July, 1 9 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Like a yard with shade 

 trees and shrubbery, cool, 

 seclusive and inviting, is 

 the porch screened from 

 the blazing sun with 



Burlington 

 Venetian Blinds 



You can easily fit your porch 

 with Burlington Venetian Blinds, 

 and you can readily adjust the 

 blinds at an angle that will allow 

 free circulation and yet keep out 

 the hot sun. 



Write for FREE, 



Illustrated Booklet 



This booklet will show you that 

 your porch can be that which 

 it oueht to be — your summer 

 living room. 



Burlington Venetian Blind Co 

 339 Lake Street, Burlington, Vt. E 



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Berkey & Gay Furniture Co. 



will send you on receipt of 15-2 cent stamps a copy of 



"Character in Furniture" 



1 de lnie book of romance and history of period furniture. Illustrated by- 

 Rene Vincent. Their address is .«.,««.«. 

 178 Canal Street Grand Rapids, Mich. 



SSi Sheep Manur* 



Dried and Pulverized 



STANDING SEAM 

 ROOF 

 IRONS 



PATENTED 



CLINCH rightthrough the 

 standing seam of metal 

 roofs. No rails are needed 

 unless desired. We make a 

 similar one for slate roofi. 



Send for Circular 



Berger Bros. Co. 



PHILADELPHIA 



HESSMllLOCKER 



The Only Modern, Sanitary 

 STEEL Medicine Cabinet 



or locker finished in snow-white, baked 

 everlasting enamel, inside and out. 

 Beautiful beveled mirror door. Nickel 

 plate brass trimmings. Steel or glass 

 shelves. 



Costs Less Than Wood 



Never warps, shrinks, nor swells. Dust 

 and vermin proof, easily cleaned. 



Should Be In Every Bathroom 



Four styles — four sizes. To recess in 

 wall or to hang outside. Send for illus- 

 trated circular. 



The Receued Steel HESS, 926 Tacoma Building, Chicago 

 Medicine Cabinet Makers of Steel Furnaces. — free Booklet 



course, why a fowl can go to sleep on a 

 round pole and not fall off. When the 

 perches are set up for the chicken primary 

 class, they should be placed far enough 

 from the rear wall so that the birds which 

 insist upon remaining on the floor for the 

 first few nights will not receive the drop- 

 pings. 



When coops are kept in permanent lo- 

 cations, it is well to throw sand or ashes 

 in front of the door at intervals, so that 

 the soil will not become wet and foul. 

 Coal ashes are of no little value in chicken 

 runs as they are easily renewed, prevent 

 the earth becoming tainted and seem to be 

 relished by the chicks. Most hens will 

 eat coal ashes and so will ducks. Rats 

 are likely to become a dangerous nuisance 

 while the chickens are young. They oper- 

 ate in a peculiar way, sometimes. One 

 year I had a brooder filled with chickens 

 of two breeds, Houdans and Red Caps. 

 The Houdans were mine ; the Red Caps I 

 was raising for a friend. The rats got 

 in quite unexpectedly and carried away 

 nearly half the chicks. Those which they 

 selected were almost entirely my Hou- 

 dans: iiiy friend's Red Caps they left. 

 Why? I don't know. The only explana- 

 tion I could make at the time was a 

 humorous one to the effect that the ro- 

 dents concluded I had the best breed. 



If the coops containing the growing 

 chicks have floors thev are best elevated 

 on bricks or stones. The coops will be 

 less likely to get damp and there will be 

 no hiding place for rats under them. The 

 openings at the front of the coop should 

 be covered with poultry netting with a 

 mesh not larger than one inch, which will 

 keep out all intruders. 



It would please the average novice if 

 chickens were not such early risers as 

 they are. Up with the first appearance 

 of daylight, they clamor at once to be 

 let out. And they ought to be out, for 

 the early morning hours are the best of 

 the day to promote growth. Ingenious 

 amateurs are able to open the doors with 

 a wire from the house, or even throuerh 

 the aid of an alarm clock attachment, 

 just as the dampers of a furnace may be 

 opened at any stated hour. A device has 

 been arranged, too, which will drop a 

 board from over the opening: to the coop 

 when another board within is steoped 

 upon bv the chickens. 



