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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April 
1914 
The IDEAL POWER 
LAWN MOWER CO. 
403 K a 1 a m a zoo Street, 
LANSING. MICHIGAN 
U. S. A. 
T HEN you will be glad to know that Mr R E Olds, the famous inven¬ 
tor and manufacturer of automobiles and gasoline engines, who 
made his great reputation inventing simple and reliable machinery 
and selling it at a very reasonable price, has perfected a medium weight, 
low-priced, power lawn mower and roller that will travel from two to three 
miles per hour, has a 35-inch cut. and works closely and neatly around 
corners, flower beds and walks. It rolls the turf as well as cutting the 
grass, and leaves the lawn in perfect condition. No hoof-marks as when a 
horse is used, no shrubbery or walks spoiled, easy and economical to operate, 
perfect in results. 
It has been thoroughly tried out and has given the best of satisfaction. 
Invaluable for parks, large estates, golf links, etc. The price of this mower, 
ready for shipment, is only $375.00. Other power lawn mowers that are 
heavy and cumbersome cost $1200.00 and up. They are not so ea«v to 
operate, or as satisfactory in results. Write today for complete information. 
Give Nature a Boost 
Your lawn, your flowers and shrubs, 
your vegetables and fruit trees, all need 
plant food. Use natural fertilizer. It 
is best. And use it now to get your soil 
ready for spring planting. 
SHEEP MANURE 
TRADE BRAND MARK 
is all natural plant food and humus that 
makes better soil and better crops. It's 
NATURE’S BEST FERTILIZER 
No Weeds — No Waste—No Refuse 
4 .00 for large barrel. Freight prepaid 
east of Omaha. Ask for our practical 
booklet on Fertilizing, with special 
quantity prices and freight rates. 
The Pulverized Manure Co. 
25 Union Stock Yards, Chicago 
Sold by Garden Supply Houses Everywhere 
The Stephenson System of 
Underground Refuse Disposal 
keeps your garbage out of 
_ sight in the ground, away 
^from the cats, dogs and the typhoid fly. 
Opens with the foot. Hands do not touch it . 
o O”v/> “Thousands in Use” 
Underground 
Garbage and Refuse Receiver 
A fireproof and sanitary disposal 
for oily waste and refuse in your g 
garage. Our Underground Earth 
Closet means freedom from con¬ 
taminated water supply. 
Sold direct. Send for catalogue 
In use ten years. It pays to look us up 
C. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr. 
20 Farrar St. Lynn, Mass. 
nected and drained out in the fall, it is 
not necessary to put it far below the sur¬ 
face of the garden, and, in fact, it can be 
laid along the top of the ground, but it will 
then be in the way of the lawn mower and 
so forth. 
Overhead Sprinkling System of Ir¬ 
rigation —Watering by hose, while effec¬ 
tive, is still not as thorough and nowhere 
near as easy as watering with a regular 
irrigating system. The best system for or¬ 
dinary purposes is that known as the Skin¬ 
ner or “over-head” system. The pipes are 
placed fifty feet apart, and the nozzles 
which distribute the water four feet apart 
on the pipe. The latter cost only five cents 
apiece. For a large garden a combination 
strainer and turning handle, which costs 
a dollar and seventy-five cents or more, ac¬ 
cording to size, is convenient; but it is not 
necessary for small gardens with a supply 
of city water. Where water is supplied 
from a gravity tank the fall must be suffi¬ 
cient to product fifteen pounds or more of 
pressure at the nozzles. (See accompany¬ 
ing tables for pressures at varying 
heights.) The brass spray nozzles throw 
a stream, under thirty to fifty pounds pres¬ 
sure, to a distance of twenty-five feet. The 
nozzle-line pipes are placed upon supports 
from a foot to six feet or more about the 
ground, and may be desirable; upon these 
supports they may be revolved from side 
to side, each pipe thus covering a strip fifty 
feet wide. 
It is best to irrigate on a cloudy day or 
in the afternoon, but with the overhead 
sprinkling system I have never been able 
to see any bad results even when water 
was applied in bright sunshine. Water 
should not be applied until the soil begins 
to get dry, and then it should be given a 
thorough soaking, such as would result 
from a good, thorough rain. It is well to 
cultivate as soon as possible after irrigat¬ 
ing, in order that the water applied will 
last as long as possible. Irrigation is also 
a protection against frost, either for 
sprinkling hardy plants early in the morn¬ 
ing after they have been touched, or for 
protecting more tender things by keeping 
the water spray turned on continually dur¬ 
ing the night until after danger of frost 
is over in the morning. 
Uses of Concrete and of Iron Pipe 
T HERE are a great many opportuni¬ 
ties about the average place for ad¬ 
vantageously using concrete. It can be 
adapted for a variety of uses from filling 
holes in trees and making foundations, to 
making garden vases, a stone step, a root 
cellar, or a coldframe. The ingredients are 
cheap, and what you make out of it is prac¬ 
tically indestructible. You can easily learn 
to do the work yourself in odd half hours. 
The ingredients required (they will 
keep indefinitely, until you are ready to use 
them, if stored in a dry place), are Port¬ 
land cement, which comes in paper bags 
of 95 pounds net — clean, coarse builders’ 
sand and medium-sized gravel, crushed 
stone or clean, hard cinders. 
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