House and Garden 
$5 Now Saves 
$2.50 Later 
W HEN we first announced that the price of McClure’s 
would be advanced from Si.oo to $1.50, but that 
we would accept subscriptions for two years at 
$2.00 or five years at $5.00, among the first replies were three 
from three eager subscribers who sent us ten dollars for ten 
years. We took them, and if anyone else insists we will give 
him ten years for ten dollars. 
A GREAT MANY READERS OF McCLURE’S who would rather pay 
Si. 50 a year than do without McClure’s have nevertheless taken advantage 
of our offer to get the magazine at the old rate for a little while longer. 
IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE who read and like McClure’s, and have 
not yet sent in your subscription, do so now for at least one year. This 
offer holds good only a short time longer. S5.00 sent to-day will buy 
in subscriptions to McClure’s Magazine what will cost $7.50 a little later. 
The subscribers who sent ten dollars are saving five dollars and insuring 
a monthly visit from the best and most generous all-around magazine 
published. 
WE HAVE ALWAYS GIVEN SOMETHING more than a dollar maga¬ 
zine when McClure’s was a dollar. We will give something more than a 
dollar-and-a-half magazine now that McClure’s is $1.50. The point is, 
send the money—S2.00 or S5.00—to-day. 
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MR. C. H. FORBES=LINDSAY 
has been bitterly attacked because he dared, before President 
Roosevelt visited the isthmus, to say that our work at Panama 
has been well done. 
The facts about the canal and its romantic history are ready 
for you in his book : 
PANAMA 
The Isthmus and the Canal 
Cloth, 368 pp., 16 illustrations, 2 maps from latest surveys. 
ONE DOLLAR NET 
At all bookstores. 
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO., Publishers. Philadelphia 
are harmless. It is, however, poor 
policy for the sower to buy a red clover 
seed that is less than 98 per cent pure. 
The best grades of alsike clover will run 
about 98.5 per cent pure on the average. 
It is doubtful if the purchaser should buy 
an alsike whose purity is less than 97.5 
per cent. 
Redtop is the most difficult seed of 
all. It will, of course, contain more or 
less chaff. It is difficult to grow redtop 
free from timothy, and the seed cleaners 
find it difficult to separate timothy seed 
from redtop after it has once been intro¬ 
duced. Samples of redtop carrying as 
high as 12 or even 15 per cent of timothy 
are not unusual. If one could be sure 
that the impurities were harmless, like 
chaff and timothy, it might be safe to buy 
a redtop, even as low as 85 per cent pure. 
Unless one is assured of the character of 
the impurities, it is unwise to buy a red- 
top less than 95 per cent pure. 
From the above, it is evident that in 
the judgment of the director of the Ex¬ 
periment Station, it is wise to buy only 
high grade seeds that are comparatively 
pure. Not only are the high grade seeds 
purer, hut they are usually larger, plum¬ 
per and heavier, more of them will ger¬ 
minate, and they make stronger plants. 
\ here is certainly no economy in the 
attempt to save one, two or even five 
cents a pound on the purchase of 
grass seed. Expensive as seed is, it is a 
comparatively small item in seeding 
down, when the cost of labor and fertil¬ 
izer are taken into consideration. 
Chas. D. Woods, Director, Orno, Me. 
— Hoard’s Dairyman. 
THE TAPPER 
T GIVE the story as it was told to me, 
and it was told me for a fact. A 
man fell from a housetop in the city of 
Aberdeen, and was brought into a hospi¬ 
tal with broken bones. He was asked 
what was his trade, and replied that he 
was a tapper. No one had ever heard 
of such a thing before; the officials 
were filled with curiosity; they besought 
an explanation. It appeared that when 
a party of slaters were engaged upon a 
roof they would now and then be taken 
with a fancy for the public house. Now 
a seamstress, for example, might slip 
away from her work, and no one be the 
wiser, but if these fellows adjourned, 
the tapping of the mallets would cease, 
and thus the neighborhood be advertised 
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