566 APPENDIX. 



The Superintendent of Documents is not permitted to sell more than one 

 copy of any public document to the same person. 



^The Superintendent of Documents is not an official of the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Applications for all other publications of this department should be addressed 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Do not inclose stamps when writing to the department about publications; 

 it is not necessary in order to secure a reply. 



Please advise the department of any change of address. 



In all cities where there are free or other large public libraries, they can, 

 upon establishing their standing and capacity for storage, be made "deposi- 

 tories" of public documents, to which copies of all publications are sent. 

 Farmers living near any such library, or in most cases any college or univer- 

 sity, will find sets of public documents. 



Granges, or other organizations of farmers whose secretary will take the 

 trouble to keep watch of what the government or state publishes, and apply for 

 them promptly, may very soon collect an exceedingly valuable library; that is, 

 it will be valuable if kept strictly for reference, properly arranged and accessible. 

 If loaned out to members, who can each get the books for themselves by apply- 

 ing, they will be scattered and lost. If piled up in heaps under benches, and 

 covered with dust, they are of no value. It will not pay any Grange to start 

 a reference library unless it is certain that members will use it. A reference 

 library involves a great deal of work, and in two or three years, may come to 

 occupy a great deal of space. Some one must be in charge of it, know what is 

 in it, and where to look for what is wanted. 



The state and United States publications are of the utmost value to farmers, 

 and should be made use of. 



3. The third class of books for farmers includes formal treatises on such 

 subjects as soils, irrigation, fertilizers, fruit-growing, dairying, and the like, and 

 special treatises on the cultivation of different crops, as tobacco, cotton, the 

 sugar beet, etc. This class of subjects is fairly well covered by government 

 bulletins on these subjects, but to the real student no brief bulletin can take the 

 place of a thorough treatise. The bulletins are printed and distributed at public 

 expense because it is in the public interest that farmers should learn how to 

 reduce costs of production, and they can seldom be induced to expend money 

 for that purpose. The more these brief bulletins are circulated, however, the 

 greater will be the demand for the more extensive information which is supplied 

 by the many excellent books upon the various branches of husbandry which are 

 now rapidly issuing from the press. All books of this -^lass arc issued by private 

 publishers, and must be purchased. 



II. A FEW BOOKS OF INTEREST TO FARMERS 



The following list of books on various branches of husbandrj- and its 

 related sciences, will be found convenient. There are great numbers of such 

 books, and I have simply chosen from those with which I happen to be familiar. 

 The selection, under each head, will be found to cover the subject fairly well 

 for the general reader. Tlic absence of any good book published in this coun- 

 try from the list, merely shows that I am not personally familiar with it, or 



