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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 1913 



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1713 — Brazing Cast Iron and Other Metals, gives 

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1040— Aluminium Solders, gives several formulas 

 in use when aluminium was almost a new thing in the 

 arts. 



1644— Soldering and Soldering Processes, gives 

 broad general information, and contains in particular, a 

 method for pulverizing solders and alloys of great use. 



1667 — Some Soldering Appliances, describes the 

 blow-pipe and the furnace in their various forms, 



1481 — Soldering of Metals and Preparation of 

 Solders gives many formulas for soft.and hard solders 

 and fluxes. 



1610, 1622, 1628 contain a series of three articles 

 on solders, covering the entire range of solders for all 

 metals. No. 1628 contains formulas and instructioas 

 for soldering aluminium. 



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 the egg-eating habit, but this trouble usually 

 results from eggs being accidentally broken. 

 Light, open-front nests may be suspended 

 from hooks, so that they may easily be re- 

 moved and disinfected. One successful 

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 It is covered with a slanting board and en- 

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The nesting material ought to be sweet 

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 In order to help keep the nests free from 

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 amateur of his enthusiasm for poultry 

 keeping. 



A POULTRY RUN 



IT is encouraging," writes a reader of 

 American Homes and Gardens, "to 

 one who is interested in poultry to come 

 across an amateur who is practical in his 

 methods, keeping records to prove his 

 failures and his successes. lie can prove 

 his statements and that is more than 

 some writers on poultry topics can do. 

 An amateur poultry raiser in Rutherford, 

 New Jersey, has solved one problem to 

 his own satisfaction and that is: The best 

 kind of a "run" to induce exercise and 

 egg-yield. He was not satisfied with re- 

 sults from a "run" ten feet wide and fif- 

 teen feet long, from a house ten by thir- 

 teen. The family of twenty-five Buff 

 Orpingtons, were not as active as their 

 owner thought they should be ; they were 

 inclined to squat in corners and along the 

 sides, and being able to see all that was 

 going on their curiosity did not keep 

 them moving. The chicken house is built 

 on the Wood plan, and two years ago 

 the owner tried the experiment of divid- 

 ing house, run and family. This made 

 the "run" five feet wide and fifteen feet 

 long. The results were what he expected 

 they would be. The hens were on the 

 move all the time ; the small families were 

 happier and the egg-yield went up. The 

 hens under this arrangement went up to 

 a net profit per hen of $2.72. The amateur 

 poultry raiser's home occupies only a city 

 iot and a larger run is not possible, but 

 if he could he would make the run twenty 

 or twenty-five feet long, and he will al- 

 ways keep his families small, in spite of 

 the extra work and expense it entails." 



WHY THEY LEAVE SCHOOL 



THE majority of public-school children 

 leave school at the age of fourteen, or 

 as soon as the law no longer compels their 

 attendance, says Leslie's Weekly. Eco- 

 nomic pressure, it has generally been sup- 

 posed, is largely responsible for this drop- 

 ping off ; but if our largest city is at all 

 typical of the rest of the country, only 

 about 20 per cent, leave school because 

 their families actually need the little in- 

 crease they could make in the weekly in- 

 come. The Vocational Guidance Con- 

 ference of New York found also in its 

 investigations that another 20 per cent, 

 "abandoned their studies because their 

 parents took it for granted school was a 



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