VI 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
anuary, 1914 
The principle — Two layers of glass with a %-inrh layer of dry still air 
Make the Sun earn 
you profits in winter 
The Sunlight Double Glass Sash captures the sun’s rays and warms up the hot- 
bed and cold-frame during the day and then holds the heat throughout the long 
winter night. A 56-inch of space of dead air shuts out the cold and shuts in the 
warmth, letting in the light, and protecting better than mats or boards. Jf you grow 
plants of any kind that must be started early to get early crops and big prices, you owe 
it to your pocketbook to equip your garden with Sunlight Double Glass Sash. 
1 en years’ use has proved their success. Made of best cypress glazed or repaired 
in half the usual time; eliminating all need of mats or shutters; making plants early 
without undue forcing — they are simply indispensable to obtain the best results. 
A new sun-heated greenhouse 
The Sunlight idea has been carried into an 
inexpensive greenhouse, J 1 ' x ] 2', orll , x24' l 
or J I ' x 36', or ll 1 x 48' in size. It is made 
of Sunlight Double Glass Sash, which are in- 
stantly adjustable for top ventilation and in- 
stantly removable for use on hot-beds or cold- 
f. antes. Thus they serve a double purpose, 
l or this reason, and also because no expensive 
system of artificial heating is required, this 
greenhouse is the cheapest you can buy. 
Our catalog gives full particulars regarding 
both sash and greenhouse. 
Write for these two books today 
One is a hook of Prof. Massey, an authority 
on hot-bed and cold frame gardening, and the 
other is our FRF.Ii catalog. If you 'want Prof. 
Massey's book, enclose 7 cents in stamps. 
Sunlight Double Glass Sash Company 
943 E. Broadway Louisville, Kentucky 
ll'ith Am 11 1 in ht Double Glass Sash no 
nui/' nr hoards are necessary 
Everything for the Garden 
is the title of our 1914 catalogue — the most beautiful and complete horticultural 
publication of the da> — really a book of 204 pages, 14 colored plates and over 
800 photo engravings, showing actual results without exaggeration. It is a mine 
of information of everything in Gardening, either for pleasure or profit, and em- 
bodies the results of over sixty-seven years of practical experience. To give this 
catalogue the largest possible distribution we make the following liberal offer: 
Every Empty Envelope 
Counts As Cash 
To everyone who will state where this advertisement was seen and who 
encloses Ten Cents we will mail the catalogue. 
And Also Send Free of Charge 
Our Famous 50-Cent “HENDERSON” COLLECTION OF SEEDS 
containing one packet eacli of Ponderosa Tomato. Bie Boston Lettuce White Tipped 
Scarlet Radish, Hmderson s Invincible Asters, Mammoth butterfly Pansies nnd 
Giant Spencer Sweet Peas, in a coupon envelope, which, when emptied and returned, will Ik? 
accepted a- a 25 -cent cadi payment on any order amountins to $1 00 and upward. With the Henderson 
Collection will be sent complete cultural directions, tojether with the Henderson Garden Plans 
Peter Henderson & Co. 
35 & 37 
Cortland St. 
New York City 
the same simple methods that were fol- 
lowed by their remote ancestors. We quote 
from the consul’s description as follows: 
“In gathering, sheets are laid in the bot- 
tom of the canoe and a start is made for 
the rice beds. A man sits in the bow of the 
boat and paddles, while his helpmate takes 
up a position in the stern and with the aid 
of two stout sticks bends the stalks over 
the canoe and thrashes the rice into the bot- 
tom of the boat. This continues until the 
boat is nearlv full, when the rice is taken 
to shore and spread out to dry. After a 
few hours in the hot sun the grain is ready 
for parching. This is usually done by the 
women, who place it in a large iron pot 
and heat it over a slow fire, stirring it con- 
tinually until it is ‘parched.’ It is then 
ready for thrashing. This is done by one 
of the men nutting it in an iron pot or large 
wooden bowl hollowed out of a log, and 
with moccasins on his feet and trousers tied 
tightly around his ankles, he jumps on il 
until the grain is separated from the chaff, 
The last operation is that of sifting. The 
rice is poured into birch-bark baskets, in 
small quantities, and squatting down in 
front of the tents on the shore, under the 
trees, or any place where there is a good 
breeze, the women gently shake until the 
chaff is separated from the grain, and is 
blown away by the wind. Crude as it may 
seem, it is exceedingly effective, and the 
workers are scrupulously clean throughout 
the whole process.” 
FARMERS’ BULLETINS 
T HE publications of the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture during the last 
fiscal year included 2,110 different bulle- 
tins, circulars, reports, and other docu- 
ments, of which 34,678,557 copies were 
issued. Of these 10,409,000 were Farmers’ 
Bulletins. The series bearing the latter 
title represents one of the most remarkable 
examples extant of the activities of a pa- 
ternal^ government. It now includes more 
than 500 titles, running through an almost 
exhaustively wide range of subjects of prac- 
tical interest in connection with rural life 
and industries. For example, during the 
past year Farmers’ Bulletins were issued 
on “House Flies,” “The Use of Concrete 
on the Farm,” “Forestry in Nature Study,” 
Tuberculosis, “Ice Houses,” “Lawns and 
I. awn Soils,’’ “The English Sparrow as a 
Pest,” “and some forty other topics. The 
publications of this series are all distributed 
gratis to the public, either directly by the 
department or through members of Con- 
gress, and although thev are printed in large 
editions (from 20,000 to 250,000) the stock 
on hand is soon exhausted, and many ap- 
plicants are disappointed. 
VALUE OF MONEY YEARS AGO 
I N the year 200 B. C. money was five 
times as valuable as it is now, says the 
Philatelic W est. In the eighth century, 
after the abandonment of the mines of 
Spain and Attica, it had risen to six and 
one half times the present value. In the 
seventeenth century it reached the maxi- 
mum of seven and one half times the pres- 
ent value. Soon after the discovery of 
America, in 1492, it rapidly declined on ac- 
count of the great amount of metal that 
began to accumulate in Europe. In 1514. 
twenty-two years after the discovery of 
America it declined to four and one’ half 
times our present scale. In 1536, twenty- 
two years later, it had fallen down to two 
and a quarter times the present value. In 
1640 it was nearly at our present-day value. 
