HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1913 
On© l@ok«lbuat a YALE 
You do not get security by adding locks. You get 
it by getting a lock that affords security. 
A Yale Cylinder Lock needs no help in safeguarding j^our home. It is built 
for locking purposes—small, durable, accurately adjusted, easily operated 
with its own key, but absolutely proof against picking, forcing or breaking. 
Replace all locks you cannot trust with Yale Cylinder Locks. Their long, 
clean record of faithful service makes them worthy of your confidence. 
See that the name 
“Yale” appears like this 
<yale> 
on the Locks and 
Hardware that you buy 
The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company 
Makers of YALE Products: Locks, Padlocks, Builders’ Hardware, Door Checks and Chain Hoists 
9 East 40th Street, New York City 
'^Chicago: 74 East Randolph Street Canadian Yale & Towne Limited: St. Catharines, Can. San Francisco: 134 Rialto Bldg. 
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THE SUN ROOM 
OF THIS HOUSE IS A DELIGHTFULLY AIRY 
PORCH IN SUMMER, FOR IT IS COMPLETELY 
enclosed WITH ENGLISH CASEMENT 
WINDOWS - AND — THEY ARE AMERICAN¬ 
IZED, FOR THE OWNER WAS WISE ENOUGH 
TO EQUIP THEM ALL WITH OUR ADJUSTERS, 
WHICH ARE EASILY OPERATED FROM IN¬ 
SIDE THE SCREENS. 
FOR A PICTURE BOOKLET. JUST POSTAUZE 
CASEMENT HDWE. CO. 175 N. State St, Chicago 
The Hundred Per Cent. Garden 
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could assume to yourself the power of 
bringing rain to fall at will, upon your own 
garden or any part of it, and of having it 
cease when you wished, what value would 
you place upon that power? What effect 
do you imagine you could produce with it 
upon your garden? Water, perhaps the 
most vital factor in the production of 
crops, has always been the one least under 
control. Suppose through the intervention 
of some mystical genius you could con¬ 
trol it absolutely? 
This is the seemingly incredulous ac¬ 
complishment of modern overhead irriga¬ 
tion. In spite of all it does, however, 
there is no complicated machinery about 
it, for the new system is simplicity itself, 
and, as with many other things, one won¬ 
ders why someone did not think of it 
years ago. As you can see from the illus¬ 
trations herewith, the water is distributed 
through lines of pipe which are supported 
above the ground over the area to be 
irrigated. These lines of pipe are placed 
from forty-five to fifty-five feet apart, ac¬ 
cording to the available water pressure, 
and may be supported at a height of from 
six inches to six feet above the surface of 
the ground, according to the nature of the 
crop to be irrigated and allowance being 
made for convenience in cultivating. 
Where the pipes run in the same direc¬ 
tion as the rows, two feet or so is a con¬ 
venient height at which to place the lines, 
but where the rows run at right angles 
five or six feet will be better, as that 
allows one to pass under them with a 
wheel-hoe. Every four feet along the 
pipe are placed small brass nozzles in a 
straight line, through which the water is 
forced in a minute solid stream which 
falls in a fine spray. The lines are so 
arranged that they may be revolved from 
one side to the other, so that the spray 
can be thrown at any angle from the ex¬ 
treme right to the extreme left; each line, 
therefore, covers a strip of ground fifty 
feet or so in width. 
To give as clear an idea of the details 
as possible (and to anticipate a number 
of questions which I should otherwise be 
called upon by many of you to answer) I 
will describe the different parts of the out¬ 
fit in a somewhat technical way. 
The water supply may be obtained from 
any source and in any manner, the only 
condition being that the pressure shall be 
from 20 to 60 pounds, 40 to 50 being 
preferable, and steady. The main line or 
feed-line is to furnish water to the nozzle 
lines (of which there may be several if a 
considerable acreage is to be covered), and 
for convenience is usually placed below 
the surface, although it may lie on the 
soil or be elevated above it, according to 
conditions. “Risers” are simply short 
pieces of pipe connecting the main line 
to the nozzle line which run at right 
angles to it. Their length is, of course, de¬ 
termined by the height of the nozzle lines 
above the ground. The nozzle-line con- 
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