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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. 
F OR SALE — Fine suburban residence on Philadel¬ 
phia Pike, Lancaster, Pa. Ideally situated on one 
acre ten perch of ground. Fine shade trees. Stable 
and chicken house. The house contains eleven rooms. 
First floor, three large rooms, kitchen and pantry; 
three bedroom's, sewing-room and bath on second 
floor, and three bedrooms with large storage on third 
floor. Light, airy cellar under whole, with nearly 
new hot water plant. Fifteen minutes to business dis¬ 
trict and Penn. R. R. station for five-cent fare. 
Thirty minutes to Phdla. & Reading station. 
I-'or further information address 
REAL ESTATE MANAGER 
HOUSE & GARDEN, 31 EAST 17TH STREET, N. Y. 
Select Country Places 
and SuperbWaterfronts 
At Greenwich, Conn. 
Tel. 866 Greenwich Smith Building 
A Typical 
Craftsman 
Home 
What We Will Send You 
for 25 Cents — 
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by Gustav Stickley, giving selected model 
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in all. 
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Room 807 Craftsman Building New York 
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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 prop¬ 
erty 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 prod¬ 
uct — 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 
September, 1913 
Poultry and Garden on a Suburban 
Lot 
r I "'HE suburban man, grown weary of 
doubtful eggs at fifty cents a dozen, 
and anxious to keep a few hens of his own, 
is constrained to give up the idea, because 
he has a weakness for raising his own 
fresh vegetables and thinks the two could 
not be combined on his small plot. In like 
manner, his neighbor watches the vege¬ 
tables he carries in from his garden each 
summer morning and sighs enviously that 
he cannot raise vegetables because of the 
chickens. Both have arrived at a mistaken 
conclusion. Hundreds of city men have 
solved the problem of keeping .hens and 
raising small fruit and vegetables on the 
limited area of an ordinary small city lot. 
My neighbor, the doctor, has set his en¬ 
tire back lot to fruit trees and small fruit 
with a vegetable garden 20 by 44, approx¬ 
imately. 
Two apple trees are set on the edge of 
the lot opposite each back corner of the 
house. Two more shade the garage on the 
back corner of the lot. There are six cherry 
and plum trees on the back end of the 
lot with four currant bushes and a dozen 
red raspberries along the side next to our 
lot. The apple trees take up all the side 
next the street. Grape vines are trained 
over the back porch and a small summer¬ 
house in the yard. The vegetable garden 
is along the path to the chicken house and 
garage. 
The chicken house is 8 by 10 feet on the 
ground, 6 feet to the eaves in front, four 
in the rear. It is a combination of the open 
front house and tight roosting closet. The 
building is made of matched lumber, tight 
on roof, ends, back and half the front. 
It is covered snugly over the entire surface 
outside with roofing paper to make it abso¬ 
lutely wind and water-proof. 
The building faces the south, and the 
east end was taken for the roosting closet 
as this was the half having a tight front. 
Four feet from the east wall a wire net¬ 
ting partition was constructed having a 
door at the south end for the attendant’s 
use and a tiny one for the hens’ use. A 
heavy burlap curtain was hung at the top 
to drop down outside the netting on ex¬ 
tremely cold nights for protection against 
the cold. 
Two feet from the floor, which was of 
dirt, was the droppings platform, made of 
thin boards. It was hinged to the back 
wall and suspended from the ceiling, at the 
front end, by means of iron chains, so that 
it might be lifted and secured to the ceiling 
by day, that the fowls on the floor might 
have all the sunlight from the window. 
This window was so arranged that when it 
was raised, the droppings could be easily 
scraped from the board out through the 
window, the whole operation taking but a 
moment’s time each morning. A specially 
bent hoe was used as a scraper. The 
perches, three in number, were arranged on 
crosspieces, the back one hinged to the 
wall four inches above the dropping board, 
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