HOUSE AND GARDEN 
198 
October. 1910 
ANTIQUE FURNITURE 
Rare China, Pewter, 
Old Lamps, Andirons, Etc, 
NO REPRODUCTIONS 
HENRY V. WEIL 
698 Lexington Avenue 
Cor. 57th Street New York 
Sun Dial Shop 
Antique# 
interior 2Dccoration 
MRS. HERBERT NELSON CURTIS 
22 East 34th Street NEW YORK CITY 
TELEPHONE 2970 MADISON 
ENGRAVED CARDS OF YOUR NAME $1 Of) 
IN CORRECT SCRIPT, COPPER PLATE I «UU 
THE QUALITY MUST PLEASE YOU OR YOUR MONEY REFUNDED 
SAMPLE CARDS OR WEDDING INVITATIONS UPON REQUEST 
L° A c ;i tR s HMKIM phila. 
922 Chestnut St. 
Have you an odd piece of furniture, silver, china, or 
bric-a-brac you would like to dispose of? 
Advertise in this department and bring it to the at¬ 
tention of thousands of our readers. 
We are glad to advise buyers of antiques as to reliable 
dealers on request. 
Add ress Manager Antique Dept. 
House ^ Garden, 449 Fourth Ave., New York 
GENUINE WEDGWOOD 
Old Blue Historical Plates, 9 inch (made at the 
famous Pottery of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons in 
Staffordshire, England) of important subjects con¬ 
nected with American History. Write for list of 
subjects and prices. 
It. C. JiABSON Maynard, Mass. 
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Old English 
and American 
Silver 
W. FARR, Edgewater, N. J. 
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED 
ANTIQUES 
AND 
HAND BRAIDED RUGS 
Write for catalog and lists 
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IPSWICH IN MASSACHUSETTS 
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AMOS H. WHIPPLE, PROPRIETOR. 
convenient trough where the birds can get 
it as wanted. 
Such green food as cabbage, turnips, 
beets, carrots, squash, apple-cores and 
parings, clover meal, etc., may now take 
the place of grass. Cut the larger vege¬ 
tables in two and lay them where the 
fowls can peck at them. Cut clover 
should be scalded and allowed to stand 
for about an hour before it is fed. 
As the weather becomes really cold, 
change the order of feeding. Scatter 
part of the allowance of wheat or oats in 
the litter in the morning soon after the 
fowls have left the roost. Feed the mash 
at noon and the remainder of the wheat 
or oats at night with the corn allowance. 
In feeding new corn, either shelled or on 
the ears, it is more digestible if parched 
in a hot oven. Cool before feeding. 
Feed about one and one-half pints of 
grain to ten hens at one feeding. Remove 
the cock and cockerels from the fall-lay¬ 
ing flock. They are superfluous and feed 
too heartily upon the expensive egg ration. 
Keep a close watch of your hens as 
to their egg-laying ability. The metal 
leg-bands used by many poultrymen for 
identification are very convenient, for 
though the small owner thinks himself 
familiar with each fowl, a hen's appear¬ 
ance changes with her condition. Re¬ 
move from your flock any that continue 
unproductive. 
The comb of a laying hen is neither 
purple nor pinkish red, but a bright blood 
color. Purple combs usually denote a 
feverish condition of the fowl, and pale 
combs are a sure sign that the hen is off 
duty as a layer. 
Laying hens should not be exposed in 
severely cold or wet weather, and for this 
reason the hen-house should afford sunny 
scratching room where the birds may ex¬ 
ercise in clean litter during the morning 
hours. Chaff, refuse of clover and hay 
seed, straw and dry leaves make excel¬ 
lent litters. Spread it four or five inches 
deep, and scatter the grain among it. 
This litter must be frequently replaced 
with a fresh supply to insure cleanliness. 
Properly fed and bred, the hens 
should lay straight through until the next 
moulting season. 
Plants for Carpeting 
C ERTAIN soft-foliaged herbaceous 
plants of dwarf growth will be 
found of value for carpeting purposes, es¬ 
pecially as a protection to spring-flowering 
bulbs. Among the species recommended 
for this purpose are the following: Accena, 
Achillea tomentosa, Arenaria Balcarica , 
Cerastium arvense com pactum, Chrysos- 
plenium oppositifolium, Crucianella sty- 
losa, Dianthus dcltoides, Gypsophila ceras- 
tioidcs, Gypsophila repens, Lamium macu¬ 
la-turn aureum, Sysimachia nummularia, 
Nocccca alpina, Sagina glabra, Saxifraga, 
Scduni album, Seduin obtusatum, Sedum 
sexaugulare, Thymus Serpyllum, Thymus 
lanuginosus, Veronica incana, Veronica re¬ 
pens compacta, Veronica Teucriuni dubia. 
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