HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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254 
October, 
1914 
Hardware 
B EAUTY of design combines with quality of 
manufacture to make Sargent Hardware the 
best for every type of building. 
The fine workmanship that distinguishes all Sargent 
Elardware is peculiarly valuable in Sargent Locks. 
Every part is accurately fitted to work easily and 
quietly. They are the finest development of 
correct lock principles. 
There is a Sargent Door Lock suitable to your 
purpose. Ask your dealer about it. 
Sargent Book of Designs 
—mailed free — 
shows hardware patterns to harmonize with every style of 
architecture. If you are interested in building, write for it. 
Colonial Book also sent on request. 
& COMPANY, 142 Leonard St., New York 
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YOLIK LAWN NEEDS FEEDING NOW 
It is time to do it NO W and WELL ROTTED HORSE MANURE, Dried, Ground, Odorless — Largely 
HUMUS — -No weed seeds — No refuse, contains the necessary plant foods for maintaining your 
LAWN in the best condition. If used in planting Fall bulbs you will have larger and brighter 
flowers. Put up in bags 100 pounds each. 
WRITE FOR CIRCULAR “B” AND PRICES 
NEW YORK STABLE MANURE COMPANY, 273 Washington Street, Jersey City, N. J 
TRAY TABLES ToTu< * A W $10 
The frames fold and the trays are handy for serving 
/hipped on receipt of Money Order or New York Draft 
JOSEPH P. McHUGH & SON 
.fince 1884 at 9 West 42 d Jt., New York 
(vEwanE£ @ 
Private Water Supply Plants - Private Electric Light Plants 
Sewage Disposal Plants — Gasoline Storage Tanks and Pumps 
Home Power Plants — Gasoline Engines — Pumping Machinery 
Bulletin on Any Outfit Sent on Request 
KEWANEE WATER SUPPLY COMPANY 
New York City Kewanee, Ills. Chicago 
and one-half per cent potash, and yet there 
seems to be consternation over the fact 
that we cannot get potash. The truth is 
we don’t need it, if we will only treat our 
soil so as to render available the store of 
plant food which Nature has conserved 
for use. 
The addition of plenty of organic mat¬ 
ter gives you nitrogen, or ammonia. More 
or less phosphorus is also contained in the 
organic or humus portion of the soil, and 
mineral soil, as mentioned before, is well 
supplied with potash, which is rendered 
available by the decay action of the or¬ 
ganic matter and the solvent and chemical 
action of the lime. 
In general, assuming your soil is well 
drained, plant a catch or cover crop, some 
of the legumes, or, if late in the fall, sow 
rye, having previously applied about fifty 
pounds hydrated oxide of lime to each 
thousand square feet or one-half that 
quantity on lighter soil. 
For immediate application, concentrated 
organic matter can be supplied through the 
use of prepared humus, which contains all 
the plant foods, or through the use of stable 
manure, when this is procurable. If a 
chemical fertilizer is required for forcing 
any particular crop, a good average mix¬ 
ture would be composed of: 400 pounds 
packing house tankage ; 200 pounds nitrate 
of soda; 1,200 pounds acid phosphate. 
This fertilizer in proper amount, to¬ 
gether with the treatment already indi¬ 
cated, would give you plant food for a 
maximum crop of any of the vegetables. 
New Ideas in Floor Coverings 
(Continued from page 224) 
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In Hundreds of Plain and Ornamental Designs 
For Town Houses, Suburban Homes, Country Estates 
When you have put the best into the planning of your build- Send sketch with measurements and our Designing and 
ing and the cultivation of your lawn, complete the harmonious Engineering Department will work out the best and most 
effect and provide for the permanency of your improvement by economical solution of your fencing problems, furnishing blue¬ 
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Iron Vases, Settees, Gar¬ 
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treated somewhat after the Chinese style. 
Some of the fibre rugs, however, are 
almost painfully precise, if one is inclined 
toward the conventional. The latest grass 
rugs are less formal in style. Examples 
that have character and individuality to a 
marked degree are known as Cape Cod 
rugs. Unassuming as they are, they are 
not lacking in quaint elements of real 
style. They are made in oval and almost 
square shapes, and in bleached or un¬ 
bleached natural color. The pattern is in 
the weave, sometimes relieved by inter¬ 
twining strands of wool. Rice straw rugs 
come from Japan. They have a different 
pattern on each side. All the grass and 
fibre rugs are made in half a dozen sizes, 
from large to small. Rugs of this nature 
are naturally suitable for porches, sun par¬ 
lors, sleeping rooms and any rooms at the 
seashore or mountains. 
Among the novelties is the Navajo, or 
Indian, rug, made of heavy wool. It is, 
perhaps, the one distinctively American 
rug. It is reversible, not liable to pull or 
wrinkle, and can be had in the largest 
sizes, as well as smaller. A favorite for 
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