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House & Garden 
FESTFUL 
‘BEAUTY 
Let the restful solid colors ot Klear- 
flax Linen Rugs contribute this 
note to your bedrooms as they 
contribute restfulness, richness, 
simplicity, cheer, warmth, or 
coolness — according to color—to 
every room in the house. Their 
tight weave offers no chance for 
dust to collect. Mothproof, thick, 
heavy, flat-lying, reversible, they 
are as practical as they are artistic; 
as economical as they are unique; 
as useful as they are decorative. 
The charm of the Klearflax colors 
endures as long as the rugs endure. 
And the rugs are linen with all of 
linen’s sturdiness and charm. 
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At better class furniture and 
department stores everywhere. 
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room decoration? Then send for "The 
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number of scenes and tells you how you 
may vary the schemes. It also explains 
clearly and simply how to plan any 
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You can get Klearflax Linen Rugs in 
Taupe, Black, Blue, Greens, Grays, 
Browns, Rose, and natured Buff in these 
sizes and at these prices: 
27 x 54 in. $4-50 
30 x 60 in. 5.60 
36 x 72 in. 8.00 
x 754 ft. 15.00 
6 x 9 ft. 24.00 
8x10 ft. 35.60 
9 x 12 ft. 48.00 
12 x 15 ft. 80.00 
$4.00 per square 
yard in stock 
widths, any length. 
(Prices somewhat 
higher in far West 
and South). 
KLEARFLAX LINEN RUG CO. 
DULUTH, MINNESOTA 
New r York Office 212 Fifth Avenue 
For bathrooms, 
hospitals, and 
general sanitary 
uses, we recom¬ 
mend the Klear¬ 
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may be scrubbed 
and cleaned in¬ 
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color 
For £0 lor Harmony andLong Wi 
For £very T^oom in the House 
Honey Weather 
(Continued from page 39) 
see that when the honey now starts on 
the white clover, the bees do not have 
too much space in the brood chamber of 
the hive. It is well to arrange so that 
at this time every available cell in the 
brood combs is occupied by a young 
larva. As long as the cell is being used 
to rear brood it cannot be used to store 
honey, and as a result the bees are 
forced to carry their plunder “upstairs” 
and store it in the supers provided for 
that purpose. In some cases, bee keep¬ 
ers remove several of the brood combs 
and replace them with solid wooden 
spacers. In this way the size of the 
brood chamber is contracted and the 
bees are compelled to store in the supers. 
This, however, will have a tendency to 
provoke swarming — which suggests 
something else. 
The bee keeper must do all that he 
can to prevent his bees from swarming 
if he desires to secure the most honey 
even in a good season. One of the prin¬ 
cipal ways to prevent such trouble is to 
remove the queen cells as fast as they 
are formed. Every frame of brood 
should be removed and examined not 
less than once a week, and if a queen 
cell is found it should be removed. The 
The Roof that Is 
(Continued f 
would tend to become of the same tem¬ 
perature as the outside air. In winter, 
interior heat would escape. In summer, 
exterior heat would enter. Nevertheless, 
where climatic conditions do not call for 
an insulated roof, this construction would 
be not only adequate but commendable 
as well. In adopting this method of 
laying shingles, three conditions must be 
specified if the very best results are de¬ 
sired : 
First, the nailing strips should not 
be less than 1)4” in thickness. This 
assures a rigid nailing for the shingles 
and precludes the possibility of the 
shingle nails penetrating the strips. 
Second, the nailing-strips should be 
not more than 2" in width. Then the 
open spaces between the strips will af¬ 
ford an ample area of ventilation to the 
underside of the shingles. 
Third, the nailing strips . should be 
laid a distance on centers exactly equal 
to either one-third or one-quarter the 
total length of a shingle. This precau¬ 
tion assures a solid bearing for the up¬ 
per ends of the shingles and, for that 
reason, it restricts the weather-exposure 
of the shingles to an exact multiple of 
their length. In other words, a 16" 
shingle should be exposed to the weather 
either 4" or 5 1/3", depending upon the 
steepness of the roof. All of these 
points are clearly illustrated in detail at 
“B” in sketch No. 1. 
