vi AMERIC 
AN HOMES AND GARDENS 
July, 1911 
Write for our Free Book on 
Home Refrigeration gi 
This book tells 
how to select the 
Home Refrigerator, 
how to know the 
poor from the good, 
how to keep down 
ice bills, how to keep 
a Refrigerator sani- 
tary and sweet—lots 
of things you should 
know before buying 
any Refrigerator. 
It also tells allabout 
the “Monroe” with 
food compartments ‘ Always sold DIRECT 
made in ene piFer ot * — and at Factory Prices. 
soll unbreakable 
WhitePorcelain Ware Cash or Monthly Payments 
over an inch thick, with every corner rounded—no cracks or 
crevices anywhere, and as easy to keep clean as a china bowl. 
The leading hospitals use the ‘ ‘Mon- 
roe” exclusively, and itis found in a 
large majority of the best homes. 
The“‘Monroe” is never sold in stores, 
but direct from the factory to you on 
our liberal trial offer, Freight Prepaid. 
Easy Payments. We are makinga 
radical departure this year from our 
rule of all cash with order, and sell the 
“Monroe’”’ on our liberal credit terms, 
to all desiring to buy that way. 
Just say ‘‘ Send Monroe Book’’ ona 
postal card and it will go to you by 
next mail. 
Monroe Refrigerator Co., Station P., Lockland, O. 
of 
Poreuinin 
Ware 
iit 
THREAD 
are made seamless, 
of pure wool or 
camel’s hair, in any 
width up to 
| and 
THREAD THRUM 
ey _ RUGS 16 FEET 
RUGS 
and in any length, color, or com- 
bination of colors. 65 regular 
shades—any other shading made 
to match. Send for color card. 
“You choose the Alold, Constable & Co., Selling Agents, New York 
colors,we'll make Thread & Thrum Work Shop, Auburn, N.Y. 
the rug.”’ 
PROTEC Your floors 
and floor 
coverings from injury. Also beautify 
your furniture by using Glass Onward 
Sliding Furniture and Piano Shoes in 
place of casters. Made in 110 styles 
and sizes, If your dealer will not 
supply you 
Write ur—Onward Mfg. Co., 
Menasha, Wisconsin, U. S, A. 
Canadian Factory, Berlin, Ont. 
o.S.F.S.1S ON. 
Bristol’s Recording Thermometers 
Continuously and automatically 
record indoor and outdoor atmos- 
pheric temperatures. Useful and 
ornamental for cuuntry homes. 
Write for illustrated Bulletin No. 
124 and No. 125. 
THE BRISTOL CO. 
Waterbury, Connecticut 
THREE THINGS YOU NEED 
FIRST: The only Sanitary method of 
caring for garbage, deep in the ground in 
heavy galvanized bucket with bail. Odor- 
. less, proof against rats, cats and dogs, or 
Z the smaller, death dealing pest, the house 
Opens with the Foot gy, Health demands it. 
SH: Underground Garbage Receiver 
SS | indrtler Refuse Receiver 
as [Underground Earth EOS 
SECOND: This re convenient 
way of disposing of kitchen ashes, 
cellar and yard refuse, does away 
with the ash or dirtbarrel nuisance. 
Stores your oily waste and sweepings. 
Fireproof, fush with garage floor. 
THIRD: Itsupplies 
a safe and sanitary 
method to keep your 
water supply safe 
from pollution. It 
prevents danger 
from the house or typhoid fly, around camp or farm, 
disseminating its poisonous germs to your family. 
NineYears in practical use. It pays to look us up 
Sold Direct. Send for Circulars on each 
Cc. H. STEPHENSON, Mfg. 
21 Farrar Street, Lynn, Mass, 
Easy to sweep into 
A Camp Necessity 
THE SHAPES OF EGGS 
HERE was recently had before the 
Zoological Society of London a mathe- 
in the shapes of eggs. A few eggs, like those 
of the owl and the tortoise, are spherical, or 
nearly so; a few, like the grebe’s or the cor- 
morant’s, are eliptical, with symmetrical 
ends; the great majority, like the hen’s, are 
ovoid, or blunter at one end than the other. 
