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Greenhouse Construction, l)v Prof. Taft (post- 

 age 10c) $1.15 



This book is of recent publication, and is as full 

 and complete in regard to the liuilding of all glass 

 structures as is the next book in regard to their 

 management. Any one who builds even a small 

 structure for plant-growing under glass will save 

 the value of the book by reading it carefully. 



Greenhouse Management, by Prof Taft (post- 

 age 12e) $1.15 



This hook is a companion to Greenhouse Con- 

 struction. It is clear up to the times, contains 400 

 pages, and a great lot of beautiful half-tone engrav- 

 ings. A large part of it is devoted to growing veg- 

 etables under glass, especially Grand Rapids lettuce, 

 as well as fruit and flowers. The publisher's price 

 is $1.50; but as we bought quite a lot of them we 

 can make a special price as above. 



Gregory on Cabbages, paper (postage 5c) 20 



Gregory on Squashes, paper (postage 5c) 20 



Gregory on Onions, paper (postage 5c) 20 



The above three books, by our friend Gregory, are 

 all valuable. The book on squashes especially is 

 good reading for almost anybody, whether they 

 raise squashes or not. It strikes at the very foun- 

 dation of success in almost any kind of business. 



Handbook for Lumbermen 05 



Home Pork-making; 125 pp., illus., post. i^c. .40 

 I think it will pay well for everybody who keeps 

 a pig to have this book. It tells all about the care 

 of the pig, with lots of pictures, describing cheap 

 pens, appliances, all about butchering, the_ latest 

 and most approved short cuts; all about making the 

 pickle, barreling the meat, fixing a smoke-house 

 (from the cheapest barrel up to the most approved 

 arrangement); all about pig-troughs; how to keep 

 them clean with little labor; recipes for cooking pork 

 in every imaginable way, etc. Publisher's price is 

 50 cts. ; ours as above. 



How to Make the Garden Pay (postage 15c) $1.35 

 By T. Greiner. Those who are interested in hot- 

 beds, cold-frames, cold green-houses, hot-houses, or 

 glass structures of any kind for the growth of 

 plants, cannot afford to be without this book. Pub- 

 lisher's price, $2.00. 



How to Keep Well and Live Long (post. 10c) .90 

 The above book by T. B. Terry is, in my opinion, 

 destined to relieve more pain, sickness, and death 

 than any other book in the whole world that has 

 ever come to my knowledge. That is pretty strong 

 language, I admit ; but since Terry commenced, 

 years ago, to urge the importance of pure air, pure 

 water, and a simple diet of good simple food, in 

 moderate quantities, the whole wide world, doctors 

 included, seems to be gradually falling in with him. 

 Of course other good and wise men commenced a 

 similar crusade for better health long before Terry 

 did; but he seems to have a happy faculty of getting 

 hold of people and keeping their attention. After 

 you once start in with the book you will be pretty 

 sure to read it to the end, and you will ever after 

 be a better and happier man or woman for having 

 read it. We have a special low price for clubbing 

 with Gleanings- — that is, both for $1.50. If you 

 nave already paid for Gleanings a year or more in 

 advance you can have the book for 75 cents post- 

 paid. Since it first came out, only a short time ago, 

 we have sold nearly 1000 copies. 



Maple Sugar and the Sugar-bush (post. 3c) . . .25 

 Manures: How to Make and How to Use 



Them; in paper covers (post. 5c) 30 



The same in cloth covers (postage 6c) 65 



Nut Culturist, postpaid $1.25 



Onions for Profit (postage 3c) 40 



Fully up to the times, and includes both the old 

 onion culture and the new method. The bcwk is 

 fully illustrated, and written wnth all the author's 

 enthusia.sm : and 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 thru. 

 Practical Floriculture, Henderson (post. Sc) $1.10 



Small-fruit Culturist, Fuller 75 



Experiments in Farming, by Waldo F. Brown 



(postage 2c) ". 08 



This liItU' 1 nok ought to be worth its cost for what 

 is said on each of the four different subjects; and 



the chapter on cement floors may be worth many 

 dollars to anybody who has to use cement for floors, 

 walks, or anything else. In fact, if you follow the 

 exceedingly plain directions you may save several 

 dollars on one single job; and not only that, get a 

 better cement floor than the average mason will 

 make. 



