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T HE GARDEN M A G A Z I N E 
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Some Common Sense Facts 
On the Watering of Your Flowers and Vegetables 
of your garden; and gradually turn them completely 
over to the other side.and then automatically shut off 
the water and stop. It can be attached to your 
regular hose. With it, you can water at night, 
which is by far the best time. Tum it on 
when you go to bed, and forget about it. 
It is the surest way of getting more 
vegetables or flowers from the same 
space with less work. With it you 
can double your garden results, 
without doubling your garden 
space. Naturally, it soon 
pays for itself. 
Send for a trial fifty 
foot line. You can in- 
crease it later to any 
length you wish. 
Our complete 
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reel watering that yields results. Any spray which 
throws a stream large enough to bruise a flower, or fast 
enough to stand on the surface of the ground, or cold 
enough to shock a plant is a wrong way to water. 
The Skinner System waters your vegetables and 
flowers in a gentle, beneficent way that is entirely 
under your control. It is the soft, gentle spring rain 
which makes plants grow. It waters uniformly, over 
a space of a few square feet; or acres. Its passage 
through the air takes the chill off the water. Its finely 
broken up drops fall on the delicate plants without in- 
jury. It waters as fast, but no faster than the ground 
will absorb it, so it neither packs nor puddles the soil. 
For so little as $15.75 you can secure a complete 
Skinner System Sectional Sprinkling Line that will 
water 2,500 square feet. (50 x 50 feet.) You can in- 
crease to any length at the rate of $5.40 for each 18 
foot section added. 
For $15.50 additional you can equip it with an 
automatic turner, which you can set to operate at any 
speed. It will start the sprays watering on one side 
The Skinner Irrigation Co. 
219 Water St,, Troy, Ohio 
'"THERE is a right and wrong way to water. There 
1 is a way to make sure that you have the right 
way. The right way is the Skinner System way. 
We can prove that it is the right way. Prove it 
solely by what it has done, and is doing. Not 
only has it doubled the number of potatoes 
in a hill, for instance, but it produces 
better potatoes. Better in taste, 
better in keeping qualities. They 
are better, solely because the 
watering is based on nature’s 
natural laws. Following 
nature’s laws, is just plain 
commonsense. The 
Skinner System of 
overhead watering 
is a common- 
sense way. It 
is not alone 
watering, 
but cor - 
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