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MAULE'S SEEDS. 



A Complete Farmers Library, 7Volumes, 3063 Pages 



The successful farmer or gardener is the seedsman's best 

 customer. I realize that the better farmers and gardeners 

 my customers are the more sure I am of their continued 

 orders and the larger their orders will be. Good farming 

 and good seeds go hand in hand. Hence I have always been 

 interested in the welfare of my customers, and anxious that 

 their labors should bring the best returns, which skill and 

 industry can produce. To this end I have advised my friends 

 to invest in such books as Greiner's "How to make the Gar- 

 den Pay," and Terry's "Our Farming." Books for the gar- 

 dener and farmer which are without a peer. I have also 

 recommended "The Practical Farmer" to them as an agricul- 

 tural publication which would be invaluable to them as a 

 friend and helper. Thousands of my customers have obtained 

 and read these books and "The Practical Farmer" through 

 my, offers in other years. They have been benefited by them 

 nany thousands of dollars. This year, supplementing them, 

 am able to give my customers a series of seven books which 

 believe are the most unique, interesting and original publi- 

 cations ever offered to the American farmer and gardener, 

 not forgetting the good wives, either. The cost of compiling 

 and publishing these books mounts into the thousands of 

 dollars. The original manuscript, before a line was put into 

 type, cost over two thousand dollars (or each book, so that 

 some idea may be formed of the determination of the pub- 

 lishers to make them the best for their purposes which 

 money could procure. You can have one, two, or all of them. 

 The whole series, I believe, make the best and most com- 

 plete Farmers' Home Library published. Here they are: 



SHORT CUTS NO. i. 



3996 Labor Saving Short Cuts. 

 With 529 Illustrations. Complete Index. 



Is a book of 420 closely printed pages of Short Cuts for sav- 

 ing labor 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, 

 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 

 of all the short cuts that reach the goal hy the most direct 

 mothod. This book, "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 in the 

 book, can be found in a moment's time. Price, 50 cents. 



MISTAKES AND FAILURES, f 



Gathered from the Experiences of the Farmer S 

 and His Wife from Maine to Mexico. 2 

 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 avoid 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- 

 lation, and how many each one of us are guilty of, to get at 

 the value of this book. Doubtless you will find many of your 

 own mistakes which the man on the other side of the conti- 

 nent has also made, but you will also find hundreds, yes, 

 thousands, that you have not made, and will not make, now 

 that you have read all about them. Other books of this series 

 tell of the successes — this preserves the balance by telling the 

 failures and rounds out the series and makes them complete. 

 Price, 50 cents. 



FARM HELPS. 



A Book for the Farmer and Gardener. 

 A Guide, Philosopher 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 

 ;>nd Successes." The authors of this book are all over. They 

 are successful farmers in every State and almost every Terri- 

 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. 



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