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OVER 600 PAGES FULL TO OVERFLOWING WITH 



USEFUL FACTS IN HANDY FORM FOR BUSY FARMERS 



AND GARDENERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 



THE BIGGEST BEST AND MOST USEFULPREMIUM 



BOOK EVER OFFERED. A VERITABLE ENCYCLOPEDIA 



FOR QUICK REFERENCE. A LIBRARY IN ITSELF. 



WHO SENDS AN ORDER F0RSEEDS,PLANT5^C..T0 THE AMOUNT OF $|5o OR OVER. 



FARMER COMPANY 



Busy people often desire quick information on current topics, and on the best way of doing things. 

 They demand the information condensed and boiled down and placed within easy reach. 



The PRACTICAL FARMER'S YEAR BOOK is a voluminous and useful publication prepared especially 

 for the purpose of supplying interesting information and giving quick answers to the questions of the 

 day. All sorts of queries reach me from the four corners of the earth, and I think this book will answer 

 pretty much every question that can be asked by people living under the sun. It is such a good thing 

 that 1 wish to put it into everybody's hands. Have you ever tried to put your finger on a certain helpful 

 fact, and been unable to do so just at the time when wanted? If not, your experience is exceptional. 

 Comparatively few people keep a reference library. The large majority depend on their memory, or on 

 scraps of information filed away in a sort of literary haystack, in which the desired needle can never be 

 found in a hurry. I presume ninety-nine out of every hundred of my customers daily "want to know, 

 you know" about something, and they fail to know because the knowledge is not available, oftentimes 

 at a loss to them, and always an annoyance. 



This YEAR BOOK will be to you what the best reference library is to the person of means and leisure. 

 It will place at your finger tips information on the thousand and one things which it is necessary or con- 

 venient you should know about from day to day, and which are not stored up in your memor5^ nor on 

 your tongue's end. It will tell you about practical, everyday facts useful in every occupation, and espe- 

 cially useful to the farmer and the gardener; facts otherwise scattered through boo|js, agricultural papers and official reports. It is 

 fresh and right up to date. December 1898. The YEAR BOOK contains a complete almanac, with weather forecasts for every month of 

 1899; the latter by a gentleman who has made weather forecasting a specialty and reduced it as nearly as may be to a science. I cannot 

 vouch for the accuracy of the forecasts, but can attest to the wide fame and reputation of this weather prophet. 



liere Are Q Tew of the Su^^esHve Features orchis Comprehensive Year Book. 



The weather for 1899. 



Farm Statistics. 



Farm Drainage. 



Manures. 



Formulas for CompostB. 



Commercial Fertilizers. 



Fertilizing Value of Farm Products. 



Fertilizing Value of Feeding Stuffs. 



Wolff's Feeding Standards. 



Military and Naval Power of U. S. 



The National Debt. 



Feeding Rations. 



Analyses of SLock Feeds. 



Silos and Silage. 



Facts About Alfalfa. 



Beet Sugar Industry. 



Hog Cholera and Swine Plague. 



Insects and Remedies. 



Spraying Apparatus. 



Spraying Solutions. 



Religious Statistics. 



Wars of the World. 



Remedies for Animal Diseases. 



Irrigation. 



How to Estimate Bushels, etc. 



Hints on Crops. 



Business Laws in Daily Use. 



Text of Tariff Law. 



War With Spain to Date. 



Postage Rates. 



Recipes of Many Kinds. 



The War Tax. 



Special War Record. 



Record of Current Events. 

 Pension Roll. 

 Geographical Information. 

 Financial Information. 

 Political Information. 

 Domestic Information. 

 Historical Information. 

 Educational Information. 

 Industrial Information. 

 Obituary Record. 

 Maps. 



The record of recent events is made to include in a nutshell the world's happenings of i8g8 — the war with Spain, affairs in Alaska 

 and the Klondike, deaths of famous people, occurrences in this and other lands, drift of thought on great public questions, etc. 



Bear in mind that every fact and item of interest in the PRACTICAL FARMER'S YEAR BOOK is so indexed that the information 

 sought can be found almost as quickly as the book is opened. 



Think of it ! Full value of the money ($1.50) in seeds, bulbs, plants, etc., and the YEAR BOOK, which will be worth many a five 

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