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Dodson Bluebird ITouse, 4 
compartments. 21 in. high. 18 
in. in diameter. Price $5.00. 
Spring Will Bring the Birds 
A DODSON HOUSE 
Will Attract and Keep Them. 
But, Important^Erect Them 
Now So They May Weather. 
W HILE tliey are scientifically built to overcome 
the little peculiar features to which the birds ob¬ 
ject, an appearance of newness sometimes in¬ 
timidates the little feathered fellows, and tliey abhor 
fresh paint. Erected now they will weather, blending 
into the foiiage, and inviting immediate habitation. 
The first step toward beautifying your grounds is the 
erection of Dodson Bird Houses—as important as 
planting trees and shrubs. The trees and shrubs will 
thrive when protected by our native songbirds. They 
are invaluable for destroying insectivorous pests—and 
their beauty and song lend a finishing touch to Nature’s 
brush. Mr. Dodson will personally supervise the proper 
location of bird homes, if transportation is assured. 
Free Bird Book—Sent on Request 
—illustrating the Dodson Line, ghing prices; also beautiful 
colored bird picture free. 
Tnconli H rinrlcnn PrpfGdcnt Aiuerican Audjihon Assoc. 
JUocpil 11. L/UUoUll 731 Harrison Avenue, Kankakee, III. 
Dodson Sparrow Trap guaranteed to rid your community 
of these quarrelsome pests. Price $7.00. 
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Dodson Sesangular 
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Flicker House, IGV 2 
in. long, 12 in. wide, 
11 in. deep. 
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Price $5.00. 
Dodson Purple Martin 
House (cottage style) 28 
compartments. 32 x 27 in. 
Price $14.00. 
Dodson Wren House. 
4 compartments. 28 
in. high. 18 in. in 
diameter. Price $5.00. 
The Plumbing in Your Kitchen 
(Continued from page 86) 
must not be large enough to permit 
foreign matter to clog the pipes of the 
plumbing system. Very often it is wise 
to have a wire net over the outlet. 
Some sinks are equipped with stoppers 
and with cylindrical outlets familiar in 
our wash basins and bath tubs. In 
these sinks the water is kept in until 
it is time to release it, obviating the 
necessity of wash basins. Sunken out¬ 
lets are a nuisance to keep clean. 
Faucets 
Faucets are usually of metal, and high 
priced ones are of enamel. Some sinks 
have two sets of faucets, two in each 
set. Some have a higher faucet, a goose 
neck pattern, for filling carafes. The 
metal faucets are generally brass and 
nickel plated. Brass corrodes and is 
hard to keep clean. The nickel are very 
satisfactory but cost more. The enamel 
are quite ideal because the polishing is 
absolutely obviated. In this case it is 
a toss-up to the purchaser what it is 
best to save—time or money. Then 
there is the pressure faucet—the one 
which has to be held in order to get 
water out of it. These are quite hate¬ 
ful and ought never to be used unless 
the water price is almost prohibitive. 
Sometimes a foot pressure faucet is used 
in order that the worker may have his 
hands free for work. 
If your water pressure is extraor¬ 
dinarily high, try to get faucets on your 
sink with air chambers to take care of 
this extra pressure. And try, above all 
things, to buy faucets that emit a flow 
of water which does not splash the 
worker. 
Unless you are a skilled mechanic, 
don't try even to put a new washer in 
your faucet to stop a leak. Because, 
unless you are skilled, you may forget 
to shut the stop-cock which cuts off the 
sink from the main water supply, which 
may be under the sink or in the cellar. 
And to prevent a woeful catastrophy, 
don’t forget, if you leave your house 
unheated during the winter, to turn 
off the water in the cellar. 
Filters 
The question of filters, which are at¬ 
tached to faucets, is full of danger, as 
there are only a few good ones on the 
market, and those that are good can be 
rendered, through careless handling, 
much more of a menace than the or¬ 
dinary water supplied to you. The 
porcelain-like candle type is the best. 
The water sifts and filters through this 
porcelain candle. If this is sent away 
to be thoroughly baked, at regular in¬ 
tervals, according to the manufacturer’s 
description, it is useful; but, when this 
is not done, the filter becomes a breed¬ 
ing place for germs. Therefore, all 
things being unequal, boiled water is 
the safest insurance against germs. 
As for the refrigerator’s role, in the 
plumbing of the kitchen:—this is, of 
course, very important and very simple. 
It is necessary to keep noxious gases 
from the stored food. If possible, have 
a connection through the floor with the 
trap and pan in the cellar, as can be 
seen in the diagram. If this is impos¬ 
sible, have a trap and pan under the 
refrigerator which can be often emptied. 
It is, of course, convenient to have the 
ice box filled from the outside of the 
house rather than have the ice dragged 
through the kitchen. 
These are some excerpts from the 
plumbing code: 
Safe and Refrigerator Waste-Pipes 
Safe and refrigerator waste-pipes 
must be of galvanized iron, and be not 
less than 1%’’ in diameter nor larger 
than 1^" in diameter with pipe branches 
at least l" in diameter with strainers 
over each inlet. 
Safe and refrigerator waste-pipes 
shall not be trapped. They must ciis- 
charge over a properly water-supplied, 
trapped sink, with trap vented unless 
an approved anti-siphon trap is in¬ 
stalled in the manner specified in Rule 
91, such sink to be publicly placed, and 
not more than 4' above the floor. In 
no case shall any refrigerator or safe 
waste-pipe discharge over a sink be lo¬ 
cated in a room used for living purposes. 
The branches on vertical lines must 
be made by Y or TY fittings and car¬ 
ried up to the safe with as much pitch 
as possible. 
Where there is an offset on a refrig¬ 
erator waste-pipe in the cellar, there 
must be cleanouts to control the hori¬ 
zontal part of the pipe. 
In all lodgings and tenement houses 
the safe and refrigerator waste-pipes 
must extend above the roof. 
Homilies 
When I started to write this article I 
thought I would give specific plumbing 
rules, but the buying of fixtures is really 
all that is necessary for the housewife 
to know, as all first class plumbers know 
the rules of the code. So the best plan 
to adopt is to use the best plumber. 
Even if he be expensive, he will save you 
money in the end. And remember, 
always use one in your vicinity for, if 
you do not, you will be very unpopular, 
as you will know when some dire 
emergency emerges! 
If your pipes freeze in the winter, 
warm cloths until the plumber comes 
the the best remedy. 
If you build in a remote district, have 
your water tested by an expert on the 
spot, so that he can examine not only 
the water, but the source of its supply, 
and help you in settling where to build 
your well or pump, and where the cis¬ 
tern should go, etc., etc. 
After a new installation of plumbing 
is made, there is applied always a test 
like the peppermint smoke test, etc., to 
see if there are any leaks in the pipes. 
This is also accounted for in the plumb¬ 
ing code. 
Although not quite technically a 
plumbing fixture, there is a ventilating, 
self-cooled motor propellor fan, which 
is being put in kitchens, to keep the 
kitchen cool in summer, and to remove 
traces of excessive heat, steam smoke, 
and objectionable odors. 
Note: The writer is indebted to Ray 
Balderston’s Housewifery (Lippincott) 
for sketches of traps. 
