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tions of the State and National government. The agricultural papers 

 are today giving the farmer some very valuable reading matter and 

 I feel no hesitancy in urging every farmer to subscribe for one or 

 more of these journals. 



If his work is along a special line, as dairying or poultry raising, 

 he will have no trouble in finding periodicals published by specialists 

 in his line. Or if his work be that of general farming, such as stock 

 raising and the growing of crops, he can easily find good and reliable 

 publications edited by men who are or have been successful farmers. 



I now come to that part of this paper that should interest every 

 farmer who has not provided for himself a library. I refer to the 

 publications published by the State and National government. These 

 publications are compiled by men who are wholly free from bias and 

 in every way eminently qualified to write upon these subjects. These 

 are for the most part sent free, and when a price is charged, it is 

 merely the cost of publication. They cover most every conceivable 

 phase of farming and are issued in book and pamphlet form. Those 

 to be had in book form are the Year Book and other prints of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, and the annual reports of 

 the various State boards of agriculture. Those to be had in pamphlet 

 form and possibly the most interesting and useful to the farmer are 

 the Farmers' Bulletins issued by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture and the experiment stations of the dififerent states. 



Now as this is written in part as a guide to farmers who are 

 desirous of collecting books and publications for a farmer's library, 

 I will give what in my judgment are some of the many books and 

 publications that are worthy a place in every farmer's library. No 

 farmer's library would be considered complete without such text 

 books as "The Soil," by King; "Fertility of the Soil," by Roberts; 

 "Animal Breeding," by Miles; "Horse Breeding," by Saunders; 

 "Feeds and Feeding." by Henry; "Veterinary Adviser," by Laws; 

 "The Domestic Sheep." by Henry Stewart; "Swine Husbandry," by 

 Coburn ; "Judging Live Stock," by Craig; "Poultry Farming," by 

 Felch; "Principles of Vegetable Gardening," by Bailey; "Principles 

 of Fruit Growing," by Bailey: "Bush Fruits," by Fred Card; "Fruit 

 Harvesting and Marketing," by Waugh ; "Insects and Insecticides," 

 by Weed ; "Strawberry Culture." by Fuller. I would include in this 

 list on Horticulture, the Annual Reports of the State Horticultural 

 Society. 



Among the publications of the State and National government 

 I would recomend the annual reports and bulletins of the different 

 States and the Year Book and Farmers' Bulletins of the department 



