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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1914 [ 
Get All the Heat From Your Coal 
Smoke is absolute proof of im- 
perfect combustion. It is a sure sign that much 
of the heat in the coal you are using is being wasted—for 
smoke is nothing but good fuel which has been only 
partially burned. 
You can’t burn smoke—but you can prevent it 
by burning all the heat giving gases in the coal before they can 
be condensed into smoke. And when you do this you cut down coal 
bills because you stop wasting fuel. 
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Smokeless Firebox Boilers 
for apartments, schools, churches 
Kewanee Smokeless Firebox Boilers are designed to 
burn soft coal without smoke and to save fuel by getting-all the heat 
out of the coal. But it is also conclusively proven that they reduce 
coal bills considerably when asmokeless coal, such as Pocahontas, is 
used. Built with two grates—fuel being fed onto the upper grate. 
The draft, being downward, draws all the heat giving gases through the tire 
on the upper grate then down and over the hot coals on the lower grate. This 
burns all the heat giving gases before they can be condensed into smoke. 
and buildings generally will 
make no smoke even when burn¬ 
ing the cheapest and poorest of 
soft coal. 
And tests by Robert W. Hunt 
and Company, the well known Engi¬ 
neers, show the efficiency of Kewanee 
.Smokeless Firebox Boilers, when 
burning cheap soft coal, ranges from 
60 % to 74 %—while that of ordinary 
boilers, burning expensive Anthra¬ 
cite's seldom better than 60 %. We will 
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ties, but I prefer true stock of the Crim¬ 
son Giant Globe to any other I have 
tested. 
Turnips: These are the quickest and 
the easiest of the several root crops to 
grow, unless maggots give trouble. Avoid 
freshly manured soil and do not plant 
after cabbage, cauliflower, or other simi¬ 
lar crops. For the first planting I use 
Petrowski, a very rapid-growing, sweet 
little yellow sort not as well known as it 
should he, and early White Milan. For 
a continuous succession, plant at least 
once a month in small quantities. The 
last sowing may be made during July, 
or even in early August, if conditions are 
favorable. For this planting, for roots 
to keep over winter, I use Golden Ball 
and White Egg. 
Up Hill to Our House 
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sowed the seed right after a light rain 
and then rolled the land. This was done 
about Mav first. Then the clover was 
ploughed under by August first, and 
every ten days after the ground was har¬ 
rowed to kill the weeds. On September 
1st we sowed again the same amount of 
slag. After harrowing the land we ap¬ 
plied at the rate of C/2 pounds per 
square foot a grass and grain fertilizer 
for fall seeding. The total cost for these 
fertilizers amounted to about $35. and 
the benefit to the soil would be retained 
from ten to twelve years. 
For the pasture we made a mixture of 
1 H bushels of orchard grass. 14 pounds 
of Fancy Red Top, ]J /4 quarts of Alsike 
clover, 2 pounds Meadow Fesque, 3 
pounds of Meadow Foxtail, 2 pounds 
Fall Meadow Fesque, 4 quarts of timothy 
seed, 2 pounds white clover seed. 2 
pounds of crated dog’s tail 
The seed was to be divided and a half 
sown one way of the field and the other 
half in the opposite direction. We bought 
a standard lawn grass mixture for the 
lawn, to he applied according to their di¬ 
rections. I had had much difficulty in en¬ 
gaging labor at the necessary times, espe¬ 
cially for the plough and harrow jobs, so 
that we were slightly behind with the 
work and I was in a continuous state of 
anxiety lest the delay and the rainy days 
would mean failure. The hours I spent 
at the telephone arranging for the work 
to be done seemed countless. Finally 
the ground was ready for the final seed¬ 
ing. The atmosphere was perfect for 
this all-important event, being moist and 
still, though a rain-storm seemed immi¬ 
nent. 
The roller was engaged for Thursday. 
David insisted upon the ease with which 
he could sow the seed and the short time 
it would take. His confidence, of course, 
came from ignorance on the subject. Be¬ 
ginning late Wednesday morning, only a 
small space was finished that day. David, 
contrite and humble, advised me to en¬ 
gage a farmer to finish the sowing the 
following day. T canceled the roller, bul 
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