Plan Your Outdoor Living Room Now and Enter Race for Twenty
The California Nursery Co of Niles offers a $20 prize for best outdoor living room in Yard and Garden contest. Plan this spring to extend indoor living outdoors with careful layout, plant choices, and cooperation from your nurseryman.
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California Nursery Co
Niles
Hayward Yard
Minerals from Desert Sands Feed Chick Nutrients
A long feature describes a desert mineral deposit at Lahonton as a source of essential trace elements for poultry. It explains minerals support protein and carbohydrate use, prevent malnutrition, and notes calcium and phosphorus dominate skeletal mineral content.
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Old Lake
Lahonton
Nature
Expense of Ground Is Amply Justified
Ground is expensive yet justified by air and light around the house and space for drying clothes refuse coal delivery keeping a car recreation for children and a bit of garden. The home extends to the lot lines and should be arranged in an orderly compact fashion for living outside the walls.
Planting Garden Harmony With Home as Centerpiece
Sunset Magazine urges placing the house as the dominant feature in garden design. Trees and shrubs should harmonize with the home and hide objectionable details. Window boxes add homey charm and complete the atmosphere per Natt N Dodge.
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Natt N. Dodge
Do You Realize Affordable Forest Summer Home Sites
The article highlights government forest land offers for one acre or less with annual rents from 5 to 25 dollars, requiring minimum improvements of 2750 dollars. It notes sites open to municipalities and groups, first come first served, with guidance from forest officers.
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West
United
Forestry Service
Boy Scouts
California
Echo
Tahoe-Placerville Way
Grand
California's Cup of Gold
The text presents a poetic line by Joaquin Miller praising the golden poppy as a divine and uplifting emblem. It contrasts wealth with spiritual value, noting the flower’s gold-like beauty that elevates without burden and is freely shared through singing and laughter across distant ranks.
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Joaquin Miller
Colorful Decor Advice From Edgar Witeman
A columnist quotes Edgar H. Witeman warning that too little color in home furnishings makes rooms flat and uninteresting, while avoiding overly brilliant color. He stresses balanced palettes to enhance interior spaces.
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Edgar H. Witeman
Varnish Protects Iron Work From Rust and Weather
A rust preventive varnish coats iron work to shield against rust and weathering. The minor time and effort needed adds years to a house’s life.
Praised Gladiolus Helen Wills Leads Pure White Variety
A horticulturist extols Helen Wills as an outstanding pure white gladiolus. Other varieties include Betty Nuthall and Sibach’s Pink. The piece notes outdoor room furniture can enhance property value, with living plant materials needing time to grow for outdoor furnishings.
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Helen Wills
Betty Nuthall
Ssibach
Carl Sibach
California
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The excerpt presents a verse line about ships steering by sails and winds rather than gales, attributed to Ella Wheeler Wilcox, focusing on direction and determination.
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Anotte
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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