HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 
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youngsters. Will they return next spring? 
If they do they will not only find their 
little home waiting for them on the honey¬ 
suckle-clad post, but they will find many 
other such posts in neighboring yards, for 
the idea has caught on, and the neighbors 
are now starting honeysuckle sprouts all 
around their clothes-line posts. 
Which posts would you rather have in 
your yard — the one in the foreground, 
with its pretty green dress, or those just 
back of it, which illustrate how the former 
looked before being dressed up? 
Your Saturday Afternoon Garden 
(Continued from page 337) 
too much or scatter it so that it stays on 
the leaves in lumps, you may damage some 
crops with it. 
If a rain comes you should go over the 
ground as soon as it dries, so as to break 
up the crust before the soil hardens. At 
the third or fourth cultivation, when the 
plants are beginning to be of good size, 
but when it is a little difficult to work 
close around them, a little earth may be 
thrown towards them — not enough to 
“hill” them, in the old-fashioned sense of 
the word, but enough to come an inch or 
two up the stalk and to cover up and 
smother any sprouting weeds which the 
hoe may have missed. If the crop is 
growing as it should, most of the space 
between the rows will be covered by the 
spreading leaves, so as to make much fur¬ 
ther cultivation both impossible and un¬ 
necessary. And as long as there is any 
ground visible the centers of the rows 
that can be worked should be gone over 
frequently enough to keep it mellow on 
top. In spite of the best of care, there 
will probably be a few weeds that will 
come through and grow to a luxuriant 
middle age. If they grow so large that 
you cannot pull them without injuring the 
plants near which they are growing, cut 
them off at the roots just below the soil 
before they go to seed. 
Onions and other crops which are sown 
by seed in a continuous drill are not so 
easily cared for. Usually the seed will 
have been sown several times as thick as 
the plants should stand. If the seed is 
strong and conditions have been good, 
more plants than are wanted will appear. 
These should be thinned out at the first 
or second weeding to two inches or so 
apart. The methods to be followed in 
keeping the crops free from the weeds 
must be quite different from those just 
described. As it takes the plants from 
12 to 20 days to come up, it is a good plan 
to rake the ground right over the rows 
very gently with an iron rake. Whether 
this is done or not, as soon as the plants 
have come up far enough for the rows to 
be seen, the wheel-hoe, with a disc attach¬ 
ment if you have it, should be put into 
operation and the rows gone over. A few 
days after this most of the plants will 
be far enough up to be seen, and then the 
important job of “hand-weeding” is in 
This 
is the 
famous 
Goodrich 
Safety Tread 
Note the following table of comparative prices 
on non-skid tires. Columns headed “A,” 
and “D” represent four highly-advertised tires : 
Size 
Goodrich 
OTHER 
MAKES 
Tread 
“A” 
“B” 
“C” 
“D” 
30x3 
30x3)4 
32x3)5 
34x4 
36x4 K 
37x5 
$ 9.45 
12.20 
14.00 
20.35 
28.70 
33.90 
$10.55 
13.35 
15.40 
22.30 
32.15 
39.80 
$10.95 
14.20 
16.30 
23.80 
33.60 
41.80 
$16.35 
21.70 
22.85 
31.15 
41.85 
49.85 
$18.10 
23.60 
25.30 
33.55 
41.40 
52.05 
“All Cats look gray 
-at Night!” 
T HERE are Car Owners who regularly get 25% 
to 50% MORE Mileage , per Dollar invested in 
Tires, than do the Owners of other Cars driven 
with equal care, under equivalent road conditions. 
The latter type of Owner is apt to coincide offhand 
(from his own experience) that all Tires must be Short¬ 
lived and Unsatisfactory. 
N OW that is to tell him that there is as much 
difference between the Mileage and Resilience 
of different brands of Tires, when the facts are 
investigated, and proven through actual Service, as there 
is difference between the Colors of Cats — when viewed 
by Daylight. 
This is to inform him that three Rubber Factories 
using precisely the same quantity and quality of Materials 
might, and sometimes do, produce (through the difference 
in their Rubber EXPERIENCE and efficiency methods) 
Tires with a difference of 1,000 to 2,000 miles average in 
Mileage-delivery. 
a a a 
T HOUGH The B. F. Goodrich Co. can, and does, 
put the most Mileage, per Amount invested by 
the User, into Goodrich Safety-Tread Tires, it 
doesn’t interpret that as a reason why it should charge a 
higher price. 
-— Said higher price being merely to include an 
“Insurance” Premium which would place its “Adjust¬ 
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that bad roads and Careless Driving make necessary. 
B ECAUSE of its Manufacturing Advantages, its 
Precision Methods and Waste-reducing Proc¬ 
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Tires at the fairest Price, per Mile, to the User. 
It sells the standard grade of Goodrich Safety Tires 
at 10% to 40% lower prices than other non-skid brands 
which “Guarantee” but cannot prove delivery of greater 
Mileage in actual use. 
Why pay MORE for any Tire than the Goodrich 
Fair-Listed prices here shown. 
The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio 
Goodrich e 
Tires 
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