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A long experience convinces me that the successful 
farmer and gardener is the seedsman’s best customer, in 
fact, the very foundation of his business. Good seeds and 
good farming are twins, and the better farmers and gardeners 
my customers are, the more certain I am of their continued 
custom and the larger that custom will be. 
I believe the books named below are the most unique, in- 
teresting and original publications ever offered the American 
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book published for the farmer’s wife in many years. The# 
cost of compiling and publishing these books has proved at 
very expensive undertaking. In most of them the original ¢ 
manuscript, before a line was put into type, cost over $2,000 * 
so that some idea can be formed of the determination of the} 
publishers to make them the best for their purpose which 4] 
money can secure. You can have them, on the following § 
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fen. In other words, for each $3.00 worth ordered in 1905, my customers are entitled to select 2 
one of the books named below, which will be sent them absolutely free, with my compliments. i 
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By T. B. TERRY. | eneuage of ene fare a is nO une farms garden/and orchay 4 : 
867 pages. Illustrated. Paper. Price,50 cents. Cloth, $1.00. FaRIte satay pee annette. SACGloge Be aanOe anh boule wouldveene the ; 
The sub-title of this book is “How 
farm bring both profit and pleasure.” 
shell. But if we stopped there, it would do the book and the author 
scant justice. The work is a complete record of Mr. Terry’s farm 
work for twenty-three vears. It is hard to realize that the person 
written of in the opening and closing chapters is one and the same 
man. The intervening chapters tell how the transformation was 
wrought. Someone has said of “Our Farming” that it was as inter- 
esting as a romance. And that is true, although the author employs 
only the simplest and plainest language in telling of the prosaic facts 
that cluster around the day-by-day work of an Eastern farm. How 
the author transformed his barren acres into one of the most pro- 
ductive farms in Ohio is worthy of any man’s attention. His is not 
an experience beyond the power of any other farmer who has grit 
and judgment. What he did can be done again, and probably is on 
hundreds and thousands of farms today. But the telling and the 
reading of it will put new courage into many a discouraged heart 
confronted with the problem of how to do better and show the road 
to ultimate and enduring success. We commend it as one of the most 
interesting and instructive books that can be placed in a farm home. 
Heretofore published only in cloth, at $2; now it can be had bound 
in substantial paper covers for only 50 cents, postpaid. 
What I Do, See and Hear. 
By T. B. TERRY. 
320 pages; paper covers. 50 cents, postpaid. 
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That is the book in a nut- 
This book is made up of Mr. Terry’s weekly articles published in 
The Practical Farmer and revised up to date of publication. They 
have attracted widespread attention, and their preservation in a 
permanent form will be appreciated by those who are conversant with 
Mr. Terry’s writings, and have read his articles for so many years 
in The Practical Farmer. Included in the book are his Health Hints. 
His views on the health question are radical, and yet he presents 
them in such a lucid manner and backs them up with such conyvinc- 
ing facts, from his own and others’ experiences, that they are cer- 
tainly worthy of careful study and consideration. The book is con- 
veniently arranged and exhaustively indexed, so that the opinions 
and experiences relating to any phase of farm management or health 
matters are readily get-at-able. No writer on farm subjects has a 
higher reputation than Mr. Terry. He is in demand in every part 
of the country for Farmers’ Institutes, and his presence is one of 
the strongest drawing cards. It is based entirely on his success as 
a farmer and the common sense method in which he tells of ‘is 
success. There are no fine-spun theories in what he writes, but new 
ideas for practical application in their daily routine work. ‘‘What I 
Do, See and Hear” bears these ear marks on every page. 
Crop Growing and Crop Feeding. 
By Pror. W. F. MASSEY. 
384 pages. Paper. 50 cents. Cloth, $1.00. 
‘The preface of this book so well states the object for which it was 
Published that we quote as follows: ‘‘This book is the result of an 
effort to put into plain language of the farm the facts which scientists 
have worked out in the laboratory, and which practical experience 

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farmers of the United States millions of dollars which are now need-% 
lessly paid for commercial fertilizers. The author does not oppose s 
the use of artificial manures, but he does advocate their intelligent _ 
use in place of the indiscriminate purchase and use of them. We) 
believe it contains the most condensed, practical, money-saving and® 
money-making information to be found anywhere. Prof. Massey is £' 
widely known as a most conservative and sound authority on the* 
intelligent cultivation of the soil, and in ‘Crop Growing and Crop & 
Feeding’ he has produced a book worthy of his high reputation. 
Short Cuts—No. I. 
EDITED BY T. GREINER. 
420 pages. Illustrated. Paper. 
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50 cents. : 
This book contains 3,996 labor-saving short cuts for saving labor x 
and accomplishing results on the farm and in the home. It is said 
that one-half the world does not know how the other half lives. This 
is not an exaggeration, and might be made even stronger and more 
emphatic. Nine-tenths of the farmers of this great country don’t 
know how easily and smoothly the other tenth overcome difficulties * 
and problems in their daily work. Of ten home gardeners who have ¥ 
to set a few hundred plants, nine fear the job; while the tenth, 5 
who knows a good way, a short cut in setting his plants, considers « 
it mere play, and would think nothing of setting as many thousand #| 
plants. So it is with other work, outside and inside the house. # 
Almost everyone knows and makes 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 % 
short cuts are usually known by the few. You may know how to do » 
one thing easily and quickly, but you cannot know all of the short 4 
cuts that reach the goal by the most direct method. This book, y 
“Short Cuts,” is a compilation of almost 4.000 labor-saving short cuts 
originally published in The Practical Farmer, liberally illustrated, » 
and so indexed that information on any particular thing, if published z 
in the book, can be found in a moment’s time. 
Clower GUATRAN 
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The P. F. Farmers’ Institute. 
EDITED BY PRoF. W. F. MASSEY. 
884 pages. 
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Paper. 50 cents. 
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i Different farm crops and their manage- & 
ment; all kinds of stock and poultry and their management ; fruit £ 
crops; manure and fertilizers and their management; vegetables on% 
the farm and in the garden’; household matters of interest to the ¥ 
ladies. An almost infinite variety of subjects are to be found in its # 
pages. They are discussed by practical men and women, who tell of < 
what they have done and are doing, so that the best obtainable in- } 
formation on each subject is printed. Every discussion is ended by: 
a careful summary by Prof. W. F. Massey, who judicially and ¢ 
judiciously notes the prominent points evolved and gives his own oe 
experience and opinion. These discussions fit into farm work and4 
household routine everywhere. Its interest or usefulness is not con-» 
fined to any one section, but is broad enough to cover the continent. * | 
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