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If you want birds be 
sure to get Genuine 
Dodson Bird Houses 
the kind the birds look for 
Girds ure coming I Place a Dodson 
house in your garden. It is easy 
to win birds to live near you— 
bluebirds, wrens, martins, chicka¬ 
dees, flickers, etc. Dodson builds 
f houses for all kinds—prices $1.50 
to $12. Bird baths, $6 and $12. 
* Write for Free Book, telling how to 
win native birds, and illustrating the 
20 styles of Dodson Bird Houses, 
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Dodson Sparrow Trap--no other trap like 
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The best set of books about birds is 
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— Astonishingly good.” 
Write for free booklet, or order your 
bird houses at once. 
JOSEPH H. DODSON 
731S. Harrison 
The stove brooder is fed from the top, the 
heat reflecting on the backs of the chicks 
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THE BALL MFG. CO., Dept, V, Glenside, Pa. 
March Poultry Work 
(Continued from page 60) 
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a good lice powder several times 
while they are on the nest, and once 
a week after they begin to run with 
the chickens. No doubt thousands of 
broody hens die on the nest each 
spring just because they are eaten 
alive by vermin. It is true that this 
is not a very nice subject about 
which to write, but it is exceedingly 
important. 
Not only are the hens sacrificed to 
vermin, but thousands of chickens 
are lost from the same cause. Newly 
hatched chicks that are to run with 
a hen should have their heads 
greased lightly with lard or vaseline, 
and lice powder should be dusted 
over their bodies or else on the under 
part of the hen, where they will not 
rub it off. 
Another reason for many failures 
in chicken raising is found in the 
indifference to all warnings against 
the plague of rats commonly shown 
by amateurs. If the value of all the 
chickens destroyed by rats each sea¬ 
son could be totaled up, it would 
spaciousness. Just as in all art, we 
have to deal with line as well. And 
so we come upon the obvious prin¬ 
ciple that upright lines tend to in¬ 
crease height while horizontal lines 
tend to diminish it. This is partic¬ 
ularly important for apartment dwell¬ 
ers to take into consideration, for 
almost every room, except in duplex 
apartments, is low-ceilinged, even 
when, as in a few cases, the floor 
is of considerable dimensions. In 
certain buildings on Park Avenue, 
New York, there are living-rooms 
and dining-rooms 30x20, but their 
height is practically the same as that 
of the usual room, 10x14. Here it 
would be necessary to create as much 
height as possible by introducing ver¬ 
tical lines in all feasible places, to 
avoid valances across the top of the 
windows, and chandeliers which 
would make the rooms look lower. 
In connection with the windows par¬ 
ticularly, it is desirable to preserve 
vertical effects by running the side 
curtains down to the floor and avoid¬ 
ing the box-pleated lambrequins 
above them. This can be done most 
readily by covering the pole stretched 
across the window with the fabric 
of which the curtain is made, and 
thus providing a certain amount of 
finish across the top of the window 
amount to a vast fortune. Brooders 
should be made rat proof at night or 
else be used in rat proof houses, or 
else traps, cats and dogs should he 
provided in anticipation of the com¬ 
ing of these pests. 
Newly hatched chickens require no 
feeding for at least thirty-six hours 
and no harm is done if they go two 
days without being fed. If hatched 
in an incubator, it is best to leave 
them there until they are thoroughly 
dry, but in the meantime the brooder 
should be made ready and heated up 
to 90°. 
There seems to be renewed interest 
in turkey raising, which is well, for 
the number of these birds has been 
decreasing rapidly of late. When 
turkeys are to be hatched, the breed¬ 
ers should be selected this month, and 
it has been found best to use males 
which are three years old. The early 
hatching of turkeys is not advised, as 
the youngsters do much better if they 
do not come out until after the 
spring rains are over. 
without resorting to a deep valance. 
Such curtains, hung on a covered 
pole, cannot be made to draw, and so 
it is generally desirable to have a 
sash curtain of silk underneath, or 
casement cloth or gauze, which can he 
provided with pulleys and cords, and 
which gives an additional upright 
line against the glass panes. 
In the same way the pictures hung 
on the walls of a large but low ceil- 
inged room can be selected more or 
less with a view to creating vertical 
lines and the furniture can be high 
and narrow rather than low and 
broad. Where pictures are to be pro¬ 
vided for a room that is small, the 
sense of size will be enhanced by 
selecting those which are reticent in 
color and design and which do not 
stand out so strongly that the walls 
on which they hang are brought into 
the foreground. 
Space Saving Devices of Merit 
In some western cities, notably Los 
Angeles, certain mechanical devices 
have been adopted for creating space 
which may appear before long in our 
smaller New York apartments. In 
the Far West, for example, one may 
rent a four room apartment in which, 
in a sense, there are no bedrooms 
(Continued on page 64) 
Creating the Sense of Space in a Small Room 
(Continued from page 28) 
The ideal of refrigeration requires 
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2 Coldness and Dryness of Air. 
3 — Circulation of Cold Air. 
4 — Tight-Fitting Doors • 
5 — Ice Conservation. 
Some refrigerators have a high per¬ 
centage in one of these features: 
some in another—some in two or 
three. But the high average in all 
five points goes to the 
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