HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1911 
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Home deserves 
Yale Hardware 
T HIS charming handle, 
wrought with all the fidel¬ 
ity of the brass-monger 
of Colonial times, is only one 
of the many designs in handles 
made in our works. 
The small key plate shows 
the pleasing way in which the 
security of the Famous Yale 
Cylinder Lock has been added 
without disturbing the appear¬ 
ance of simplicity so highly 
prized by our forefathers. 
Let us send you — -free — our very useful book 
about “ Yale Hardware for your Home." 
The Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. 
9 Murray Street, New York 
The Makers of Yale Products 
Locks, Padlocks, Builders’ Hardware 
Door Checks and Chain Hoists 
Chicago, Washington, 
Boston, San Francisco. 
London, Paris, Hamburg 
Dedham Design 
Colonial School 
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PROTECT a Y n T Too* 
coverings from injury. Also beau¬ 
tify your furniture by using Glass 
Onward Sliding Furniture and Pi¬ 
ano Shoes in place of casters. 
Made in no styles and sizes. If 
your dealer will not supply you 
Write us — Onward Mfg. Co. 
Menasha, Wisconsin, U. S. A. 
Canadian Factory, Berlin, Ont. 
Harris Construction Co. 
BENJ. HARRIS, Mgr. 
GENERAL^ CONTRACTORS 
Real Estate & Mortgage Loans 
Telephone Connection 
372 Atlantic St., Stamford, Conn. 
FLEMING’S WELSH QUARRIES AND ROMAN BRINDLED TILE 
For Interior Floors Vestibules, Porches, Terraces. They harmonize with every color scheme and are permanent, 
durable and easily cleaned. 
FLEMING’S ADAMANTINE CLINKER BRICK 
For Stable Floors, Approaches, Areas under Porte Cocheres, and laid in designs around Sun Dial pedestals are most 
attractive. /£// information on application 
HOWARD FLEMING { E^cuYeT^nk wo i 880 } 253 Broadway, New York 
5. Kerosene emulsion is used in varying 
strengths. It is prepared as follows : Dis¬ 
solve one-half pound soap in one gallon of 
hot water, and (away from the stove, 
please!) add two gallons of kerosene. 
Churn or pump for five or ten minutes, 
until of the consistency of thin cream, so 
that the oil does not separate on cooling. 
This is the stock. When using, dilute with 
ten to fifteen parts of clean water. 
6. Whale-Oil Soap. —Dissolve one pound 
of soap in one gallon of hot water, and 
when using add four to six parts of water. 
(Ordinary soap will answer the purpose, 
if necessary.) 
7. Miscible Oils. —They are advertised 
under several brands, for use against scale 
insects. They mix with cold water; used 
only on dormant plants and trees. 
8. Tobacco Dust. —This article varies 
greatly. Most sorts are next to worthless, 
but a few of the brands especially pre¬ 
pared for this work (and sold usually at 
$3 per hundred pounds, which will last 
two ordinary home gardens a whole sea¬ 
son) are very convenient to use, and effect¬ 
ive. Apply with a duster, like that de¬ 
scribed later. 
9. Carbolic Acid Emulsion. —One pint 
crude acid, i lb. soap and i gal. water. 
Dissolve the soap in hot water, and balance 
of water and pump into an emulsion, as 
described for kerosene emulsion. 
10. Corrosive sublimate is used to de¬ 
stroy scab on potatoes for seed by dissolv¬ 
ing 1 oz. in 7 gals, of water. The same 
result is obtained by soaking for thirty 
minutes in a solution of commercial for¬ 
malin. at the rate of i gill to 15 gals, of 
water. 
11. Bordeaux Mixture. —This can be 
bought ready mixed in liquid or powder 
form, or may be made as follows: Take 
copper sulphate 5 lbs., unslacked lime 5 
lbs., water 50 gals. Prepare several hours 
before required, as follows: (a) Dissolve 
the copper sulphate in 5 gals, water, sus¬ 
pending the crystals in a piece of bag just 
below the surface, (b) Slake the lime in 
hot water, adding the latter slowly, to do 
the work thoroughly. Add sufficient water 
to make five gallons, (c) When ready to 
use, dilute the stock sulphate solution (a) 
with water in the proportion of 5 to 50. 
Add the stock lime solution (b) in equal 
amount to the sulphate solution. 
To test the mixture, after making, get 
at a drug store a pint bottle, with a quilled 
cork, in which have dissolved 1 oz. of yel¬ 
low prussiate of potash. When this is 
dropped into the Bordeaux mixture, it 
should not turn brown. If it does, add 
more lime water. 
POISONOUS REMEDIES 
12. Paris Green. —This is the standard 
remedy for eating-bugs and worms. With 
a modern dusting machine it can be put on 
dry, early in the morning when the dew is 
still on. Sometimes it is mixed with plas¬ 
ter. For tender plants easily burned by 
the pure powder, and where dusting is not 
convenient, it is mixed with water at the 
rate of 1 lb. to 50 to 100 gals, and used as 
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