HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1913 
This department aims to acquaint 
its readers with real estate offer¬ 
ings, either in the shape of homes 
for sale or new developments in suburban communities. It offers the reader a 
splendid medium through which to buy, sell or exchange property. The real estate 
agent operating in the better class of residential property will find here an unusual 
opportunity of interesting a large buying clientele. 
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Are You Looking 
for a 
Country 
Place? 
Have You a Place 
For Sale? 
If you are seeking for, 
or wish to dispose of, 
any particular kind of 
a place — an inexpensive 
rural property within 
reasonable distance of 
a city, a suburban 
house and plot, a 
summer house in the 
mountains or at the 
seashore, or a farm 
adapted to the raising 
of any special product 
—the Real Estate 
Bureau will help you 
without any charge for 
its services. 
In writing state in as 
much detail as possible 
just what is required, 
or just what you have, 
and address the 
Manager of the 
Real Estate Bureau 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
Union Square New York 
Grass Clippings for Hens 
I F the country dweller has a lawn which 
he mows once a week, the clippings will 
give him nearly all the green food which 
he will need for his poultry. Lawn clip¬ 
pings may be fed to advantage when green 
or may be dried for feeding in winter. 
They are especially acceptable to the hens- 
if they contain some clover, which is great¬ 
ly relished. It is not a bad plan to scatter 
a little clover seed over the lawn each year. 
The tender grass is a valuable feed for 
young chicks, and when cut with a lawn 
mower, lengths of just the right size are- 
secured. It is a better plan to use a grass 
catcher on the lawn mower than to rake 
up the grass, as a rake pulls up the roots 
somewhat, and its use tends to give the 
lawn a ragged and uneven appearance. 
The grass catcher may simply be detached 
from the mower and with its contents car¬ 
ried to the poultry house. 
If the clippings are to be saved for use 
the following winter, they should be spread 
out in the sun until they are dry enough 
so that they will crackle when handled. 
Then they should be stored in a dry place 
and will keep well if they have been thor¬ 
oughly dried. 
Chicks which have a grass run often 
need green food when the season becomes 
well advanced, for grass which is not cut 
grows so tough and coarse that the chick¬ 
ens cannot break it off. This is a point 
which is overlooked oftentimes. A grass- 
catcher load of clippings will fill the need,, 
however, and help to keep the chicks grow¬ 
ing. Some poultry keepers give their new¬ 
ly-hatched chicks tender grass before they 
are fed anything else, but it needs to be- 
cut into very short lengths. 
Hens with little chicks are often con¬ 
fined to coops, although their charges are- 
allowed their liberty, and the fact that 
these hens need a green ration is many" 
times forgotten. Grass clippings are ex¬ 
cellent for them, and what are not eaten- 
serve to make a soft litter in the coop.. 
Likewise, clippings which have been thor¬ 
oughly dried may be used as a litter in a 
brooder or brooder house. 
E. I. Farrington 
A Place to Hang the Washing 
L AUNDRY work must be done and 2 u 
place to hang the clothes while they 
dry must be provided, but it is sometimes 
rather a problem to arrange the matter 
acceptably. Often the architect can help, 
as was the case in an example I know of 
where the clothes yard was made an in¬ 
tegral part of the architectural scheme. 
The lattice work is painted green, while 
the rest is white, like the house. The yard 
stands a few feet from the rear door and 
has a gate the full height. 
Another laundry yard I know of is- 
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