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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



How To Make Farming Pay 



The Best Handbook for the Farm 

 By OSCAR H. BENSON 



Of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture and 



GEORGE H. BETTS 



of Cornell College, lowm 



184 Photographic Illustrations, 444 Pages 



THIS book shows how to raise bigger 

 and hotter crops with less effort 

 and with less expense, how to Im- 

 prove live-stock, how to increase 

 the product of orchards. It teaches how 

 to conserve resources and reclaim land*, 

 and how t treat and cure live-stock 

 diseases. 



Everything of value known to the 

 Government expert and taught by the 

 Agricultural School Is to be found in a 

 nutshell within the pages of this book. 

 It is complete, compact and practical, 

 and its greatest value is to show the 

 results of actual experience. It sum- 

 marizes just those things that the 

 fanner, fruit-grower and stock-raiser 

 . want* to know. 



On Farm Crops, Horticulture, Soil, 

 Farm Animals and Farm Economics, 

 this work contains the latest and mot 

 accurate knowledge obtained by thie 

 United States Department at Agriculture 

 and by the leading Agricultural Schools. 



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Address, IRRIGATION AGE, 

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HOW TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN THF. 

 ROADS. 



The making of good roads is one of the 

 most important duties of the American people 

 and their prompt repair and careful main- 

 tenance is essential. There is probably no 

 subject in which the progressive farmer is 

 more deeply interested than that of having 

 roads connecting him with his markets over 

 which he may be able to haul the greatest 

 possible load. Good roads, like all other good 

 things, are too expensive to build and of too 

 much value to be neglected. 



The Office of Public Roads of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has published a bulletin 

 on "Repair and Maintenance of Highways." 

 This bulletin does not treat the subject oi 

 road building, but takes up the repair and 

 care of roads after they are built. All classes 

 of roads, from the natural earth road to the 

 macadam roads with bituminous surfacing, 

 have received attention. The action of auto- 

 mobiles on road surfaces is explained. The 

 systems of road management in Massachusetts, 

 New York, England, and Franoe are given, 

 with tables of costs. 



The writer concludes that on account of 

 the use of heavier vehicles and motor trucks 

 the tendency of road building is toward a 

 heavier and more substantial foundation and a 

 consequent reduction of the cost of main- 

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IN 1915 we introduced the Mogul kerosene 

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We now offer Mogul 10-20, the same popular and efficient 

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