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Ik' RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 1, 1910 
THE MAPES 
MANURES 
<1 The Standard for Generations. 
Basis Bone and Guano. 
<1 No Rock Used. 
Availability Without Acidity. 
Crop Producers and Soil Builders. 
Use them and do your bit towards 
the present universal demand for food 
THE MAPES FORMULA AND 
PERUVIAN GUANO CO. 
Central Building, 143 Liberty St., New York 
Branch: 239 State St., Hartford, Conn. 
Building a Small Greenhouse 
FARM for SALE IS f„ h n B ..*Sl 
near Salisbury, Maryland. The land is fertile and 
this is a section where farming pays. For particu¬ 
lars address SAMUEL P. WOODCOCK, Salisbury Maryland 
INCREASE YOUR PROFITS 
Pure Unlenched Hardwood Ashe*. The Best Potash 
Fertilizer. The Joynt Brand the Best by Test. 
Write for Particulars. Agents Wanted. Corres¬ 
pondence Invited. Satisfactory liefevences. Address 
JOHN JOYNT. - Lucknow, Ontario 
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Brief Mention ofElcar Points : 
Four-cylinder models have power* 
ful long stroke Elcar-Lycoming 
motor, developing 37% horsepower 
at 2100 r. p. m. Six-cylinder models 
have Red-Seal Continental 3%x4% 
inch engine, developing 40 horse¬ 
power at 2100 r. p. m. Two unit 
electrical system. 116 inch wheel 
base. Road clearance 10% inches. 
Full floating rear axle with spiral 
bevel driving gears. Timken roller 
bearings front and rear. Double 
universal drive; tubular propeller 
shaft; copper cellular radiator. 
Easy-riding semi-elliptic spring 
suspension. Roomy and comfort¬ 
able bodies of beautiful design and 
durable finish; new “Cathedral 
Pipe” upholstering. Equipment 
complete, even to motometer. 
51175 
1C7S 
1175 
1375 
1175 
1375 
1G25 
1795 
5-Pass. 
5-Pass. 
4-Pass. 
4-Pass. 
4-Pass. 
4- Pass. 
5- Pass. 
5-Pass. 
Touring Car, 4-cyl. engine 
Touring Car, 6-cyl. engine 
Sportster, 4-cyl. engine 
Sportster, 6-cyl. engine 
Roadster, 4-cyl. engine 
Roadster, 6-cyl. engine 
Sedan, 4-cyl. engine 
Sedan, 6-cyl. engine 
Big Car Comfort 
at small car upkeep 
Y OU will find thorough satisfaction in 
the Elcar. It will give you genuine 
comfort. It is roomy. The springs 
are wonderfully easy riding. It is deeply 
upholstered. Riding in the Elcar rests you. 
The Elcar is the “beauty” car of the year. 
No more beautiful car on wheels. The 
bodywork and finish are of highest quality. 
The Elcar is built to stand the service of 
country roads, keep good looking and 
give long service. 
You secure this comfort and satisfaction 
for moderate upkeep cost. 18 to 20 miles 
are averaged to a gallon of gasoline. 1000 
miles to a gallon of oil. Tires give excep¬ 
tionally long service due to light weight 
and correct balance. Repair expense runs 
low. Every part is built 150% strong. 
The Elcar motor is speedy, with abundant 
power for the hard pulls. It is a car that 
will serve you economically, dependably 
and long. 
Write for catalog illustrating and describing the 
eight 1919 Elcar Models, sent FREE on request. 
Elkhart Carriage & Motor Car Co. 
815 Beardsley Ave. Elkhart, Ind. 
Construction Methods. —In garden¬ 
ing operations, whether on a large or 
small scale, particularly when one raises 
his own plants, a glass structure of some 
kind is quite indispensable. Many market 
others have both greenhouses and l.amee. 
only, in their operations, while many 
others have Doth greenhouses and frames. 
Many more would use greenhouses for 
growing plants but are deterred from do¬ 
ing so on account of the cost of construc¬ 
tion of plant and installing heating outfit. 
The cost of building a greenhouse may be 
high or low according to the style and 
quality of material used, and whether the 
construction is hired done or if you do it 
yourself, and the same applies to the heat¬ 
ing outfit. There is a period of two or 
three months during the Winter when 
there is not much pressing work to be 
done in the garden; it is during this 
period, that the construction of hotbeds, 
cold frames or greenhouses can most eco¬ 
nomically and profitably he done, and al¬ 
most) any gardener who can build a good 
hotbed or cold frame should be capable of 
building an ordinary greenhouse. Of this 
point I am reasonably sure, for I have 
done so, and I am not a trained mechanic 
by any means. 
Building Plans. —Five years ago, 
when I purchased my present home, hot¬ 
beds and cold frames were constructed in 
which to raise such plants, flowering and 
2x3 dressed spruce were used. These were 
cut beveled at the ends to fit snugly to the 
ridge-pole and the plate. A pair of those 
were placed at each end of the house to 
provide nailing surface for the sash bars 
used in filling in <he gables. 
