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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 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 
&ntique£ 
interior SDccoration 
MRS. HERBERT NELSON CURTIS 
22 East 34th Street NEW YORK CITY 
TELEPHONE 2970 MADISON 
ANTIQUES 
HAND BRAIDED RUGS 
Send 4c. in stamps for catalog and lists 
RALPH WARREN BURNHAM 
IPSWICH IN MASSACHUSETTS 
Have you an odd piece ot furniture, silver, china, or bric-a-brac you would like to dispose of ? 
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We are glad to advise buyers of antiques as to reliable dealers on request 
Address Manager Antique Dept., House & Garden, 449 Fourth Ave., New York 
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Cocks, in the proportion of one to ten 
hens, should be associated with the flock 
for six weeks prior to selection of eggs 
for hatching. 
(4) Grain scattered among clean grass 
or clover keeps the fowls busy for a long 
time. Where ground is soggy and tram¬ 
pled, however, grain should be fed from 
troughs. 
(5) Any device which will prevent 
the fowls from getting into a two-quart 
pail will render it as satisfactory as a 
fountain. 
(6) I would supply a laying flock of 
forty hens with about twenty nests. 
(7) Ground oyster-shell and other 
grit should be kept always before the 
fowls. Salt may be supplied with 
mashes, and charcoal may be given fre¬ 
quently, either in the feed or in the grit- 
box. Where fowls are healthy, the con¬ 
stant supply of the latter material is not 
essential. 
(8) Grit is any hard substance made 
available by being pounded or ground 
into small particles. It must be hard 
enough to maintain a cutting edge in the 
gizzard of the fowl. As it is constantly 
wearing smooth by the natural and contin¬ 
uous grinding motion therein, fresh sup¬ 
plies are vital to the well-being of the bird. 
Ranging fowls swallow gravel stones, bits 
of crackery, shell and particles of coal. It 
is safe to supply these substances pro¬ 
portionately. M. Roberts Conover 
Death in Cabbage Leaves, 
OW that the season of storing in 
cellars has come, men of science 
are again sounding the warning note 
against the cabbage. Don’t, don't allow 
them to rot and remain in the cellar, pol¬ 
luting the air and furnishing a soil for 
the propagation of diphtheria baccilli. 
The physician who, on being called to 
treat two diphtheria patients in the same 
family, demanded permission to visit the 
cellar, was asked what he expected to find 
there, and answered, ‘‘Cabbages, madam ; 
cabbages every time," shocked an entire 
community into an inspection of the cel¬ 
lars, which resulted in arresting the 
spread of the dread disease. 
The family doctor who knows will 
admit that there is nothing so fertile in 
the production of diphtheria germs as 
cabbage leaves if allowed to decay, unless 
it be an open well infested by slugs and 
fish worms. This, however, common 
sense will teach us to fear; but many 
have no precedent with which to estab¬ 
lish a righteous dread of the deadly cab¬ 
bage leaf. Decaying vegetables of all 
kinds are germ producers and should be 
carefully removed as fast as they appear; 
but the cabbage leaves especially are pre¬ 
cursors of disease when allowed to re¬ 
main and decay. 
Maude E. S. Hymers 
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