HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June. 
1912 
Do you buy a lawn 
mower for a lifetime, 
or one season? Do you want 
one that will cost you a dollar 
or more annually for re-sharp¬ 
ening, or do you want one 
that is self-sharpening? 
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in a class by themselves. For genuine 
lawn-mower satisfaction, ask your 1 ard- 
ware dealer or seedsman to show you 
the “PENNSYLVANIA” line. 
MAILED FREE 
"The Lawn — Its Making and Care." an 
instructive book written for us by a 
prominent authority, gladly mailed on 
request. 
SUPPLEE HARDWARE COMPANY 
WIZARD Brand Pulverized Sheep Manure 
is wonderfully effective — economical and con¬ 
venient—superior to bone or chemicals for home 
fertilizing. It makes 
A Beautiful 
T AWN and ARDEN 
because it is nature’s best tertillzer in 
concentrated form — is unequalled for 
lawns — flowers — vegetables — trees — 
fruits—meadow and grain land. 
per large barrel freight 
ggg(. gf Omaha—cash 
~ with order. Ask for quantity 
prices and interesting booklet. 
The Pnlverized Mannre Co. 
il5Unlon Stock Yards - - Chicago 
Wizard Brand is sold by first-class seedsmen. 
kets, or paper plates for things shown in 
small amounts in a collection, like beans, 
tomatoes, onions, etc. — it was inevitable 
that such improvement in looks as all these 
things effected would make the produce 
itself look correspondingly better. 
So Mantell, having decided that they 
would make the best showing they could 
at the Fair, went after it in a businesslike 
way. A list of all possible entries was 
made, and then certain things assigned to 
each member of the firm. Mantell himself 
took the field and farm crops. Raffles, the 
vegetables; Robert and Helen, the poultry ; 
Mrs. Mantell, the household things, and 
Raffles and Robert and Helen, the cut 
flowers and potted plants. Along some 
lines, of course, they were shy, but the 
list totaled up to quite a formidable one. 
As the various things began to be col¬ 
lected into one place, it looked more and 
more formidable. There was a possible 
total, in first premiums, of nearly sixty 
dollars! 
In exchange for some garden produce, 
which they were easily able to spare, Man¬ 
tell had some neat but striking cards 
printed by the proprietor of the local paper 
at Priestly. 
He also got a number of new pots, of 
various sizes, and as he knew from his 
own purchases in the spring about what 
they must have cost the dealer, he got them 
at a very fair price. These were, of 
course, for Raffles’ potted plants, of which 
he had been able to get together quite an 
imposing collection. The clean, new red 
pots made them look a hundred per cent, 
better. 
It took three trips with their largest 
\Vagon to get everything to the Fair on 
the eventful first day, and they had a hard 
time finding adequate room to place things 
properly. Mantell, with Helen to help 
him, looked after that end of it, while 
Raffles and Robert brought the things to 
them. It had taken much longer to get 
things collected and prepared than they 
had anticipated, but by working late into 
the night before, and getting an early 
start that day, they were among the first 
on the ground, and secured one of the 
best positions in the hall. 
Before the day was over, Mantell saw 
plainly that he would lose out on many of 
the entries, but the biggest prizes he was 
pretty sure of. The exhibits seemed, for 
the most part, to be made only by those 
who felt quite certain of one or two things 
— a half bushel of late potatoes, and a 
large squash, for instance — and would 
not bother to take anything else. To his 
surprise, he found that he had more en¬ 
tries than any other exhibitor of vege¬ 
tables or plants in the hall, and thev were 
put up in a way that gave an effect of 
their being even more, comparatively, than 
they were. 
When the judging was done, on the fol¬ 
lowing day, he had reason to be pleased 
with the results. Fortunatelv, the judge 
had been a man from the agricultural col¬ 
lege, who knew his business and had 
shown no favoritism, as, the Squire said, 
sometimes happened. They got the first 
Home Billiards 
on the Beautiful Brunswick 
Dining-Billiard Table 
Sizes, 3x6 and 3% x 7. 
(Cut shows top partly removed.) 
Install this heautiful Brunswick Convertible Din¬ 
ing-Billiard Table in your suburban or country home 
and enjoy your favorite pastime in comfort through¬ 
out the summer. 
Its appearance, when used as a dining table, 
gives no hint of the amusement resources it con¬ 
ceals. 
SOLVES THE AMUSEMENT PROBLEM 
FOR THE FAMILY AND GUESTS. 
This unique table brings the world’s premier In¬ 
door game right into the dining room, Provides de¬ 
lightful entertainment, physical relaxation and 
mental diversion for the family and guests. Keeps 
the boys home evenings by the sheer force of its 
attractions. 
AFTER DINNER—BILLIARDS! 
Remove the polished wood top from the handsome 
dining table and — presto! — your Brunswick Billiard 
Table is ready. Inside of five minutes you can be 
playing your favorite game of billiards or pocket 
billiards — in your own cozy “home billiard room.” 
The table is equally well fitted for dining room, 
library or den. 
The Celebrated “Baby Grand” Brunswick Billiard 
Table. 
All Brunswick Tables are real billiard tables— 
not “toys”-—not mere imitations of billiard tables. 
The price of each table includes a complete playing 
equipment. 
ALL STYLES OF HOME 
AND STANDARD SIZE BILLIARD TABLES 
We are the oldest and largest makers of Stand¬ 
ard Carom and Pocket-Billiard Tables in the world. 
Our line of Home Billiard Tables represents the 
same high standard whicli has made our standard 
tables supreme for sixty years. 
Send the coupon or postal for beautiful illustrated 
book showing our complete line of Home Billiard 
Tables. 
The Bruuswick-Balke-Collender Co., 
Dept. F, 328 South Wabash Ave., Chicago. 
Please send me special prices and easy terms on 
Home Billiard Tables—also the book 
“BILLIARDS—THE HOME MAGNET.” 
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