/v PREFACE. 



giving " Facts for the People " such character, prominence and reliability, as sure 

 to be all that is claimed for it. 



This work is intended especially for the use of those practical working men and 

 and^women — the Farmer, Mechanic, Housewife, the rich and the poor — who are 

 willing to believe that, while they have learned much from experience, it is not im- 

 possible that others may have learned something, too — something that it may benefit 

 them to learn also, and who are liberal enough to see that all the truth and value of 

 a fact is not destroyed by its being printed. 



The editor is under great obligations to Prof. C. V. Riley, State Entomologist 

 of Missouri, for permission to cull information on injurious Insects, from his valuable 

 reports; to Prof. Townsend Glover, Entomologist, and Hon. Fred. Watts, 

 Commissioner of the Agricultural Department, Washington, D. C; Hon. Horace 

 Capron, Ex-Commissioner of Agriculture ; Seth Green, the noted Fish Breeder; 

 Hon. Geo. Hussman, the well-known Grape Grower; Prof. John H. Tice, known 

 throughout the world as " Old Almanac," and hundreds of others, whose names will 

 be found on the pages of the book. 



We leave the work to the judgment of a generous public, believing, if there is 



merit in its pages, that the same will be appreciated. 



D. R. SL 



