Short Cuts No. 1. 
3996 Labor Saving Short Cuts. 
With 529 Illustrations. Complete Index. 
a book of 420 closely printed pages of Short Cuts for sav- 
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iome. It is said that one-half the world does not know how 
e other half lives. This is not an exaggeration, and might 
made even stronger and more emphatic. Nine-tenths of 
he farmers of this great country don’t know how easily and 
oothly the other tenth overcome difficulties and problems 
their daily work. Of ten home gardeners who have to 
t a few hundred plants, nine fear the job; while the tenth, 
vho knows a good way, a short cut in setting his plants, 
considers it mere play, and would think nothing of setting 
is many thousand plants. So it is with other work, outside 
and inside the house. 
use of a little device, here and there, in his or her daily 
doings of which others are entirely ignorant. There are 
= short cuts to success in all lines of business, and these 
: iS short cuts are usually known by the few. You may know 
J = how to do one thing easily and quickly, but you cannot know 
2 ¢ of all the short cuts that reach the goal by the most direct 
- method. This book, “Short Cuts,’ is a compilation of almost 
4,000 labor-saving short cuts originally published in “The 
3} > Practical Farmer,” liberally illustrated, and so indexed that 
4} < information on any particular thing, if published in the 
“ = book, can be found in a moment’s time. Price, 50 cents. 
Mistakes and Failures. 
Gathered from the Experience of the Farmer and His 
Wife from Maine to Mexico. 438 Pages and 2699 
Separate Articles. Completely Indexed. 
“Mistakes and Failures’ is something unique. Every- 
body likes to tell of success. Few take pleasure in airing 
their mistakes, and yet we are constantly making mistakes, 
and if the “other fellow” only knew it he might ayoid the 
pitfall into which we tumbled. In ‘Mistakes and Failures” 
thousands of farmers tell within its 438 pages how they made 
= mistakes, and how those led to failures. Not only the farmer 
© but his wife, too, makes this confession. On the farm, in 
| = the garden, in the household duties, in a thousand and one 
< ways these mistakes have been made, and here they are put 
* . in cold type for the public to read—beacon lights to warn 
® the soil tiller and others from the rocks of failure. You have 
@ only to think how easy it is to make a mistake, a miscalcu- 
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tell of the successes—this preserves the balance by telling the 
_« failures and rounds out the series and makes them complete. 
Price, 50 cents, postpaid. ‘ 
The Household Guide. 
A Complete Home Maker. The Only Book of its Kind. 
The “Household Guide” is the result of a prize compe- 
tition among the housewives of America. The publishers 
paid thirty-six cash prizes for the best recipes in the various 
departments. The result was the sending of nearly 10,000 
ecipes, from which a careful selection of the best was made. 
“The Household Guide,” therefore, is not the product of 
= either hasty conception or hasty execution. While there 
=isa superfluity of the ordinary cook book with its cut and 
/dried recipes, a book which should cover the whole range 
" rt of household duties had yet to be made. “The Household 
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average American household. From a large mass of 
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variety of household work, so that the reader of its pages 
will find the daily round of duties materially lightened by 
its help. Even brightening up the house and its surround 
ings with flowers has not been forgotten. Too many farm 
bouses.are without these inexpensive beautifiers. The House 
hold Guide has a Department devoted to this topic. Valu 
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are given, including a chapter on window gardening, with 
full directions therefor. The housewife will find this one of 
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Farm Helps. 
A Book for the Farmer and Gardener. A Guide, Philoso 
pher and Friend. A Helper for Every Working Day. 
Profusely Illustrated. 
“Farm Helps” is a book of 475 pages, divided into four 
general parts: “Short Cuts,” “Practical Experience in Farm 
Work,” “Farm Implement Annex,” and “Mistakes, Failures 
and Successes.” The authors of this book are all over. ‘They 
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tory of the Union. They write in the midst of their daily 
farm toil, and the pages of this book bristle with hard facts 
which American farmers have wrung from American soil. 
Short and quick ways of doing things on the farm and in 
the home. Discussions on the crops and stock. How to 
make the most of farm machinery and implements. Mis 
takes, failures and successes told by those who have made 
them. Price, 50 cents, postpaid. 
Practical Farm Experience No. 1. 
A Farmer’s Institute Every Evening inthe Year. A Book 
for the North, South, Eastand West. Edited by 
Prof. W. F. Massey. 
“Practical Farm Experience, No. 1,” is a closely but 
clearly printed book of 405 pages. The progressive farmer 
has learned the value of Farmers’ Institutes, bringing as they 
do the scientific knowledge of trained agriculturists and the 
experience of practical soil workers before those who attend 
these institutes. What these institutes have done in a smal) 
way, “Practical Farm Experience” does in a large way 
There are 237 topics relating to the farm and its manage 
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of stock—and these are discussed from the standpoint of the 
practical farmer by the farmer himself. All sections of the 
United States are represented in these discussions, so thai 
the method of treatment and the adaptability of crops te 
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by Prof. W. F. Massey, one of the best known and most 
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farmers in the intervals of their daily tbvils. Price, 50 cents 
Practical Farm Experience No. 2. 
A Continuation of the Farmer’s Institute Series 
405 Pages. Edited by Prof. W. F. Massey. 
“Practical Farm Experience, No. 2,” is another book eo 
405 pages, following in the same lines as “Practical Farm 
Experience, No. 1,” taking up topics not published in thai 
book. One hundred and thirty-six discussions are printed, 
to which is contributed the experiences and opinions of 
farmers from Maine to California, and from the St. Law 
rence to the Gulf of Mexico. Prof. Massey summarizes each 
discussion. Those who are seeking more and more of the 
experiences of other men who are living close to the soil 
ean find them in this work ard ‘Practical Farm Experience, 
No. 1.” Price, 50 cents, postpaid. 
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