1893 



GLEAxNlNGS IN HEE CULTURE. 



797 



MISCELLANEOUS HAND-BOOKS. 



3 I A B Cof Potato Culture, IViry** 35 



This is T. B. Terry's first ami iii..^t masterly work. The book 

 has hai au enoriuuus .sale, ;iiiil has Ijieii leiiriiiteil in foreifjn 

 languages. When weare thoi-ouH-hly cinversant with friend 

 Terry's system of raisinLC potatoes, we shall he ready to han- 

 dle almost any farm crop successf ullj'. It has 48 pages and 22 

 illustrations. 



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



5 I A B Cof Strawberry Culture, by T. B. Terry 



and A. I. Root, 144 pages; 32 ilhisti-ations 35 



5 I An Eati-f^'urni. Stortflard** 45 



I Amai-pur PhotouTiiplier's Haiifl-bdok'*'*. .. 70 



I Barn Plans and Oul-Buildings* 1 oU 



I Canary Birds. Paper 50 



I Draining for Profit and Health, Warring.. 1 50 



10 I Fuller's Grape Culturist'^'^ 140 



I Farming- For Boys* 75 



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

 seems to me that it ouyht to make farm-life fascinating to any 

 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 irardening that 1 am aware of that tells how 

 market-gardeners and seed-growers raise and harvest their 

 own seeds. It has 166 pages. 



IS I Gardening for Pleasure, Henderson* 1 85 



while " Gardening for Prolit "is written witli a view of mak- 

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

 and "Gardening for Pleasure " takes up this matter of beauti- 

 fying your homes and improving your grounds without the 

 special point in view of making money out of it. I think most 

 of you will need this if you get " Garrieiiing for Profit." Thif 

 work has 404 pages and 203 illustrations. 



12 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 market 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 35 



This is Joseph Harris' best and happiest effort. Although it 

 goes over the same ground occupied by Peter Henderson, it 

 particularly emphasizes thorough cultivation of the soil iij 

 preparing "your ground; and this matter of adapting it to 

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

 vein. If your children have any sort of fancy foi gardening it 

 will pay you to make them a present of this book. It has 187 

 pages arid 46 engravings. 



10 I Garden and Farm Topics, Henderson** 75 



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



5 I Gregory on Cabbages; paper* 25 



5 I Gregory on Squashes; paper* 25 



5 1 Gregory on Onions; paper* 35 



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

 uable. The book on squashes 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 ■!. Greiner. This is a new book, just out, and it gives the 

 most explicit and full directions for gaidening under glass of 

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

 cold-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. 



I Handbook for Lumbermen 10 



10 I Houseliold Conveniences 1 4(i 



2 I How to Propagate and Grow Fruit, Green* 15 



2 I Injurious Insects, Cook 25 



10 I Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Or- 



chard, Stewart* 140 



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

 on this matter that is attracting so much interest, especially 

 recently. Using 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 h.as 274 pagei- 

 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 lover of all farm industries, he is better titled, perhaps, to 

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

 in Prof. Cook's happy style, combining wholesome moral les 

 sons with the latest and best method of managing to get the 

 flne.st syrup and maple sugar, with the least possible expendi 

 ture of cash and labor. Everybody who makes sugar or mo 

 lasses wants the sugar-book. It has 42 pages and 3.5 cuts. 



1 I Poultry for Pleasure and Profit** 10 



11 I Practical Floriculture, Henderson* \ 3r> 



10 1 Profits in Poultry* 90 



2 I Practical Turkey-raising 10 



By p-anny Field. This is a 2.i-cent book which we offer for 10 



Cts.; postage. 2 cts. 



4 I Peabody's Webster's Dictionary 10 



Over 30,000 words and 2.i0 illustrations. 

 2 I Kats: How to Rid Farms and Buildings of 

 them, as well as other Pests of like Char- 

 acter 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 asthey 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 



10 I Small-Fruit Culturist, Fuller 140 



10 I Success in 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 crop-*. The book has 208 pages, and if 

 nicely illustrated with 110 engravings. 



! Ten Acres Enough 1 00 



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



edition, fully illustrated 26 



I Talks on Manures* 175 



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. 



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

 10 I The New Agriculture; or, tlie Waters Led 



Captive 75 



3 I Treatise on tlie Horse and his Diseases 10 



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



Just out. Fully illustiated, containing every thing of im- 

 portance clear up to the present date. 



The single chapter on digging ditches, with the illustrations 

 given by Prof. Chamberlain, should alone make the book 

 wortli what it costs, to every one who has occasion to lay ten 

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

 in doing almost any thing else; and by following the plan 

 directed in this book, one man will often do as much as two 

 men without this knowledge. The book embraces every thing 

 connectetl with the 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. Day, of Crystal Springs, 

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

 marks by. \. I Root, ad.apting it to the North. Part second- 

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

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

 treats of plant-growing for market, and high-pressure garden- 

 ing in general. This little book is interesting because it is one 

 of the first rural books to come from our friends in the South. 

 It tells of a great industry that has been steadily growing for 

 some years ))ast; namel.v, tomato-growing in the South to 

 supply the Nortbern markets. The little book, which is fully 

 illusti-ated, gives lis some pleasant glimpses of the jiossibih- 

 ties and piobabilil ics of the future of Southern agi-iculture. 

 Even though you do not grow tomatoes to any considerable 

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

 cuts in agriculture 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: 



Yon fix your ground just as rich as you can possibly get it, 

 with stable manure, chemical 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 them boom 

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

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

 onion culture, it pi'omises 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 hi; potato-book that it 

 reads almost like a sequel to it. If you have only a horse or a 

 cow, I think it will pa.v you to invest in the book. It has 44 

 pages and 4 cuts. 



8 I What to Do and How to be Happy While 



Doing It, by A. I. Root 50 



3 I Wood's Common Objects of the Micro- 

 scope** ■ 47 



NEW BOOKS ON GARDENING. 



3 I Celery for Profit, by T. Greiner 25 



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

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

 and the whole tiling is made so jjlain that a schoolboy ought 

 to be abh- 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 is fully illustrated, and 

 written with all the enthusiasm and interest that character- 

 ize its author. T. (lieiner. lOven if one is not particularly in- 

 terested in llie business, abiiost anv person who picks up 

 Greiner's books will like to read them through. 



5 I Manures; How to Make and How to Use 



them; in ptiper covers 45 



6 1 The same in cloth C(jver8 65 



Covering the whole matter, and discussing every thing to be 

 found on the firm, refuse from factoiies, 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 Landretbs are the pioneer seedsmen of .America; and 

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

 think I received hints from it worth tlie juice, liefore it had 

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

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

 than it discourses on theory. 



A.. I. RaOT, Aledina, Ohio. 