Our Farming, by T. B. Terry (postage 10c) . . .75 

 Same, paper cover, postpaid 50 



In which he tells " how we have made a run-down 

 farm bring both profit and pleasure." 



If ordered by express or freight with other goods, 

 10 cts. less. 

 Talks on Manure (postage 10c) $1.35 



By Joseph Harris. Written in conversational 

 style, which makes it very interesting reading. It 

 covers the subject very completely ; contains numer- 

 ous analyses of manures and comparative tables. 

 The use of techn'- al language is avoided, which 

 makes the book of greatest value to the practical 

 farmer. A hook of .S66 pages, nicely bound in cloth. 

 The Dollar Hen (postage 10c) 90 



The above book will be clubbed with Gleanings 

 for one year at $1.50; or if you have already sub- 

 scribed a year or more in advance you can have the 

 book postpaid for 75 cts. 



My opinion is, that " Tlie Dollar Hen " Is not 

 only one of the best books on poultry that we have 

 at the present time, but it is worth nearly as much 

 as a dozen other books. Perhaps this is extreme, 

 but we have very few books that are strictly up-to- 

 date, and still fewer that pitch right into the super- 

 stitions and humbugs now scattered all thru our 

 poultry books and journals. 

 The New Rhubarb Culture (postage 5c) 40 



Whenever apples are worth a dollar a bushel or 

 more, winter-grown rhubarb should pay big. It does 

 not require an expensive house nor costly appli- 

 ances. Any sort of ceMar where it will not freeze 

 is all right for it; and the small amount of heat 

 necessary to for^e the rhubarb .costs very little. The 

 book is nicely bound in cloth, full of illustrations, 

 mostly photos fro;n real work, 130 pages. Every 

 market-gardener should have this book for the les- 

 sons taught indirectly in regard to forcing other 

 crops besides rhubarb. Publisher's price 50c. 

 Tile Drainage, by W. I. Chamberlain (post. 5c) .45 



Fully illustrated, containing everything of impor- 

 tance clear up to the present date. 



The single chapter on digging ditches, with the 

 illustrations given by Prof. Chamberlain, .should 

 alone make the book worth what it costs to every 

 one who has occasion to lay ten rods or more of tile. 

 There is as much science in digging as in doing 

 almost anything else ; and by following the plan 

 directed in the book, one man will often do as much 

 as two men without this knowledge. 

 Tomato Culture (postage 5c) 35 



In three parts. Part first. — By .J. W. Day, of 

 Crj'stal Springs, Miss., treats of tomato culture in 

 the South with some remarks by A. I. Root adapting 

 it to the North. Part second. — By D. Cummins, of 

 Conneaut, O., treats of tomato culture especially for 

 canning factories. Part third. — By A. I. Root, 

 treats of plant-growing for market and high-pressure 

 gardening in general. 

 Winter Care of Horses and Cattle (postage 3c) .25 



This is friend Terry's second book in regard to 

 farm matters; but it is so intimately connected witli 

 his potato-book that it reads almost like a sequel to 

 it. If you have only a horse or a cow, I think it 

 will pay you to invest in a book. It has 44 pages 

 nnd 4 cuts. 



What to Do, and How to be Happy while Do- 

 ing It (postage 8c) 65 



The above book by A. I. Root is a compilation of 

 papers published in Gleaning.s in Bee Culture in 

 1886, '87, '88. It is intended to solve the problem 

 of finding occupation for those scattered over our 

 land out of employment. The suggestions are prin- 

 cipally about finding employment about your own 

 homes. The book is mainly upon market-gardening, 

 fruit-culture, poultry-raising, etc. Illustrated, 188 

 pages; cloth. 

 Same, paper covers (postage 8c) 40 



Notice. — Having a large stock of this last book on 

 hand, May 15, 1916. we reduced the priro to cloth 

 liound, 25c; paper, 15c postpaid. 



THE A. I. ROOT CO., MEDINA, O. 



