1908 



GLKANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1147 



have lorg iniendeil lo call your at ention. I have never seen it 

 advertised in any paper, and found it only through an ineidental 

 allusion in a Farm Poultry editorial. It is K. 0. Wellcomr's 

 " The Trap Nest Text Book." Yarmouih, Maine. Presumably 

 the author does not care to sell his pamphlet except with his nest 

 patent, but he will sell it separate on request, and I advise every 

 poullryman interested in breeding for eggs to get a copy of the 

 very excellent little book, whether he uses any trap nests or not. 



While recommending chicken-b'X)ks I should like to mention 

 two others of general nature. The first is the equivalent of your 

 ABC book. It is the " Farmers" Cyclopedia of Agriculture," 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture offiials, Wilcox 

 and mith (Orange Judd Co.). Prof. Bailey has a large cyclopedia, 

 excellent for libraries, but too expensive for rrost farmers. But 

 the Wilcox and Smith book, 619 pages, ought to be in every farm, 

 er's home, being so up to date and sufficiently complete. 



The second general book or books I wish to recommend are 

 the three " Practical Farm Experience " books written by farm- 

 ers, summarized by Prof. W. F. Massey, and published by the 

 PriictUiil Farmer, of Philadelphia, one of your advertisers. Any 

 farmer who has not these books is missing a treat, and will be 

 glad, after reading them, to hav»had his attention called lo them. 

 And I must also highly commend Prof Holden's A B C of Corn 

 Culture (Simmons Pub. Co. Springfield, Ooio), which you recom- 

 mended a while back. For its price, 10 cents, it is about indis- 

 pensable to every corn-g'ower. It ought to be in the library of 

 every farmer and of every district school. 



1 have no connection with nor personal interest in any of the 

 books menrioned in the foregoing. I merely like to pass a good 

 thing along Genesis Farm. 



Cireencaslle, Ind., Aug. 26, 1908. 



I am sure we are very much obliged indeed for 

 the above from one who has no interest in any of 

 the books or periodicals mentioned. Friend 

 Grundy's little book, "Perfected System," is 

 certai'ly a valuable little work, and I would have 

 given it a good editorial notice before this time 



were it not such a very small book for the price. 

 I believe it was originally sold at $1.00, but the 

 price has been leduced to 50 cents. Perhaps we 

 ought to be satisfied with this latter price, but it 

 still seems to me that a fifty-cent book, especially 

 of such small size, should have better print, bet- 

 ter paper, and better engravings. I know there 

 are a good many people who do not agree with 

 me in regard to this matter, and may be I am 

 wrong about it. The trap-nest book, if I re- 

 member correctly, is also 50 cents, and I would 

 find the same fault with it that I do with the 

 Grundy book, and something else besides, be- 

 cause the book from beginning to end is an ad- 

 vertisement of his patent-right trap-nest. At the 

 same time, the trap-nest is a good thing — the best 

 one I have ever gotten hold of; and the trap-nest 

 book tells us more about egg-laying, and how to 

 tell absolutely which hens lay eggs, than any 

 other book or lots of books I have ever gotten 

 hold of; and I can heartily indorse all that is said 

 about the A B C of Corn Culture. This book 

 is as large as some of the fifty-cent books, and 

 the price, 10 cts., is ridiculously low. If every 

 corn-grower would get a copy and read it, it 

 would put hundreds of dollars' profit in the pock- 

 ets of thousands of people. By the way, we 

 are cutting our ten acres of corn to-day, Sept. 14; 

 and I believe the general verdict is that it is one 

 of the nicest pieces of corn in this part of Ohio. 



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