MAY l.">, 1916 



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I grew the finest melons and squashes I ever grew 

 in my life. I made (juite a success of ii until the 

 growth of our factories compelled us to dia; up my 

 " new agriculture." Father Cole claimed tluit the 

 sreat trees of California were the product of under- 

 ground water on a similar scale built by nature's 

 handiwork. The book give^ full directions, and is 

 fully illustrated, with plans for the new agricul- 

 ture in every back yard or dooryard. For many 

 years we had a most excellent garden over these 

 reservoirs. T hardly need add that slop from the 

 kitchen, and sewage of every sort, can he turned 

 into these reservoirs; and growing trees, especially 

 fruit-trees of all sorts, respond wonderfully to such 

 treatment. The price of the book was $2.00; but 

 for the sake of closing out the 15 copies left on our 

 hands (by accident) we will make the price $1.00 

 as long as they last. 



One other book we have left is entitled " What to 

 Do," and How to be Happy While Doing it." This 

 book was put out in 1888, and is devoted mostly to 

 nrarket-gardening. It also has much to say about 

 the " new agriculture." It tells how I managed 

 and how I succeeded in astonishing Medina Co. and 

 a good many other places by the possibilities of 

 " high-pressure gardening." An appendix to bring 

 the book up to date was put out in 1900. Many of 

 our readers are doubtless familiar with this book. 

 Quite a number of successful market-gardeners and 

 florists who have built up a great business got their 

 first start from the book " How to be Happy," etc. 

 I remember one joung man who became so enthused 

 with it that he used to go over to see his " best 

 girl " before they were married and read the book to 

 her. Since then they, too, have built up a great 

 business in the floral line. I refer to S. W. Pike, of 

 St. Charles, 111. We printed so large an edition of 

 this book years ago that we have 1000 or more 

 copies still on hand. The regular price of the book, 

 cloth bound, was 50 cents ; paper, 35. It contains 

 206 pages, and is fully illustrated. While the edi- 

 tion lasts we will make the cloth-bound copies 25 

 cents, postpaid; the same bound in paper, 15 cents. 

 Or anybody who sends $1.00 for Gleaning.s may 

 have the latter postpaid as a premium ; or anybody 

 who sends us $1.00 for a new name may have the 

 cluili-bound copy postpaid as a premium. 



A KIND WORD IN SPITE OF LOSS OF BEES. 



I suppose " Pa Root " will soon be back with you 

 again. Long may he live to carry on his work. 

 Heaven bless him and you all. We have had a bad 

 winter and very late spring. I suffered nearly a 

 50-per-cent loss in stocks this winter. 



Wm. Wright. 



New Westminster, B. C, April 20. 



A KIND WORD FROM AWAY OFF IN CANADA. 



I can hardly write on account of looking at the 

 beautiful snowfall without. The snow is almost up 

 to our window sills, and is as fluffy as down. The 

 spruce and pine look like so many umbrellas with 

 their limbs bent touching the snow beneath. It is a 

 scene well worth any artist to paint. You might tell 

 .\. I. Root that Florida " isn't in it " for health and 

 beauty compared to northern Ontario. We can en- 

 ,ioy two things at the same time, while he can have 

 but one. We have the cold di-y bracing winds 

 without, while at the same time we enjoy the warm 

 Florida weather by the fireside. 



130 [lUC'Iv EGGS WITHOUT A MISS. 



Our Indian Runner duck began laying the last 

 week in February, and laid 130 eggs without stop- 

 ping. The last day she laid two eggs. One of them 

 had a soft shell. Altho I hatched several settings, 

 the bees killed every one of them. The ducks would 

 persist in going to the hives and rattling around the 

 entrances with their bills. 



" One man's meat is another man's poison." 

 While A. I. Root enjoys his meals of fruit we enjoy 

 our meals of flesh. We cannot raise apples, plums, 

 or peaches successfully, but we can raise beef, mut- 

 ton, and eggs, while our waters teem with fish and 

 our woods abound with game. The man in the 

 South eats fruit as a cooling food. The man in the 

 North eats meat as a heating food. " Let not him that 

 eateth despise him that eateth not." I think the 

 trouble lies, not in ivhat we eat, but that the most 

 of us eat ton « iic''. .T. M. Mi'NRo 



Slate River Vallev, Out., Jan. 13. 



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