House and Garden 
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Makers of Enamels and Varnishes - Philadelphia 
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Prevents Drafts, Dust and Window Rattling. 
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ribs and heavy bed that will not cup, turn or bend in tightening 
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Plan Now Your Garden for 1908 
Our catalogue will be a help to you. It 
is different from others. It is tnailed free. 
H. E. FISKE SEED CO., 
12 and 13 Faneuil Hall Square, Boston, Mass. 
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when handling them in frosty weather. 
When the cold goes down as low as ten 
above zero, cover shutters and all with 
coarse straw or marsh hay. On mild 
days, during the winter, when above 
freezing, remove all covering down to the 
sash, and tilt them for air. Examine 
the plants and remove any dead foliage. 
Towards planting time watch all oppor¬ 
tunities to leave the sash off, so as to 
harden the plants and get them accus¬ 
tomed to moving, generally covering 
with the sash at night, except a few 
nights before removal. The straw or 
marsh hay may he used for bedding in 
the stable as the winter’s use has not hurt 
It. If mice or moles trouble you poison 
some wheat and strew it among the 
plants, hut bury it in the spring on ac¬ 
count of the birds, and also bait common 
mice traps with apples — placing some 
pieces near the trap to give confidence. 
SYMMETRY 
T ORD SELKIRK had a formal 
garden - - an Italian garden, as 
It is called — and his gardener was 
very proud of it. One day. Lord 
Selkirk found a boy shut up in the sum¬ 
mer-house at the end of the terrace 
at St. Alary’s Isle, and was Informed by 
his gardener that it was for stealing ap¬ 
ples. On reaching the other end of the 
terrace, where there was another sum¬ 
mer-house, Selkirk beheld the gardener’s 
son looking dolefully out of the window. 
“ Eh, John, what’s this t Has your boy 
been stealing, too.f” “Na, na, my 
lord,” was the answer; “1 just put him 
in for symmetry .”—Philadelphia Press. 
CALIFORNIA DAIRYMEN 
A LOT of the California dairy farmers 
^ are going out of the business, and 
already there is noticed a shrinkage of 
the butter product owing to this cause. 
No complaint Is made that the business 
is not profitable only that they do not like 
to he confined to their business quite so 
dose. Strangely enough, these farmers 
seem to think that they can work less 
hours and make more money in some 
other line of business. T here is not a 
line of business that ve know of where 
men do not average more hours of con¬ 
finement than is experienced by the dairy 
farmer. T here are no “soft snaps” in 
any trade or vocation if a man follow^s it 
out to its full bent. — Ploard's Dairyman. 
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