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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
1914 
Feel this 
surface 
It is scratchless—marless 
* —noiseless 
Feltoid 
Casters and Tips 
save floors and rugs. No dents and 
digs when your furniture is fitted with 
Feltoids. They work none of the 
damage so common to metal, wood, 
fibre and rubber casters. 
Feltoids are made of a specially 
treated material which is very firm and 
durable yet having a tread as resilient 
as a kittens paw. r Genuine Feltoids 
have the name stamped on each wheel. 
Sold at furniture and 
hardware stores. 
SPECIAL OFFER—If your 
dealer cannot supply you, 
send us 25 cents and we 
will mail you prepaid two 
sets of Feltoid Tips for dem¬ 
onstration in your home . 
Send for booklet No. 12 
The Burns & Bassick Company 
Dept. X Bridgeport, Conn. 
Build Your Home 
“The New Way” 
10% larger bedrooms 
— 50% larger ward¬ 
robe capacity. Send 
50c for Plan Book 
showing 22 Designs. 
JOHN THOMAS 
BATTS, GRAND 
RAPIDS. MICH. 
JONES (a HAMMOND 
Underground Garbage Receivers. The Receivers 
without a Fault. Constructed on Scientific 
Principles. For sale by leading hardware 
dealers, or^write manufacturers for circular 
and prices. 
JONES $ HAMMOND 
74 Newburn Ave., Medford, Mass. 
To determine if your soil needs lime, 
get a few pieces of litmus paper from the 
drug store. Select a part of the garden 
where the soil is fresh and moist, make a 
cut in it with a knife blade and insert the 
larger part of the strip of paper, pressing 
the soil up against it. If the paper turns 
red or reddish pink, it will indicate that 
lime is needed—more in the former case 
than in the latter. A free growth of sorrel 
is another indication of sour soil. 
Handling the Soil 
I N the flower garden and the home vege¬ 
table garden, no less than on the farm, 
the way the soil is handled has a great 
deal to do with what you get out of it. 
Besides keeping it rich by adding ma¬ 
nure and fertilizer, and sweet by the use of 
lime, it must be kept in a good mechanical 
condition by thorough plowing or spading 
and working over, and also by the addition 
of humus or decayed vegetable matter 
from time to time. 
Plowing and Spading — It is always 
much cheaper and better to get a piece 
plowed, where there is enough room for a 
team to turn, than to attempt to do it or 
to have it done by hand. Have it done by 
somebody who knows his job. The soil 
should be turned so that it lies smoothly, 
with no sod, trash, stubble or manure or 
any material of that kind left on the sur¬ 
face to be in the way for all your other 
operations throughout the summer. 
Flave your plowing done deep; usually 
the soil should be turned clear down to the 
sub-soil, which should give a depth of fur¬ 
row of from four to eight inches. Some¬ 
times with a hard sub-soil, a sub-soil plow 
is used, but its place has been taken lately 
by the use of agricultural dynamite, used 
to break up hard and impervious sub-soils. 
This is not very expensive, and as the soil 
is benefited for years to come, it frequently 
pays to do it; if you think your garden suf¬ 
fers from a “hard-pan” sub-soil, consult a 
local expert in this line. 
In many small gardens it is necessary to 
use a fork or spade instead of a plow. The 
job should be done no less thoroughly. In 
loose, loamy soils the spading fork with flat 
tines will be more satisfactory; in stiff 
soils, the spade. 
Trenching is practically sub-soiling 
with the spade or fork. As each spadeful 
is turned over, the sub-soil exposed be¬ 
neath it is spaded up and thrown back into 
the same place in such a manner as to 
loosen and to break it up; then the next 
spadeful of surface soil is thrown over it 
and the operation repeated. 
Fall Preparation — Soil for crops to 
be planted early in the spring, and espe¬ 
cially for heavy soils, are frequently 
plowed or spaded late in the fall. In this 
case, the surface should be left worked up 
roughly or thrown in long ridges to leave it 
the more exposed to the action of the ele¬ 
ments. 
Harrowing — After the soil is plowed or 
spaded, as the case may be, it is necessary 
to break up and pulverize the lumps as 
walls; color them 
There is nothing so beautiful, 
so sanitary and so easily kept 
clean as a wall painted with 
Sherwin-Wi lliam s 
Flat-Tone is an oil paint that 
imparts to walls a richness of 
color that cannot be secured 
in any other way. When the 
walls become dingy or soiled 
with finger marks, soap and 
water will restore them 
without injury to the most 
delicate tints. 
You can get Flat-Tone, ready to 
apply, from any Sherwin-Williams 
dealer. Write today for our 
Portfolio of Suggestions for 
Painting and Decorating 
It tells how to use Flat-Tone and other 
Sherwin-Williams Finishes and shows 
many beautiful rooms and exteriors in 
colors with complete painting directions. 
Sherwin-Williams 
Paints&Varnishes 
Sales Offices and Warehouses in prin¬ 
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Address all inquiries for Port¬ 
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Cleveland, Ohio 
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Made to Draw 
Cooking Odors Carried oot of the House 
Payment Conditional on Success 
FREDERIC N. WHITLEY, Engineer and Contractor 
210 Fulton St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Heating Ventilating Air Filtration 
Beautify Your Home with 
Choice Evergreens and Shrubbery 
Our methods of planting and conducting bus'ness enable 
us to offer high-grade Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Evergreens, 
Roses, Vines, Water-Lilies, Fruit Trees, Herbaceous Plants, 
etc., at prices which defy competition. 
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MONTROSE NURSERIES 
Montrose, Westchester County NEW YORK 
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