April, 1911 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
231 
Have a Greet Velvety Lawn 
A Top Dressing of 
WIZARD 
trade: 0KANE* Mark” 
Pulverized Sheep Manure 
is the surest, quickest way. Produces most 
wonderful results. Easily applied and economical 
to use. No weeds or foreign grasses. A pure, 
natural fertilizer most effective and satisfactory 
for expert or amateur. Now is the time to apply. 
per bbl. Freight prepaid east 
of Missouri River. Write for 
quantity prices. Ask for copy 
of valuable booklet “ Lawn and Garden.” 
The Pulverized Manure Company 
25 Union'Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. 
Wizard Brand is handled 
by first-class seedsmen. 
$422 
nSHLEY 
System 
SEWAGE DISPOSAL 
WITHOUT SEWERS 
For Country Homes 
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106 Armida Avenue, Morgan Park, III. 
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Poultry can be kept in almost any kind 
of runs, providing there is something for 
them to eat in the shape of green and ani¬ 
mal food. Yards or range upon poor 
sandy or gravelly land are usually as desti¬ 
tute and barren of animal food as the 
deserts of Sahara. A small, wet meadow, 
with a little brook oozing through it is a 
good run, for, in such a place, mud worms, 
polywogs, and various waterbugs are 
found in great abundance. There are cer¬ 
tain soft, juicy grasses that grow around 
such streams that the hens enjoy. If 
such runs are bushy, so much the better, 
for they will furnish shade to the fowls. 
Meadow land that is dryer and larger 
brooks also make splendid range for fowls. 
Runs in slashes or hush pieces are 
especially good for growing stock. Chick¬ 
ens lay underneath low bushes while rest¬ 
ing and they are better protected from 
hawks if there are bushes under which 
they can hide. Bugs and insects galore 
are found around old stumps where the 
original growth has been cut off and 
patches of grass and clover here and there 
furnish a bountiful supply of green food. 
An apple orchard is perhaps the best 
run for poultry in any stage of life. 
Plenty of grass, shade, bees, flies, moths, 
worms, and various kinds of insect life 
are ever present. The early and fall 
apples, when ripe, are good for fowls and 
are heartily devoured by them. A fruit 
orchard of any kind is likewise beneficial 
to poultry and makes an ideal run. 
A heavy growth of wood or timber fur¬ 
nishes an excellent working place for the 
hens, especially in hot weather, leaves and 
pine needles have many kinds of insects 
lurking under them and the hens enjoy 
raking them over for the choice morsels 
they will discover. Also a run one-half 
covered with grass, the other half planted 
to corn, makes a good combination, green 
food from the grass land, animal food and 
shade from the corn piece. 
Chickens may be allowed free range in 
grass, growing oats, potatoes, corn, and 
garden stuff, with great benefit not only 
to them, but also to the crops. Free range 
for poultry is the inexorable law of Na¬ 
ture. Confinement is an artificial condi¬ 
tion. Poultry left to themselves will not 
often frequent sandy land on sand banks 
unless to dust themselves. Hens given 
their freedom are much better able to 
satisfy their wants and supply their needs 
than in confinement. 
In parts of the country where foxes 
abound or other animals destructive to 
poultry, it is necessary in order to be on 
the safe side to enclose one’s farm or 
poultry range with a wire fence having 
the mesh fine enough to keep out all in¬ 
truders and the fence tight at the bottom 
and at least four feet in height. If no 
fence is put up one might not be troubled 
for several years, and then have so severe 
a blow struck that to rally from it would 
cost a season’s work. 
Whatever runs are used for poultry let 
them be productive, not sterile, of an 
abundance of green and animal food, with 
GROW THIS BEAUTIFUL 
ROSE IN YOUR GARDEN 
HPHE Climbing American Beauty Rose was origina- 
ted by ns—a cross between the American Beauty 
and a seedling of one of our hardy climbing roses. It 
will thrive and bloom wherever 
a climbing or pillar rose will. 
It has the same exquisitely 
fragrant, rosy- 
crimson flowers 
3 to 4 inches in 
diameter — but 
instead of a few 
flowers it is one 
mass of bloom 
in June, and con¬ 
tinues to bloom 
0 ccasionally 
throughout the 
season. The 
leaves of our 
Climbing 
American 
Beauty 
are large, bright, 
glossy green and 
the foliage re¬ 
mains bright 
and attractive 
throughout the 
entire growing 
season. The illustration shows a small part of a photo¬ 
graph of one Climbing American Beauty in bloom. 
Rose-lovers will certainly take great delight in this won¬ 
derful new rose. We will be pleased to send you, by 
mail postpaid, one or as many more as you like of these 
beautiful roses. One-year-old plants $2.00 each. Write 
for complete descriptive literature. 
Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas Go., West Chester, Pa. 
200 
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to $10,000. Price 50c. The best 
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45 Clinton Street, - - Newark, N. J, 
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Our catalog and prices will interest 
you. We pay freight. 
THE CYCLONE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO. 
1 234 East 55th Street Cleveland, Ohio 
“Your House Is Your Castle 
Don’t Let the Coal Man Knock the 
Foundations From Under It 
Majestic 
Coal 
Chute 
prevents battering of foundation walls, mutilation of 
window sills and defacing of paint. Does away with 
confusion in the cellar. Cuts the labor in two. Locks 
automatically, open or shut. Is as strong as a bank safe, 
as tight as a drum-head and never gets out of order. 
The Majestic Coal Chute 
is a necessity to every modern house—a modernizer to every 
old house. Costs little and pays for itself the first year. 
Write for name of nearest dealer. 
The Majestic Furnace & Foundry Co. 
Dept. C C Huntington, Ind. 
Chicago Office, 1102 Klonadnock Block. New York Office, 50 Beekmnn St. 
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