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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, ign 
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Appleton & Sewall Company 
(Incorporated) 
Foresters and Surveyors 
156 Fifth Avenue, New York City 
Practical Methods of 
TREE. PRESERVTION 
Tel. 840 Gramercy Write for Booklet 
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LAWN CARTS 
for 'Gardeners. Fruit Growers, Dairymen, Country 
Estates, and all outdoors. Made for those who want a 
good, serviceable, always-ready Cart that saves the 
lawn and the gardener’s time. 
We manufacture Hand Carts for every purpose. De¬ 
livery Carts, open and weather proof. 
Booklet illustrating our full line on request. 
From reliable dealers 
or direct from fac¬ 
tory. We allow freight 
to all points east of 
the Mississippi and 
north of the Ohio 
and Potomac Rivers. 
Write today for free 
catalog. Special prop¬ 
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You should write. 
N«> 8-Lawn Cart 
Removable rack of hardwood 
strips, 38 x 53 x 8 inches. 
Box, 27 x 42 x ioyi inches. 
Side wheels, 30 in., J 4 -in. 
spokes, 3-in. rims. 
Built for lawn and garden 
use. Capacity, ton. Ship¬ 
ping weight, 150 pounds. 
PRICE, S25.0O 
This is by far the finest cart 
of its kind for the suburban 
estate. Note the wide tireu 
wheels. Rack can be re¬ 
moved in thirty seconds. 
Large estates buy these carts 
in quantities. 
Swartwout 
Mfg. Co. 
203 Meadow Street 
CLINTON, N. Y. 
Triumph Carts are fin¬ 
ished in Dark Green 
Body with Orange 
Striping, Red Gears, 
Hardwood Rack and 
Handles, natural fin¬ 
ish. 
Notable success may be had with such 
plants as hardy Phlox and Sweet William: 
a new growth quickly follows, and the sec¬ 
ond crop of flowers is almost as profuse as 
the first. 
The House Fly 
MODERN human interest story 
should be written, to be read as a 
part of the summer curriculum in every 
home, dealing with the housewife and the 
house fly. In this story the fly should ap¬ 
pear as the subject of a relentless and end¬ 
less war of extermination. In real life, 
however, the housewife, together with her 
family, too often plays the role of victim. 
That is the fly’s business, and, too general¬ 
ly, the housewife’s fault. 
There are two leading propositions to 
be considered relative to the fly: first, what 
he is and does, how objectionable and dan¬ 
gerous he is; and, second, how to be rid 
of him. An acquaintance with the first 
should lead you to adopt the means of the 
second. 
We have allowed ourselves to compla¬ 
cently regard the fly as a harmless insect 
that, at most, is a nuisance mostly because 
of his habits and his persistence. Fie in¬ 
sists on mussing things up in the house 
when he can get in, and takes an apparent 
delight in keeping us company at meals, 
walking over the table things and crawl¬ 
ing in and among the uncovered victuals, 
leaving his disease-germed specks and the 
imprints of his butter and gravy feet on 
linen and dishes. 
Beyond that, and the fact that he is not 
an appetizing accompaniment to our re¬ 
pasts, we have never taken the trouble to 
give him very serious consideration. 
A sweeping holocaust is needed to show 
us flaws of construction, which may lead 
to better fire protection. Nothing less 
than an appalling sacrifice of human life 
seems sufficient ‘to stir the people and the 
authorities to adopt means of relief. It 
required the grievous and calamitous ex¬ 
periences of the camp life of our soldiery 
of the Spanish-American war to teach us 
the awakening lesson of the fly’s fatal, 
disease-spreading habits. 
During that campaign the fly killed more 
of our soldiers than the bullets of the 
Spaniards; more than all other causes 
combined—more to the extent of eighty 
per cent.—keeping nine-tenths of the men 
in hospitals, and killing a thousand to 
every dozen men who fell in battle. And 
all this was attributable to the disease 
germs carried by the common house fly 
from excreta and other infected matter, 
to the food in the kitchen tents and the 
mess tables. 
The records of the War Department 
show that of 133,513 men, 22.420 were 
sick of typhoid fever, from which 1,924 
died. The total deaths from all causes 
were 2,197. Most of the deaths from other 
causes than typhoid resulted from dysen- 
Heat—A Study 
<| Every present or prospective home 
owner who is weary of a long effort 
to solve the Heat-Comfort problem 
will find the solution of his difficulties 
in the 38th Edition Catalogue of the 
Dunning Heating Method. 
<1 There is no time like now to locate 
the germ that caused you so many 
uncomfortable days last winter and 
to immediately apply the Dunning 
prescription. 
<]] Following closely the directions of 
this old practitioner will allay all 
future heating fears and discomforts. 
•J Is a wonderful system of strength, 
durability and convenience. 
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5 MAIN STREET GENEVA, N. Y. 
Landscape Gardening 
A course for Homemakers and 
Gardeners taught by Prof. Craig 
and Prof. Batchelor, of Cornell 
University. 
Gardeners who understand up- 
to-date methods and practice are 
in demand for the best positions. 
A knowledge of Landscape 
Gardening is indispensable to 
those who would have the pleas- 
Prof. Craig antest homes. 
250 page Catalog free. Write to-day. 
THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 
Dept. 27 6, Springfield, Mass. 
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