iv AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
August, I9II 
Davis, McGrath C> Shepard, Arch’ts, N.Y. 
Stain Your Bungalows 
Don’t paint them. Stain them all over, roofs, siding, 
and trimmings, with 
Cabot’s Shingle Stains 
The “‘ painty ”’ effect does not harmonize with bungalow con- 
ditions, but our stains produce the soft transparent colors that ex- 
actly suit. They cost only half as much as paint, and can be put 
on at half the expense. If your bungalow is in the woods, away 
from skilled labor, you or your man can apply them perfectly. 
They are made of Creosote, which thoroughly preserves the wood, 
Cabot's Stains are sold allover the country. Send 
for samples on wood, and name of nearest agent. 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc. 
Manufacturing Chemists 
131 Milk Street Boston, Mass. 
THREAD 
are made seamless, 
of pure wool or 
and camels pate ia any 
THREAD) THRUM width up to 
tTHruM| RUGS 16 FEET 
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 Arnold, Constable & Co., Selling Agents, New York 
colors,we'll make Thread & Thrum Work Shop, Auburn, N.Y. 
the rug.”’ 
“RUGS 
PROTECT 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 uu—Onward Mfg. Co., 
Menasha, Wisconsin, U. S, A. 
Canadian Factory, Berlin, Ont. 
Bristol’s Recording Thermometers 
Continuously and automatically 
record indoor and outdoor atmos- 
pheric temperatures. Useful and 
ornamental for country 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- 
5 ; less, proof against rats, cats and dogs or 
% ; ; “ the smaller, death dealing pest, the house 
Opens with the Foot fly, Health demands it. 
No Odor | Underground Garbage Receiver 
mse Underfloor Refuse Receiver 
Bie | Underground Earth Closet 
SECOND: This clean, convenient 
way of disposing of kitchen ashes, cel- 
lar and yard refuse, does away with the 
ash or dirt barrel nuisance. Stores 
your oily waste and sweepings. Fire- 
proof, flush with garage floor. 
THIRD: It supplies a 
safe and sanitary 
method to keep your 
water supply safe from 
pollution. It prevents 
Easy to sweep into 
danger from the house or typhoid fly, 
camp or farm, disseminating its poisonous germs 
around 
to your family. Nine Years 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. 
A Camp Necessity 
buildings and contents of the South Ken- 
sington Museum in London cost Great 
Britain about five million dollars, and com- 
petent authorities estimate that an auction 
on the premises would bring not less than 
one hundred million dollars. If suitable 
quarters are provided there is no doubt that 
a donation in the form of specimens and 
money, worth many times the original out- 
lay, will be received. Large importers of 
foreign high-class cabinet woods will be 
anxious to exhibit samples of their choice 
woods. Not a tew people are attracted by 
a collection of woods as much as by one 
of agricultural products. Undoubtedly a 
wood collection appeals to the public, and 
where this is the case much that is valuable 
will soon find its way to the museum. 
Foresters with zeal and ability will doubt- 
less collect and donate samples of wood 
from all parts of the world. All that is re- 
quired is to prepare the place and the proper 
publicity will guarantee the material in due 
time. Invaluable material can be readily 
obtained through consulates. Other muse- 
ums having material in storage would 
doubtless loan or donate a considerable 
share of it to the national collection. Every 
country in South America would be glad 
to exhibit in the capital of the United States 
representative samples of the product of 
their forests. There can be no doubt that 
a national institution such as this would 
attract men of learning, for it would open 
an entirely new line of work from which 
the industrial and scientific world could 
draw invaluable information. Foreseeing the 
benefits which would result to science and 
industry by the successful establishment of 
a representative wood collection, it seems 
doubly imperative that immediate steps 
should be taken to carry these suggestions 
into effect. 
TWO NOVEL FOLDING BOATS 
HE advantage of a life raft over a life 
boat lies in the fact that the former 
occupies less storage space, com- 
pared to its capacity, than the latter. On 
the other hand, the ordinary raft, if loaded 
to its rated capacity, is far more liable to 
upset in rough water than the life boat, and 
is otherwise unmanageable. In order to 
render life boats less bulky, an inventor has 
devised a folding boat, which will permit of 
easy handling and be economical. The flat 
bottom of the boat is hinged along the 
center and the sides of the boat are hinged 
to the stem and stern posts, so that the boat 
may be folded in a perfectly flat posi- 
tion so that it can be readily stowed 
away in a minimum of space on board 
ship. The boat may be extended into posi- 
tion for use by merely operating a winch at 
one side. This serves to press the bottom 
down while the sides are extended by 
means of a pair of cross-braces hinged at 
one side and provided with rollers at the 
other bearing against plates on the gun- 
wale. Every precaution has been taken to 
make the joints perfectly watertight by the 
use of rubber gaskets and mortise con- 
nections. 
OIL-CEMENT CONCRETE 
N important investigative work dur- 
ing the last year was the develop- 
ment of an oil-cement concrete, and 
from results obtained the experiments in- 
dicate that it would be practical to use 
this material for floors, cellars, foundation 
walls, tanks, silos, manure pits, and similiar 
construction, where strength, solidity and 
waterproof qualities are required. 
This Portable 
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isthe only absolutely fire- 
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Made entirely of galvanized 
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we also build ideal cottages, hunting lodges, boat houses, work shops, 
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STANDING SEAM| 
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unless desired. We make a 
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