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cows; when to cut forage crops; lippia or fog fruit; pithiness in celery; irrigation of 

 strawberries; farmers' fruit garden; management of orchards; tropical and subtrop- 

 ical fruits; China asters; preserving sweet potatoes; food value of beans; tankage for 

 pigs, and remedies for tleas. 



The farmer's business handbook, I. P. Kohkrts [Xew Yorl^ and Lundoii: The 

 Mdonllkm Company, 190S, jjp. XIII-*roOO) . — The object of this book (one of the 

 Rural Science Series) is to encourage the average farmer to adopt more business-like 

 methods. It treats of the simpler forms of farm accounts, and the commoner and 

 more usual aspects of law as applied to rural matters. It also contains agricultural 

 inventories from the Twelfth U. S. Census. 



Destruction by lightning in Ontario, 1902, J. B. Reynolds [Ontario Agr. <.'oI. 

 and III- j if. Farm lijit. lUO.:!, pp. 0-11). — Statistics are given of damage to buildings, 

 trees, stock, and persons. 



