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House & Garden 
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I 
I F you expect to build 
a garage to accom¬ 
modate more than one 
automobile, i t s conve¬ 
nience will be greatly in¬ 
creased if the doors are 
hung so that all can be 
open at once. 
STANLEY 
HARDWARE 
provides this convenience. 
It is a complete line of 
Builders’ Hardware de¬ 
signed especially for garage 
use. It includes hinges, door 
holders, latches and bolts 
suited to garages of all sizes, 
costs and types of construc¬ 
tion. ■ 
Stanley Garage Door Holders, 
No. 1774, keep doors from slam¬ 
ming against each other, or 
against the outgoing and incom¬ 
ing cars. 
When planning your garage 
the Stanley Garage Hard¬ 
ware Catalog H-6 will be 
helpful. Send for it today. 
THE STANI.EY WORKS 
New Britain* Conn.* IJ. S. A. 
NEW YORK : : : CHICAGO 
LANDSCAPE 
ENGINEERING 
LANDSCAPE 
ARCHITECTURE 
.for 
City homes, Country homes 
Estates, Farms 
GLEN BROTHERS 
Glenwood Nurseries, Est. 1866 
1774 Main St., Rochester, N.Y. 
Trees, 
Evergreens, 
Shrubbery, 
Ask for Catalog A-4 
WM. H. MOON 
COMPANY 
Morrisville, Pa. 
Marshall’s Matchless 
SEEDS 
and BULBS 
Our 1917 catalogue con¬ 
taining 96 pages, will 
be mailed free on request 
W. E. MARSHALL & CO. 
Seedsmen 
166 West 23d St., New York 
Green Lawns and Grass Seed for Every State 
{Continued from page 74) 
make another application of the seed. 
The seed should be lightly raked in 
and then rolled. 
From the time the seed is placed in 
the ground the lawn will require 
careful persistent attention. 
When the grass first comes up and 
reaches a height sufficient to allow 
walking upon it without crushing the 
young plants into the earth, one 
should go carefully over the ground 
and remove all weeds that have ap¬ 
peared with the grass. Wdiatever 
weeds were present in the seed will 
appear at this time. They are easy 
to eradicate when the grass is young 
and sparse. Their removal also aids 
the new grass plants to gain a good 
foothold and make a rapid growth. 
The weeds if left to grow at this time 
may develop into pests that are most 
difficult to eradicate. 
Pointers on Care 
The first cuttings with the mower 
should not leave the young plants too 
closely clipped. Alake a liberal allow¬ 
ance of height for the plants and clip 
only to prevent the formation of seed. 
Never let your grass go to seed, be¬ 
cause seed formation has a very 
deleterious effect upon all lawn 
grasses. Later when the grass is well 
started the mower may be set closer 
and the cuttings made shorter. It 
is well to leave the clippings from the 
first few cuttings upon the lawn; in 
fact, it is good practice to leave all of 
the clippings there. They will act as 
a mulch and will prevent the growth 
of some weeds besides conserving the 
moisture in the soil. Later on, if 
desired, a grass catcher may be used 
upon the mower. 
■ Do not sprinkle your lawn—water 
it. Sprinkling as it is usually done 
is a useless and a senseless practice 
which often causes injury to the 
grass and rarely does any good. If 
310 U have budded your lawn with due 
regard to fundamental principles the 
grass will grow well even during dry 
periods without daily sprinklings. In 
fact, the average rainfall in most 
localities is sufficient for good 
growth. When water must be ap¬ 
plied, let the hose lie upon the ground 
and thoroughly soak one spot before 
moving it on to another. This thor¬ 
ough soaking will require that the 
water be left to run an hour or more 
upon one place. 
Weeds are apt to be present in con¬ 
siderable quantity in your lawn. Do 
not put off the time for their eradica¬ 
tion. Take active measures from the 
very first to remove them. If you 
are trying to build a lawn next to a 
vacant lot or near a roadside that 
produces a splendid crop of dande¬ 
lion seed for distribution, you are 
waging a losing fight. 
If a small amount of dandelions are 
present in the lawn it is best to dig 
them by hand. When large areas are 
badly infested the Minnesota Experi¬ 
ment Station recommends the use of 
iron sulphate. One and one-half 
pounds of iron sulphate to one gallon 
of water should be applied with a 
fine, m.istlike spray. An ordinary 
sprinkler will not do; the mixture 
should be applied with a sprayer. Do 
not cut or water the lawn for three 
days after this application. The 
spraying should be repeated every 
month during the summer. Care 
should be taken in applying iron sul¬ 
phate, because it will discolor cloth¬ 
ing and cement walks. 
