AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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ovember, 1913 



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G. D. TILLEY 



Naturalist 



Beautiful Swans, Fancy 

 Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, 

 Storks, Ornamental Ducks and 

 Geese, Flamingoes, Game and 

 Cage Birds. 



'"Everything in the bird line from a 

 Canary to an Ostrich" 



I am the oldest established and largest exclusive 

 dealer in land and water birds in America and have 

 on hand the most extensive Stock in the United States. 

 G. D. TILLEY Box A, Darien, Conn. 



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Bob White Quitt 1 

 Partridges and Pheasants 



Capercailzies. Black Game. Wild Turkeys, Quails, Rabbits, Deer, etc, 

 for stockinE purposes. Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, 

 Cranes, Storks, Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, Squirrels, 

 Ferrets, etc., and all kinds o! birds and animals. 



WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist 

 Dept. C YARDLEY. PA. 



A WONDERFUL RESIDENCE SITE. 20 TO 30 ACRES, 

 in the high altitude (640 feet) pure air belt of Chappaqua : 

 magnificent scenery and roads. Address Brevoort Hill. Chap- 

 paqua, Westchester County, N. Y. 



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the roasts is covered with this material 

 I do not need to clean it out oftener than 

 once or twice all Winter. There is no 

 odor and no unsightly frozen accumula- 

 tion. The litter is forked over occa- 

 sionally and in Spring is spread on the 

 land, making a safe, rich, fertilizer. So 

 much labor is saved that I never expect 

 to go back to dropping boards. 



Opportunity must be given the fowls to 

 take a dust bath as often as they desire, 

 which will be about every day. Road dust 

 will answer, but the birds prefer heavier 

 earth. Coal ashes serve well, except that 

 they rob the plumage of its lustre. Hens 

 seem to like the fine cinders and will eat 

 many of them. Whatever is to be used, it 

 should be provided for before snow comes. 

 A few barrels may be filled with earth and 

 stored away. The best place to make the 

 bath is a corner where the sunlight falls 

 early in the morning. A wide, shallow 

 box may be used or a board nailed across 

 a corner. 



Supplied with dusting facilities, most 

 fowls will keep themselves reasonably free 

 from body lice. In order to keep away the 

 little red mites which congregate on the 

 roosts and in various cracks and crevices, 

 the free use of one of the proprietary lice 

 paints is cheerfully recommended. Coal 

 oil will serve the purpose, but must be ap- 

 plied often. The material which is used in 

 my houses is effective for several months 

 and has practically freed me from worry 

 about vermin. Of course, these red mites 

 are worse in warm weather, but they are 

 likely to appear at any time. I have known 

 poultry houses to be so overrun with lice 

 that no one could enter them without hav- 

 ing their presence felt. Nothing will breed 

 disgust with the poultry business any 

 quicker. Somebody has said that fleas are 

 good things because they help to make a 

 dog forget he is a dog. It may be the 

 same with poultry and lice, but hens which 

 are tortured with these pests must not be 

 expected to lay eggs. 



It is well to make sure that the house is 

 tight, both as to walls and roof. Cold is 

 not to be feared, but dampness and 

 draughts must be avoided. A house with 

 windows which may be left open most of 

 the time or with no windows of glass give 

 the best results. Muslin curtains may be 

 used over the openings on cold nights or 

 when the wind blows, and if necessary a 

 burlap curtain on a wire may be run in 

 front of the birds after they go to roost 

 as a means of extra protection. 



AN ANGRY TREE 



A SPECIES of the acacia-tree, which 

 Harper's Weekly says is entitled to 

 be classed as one of the wonders of plant 

 life, is described as follows: The tree at- 

 tains a height of about eight feet. When 

 full grown, it closes its leaves together 

 in coils each day at sunset. When the 

 tree has thus settled itself for its night's 

 sleep, it will flutter violently if touched, 

 and if you shake the branches it will emit 

 a nauseating odor strong enough to bring 

 on a headache. In Idaho it is called the 

 "angry tree," and it is said that it was 

 discovered by some men who were mak- 

 ing a camp for the nigrht, and placed one 

 end of a canvas covering over one of its 

 sensitive branches, to use it as a sup- 

 port. Immediately the tree began to jerk 

 its branches sharply. The motion con- 

 tinued with increased "nervousness," un- 

 til at last there came a sickening odor 

 that drove the tired men to a more hos- 

 pitable camping-place. 



Till-: LSI'. AND .MISUSE OE 

 LEATHER 



LEATHER has much to recommend it 

 to the craftworker in spite of the way 



in which it has often been misapplied. 

 Both in household use and as a material 

 affording the highest expression of the 

 bookbinder's art no more delightful 

 medium for service, durability and dig- 

 nity may be found than leather. Un- 

 fortunately it is so easy of manipulation 

 that ally tyro may succeed in obtaining 

 passable results in decoration, using the 

 soft leather for pillows, table covers and 

 chair cushions. 



The really beautiful ail of pyrography 

 has been so misapplied on leather, es- 

 pecially when combined with colors as 

 commonly seen in the barbaric efforts to 

 do the artistic pillow cover, that it has 

 become nearly impossible to tolerate any 

 of it about the house, and yet it is possi- 

 ble to execute with the pyrographic 

 needle borders of suitable design on mats 

 for tables, and even the couch pillow may 

 be made beautiful by the use of a con- 

 ventional pattern on a velvet surface of 

 deep rose or light tan leather. The black 

 line when used to outline a pattern and to 

 fill the background with lines of precision 

 is as effective as one might wish. 



The use of leather in upholstery should 

 be maintained as it was employed in earl- 

 ier times. The chair known as the Jaco- 

 bean with seat and back of tooled leather, 

 often having a crest in lacquer or gold, 

 has been handed down to us as a perfect 

 example of handicraft work. Naturally, 

 such furniture finds a place among the 

 solid handsome pieces placed in our 

 homes for use in halls, dining-rooms and 

 libraries. Dignified and serviceable, it 

 has no place in association with spindle- 

 legged or satin upholstered pieces. These 

 belong to a totally different period and 

 should not be associated in common with 

 leather upholstered furniture in libraries, 

 dining-rooms or halls. The leather 

 cushion on a window bench is most ap- 

 propriate both as a thin, flat cushion, and 

 as a pillow decorated with lacings and cut 

 fringe, but such a pillow thrown in among 

 the silk cushions of a couch is quite out 

 of place. 



For many years American taste rele- 

 gated to the "den" or smoking-room all 

 leather upholstered pieces, such as the 

 divan tufted in leather, arm chairs with 

 springs and allover upholstery in leather, 

 leaving no wood visible on their broad 

 expanse of surface, these huge, ungainly 

 objects have nothing to recommend them 

 to the eye seeking pleasant lines and good 

 design. Contrast with these the leather 

 furniture of an earlier period when the 

 leather richly embossed and tooled, was 

 stretched from side to side of the arm 

 chair forming a band merely at the back, 

 and the seat made in the same way offered 

 the severely plain leather only with no 

 tufted seat or springs below. The neutral 

 pliancy of the leather afforded all the 

 softness required. The Italian folding 

 chair with the curving side spindles in 

 the shape of the letter "S," commonly 

 called the "Saronarola" chair, has the seat 

 of leather stretched from one side to the 

 other above the 'main joint in the center. 

 In the hands of the Spanish leather 

 worker marvels of beauty were created 

 in leather for seats and backs of chairs 

 and couches, as well as for screens and 

 walls. So completely was the surface of 

 the leather covered over with rich gild- 

 ing and lacquer that one forgot it as a 

 part of the complete work, leather being 



