HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 191 
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Better Quality 
ET the example of 300,000 housewives, vegetable 
growers, fruit growers, farmers, be your guide 
iu getting a bigger quantity of better quality 
fruit, vegetables, flowers, this year. 
Write for the book that will show you why Government 
Experiment Stations use and recommend. Brown’s Auto 
Sprays — and endorse their new , thorough way of spraying. 
Brown’s Auto Sprays and patented nozzles work quicker, 
easier, give greater results with great saving of solution. 
Rid your fields, 
gardens, orchards and 
shrubbery of blight, disease 
and insects that cut down quality 
and quantity of yields, destroy plant life and kill 
trees. Make every plant, shrub and tree strong, 
healthy —a big producer. 
The Brown’s Auto Spray here pictured is a 
Brown’s Auto Spray No. 1—4 gal. capacity— 
hand power with Brown’s Patent Auto-Pop 
Nozzle that throws every kind of spray, from 
mistlike spray to powerful stream. Easy to 
carry it over shoulder. Needs least pumping. 
With one No. 1 a boy can outwork 3 men 
with ordinary outfits. See it at your dealer’s. 
Get our Valuable CD|7|7 
Spraying Guide X l\LiH 
We make 40 styles of sprays—prices from 
50 cents to $300.00. Both hand and power 
outfits for all purposes. Write for complete 
catalog—and spraying guide. 
Non-Clog 
Atomic Nozzle 
—used on large sprayers 
—is the greatest saver of 
time, labor and solution ever in¬ 
vented. Simply cannot clog;. 
In stantly adjustable from mistlike 
spray to strong, drenching stream 
— actually four nozzles in one. V 
Absolutely self-cleaning. So supe¬ 
rior that one dealer alone has sold ' 
over 501)0 of this one style of nozzle. x 
Send postal now for valuable Spray¬ 
ing Guide—and for prices. 
The E. C. Brown Co. 
851 Maple St. Rochester, N. Y. 
Decay-proof and Cyclone-proof 
. . . ‘ 'always been favorable to your Stains and used them on my 
own home. The cyclone destroyed the place last March, and in 
going over the wreckage found that the shingles not blown away are 
as good as new, although they had been on the house thirteen 
years last January. In that time they were given two coats 
of Cabot's, when the house was built, and two coats about six 
years ago. ” R. W. Koch, Omaha, Neb., May 20, 1913. 
Cabot’s Creosote Stains 
thoroughly preserve shingles and all other woodwork, and give 
soft, velvety colorings that wear as well as the best paint, al¬ 
though the cost is only half as much. They are made of the finest 
and strongest colors, ground in pure linseed oil, and the liquid is 
refined Creosote, “the best wood preservative known. ” No kero¬ 
sene or benzine, no crude or tawdry colors, no washing off—but 
be sure to get Cabot’s and not a cheapened substitute. 
You can get Cabot’s Stains all over the country. Send 
for stained wood samples, and name of nearest agent. 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Manfg. Chemists 
11 Oliver St., Boston, Mass. 
Stained with Cabot's Shingle Stains. 
Wilson Eyre, Architect, Philadelphia. 
plants, such as too high a temperature, 
neglect in watering, too close atmosphere, 
dark corners, will favor its rapid develop¬ 
ment. This is one of the sucking insects, 
and cannot be poisoned. If, from former 
experience, you have reason to think that 
you will be troubled with aphis, get a 
supply of strong tobacco dust made for 
this purpose, and keep it sprinkled on the 
ground and on the surface of the seed 
boxes between the plants, as well as on the 
foliage. In the event of the plant pest be¬ 
coming established, strong nicotine sprav 
is the best remedy. 
As the days lengthen and the sun climbs 
higher and the urge to he out-of-doors 
gets more insistent in one's veins, there 
are some things which need attention be¬ 
fore any planting can be done. First, the 
garden itself must be thoroughly cleaned. 
Rubbish of any kind should be picked lip; 
old cabbage or old cornstalks, as soon as 
the ground loosens up enough to get them 
out, had better be got out of the way, espe¬ 
cially if the garden has to be dug or 
spaded instead of plowed, as it is difficult 
to get them in and under. Old bean poles, 
tomato poles, melon vines, and so forth, 
all help to make harboring places for in¬ 
sects and disease spores. Everything that 
you do not need to use again should be 
burned. Not only the garden itself, but 
any untidy corners near it where weeds 
may have grown and died down, making 
an ideal bug reserve, should also he 
cleaned up with fire and steel rake. The 
asparagus bed and the raspberry bed and 
the raspberry patch, if near the vegetable 
garden, are frequently prolific sources of 
trouble, and they should also come in for 
an overhauling. 
The question that bobs up at this time 
of the year is: “How early can I begin to 
dig?” There is such a thing as begin¬ 
ning too soon. Nothing is to be gained by 
it; in fact, you may actually injure the soil 
by being hasty. Some soils may be dug 
as soon as the frost gets out of it. Others 
will remain too wet and sticky for some 
time afterwards; this depends largely up¬ 
on how good the drainage is and also upon 
the character and the physical condition 
of the soil. A cold, wet spring may delay 
things for a couple of weeks even after 
the frost has gone. There is, however, 
one safe rule to follow: the ground can 
never be well worked while it is in wet 
and sticky condition. If it sticks to your 
spade or falls from it in pasty lumps, you 
mav be sure that you should let it alone 
for a while. When the soil is turned over, 
whether you use a spade or a plow, it 
should leave it clean and dry, the lumps 
breaking apart readily when hit with the 
foot or the back of the spade. Some soils 
seem wet and sticky and of an unfavor¬ 
able temper when in reality they are not, 
merely because they have not been proper¬ 
ly drained. 
There are two or three weeks in the 
season in which the ground can be got 
into proper shape in the spring. Ground 
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