TIMELY HINTS FOR FARMERS. 



THE FARMER'S READING COURSE. 

 Sequel to No. 19, October i. 



Appreciating, in connection with the agriculture of a new 

 and but partly developed Territory, the unusual value to the 

 Arizona farmer of scientific information regarding the land of 

 his adoption, the Station, last October, offered a small but carefully 

 selected library for the winter's reading at cost price to those 

 who desired. 



As was suggested in the invitation to join the Reading 

 Course, though Nature bestows her blessings with liberal hand 

 upon the Arizona farmer, yet the perplexities which confront 

 him are many. With the problems of irrigation, culture, be- 

 havior of plants and animals under new climatic conditions, the 

 management of drouth and alkali, excessive heat and treacherous 

 frosts, each day is likely to afford new food for reflection. 



In this region, indeed, it is more than usually true that the 

 farmer should understand those forces of Nature which are at 

 work all around him, and should grasp those principles of the 

 high art of farming which may be made to serve his welfare in a 

 thousand ways. 



In accordance with this plan, the following library was col- 

 lected and issued to some sixteen subscribers to the course : 



Principles of Agriculture, by L. H. Bailey. 



The Soil, by F. H. King. 



A //and/?il of Soil, by R. S. Tarr, in Cornell Nature-Study 

 Quarterly No. 2. 



Nature, Value and Utilization of Alkali Lands, California 

 Experiment Station Bulletin 128, by E. W. Hilgard. 



Salt River Valley Soils, Arizona Experiment Station Bul- 

 letin 28. 



Balanced Rations for Stock, Cornell Reading Lesson No. 1. 



