AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1910 



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Venetian Blind for 



inside window and 



outdoor veranda. 



Any wood . any 



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SCREENS 



AND 



SCREEN 

 DOORS 



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 ana windows open. 

 Darkness and oreezes 

 in sleeping rooms. 



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FOR GARBAGE 



Clean, odorless, pfrmanent. 

 out of siL'Iit- Will nut at- 

 tract flies or nts. 



FOR GARAGE 



Will prevent Hres. Holds 

 sweepiiii^s. oily waste, and 

 occupies no floor space. 



FOR STABLE 



Set in the stable floor, it 

 keeps sweepinjjs and refuse 

 out of sipht. 



FOR HOUSES 



Fireproof, level with the 

 floor ; no unsariltarv ash 

 barrel standing around. 



Garbage Receiver and Rcfu 

 for firass Clipping'! 



Receiver for Garage Refuse'' 

 (under chauffeur's locker) 



Ash Receiver. Note neat. 

 clean appearance.'' 



Sanitary Necessity 

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ALCOHOL 



Its Manufacture 

 Its Denaturization 

 Its Industrial Use 



The Cost of Manufacturing Denaturized Alcohol in Germany and 

 German Methods of Denaturization are discussed by Consui-Cenerai 

 Frank H. Mason in Scientific American SuPPlemejit 1550. 



The Use, Cost and Efficiency of Alcohol as a Fuel for Gas Engines 



are ably explained by H. Diederichs in Scieyii ific A merican Supple- 

 ment 1596. Many clear diagrams accompany the text. The articlecon- 

 siders the fuel value and physical properties of alcohol, and gives details 

 of the alcohol engine wherever they may be different from those of a 

 gasoline or crude oil motor 



In Scientific Americayi Supplement 1581 the Production of In- 

 dustrial Alcohol and its Use in Explosive Motors are treated at length. 



valuable statistics being given of the cost of manufacturing alcohol from 

 farm products and using it in engines. 



French Methods of Denaturization constitute the subject of a good 

 article published in Scientific American Supplement 1599, 



How Industrial Alcohol is Made and Used is told very fully and 

 clearly in No. 3, Vol. 95. of the Scientific A?nerican. 



The most complete treatise on the Modem Manufacture of Alcohol, 



explaining thoroughly the chemical principles which underlie the pro- 

 cess without too many wearisome technical phrases, and describing and 

 illustrating all the apparatus required in an alcohol plant is published in 

 Scientific American Supplements 1603. 1604 and 1605. The 

 article is by L. Baudry de Saunier, the well-known French authority. 



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In Supplements 1607, 1608. 1609 we publish a digest Of the rules 

 and regulations under which the U. S Internal Revenue will permit 

 the manufacture and denaturation of tax free alcohol. 



A comparison of the Use Of Alcohol and Gasolino in Farm Engines 



is given in Scientific Amej'ican Supplements 16?4 and 1635 by 

 Prof. Charles E. Lucke and S. M, Woodward. 



The Manufacture, Denaturing and the Technical and Chemical 



Utilization of Alcohol is ably discussed in the Scientific American 

 Supplements 1636 and 1637 by M. Klar and F. H. Meyer, both ex. 

 perts in the chemistry and distillation of alcohol. Illustrations of stills 

 and plants accompany ttie text 



The Sources of Industrial Alcohol, that is the Farm products from 



which alcohol is distilled, are enumerated by Dr. H. W. Wiley in 

 Scientific American Supplements 1611 and 1612 and their relative 

 alcohol content compared. 



The Distillation and Rectification of Alcohol is the title of a splendid 



article by the lateMax Maercker (the greatest authority on alcohol) ^x^h- 

 WsXieiXin Scie>ifific American Supplements 1627 and 1628. Dia- 

 grams of the various types of stills in common use are used as illustrations 



In Scientific American Supplement 161 3 the Uses Of Industrial 



Alcohol in the Arts and in the Home are discussed. 



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 will be mailed on receipt of S2.00. 



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MUNN & COMPANY, Inc., 361 Broadway, New York City 



ing pines to plant on your wild land. 



The oaks, too, are seeding well this year, 

 and there should be no trouble in getting 

 all the seed you want. 



Seeds of trees which are hard to trans 

 plant like the oaks and hickories and pep- 

 peridge can be planted where the tree is to 

 grow, or they can be planted in pots which 

 makes them easy to transplant later on. 



Barberries of all kinds are easily grown 

 from seed, as are all the shrubs of the rose 

 and apple family {pyrus arbutifolia and 

 others). 



Seed of the hackberry, pepperidge, oaks, 

 birches and some maples can now be gath- 

 ered, but it is too late for sassafras. Seeds 

 of all the leguminous trees and shrubs 

 (locust, cofifee tree, etc.) can be found now 

 and may be planted at once or kept until 

 spring. 



It is, of course, too late for tartaria 

 honeysuckle and some others, but many of 

 them still bear their ripened fruit and the 

 seeds can be collected. 



Viburnum, elder, aralia and innumerable 

 other shrubs can be collected at almost any 

 time through the winter. 



It is a pleasure to grow things from 

 seed and a great satisfaction to have plants 

 in such quantities and at such small cost. 



The time it takes does not matter much 

 if your place has a start and is not abso- 

 lutely bare. You will have many failures 

 no doubt, because seeds are peculiar. The 

 tulip, for instance, is said to be difificult to 

 raise from seed collected north of New 

 York city, and it seems in many cases as 

 if the surest way to have them grow is to 

 have the seeds eaten and dropped by birds 

 or animals. 



You will scarcely care to try growing 

 rhododendron or laurel from seeds. It is 

 quite possible, but the proper conditions 

 for the germination and early growth of 

 such smah seeds are difificult to provide 

 outside of a greenhouse. 



The seed bed should have a good mulch 

 of leaves through the winter, and it must 

 be made mouse proof. 



MATE PLANT, A TEA SUBSTITUTE 



RECENT reports as to the mate plant 

 show that it can be used as a substi- 

 tute for tea or cofifee. Dififerent 

 species of the Ilex, from which the leaves 

 are obtained, are found in Paraguay, Brazil 

 and Argentina, as well as in other regions 

 of South America. The leaves are collected 

 by the natives either from the wild plant 

 growing in the forests, or from cultivated 

 plants. After drying upon racks for 20 

 hours by a slow fire, the leaves are ground 

 or crushed by using a stone or wood imple- 

 ment. The natives make an infusion of the 

 leaves in about the same way as a tea in- 

 fusion, using a calabash for the purpose. 

 Although it is much employed by the na- 

 tives of these regions, it appears to be little 

 known elsewhere. However, efforts are 

 being made in Brazil to put the product 

 on the market in Europe, and especially in 

 France. Analysis shows that it contains 

 tannin, one or more kinds of saccharine 

 matter, salts, etc. ; also cafifeine, to which is 

 due its special properties such as we find 

 for cofifee and tea, so that it is to be classed 

 along with these. As to the pH9^siological 

 efifects of the infusion, these are about the 

 same as are produced by tea. The mate has 

 about 2 per cent of cafifeine, which is some- 

 what less than tea contains. It has an 

 agreeable aroma and a pleasant taste, al- 

 though somewhat bitter. The infusion is 

 made very easily by pouring on just enough 

 boiling water to moisten the leaves, leavjjjg 

 for a few minutes and then adding the;r,e:^t 

 of the boiling water. From 10 to 15 min- 

 utes is enough for the infusion. 



