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HOUSE & GARDEN 
Myers Hydro-Pneumatic Pumps 
BRING WATER CONVENIENCES WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL 
A Myers Hydro-Pneumatic 
Water System is inexpensive, 
and it will give you first class 
service. Both air and water are 
pumped into the supply tank. 
The air becoming compressed 
forces the water through the 
distributing lines to any point 
desired, obviating the necessity 
of having the tank in an ele¬ 
vated position. Pumps are made 
for operation by hand, gasoline 
engine, motor or other power. 
Write to our Service Department 
for Catalog and Information 
F. E. MYERS & BRO., 350 Orange St., ASHLAND, O. 
ASHLAND PUMP AND HAY TOOL WORKS 
More heat is wanted ? Or, you may wish it cooler. 
What’s to do ? A weary trip down to the cold cellar? 
Not where there’* a Dunham Vapor Heating System, for 
there the fire is regulated from upstairs, from the room 
that’s most used. And it’s regulated as easily as 
switching on a light. 
You can set the Dunham Thermostat in advance to 
provide two temperatures—one, whatever you desire for 
comfort during the day and evening; the other, whatever 
you decide the house should be kept at during the night. 
The Thermostat, once set, thereafter automatically 
controls the amount of heat so that these temperatures 
are maintained without further thought or attention. 
You won’t be annoyed, either, by knocking, pound¬ 
ing radiators or hissing, water-spurting air valves. The 
Dunham Radiator Trap expels the air and water, the 
cause of the noise. A single turn of the Dunham 
Regulate the Fire 
from Upstairs 
DUNHAM 
PACKLESS VALVE 
No packing, there¬ 
fore no leaking of 
vapor or water. A 
single turn and the 
heat is on or off. 
Installed at top of 
radiator—no stoop¬ 
ing. 
DUNHAM 
RADIATOR TRAP 
Does away with all 
pounding in pipes. 
Radiator heats imme¬ 
diately all over. No 
hissing air valve to 
spurt water. 
DUNHAM 
THERMOSTAT 
Packlesa Inlet Valve, without your even stooping, im¬ 
mediately heats the radiator all over. 
Investigate Dunham Heating before contracting for 
the heating equipment in your new home. When 
moving into a new house, see that it is Dunham heated. 
Dunhamixeyour present heating system — any steam fitter 
can do this at a wonderfully low cost and with little 
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ful as a cloc 
Fits on the uu 
—connects ele 
trically, Can 
set so that t 
house will be 
any desired tei 
perature at 
hour . 
inconvenience to you. 
Any Dunham office will be pleased to give your 
needs individual study, to furnish you precise informa¬ 
tion as to cost and best methods of installation. Send 
for our booklet, the “3 H’s.” It throws a new light on 
the heating problem. 
C. A. DUNHAM COMPANY, Marshalltown, Iowa 
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POULTRY WORK FOR MAY 
Keep the chicks from crowding. 
Coops without floors are best now. 
Don’t keep chicks of different ages together. 
Sow Dwarf Essex rape to make summer green food. 
Be sure that there are no rats in the chicken houses. 
Clean incubators and brooders before they are put away. 
Keep the turkey poults confined until the grass is thoroughly dry. 
Make a point of giving the young turkeys lettuce or some other green 
food daily. 
A FTER the chicks have been 
taken from the brooders they 
are likely to crowd into the corners 
if the weather gets a little cool and 
some of them may be crushed to 
death. This danger can be largely 
avoided by keeping the chicks in 
small flocks. It also helps to make 
round corners with pieces of inch- 
mesh poultry netting. From now on 
it is best to use coops without floors, 
as the chicks thrive as a result of 
being in contact with Mother Earth 
at all times. 
It is a poor plan to keep chickens 
of different ages in the same flock. 
The younger chicks are almost cer¬ 
tain to be bulldozed by their stronger 
companions and may not even get 
enough to eat. Likewise, it is not 
advisable to raise chickens and ducks 
together, principally because the 
ducks foul the drinking water badly. 
Duck Requirements 
While ducks need no water to 
swim in, it is important that they 
should never suffer from lack of 
drinking water, and this water must 
be given in a receptacle deep enough 
to allow them to immerse their en¬ 
tire bills, thus cleaning out the mud 
and food that might cause them to 
suffocate. Pekin ducklings need 
watching; sometimes they get on 
their backs and are unable to regain 
their feet. While the Pekin duck is 
the best known member of the 
family, various other varieties are as 
good or better for the amateur. The 
Indian Runners lead in egg produc¬ 
tion and the Rouens are excellent 
table ducks. The Muscovies are good 
for eating, too, and are quackless, a 
point in their favor if the owner 
lives in a closely settled community. 
Turkeys and Trees 
Bread soaked in milk and given a 
dash of red pepper is perhaps the 
best food for newly hatched turkeys. 
They will need something green, 
preferably lettuce, at least twice a 
day, and grit and charcoal should be 
at hand from the first. When they 
are four or five weeks old the poults 
will “shoot the red,” and will need 
especial attention then. A raw egg 
beaten up in milk will help along a 
poult which seems drooping and 
weak. And of course vermin must 
be carefully watched out for. 
When the poultry must be kept 
yarded, it is an excellent plan to 
plant several fruit trees in the yard, 
but not so many that they will inter¬ 
fere with the proper spading or plow¬ 
ing of the ground in order to keep it 
sanitary. Probably plum trees are 
the best for poultry yards. Peach 
trees are often chosen, but the natu¬ 
ral fertilizer in the soil pushes their 
growth too fast and makes them soft. 
Plum trees offer the necessary shade 
and the hens feast on the curculio, 
the pests that puncture the fruit. It 
is always well to wrap burlap around 
the trunks of young trees in the poul¬ 
try yards, or the chickens may eat 
into the bark. 
Hawks and Other Things 
It is time to get rid of all the old 
male birds as soon as the breeding 
season is over, unless there are some 
worth keeping another year. As a 
rule, it is advisable to use cockerels 
with two-year-old hens, but this plan 
is frequently reversed. 
When the chickens have wide 
range they are in danger from 
hawks, unless there is an orchard 
for them to run in. For that reason 
it is well to make piles of brush 
here and there, where they can hide 
when hawks appear. A few guineas 
are valuable, for they will almost in¬ 
variably sound an early warning on 
the approach of hawks. White 
chickens are more likely to fall vic¬ 
tims to hawks than those birds whose 
feathers do not make them so con¬ 
spicuous at a distance. 
Contrary to general belief, the 
hawks which do the most damage to 
poultry are of rather small size. The 
large “chicken hawk” occasionally 
makes way with a foul, but the 
slender little sharp-shinned and Coop¬ 
er’s hawks are the rascals most to be 
feared, especially where young chick¬ 
ens are concerned. When one or two 
of these birds take up theirs quarters 
near your place and proceed to ex¬ 
tract their daily toll from your flock, 
their prompt destruction is essential. 
Constant watchfulness, coupled with 
a good shotgun, is the best remedy for 
their depredations. 
It is an excellent plan to sow 
Dwarf Essex rape to supply green 
rations for the poultry throughout 
the summer. One pound will seed 
a quarter acre and much less than 
that amount will be sufficient for a 
small flock as new growth springs 
up when the tops are broken off. 
Swiss chard may also be used, the 
outside leaves being broken off and 
given to the fowls as needed. 
Chicks should be healthy noiv and growing fast 
