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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
ANTIQUE FURNITURE 
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HENRY V. WEIL 
698 Lexington Avenue 
Cor. 57th Street New York 
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22 East 34th Street NEW YORK CITY 
TELEPHONE 2970 MADISON 
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THE LURE OF 
THE ANTIQUE 
By Walter A. Dyer 
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449 Fourth Avenue, New York. 
December, 1910 j 
Utilizing Poultry Manure 
T HE fertilizer obtained from 250 hens 
brought me in a crop of potatoes 
: 
that sold for $75, and three crops of grass, 
the value of which was estimated at $75, 
a total of $150, or 60 cents per fowl. 
These same fowls netted me a profit from 
fancy stock, eggs and poultry of $1.40 
each, and adding the value of the manure 
makes a profit of $2 per head. 
Underneath the roosts I made a pen 
by nailing boards eight inches in width 
around the framework that supported the 
perches. This kept the manure from be^ 
ing scratched into the litter. From time 
to time I added a layer of earth. The lat¬ 
ter part of the winter a good deal of this 
compost was removed and placed in a 
heap outside the building. The boards 
were removed around the framework of 
the perches and the hens allowed to mix 
litter, dirt and manure together. Several 
tons of cheap run hay had been reduced 
to a powder during the winter, and this 
general mixture was spread broadcast 
over pasture land somewhat run out, and 
plowed under to the depth of seven or 
eight inches. The land was harrowed and 
deep furrows made three and a half feet 
apart. The compost that had been piled 
up out doors was used in the hills placed 
twenty inches apart. A shovelful of this 
compost sufficed for a dozen hills. The 
potatoes were dropped a little to one side 
of the manure. The potato vines were 
the most luxuriant I have ever seen, and 
farmers passing by often asked what I 
used in the hill to make the vines grow so 
large. They turned out at the rate of 400 
bushels to the acre and the percentage of 
unsalable ones was very small. There 
was scarcely a scabby potato in the lot. 
Since that time I have discarded fer¬ 
tilizers entirely and use hen manure in its 
stead for all crops. The mistake most 
people make is in undervaluing the 
strength of hen manure and putting too 
much in the hill. A large tablespoonful 
to a hill is sufficient for corn or potatoes. 
Hen manure used around fruit trees 
causes a rapid growth and great produc¬ 
tiveness. There is a farm in the southern 
part of this state where 8,000 to 10,000 
hens are kept, and their manure is spread 
around apple trees that have been set out 
and others that have been grafted. This 
has been going on for a number of years 
until to-day the owner harvests 10,000 
barrels of Baldwin apples in a season. 
Distemper—Its Prevention 
and Cure. 
T HE average man, for obvious reasons, 
buys his dog when it is two or three 
months old, and as a consequence has to 
nurse it through all the ailments to which 
puppies, just as babies, fall heir to. With 
a little common sense and ordinary care 
most of these “children’s diseases” can be 
easily met. There remains, however, one, 
which is the bugaboo of every dog owner: 
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