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KEEP THE WEEDS OUT 
and Your Garden Growing 
It’s easy — and a 
pleasure—with a 
Darker and de mulTivSt§r 3Machines ini 
Kills the weeds and breaks the hardest cnv t into 
a level, porous, moisture-retaining mub'h. Works as 
fast as you can walk. Cuts runners. Aerates the soil. 
“HestWeed Killer Ever Used." Works right up 
to plant*. Guards protect leaves. lias easily" 
attached shovels for deeper cultivation. 
Require* no skill, a boy can run it, and 
do more and better work than ton 
men with hf.es. 
Inexpensive. 
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David City, Neb. 
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$ 1.25 
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Red, Brown and Yellow), 
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15c extra. Durable, Elastic and Pre¬ 
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Making a Lawn 
(Continued from page 783) 
After the seed is sown the ground is 
to be raked over, preferably with ;i wood¬ 
en hand rake. This raking is best accom¬ 
plished with the forward and backward 
movement, as is employed with the steel 
rake in the breaking down of rough and 
uneven places in the garden when getting 
ready for planting. After this ground is 
raked over as described above it must be 
gone over with the hand roller to settle 
the seed in the ground. Right here I 
want to emphasize the importance of fin¬ 
ishing the job with the roller. If the 
roller is not used after seeding, and a dry 
spoil of a. few days should come on at the 
time the seed is germinating it will in all 
probability be destroyed. Therefore, do 
not neglect rolling the ground after seed¬ 
ing. When seeding is done during hot. 
dry weather, a light mulch of clean straw 
should be spread over the ground to give 
partial shade and thus protect the young 
grass from injury at a critical time in its 
existence. Some lawn men sow a small 
quantity of oats with the grass seed in 
Summer. The oats come up quickly, grow 
rapidly and afford protection to the young 
grass.’ Others use Italian rye grass pret¬ 
ty liberally for the same purpose. I have 
found "botil good, and if is a good plan to 
use them singly or together when seeding 
has to be done in dry, hot weather. 
Newly made lawns should not be cut 
until the grass is 5 or 0 in. high; for the 
first cutting a one-horse mower is admir¬ 
ably suited. The cutter liar should be set 
so that it will cut the grass 3 in. above 
the ground. At the second and subse¬ 
quent cuttings the lawn mower can be 
used, but cut. high if. weather is dry, and 
cut only when actually necessary until 
the grass becomes well established. Weeds 
will bother some at first, but the growth 
of grass and the mowing will soon put 
them out of commission. That is, all 
kinds except plantain, dandelion and 
buck-horn, which may have to be band 
pulled. k. 
Sour Cherries in Sandy Soil; Ill-flavored 
Cistern Water 
1. We have three large, vigorous and 
healthy cherry trees about 10 veai*s old 
of selected stock, yet so far they have 
yielded no fruit. Cau you give us a 
pointer on what to do for them? 2. 
Situated on the bluff overlooking Long 
Island Sound, we find it expensive to get 
good well water; the distance to dig or 
drive is too great, consequently we fall 
back on rain-water supply. Our cisterns 
are large, of ample capacity, and are fre¬ 
quently cleaned. The roofs of buildings 
forming the watershed are of tin. The 
water has an earthy taste and smell. 
The odor is very pronounced when water 
is drawn from the hot-water boiler. Is 
there not some method of treating if that 
will remove the taste and odor and still 
not render it unfit for drinking purposes 
or domestic use? F. w. n. 
Suffolk Co.. N. Y. 
1. No one can explain the antipathy 
of sour cherries to sandy soils like those 
of Long Island. All we know is that the 
few good orchards get their roots down 
into a bed of clay. There is not much 
to do about it. Manure with two or 
three pounds of nitrate of soda to the 
tree and five pounds of phosphate well 
dug into the ground, and you will get a 
few cherries, but never a satisfying crop. 
Nature intended that people of Long 
Island should eat sweet cherries. Select 
a good sort, as Yellow Spanish or Black 
Tartarian, and have them budded on 
Mahaleb stock by a good nurseryman. 
2. The bad flavored cistern water is 
due to a microscopic plant, probably 
algae. It is not harmful, but quite dis¬ 
agreeable. Wash out the cistern with 
copper sulphate or Milestone, such as is 
used for spraying. One pound to 100 
gallons of water is strong enough. Then 
rinse the cistern and the water will be 
good until reinjected by dusts. The Mile¬ 
stone is unwholesome to drink regularly, 
but is not at all a deadly poison at the 
strength you will use. If will free ponds 
of unsightly and ill-smelling alg:e without 
injuring the fish. it. f. b. 
Putty Fails to Stick 
On page 5S0 J. M. complains that the 
putty will not stick to his hotbed sasli. 
and asks for a remedy. Assuming that 
bis putty is of good quality and of the 
proper consistency, the trouble is prob¬ 
ably due. to one of two causes—eitaer 
the sasli is soaked with water to such ...i 
extent that the oil from the putty cani-ot 
penetrate the wood and thus cause the 
putty to adhere, or the wood is so 'x- 
cessively dry that it absorbs the oil to 
such an extent as to*leave the putty hard 
and dry. The remedy, in one case, is to 
allow the sasli to become dry, and in die 
other to brush the sasli with linseed oil. 
There is a prepaation known as mastiea 
that is superior to putty for such work. 
It is sold by most dealers in greenhouse 
supplies. c. o. OHMS BEE. 
Titf. young lady who had lived most of 
her life in the city went on a visit to the 
country not long ago. One of the first 
sights that excited her curiosity was a big- 
hay stack. ‘‘What a funny house,” she 
remarked. Her amused hostess explained 
that it was a hay stack. ”.Tust fancy,” 
said the visitor. "I never knew that liay 
grew that way.”—Melbourne Australa¬ 
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his paint goes the farthest. 
But, have any of them proven 
to you that it not only goes 
farthest —• but costs less to 
make it go? 
You can make some mighty 
poor paints cover a very re¬ 
spectable amount of space, if 
you brush and brush it out 
enough. But it’s hard work 
to work it that way. So that’s 
why we made our house and 
barn paint so easy working. It 
spreads so easy, it’s easy to 
spread. If it’s easy to spread, 
it’s a lot more likely to be well 
spread — which is just plain 
everyday common sense. 
Just why our paint is easy 
spreading and long lasting is 
not only because of u : hat it’s 
made of, but hozv it’s made. 
After all is said and done— 
the way to figure paint costs, 
is with a brush—not a pencil. 
Just to prove it. send for cir¬ 
cular on Figuring Paint Cost9 
with a Brush—Not a Pencil. 
Lowe Brothers’ Paints are 
sold by the one best dealer in 
each town. 
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Take Pride in Your Home 
OU can very easily afford all 
the beauty of paneled walls, 
beamed ceilings, built-in 
cabinets and handsome floors, if you 
are careful to select a wood which 
is both good and inexpensive. North 
Carolina Pine is exactly right for 
such uses. It is one of the most 
beautifully grained of all woods, 
and at the same time, one of the 
least expensive. You can stain, 
enamel or paint it with excellent 
results. 
NORTH CAROLINA PINE ASSOCIATION 
85 Sank of Co.umerce Building 
Norfolk, Virginia 
Write for oar ISO page 
Farm and Building Book. 
Worth $1.00—but costa 
you nothing. 
NORTH CAROLINA PINE 
Better Farm Buildings at Lower Gists 
