736 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 15 



MISCELLANEOUS HAND-BOOKS. 



3 I A B C Of Potato Culture, Terry** 35 



This is T. B. Terry's tirst and most mastei-ly work. Tlie book 

 has hai an enonuoud sale, and has been leprinted in foreign 

 languages. When we are thoroughly conversant with friend 

 Terry's system of raising potatoes, we shall be ready to han- 

 dle almost any farm crop successfully. It has 48 pages and 22 

 illustrations. 



5 I A B C of Carp Culture, by Geo. Flnley 35 



5 I A B C of Strawberry Culture, by T. B. Terry 



and A. I. Root, 144 pages; 33 illustrations 35 



5 I An EM'tr-F'iirm, Stoddard** 45 



I Aniai-eiir Pliotojiraplipr's Hand-book**. .. . 70 



I Barn Plans aud Out-Builduig-s* 1 -'lO 



I Canary Birds. Paper 50 



I Draining- for Profit and Health, Warring.. 1 .5(1 



10 I Fuller's Grape Culturist** 140 



1 Farming For Boys* 76 



This is one of Joseph Harris' happiest productions, and it 

 seems to me that it ought to make farm-life tascin.itiug to anj 

 boy who has any sort of taste for gardening. 



7 I Farm, Gardening, and Seed-Growing** 90 



This is by Francis Brill, the veteran seed-grower, and is the 

 only book on gardening that I am aware of that tells how 

 market-gardeners and seed-growers raise and harvest their 

 own seeds. It has 166 pages. 



12 I Gardening for Pleasure, Henderson* 1 85 



While '• Gardening for Profit "is written with a view of mak- 

 ing gardening pat, it touches a good deal on the pleasure part; 

 and "Gardennig for Pleasure " takes up this matter of be.iuti- 

 fyingyoiir homes and improving your grounds without the 

 special point in view of inaking monev out of It. I think most 

 of you will need this it yon get " Gar(^ening for Profit." This 

 work has 404 pages and 203 illustrations. 



13 I Gardening for Profit, new edition** 1 85 



This is a late revision of Peter Henderson's celebrated work. 

 Nothing that has ever before been put in print has done so 

 much toward making markets gardening a science and a fasci- 

 nating industry. Peter Henderson stands at the head, without 

 question, although we have many other books on these rural 

 employments. If you can get but one book, let it be the 

 above'. It has 376 pages and 138 cuts. 



I Gardening for Young and Old, Harris** ... 1 25 



Triis is Joseph Harris' best and happiest effort Although it 

 goes over the same ground occupied hy Peter Henderson, it 

 particularly einphnsize- thorough cultivation of the soil in 

 preparing your ground; and this matter of adipting it to 

 young people as well as old is brought out in a most happy 

 vein If your children have any sort of fancy for gardeningit 

 will pay von to make them a present of this hook. It has 187 

 pages and 46 engravings. 



10 I Garden and Farm Topics, Henderson** 75 



I Gray's Sclmol and Field Book of Botany. .. 1 80 



5 I Gregory on Cnlibjia-es; paper* 2f, 



5 Gregory on Squashes; paper* 25 



5 I Gregory on Onions; paper* 25 



The above three books, by our friend Gregory, are all val- 

 uable. The book on sqna.shes especially is good reading for 

 almost anybody, whether they raise squashes or not. It strikes 

 at the very foundation of success in almost any kind of 

 business. 



15 I How to Make the Garden Pay.** 1 35 



By i'. Greiner. This is a new book, just out, and it gives the 

 most explicit and full directions for gardening under glass of 

 any book in the world Those who are interested in hot-beds, 

 ooid-frames. cold-greenhouses, hot-houses or glass structures 

 of any kind for the growth of plants, can not afford to be with- 

 out the book. 



1 Handbook for lAimbermen 10 



10 I Household Conveniences .. 14*' 



3 i How to Propagate and Grow Fruit, Green* 15 



3 I Injurious Insects, Cook 25 



U) i Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Or- 



<>hard, Stewart* 1 40 



This book, so far as I am informed, is almost the only work 

 on this matter that is attracting so much interest, especially 

 recently, tfsing water from springs, brooks, or windmills, to 

 take the place of rain, during our great droughts, is the great 

 problem before us at the present day. The book has 274 pages 

 and 142 cuts. 



3 I Maple Sugar and the Sugar-bush** 35 



By Prof. A. J. Cook. This was written in the spring of 1887 at 

 my request. As the author has, perhaps, one of the finest 

 sugar-camps in the United States, as well as being an enthusi- 

 astic 'over of all farm industries, he is better fitted, perhaps, to 

 handle the suhiect than any other man. The book is written 

 in Prof Cook's h.appy style, combining wholesome moi-al les 

 sons with the l.Ttest and best method of managing to get thf 

 finest svrup and maple sugar, with the least possible expend! 

 ture of cash and labor. Everybody who makes siierar or mo- 

 lasses wants the sugar-book. It has 42 pages and 36 cuts. 



1 I Poultry for Pleasure and Profit** 10 



11 I Practical Floriculture, Henderson* 1 36 



10 I Profits in Poultry* 90 



2 I Practical Turkey-raising 10 



By Fanny Field. This is a 25-cent book which we offer for 10 

 cts.; postage, 2 cts. 



4 I Peabody's Webster's Dictionarj' 10 



Over 30,000 words and 250 illustrations 



2 I Rats: How to Rid Farms and Buildings of 

 them, as well as other Pests of like Char- 

 iicter 15 



This little book ought to be worth dollars instead of the few 

 cents it costs to any one who has ever been troubled with these 

 pests, and who has not? It is written in such a happy vein 



that every member of the family will read it clear through, 

 just about as soon as they get hold of it. It contains a com- 

 plete summing up of the best information the world can 

 furnish. 



