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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS March, 1906 
NEW BOOKS | 
< i ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE. 
OPEN TO READERS of pag (Ll I SELECT ANY BOOK First Principles OF AGRICULTURE. By 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS i Ue i) FROM THE Emmet S. Goff and D. D. Mayne. New 
FOR THREE WEEKS | ee LIST PRINTED BELOW York: American Book Company. Pp. | 
al 256. 
That farming is no haphazard industry | 
which may be learned by hand and without | ~ 
any real knowledge of basic information has 
long been apparent to those not engaged init. 
Most industries, certainly most important call- 
e © ings, demand special training for the obtain- 
The Best Combination of ] 906 ing of success. Schools of all sorts have been 
founded to supply this special knowledge, and 
ral 
THE BIGGEST BOOK AND MAGAZINE OFFER whole libraries of technical literature have 
wae : grown up around most of them. Until com- 
¢«JMake out a subscription order as printed below for The Metropolitan paratively recently the farmer has had _ his 
Magazine for one year and a Tabard Inn Library Membership and we will field wholly to himself. Before his stores of 
send you your own choice from the list below of any Tabard Inn Exchange- “practical”? knowledge the mere bookman 
able Book. That is the Magazine for a year and a New Book for $2.10. had no chance. His father, and his father 
The regular subscription price of the Magazine is $1.80. 
before him, in honorable perspective, had been 
= : tillers of the soil. Some of these very respect- 
able persons had grown rich in their honest 
FORM OF ORDER occupation; others had left valuable tracts of 
land to descendants who suddenly lost interest 
(TSG GOATS ET NET EVE sececeteeseene sasvencsescteceseaseees 1906. in farming when they found they could 
transmute their acres into dollars. 
That farming can be taught in schools and 
learned from books is an idea wholly new in 
agricultural industry; yet this is precisely what 
is being done to-day, and is exactly the course 
which will be followed more and more in the 
future. Ex-Governor W. D. Hoard puts 
1611 Chestnut St., Philadelphia 
Dear Sirs:—TI enclose herewith $2.10 for which you will enter my name for 
THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE for one year beginning with the 
number, and send me by mail prepaid a new copy of the following Book 
ee ; the Book to be in a Tabard Inn Case and TO BE BEXCHANGE- 
ABLE FOREVER at any Tabard Inn Library in the United States. 
Nine an See the case extremely well in the valuable intro- 
a5 % duction he supplies to Messrs Goff and 
Full Address....... Mayne’s little book on “ First Principles of 
Agriculture.” He deplores the lack of ele- 
Make Your Book Selections from the Following List. AIl Late Books or New Editions mental knowledge, and cites s pointed Insta 
BAR CREO Ug DOOKIE CCUOUS EEO OWA CHAS MESS NO OY of a lecture on botany which contained no 
The Hcuse of Mirth. Edith Wharton . The Call of the Wild. London definite knowledge or information of any sort 
The Gambler. Mrs. Thurston . The Hon. Peter Stirling. Ford 
Hearts and /Nasie: Be reile Meee - The Kindred of the Wild. Roberts —information that would be of practical 
onquesto anaan. arkington : he Lon rm. 38. M. Gordenhire ° 
Fair Margaret. F. Marion Crawford AN Makeriof History. Capeninsin value to his hearers, knowledge that would 
The House of 1000 Candles. Nicholson . The Man onthe Box. MacGrath l L i 
The Wheel of Life. Ellen Glasgow S ihe PriconcronZendammllons help them in every-day affairs. 
The Westerners. Stewart Edward White | Rupert of Hentzau. Hope But, as the Governor tells us, the future 
In Old Bellaire. Mary Dillon . The Virginian. Owen Wister . . . . 
The Czar’s Spy. Wm. LeQueux " The Prospector. Ralph Connor promises better. In his own State, Wisconsin, 
NOTE.—THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE is taking front rank among the leading popular magazines Do teacher ISO allowed to graduate from 
of the county: No magazine phere a Detier list of contributors; none offers more beautiful illustra- the Normal Schools until he or she has taken 
ions; few, if any, offer articles of such wide popular interest. Look up any number on the news- . 7 
stand and judge for yourself. The Magazine may be sent to a different address from your own a course 1n elementary agriculture. The same 
if you wish. State has also established several County 
Training Schools, whose particular function 
Address: THE TABARD INN LIBRARY is to Mice the teachers of the country 
1611 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA |'| schools for the teaching of clea aa 
culture. County Agricultural Schools are in 
process of erection, schools which take the 
farm boy and give him instruction something 
like that given in the short course of the Agri- 
cultural College. In other words, a definite 
effort is now being made to reach the farm 
children at an early age, and force, as it were, 
the absorption of elementary agricultural ideas 
as soon as possible. 
As Governor Hoard says, with cruel tus 
most European countries are fifty years ahea 
and learn of the United States in these matters. The | 
reason is obvious. Farming in America is too 
the art of making easy: the land is too abundant, and if not so lj 
rich as it was, is rich enough for rough 
Ives BEST methods to yield results. That this condition 
is rapidly passing away has, of course, been 
CEM NSE obvious to keen observers for some years past; | 
but the necessity for a change is not widely 
felt as yet, and may only be realized when it 
STONE is too late to accomplish good results save at | 
exorbitant cost. 
Meanwhile we can not begin too soon, and 
hence the manifest value of the excellent little 
text-book on “ First Principles of Agriculture.” 
Prof. Goff died before it was completed, and 
the final responsibility for the final form of the 
book therefore remains with Principal Mayne. 
It is a book that speaks for itself. It is not a 
text-book of farming, but a text-book of agri- 
culture for young pupils in the rural schools. | 
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