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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



MlSCEr.LANEOUS HAND-BOOKS. 



3 I ABCof Potato Culture, Terry** '. 35 



This is T. B. Terry's first and most masterly worlc. Tlie book 

 has lial an enoriiiuus sale, and has Ijeen leprinted in foreign 

 lanyruages. When weare tlioroughly conversant witli 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, Ijy Geo. Fiiiley 35 



5 I A B C of Strawberry Culture, byT. B. Terry 



ami A. I. Root, 144 piig-es; 33 illustrations 35 



5 I An Esfi-Fiirm. Stoddard** ... 45 



I Amateur Pliotoura|)lieT''s Hand-book**. ... 70 



I Barn Plans and Out-Buildirigs* 1 .5U 



Canary Birds. Paper, 50 



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



10 Fuller's Grape Culturist** 140 



Farming: For Boys* ^r> 



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

 seems to me that it ought to make farm-lite fascinating to an.^ 

 boy who has any sort of taste for g.ardening. 



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



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

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

 market-gardeners and seed-growers raise and harvest theii 

 own seeds. It has leOpages. 



12 I Gardening for Pleasure, Henderson* 1 85 



While " Gardening for Profit "is w rltten with 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 

 tying .your homes and improving your grounds without the 

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

 of you will need this if .you get " Gardening tor Profit." Thi; 

 work has 40i pages and 203 illustrations. 



12 I Gardening- for Profit, ne-\v edition** 1 Hb 



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

 Nothing that has ever before been put in print has done SC' 

 much toward making marketrgardening a science and a fasci 

 nating industry. Peter Henderson stands at the liead, without 

 question, although we have manv other books on these rural 

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

 above. It has 376 pages and 138 cuts. 



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



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

 goes over the same ground occupied by Peter Henderson, if 

 particularly emphasizes thorough cultivation of the soil in 

 preparing your ground; and this matter of adapting it to 

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

 vein. If your ehiJ-dren have any sort of fanc.v foi gardeningit 

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

 pages and 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 Gregory on Squashes; paper* 25 



5 I 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 



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



By "T. Greiner. Tliis is a new book, just out, and it gives the 1 

 most explicit and full directions for gardening under glass of 

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

 cold-frames, cold-greenhouses, hot-hou.ses or glass structures 

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

 out the book. 



I Handbook for Lumbermen 10 



10 I Houseliold Conveniences 1 40 



2 I How to Propagate and Grow Fruit, Green* 16 



2 I Injurious Insects, Cook 35 



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, especiall.y 

 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 has 274 page^ 

 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 fitted, 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 cjf managing to get the 

 finest 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 35 cuts. 



1 Poultry for Pleasure and Profit** 



11 Practical Floriculture, Henderson* ... 

 10 Profits in Poultry* 



2 I Practical Turkey-raising . ... 



By Fanny Field. This is a 2r)-cent book which we offer fo 



cts.; postage, 2 cts. 



4 I Peabody's Weljster's Dictionary 



Over 30,000 words and 2.50 illustrations. 



2 I Rats: How to Rid Farms and Buildings of 

 them, as well as otlier 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 



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that every member of the family will read it clear throu<>-h 

 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 ly 



10 I Small-Fruit Culturist, Fuller '.".'.'.'..' 1 40 



10 I Success in Market-Gardening* 90 



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

 market^Kardener who lives in Arlington, a subuilj 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 ciop-i. The book has 208 pages and is 

 nicely ilhistraUd with 110 tiigravings. hs . 



! Ten Acres Enough j m, 



I The Silo and Ensil;i<:e, by Prof. Cook, new 



(edition, fully illustrated 2,5 



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 liis Disea.s^es! '.' ' 10 



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



Just out. Fully illusi rated, containing every thing of im- 

 portance deal- up to the presentdate. 



The single chapter on digging ditches, with the illustrations 

 given by Prof Chamberlain, should alone make the book 

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

 rods 01- more of tile. There is as much science in digging as 

 in doing uliiiost anything else; and by following the plan 



directed 111 this I k, one man will often do as much as two 



men without 1 liis U nowledge. The book embraces everv thing 

 connected Hitli the subject, and was written by the 'authoi- 

 while he was eiiga 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 



111 Ihiee parts. Part hist-by J. W. Day, of Crvstal Springs, 

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

 iiiaiksbyA. I Root, adapting it to the North. Part second- 

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

 especially for i-.uming-factories. Part third— By .4. I Root 

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

 ing in general. This little book is interestingbecause it is one 

 of the tir-t rural books to come from our friends in the South 

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

 some years past; namely, tomato-growing in the South to 

 supply the Noi-tiiern markets. The little book, which is fully 

 Illustrated, gives uf scMiie pleasant glimpses of the possibili- 

 ties and piol..iliilities of the future of Southern agriculture. 

 Even though you do not glow tomatoes to any considerable 

 extent, yon will find the book tiriniful of .suggestions of short 

 cuts in agriculture and horticulture, and especially in the line 

 of niarketgardening. 



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 his potato-book that it 

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

 covjr, I think it will pay 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 liook on celery culture, at 

 amoderate price, thnt \m- h.ive had. It is full of pictures 

 and the whole thing is made so plain that a schoolboy ought 

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

 tance except from the book. 



3 I Onions for Profit 4,5 



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

 ture and the new inetliod. The book is fully illustrated, and 

 written with all the enthusiasm and interest that character- 

 ize its author, T. Gi einer. Even if one is not particularly in- 

 terested in the business, almost 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; in paper covers 45 



6 I The same in cloth covers 65 



Covering the whole matter, and discussing every thing to be 

 found on the firm, refuse from factories, mineral fertilizers 

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

 matter. It is written by F. W. Sem|iers. 



7 I Market-gardening and Farm Notes, by 



Burnelt Landietli 90 



The Landretlis ill!' the pioneer seedsmen of America; and 

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

 think I rceeived bints from it worth the price, before it had 

 been in m.v li.inds lifteen minutes. It is exceedingly ju-actical, 

 and tells what has l)een done and what is BEING 'done, more 

 than it discourses on theory. 



A. I. ROOT, Aletlina, Ohio. 



For Sale or Exchange. 



Barnes foot- power saw, si.x saws, three cutter- 

 heads, IX horse-power engine. Wanted, comb honey. 

 R. B. GEDYE, La Safle, 111. 



