1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE OULTUKE. 



863 



touches nothing; so. of conrse, you can not | 

 pincli your fingers. I 



tehry's new book— our farming. I 



When I mentioned this book in the last issue j 

 I had not yet seen a copy. 1 presume tlie pub- | 

 lishers forgot to send me one, so the first I saw 

 of one was when we got our first hundred copies j 

 by freight. It is a boolc of oCiT large-sized pages, 

 beautifully illustrated witli half-tone and wood 1 

 engravings. First we have a most excellent ' 

 half-tone picture of Terry himself. Almost 

 any one would pronounce it a beautiful photo- 

 graph. On the cover we read in large gilt 

 letters, "Our Farming;'" right under it, in 

 smaller type, " How we made a rundown farm 

 bring both profit and pleasure.'" The book is 

 really a story; and to my mind it is the most 

 entertaining story — that is, the most entertain- 

 ing story with a moral to it— that I have ever 

 read in my life. He goes into the full details 

 of how he and his wife, with two little children, 

 struggled with poverty in their earlier days. 

 He tells how he learned to be careful and sharp 

 by making foolish investments when h>^ was a 

 boy, and finally found himself $3700 in debt, 

 and the owner of a poor rundown farm, only 

 thirty or forty acres of it being fit for much if 

 any thing. Then he tells how he worked up. 

 A great many say they can not do any thing 

 for lack of capital. Friend Terry tells us (and I 

 believe it from the bottom of my heart, and have 

 done so for years), that lack of capital is a help 

 to any good man or good boy, rather than the 

 reverse. There are now stored around my 

 home, in the various out-buildings, tools and 

 implements that cost me a good deal of money, 

 that never would have been purchased if I had 

 always been so situated that I could not have 

 a thing until I needed it "' bad." Terry and his 

 good wife learned in early days not to purchase 

 a thing until they needed it very much. After 

 they got it, as a matter of course they took good 

 care of it. His tools have never been left out 

 in the rain. He thinks so much of them, and 

 looks after them so carefully, he rarely if ever 

 hav* expensive breakdowns. 



This book is not only entertaining, but the 

 writer has the happy faculty of getting you 

 interested in such humdrum occupations as 

 cleaning the stables; nailing battens on the 

 stables to keep the stock warm; underdraining 

 the wet places about the house and farm; sav- 

 ing doctor-bills by avoiding infection, and. in 

 short, making a locality exceedingly healthy 

 where the former residents had died from sick- 

 ness and fevers until the doctor felt almost 

 ashamed to be seen so much in that one neigh- 

 borhood. The book is the most exceedingly 

 practical of any thing I ever got hold of. There 

 is not a sentence in it that is useless, and it goes 

 down into the minute details, explaining how 

 certain conclusions were arrived at, and telling 

 of the success he and his wife achieved after 

 repeated failures. It was himself and his wife 

 working together that did it all; and even now 

 all his writings are submitted to her before 

 they go into print. Such a book could never 

 have been written without the aid of a careful 

 woman to supplement and put the finishing 

 touches on the work of such a man as Terry. 

 I feared at first it would be too much of a repe- 

 tition of the books we have already published 

 for him; but to my surprise I find it is not. 

 While he goes over the same ground, he throws 

 on each subject different sidelights, making it 

 a valuable supplement to all his previous works, 

 and bringing his experiments clear up to the 

 present date. In short, if any reader of Glean- 

 ings purchases this book, and says it is not 

 worth what he pays for it, he may send the 

 book back, and we will return him his money. 



CULTURE 





OTRAWBER^ 



Books by T. B. Terry and Others. 



The long- winter evening-s bring- extra time for 

 reading'. A pjirt of tliis (ime could not lie more prof- 

 itably spent tiiiin in reading' tlie following- i-urnl 

 haiid-liooks wliicli we send by mail :it the uniform 

 priceof 40c each. The new edition of the A 15 C of 

 Potato Cultiiie, rewritten this season by T. B. Terry, 

 will be completed in December. For 10c extra we 

 will send at once a copy of the old edition and the 

 new also when finished. 



