May, 1909 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
Xxili 
“Seeing is Believing” 
“Cheap” Mission Furniture is an 
abomination, but it is no reflection 
on honest, high-grade furniture that 
it can be bought for less than half 
the retail store price—especially 
when you szow what you are get- 
ting. Our plan of sell- 
ing ‘‘Come-Packt” Sec- 
tional Furniture direct 
from our factory to the 
user cuts out suchuse- 
less and heavy selling 
expenses that our low 
pricesarelogical. What 
is better still, there can 
r be no doubt as to that 
most important consideration—the gualty. 
You see just what you get—and you get 
Quarter Sawed , : - 
White Oak—rich 
in beautiful flake 
and grain. Select- 
ed stock of this 
kind costs twice 
as much as the 
plain sawed red 
or white oak used ; 
in most furniture. No stain disguises cheaper 
substitutes in our furniture; no defects can be 
concealed. It comes ‘‘in 
the white’’—a solid satis- 
* faction to the most criti- 
cal, and a big saving in 
the cost to you. 
The assembling of the 
finished sections and the 
application of the stain 
we send (you can choose 
from seven kinds) is 
simple, easy, and a matter of an hour or two at 
ral 
most, depending 
on the size of the 
piece. All the 
hard work is done at 
our factory—even the 
holes bored for screws 
—and you thus have 
the joy of creation, 
shorn of all the ar- 2 
duous detail and $17.75 
ll th ifficulties. 
= e 3 di calties To illustrate, the Morris 
_ Chair at the head of this ar- 
ticle comes in four completed 
sections. The two sides are 
each entirely assembled, the 
front rail fitted to slip into 
the mortised joints, as is also 
the back rail with hinged 
backattached. The cushions 
are all made, ready to drop in- 
to place. The Settle is equally 
simple, and even the massive 
Dining Table is one of the 
simplest piecesto put together; 
there are but five sections. 
A Tempting Assortment 
Over 100 other cor- 
rectly designed and 
beautifully pro- 
portioned pieces 
are shown in our 
new 48-page cata- 
log, just off the 
press. It will 
prove fascinating 
to the lover of ar- 
tistic Arts and 
Crafts furniture— 
it will delight the 
housewife—and it will please the man who pays the 
bills. Write 
us to-day and 
we will mail 
a copy free, 
and tell you of 
our liberal 
guarantee that 
enables us to 
say “‘Your 
money backif 
you say so.”” Address 
The International Manufacturing Co. 
539 Edwin Street, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
With 3 Leaves 
the roosting quarters, should be allowed for 
each fowl, and accommodation should be 
afforded for at least twice the number of fowls 
it is intended to keep, as there will always be 
extra fowls, cockerels and pullets, which one 
will wish to cull out in the fall, which must 
be provided for. The house should be divided 
through the center by a lath or wire partition, 
to enable one to separate the cockerels from the 
rest of the flock, so as to feed them more 
heavily than it is desired to do the hens which 
are to be kept in laying order. Make all doors 
wide enough for free entrance and egress. 
Garden Work About the Home 
(Continued from page xtv) 
Young trees often hold many of their dead 
leaves until spring, by which time they have 
faded to a pale, silvery yellow, which is al- 
most white compared to the dark russet color 
of the dead leaves on the English beech. 
Both are delightful in winter, whether seen in 
broad sunlight or in the intense, though dif- 
fused, light of a snowy day. 
The sound of snow or rain falling on the 
dry leaves is most soothing on a winter’s 
night, if the tree is near one’s bedroom win- 
dow. Every gust of wind is noised by their 
fluttering. 
The tree has no serious diseases or insect 
pests, and should be planted more frequently. 
It is a little hard to grow, because it is depend- 
ent upon a bacteria in the soil, and if that is 
not present the tree, though alive, may not 
increase in size for years. Inoculating the 
new site with soil from an established beech 
grove is said to work well. 
Beech nuts are pleasantly sweet, but too 
small to bother to eat except out of doors. 
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