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POMPEIIAN BRONZE 

 SCREEN CLOTH 



LASTS AS LONG AS YOUR HOUSE 



The First Fly 



in the spring — harbinger of the swarms 

 of winged germ-bearing pests to come — 

 will find you always prepared to bar his 

 entrance if your screens are filled with 



POMPEIIAN BRONZE 

 SCREEN CLOTH 



No painting ever necessary — just 

 take your screens filled with Pompeiian 

 Bronze from their winter storage and 

 install them. 



This screen cloth of sterling worth is 

 woven of wire drawn from billets of 

 solid bronze (90 "■ pure copper). 



Its bare strands cannot rust. Barring 

 fire or accident, no renewals ever 

 necessary. 



Pompeiian Bronze Screen Cloth has 

 high tensile strength, therefore no sag- 

 ging as with its substitutes. 



The genuine has a removable red 

 string woven into selvage. Look for it. 

 If your dealer won't supply you, we will 

 promptly. 



Send for out Boo\ 



Clinton Wire Cloth Co. 



First Power Loom Weavers 

 69 Sterling St., Clinton, Mass. 



Makers of Clinton Wire Lathing and 



Clinton Electrically Welded Fabric for 



Reinforcing Concrete. Both recognized as standards 



by leading arcSitects and engineers on both continents 



CYCLONE 

 LAWN FENCE 



is the highest grade fence 

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 and closer spaced than any other 

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 by the exclusive Cyclone meth- 

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 COSTS LESS than inferior 

 makes because it is made in 

 enormous quantities in one of 

 the biggtst fence factories on 

 earth. 



CYCLONE VICTOR 

 FARM GATES 



are heavily galvanized, 

 built for strength, reliability and 

 convenience. Heavy tubular 

 steel frames and rust-proof 

 fabric. Double raising device ; 

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ht and leaves frame free from holes that weaken it. 



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87 WAUKEGAN, ILL. 



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the chickens may be allowed to run in the 

 corn, and there is no better or safer place 

 for them. One prominent breeder of fancy 

 fowls makes a practice of placing all his 

 chickens in little coops along the side of a 

 corn field. Then he feels a reasonabe de- 

 gree of security when he goes to town. 



When chickens are yarded, one or two 

 often seem to develop an early disposition 

 to fly out: Unless their flight feathers are 

 clipped, they will come to cause consider- 

 able trouble not only by habitually scaling 

 the fences themselves, but by teaching 

 other birds to follow their example. 



In order that they may be moved about 

 easily, small, light coops are advised for 

 growing chicks, except when they are 

 brooded and reared in colony houses. A 

 kind of wall board is now being used by 

 some breeders. It is light, as a matter of 

 course, and said to be waterproof. 



A very serviceable coop may be made by 

 covering a light wooden frame with chicken 

 wire and fastening a good grade of roofing 

 paper over it. The expense of such a pen 

 is small and it will last for several years. 

 A large poultry house made in this way has 

 been used in a suburb of Boston for seven 

 years and is in pretty good condition yet. 



The Summer coop should be well ven- 

 tilated ; in warm weather the open front 

 type is by all odds the best. A floor is 

 not needed. It is better not to have one, 

 indeed, if the coop is to be moved at fre- 

 ouent intervals. Over-crowding is to be 

 avoided ; it is better to raise a few good 

 birds than twice as many poor ones. 

 Chickens kept in crowded quarters are not 

 likely to become strong and vigorous. The 

 chicken houses on some plants seem pat- 

 terned after the tenement houses in the 

 big, congested cities. And the results are 

 as bad for poultry as for people. 



If the young chickens and the mature 

 fowls have a common feeding ground, as 

 often is the case, the youngtsers stand a 

 poor chance in competition with their 

 elders. The best plan under such circum- 

 stances is to make a crate in which the 

 chickens may be fed, the bars being far 

 enough apart to admit the young stock but 

 too close together to let the older birds 

 through. Then the chicks will be able to 

 eat their meals in peace. An old straw- 

 berry crate will answer the purpose very 

 well. This plan may be followed, also, 

 when it is found that the stronger chickens 

 in a flock are crowding the weaker ones 

 away from the feeding dishes. When it 

 comes to obeying primodel instincts chick- 

 ens and humans have much in common. 



Green food the chicks must have and 

 May is a good month in which to provide 

 for it by planting Dwarf Essex rape. Be- 

 sides being a satisfactory green ration for 

 both chickens and laying hens, rape grows 

 very rapidly and will quickly develop new 

 leaves as fast as the others are removed, so 

 that one planting will be sufficient for a 

 season. As a pound is enough for a 

 quarter acre, very little seed is needed for 

 a few rows. The plants should be treated 

 practically the same as cabbage. A plant- 

 ing of kale will provide green food to re- 

 place the rape when the latter ceases to 

 be palatable in the fall and will last well 

 into the Winter, not being injured by fairly 

 hard frosts. There are tall and dwarf va- 

 rieties, both being handsome enough to 

 grow for foliage plants and supplying a 

 large amount of chicken greens. The 

 chickens need not have a monopoly of it, 

 either; kale is delicious after it has been 

 touched by a light frost. 



The famous Berry IVagon. which children for three 

 generations have delighted in. Ask for it. 



A Pretty Home Is 

 A Well-Finished Home 



A poor finish on walls, 

 floors and wood- 

 work will spoil the 

 appearance of a home just 

 as a poor complexion will 

 spoil the appearance of a 

 pretty face. 



KERRY 



-Lrothers' 



VARNISHES 



And sometimes the finish which looks 

 good at the start soon begins to whiten, 

 crack and mar. 



When you select Berry Brothers' 

 Varnishes you don't have to worry about 

 appearance or wear. We have been 

 making varnishes for 55 years, and every 

 one of our products has stood the 

 severest tests of long use. 



We should like to send you, free, an 

 interesting booklet on home varnishing. 

 Just write and tell us what your problems 

 are— even though you only want to finish 

 a single room. But when you buy 

 varnish, look for our label and our name. 



BERRY BROTHERS 



Established 1858 



Factories: Detroit. Mich . and Walkerville. Ont. 

 Branches: New York. Boston. Philadelphia. 

 Baltimore. Chicago, Cincinnati. St. Louts. San 

 Francisco. London. England. 



