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Moons’ Evergreens will Hide Drying Clothes 
and Other Objectionable Views 
HPHE stock we have contains a large assortment of varieties in varied sizes. Many of these trees 
are large enough for immediate results — as were those used in this planting—which in eight¬ 
een months produced the results here shown, tjf Evergreens can be planted now. and Moons’ have 
them for every place and purpose. Catalogue, profusely illustrating Evergreens and other Hardy 
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THE WILLIAM H. MOON COMPANY 
PHILADELPHIA OFFICE: 
Room D, 21 S. 12th Street 
Makefield Place, MORRIS VILLE, PA, 
my business affairs to run, and therefore 
plant nothing in my garden that cannot 
be weeded wholesale with a wheel hoe. 
The selection is exclusively broad-leaved, 
hardy vegetables, good weed-fighters in 
themselves, and, at that, the heap of husky 
weeds that you will pull up and pile in 
the compost heap during your morning 
and evening walks in the garden will more 
than fill a wagon load. 
Celery, potatoes, onions, oyster plant, 
brussels sprouts, cabbages, cauliflower and 
even peas (unless you have a wire net for 
them) are a nuisance, and to succeed re¬ 
quire the exclusive attention of a gardener. 
All of them have to be monkeyed with in 
one way or another a great deal too much 
for the business man to bother about, and 
the grocer charges so little for them in 
season that they do not repay for your 
labor. 
And, for the land’s sake, do not let any 
squashes or pumpkins or melons get loose 
in your garden, or they will own it in a 
month, and you will get one pumpkin in 
return for smothering fifty dishes of beets 
or beans, to say nothing of the pernicious 
habit of these vines of sprawling all over 
the place, making it impossible to run the 
wheel hoe and inviting an epidemic of 
weeds. 
This plan suited me pretty well, and in 
mid-January the seeds were ordered and 
meanwhile the barn was finished. As 
fresh eggs had climbed to 72 cents a dozen, 
I saw no reason why a wing should not be 
added to the west side of the barn, making 
a 6 x 6-foot chicken house 8 feet high, 
and having a 6 x 36-foot runway along 
the west privet hedge as far as the black¬ 
berries. So I set about it, building it on 
the same architectural treatment as the 
barn, and by mid-February it became the 
abode of ten laying hens and a rooster. 
These were farm-yard Orpington stock, 
costing me a $10 bill for the outfit. For 
I have always had a horror of fancy poul¬ 
try stock, at $1 an egg. They are grand 
chickens, I’ll admit; and lay a marvelous 
egg; granted — when they lay. Ten barn¬ 
yard chicks begin to return an investment 
on your $10 at once; they are not nervous 
about people, dogs and horses being about, 
for they always have been accustomed to 
being handled (and sometimes booted) 
around, and they always require no par¬ 
ticular inducement beyond table scraps 
and a little whole corn to begin laying six 
eggs a day right off. And six eggs a 
day is exactly the consumption of our 
enterprising family. There is no money in 
poultry — verily; but there is in just plain 
chickens; in our case 36 cents a day. 
There are a variety of nuisances which 
follow in the train of the festive hen, but 
a little planning ahead will circumvent 
most of them. One is Biddy’s tendency 
to fly over the moon. Cut wings are all 
right, but they grow out again far too soon 
for the busy commuter to keep up with, 
wherefore the long, narrow chicken run, 
6 feet x 36 feet, with a wire roof over- 
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