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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1913 
Don't have tracks of 
misuse on your floors 
l^EEP them free from scars and 
mars and grooves and dents 
due to hard-wheel casters by using 
scratchless, noiseless, marless 
u 
FELTOID 
Casters and Tips 
They prevent furniture from ruining hardwood 
floors and mutilating rugs. Hard-wheel casters 
cut and gouge. You can’t afford to use them. 
“Feltoid” Casters and Tips are made of a 
specially treated material. They are hard—wear 
indefinitely — yet have a tread as smooth as silk. 
When you buy new furniture, see that it is 
shod with “Feltoid.” “Feltoid” all your 
furniture. 
Sold at Hardware and Furniture Stores 
Write for the “Feltoid" Book 
No. 12 , showing"Feltoids” 
for all kinds of furniture. 
The Burns & Bassick 
Company 
Dept. X 
Bridgeport, 
Connecticut 
Moth-Proof Cedar Chest p Days’ | 
A Piedmont Southern Red Cedar Chest placed in your & Frc® 
home on 15 days’ free trial. Special spring offer. Pro- Trial 
tect furs and woolens from moths, mice, dust and damp- 
Direct from factory at factory prices. Freight prepaid. 
Tj . 17-^v^ Write for 64-page finely illustrated catalog and book, 
BOOK rree “Storyof Red Cedar.” Postpaid, free. Write today 
Piedmont Red Cedar Chest Co., Dept. 134, Statesville, N.C. 
pressure and connected to pipes of small 
diameter. The plant for connecting the 
source of supply with the house is very 
simple and may be placed either outdoors 
or in the house itself. All that is necessary 
to make use of this gas is to connect up a 
new steel cylinder when the gauge shows 
that the supply is low. 
To all these independent gas systems 
may be applied the instructions and the 
warnings given heretofore, since fixtures 
of many sorts are procurable for all 
burners. 
For the city supply of electric light the 
country dweller may substitute the inde¬ 
pendent electric light plant which may be 
installed in the cellar or an adjacent out¬ 
building. The equipment usually consists 
of a gasoline engine, a dynamo, switch¬ 
board and storage battery. The engine is 
run for a short time each day to work the 
dynamo and generate electric current 
which is stored up in the batteries for use 
at night. This plan may be alternated and 
the electric energy from the dynamo used 
to supply current direct to the lights and 
the batteries simply maintained as an aux¬ 
iliary supply. Storage batteries are pro¬ 
curable which may be charged with suf¬ 
ficient current to light the house for ordi¬ 
nary use for as much as six or seven lights. 
A special advantage for the electric sys¬ 
tem is its adaptability for power supply. 
The engine may be used to pump water, 
drive a motor or furnish the power for 
various uses upon the country place. 
The less carefully refined gasoline — 
usually sixty-eight degree — is used as 
fuel and costs only from eight to ten 
cents a gallon when bought by the barrel, 
at which rate it is figured that the cost per 
sixteen-candlepower light per hour is about 
one-tenth of a cent. With the greater 
economy of the tungsten lamps this would 
be materially reduced. In figuring the 
size engine required, a ten-horsepower en¬ 
gine can operate one hundred sixteen- 
candlepower lights. Where there is less 
current demanded in a small cottage or 
bungalow a generator of but two horse¬ 
power may be procurable that will operate 
eight sixteen-candlepower lights for eight 
hours, or eleven lights for five hours. 
The Hundred Per Cent Garden 
(Continued from page 291) 
sow much more thickly than the amount of 
space in the row required by the plants 
would indicate to the uninitiated. For in¬ 
stance, from five to twelve onion seeds to 
the inch are put in when sowing the usual 
amount to the acre, and yet the onions are 
wanted only two or three inches apart. 
Experience will show that this is the only 
way of making certain of full rows. Some 
seed will fail to germinate, some that ger¬ 
minate will, on account of one accident or 
another, fail to make plants. And fungous 
diseases and other enemies of your gar¬ 
den are sure to get a few more. So you 
will see that when the seedsman tells you 
to put five to eight squash seeds or eight 
to fifteen cucumber or muskmelon seeds 
(Continued on page 348) 
Old Hickory 
Furniture 
For your Lawn or Porch—it’s the 
Best in the World. 
Made from sturdy hickory by hand, 
and gives you more comfort than 
you've ever known before. 
Stands more use and abuse than any 
other furniture made. You can’t 
break it. Old Hickory stands expos¬ 
ure, outdoors summer and winter. 
Two simple rules in caring for Old 
Hickory are: “It needs no care.” To 
clean it, “Turn the hose on it.” No 
other furniture will stand this test. 
That's why you should insist upon 
genuine “Old Hickory.” 
See Old Hickory at your dealers or write for Art 
Catalogue. 
The Old Hickory 
Chair Co. 
504 South Cherry St. 
Martinsville,Indiana 
See that this brand is burned in the wood 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