Crab grass, plantains, and other 
weeds require persistent hand digging 
supplemented with, ideal conditions 
for the growth of grass which will 
eventually crowd out the intruders. 
The lawn should be rolled early 
each spring. This brings the roots 
into good contact with the soil and 
removes irregularities caused by heav¬ 
ing due to frost. Seed should be 
sown upon all spots that are not well 
filled with grass. This constant sow¬ 
ing se.ed even after the lawn is estab¬ 
lished is essential to the perpetuation 
of a thick, uniform sod. Only the 
pure unmixed seed of your major 
variety should be sown at this time. 
To maintain the fertility of the 
lawn at a high degree, spring applica¬ 
tions of bone meal should be made at 
a rate of 750 pounds per acre. Save 
the hardwood ashes from your fire¬ 
place and scatter them upon the lawn. 
In the autumn sprinkle the lawn with 
well rotted stable manure. This pro¬ 
tects the lawn from alternate freez¬ 
ing and thawing and is a valuable 
source of plant food. The manure 
should be well rotted because fresh 
manure contains many viable weed 
seeds. 
Putting The Farm On A War Footing 
(Continued from page 17) 
acres, each person so engaged here has 
had to look out for 9.3 acres. We have 
the added advantage of using more 
machinery, and as a matter of fact, 
the American farmer actually pro¬ 
duces times as much as the man 
behind the plow in Germany. Never¬ 
theless, when we are getting an aver¬ 
age yield of under 100 bushels per 
acre of potatoes, while in Germany 
they make more than 300, it is time 
for us to sit up and ask “Why?” 
One answer is that in Germany they 
use something like seven times as 
much fertilizer per acre as we do 
here. We have been depending upon 
South America for our nitrogen, in 
the form of nitrate of soda, and upon 
Germany for our potash, in the form 
of muriate and sulphate of potash, 
while we have done nothing to de¬ 
velop our own potash industry, either 
from the soil or from the sea where 
there is an unlimited amount of kelp 
or giant seaweed capable of being 
made into agricultural potash. It is 
conservatively estimated that the use 
of lime and fertilizer materials in the 
sections where they are most needed. 
would result in a 25% increase of 
crop production in two years. Under 
our present system of distribution, 
however, such an improvement would 
bring no prosperity to the farmer. It 
would mean ruin for thousands be¬ 
cause of the decline in prices which 
would result. 
War on Insects and Diseases 
There is another way in which by 
using the material and information 
we already have at hand we can take 
a long step towards helping produc¬ 
tion—that is, the fight against insects 
and disease. Take, for instance, the 
no longer humble potato. Diseases of 
a preventable character usually reduce 
this crop from a bushel to half a 
bushel for every man, woman and 
child in the country. This is one of 
the many agricultural calamities 
which has been going on unheeded 
year after year. The annual losses 
due to animal and poultry diseases 
amount to $200,000,000. Though this 
item could not be entirely wiped out, 
by far the better part of it could be 
Ifoulnsure %ur House 
WhyNotlibur Garden? 
^ A few weeks’ dry weather 
B at the critical period, may 
lose you the time, money 
B and labor put into the gar- 
_ den. A few dollars invested 
B in an efficient irrigation out- 
_ fit will insure you against 
® this loss and increase your 
■■ crops enough to pay for it- 
" self. 
Campbell Oscillator 
Ideal for GardenUse 
Gives fine, rain-like shower, 
thoroughly watering the ground 
but not injuring the tenderest 
plants. Distributes water evenly, 
on one or both sides of machine 
as desired, in straight rows—but 
does not pack the soil. Light in 
weight, easily moved, quickly 
adjustable, simple and durable. 
Write for our booklet, •'Arti¬ 
ficial Eain,” describing full 
line of irrigation devices at 
prices to fit every purse. 
The George W. Clark 
Company 
259-C Fifth Avenue 
New York City 
“Seeds with a Lineage” 
Send for catalog “Garden and Lawn.” 
Carters Tested Seeds, Inc. 
127Chamber of Commerce Bldg. 
Boston^ Mass. 
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The whole operation of opening, closing, bow¬ 
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tirely within your room if you use the 
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It is easily and quickly installed on any new 
or old dwelling at a small cost and saves rais¬ 
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eliminates slam¬ 
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