


A Library of Valuable Books | 
Free lo Buyers of Maule’s Seeds in 1904. | 
Some years ago I inaugurated the distribution of books| I believe the books named below are the most unique, in- 
among my customers which, while it proved very expensive, | teresting and original publications ever offered the American 
was a very successful undertaking. Last year I discontinned | farmer and gardener. Their good wives have not been for-# 
the offer, with the result that my customers were seriously | gotten, either, The Household Guide being the most helpful i 
disappointed, so much so that, although it costs me thousands | book published for the farmer’s wife in many years. The ‘ 
of dollars annually, I have decided to renew the proposition | cost of compiling and publishing these books has proved a : 
this year. A long experience convinces me that the success- very expensive undertaking. In most of them the original 
ful farmer and gardener is the seedsman’s best customer, in| manuscript, before a line was put into type, cost over $2,000 
fact, the very foundation of his business. Good seeds and | for each book, so that some idea can be formed of the deter- 
good farming are twins, and the better farmers and gardeners| mination of the publishers to make them the best for their § 
my customers are, the more certain I am of their continued | purpose which money can secure. You can haye one, two, 
custom and the larger that custom will be. three, or all of them, on the following terms : 


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If you order $3.00 worth of Maule’s Seeds, select any one of them: if your order amounts to 
$6.00 select any two; if $9.00 select any three; if $15.00 select any five; if $30.00 select any 
fen. In other words, for each $3.00 worth ordered in 1904, my customers are entitled to select 
one of the books named below, which will be sent them absolutely free, with my compliments. 

