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Postage.] [Price without postage. Postage.] [Price without postage. 



10 I Greenhouse Construction, by Prof. Taft** . 1 15 2 | Sweet Potatoes; Forty Years' Experience with. 



This book is of recent publication, and is as full and By Waldo F. Brown ** 08 



complete in regard to the building of all glass .stnic- This little book, by a veteran teacher at our farm 



tures as is the next book in regard to their manage- ers' institutes, ought to be worth many times the price 



ment. Any one who builds even a small .structure for to everybody who grows even a few sweet potatoes in 



&lant-grow'ing under glass will save the value of the the garden. It al.so gives full particulars in regard to 



3ok by reading it carefully. handling and keeping this potato, which is difficult to 



keep unless you know just how. 



12 I Greenhouse Management, by Prof. Taft** 1 15 



This book is a companion to Greenhouse Construe- 10 | Talks on Manures* 185 



tion. It is clear up to the times, contains 400 pages gy Joseph Harris. Written conversational style, 

 and a great lot of beautiful half-tone engra\'ings. A which makes it very interesting reading. It covers 

 large part of it is devoted to growing vegetables under the subject very completely; contains numerous anal- 

 glass, especially Grand Rapids lettuce, as well as yges of manures and comparative tables. The use of 

 fruits and flowers. The publisher's price is $1.50; but technical language is avoided, which makes the book 

 as we bought quite a lot of them we can make a spe- of greatest value to the practical farmer. A book of 

 cial price as above. 366 pages, nicely bound in cloth. 



5 I Gregory on Cabbages, paper* 20 5 | The New Rhubarb Culture** 40 



5 I Gregory on Squashes, paper* 20 Whenever apples are worth a dollar a bushel or 



5 I Oregon' on Onions, paper* 20 more, winter-grown rhubarb .should pay big. It does 



4^1. t .u K 1 r K „„.. r^:^„A r'.-^ ..,, Of... not require an expensive house nor costly appliances. 



The above three books, by our friend Gregory, are ^ ^ cellar where it will not freeze is all right 



all valuable. The book on squashe.s especially is good f /^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ necessar/to 



reading for almost anybody whether they raise force he rhubarb costs very li.tle. The book is nfcely 



squashes or not. "strikes at the very foundation of ^ j ^ ^ ^ „ ^ illustrations, mostly photos 



success in almost any kind of bu.siness. ^^^^^ ^^^, ^^^^ ^3q p^^^^ ^^^^y market-gardener 



I Handbook for Lumbermen 05 should have this book, for the lessons taught indirect^ 



ly, in regard to forcing other crops besides rhubarb. 



5 I Home Pork-making; 125 pages, illustrated 4C Publisher's price 50c. 



I think it will paj' well for everybody who keeps a 



pig to have this book. It tells all about the care of 5 | Tile Drainage, by W. I. Chamberlain 35 



the pig, with lots of pictures describing cheap pens. Fully illustrated, containing every thing of impor- 



appliances, all about butchering, the latest and most tance clear up to the present date. 



approved short cuts; all about making the pickle, The single chapter on digging ditches, with the il- 



barreling the meat, fixing a smoke-house (from the lustrations given by Prof. Chamberlain, should alone 



cheapest barrel up to the mo.st approved arrange- make the book worth what it costs, to every one who 



ment); all about pig-troughs; how to keep them clean has occasion to lay ten rods or more of tile. There is 



with little labor; recipes for cooking pork in every as much science in digging as in doing almost any 



imaginable way, etc. Publisher's price is 50 cents, thing else ; and hy following the plan directed in the 



ours as above. book, one man will often do as much as two men with- 



15 I How to Make the Garden Pay** 1 35 °"t this knowledge. 



By T. Greiner. Those who are interested in hot- ^ , tomato Culture • 35 



beds, cold-frames cold green-houses, hothouses, or in three parts. Part first.— By' j.' wViJaylof Crystal 



glass structures of any kind for the growth of plants, springs Miss., treats of tomato culture in the South, 



*^^P ^2^r^^°^'^ '° ^^ without the book. Publisher's ^"^^j^ f^^g remarks by A. I. Root, adapting it to the 



price $2.00. North. Part second.— By D. Cummins, of Conneaut, 



I How we Made the Old Farm Pay-A Fruit- O., treats of tomato culture especially for canning- 



book Green 10 factories. Part third.— By A. I. Root, treats of plant- 

 growing for market, and high-pressure gardening m 



10 1 Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Orchard* 85 general. 



