HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
1914 
Your Home 
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is no better than its Plumbing 
Nothing looks better in a fair-sized room than 
a pedestal lavatory which reduces to a minimum 
the places in which dust or water may lodge. Remember ^ 
that an installation of Wolff’s fixtures costs no more than 
that of the cheaper and inferior grades, while Wolff’s fixtures 
will last as long as the building in which they are installed 
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Is the Result ol Fifty - nine Years ot Experience 
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acres, or 
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How To Win Birds 
Mr. Dodson’s Free Booklet 
tells you how to attract our native song birds 
to your gardens and how to make them come 
back to you every year. Write for this book 
and have bluebirds, wrens, purple martins and 
other birds living near you. 
Here within one small garden—I’ve drawn a 
ring 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 — 
w 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 Price S3, 
withall-copper roof, S4. Size, 15x11x8 inches. 
The Dodson Bluebird House — Solid oak, cypress shingle 
roof, copper coping. Price $5. Size, 21 inches high, 16 
inches in diameter. 
The Dodson Tree-Swallow House — Size 12x14x9 inches. 
Price S3; with all-copper roof, S4. 
The Dodson Cement Bird Bath — 32 inches high; basin 34 
inches in diameter 
The Dodson Wren House —Solid oak, cypress shingle roof, 
copper coping. Price S5. 
The Dodson Purple Martin House —Three stories; 26 
rooms and attic. Over-all, 44x37x31 inches. Price, $12—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¬ 
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If you love birds and want to have them live near you, 
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1201 Association Bldg. CHICAGO, ILL. 
Mr. Dodson is a Director of the!lllinois Audubon Society. 
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So I would have ended, but my wife in¬ 
sists on a postscript. “You will please to 
add,” she says, “a statement to the effect 
that 1 built half the long trellis, and painted 
it, too. Perhaps I can’t dig a post hole, 
but I nailed on nearly all of the stripping, 
and had to renail some that you did, be¬ 
cause you thought your eye was superior 
to the level, and put it on down hill. It’s 
small credit that you can drive a nail. But 
that / can is a positive triumph. This is 
the age of feminism. I insist on putterin’, 
also.” 
So I welcome my wife, and all of her 
sex who possess the courage to spoil their 
complexions and their nails, the imagina¬ 
tion and the strength of back and fingers, 
into the noble army of garden putterers! 
BOOK REVIEWS 
Productive Swine Husbandry. By G. 
E. Dtay. J. B. Lippincott & Co. 330 pp. 
This book was designed to be, and has 
succeeded in being, equally valuable as a 
text-book for the agricultural student, and 
as a reference work for the practical 
farmer, whether the professional breeder 
or the small farmer with only a few ani¬ 
mals to care for. Types and breeds of 
swine are thoroughly described and dis¬ 
cussed. The practical points of breeding 
and of selection are taken up and the 
question of feeds and feeding from the 
point of view of both results and econ¬ 
omy is gone into very thoroughly. Chap¬ 
ters cover Pastures and Soiling Crops, 
Preparation of Feed. Markets and Swine 
Products, Curing, Buildings, Sanitation, 
Common Diseases, and instructions as to 
the care of the boar, the sow, and the 
young pigs. The chapters, “The Place 
of the Hog Upon the Farm,” and “Sug¬ 
gestions to Beginners,” are especially 
good. The book is freely illustrated 
throughout with photographs and with 
line drawings showing the different types 
of animals, buildings, pens, labor-savng 
devices, etc. A series of questions at the 
end of each chapter is of value in fixing 
the salient points in the mind of the 
reader. 
Trees in Winter — Their Study, Plant¬ 
ing, Care and Identification. By Al¬ 
bert Francis Blakeslee, Professor of 
Botany, Connecticut Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, and Chester Deacon Jarvis, Hor¬ 
ticulturist, Storrs Experiment Station. 
Fully illustrated. The Macmillan Co., 
New York. Price, $1.25. 
This is a comprehensive and beautiful 
book. Part I deals with the Planting and 
Care of Trees, and covers such matters, 
structure and growth of trees, propagation 
of trees, use and care of trees for improv¬ 
ing rural districts, towns and cities, and for 
home decoration, for both summer and 
winter effect. The chapter on the selection 
of trees for special purposes is of especial 
usefulness. The various phases of plant- 
