HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 
1914 
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MATTER what other methods are em- 
^ ployed for cleaning carpets and rugs, there 
still remains the everyday necessity for a good, 
medium priced, hand propelled carpet sweeper 
that promptly and efficiently gathers up all 
dirt or litter, without noise, dust or effort. The 
housewives of the world attest the superiority of 
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the recognized leader in every country where 
carpets and rugs are used. You can double 
the convenience by having two machines, one 
for upstairs and one for down. The Bissell 
sweeper is the handy, inexpensive cleaning 
device for everyday use. Prices $2.75 to $5.75 
at all dealers. Booklet on request. 
Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. 
Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 
Niagara Falls, 
Cana. 
BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 
Complete collection of Dutch, French and Miscellaneous Bulbs for 
Fall planting. Darwin, Cottage and Dutch Breeder Tulips. Finest 
varieties. Catalogue free on request, j jgi j g -Ji t g d 
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TOGNARELLI & VOIGT CO. 
174S North 12th Street PHILADELPHIA 
Breaking into the Farming 
Business 
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despairingly planted another lot of seeds. 
These came along later, and as their ene¬ 
mies appeared to have exhausted their 
energies on the first batch, grew to be a 
fine lot of plants. In the meantime, how¬ 
ever, the proper season for transplanting 
had come and gone, and I had been forced 
to buy almost all the plants required. 
The first lot of five hundred plants 
which were transplanted were put out in a 
dry spell, and although set out with a great 
deal of care, promptly withered, shriveled 
up and disappeared. I tried them over 
again, this time “mudding” the roots, but 
again they wilted and dried up. Again I 
tried five hundred more in the same holes, 
this time not only “mudding” the roots, 
but pouring water in each hole after the 
roots were inserted. The fifth time that 
I set out that lot of five hundred plants, 
they decided to grow—probably realizing 
that I was really determined that they 
should. This occupied some three weeks, 
and about that time there came a good 
shower, and I was enabled to set out the 
remaining eight thousand plants with but 
few losses, although a little later than 1 
had planned. For a time they grew finely. 
When they were about half-grown, how¬ 
ever. ensued a drought that continued 
without interruption for three long 
months, during which nothing seemed to 
grow properly. I attempted so-called “dry 
weather" methods of farming, keeping up 
frequent cultivation between the rows as 
long as the spreading of the plants would 
allow the cultivator to pass, but in time 
this had to be discontinued, and the crop 
allowed to ripen. 1 may mention, in pass¬ 
ing, the fight with the big green tomato 
worm, which is almost impossible to be 
seen, since it looks exactly like a piece of 
tomato stalk, and is so nasty to crush, for 
it is just about as juicy as a tomato. 
Whole days were spent in looking for 
them, and they could usually be found 
most readily by locating the plants de¬ 
nuded of all foliage. Thousands of them 
were destroyed, however, and finally the 
boat began her trips, and George began 
his daily task of picking the ripe fruit, 
which was kept up till the boat ceased her 
trips. In all we shipped 507 baskets of 
tomatoes, which at 14 cents a basket 
brought in $70.98. Blit the crop had cost 
me for fertilizer, seed, plants, labor, etc., 
something over $85, making my net loss 
something over $14 for the crop. 
In October, when the cannery stopped 
taking tomatoes, my plants were still bear¬ 
ing well. As it seemed a great waste to 
allow such a lot of fine tomatoes to rot in 
the field, I decided to try shipping some 
of the best to a commission house. I 
bought new baskets at about five cents 
each, and George spent the good part of a 
day picking twenty-eight baskets. We 
Let Us 
Care For Your Trees 
W HY cheerfully spend money to buy 
new trees and then begrudge a few 
dollars for the preservation and health 
insurance of those you already have. 
Why promptly repair the decay in any part 
of your buildings and totally neglect the decay 
in your trees? Trees are as much an asset 
as buildings. Price a bald, treeless property; 
and one made beautiful and livable and likable 
by trees. It w 11 put another light on the im¬ 
portance of having us care for your trees. 
It always costs less to care for anything be- 
fore it needs much care. So don’t be putting 
off sending for one of us to come and look 
your trees over and advise as to their con¬ 
dition. 
Let us send you our booklet—“Trees The 
Care They Should Have.,” 
Munson Whitaker Co. 
Forest Engineers 
BOSTON PITTSBURGH NEW YORK 
6441 remont Bldg. 905 Arrott Bldg. 4704thAve. 
CHICAGO 
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In the Well Regulated Home the furnishings are sug¬ 
gestive of culture and refinement. 
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of unusual interest to the judicious home-maker as the odd 
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This Trade-Mark branded into every piece 
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Grand Rapids, Mich. Holland, Mich. 
283 Columbia Avenue 
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