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Down to Date PouLtRry KNOWLEDGE. by 
F. W. DeLancey, assisted by T. D. Sut- 
ton. Sellersville, Pa. Poultry Fancier 
Publishing Company. 1912. Paper. 
Octavo. 64 pp. Price, 50 cents. 
The title of the book has been rightly 
chosen and emphasizes the fact that with- 
out knowledge of the poultry business the 
chances of making a success are small. 
The teachings are both applicable to fancy 
and utility poultry breeders. The writer’s 
knowledge seems to be complete, and he 
has written the book in a manner which 
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The book will enable those about to start 
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Smoke, A Study of Town Air. By Julius 
B. ‘Cohen, =Ph.D.: B.Sche HRS. and 
Arthur G. Ruston, B.A., B.Sc. New 
York: Longmans, Green =& Go." 192 
8vo.; 88pp. Price, $1.40 net. 
“Smoke” constitutes a real study of a 
real problem, and not a mere loose discus- 
sion of a wide-spread nuisance and menace. 
The work issues from Leeds, England, and 
the frontispiece is a most impressive view 
of the industrial section of that city, show- 
ing its many belching stacks and fuming 
chimney-pots. Smoke is deleterious in three 
ways—it injures vegetation, it disintegrates 
stonework, and it is detrimental to health. 
These heads ignore its condemnation on 
purely esthetic grounds. The work is es- 
sentially a collection of facts and figures, 
drawn from observations extending over 
a period of twenty years. 
MoLpING CONCRETE FLOWER Pots, Boxes, 
JARDINIERES, Etc. By A. A. Houghton. 
New York: The Norman W. Henley 
Publishing Company. 1912; Paper; 
16mo.; Illustrated; 52 pp.;" Price, 50 
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MoLDING CONCRETE FOUNTAINS AND 
LAWN ORNAMENTS. By A. A. Hough- 
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Henley Publishing Company. 1912; 
Paper; 16mo.; Illustrated; 56 pp.; Price, 
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The easily built molds for constructing a 
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The molding of a number of designs of 
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lawns and gardens, is fully illustrated and 
described. The successful molds for this 
work are easily made by every one at a 
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