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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



Feb 



ruary, 1913 



Coldwell 



Demountable Cutters 



The Newest Feature in Horse and Putting Green Mowers 



Two or more cutters go with each machine. 

 Change them like the blades of a safety razor. 

 One cutter can be taken out and another put 

 in in less than a minute. 



Think how handy whenever blades need 

 sharpening or other repairs. No waste of time 

 and money sending the whole mower to the shop. 



Write at once for full description and prices, and we will 

 give you the address of the nearest dealer who can show you 

 the Coldwell line of Motor, Horse and Hand Lawn Mowers 



COLDWELL LAWN MOWER CO. 



NEWBURGH, NEW YORK 

 Philadelphia Chicago 



Note the large carrying wheels of the 

 hand mower, for taking it from place 

 to place. It cuts fine and close, and 

 is the lightest draft lawn mower ever 

 made. 



Lawn Mowers 



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Garden Furniture 



Including Benches, Chairs, Tables, 

 Arbors Treillage, Pergolas, etc., in 

 painted and rustic. Catalog of many 

 designs on request. 



North Shore Ferneries Company 



Beverley, Massachusetts 

 Designers and Makers of Garden Accessories 



Z5S& Sheep Manur< 



Dried and Pulverized 



Unequalled for lawn, garden and field fertilizing. 

 Writt for interesting hooklet and prices. 

 THE PULVERIZED MANURE CO., 21 Union Stock Yards, Chicago 



Landscape Gardening 



Everyone interested in suburban and 

 country life should know about the 

 home study courses in Horticulture, 

 Floriculture, Landscape Gardening, etc., 

 which we offer under Prof. Craig and others 

 of the Department of Horticulture of Cornell 

 University, 



250-page Catalogue Free Write to-day 



Prof. Craig 



THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 



Dept. A. H. Springfield, Mass. 



BIRDS AND LIGHTHOUSES 



A WRITER in the Paris Libcrtc furn- 

 ishes some striking figures concerning 

 the havoc wrought among migrating birds 

 bv big lighthouses. The lighthouse on the 

 I'ointe tie Penmarch, in Britanny, has a 

 revolving light of thirty-million candle- 

 power. Visiting this on November 10 last 

 year, and again on the 12th, the observer 

 saw tens of thousands of birds whirling 

 round, and it seemed to him that the light 

 shot out a perfect hail of electric sparks 

 among the migrants. Next morning he was 

 present while the dead bodies were being 

 collected. They are dispatched every day 

 to Paris by train, and the "catch," he was 

 told, often comprised from 2,000 to 4,000 

 victims; one morning alone there had been 

 more than 500 woodcock in the "bag." On 

 the two mornings he was present, there 

 were only a score of woodcock the first day, 

 but on the second the ground was littered 

 with from 600 to 1,000 victims, chiefly 

 blackbirds, ducks, woodcock, thrushes, and 

 golden plovers. Another offender is the 

 lighthouse on Belle He, off the south coast 

 of Brittany. On two dark nights last 

 November, with an east wind blowing, this 

 light caused the death of 3,200 birds, in- 

 cluding curlews, thrushes, snipe, starlings, 

 over 100 woodcock, and some sparrows and 

 quails. Thirdly, the Piler Lighthouse 

 kills every season some 700 woodcock. An 

 old sportsman of Normandy declares that 

 round the lighthouse of Barfieur last 

 November there were picked up in the 

 course of four nights 10,000 birds of all 

 sorts, including 1,800 woodcock. The de- 

 struction of bird life by the- hundreds of 

 lighthouses elsewhere can only be imagined. 



THE DANGER OF LYING IN BED 



LACK of muscular exercise, says Har- 

 per's Weekly, is the first result of lying 

 in bed. As a result the appetite is weak- 

 ened, the digestive action slows down, and 

 the muscles of the stomach and abdomen 

 cease to act upon the intestinal mass. 

 When the body is in a recumbent position 

 the heart works with the least expenditure 

 of effort and the least fatigue, and the cir- 

 culation and the functional activity are de- 

 creased. 



But unless the subject is exceptionally 

 vigorous all the benefits are counterbal- 

 anced by dangers. In bed, the subject is 

 shut away from fresh air and sunlight. 

 The result of that deprivation is a condi- 

 tion similar to anemia. But the supreme 

 menace to the weak or the aged confined 

 to bed is the clogging of the pulmonary 

 circulation, an action which frequently re- 

 sults in passive congestion of both sides 

 of the lungs. For this reason the simple 

 fracture of a bone may be the cause of 

 death, because when the patient lies in bed 

 there is. no movement of the muscles to act 

 as an incentive to deep breathing. 



HOW TO KILL WILLOW TREES 



WILLOW trees which persist in places 

 where their growth is disadvantage- 

 ous to their surroundings may be killed by 

 removing the soil from the roots, then bor- 

 ing holes into the base of the trunk and the 

 main roots, and filling them with ordinary 

 salt. Holes one inch in diameter are satis- 

 factory. By watering the trees _ with a 

 poisonous liquid, such as weed killer, the 

 trees may be killed quickly; but the sur- 

 rounding ground would be unfit for further 

 vegetation for a considerable period, while 

 the deleterious effect of the salt would soon 

 disappear. 



