HOUSE AND GARDEN 
226 
March, 1913 
WATER 
PLENTY OF !T—AND AT A HIGH PRES- 
A. J. CORCORAN, Inc. 17 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK 
SURE is a luxurious necessity. 
People living in the city never know or realize what a bless¬ 
ing water is at a “high pressure.” Because they have always 
had water without worrying about its source, people when 
building in the country are apt to neglect the question of 
water, until the house is finished. 
Before building, they should remember that nothing is as 
dependable as water, delivered 
by force of gravity, from a 
high pressure tank, and that 
the best tank tower is the 
CORCORAN TANK 
TOWER, and they shou-ld 
also know that the best way 
of getting the water into the 
tank is by means of the COR¬ 
CORAN' WINDMILL. 
Before they build they should 
let CORCORAN submit plans 
and designs, following out the line of architecture which they plan to build 
and show them how attractive a windmill and tank tower can be built in 
conjunction with the house that they are already planning and how the 
space in the bottom part of the tower can be utilized to advantage. 
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The Hundred Per Cent. Garden 
(Continued from page 223) 
a light, gray, ashy appearance. For a 
garden 100 x 50 ft. two to three cords will 
not be too much; and though this may 
seem to you at first glance a large amount 
to spend for plant food for a garden of 
this size, you must remember that from 
one to two hundred dollars worth of 
vegetables can be removed from it during- 
the year, if it is producing up to its maxi¬ 
mum capacity; and it will pay you much 
better to have it do that than to be getting 
half-crops from it, with just as much 
money spent in preparing the soil, plant¬ 
ing, cultivating and looking out for it. 
Have this manure packed in one or two> 
convenient piles until you are ready to> 
have the ground plowed or spaded, which¬ 
ever the case may be. 
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reliance in commercial fertilizers, try to> 
pick out a place for your garden which 
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to a large extent take the place of the 
humus furnished by the manure. Most 
garden crops require what is termed a 
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potash. A fertilizer approximating this, 
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