1 I Silk and the Silkworm 10 



lu I Small-Fruit Culturist, Fuller 1 40 



10 I Success ill Market-Gardening* 90 



This is a new book by a real, live, enterprising, successful 

 market-gardener who lives in Arlington, a subui-b of Boston, 

 Mass. Friend Rawson has been one of the foremost to make 

 irrigation a practical success, and he now irrigates his grounds 

 by means of a windmill and steam-engine whenever a drought 

 threatens to injure the crops. The book has 208 pages, and is 

 nicely iUustratetl with 110 engravings. 



I Ten Acres Enoug:h 100 



I The Silo and Ensilage, by Prof. Cook, new 



edition, fully illustrated 26 



I Talks on Manures* 1 75 



This book, by Joseph Harris is, perhaps, the most compre- 

 hensive one we have on the subject, and the whole matter is 

 considered by an able writer. It contains 366 pages. 



2 I The Carpenter's Steel Square and its Uses. 15 

 10 I The New Agriculture; or, the Waters Led 



Captive 75 



3 I Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases 10 



5 1 Tile Drainage, by W. I. Chamberlain 35 



Just out. Fully illustrated, containing every thing of Im- 

 portance clear up to the present date. 



The single chaiiter on digging ditches, with the illustrations 

 given by Prof. Chamberlain, shuuld alone make the book 

 worth what it costs, to every one who has oc easioii to lay ten 

 rods or more of tile. There is as much science in digging as 

 in doing aliiii>st anything el>e; and liy ftdlowing the plan 

 diierteil in this hncik one man "'ill often du as much as two 

 men witliuiit tliis knowledge. The hook embracesevery thing 

 connected with tlie subject, and was written by the '^author 

 while he was enga ed in the work of digging the ditches and 

 laying the tiles HIMSELF, for he has laid literally miles of 

 tile on his own farm in Hudson, O. 



5 I Tomato Culture 35 



In three parts. Part first— by J. W. Da.v. of Crystal Springs, 

 Miss . treats of tomato culture in the South, with some re- 

 marks by A. I Root, adapting it to the North. Part second — 

 By D Cummins, of Conneaut. O.. treats of tomato culture 

 esiieciuliy for canning-factories. Part third— By A. I. Root, 

 treats of plunt-giiiwing for market, and high-pressure garden- 

 ing in general Tlli^ little book is interesting beuaiise it is one 

 of the flr-t rural books t ■ come fri>in our friemls in the South. 

 It tells of a great industry that li.as been steadily ui-owing for 

 some- yeai's jjast ; iiamelv, tomato-yrowing in the South to 

 sii|ipl.y till' Northern markets The little book, whu-h is fully 

 illusti'ateil. givis lis some pleasant glimpses oi the iiussibili- 

 t.es and )ii obaliilities of the future of S.mthe! n agiiculture. 

 Even though you do not grow tomatoes tu any considerable 

 extent, you will find the book brimful of suggestions of short 

 cuts in agricultu! e and horticulture, and especially in the line 

 of market-gardening. 



2 I The New Celery Culture 15 



This summing-up of this new Industry amounts to this: 

 You fix your ground just as rich as you can possiblj- get it, 

 with stable m.iuure. ihemical fertilizers, or any thing else that 

 will do the business. Then put out your plants 7 inches apart 

 each way. and give them water enough to make tliem boom 

 right along ft om the word go. The idea is somewhat new; 

 but enough succeeded in 1892 to demonstrate that, like the new- 

 onion culture, it promises great possibilities. 



3 I Winter Care of Horses and Cattle 35 



This is friend Terry's second book in regard to farm matters; 

 but it is so intimately connected with hit potato-book that it 

 reads almost like a sequel to it. If you havt only a hot se or a 

 cow. I think it will pay you to invest in the book Itha-^ 44 

 pages and 4 cuts. 

 8 I Whal to Do and How to be Happy While 



Doing It. by A. I. Root .50 



3 1 Wood's Common Objects of ihe Micro- 

 scope"'* .... 47 



NEW BOOKS ON GARDENING. 



3 1 Celery for Profit, by T. Greiner 25 



The first really full and complete book on celeiy culture, at 

 a moderate price, that we have had. It is full of pictures, 

 and the whole thing is made so plain that a schoolbo.y ought 

 to be able to grow paying crops at once, without any assis- 

 tance except from the book. 



3 I Onions for Profit 45 



Fully up to the times, and includes both the old onion cul- 

 ture and the new method The book i;- fudy illustrated, and 

 written with all the enthusiasm and interest that character- 

 ize its author, T. Greiner. Even if one is nut particularly in- 

 terested in the business, «lmost any person who picks up 

 Greiner's books will like to read them through. 



5 I Manures; How to Make and How to Use 



them ; i n paper covers 45 



6 I The same in cloth covers S5 



Covering the whole matter, and discussing every thing to be 



found on the farm, refuse from factories, mineral fertilizers 

 from mines, etc. It is a complete summing-up of the whole 

 matter. It is written by F. W, Sempers, 



7 I Market-gardening and Farm Notes, by 



Burnett Landreth 90 



The Landreths are the pioneer seedsmen of America; and 

 the book is worth fully as much as we might expect it to be. I 

 think I received hints from it worth the price, before it had 

 been in my hands fifteen minutes. It is exceedingly practical, 

 and tells what has been done and what is BRING done, more 

 than it discourses on theory. 



.-J. '. ROOT. Vedinn. O. 