The construction depicted in sketch 
No. 2 possesses the one advantage that 
the former lacks: it affords insulation 
bees as a rule will not swarm 
they succeed in raising a new queen, in 
which case the old queen will lead out 
the swarm. If, as sometimes happens, 
the bees insist upon swarming, the bee 
keeper should practice a little deception 
in order to keep them satisfied. He 
should provide an empty hive, empty of 
bees but provided with brood frames, 
preferably with partly filled ones bor¬ 
rowed from other hives. The hive 
containing the uneasy colony should 
be set slightly to one side and the new 
hive set in its place. Then the bees 
should be shaken from the old frames 
into the new hive. This seems to give 
the bees all of the satisfaction of swarm¬ 
ing and they usually settle down and go 
to work. Their numbers have not been 
diminished, they are contented and in¬ 
dustrious, and the bee keeper is just that 
much ahead. A few bees will always 
return to the old hive and these will 
rear the brood that was left and in time 
will build up a new colony. The bee 
keeper may prefer to use the frames of 
the old hive to replace borrowed frames 
from other colonies or to build up colo¬ 
nies that are weak in brood. In any 
event, there will be no loss. 
Made of Shingles 
rom page 44) 
against exterior heat or cold. Heavy 
building paper or felt, amply lapped, is 
laid upon a solid backing of boards. 
Upon this the strips are applied. In 
this case, the strips need be only 1", or 
even less, in thickness, for the shingle 
nails can here be driven through them 
and into the boarding beneath. 
The air spaces, created by the inter¬ 
vention of the strips between the shin¬ 
gles and boarding, must admit of a free 
circulation of air underneath the shin¬ 
gles; otherwise their evident purpose of 
preserving the shingles against sweating, 
and consequent decay, would result in 
an effect just the opposite. 
There are two methods of securing 
this very necessary ventilation in a roof 
of this type. The most efficient way is 
to leave the intervening spaces open to 
the outer air at the gable ends. Another 
way is to lay the shingles with uncom¬ 
monly wide joints—say a half inch, or 
even a full inch, across. This last 
method results in other advantages: it 
allows water to drain off rapidly, be¬ 
cause of the open joints, and thus makes 
for the further durability of the shingles. 
Again, it allows for lateral expansion of 
the shingles and thereby eliminates a«y 
tendency of them to bulge outwardly 
away from the roof. In fact it would 
be highly commendable to adopt both of 
the above-described methods of ventila¬ 
tion, thus assuring of a continuous cir¬ 
culation of air under and between the 
shingles. By so doing, many years will 
have been added to the serviceable life 
of a shingled roof. 
The War Garden for Next Winter 
(Continued from page 29) 
leaves are covered with the soil. 
Pumpkins: Winter Luxury, Quaker 
Pie. Sow in well enriched hills, about 
June 1st. One packet of seed will plant 
about eight hills. When they begin to 
grow vigorously, thin out to two plants 
per hill. Watch out for the squash 
bugs. To save space, the hills may be 
made between the corn rows. 
Squash: Delicata, Fordhook, Hub¬ 
bard, Boston Marrow. Sow before 
June 15th. One packet of seed will do 
eight hills. The general treatment is 
similar to that for pumpkins. 
With these crops properly grown and 
harvested, you will be assured of the 
products of your war garden carrying 
you well through next winter. Storing 
them away in trench or root cellar is 
another story, of course, but it will be 
described and fully illustrated in these 
pages during the early autumn. 
Prevent Waste of 
Perishable Food— 
The U. S. Food Administra¬ 
tion in a recent Bulletin 
says :— 
“If we can reduce the waste 
and unnecessary consumption of 
food, by a matter of only six 
cents a day, we shall have saved 
two billion dollars a year.”—Bul¬ 
letin No. 7—p. 14. 
Think what that means! The mul¬ 
tiplication of small savings—tea- 
spoonsful, slices, pieces, left-overs, 
etc., by 100,000,000 people—shows 
what an enormous aggregate saving 
of food can be made in America's 
20,000,000 kitchens. 
Sanitary Refrigerators 
prevent waste and spoilage of perish¬ 
able foods by keeping them fresh and 
healthful. The McCRAY Patented 
System of Refrigeration gives a con¬ 
stant circulation of cold, dry air, 
which prevents tainting or odors. 
Any McCRAY Refrigerator can be 
arranged with outside icing door for 
icing from the side or rear porch. 
I his permits the milkman to put the 
milk on the ice immediately — it also 
keeps the iceman with his muddy 
tracks outside your kitchen and re¬ 
lieves you entirely of this annoyance. 
Let us send you. our catalog which illustrates 
and describes. a great variety of stock sizes— 
ranging in price from $40 up. Special sizes are 
built to order for particular requirements or to 
match the interior finish. Ask for catalog — 
No. 93 for Residences 
No. 71 for Grocers and Delicatessens 
No. 62 for Meat Markets 
No. 51 tor Hotels, Restaurants and Clubs 
McCRAY REFRIGERATOR CO. 
816 Lake Street Kendallville, Ind. 
Salesrooms in All Principal Cities 
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