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��A great cooker for campers, and a boon to the housewife in summer

You Can Carry It in Your Hand and It Saves Fuel

IT is expensive as well as un- comfortable, in warm weather, to use a gas oven when the same result can be obtained by using one of the burners on the top of the stove. But how can you roast on such a burner, you ask? The answer is found in an effi- cient cooker which has recently made its appearance.

The new cooker, built of cold rolled steel, consists of six parts — an asbestos- lined hood, a base with a removable heat deflector (also asbestos-lined), a perfora- ted corrugated circular steel plate which acts as an equalizer for the heat, and a wire stand. Extra strength is obtained in the manner in which the corners of the base and hood are folded

When used as an oven the cooker bakes perfectly. It is large enough to bake two loaves of bread at once, a fowl or enough of any food sufficient for the din- ner of an average family. The equalizer, used without the hood, is of great assist- ance in cooking or frying as it spreads the heat evenly under the pot or i)an.

���No Footprints Are Left by the Gasoline Lawn-Mower

THE lawns of the golf-club need trim- ming and the horse-drawn mower has been at work since early morning. Up the gentle slopes and down again on the other side old Dobbin is pulling the heavy cutter. When the blades of the mower encounter thicker grass, Dobbin slows up and the increase of resistance caused by a little hummock is sufficient to make him stop altogether, until a sleepy "Gidap" from the driver stirs him to a renewal of his labor. Streaks and holes appear at intervals, which in- variably cause dissatisfaction on the part of the goiters.

Because of Dobbin's inefficiency a western country golf club decided to purchase the converted Ford motor lawn-mower shown in the accompanying illustration. It leaves no hoofprints, does not tear up the sod and pulls with such evenness that the grass is almost as smooth as the top of a billiard table. Besides, it does the work of two horse teams and at a smaller cost.

The tractor consists of a reg- ular Ford runabout model with wide metal wheels in the rear. It i^ run on second gear when pulling the mower and is provided with a water pump to circulate the engine water properly at the continuous low speed. To prevent the water from being spilled out of the radiator when the tractor is going down sharp inclines, a gallon can it attached to the radiator cap as shown in the accompanying illustration.

���Hitch your Ford to a lawn-mower and you will secure a velvety lawn without giving a horse nervous prostration

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