EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUT SOME 
OF OUR GIFTS NOTED ON PAGE 27. 
You really LOSE if you MISS this! 
GREEN THUMB GLOVES 
The head of our Gift Dep’t is a hard work- 
ing Gardener and not the “rocking chair” 
variety. Therefore and when this item shown 
in these pictures was submitted for approval, 
we quickly found that such approval was 
hardly necessary. Not because GREEN 
THUMB gloves were nationally advertised 
in the leading Garden Magazines like Better 
Homes & Gardens, Sunset, American Home, 
Popular Gardening, House Beautiful, Flower 
Grower, House & Garden, etc., but because 
almost every “Lady and Gentleman of the 
Garden” knew them so well they could say 
“It’s just the finest pair of Gloves money can 
buy, not alone for “earthy” service but for 
Auto driving and general utility use inside and 
outside of the house.” 
For the women a chamois-colored fabric, 
vinyl-impregnated to shed dirt, etc. For the 
men a heavier vinyl-treated fabric of a darker 
shade resembling leather. Protects hands from 
contact with Plant Foods, Insecticides, wet and 
greasy materials, etc., and yet that instant 
“slip into and out of feeling” is unbelievably 
comfortable. Not like a pair of binding canvas 
gloves that even sell at a higher price and give 
a third as much rough usage. 
Can be washed and stored away 
for use in many subsequent years. 
Each pair comes packed in a plastic 
bag. 
GREEN THUMB gloves actually 
have a green colored thumb and a 
chamois finish and finally tailored or 
styled so that it resembles a finished 
dress glove but with “room galore” 
for easy movement in tight planting 
spots. 
At any rate when you can say 
“this or that article outsells all other 
merchandise of similar nature’ — 
What is there left to say? 
SIZES (for women) come in three 
sizes (1) SMALL (2) MEDIUM 
and (3) LARGE. Only one full size 
for men. 
The popular size (about 65% 
demand) is MEDIUM, then about 
20% SMALL and 15% LARGE. 
State whether gloves are for women 
or men. 
THE 1954 HOME GARDEN GUIDE 
This Annual 100 page GUIDE is so new with each publica- 
tion that no well versed gardener can afford (for the newsstands 
price of 50c) to be without it. It is a very wonderful help and if it 
did not enjoy big circulation you probably couldn't put this in- 
formation together for $10.00 a copy and that is our honest 
opinion of it—not one cent of profit to us for saying so—Our 
same customers come back yearly and ask whether we will again 
offer it. vo, just couldn’t have a better book on Gardening around 
the house. 
From Wisconsin—‘‘Yesterday your F.S.B. arrived and I have just finished 
reading your ‘Little Red Schoolhouse Lesson’ on PLANT FOOD ioe och 
am a comparatively large user of plant food for a 6 acre lawn. It has been 
costing me a great deal each season as I fertilize twice each year, and it has 
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USEFUL INFORMATION 
To find diameter of a circle multiply circumference by 
1834; 
To find circumference of a circle multiply diameter by 
3.1416. : 
To find area of a circle multiply square of diameter by 
7854. 
To find surface of a ball multiply square of diameter by 
3.1416. 
To find side of an equal square multiply diameter by 
8862. 
To find cubic inches in a ball multiply cube of diameter 
by .5236. 
Doubling the diameter of a pipe increases its capacity four 
times. 
Double riveting is from 16 to 20 per cent. stronger than 
single. 
One cubic foot of anthracite coal weighs about 53 pounds. 
One cubic foot of bituminous coal weighs from 47 to 
50 pounds. 
One tone of coal is equivalent to two cords of wood for 
steam purposes. 
A gallon of water (U. S. Standard) weighs 8% lbs. and 
contains 231 cubic inches. 
There are nine square feet of heating surface to each 
square foot of grate surface. 
A cubic foot of water contains 714 gallons, 1,728 cubic 
inches, and weighs 6214 Ibs. 
Each nominal horse power of a boiler requires 30 to 35 
lbs. of water per hour. 
A horse power is equivalent to raising 33,000 Ibs. one ft. 
per min., or 550 lbs. one foot per second. 
A horse power—42.41 B. t. u. per minute. 
1 B.t. u. (British thermal unit)—778 foot-pounds. 
To find the pressure in pounds per square inch of a 
column of water, multiply the height of the column in feet 
by .434. 
DON’T DESTROY THESE 
Bees—Useful pollenizers and almost indispensable to a 
continuance of a large percentage of plant life. 
Birds—Insect devouring sorts should be encouraged by 
placing Bird Houses in the garden. 
Dragon Flies—Feed on a great variety of injurious in- 
sects. 
Tree Crickets—Feed on plant dice. 
Ground Beetles—In both larval and adult stages feed 
on such insects as go underground to purpate. 
“Lady Bug’ Beetles—Feed on plant lice and scale in- 
sects, both in larval and adult stages. 
Wasps—Generally beneficial because predatory upon other 
insects which they use as food for their larvae. 
Lace-Wing Flies—Known as “Aphis Lions” in the larval 
stage when they feed on plant lice and many soft bodied 
leaf eating grubs. 
Hornets—Feed almost entirely on insects. 
Frogs and Toads—Feed largely on insects and slugs. 
Lizards—Live on small beetles and other insects. 
Garden Spiders—Feed in large flies, small moths, etc. 
always made me mad to pay so much for the spreader (filler) part of the food but 
I had no idea there is so much of it (in a ton). I pay as much for this PLUS 
the extra shipping charges as for the food materials.” 
