HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1912 
The purpose of this department is to give advice to those interested in 
poultry. The manager will gladly answer any troublesome questions. 
Address ‘^Poultry Department” and enclose a self-addressed envelope. 
SUCCESSFUL INCUBATION AND BROODING 
MAMMOTH 
INCUBATORS 
are of unparalleled success because they supply the 
conditions demanded by nature. 
First, there is a constant and abundant supply of fresh, 
pure air — no poisonous fumes from lamps. Second, the moist¬ 
ure or humidity condition i-s always naturally supplied. Third, 
the temperature is correctly maintained at all times. 
The application of the principles governing these factors are fully 
explained in our book. “Fact and Arguin»*nt.“ It is both informative and convincing 
of Hall merit. Write for it to-day. 
Incubators from 1,200 egg capacity to 20,100 egg capacity ! 
Big hatches are the essentials to money-making chick raising. Do you know how 
some incubators secure the maximum hatches and at the minimum cost? How they 
make artificial incubation on a large scale so successful, so profit¬ 
able? It is by knowing the laws of nature and how to apply them 
in an artificial way. It is by pro])erly caring for every minute de¬ 
tail in a scientific manner. An incubator not built with full knowl¬ 
edge of the principles that effect the awakening of life in the egg 
and control it until the period of hatching, is not dependable. It 
cannot prove a 
profitable i n - 
vestment. 
HALL 
HALL MAMMOTH INCUBATOR CO. Little Falls, N. Y. 
BEFORE YOU BUILD OR BUY 
Get Our New Catalogs-See How MucH You Save 
by buying Potter's Portable Factory-made Fresh-air Houses, coops, feed hoppers, fountains, vermin proof roosting and 
nesting hxtures, etc.—everything for poultry owners, highest grade and cheaper than you can make at home. 
TEN YEARS’ EXPERIENCE 
Houses made of matched Red Cypress flooring. Painted 2 coats. 
XOvery house set up and fitted perfectly at our factory. Shipped 
to von in convenient sections. Price for 2o-Hen House complete 
with roostintr and nesting fixtures, S22. Twenty other sizes and 
styles to select from. Lowest prices. Book full of good ideas for 
poultry keepers. Mailed for 2 Red Stamps. Write toda.v. 
POTTER & COMPANY, Box E 13 
Downers Grove. III. 
Maplecroft S. C. Rhode Island Reds 
Won New York 1911,5th Cock, 4th Cockerel, 
4th and 5th Pens and 1st, 4th, 5th PULLET, 
also Shape Special on Pullet, High class util¬ 
ity layers and choice breeding stock for sale. 
J. G. Dutcher, Prop. For circular, address: 
Maplecroft Farms, Pawling, N. Y. 
White Oroingfons 
They lay like slot machines. 
My birds have won at Madison 
Square. Pittsburg, Cleveland. 
Buffalo, Chicago and other large 
shows. New catalog free. 
Lawrence Jackson 
Haysville, Allegheny Co., Pa. 
Tomlinson^s'S. C. White Leghorns 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
A BIG STRONG STRAIN of heovy Layers. Raised under abso¬ 
lutely sanitary conditions. Producers of LARGE WHITE EGGS. 
Prices Reasonable 
Everett R. Tomlinson, Batavia, N.Y. 
Baby Chicks of Quality 
Guaranteed to Reach You in Good Condition 
You can’t count your chickens before they are 
hatched; so why bother with setting hens and 
incubators? Let me assume all the risk. I 
will send you by express healthy, sturdy Fishel 
Strain White Plymouth Rock Baby Chicks, 
utility or exhibition; also Fishel White Indian 
Runner Baby Ducks. Order now, as winter 
hatchings are the most vigorous. Prices rea¬ 
sonable, and satisfaction assured. Send 6 
cents for my splendid chick catalog. 
R. C. CALDWELL Box 1030, Lyndon, Ross Co., Ohio 
hind no trace of life or suspicion of 
disease, the best plumbing and heating, a 
water supply above reproach, a restoration 
of old hardware and the introduction of 
lighting fixtures that will not clash — these 
seem but little to give for a home that we 
may be proud to have our children call by 
that name. 
If you had chosen to build that new 
house on the suburban boulevard, with 
fifty feet frontage and neighbors jammed 
up against your side windows, with a few 
two-year-old trees that may give some 
shade in fifteen years — if they don't die, 
with new plaster walls that crack and new 
woodwork that gapes at the joints, with 
doors that swell and have to be planed off 
to make them latch, with a prospect of 
being able to work that claybank into a 
properly barbered lawn inside of five 
years, perhaps—if you had so chosen can 
you by any stretch of the imagination pic¬ 
ture your children bringing their children 
back to point out with pride “the old 
homestead” ? 
I do not know why I am arguing for the 
reclamation of these homes built by our 
forefathers as sturdily and beautifully as 
only they knew how to build them. Here 
I am advocating the general adoption of 
something that only a handful of people 
can possibly secure. For the old places 
are becoming very scarce. The aban¬ 
doned farmhouse is no longer abandoned 
when it is within any reasonable distance 
of anywhere. To those, therefore, who 
have had the eye of the seer and have 
secured the desire of their hearts, my con¬ 
gratulations ; to those who may yet dis¬ 
cover the few remaining treasures. I 
would say, make haste: and to those who 
are compelled to live in a new house. I 
extend my deepest sympathy. 
Paneling and Some of Its Short¬ 
cuts 
(Continued from page 21 ) 
composition boards as a base surface. 
When wood is used throughout the avail¬ 
able material will take care of this point. 
Some inquiring designer discovered the 
fact in comparatively recent times that 
stock panel doors — of four or five hori¬ 
zontal panels between top and bottom 
rails — are cheaper in some localities than 
an equal area of built-to-order paneling. 
A wainscoting with a height equal to the 
door’s width may readily be made by lay¬ 
ing these stock doors end to end on the 
floor, covering the vertical joints with nar¬ 
row strips and the upper edge with a 
crown molding. It is perhaps needless to 
say that in doing this one starts by laying 
a door in the middle of each wall surface 
to be covered, and then works away from 
either end so as to make the whole syrn- 
metrical. As the bottom rail of a door is 
always wider than the top and side rails 
it will have to be sawed off to match. 
Interior paneling is not ordinarily a task 
to be undertaken lightly by any but a home 
craftsman of some experience and with a 
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