HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 
1914 
185 
24 hours after 
we receive 
your order 
your shipment of 
lighting fixtures 
will be on the 
way to you. 
V e can supply 
you with fixtures 
of any style — 
modern or perhxl 
designs, includ¬ 
ing Colonial. 
English and 
French eras, at a 
reasonable price. 
Sears, Roebuck 
and Co., Chicago 
Immediate 
shipment of 
any fixtures 
that you may 
purchase from 
us, is what we 
promise you. 
Each fixture 
will come to you 
ready to hang— 
completely 
assembled and 
wired, all in one 
piece—thus sav¬ 
ing you expense, 
time and trouble. 
Write for Fixture 
Catalog No. 8447H. 
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No payment accepted unless 
successful. 
tAfl Also expert services on 
/Cu general chimney work. 
FREDERIC N. WHITLEY 
Engineer and Contractor 
| 219 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
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Build Your Home 
“The New Way” 
10% larger bedrooms 
—50% larger ward¬ 
robe capacity. Send 
">0c for Plan Book 
showing 22 Designs. 
JOHN THOMAS 
BATTS, GRAND 
RAPIDS, MICH. 
Open Casements 
from the Inside 
You can get all the benefits of casements 
without removing screens to operate them 
“ Holdfast ” Adjusters 
for casement windows. Operate from the 
inside and lock positively in any one of 
nine positions. Made in any finish. Write 
for “Booklet” today. 
Casement Hardware Co. 
9 So. Clinton Street Chicago 
had had rain before this time, and the 
tomatoes were quite muddy, so my wife 
and I consumed half a day washing and 
culling them. From the twenty-eight bas¬ 
kets we selected thirteen of the choicest. 
They were all large, solid, well-shaped 
tomatoes, just ready to be eaten, and they 
certainly did look fine. It may have been 
unlucky, however, to send just thirteen 
baskets. They were shipped on Wednes¬ 
day, and on Friday, before I heard the 
result of the first shipment, I shipped nine 
more. On the next Monday I had the re¬ 
turns from my first shipment. It came to 
twenty-seven cents for the lot, and a 
couple of days later I received a solitary 
two-cent stamp as the total return from 
the second shipment. Some of my friends 
thought it was very funny, but I failed to 
see where the joke came in. It appeared 
that my tomatoes were too ripe, and that, 
anyway, there was a glut in the Baltimore 
market. 
About four acres I planted in soja 
beans, the tale of which is a tragedy. 
They started out finely and reached a 
height of about eighteen inches. Had I 
cut them or turned them under then, all 
would have been well, but I had read that 
they should not be cut until they were ‘‘in 
the velvet stage,” so l waited. But the 
dry spell came along about that time, and 
for three months they did not put out an¬ 
other leaf—on the contrary, the few leaves 
that had succeeded in getting a start grew 
yellow, dried up and dropped off, except 
the four or six small ones near the top of 
each plant. A light shower near the end 
of the summer encouraged them suf¬ 
ficiently so that each plant then developed/ 
a few weak, struggling blossoms. A con¬ 
tinuation of the drought caused these also 
to wither and droop without producing any 
beans. They scarcely matured ten beans 
to the acre. The ground became so hard 
that no one would make the attempt to 
plow it, and finally, despairing of their 
ever reaching ‘‘the velvet stage,” I had 
them cut and called the result “hay.” Was 
it fate or only ordinary ill-luck that or¬ 
dained that the very day after I cut them a 
rain started up with my “hay” lying in the 
field, and kept going steadily for threq 
days without a pause ? 
The summer of 1913 was marked, in 
my part of the country at least, by a 
drought extending from the middle of 
June until the middle of September. I 
have heard since that not more than 150 
miles distant there was an almost continu¬ 
ous rainfall for the same period. That 
would have been almost as disastrous to 
crops, and certainly much more dieagree- 
able to endure. Perhaps we should not 
complain. At any rate, I have a good ex¬ 
cuse to offer for the poor financial results 
accruing from most of my crops. I pur¬ 
chased several hundred feet of iron pipe, 
put a hydrant in my vegetable garden, and 
during most of the dry spell spent a couple 
of hours of the evening there several times 
each week irrigating and sprinkling with 
the aid of my well and gasoline engine. 
In the free book shown below, 
there are pictures of dozens of 
houses all over the country, large and 
small, accompanied by letters from 
the owners telling their actual ex¬ 
periences with Vapor-Vacuum Heating 
(Kriebel System). 
This same book also explains in a simple, 
non-technical way just how all these 
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Tt<uXm Mack 
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inexpensive to change over steam, hot-water 
or straight vapor systems to Vapor-Vacuum 
Heating (Kriebel System). 
It does not obligate you in the least to 
get this free book, and you will find in it 
just the information you need to decide 
which is the best heat for your house. 
So send for this book now. 
Vapor-Vacuum Heating Co. 
1211 Walnut Street Philadelphia 
Hybrid Tea Roses 1 
Strong plants established in pots for Fall plant- jj| 
ing. A choice collection of new and standard § 
varieties, also Ramblers and Polyantha. S| 
PEONIES 
This is the right season to plant Peonies. White, Jg 
pink and crimson varieties, strong divisions, ffi 
25c each, $2.00 per dozen. jg 
Hardy old-fashioned garden flowers in fine va- § 
riety. See catalogs, sent free on application. 
WM. TRICKER, Arlington, N. J 
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