition to receive small seed. 

 Here is where that great weed slaughterer, 

 the scuffle hoe — or push hoe, as it is sometimes 

 called — is of the greatest value. Working it 

 backward and forward in the comparatively 

 dry top of the soil will result in as fine a seed- 

 bed as can be made with any tool. A depth 

 of thre£ inches of pulverized soil can be reached 

 much more rapidly, more evenly and thor- 

 oughly, and with much less labor, than the 

 ground can be dug, and there are no clods to 

 be made fine with the rake at the finish. If 

 the ground is gravelly, the hoe, of course, 

 does not work so readily, but, even so, it in- 

 volves less labor than the digging fork. Thus 

 a seed bed can be prepared over a root bed 

 that has already been made by the fall plow- 

 ing. Last spring I did all my planting in this 

 way, and never had better tilth, less hard 

 labor, more satisfactory germination or better 

 growth. For transplanting potted plants 

 and for late peas there will have to be digging 

 in order to reach the necessary depth, but for 

 the small seeds of very early plantings, such 

 as onions, salsify, spinach, mustard, etc., 

 my experience is that the scuffle hoe gives 

 better results and with less labor. Chemical 

 fertilizers may be worked in very evenly and 

 satisfactorily if spread on the ground before 

 work is begun with the hoe. 



Hortulus. 



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