HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1913 
Bob White Quail, Partridges and Pheasants 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, 
Babbits, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks, Orna¬ 
mental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, Squirrels, Ferrets, 
etc., and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist 
Dept. Y. Pheasantry and Game Park YARDLEY, PA. 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
The Best Layers 
Are the Best Payers 
To be good layers and good hatchers your 
hens must be healthy. Feed them on Victoria 
Poultry Food, the premier food of the world, 
and you will have hardy, active fowls, good 
layers and sturdy breeders. In season and out 
of season your hens will fill the egg basket. 
Manufactured by 
Spillers and Bakers, Ltd., Cardiff, England 
Send for Sample and Victoria Poultry Book. 
H. A. ROBINSON & CO. 
Importers 
128 Water Street New York City 
Single Comb Buff Leghorns Koyal 
Wh ite Holland Turkeys t R rail f are 
Indian Runner Ducks Ma di!on Square 
Great Dane Dogs Garden Winners 
Some Choice Stock for Sale 
New illustrated catalogue free. Desk M. 
ROYAL FARMS Little Silver, N. J. 
G. D.TILLEY 
Naturalist 
Beautiful Swans, Fancy Pheas¬ 
ants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, 
Flamingoes, Game and Cage Birds 
*'Everything in the bird line from a 
Canary to an Ostrich” 
I am the oldest established and largest exclusive 
dealer in land and water birds in America and have on 
hand the most extensive stock in the United States. 
G. D. TILLEY, Box H, Darien, Connecticut 
Prettiest, Greatest Layers 
of largest white eggs. Most attractive, 
practical fowl in the world (Silver Cam- 
pine) ; just coming into vogue. $5 sitting. 
ORPINGTONS. White, Black. Imported 
(Miss Carey), $5 sitting; $12 100. Ckl., 
$5; laying hens. $3. I won at New York. 
Indianapolis, Trenton. Get “Why I 
Breed Orpingtons and Campines.” 
Dr Thos. Dietrick, Box H, Washington, N.J. 
| Chases Champion a R n ^ s 6 c ^own ESSE! 
again prove to the poultry world, their super-excellent qualities, by winning at the Great Chicago Show, in the 
hottest competition: 6 lsts, 7 2ds, 3 3ds, 1 4th and 3 5ths. Beyond doubt we stand head and hands above all 
our competitors, as we have been winning for years at the best shows in the country, also supply winners for 
our customers. We are offering for sale 1,000 cocks, hens, pullets, and cockerels. Some of these birds will 
win in the best of competition, others will make the best of breeders and layers. Remember, all stock sent 
on approval. You must be pleased or the deal will cost you nothing 40 breeding pens have been mated 
for egg trade; therefore, we can supply them in any number We have installed a large incubator, so your 
order for day old chicks can be filled for any number. All eggs guaranteed fertile. 
We will replace dead chicks free. We have a 
SPECIAL PROPOSITION 
If you are going to start raising 
e at once, as we do not require all 
to offer every honest person interested in poultry, 
poultry, or want more stock, eggs, or chicks, write to m 
cash with order. Our big catalog and poultry book, full of good practical poultry knowledge, sent for 5 red 
stamps. Price and mating list free. 
EDGEMONT POULTRY FARM, W.O.CHASE » HILLSBORO, 
ILLINOIS. 
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Issued by Housewives Founder and National President and Consumers 
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We defined our aims in our first number. In case you did not read that number we want to repeat them, 
to state again our platform and give our pledge to all— alike to members and non-members —who have the 
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record here with platform and pledge as follows: 
OUR PLATFORM 
To organize the housewives of America for educational, constructive and defensive work for the home. 
To demand and obtain fair prices for all commodities. 
To bring together the producer and consumer with this object in view. To obtain clean shops. To demand 
and obtain pure products which are what they claim to be. In short, to work for honesty, quality, efficiency 
and a square deal for all. So much for our platform; now for our pledge which is as new and unique, we ! 
think, as the Magazine itself. 
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their editorial policies are of necessity controlled by business interests. 
Our editorial policies are under’ no such control. They are dictated by the National Central Council of j 
the Iio_use\vives_ League and solely in the interest of the H'ousewiyes of America._ 
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Conducted by N. Hudson Moore 
Questions will be cheerfully answered by 
the writer of this department. Letters 
calling for a personal answer should con¬ 
tain postage for reply. 
I N the entire range of domestic articles 
the chest undoubtedly stood first. It 
was easily made, it served the triple pur¬ 
pose of a seat by day, a bed by night, and 
always a repository of the family wealth, 
which might not be reckoned by gold or 
jewels, but in a more precious commodity 
to the struggling settlers, seed wheat. I 
The chest served as seat, bed, and repository 
for the family wealth 
find a record from Jericho, L. I., where 
two sisters complain that their chest had 
been broken open and the wheat stolen 
therefrom. Chests were not only of vary¬ 
ing sizes, but they might stand flat on the 
ground or be raised on legs; they might 
be carved or painted, and, finally, they 
acquired drawers — one, two, or three. 
The chests shown are Connecticut pat¬ 
tern, from the fact that so many of these 
chests have been found in Hartford 
County, Conn. The lids, backs, and bot¬ 
toms of the chests are commonly of yel¬ 
low pine, the front and sides of oak, and 
the decoration is almost identical on the 
different chests, the center panel showing 
a conventional sunflower, and the ends a 
pattern derived from the tulip. The split 
Split balustrades and egg drops are character¬ 
istic of all Connecticut chests 
balusters and egg drops are seen on all 
pieces, and these, as well as the moldings, 
are always stained black, sometimes show¬ 
ing traces of red, in imitation of cedar. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