By Stewart. This book, so far as I am informed, is ^ ^ t tt »,- „„a n„^^^^ 9"; 



almost the only work on this matter that is attracting 3 | Winter Care of Horses and Catt e J^ 



sr> murh interest esneciallv recentlv T^ sin? water This is friend Terry's second book in regard to tarm 



^om"sprin"gs'b7ooks%^"wllrdn?in^^^^^^^ Tf"^^^! VllS'V" '^d'sl^irolfl^ke a^Uo 



of rain, duiTng our great drouths, is the great problem tato-book that it reads almost like a sequel to it If you 



.'^^d^Kufs.''^ P^^""^ ^''- """^ '°°^ ""'' ""' "'^^^ !re^sffnl\'o°/k' YtVa^s^ Ugefai'dTilfs^^ ^°" '° 



3 I Maple Sugar and the Sugar-bush** 25 3 | Wood's Common Objects for the Microscope**.. 47 



5 I Manures ; How to Make and How to Use g | what to Do, and How to be Hajpy w>ile Do- 



Them ; in paper covers 30 ing It .••■■ 65 



« I Th," «nie in rloth covers 65 The above book, by A. I. Root, is a compilation of 



6 I The same in cloth covers bO published in bleanum in Bee Culture, in 1886. 



1 Nut Cullunst, postpaid 1 M ,7 ^^^j >g j^ jg intended to solve the problem of find- 



3 I Onions for Profit** 40 ing occupation for those scattered over our land out 



Fully up to the times, and includes both the old of employment. The suggestions are principally 

 onion culture and the new method. The book is fully about finding employment about your own homes, 

 illustrated, and written with all the enthusiasm and The book is mainly upon market-gardening, fruit- 

 Even if one is not particularly interested in the busi culture, poultry-raising, etc. Illustiated, 188 pages, 

 ness, almost any person who picks up Greiner's books cloth. 



will like to read them through. g | game, paper covers 40 



10 I Our Farming, by T. B. Terry** 75 free leaflets and pamphlets, if you send 



I Same, paper cover. postpaid -50 postage stamp. 



In which he tells " how we have made a run-down celery Growing by Sub-irrigation, 



farm bring both profit and pleasure." •' j .S,. • ^ 1. 



If ordered by express or freight with other goods. Cow Peas and Their Culture. 



10c less. Crimson or Scarlet Clover. 



8 1 Practical Floriculture, Henderson.* 1 10 Dwarf Essex Rape. 



10 I Profits in Poultry.* 100 Lettuce Under Glass; full directions especially for 



10 I Small-Fruit Cult'urist, Fuller 75 growing Grand Rapids Lettuce. 



2 I Experimentsin Farming. By Waldo F. Brown. 08 Soy (or Soja) Bean; all about it. 



This little book ought to be worth its cost for what Sweet Clover, and what it is good for. 



is said on each of the four different subjects; and the ai -i, pi 



chapter on cement floors may be worth many dollars Alsike Liover. . , , , . . 



to anybody who has to use cement for floors, walks, Basswood Trees, growing for honey, lumber, etc. 



or any thing else. In fact, if you follow the exceed- Method of Treating Disease without Medicine, 



ingly plain directions you may save several dollars on oo„;to^„ rtroinao-^ 



one single Job; and not only that, get a better cement sanitary ijrainage „^^^ ^^ „ ^, 



floor than the average mason will make. THE A. I. ROOT CO., Medina, Ohio. 