Further Details. —The remainder 
were spaced so that after a sash bar was 
nailed on there would be a surface of one 
inch on each for the movable sash tk> rest 
and slide on, the sash bars acting as 
guides for the movable sash. The rafters 
were cut so the feather edge of the lower 
end would come just flush with the sur¬ 
face of the five-eigbths-inch face on the 
plate, made by planing the corner down, 
as previously mentioned. The stationary 
sasli bars are beveled only on the upper 
ends to fit to the ridge-pole, the lower end, 
being cut square, and cut just long enough 
to come flush with the outer edge of 
plate. These were nailed to the plate with 
eight- and six-penny galvanized finishing 
nails, and the spaces between the bars 
were filled in with short pieces of the 
same material cut the required length, 
and also nailed to the five-eighths surface 
of the plate with galvanized finishing 
nails. By this arrangement the glass was 
elevated one inch above the plate at the 
eaves, making it easy to paint the plate 
inside right up under the glass, which 
cannot be done when the sasli bars are cut 
beveled and fit to the plate. The glass used 
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vegetables, as would he required for home 
use in my business. The heavy snows 
during the month of March gave so much 
trouble and annoyance it was fully deter¬ 
mined that before another season came 
around there would he some kind ot a 
greenhouse constructed. the following 
Fail (1914) after the Fall work had been 
all cleared up, plans were made for the 
construction of the houses. What I 
wanted was a good small house at a cost 
that would he low enough to make it a 
profitable investment right from the be¬ 
ginning. This was accomplished and in 
the following manner : Plans were drawn 
for a house 40 feet long and !) feet wide, 
designed for the purpose of growing small 
plants only. Therefore the walls were 
built low, being only three feet high. 
Cedar and locust posts were used to sup¬ 
port the structure; these were set tour 
feet, apart and three feet in the ground, 
being made perfectly level on top. 1 ne 
side walls were hoarded up with rough 
spruce and hemlock, and covered with 
two-ply tar paper on the outside, held in 
place by plastering lath nailed on three 
feet apart up and down, and a continuous 
row of lath nailed over the upper edge 
tinder the projected plate. 
Materials. —The posts were sawed 
square off at the tops, and when the top 
hoard was put on tin' upper edge was 
raised oue-haif inch above the posts, the 
inner edge was then beveled so that! when 
this plate was nailed on it would make a 
close joint with the outer edge of the 
bevel. ‘ The plates are 2x3 dressed spruce 
scantling. These were put on to project 
over the outer edge or top wall hoard 
one-lmlf inch, and when nailed in place 
they had a drop of about a half inch in¬ 
ward. which insures the water draining 
off quickly. All corners were mitered and 
coated with white lead to prevent rotting. 
The plates now being in place, a wood 
gauge was set at one-lmlf inch and tlhe 
outer corner of the plate was scored 1 on 
each side and planed oil' to the scores. 
This left a hearing on the corner of about 
five-eighths of an inch, which correspond¬ 
ed with the pitch of the roof. Eight hot¬ 
bed sash 3x(> feet were used on the roof, 
four on each side, and are held in position 
with small iron pulleys and V\ -inch rope, 
so they can be lowered for ventilating. 
The remainder of the roof is stationary. 
Cypress sash bars Ixl 1 /: inches, with a 
half-inch rabbet were placed 10 inches 
apart. 10xl2-inch glass being used. 1 he 
ridge pole is 2x4 dressed spruce. To pro¬ 
vide slides for the movable sash rafters of 
Small Greenhouse 
is 10x12 double strength, second grade, 
laid in putty ,and fastened in with trian¬ 
gular zinc glazing points. 
Beds and Benches.— An elevated 
bench runs the whole length of the south 
side of the house, across the east end, and 
for a distance of four feet along the north 
side from east end to heading plant. The 
remainder of the north side is solid beds 
raised 10 inches above the walk. These 
beds and also the elevated benches are 40 
inches wide. The house is divided in the 
center by a wooden and glass partition 
constructed exactly like the two ends of 
the house, with the exception that a door 
of wood and glass leads from one to the 
other. The outside entrance is from the 
side by way of a small dormer just wide 
enough to accommodate a door 2 ft. S in. 
wide. This entrance is on the north side, 
and was placed at that location to he 
convenient to the cold frames, and to 
avoid taking up any ground that could he 
cultivated to advantage. The distance 
from this ground to the ridge is about 
7 ft. <> in. and the door is (5 ft. 10 in. 
high and shaped as shown in picture. 
Heating.— -The heating plant consists 
of a 13-in. cannon style stove, placed 1 on 
the north side of the east section of the 
house, and about 5 feet from the east end. 
A small pit, constructed of cement and 
coni ashes, two feet deep, 20 inches wide 
and three feet long, with cement bottom, 
is sunk a little below the level of the walk. 
The walls of the pit are three inches 
thick. The feet were removed from the 
stove, and four half bricks were used in¬ 
stead for the stove to rest on so as to 
lower it as much as possible. This little 
cement pit protects all the wood in close 
proximity to the stove from danger of 
fire, no matter how hot tlhe stove may be¬ 
come. A galvanized pipe flange made to 
correspond with the pitch of the roof and 
fit in the roof same manner as the glass 
makes a safe connection for the stove 
pipe; 3 1 A joints of galvanized pipe with a 
canopy on top are used ouUside and se¬ 
curely anchored with wires to the house. 
This’little stove has proven entirely sat¬ 
isfactory in every way. and besides is 
very economical in the consumption of 
fuel. It very rarely burns over a medium- 
sized scuttle of hard coal in 24 hours and 
most usually less. It will hold a tem¬ 
perature at night of 50 deg. or more in 
zero weather. On ordinary cold nights the 
fire is banked for the night at about 10 
o’clock and on very eokl nights an hour 
or so later. I should have said the sec- 
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