March, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
235 
Do You Love The Birds? 
Song Birds Are Coming North Soon 
Let me help you win some of them to live in 
your garden. My free book tells you how to 
attract, how to feed, how to make friends with 
our beautiful, native birds. Be a friend of the 
birds! Write for mv book — now! 
Here within one small garden—I’ve drawn 
rings about each — are five Dodson Bird Houses, 
a Sheltered Feeding Table and a Bird Bath. 
Hundreds of Native Birds live in this garden. 
The photograph shows — 
The Dodson Automatic Feeding Table for Birds. Price, 
with 8-foot pole, $6 — all-copper roof, S7.50. Size, 24x22x12 
inches. 
The Dodson Great-Crested Flycatcher^House —S3, with 
all-copper roof, $4. Size, 15x11x8 inches. 
The Dodson Bluebird House —Solid oak, cypress shingle 
roof, copper coping, $5. Size, 21 inches high, 16 inches in 
diameter. _ —i 
The Dodson Tree-Swallow House —Size 12x14x9 inches, 
S3; with all-copper roof, S4. 
The Dodson Cement Bird Bath —32 inches high; basin 34 
inches in diameter, S12. 
The Dodson Wren House —Solid oak, cypress shingle roof, 
copper coping, S5. 
The Dodson Purple Martin House —Three stories; 26 
rooms and attic. Over-all, 44x37x31 inches. Price, S12 — with 
all-copper roof, SI5. 
All prices are f.o.b. Chicago. 
I have 20 different Houses, Feeding Tables, Shelters 
and Baths — all for Native Birds — prices, $1.50 to $70. 
Have been building Bird Houses for 18 years. 
The Dodson Sparrow Traps are catching thou¬ 
sands of Sparrows all over America. Get one; 
banish the pest that drives away song birds. Strong 
wire, electrically welded, needle points at mouths 
of two funnels. Price, $5 f.o.b. Chicago. 
If you love birds and want to have them live near you, 
get Dodson Bird Houses — the ones the birds have 
approved. Let me send you my illustrated book about 
birds. If there is any question about Native Birds you 
want answered, write me. I’ll be glad to help any lover 
of birds. 
JOSEPH H. DODSON 
1201 Association Bldg. CHICAGO, ILL. 
Mr. Dodson is a Director of the Illinois Audubon Society. 
quisite 
n Old Ivory 
Tint Pottery 
The beautiful colorings and effects of the 
pottery of Florence and Rome you canhave in 
your own garden—on your own porch. 
With shapely vases and pots, graceful sun¬ 
dials and benches, charming boxes and pedes¬ 
tals—you can transplant your grounds to the 
very heart of Old Italy. 
WHEATLEY POTTERY 
is absolutely weatherproof — Is very tough and 
hard — and decidedly inexpensive. Its neutral 
i vory tint permits its harmonious use with any 
color scheme of decoration, indoors or out. 
WRITE TODAY FOR POTTERY PORTFOLIO 
—and name of nearest Wheatley dealer. If 
your dealer hasn’t genuine Wheatley Old Ivory 
Tint Pottery, we will supply you direct. Get 
our portfolio and prices before you buy another 
piece of pottery. Address Dept. A 
The Wheatley Pottery 
2426-32 Reading Road CINCINNATI, O. 
Established 1879 
Chinch Bugs Best Destroyed Dur¬ 
ing the Winter Months 
T HE chinch bug, which in sixty years 
has probably caused loss consider¬ 
ably in excess of $350,000,000 to Ameri¬ 
can farmers, is more effectively destroyed 
during the winter months than later 
when it has left its winter quarters, ac¬ 
cording to the Department of Agriculture. 
The burning of dry grass, leaves and rub¬ 
bish along the margin of woods and 
fields is the best method of destroying the 
pest at this season of the year. 
The pest, which is distributed generally 
throughout the United States except in 
the extreme West, has caused particular 
damage to the staple grains throughout 
the Middle West. The greatest losses 
from the insect are suffered in Ohio, In¬ 
diana, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, 
Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 
Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. 
The fact that this bug causes such wide¬ 
spread depredations makes this warning 
for its destruction during the winter of 
very general importance. 
The chinch bug when full grown is 
only about i/5th of an inch in length, 
and may be less. It may be described as 
black, with numerous hairs, also black. 
The under wings are white. There are 
two forms of the fully developed insect, 
one with long wings and the other with 
shorter wings. The short-wing form dif¬ 
fers very much in its habits from the 
long-wing form, the first passing the win¬ 
ter in the meadows, which it usually at¬ 
tacks in preference to grain crops. The 
other kind may be observed flying about 
during Indian summer in search of win¬ 
ter quarters. The short-wing insects are 
not able to fly, and therefore cannot make 
such extensive migrations to and from 
winter quarters. The chinch bug with 
the short wings is found in abundance 
only in the East. The more dangerous 
long-wing variety ranges over most of the 
country between the Rockies and the Ap¬ 
palachians. 
Pasturing sometimes aids in the de¬ 
struction of the chinch bug. This is par¬ 
ticularly effective to the northward in the 
Middle West when the grass is green and 
matted or occurs along hedge rows and 
rail fences so that it cannot be burned. 
Leaving the ground bare of vegetation 
permits the bugs to be exposed to the 
winter weather, and this kills them. It 
is sometimes possible to clear out hedge 
rows and along rail fences, piling the 
refuse to one side, where it can be 
burned later. 
These measures should be carried out 
some time between now and spring (the 
earlier the better), before the chinch bugs 
leave their winter quarters and take them¬ 
selves to the fields. In the southern part 
of the Middle West the burning is not 
very effective if done after February 1, 
and" is very effective if done in November 
or December. Along with these prevent- 
A mahogany finish ^ 
that will not fade 
Here is the recipe—a coat of Lowe 
Brothers Non-Fading Dark Ma¬ 
hogany Oil Stain; then one of 
Mahogany Glaze 
Finish with Lowe Brothers Inside Rub¬ 
bing Varnish which can be left in nat¬ 
ural gloss or given a rubbed finish. 
Used on birch, gum and various woods, 
Mahogany Glaze brings out a full rich 
color and a beauty resembling old solid 
mahogany to a marked degree 
A striking effect is suggested in the 
picture—white woodwork, light tinted 
walls and mahogany doors You can 
secure this most satisfactorily with 
Lowe Brothers Mellotone for the walls, 
Linduro Enamel for the trim and Non- 
Fading Dark Mahogany Oil Stain, with 
Mahogany Glaze and Varnish for doors 
Free booklet—“About Interiors” 
Full of good decorative ideas and prac¬ 
tical information about Lowe Brothers 
finishes for every purpose. When you 
1 write, ask the name of our nearest J 
\ dealer if you don’t know. 
The Lowe Brothers Company 
464 E. Third St., Dayton, Ohio 
Boston, Jersey City, Chicago 
Kansas City, Minneapolis 
Lowe Brothers, Ltd., 
Toronto, Can. 
I TWO ROSEDALE BOOKLETS 
Will put you wise as to the proper selection 
fg and care of 
^ Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs and Perennials 
No. 35, now ready. 
No. 36, ready June 1st will give you 
fx Import Prices of Holland Bulbs 
58 which are 20% less than fall prices. 
Your address to-day will bring these 
beautiful illustrated catalogues. 
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