The automatic feeders now in common 

 use are an aid to the home poultry keeper, 

 for they make it nossible for the growing 

 chickens, as well as the laying hens, to 

 secure their breakfast as soon as they 

 are up. By necking 1 at a bar, a shower 

 of grain is released. These feeders may 

 be used either indoors or out, as they 

 are waterornnf and animal proof, and 

 they will hold a week's supplv of grain. 

 If used indoors, they will aid in keening 

 the chickens occupied until thev are re- 

 leased. Even a litter of straw on the floor 

 into which grain is thrown after dark at 

 nigfht will serve to eneaee the attention of 

 the voungsters and help prevent their 

 fretting because they can not get out in 

 quest of the early worm. 



Water must be provided, too. All fowls 

 like a drink the first thing in the morning 

 and the last thing at night. An automatic 

 fountain mav be filled the night before 

 and hung on the wall high enough so that 

 the litter will not be scratched into it. 

 There are now devices which may be used 

 in connection with a butter tub or larger 

 recentacle and supply water for several 

 days with one filling. 



Is Your Refrigerator 

 Poisoning Your Family? 



YOUR doctor will 

 tell you that a 

 refrigerator which 

 cannot be kept clean 

 and wholesome, as 

 you can easily keep 

 the Monroe, is always 

 da n g ero »j to your 

 family. 



The Monroe is the 

 Only Refrigerator With 

 Genuine Solid Porce- 

 lain Food Compartments 



^"Monroe" 



which can be kept free of breeding places 

 lor disease germs that poison food v/hich 

 \n turn poisons people. NOT cheap por- 

 eelain-ENAMEL, but one piece of white un- 

 breakable porcelain ware OVER AN INCH 

 THICK — nothing- to crack, chip, or absorb 

 moisture — as easily cleaned as a china bowl— 

 every corner ROUNDED — not a single crack, 

 joint or any other lodging place for dirt and 

 the germs of disease and decay. Send at 

 once for 



Free Book fn g e»ton 



which explains all this and tells you how to 

 materially reduce the hitfh cost of living — how 

 to have better, more nourishing food — how to 

 keep food longer without spoiling — how to cut 

 down ice bills — how to guard against sickness — 

 doctor's bills. 



Monroe Refrigerator Co., Sta. 3G, 



Never 

 Sold 

 In 

 Stores 



30 Days Trial 

 Factory Price 

 Cash or Credit 



Direct from fac- 

 tory to you — saving 

 you store profits. We 

 pay freight and guar- 

 antee your money 

 back and removal of 

 refrigerator at no ex- 

 pense to you if you 

 are *.ot absolutely 

 satisfied. 



Easy terms if more 

 convenient for you. 

 Send for book NOW 

 — Letter or postal. 



, Lockland, Ohio 



DOUGLAS 



SPRAY PUMPS 



will do your work ; wh y our 81 years ' 

 experience in pump-making makes us 

 authorities and how it works for your 

 pleasure, profit, ease in spraying, fire 

 fighting. wh tewashing, disinfecting, etc. 

 Figure 563 (Aquapeller) is a low priced 

 pump, throws continuous straight 

 stream — 35 to 50 feet, also gives fine 

 spray. "Fights fire or bugs." Dealers 

 Sell it. Write for the booklet today. 

 W. & B. DOUGLAS, 

 Pump Makers 81 years 

 180 William St., Middletown, Conn. 



Beautiful Lawns 



Lawns'that are distinctive; rich, velvety gTeens of 

 wonderful texture; such lawns are made with 



KALAKA Fertilized Grass Seed 



Expert blending of purest seeds and natural 

 fertilizer insures quick, strong germination. 



Kalakain51b. boxes at $1.00 express prepaid East 

 or $1.25 West of Omaha. Special prices for quantities. 

 Write for" ' Hols lo Make aLaTDn" — mention your dealer's name 

 THE KALAKA CO.. 1110 W. 35th Street. Chicago 



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Make Your 

 Cement House 

 Look Like Stone 



with 



Chi-Namel Cementone 



Write for Free book of information 

 on waterproofing and beautifying cement 

 and concrete. 



The Ohio Varnish Co. 



8604 Kinsman Rd., Cleveland, O. ■ 



