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HOUSE & GARDEN 
The Kitchen as a Pleasant Place 
(Continued from page 33) 
fill if there is anything better for the 
kitchen wall than the right mixture 
of pure white lead and linseed oil, 
tinted by the pigment needed to pro¬ 
duce the desired tone. 
The Durability of Tiling 
For resistance to dirt, for orna¬ 
mental applications, for durability 
and everything else claimed for tiling 
on the door, tile has equal claims for 
admission to the wall, either for 
wainscoting only, or for the entire 
surface all the way to the ceiling. 
When on the wall it costs about ten 
cents a square foot, and the glazed 
variety is invariably used. If used 
for wainscoting only, the proper 
height of the tiling is 5)4', above 
which limit there is little likelihood 
of spattering from sink, stove or 
table. In some cases the tiling has 
not only been extended to the ceiling, 
but has even been used for the ceil¬ 
ing itself; but to most of us this will 
seem like an unnecessary expense, 
for a well painted ceiling would seem 
to answer all purposes. 
The Latest and Smartest Dog of Fashion 
(Continued from page 42) 
small enough to go to earth might 
bolt a fox, still he could not reason¬ 
ably be expected to drive a cornered 
badger into the open. Underground, 
the badger, when hard pressed, will 
dig away for dear life, stopping now 
and then to drive off the dog, but 
working with the object of evading 
the men who are digging him out of 
his den. The Captain determined, 
therefore, to breed a terrier as small 
as would be consistent with the cour¬ 
age and strength necessary to keep 
the badger from digging away. Small 
size and great activity would be an 
advantage in holding this quarry at 
bay r . It would, moreover, require the 
highest courage and an obstinate 
spirit to keep the badger busy until 
the men could dig him out. It is easy 
to imagine that a short legged dog, 
sound and quick, armed with a long, 
punishing jaw of strong teeth and 
protected by a thick, wiry coat would 
do this work best. That the Sealy- 
ham succeeded is no surprise. 
Making the Farming Business Pay 
(Continued from page 43) 
watch during a single storm the de¬ 
stroying of a tenth of the soil within 
a radius of fifty yards from where 
you stand, or you may trace the de¬ 
struction of acres in a rolling field. 
Under ordinary conditions the danger 
of erosion is very much greater on 
hillsides than on gently rolling or 
level land. When the slope is dou¬ 
bled the rate of flow of water be¬ 
comes four times as great as before, 
while the amount of soil carried away 
may be eight times as much. 
“The cumulative tendency of ero¬ 
sion may be stopped by proper crop 
rotation. A good stand of clover 
will not only enrich the ground but 
check the run-off of surface water 
and increase the absorptive power of 
the soil after it is plowed under. 
While crop rotation has long been 
recognized as an effective way of 
counteracting the exhaustion of plant 
foods, its importance in the preven¬ 
tion of erosion is as yet too little 
appreciated.” 
We decided some better way must 
be found to keep the land we have, 
and, at the same time give proper 
cultivation to the young trees. At¬ 
tention was next given to cover-crops 
and intercrops; the results of our ex¬ 
periments will be told next month. 
(To be concluded) 
What a Hotbed Will Do 
(Continued from page 25) 
hotbed you will have enough in a 
year to fill three times that space. 
To have the long-stemmed large 
violets, the plants should be set 1' 
apart each way and given hill culture, 
the runners being transplanted into 
a new bed after the blossoming time 
has passed. 
The Best Location 
The hotbed should be placed in a 
well-drained spot facing the south 
and convenient to the house. It is 
neither expensive, difficult to make, 
nor hard to manage, though, like 
everything else worth while, some 
trouble is necessary to insure suc¬ 
cess. To make one 6' x 6', which is 
the usual size, a pit should be dug 8' 
or 9' square and 2' or 2)4' deep. A 
frame 6' x 6' made of 2" plank, is 
placed in the center of the pit, the 
back of the frame made to stand 18" 
above the surface of the ground, the 
front 6" lower, which gives the right 
slant for water to run off and permits 
sunshine to reach all parts of the bed. 
Tbe pit is then filled in to the surface 
of the ground with stable manure 
containing a great deal of straw or 
litter. The manure should be well 
packed down by tramping, the litter 
making it springy as it is trodden 
upon. The dug space around the hot¬ 
bed is also filled in with manure 
rather than dirt. Good, rich garden 
soil is then spread over the manure 
in the enclosed space, the sash put 
on and the bed allowed to heat. At 
first the temperature will be too high 
to plant the seeds, but in three days’ 
time it will be safe to put them in. 
The cost of a hotbed this size will 
be about $6. Lumber for the frame 
will come to about $2.50, and a man 
can make the entire hotbed, exclusive 
of the sash, in less than half a day. 
The sash is the most expensive item. 
They can be bought glazed and paint¬ 
ed for about $2 each. There are 
dealers in such supplies, however, 
who sell the unglazed, unpainted sash 
for 80 cents each, the glass in boxes 
of 150 panes, enough for three sashes, 
for $1.50. It is cheaper to buy these, 
if you don’t object to fitting in the 
glass and painting the frame your¬ 
self. To pay a man to do it brings 
the expense up to almost the cost of 
the ordinary completed sash. 
General Management 
The time to plant a hotbed varies 
according to climate and the season. 
In the latitude of New Jersey the 
last half of February or the first part 
of March would be the best time. 
Success with a hotbed means that 
it must be given systematic care. On 
warm days it must be aired for a few 
hours, by raising the sash 1" or so 
on the side away from the wind, 
covering it again at least one hour 
before the sun leaves it. 
