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Y introducing a tiled partition, as shown in the illustra- 
tion, a built-in bath can be installed in conjunction with 
the needle and shower bath. This arrangement gives a 
full recessed’ bath, tiled in at the base, back and both ends. 
The needle and shower bath is distinctive. Instead of 
the usual curtain, it is provided with a plate-glass door, 
adding greatly to its attractiveness and convenience. The 
large receptor, of Imperial (Solid) Porcelain, gives the 
bather the ample room required fora vigorous shower bath. 
The tiled walls and glass door are water tight. 
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yee ENP Hi ONE: 
ADVICE TO COUNTRY HOME- 
MAKER 
HAT can one best do to get food, 
and in general terms his living, very 
speedily after going to the country to 
live? Or put the question this way: How 
can I reduce my expenses by going into 
the country, and very rapidly increase my 
income from the land itself? The prop- 
osition is sound that a country place should 
pay its own way, but it cannot do it with- 
out two things; first of these is tact and in- 
dustry on the part of the owner, and the 
second point is patience and wisdom in 
planting. 
If I were just moving into the country I 
would first of all plant strawberries, rasp- 
berries and blackberries. These three will 
give fruit almost at once. Strawberries 
planted in August will crop the next May; 
raspberries planted one year in April or 
May will bear the next year in July; black- 
berries planted at the same time will bear 
the next year in August. So far as table 
food is concerned, we have no choice be- 
tween these berries; but if the object is 
sale, then here is a choice. The red rasp- 
berry will be most available, simply be- 
cause it will have the market most certainly. 
Strawberries rarely prove profitable unless 
grown in large quantities. They can be 
shipped from other sections into your mar- 
ket, while the raspberry cannot be so 
shipped. 
Of the larger fruits, plums and cherries. 
if you will set when three years old, trees 
will begin to bear the next year and increase 
their crops steadily for four or five years 
thereafter. Now let me give you a secret, 
for it is a secret with even good horticul- 
turists, that if you will set your pear trees 
limbed out low you will begin to get a crop 
two years from planting. The same is to 
some extent true of apples, and these low- 
headed and round-headed trees are ex- 
tremely available, not only for early crops, 
but because they do not take up as much 
space around your house or on the lawn. 
They can be used as ornamental trees jus” 
as well as for orchard trees. 
Now come down into the swale below the 
barn, and we will see what we can do in 
the vegetable garden for very prompt re- 
sults. You must not spend much of your 
time on experiments—just yet. There will 
be too much weeding to be done in beds of 
carrots, beets, onions, etc., and you had bet- 
ter confine your attention mainly to corn, 
beans, potatoes and peas, beds of things 
that have to be wet by hand. Then plant 
the beans and peas in succession from April 
down to June, but put all potatoes into the 
soil as soon as it is mellow in the Spring. 
The vegetables I have named will bear 
abundantly and give you at least half of 
your food for the first year. 
Now get a few boards and build a hen- 
house and henyard, and buy about six hens. 
That will be all you can feed from your 
table waste; and that is enough to give you 
all the eggs you can use, and a few over. 
If you go into the hen business extensively’ 
wait until your crops begin to multiply, so 
that you can furnish their food without 
buying. I am talking, however, to those 
city folk who have just got started, or are 
about to start, on places of two or three 
acres up to five. You can get too many 
hens on your hands very easily, and they 
will cost you more than they are worth. 
It is better to hire a horse for the first few 
days that you will need him the first year, 
until you have your alfalfa fields to feed 
him and your stables and barn built. But 
a cow you must have. The milk and the 
butter cover at least one-fourth of good 
country living. Her first qualification must — 
