DeEcEMBER, 1906 
WILLIAM P. BROOKS, Ph. D. 
Professor of Agriculture 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
Home Study Educates 
HE Home Correspondence School offers the home student 
an opportunity to pursue systematic courses of study in 
Academic and Preparatory, Agricultural, Commercial, 
Normal and Common School branches under the personal instruc- 
tion and guidance of able professors in leading American colleges 
and universities. 
Academic and Preparatory Courses 
Our Academic and Preparatory courses include all of the usual 
four years of High School work as well as many additional branches 
of college grade. The courses in English are given by Prof. 
Genung of Amherst College ; the courses in Latin by Prof. Harkness 
of Brown; the courses in Greek by Prof. Chase of Harvard. An 
eminent specialist is at the head of every department. Special 
attention is given to students working for the higher grades of 
teacher’s certificates. Students may register at any time and may 
take up complete courses or pursue special branches. 
Agriculture and Related Branches 
JOHN CRAIG, M.S. 
Professor of Horticuiture 
Our courses in Agriculture are taught by Prof. Brooks of the Massachusetts Agricultural College: Horticulture, Botany, Floriculture 
and Landscape Gardening, by Prof. Craig and Prof. Coit of Cornell University; Agricultural Bacteriology by Prof. Conn of Wesleyan 
University ; Veterinary Science by Dr. Paige of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The courses in Veterinary Science are not 
offered expecting to prepare pupils as practitioners but to increase their knowledge of the subject, so as to enable them them to give 
better care to animals, more especially as relates to the prevention of disease. We have been very successful in teaching agriculture 
Brooks’ Agriculture 
Vol. I. ‘‘Soils and How to Treat 
Them”’ 
Vol. Il. ‘‘Manures, Fertilizers and 
Farn. Crops’’ 
Vol. Ill. ‘‘Animai Husbandry’”’ 
Price $3.50 per set of three volumes; 
1.25 per single volume. Postpaid. 
Descriptive booklet free. 
fam much pleased with Brook’s books on 
Agriculture. I have not examined a set of 
books covering the elementary principles 
of agriculture in so thorough a manner and 
with such exactness of statement as this 
series. Fk. B. Mtmrorp, Director, 
Missouri College of Agricuiture. 
Three volumes on the general subject of 
agriculture, written by Prof. William P. 
Brooks and published by the Home Cor- 
respondence School of Springfield, Mass., 
constitute one of the best foundations upon 
which to build an agricultural education 
which it would be possible to find. 
Suburban Life, July, 1905. 
Business Course, also special courses in Shorthand and Typewriting, Penmanship, Letter-writing and Commercial Law. 
hundreds of commercial students and graduates who are holding good positions and who attribute their success in a large measure to 
our instruction and help. 
JAMES B. PAIGE, D.V.S. 
Professor of Veterinary Science 
and related branches by correspondence. Our Agricultural text- 
books have been adopted as regular text-books for class-room work 
by over three-fourths of the State Colleges of Agriculture. We have 
helped hundreds of practical farmers to reduce the drudgery, to in- 
crease the profits and to add to the enjoyments of farm life. We 
have helped hundreds of men and women to change from other less 
congenial and less healthful occupations and to make a real success 
of some branch of farming or gardening. We have assisted others 
in preparing for responsible positions as farm managers, or as gar- 
deners on private estates. Others have taken our courses in order 
to intelligently direct their own farming and gardening and the beau- 
tifying of their home grounds as well as to increase their capacity for 
the enjoyment of country life. There is money and pleasure too in 
farming and gardening, in the growing of fruit or of flowers for those 
who understand the wavs how and the veasons why of Modern 
Agriculture. 
Commercial Courses 
Our Commercial courses are in charge of J. Frank Drake, B.A., 
M.C.Sc., a graduate of Dartmouth College and of the Amos Tuck 
School of Administration and Finance. We offer a Complete 
Normal and Common School Courses 
The principal of our Normal and Common School Department is 
A. H. Campbell, M. A., Ph. D., formerly principal of The State Normal Schools 
of Vermont and New Hampshire. The courses include Normal and Review 
instruction in the common branches, also special courses in Kindergarten, 
Pedagogy, Science and Art of Teaching, etc. Graded courses in the common 
branches are offered for the benefit of those who have never enjoyed good 
common school advantagcs. 
The Home Correspondence School is the leading institution offering instruction by corre- 
spondence. Our courses are as thorough and painstaking as fully qualified instructors can make 
them. Ourfaculty is composed of strong college men who are very much interested in correspon- 
dence teaching and who are in full sympathy with the homestudent. Our tuition rates have been 
reduced to the lowest point of economy consistent with efficient service. If you cannot conven- 
iently leave home or your present employment to attend the regular sessions of a resident school, 
if your local school advantages are not satisfactory, if you are past the school age, if you wish to 
take up a special course to assist you in attaining some special object, remember that HOYLE 
STUDY EDUCATES. In choosing a correspondence school choose the best. Poor instruc- 
tion is dearatany price. Itis not worth your while to study under obscure instructors when you 
can just as well study under the personal instruction and guidance of able college professors who 
are known the world over and whose personal certificates carry all the weight of residence school 
diplomas. 
A copy of our general catalogue explaining our courses in detail will be mailed free to all who 
ask for it. Write to-day. The information which this catalogue contains is worth having. 
The Home Correspondence School 
Dept. 8. Springfield, Mass. 
Appreciation 
I wish to express my cordial approval of 
your educational work. 
James WI son, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
I am interested in your home study 
courses in agriculture and have great faith 
in their usefulness and value. I hope you 
may be successful in establishing them 
everywhere. N. J. BacHELDER, 
Master National Grange. 
I have never lost a chance to recommend 
The Home Correspondence School. 
WILHELM MILLER, 
Editor GARDEN MaGazInNe. 
If the farmers of the country would take 
advantage of your home study courses 
there would be many agreeable changes in 
farm life. W.A. DouGHERTY, 
airy Agent, Missouri Pacific Ry. 
We urge our readers to become acquainted 
with the courses in agriculture and related 
branches offered by The Home Corre- 
spondence School. This school is worth 
while. The men back of it are thoroughly 
responsible and interested in doing con- 
scientious, efficient work. A.W. Futton, 
ln New England Homestead. 
HERBERT W. CONN, Ph. D. 
Professor of Agricultural Bacteriology 
We have 
