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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1906 



CLASSIFIED 



Advertisements 



BEGINNING with the June num- 

 ber, the publishers of American 

 Homes and Gardens announce 

 that they will accept classified advertise- 

 ments of not more than one or two 

 inches. The classification is as follows: 



Poultry 

 fennels 

 Stock 



Landscape Architects 

 Country Property 

 Schools 



Want Department 

 Exchange 



A special rate of $3.00 for one inch 1 

 or $5.00 for two inches will be charged 

 for each insertion. These ads are pay 

 able in advance. Many who have been 

 deterred from advertising by reason of 

 their announcements being overshad- 

 owed by large advertisements will now 

 find their cards displayed more advan- 

 tageously. With a $5.00 order we will 

 make a half-tone engraving 

 without charge. 



This size ad costs $3.00 



Plymouth Rocks 



From the Stony Brook Farm 



"TPHESE hens have won many 

 ■*• prizes at poultry shows. 

 They are hardy, prolific, farm 

 bred, pure stock. Write today 

 for prices. 



Stony Brook Farm, Box 773, New York 

 This size ad costs $5.00 



PLYMOUTH 

 ROCKS 



From The Stony Brook Farm. 



THESE hens have won 

 many prizes at poultry 

 shows. They are hardy, 

 prolific, farm bred, pure 

 stock. 



Write today for prices. 



Stony Brook 

 Farm 



Box 772 

 New York 



MUNN & COMPANY 



Publishers American Homes and Gardens 

 361 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 



3&$f!ffiF$ 



The Frog Book 



An interesting- and practical 

 work on "How to Breed, 

 Feed and Raise Frogs." 

 Sent postpaid for $1.00. 



cTWEADOW BROOK FARM 

 cAllendale, N. J. 



We MuSt Make Room 



for OurY< 



[or wur i oung 



and will sell all of our breeders in all varieties of 

 Pheasants, Wild and Fancy Water Fowl, Ducks, 

 Geese, Turkeys, Peacocks, W. P. Rocks, I. Games, 

 Guineas, etc., at a low price. We also have Swans. 

 Wood and Mandarin Ducks, Egyptian Geese and 

 Belgian Homers for sale in any number. Send for our 

 special offer. Also books on the care of Pheasants, 

 Squabs and Quail; 50 els. each, or the three for $1.25. 

 Send stamp for circulars. 



CAPE COD GAME FARM 



Box 99, Wellrleet, Mass. 



George S. Olmstead 



Landscape architect 



Topographical and Drainage 



Engineer 



Surveys im.an's estimates Superintendence 

 Bennett Building, New Youk 



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Human -Talker 



IS THE REGISTERED NAME OF MY GENUINE 



Mexican Double Yellow Heads 



the only Parrot in existence which imitates the 

 human voice to perfection and learns to talk 

 and sing Kke a person. Young, tame, hand- 

 raised nest birds. SPECIAL PRICE 

 JUNE, JULY. AUGUST 

 Each Parrot sold with a written guatantee to 

 talk. Sent with perfect safety by express any- 

 where in the U. S. or Canada, alive arrival at ^ 

 express office guaranteed. 



Cheaper varieties from $3.50 up. 

 ONE OF A THOUSAND SIMILAR LETTERS ON FILE 

 Columbus, Ga.. 2—1—06. 

 Your Double Yellow Head is one of the grandest talkers I ever 

 owned. I would not take a hundred for him. You certainly name 

 these birds right when you call them Human Talkers. 



Mrs. T. M. Bush. 114 -9th St. 

 Write for booklet, testimonials and illustrated catalog, etc.. free. 

 GEISLER'S BIRD STORE, Dept. 57. Omaha, Neb. 

 ^Largest and oldest mail order Bird House in the world. Est. 1888.^ 



Build at Cost 



Town or Country 



w. 



H. A. HORSFALL, Architect 

 18 and 20 East 42c Street 



Tel. 2968 - 38th NEW YORK, N Y. 



Virginia Principality 

 For Sale 



THIRTY THOUSAND ACRES in Virginia, 

 within twelve hours of Philadelphia. Double 

 daily train service with sleepers and dining-car. 

 I have an estate of the above size for sale. It is 

 composed of about four thousand acres under cultiva- 

 tion and about twenty-six thousand of woodland. Ten 

 thousand acres is absolutely original growth. 



Natural trout streams, abundant game, and within 

 three miles of tile famous Natural Bridge. Two good 

 dwellings, one frame and one brick. 

 For information, apply to 



R. C. BLACKFORD, Attorney-at-Latv 

 Lynchburg, Virginia 



ARCHITECTURAL 

 COM PETITION 



3Tfje #arbcn Cttp Company will receive 

 competitive designs for Suburban 

 Houses of moderate cost until Au- 

 gust 1, 1906. The following prizes 

 are offered: Two of $1,000, two of 

 $500 and ten of $100. For Program 

 address Gtfje <§arben City Company, 

 No. 60 Wall Street, New York City. 



A Country Home 



Is best obtained by purchasing a farm in a 

 suitable location and improving it to suit >our 

 own individual taste or requirements. Our 

 "Jersey Farms for Health and Profit" 

 is a copyrighted 100-page book containing 

 half-tone reproductions from photographs of 

 New Jersey farms and scenery; also interest- 

 ing and instructive information, together with 

 a fine map of the State and descriptive list of 

 700 available farms suitable for country homes 

 or for general farming. Sent prepaid upon 

 receipt of 10 cents by addressing Dept. T, 



New Jersey Land & Investment Co. 



Elizabeth, N. J. ====== 



Valuable Information for ta who 

 Build, Buy or Rent a Home 



Send postal for descriptive booklet 

 House Hints Publishing Co., Department 28, Philadelphia 



Beautiful fiomes 



."-end for our fine port- 

 folio of photographs of 

 low cost homes, well 

 planned, practical and 

 artistic. They have no 

 superiors. Postpaid, 

 25 cents, silver. 

 Knapp & uiest, Architect* 



Dept. B, Colman Bldg. 

 SEATTLE, U. S. A. 



WOHLERT& WALBERG 



Landscape Architects 

 and Civil Engineers 



Broadway, New York 

 224 Stephen Girarti Building, Philadelphia 



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ARTIFICIAL STONE. By L. P. Ford A paper of immense piac- 



tical value to the architect and buildei. 

 Scientific American Supplement 1500. 



THE SHRINKAGE AND WARPING OF TIMBER By 



Harold Busbndge. An excellent pieseotation o» modern views. 



fully illustrated. 



Scientific American Supplement 1500. 



CONSTRUCTION OF AN INDICATING OR RECORD- 

 ING TIN PLATE ANEROID RAROMETER. By N. 



Monroe Hopkins. Fully illustrated. 



Scientific American Supplement 1500. 

 DIRECT- VISION SPECTROSCOPES. By T H. Blakesiey. 



M A. An admirably written, instructive and copiously illustrated 



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Scientific American Supplement 1493. 

 HOME MADE DYNAMOS Scientific American Supplements 



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 DYNAMO AND MOTOR COMBINED. Fully described and 



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