The hen’s egg is always laid blunt end fore- 
most. Eggs that are most unsymmetrical 
are also eggs of large size relatively to the 
parent bird. The yolks of eggs are spherical, 
whatever the form of the entire egg may 
be. This has been shown to be due to their 
being enclosed in a fluid, the “white,” which 
makes the pressure everywhere on the sur- 
face of the yolk practically constant. 
FARM ENGINES 
HE agricultural commission of the 
French Automobile Club holds a con- 
course every six years, and gives 
prizes to cultivators who make the best use 
of gasoline motors for farm work. It is 
especially desired to encourage small plants 
which are mounted by the farmer himself 
and show an ingenious use of the motors. 
M. Yvonnet-Thovareck received the first 
prize for a very well designed plant where 
a. 1% horsepower motor can drive no less 
than nine farm devices, such as straw cut- 
ter, root cutter, crusher, grindstone, circu- 
lar saw, well pump, besides various dairy 
machines. All these are in the same build- 
ing and are belted to different counter- 
shafts. This gives him $600 yearly saving. 
M. Thiebaut uses a second-hand tricycle 
motor for a thresher and other devices. 
For plants of this kind the commission 
awarded sixteen medals or cash prizes. 
THE ART OF FELLING CHIMNEYS 
N interesting method of felling lofty 
chimneys is practiced inEngland. The 
originator of this method, a Manches- 
ter man, is credited with having felled, with- 
out accident, more than 100 chimneys which 
for one reason or another had become use- 
less. Some of these were from 200 to 250 
feet in height. The method consists in re- 
moving the stones or brick near the foot 
of the chimney and substituting an under- 
pinning of wood, which is afterwards set on 
fire. About two-thirds of the area of the 
base is removed up to a height of 5 or 6 
feet, so that most of the weight rests upon 
the underpinning. Experience has shown 
that when the work is properly done the 
chimney leans slightly toward the side 
where the underpinning is inserted, and 
when a slight crack appears in the masonry 
on the opposite side the time has come for 
the fire to be applied. As the chimney 
falls it partially telescopes in consequence 
of the shock produced by dropping into 
the void left by the burned timbers. 
ARTIFICIAL FURS 
yx NEW process for producing artifi- 
cial furs is described in La Nature. 
The raw pieces of pelt are frozen, 
and the skin carefully shaved off, thawed 
and sent to the tanneries to be made into 
leather. The frozen fur which remains 
is allowed to thaw slightly at the bottom, 
so that a small part of the hair is freed 
from ice. This thawed portion is then 
covered with a solution of rubber, which 
is allowed to set. The result is that large 
seamless pieces of fur are obtained much 
cheaper than those which come with the 
natural skin. 
matical discussion of the differences | 
Portable 
Fireproof 
Garage 
isthe only absolutely fire- 
proot portable garage. 
Made entirely of galvanized 
steel. No wood. Ashand- 
some and substantial as masonry at one-half to one- third the cost. Lasts 
a lifetime. You can put up or take down in a few hours. All parts 
interlock and no frame work or foundation is required. EVERY INCH 
A SUBSTANTIAL, FIREPROOF, PORTABLE BUILDING. By the 
PRUDEN SYSTEM of Portable Fire- 
proof Construction 
we also build ideal cottages, hunting lodges, boat houses, work shops, 
etc, Every Pruden Building is guaranteed. 
Write us the name of 
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# METAL SHELTER CO., 5-60 W. Water St., St. Paul, Minn. 
STAN DING SEAM 
CLINCH right through the | 
standing seam of metal 
roofs. No rails are needed 
unless desired. We make a 
similar one for slate roofs. 
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Ventilate your rooms, yet have your 
windows securely fastened with 
The Ives Window 
Ventilating Lock 
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assuring you of fresh air and pro- 
tection against intrusion. Safe 
and strong, inexpensive and easily 
applied. Ask your dealer for them 
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