I HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1913 
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KENNEL DEPARTMENT 
The Paramount 
Dog Food 
Keeps Your Dogs in Condition 
the Year Round 
Are your dogs thriving as they should ? If not, try OSOKO- 
A good, solid, common sense dog food, composed of fine 
beef and high grade materials, with all the nutriment left in 
it. Absolutely pure and free from chemicals, appetizing spices 
or other harmful substances. 
Do not forget the name “O-S-O-K-O.” 
Manufactured by 
Spillers & Bakers, Ltd,, Cardiff, England 
Send for sample and Booklet No. 10 
H. A. Robinson & Co. 
Importers 
128 Water Street New York City 
Delight the children with a 
Shetland Pony 
—an unceasing source of pleas¬ 
ure, a safe and ideal playmate. 
Makes the child strong and ro¬ 
bust. Inexpensive to buy and 
keep. Highest types here. Com¬ 
plete outfits. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. Write for illustrated 
catalogue. 
BELLE MEADE FARM 
Box 3 Markham, "Vs, 
THE BEST DOG 
for a companion or watchdog- is the Collie. 
Alert, intelligent, _ faithful, handsome; he 
meets every requirement. We have some 
fine specimens to sell at low prices. Send for copy of 
"Training the Collie,” price 25c. We are selling many 
fine dogs. 
FRANK R, CLARK, Sunnybrae Kennels, Bloomington, Ills. 
BEAUTIFUL CATS AND 
FLUFFY KITTENS FOR SALE 
Short-haired Domestic, Rare Ifanx- 
Siamese and Abyssinian, Native long¬ 
haired and pedigreed Persians. Ideal 
place for Cats, Dogs and 
Veterinarian. Write 
illustrated Catalogue 
BLACK SHORT HAIRED CATTERY, 
Oradell, N. J. 
AIRDALE TERRIERS 
The best all 'round dog and companion 
Our Terriers are blue nbbon winners at 
New York, Boston, Pittsburg, Chicago. 
Kansas City and other large shows. 
Puppies for Sale, $25 and Up. 
Champion Red Raven at Stud. 
Fee $25. The greatest living sire. 
Beautiful illustrated booklet for stamp 
ELMHURST FARM KENNELS 
Sta. E. KANSAS CITY. MO. 
WHITE SGOTGH COLLIES 
No country home is finished, no family 
circle complete without a big, brave dog, 
and the Scotch Collie is the ideal home 
dog. Mothers are at ease when a sleepless, faithful, fearless Collie follows the 
children on their rambles in the country. Fathers know that the tireless, vigorous 
playmate of the children will keep them out doors and doctors' and druggists’ 
bills out of sight. Young ladies know that white Collies are the most beautiful, 
graceful, and sympathetic aristocrats of dogdom. Little girls 
love their gentle ways. Boys swear by them because they know 
a Collie is ALL DOG ALL THE TIME. The tired business 
man, disgusted with the shams and trickery of the world, has 
his faith renewed every time he looks into the face of his faith¬ 
ful Collie. The entire household regard him ONE OF THE 
FAMILY. On the farm he is the first to detect trouble of any 
kind, drives away all two and four-legged enemies, and saves 
hours of labor by herding the cattle and sheep. White Collies 
are very rare ana extremely beautiful. Ours are country-raised 
(out on an island) hardy, healthy and rugged, requiring no 
artificial heat in winter. Pedigree stock only. A pair will raise 
more than $150.00 worth of puppies a year. We ship anywhere 
in North America. 
THE ISLAND WHITE KENNELS. OSHKOSH, WTS. 
OLD DOMINION LINE 
SHORT SEA TRIPS—DELIGHTFUL WEEK ENDS IN THE SUNNY SOUTH 
A Trip Over Night to Old Point Comfort, Norfolk and Richmond, Va. 
.p f 
New York to Norfolk 
and Old Point Comfort, 
Va., and return 
$14.00 
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to Richmond, Va., 
and return 
$15.00 
Tickets include meals 
and stateroom 
berth. 
The Only Direct Line to OLD POINT COMFORT and NOR¬ 
FOLK Without Change 
Hot or Cold Sea Water Baths can be Procured on Steamer Without Charge 
Steamers are all Equipped with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph System. 
STEAMERS SAIL EVERY WEEKDAY AT 3 P. M. 
Tickets and Stateroom Reservations, Pier 25, North River, Foot of North Moore Street, New York. 
Phone 3900 Franklin Send for Illustrated Pamphlet, Desk L 
W. L. WOO-DROW, Traffic Manager. J. J. BROWN, General Passenger Agent. 
The Collector’s Corner 
Conducted by N. Hudson Moore 
Questions will be cheerfully answered by 
the writer of this department. Letters 
calling for a personal ansiver should con¬ 
tain postage for reply. 
CONCERNING OLD BLUE CHINA 
T HE writer of this department has had 
a small deluge of letters regarding 
Old Blue China since the note on the 
platter of “New York from Brooklyn 
Heights” was published. Many an owner 
of a piece of old blue, no matter by whom 
made or of what pattern, has jumped to 
the conclusion that his piece was a treas¬ 
ure, and has had to be undeceived. 
In the first place, this blue ware, prop¬ 
erly speaking, is not china; it is earthen¬ 
ware, which in the biscuit state is too por¬ 
ous for domestic uses and has to receive 
a coat of glaze. Most earthenware is 
opaque, while porcelain is translucent. 
Semi-china is earthenware with a white or 
chalk body, highly glazed, and made to 
look as much like porcelain as possible; 
a fake, in fact. Stoneware is a very hard 
pottery more like porcelain than earthen¬ 
ware and capable of being used without 
being glazed. It is frequently found 
glazed, however, and the glaze employed 
is commonly salt thrown in the kiln while 
the ware is being fired. 
A plate by Adams that is worth but fifty 
cents 
Now, the earthenware which has on it 
the patterns in dark blue, whether historic 
or commercial, was made to be sold at a 
small price. The blue, cobalt, was cheap, 
effective and so dark that it covered all 
the defects in the earthenware. The pat¬ 
terns were printed on by a method in¬ 
vented by Sadler and Green, two Liver¬ 
pool potters in 1756, and for some years 
they printed for other potteries as well as 
for themselves, even Wedgwood employ¬ 
ing them. By degrees the secret became 
known and “the potteries” in the district 
in Staffordshire comprising the towns of 
Tunstall, Hanley, Burslem, Stroke, Long- 
ton and Fenton, all took up the method. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