Our Farming. Crop Growing and Crop Feeding. 
By T. B. TERRY. * By Pror. W. F. MASSEY. 
367 pages. Illustrated. Paper. Price, 50 cents. 384 pages. Paper. 50 cents. 
The sub-title of this book is “How we have made a run-down The preface of this book so well states the object for which it was § 
farm bring both profit and pleasure.’ That is the book in a nut- published that we quote as follows: ‘“‘This book is the result of an 
shell. But if we stopped there, it would do the book and the author effort to put into plain language of the farm the facts »-hich scientists 
scant justice. The work is a complete record of Mr. Terry’s farm have worked at in the laboratory. and which practical experience 
work for twenty-three years. It is hard to realize that the person has proved to be applicable to the everyday work of the farm.” The 
written of in the opening and closing chapters is one and the same technical knowledge of the chemist is translated into the everyday 
man. The intervening chapters tell how the transformation was language of the farm. It is for the farm, garden and orchard, and 
wrought. Someone has said of “Our Farming” that it was as inter- completely covers the whole subject of crop growing and crop feeding 
esting as a romance. And that is true, although the author employs in its many ramifications. A close study of this book would save the 
only the simplest and plainest language in telling of the prosaic facts farmers of the United States millions of dollars which are now need- 
that cluster around the day-by-day work of an Hastern farm. How lessly paid for commercial fertilizers. The author does not oppose 
the author transformed his barren acres into one of the most pro- the use of artificial manures, but he does advocate their intelligent 
ductive farms in Ohio is worthy of any man’s attention. His is not use in place of the indiscriminate purchase and use of them. We a 
an experience beyond the power of any other farmer who has grit believe it contains the most condensed, practical, money-saving and ° 
and judgment. What he did can be done again, and probably is on money-making information to be found anywhere. Prof. Massey is & 
hundreds and thousands of farms today. But the telling and the widely known as a most conservative and sound authority on the 
reading of it will put new courage into many a discouraged heart | inteiligent cultivation of the soil, and in “Crop Growing and Crop 
confronted with the problem of how to do better and show the | Feeding” he has produced a book worthy of his high reputation 
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 it has been published only in cloth, at $2; now it ashi 
can be had for the first time bound in substantial paper covers for Short Cuts No. I. 
only 50 cents, postpaid. EDITED By T. GREINER. 
420 pages. Illustrated. Paper. 50 cents. 
W hat I Do, See and Hear. This book contains 3,996 labor-saving short cuts for saving labor r 
and accomplishing results on the farm and in the home. It is said * 
By T. B. TERRY. 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 
820 pages; paper covers. 60 cents, postpaid. emphatic. Nine-tenths of the farmers of this great country don’t 
This book is made up of Mr. Terry’s weekly articles published in know how easily and smoothly the other tenth overcome difficulties 
The Practical Farmer and revised up to date of publication. They and problems in their daily work. Of ten home gardeners who have 
have attracted widespread attention, and their preservation in a to set a few hundred plants, nine fear the job; while the tenth, 
permanent form will be appreciated by those who are conversant with who knows a good way, a short cut in setting his plants, considers 
Mr. Terry’s writings, and have read his articles for so many years it mere play, and would think nothing of setting as many thousand 
in The Practical Farmer. Included in the book ave his Health Hints. plants. So it is with other work, outside and inside the house. 
His views on the health question are radical, and yet he presents Almost everyone knows and makes use of.a little device, here and 
them in such a lucid manner and backs them up with such convinc- there, in his or her daily doings, of which others are entirely ignorant. 
ing facts, from his own and others’ experiences, that they are cer- There are short cuts to success in all lines of business, and these 
tainly worthy of careful study and consideration. The book is con- short cuts are usually known by the few. You may know how to do 
veniently arranged and exhaustively indexed, so that the opinions one thing easily and quickly, but you cannot know all of the short 
and experiences relating to any phase of farm management or health cuts that reach the goal by the most direct method. This book, 
matters are readily get-at-able. No writer on farm subjects has a “Short Cuts,” is a compilation of almost 4,000 labor-saving short cuts 
higher reputation than Mr. Terry. He is in demand in every part originally published in The Practical Farmer, liberally illustrated, 
of the country for Farmers’ Institutes, and his presence is one of and so indexed that information on any particular thing, if published 
the strongest drawing cards. It is based entirely on his success as in the book, can be found in a moment's time. 
a farmer and the common sense method in which he tells of his 
°992.138 31901, LLAL‘ON ‘HIAVI A 
success. There are no fine-spun theories in what he writes or 9 ‘ 
speaks, yet new ideas for practical application in their daily routine ‘The P., F, Farmers Institute. 
we What I Do, See and Hear” bears these ear marks on every EDITED BY PROF. W. F. Massey. 
884 pages. Paper. 50 cents. 
The 384 pages of this book are filled with discussions by practical 
Farm Helps. farmers and farmers’ wives on a large number of toutes pertaining 
: to the farm and household. Different farm crops and their manage- 
475 pages. Paper. 50 cents. ment; all kinds of stock and poultry and their management; fruit 
“Warm Helps” is divided into four general parts: ‘Short Cuts,” crops; manure and fertilizers and their management; vegetables on 
“Practical Experience in Farm Work.’ “Barm Implement Annex,” the farm and in the garden; household matters of interest to the : 
and “Mistakes. Failures and Successes.” The authors of this book | ladies. An almost infinite variety of subjects are to be found in its & 
are all over. They are successful farmers in every State and almost | pages. They are discussed by practical men and women. who tell of 
every Territory of the Union. They write in the midst of their daily what they have done and are doing. so_that the best obtainable in- 
farm toil, and the pages of this book bristle with hard facts which formation on each subject is printed. Wvyery discussion is ended by 
American farmers have wrung from American soil. Short and quick a careful summary by Prof. W. F. Massey, who judicially and 
ways of doing things on the farm and in the home. Discussions on judiciously notes the prominent points evolved and gives his own 
the crops and stock. How to make the most of farm machinery and experience and opinion. These discussions fit into farm work and 
implements. Mistakes, failures and successes told by those who have ; household routine everywhere. Its interest or usefulness is not 7. 
made them. ’ confined to any one section, but is broad enough to cover the continent. £ 
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