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Fresh Running Water 
for Your Home 
Gives you city comfort and conven- 
ience. Running water in the bath, in 
Wherever 
the kitchen, in the barn. 
and whenever you want it. 
An efficient and never-failing sup- 
ply can always be had if you install a 
DOUGLAS 
PNEUTANK SYSTEM 
It takes up very little room and can be located in the 
most convenient place. There are no belts to slip or 
break. 
Absolutely reliable and dependable—as many satisfied 
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Will run ali day long on a gallon of gasoline. Eighty 
years of exclusive pump-making experience are behind 
ouglas pumps. 
Catalog and full details sent on request. Write to-day. 
W. & B. Douglas 
180 William St., Middletown, Conn. 
Established 1832 
Manufacturers of humps for all purposes—spray 
pumps, deep-well pumps, etc, 
G SEAM 
ROOF 
IRONS 
CLINCH right through the 
standing seam of metal 
roofs. No rails are needed 
unless desired. We makea 
similar one for slate roofs. 
Send for Circular 
Berger Bros. Co. 
PHILADELPHIA 
PATENTED 
F LAWN , 
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~ Designed for Beauty Wii. 
Simplicity and Strength 
generally go together. In 
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they are combined with beauty, making this the most practical, f 
economical and most widely used |awn fence on the market. § 
It is chosen by the most particular because of its design, and Ei 
by the most careful buyers because it outlasts any other and § 
is the cheapest fence made in the long run. 
It is made of large, heavily-galvanized wire, rust proof, self- § 
adjusting to uneven ground and easily put upon wood or iron 
posts. 
We have grown and prospered until our factory is now the 
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Get a Cyclone Fence to protect and beautify your premises. 
It stands for prosperity and progress. Our free books show all 
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We also manufacture afull line of Tubular Steel Farm Gates. 
Write for special Farm Gate Catalog. 
CYCLONE FENCE COMPANY, 
Dept. 44 
WAUKEGAN, ILL. 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
tive measures. These include the preven- 
tion of breeding by treatment of all places 
in which breeding is possible; keeping flies 
out of the house, and killing them as they 
enter. Some ten millions of dollars are ex- 
pended each year in the United States alone 
in an attempt to screen dwellings against 
the entrance of flies and mosquitoes. An- 
other not inconsiderable item of expense is 
incurred in trapping and killing the pests 
after an entrance has been effected. With a 
little harmonious action on the part of in- 
dividuals, Boards of Health, and communi- 
ties, the breeding places might be rendered 
harmless and these expenses avoided. Until 
this comes about, however, housewives may 
read in the latter part of the volume of 
almost every device ever thought of for 
disposing of the mature fly. As Chief of 
the United States Bureau of Entomology, 
Mr. Howard’s utterances should carry au- 
thority and inspire confidence. 
THE Book or Town AnD WINDOW GAR- 
DENING, by Mrs. F. A. Bardswell. New 
York. John Lane “Company. 7) Cloth 
crown, 8vo. Illustrated. Price, $1.00 
net. 
This book is planned for those lovers of 
flowers who are compelled to live in town, 
and should be a helpful guide also to those 
who are ignorant of the art of growing 
flowers. The advice given in its pages for 
growing plants under the adverse condi- 
tions prevailing in town, cannot fail to make 
a strong appeal to the town and window 
gardener. 
Tue Boox or THE Honey Beg, by Charles 
Harrison. New York. John Lane Com- 
pany. Cloth crown, 8vo. Illustrated. 
132 pages; Price; $1.00 net. 
From the time of Virgil to our own day 
bee-keeping has been the branch of hus- 
bandry which has peculiarly appealed to the 
temperament of the meditative man. There- 
fore everyone who has a place in the coun- 
try should be interested in the subject 
treated authoritatively by Mr. Harrison in 
the various chapters of the four sections 
of his well-illustrated book. It must be re- 
membered that this is the work of an Eng- 
lish authority and therefore written pri- 
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handbook of this sort will be just as wel- 
come to the American reader. 
PHOTOGRAPHING FLOWERS AND TREES, by 
J. Horace McFarland. New York. Ten- 
nant (Ward) . LOLs | Paper, lomo: 
Illustrated. 93 pages. 
There is hardly a more interesting and 
fascinating branch of photography than 
that discussed in the pages of this little 
book. The author gives invaluable hints to 
the amateur in the matter of success in 
depicting scenes by lens and camera, and 
forms and suggestions of color values of 
assistance in the most satisfactory manner. 
In fact, no one interested in decorative 
photography should be without a copy of 
the book. 
To Moruer, by Marjorie Benton Cooke. 
Chicago: Forbes & Co., 1911. Price, 50 
cents. 
It is seldom that one can whole-heartedly 
indorse present-day poetry such as this. 
The mother-theme, too, must be well 
handled not to be made ridiculous by dis- 
tortion of values on the one hand, or by a 
cheap verbosity unsuited to meter on the 
other. This being so, we take the greater 
pleasure in acknowledging the sweet dignity 
and the repressed yet strong appeal of the 
for Fine 
Houses 
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Reynolds 
Flexible Asphalt 
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Unaffected by severest weather, Never warp, 
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painting or repairs. Granite surface and fire-resist- 
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Reynolds’ Asphalt Shingles. They have 
had 10-year test. Free shingle book 
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igh grade granite surfaced 
roofing in rolls. : 
H. M. Reynolds Asphalt 
Shingle Co. 
Original Manufacturer 
174 Oakland Ave. 
Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 
Estnblished 1868 
February, 1912 
THREAD are made seam- 
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and or ‘camel's hair, 
AD) THRUM inanywidthupto 
RUGS 16 FEET 
and in any length, color or combin- 
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Send for color card and 
name of nearest dealer. 
“You choose Thread & Thrum Work Shop 
Auburn, N. Y 
the colors, we'll 
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® The 
# benefits 
of 
outdoor 
life 
but none of its discomforts, are realized in 
The Burlington 
Venetian Blind 
In your windows it makes your room delight- 
fully cool. Enclose your porch with the 
Burlington Venetian Blind and you have 
added a healthful out-of-door room to 
your home. F 
The Burlington Venetian Blind can 
be raised or lowered at will, and can be 
adjusted to any angle to suit the height of 
the sun. 
The Burlington Venetian Blind is made to order only. 
Our illustrated catalog, telling about the various styles, 
_ will be mailed to you on request. 
Burlington 
Venetian 
Blind Co. 
339 Lake St. 