The A B C of Potato Culture. 



Paper, :2:H) pages, 4x.5, illustrated. This 

 is T. B. Terry's first and most masterly 

 ^vork. The liook has had a large .sale, 

 and has been reininted in foreign Lan- 

 auag-cs. The second edition, reset and 

 almost entirely rewritten, isjnst issued. 

 When we are thoroughly conyersant 

 with fi-iend Tei-ry's system of raising- 

 potatoes, we shall be read.y to liandle almost any 

 farm crop suecessfully. Price 4(ic, post|>aid. 



The A B C of Strawberry fj 



Culture. Paper, 150 pages, fully il- 

 lustrated. Tins is Terry's latest N»/i((// 

 tiook, and lias received some very high 

 words of praise. Who among rural 

 people does not liave a little garden 

 patch? If you would learn to raise in 

 it that most luscnous of all fruit, the 

 strawberi-y, with the liest results, you 

 can iu)t lie without this little book. Even if you don't 

 grow straw berries you will be the better for reading- it. 



Tile Drainage. ByW. I. Cham- 

 berlain. This is a valuable companion 

 t<i our other rural books. It emlnaces 

 the experience of forty years of one of 

 nui- foremost piactical agricidtinists, 

 who has laid with Ins own liands over 

 1") miles of tile. Paper, 1.50 p;ig-es, il- 

 lustrated. Price 40c, postpaid. 



Winter Care of Horses and 

 Cattle. This is friend Terry's second 

 boolv in regard to farm matters; but it 

 is so intimately connected with his 

 potato book that it reads almost like a 

 sequel to It. If you have only a horse 

 or a cow, I tlnnk it will pay you to in- , 

 A-est in the book. It has 44 pages, 7x10, |!p2 

 illustrated. Price 40c. postpaid. 



Maple Sugar and the Sugar= 



Bush. Ijy A. .7. Cook. Paper, 44 

 ig-es, 7x111, illusti-ated. This is most 

 iluable to all who areinterested in tlie 

 pioduct of our sugar maples.. No one 

 who nialtes maple sugar oi- syrup sllould 

 tie without it. If .you don't make maple 

 syrup you m;ij- want to know liow it is 

 niiide, and how to judge of a g-ood ar- 

 ticle when you buy it. Priee 40c, postpaid. 



Tomato Culture, in three parts. 

 By J. W. Day, D. Cumnuns, and A. I. 

 Root. Paper, 1.50 pages, illustrated. A 

 most valualile tieatise embracing- field 

 culture, forcing- undei- glass, and rais- 

 ing plants for market. Valual>le tt) 

 any one raising- garden .stuff of any 

 kind, aside from tomatoes. Price 40c, 

 postpaid. 



A B C of Carp Culture, in pa- 

 per covers, illusti-aled. This is a woi-k 

 of 7tl iJages, 7x10. written by Geo. Finle.v 

 and A. t. Root, iintl the best authority 

 onthesubjeet of carp culture yet in 

 .iriut. The leai-ing-of c-arp is a pleasant 

 and pi-ofitalile amusement. This book 

 will tell .you all about it. Price 40c. 

 An.y one of aboye books sent free for one new sub- 

 scription with your own renewal and lf;J.0O, the new 

 sul)scriber to ieceive Gi-i:ani.n()s tlu' rest of this 

 year and allot IS'.ll. 



Terry's First Large=Sized Book. 

 We have j\ist recei\efl lOOcojiies of "Oui- Karnnng," 

 from Wm. Henry Maule. Prici-, by mail, postpaid, 

 k'ZM). If ordered by express or- fri'ight with other 

 g-oods, you ma.v deduct the jiostage, 15c.; or we will 

 send the tiook l)v marl, postjjaid, witli Gleanings, 

 for *3..50. 



