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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1911 
“PENNSYLVANIA” 
Quality 
LAWN MOWERS 
are always sharp. No other 
mowers have this grade of 
steel — the same kind as used in 
all high-grade cutting tools. 
“Pennsylvanias” will do ab¬ 
solutely first-class work, and 
wear almost indefinitely. They 
are self-sharpening and do not 
require re-grinding. This feat¬ 
ure alone will soon pay for a 
mower. 
Ask your seedsman or hard¬ 
ware dealer. 
FREE ON REQUEST 
“ The, Lawn—Its Making and 
Care,” a text-book written by a 
prominent authority, will prove 
most helpful to those interested 
in lawns and shrubbery. 
SUPPLEE HARDWARE COMPANY 
P. O. Box 1582, Philadelphia 
F 
AY & BOWEN ELECTRIC LIGHTING SYSTEM 
gives perfect lighting at low cost. Write for bulletins. 
FAY & BOWEN ENGINE CO. 
125 Lake Street, Geneva, N. Y., TJ. S. A. 
Can Be Used in 
HOUSE 
and 
GARDEN 
For flowers and 
vegetables. Used 
as a spray. Get it 
from yonr dealer 
or write for par¬ 
ticulars to 
Aphine Manufacturing Co., Madison.lV.J. 
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water runs over the filter and comes in 
contact with the air, when it is as pure as 
crystal spring water. 
Since simplicity of construction gives the 
most satisfactory results it is advisable to 
discard plans of the types of tank that de¬ 
pend on complicated mechanism for their 
operation and adopt one which is at once 
easy of construction, substantial, durable, 
self-acting and simple. 
The type of septic tank here described is 
simplicity itself. When properly built it 
will take up its work with the first flush of 
the sewer and keep it up for generations 
without any care or attention. This tank 
may be built of stone, brick, concrete or 
wood covered with cement. One of the 
main essentials in proportion is that the re¬ 
ceiving tank, or septic tank proper, should 
have a capacity sufficient to hold the accu¬ 
mulated product of the closets and sinks 
for a period of forty-eight hours, the tank 
being first filled with water to level of inlet. 
A tank, for instance, four feet deep, six 
feet wide and eight feet long, or containing 
approximately two hundred cubic feet, 
should be large enough, under ordinary 
conditions, to accommodate the wastes of 
a family of eight or ten persons. If the 
waste from the bath is included, additional 
space must be allowed for the increased 
flow, though diverting the bath and wash 
water will save expense in construction. 
The weir box, which is mainly to pre¬ 
vent agitation of the water, and the filter 
tank may be in about the proportions indi¬ 
cated in the drawing. The filter tank is to he 
filled one-third its depth with very fine 
sand, above that an equal depth of sand, 
coarse gravel and fine charcoal, and the top 
third of depth with coarse charcoal mixed 
with small pebbles. 
The outlet from sewage tank to weir box 
should be fitted with an elbow with tile 
reaching to within six inches of floor of 
sewage tank, and the same with the outlet 
from weir box to filter bed. The tile from 
closets to tank should be of vitrified tile 
large enough (six or eight inches) to avoid 
possibility of clogging. A trap joint is 
placed at location shown under the vent, to 
prevent sewer gas returning to house. The 
joints of sewer pipe are sealed with 
cement. 
To guard against the possibility of some 
extraordinary condition arising that would 
make it necessary to enter the tank to 
clean it out or make repairs, a manhole 
should be let in at the top, as indicated, 
although tanks of this pattern have been 
in operation for years without requiring 
the least attention. Only one case is re¬ 
ported where such a tank needed cleaning, 
and that was where the refuse of a paper- 
mill, where much of the waste is rags, 
emptied into a large tank that requires 
cleaning once or twice a year. 
The top of the tank may be covered with 
matched plank laid on joists. Where it is 
intended to cover the tank with earth, 
which is desirable, as it leaves no intima- 
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~'V 
Dust is 
the Airship 
of the Microbe 
Every particle of dust carries a full pass- i 
enger list of disease germs. 
A carpeted floor is a dusty floor. 
A varnished floor is a dustless floor. 
Any floor may be made clean, sanitary) 
up-to-date and beautiful._f 
A booklet on the treatment and care of 
Floors, advertising nothing, but explaining 
how floors may be made and kept clean, 
beautiful and wholesome, will be mailed 
free to any address, on request to the. 
National association of' 
Varnish Mfgrs. 
636 THE BOURSE 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
V) 
A Beautiful New Rose 
Write for free illustrated circular describing our new Climbing 
American Beauty—the rose that grows out-doors and comes out 
a mass of three to four-inch flowers in June. 
Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas Co., West Chester, Pa. 
Smoky Fireplaces 
Made to Draw 
Your particular chimney problem studied by 
experts, and estimates given without charge. The 
work is undertaken with this understanding: 
We will not accept payment unless successlul. 
Kitchen ventilating systems, preventing cooking odors. 
FREDERIC N. WHITLEY ASSESS - 
215 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. N. Y. 
Write for Our Free Book on 
Home Refrigeration 
It tells you liow 
to select the Home 
Refrigerator — liow 
to know the good 
from the poor—liow 
to keep a Refrigera¬ 
tor sweet and sani¬ 
tary — liow your 
food can be proper¬ 
ly protected and 
preserved—liow to 
keep down ice bills 
— lots of things you 
should know before 
9 electing any Refri¬ 
gerator. 
It also tells all about 
Cash or Monthly Payments 
gKMonroe” 
The Lifetime Refrigerator 
with food compartments made in one piece of solid, un¬ 
breakable White Porcelain Ware, over an inch thick, with 
every corner rounded—no cracks or crevices anywhere, 
and as easy to keep clean as a china bowl—how it differs 
from other so-called “porcelain” refrigerators. The lead¬ 
ing hospitals use the “Monroe” exclusively and it is 
found today in a large majority of the very best homes. 
The “Monroe” is never sold in stores, but direct 
from the factory to you on our liberal trial offer, Freight 
Prepaid. 
Fnev Pnvmpnfs We are makin S a radical departure 
easy payments thi S year from our rule of all cash 
with order and sell the“Monroe” on our liberal credit 
terms to all desiring to buy that way. Just say, “Send 
Monroe Book,” on a postal card and it will go to you 
by next mail. 1 (9) 
Monroe Refrigerator Co., Station 16, Cincinnati, O. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Gabdbx. 
