AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1905 



cA New 

 Industry 



Hercules 

 Stone 



Very 

 Profitable 



Cement 

 Machine 



makes cement stone that looks like natural stone. 

 Many faces. 



Makes any sized hollow cement blocks from 

 2 inches to 6 feet long; also doors, sills, coping, 

 lintels, ornamental designs, etc. 



Tamps on the face of the mould, allowing use of 

 a 2 to 1 mixture of sand and cement for facing, 

 making the block impervious to moisture and true 

 to pattern, and a 5 to 1 mixture for backing. This 

 saves cement and makes the strongest blocks. 



Hercules Blocks are cheaper and more durable 

 for building purposes than lumber, brick or stone. 



Demand for Hercules Blocks strong, and increas- 

 ing every day. 



Large profits for cement stone makers. Small 

 capital required, as one machine makes every shape 

 of stone. Send for Catalog C and read about this 

 new and profitable industry. 



CENTURY CEMENT MACHINE CO. 



180 West Main Street 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



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You can Save Money and Time, and have a Cleaner Vehicle. 



The Most, 

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 Construc- 

 tion. 



The Best 



Joint. 



The Only 

 One with 

 the Light*. 



Our Superior No. 2. 



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IN USE IN THE FINEST PRIVATE STABLES AND MOST UP-TO-DATE 

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THE VEHICLE SPECIALTY COMPANY, Hartford, Conn. 



the Estimator's and Contractor's Guide tor 

 Pricing Builder's Work; Builders' Archi- 

 tectural Drawing Self-taught; the Up-to-date 

 Hardwood Finisher; Modern Carpentry: a 

 Practical Manual ; Common-sense Stair Build- 

 ing and Handrailing; and Hodgson's Low 

 Cost American Homes. The range of topics 

 is, therefore, very considerable and quite com- 

 plete in its scope. Each volume is full] il- 

 lustrated with diagrams and other illustra- 

 tions, and each presents its special theme from 

 the standpoint of the actual worker. 



Science in the Home 



The Home Science Cook Book. By 

 Mary J. Lincoln and Anna Barrows. 

 Pp. 281. Price, $1.00 net. Postage, u 

 cents. Boston : Whitcomb & Barrows, 

 1904. 

 The authors of this hook have acquired a 

 national reputation by their writings on cook- 

 ery, and their earlier books have many times 

 formed admirable domestic guides to the 

 housekeeper, seeking for tasty recipes, plainly 

 stated and collated with due regard to the 

 needs of the average home. The present vol- 

 ume has been prepared for the special needs 

 of small families, and it is bound to have, 

 therefore, a wide welcome from those seeking 

 household recipes calling for small quantities. 



Although the household recipes form the 

 basis of this handbook, and furnish, indeed, 

 the reason for its existence, the book contains 

 much valuable and helpful advice on house- 

 hold affairs, which the beginner in house- 

 keeping will find most suggestive and from 

 which even the older householder can glean 

 points of wisdom and assistance. The book is 

 entirely devoid of fads, and is a plain, helpful 

 household guide of very great utility. 



1 he Vegetable Garden 



How to Make a Vegetable Garden. By 

 Edith Loring Fullerton. Pp. 20: 347. 

 Price, $2.00 net. New York: Double- 

 day, Page & Co., 1905. 



The publishers of this book are quite justi- 

 fied in designating it as " invaluable," not- 

 withstanding the fact that it is manifestly ad- 

 dressed to the amateur, and is intended to 

 stimulate the interest of the amateur in vege- 

 table gardening. The author has endeavored 

 to produce a book that is at once readable and 

 thoroughly practical and serviceable, and has 

 succeeded in this difficult task in an eminent 

 degree. And it is to her credit that her rhe- 

 torical phrases do not lessen the pointedness 

 of the suggestions and information she pre- 

 sents. 



The book covers the whole subject of the 

 vegetable garden, and it covers it in a very 

 thorough and excellent way. The beginner 

 will here find the facts needed for the suc- 

 cessful beginning of a vegetable garden con- 

 cisely stated and plainly explained by one 

 who gives evidence on every page of her thor- 

 ough equipment as a guide. In a sense the 

 book is especially directed toward women, 

 in the hope of increasing their interest in this 

 part of the home surroundings ; but no vege- 

 table grower can fail to find help from its 

 pages. Dealing as it does with the require- 

 ments of the small garden as distinguished 

 from the needs of a farm conducted on a large 

 scale, the book has merit and usefulness of 

 very real value. 



The text is aided by more than two hun- 

 dred illustrations, including both vegetables 

 and photographs of garden labors, together 

 with many diagrams. It is a book which will 

 not only meet an immediate need, but which 

 must greatly extend interest in vegetable gar- 

 dening among the owners of small places. 



