HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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For Remaking Old Lawns 
Building Up New, Use Alphano Hu: 
D ON’T put off until next Spring the remaking 
of your old lawn or the building up of 
a new one. 
A top dressing of odorless Alphano 
Humus raked into your old lawn now, will in a 
surprisingly short time, start the tpps growing, 
and promote strong, sturdy root growth. 
Starved, shallow roots have a hard struggle 
against the hot sun of August and the cold of 
Winter. Now is the time to fortify them against 
both, so that the rest of the summer and all this 
Fall your lawn will be a deep, rich green, the 
sod thick and mat-like. Then next Spring it 
will have the strength to start up early and con 
tinue strong throughout the season without further 
enrichment. 
You could not consider for a moment putting 
barn-yard fertilizers on your lawn at this time of 
the year; and as for chemical fertilizers, they are 
but temporary stimulants at best, contain no humus, 
quickly leach away, and are far from odorless. 
Alphano Humus is the ideal material for the 
purpose, it being inexpensive,' odorless, rich in 
humus and plant foods. Because of its powdered 
form it can be easily spread on old or new lawns 
and raked in, quickly becoming a part of the soil. 
Unlike other fertilizers it.lagts for several years. 
With shrubs and trees, the results from Alphano 
Humus are decidedly pronounced. 
For greenhouse purposes it is most satisfactory— 
giving surprising returns. 
Send for the Humus Book. It tells all about 
Alphano Humus—what it is and its various valued 
uses. In it you will find complete directions for 
lawn making and building. 
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Per Ton — $ 12 . 
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“Yes, but gasoline and oil and insurance 
of car and depreciation and—and all 
that!” protested Mr. Spence. 
“Well, ‘all that' isn't as bad as you think 
it is, perhaps,” suggested Mr. Swift. 
“Let’s get a few figures to working and 
see.” 
Mr. Swift busied himself with pencil 
and paper. Mr. Spence sat thoughtfully 
regarding him, the nervous puffs of cigar 
smoke trailing lazily out from the porch 
across the lawn showing his state of mind. 
“There," announced Mr. Swift, passing 
ever the card. “It doesn't look so terrify¬ 
ing when you get it down in black and 
white.” 
Mr. Spence took the card, and this is 
what he saw: 
Gasoline for 3,500 miles per year. 
for five years.$200.00 
Oil for same period. 25.00 
Other lubricants . 10.00 
New tires . 200.00 
Valve grinding . 30.00 
Insurance and incidentals. 125.00 
$590.00 
For one year.$118.00 
For one month. 9.83 
At 300 miles per month, per mile. .03 
“You see,” explained Mr. Swift, “if 
you buy this place you have to buy an 
automobile. It's just as much a part of the 
investment as the place itself. So I haven’t 
figured interest on investment or deprecia¬ 
tion. It’s true, you do lose the interest, 
and it’s true a car does depreciate. But if 
you only use it for hack purposes, its de¬ 
preciation will be very small. I’ve allowed 
you ten miles a day, nearly—if you just 
hack to the station and back, it’s only four 
miles a day, which is much less. I’ve put 
insurance way down because fire insurance 
is all you need here — tires and incidentals 
are large here even for the ten miles a 
day — for the four miles you will use the 
car they are huge. But talcing all that into 
consideration, you only pay, say, ten dol¬ 
lars a month for your auto. Your taxes 
here, including everything, will be only 
$78.00 a year. What do you pay where 
you are?” 
“Three hundred a year,” confessed Mr. 
Spence, somewhat unsettled in his mind. 
Mr. Swift was too wise to point any 
moral. That Mr. Spence could add up $78 
and $120 a year for the automobile and 
substract from $300 seemed fairly certain. 
And in a moment he knew that Mr. Spence 
had done so. 
“Then I could buy a car and have it 
cost me altogether $222 a year in upkeep 
and still break even,” he mused, “and 
then-” 
“Not break even,” insinuated Mr. Swift 
gently. “Remember you are breaking even 
on the taxes and the automobile — hut the 
cost of livih°\ the air, the ground, poultry, 
vegetables, fruit, pigs, chickens, eggs— 
don't you like to ‘garden?’ ” he shot at his 
victim, suddenly. 
And Mr. Spence collapsed. 
“Lord, yes!" he said. “I want this place 
so bad I can taste it! I’ve always hated 
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