A JOURNAL FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER AND HIS FAMILY 



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<THB PRACTICAfe PARMBRj, 



is published every week in the year and is the strongest, most practical and original agri- 

 cultural journal published on the planet. It is confined to no one beaten path, but makes 

 new departures in any direction whereby it thinks it can benefit the millions of American 

 farmers. Hence its originality. There is no other agricultural paper like it. It has no 

 competitor. It has five original departments which differentiates it from all its con- 

 temporaries. 



"OUR EXPERIENCE POOL" is a discussion of a live agricultural topic each week, 

 which draws forth the experiences and opinions of the best and most practical farmers in 

 these United States. Fifty-two Farmers' Institutes every year is what the Experience 

 Pool really is. Under the able editorial guidance of Prof. W. F. Massey, such topics are 

 selected as will be of the most general use, and in the course of a year subjects suitable to 

 every section and interest of the country are presented and discussed. 



"SHORT CUTS", under the editorial control of T. Greiner has achieved a National 

 fame. There are thousands of short ways of doing things on the farm and in the home, 

 which reach results "cross lots". You know some, your neighbors know others. They are 

 gathered into this department from all over. The man in Maine tells here how he does 

 something in double quick time, and the man in California sees it and does it too. Time 

 is money, sometimes lots of it on the farm, and Short Cuts save time. The P. F. Short 

 Cuts Department is a sort of a give and take arrangement. 



"MISTAKES, FAILURES AND SUCCESSES" is another of the Special Depart- 

 ments. Its not every one who likes to tell of his mistakes and failures, and yet they in their 

 way are just as valuable as the successes. You made a mistake or a failure which the other 

 fellow might avoid if he knew of it, and you tell it in the M. F. & S., and the other fellow 

 tells of his mistakes and sandwiched in with the successes, the pages thus filled are 

 almost priceless in their value to the readers of the P. F. They are beacons of warning 

 and guides to success for the farmer and his family. 



FARM IMPLEMENT ANNEX" is as its name indicates devoted to the subject of 

 tools and implements. How to care for them, how to use them to the best advantage, 

 what machinery Is best fitted for some special work. In a word, the actual experiences 

 of farmers with modern farm machinery, and its adaptability to modern farming. This and 



the preceding department are under the editorial charge of Geo. T. Pettit, who brings to 

 that duty intimate knowledge of and experience with farm machinery. 



"POSTAL CARD CORRESPONDENCE" is made up of reports from farmers In 

 every part of the United States and Canada, gives the conditions of the crops, price and 

 and other information of each particular locality that is of inestimable value, especially to 

 those who are looking for a new location. 



CASH PRIZES are paid each week for contributions to these departments, ag- 

 gregating over $1,000 during the year. 



Here are five departments original with and peculiar to THE PRACTICAL FARMER. 

 Do you know of anything like them in any other farm paper ? Can you imagine anything in 

 the line of farm literature which would be of more solid advantage to the practical farmer 

 than these ? But that is only part of the story. Every week is published a column, 

 "The Cream of the Bulletins", in which the reports of Agricultural Experiment Stations 

 are boiled down, put into plain English, commented on, and made of the highest value 

 to the inquiring farmer. 



These are the special features. In the regular departments will be found contributions 

 from the most practical agricultural writers in the world. T. B. Terry, who is probably 

 the best known farmer in the United States, writes an article for it every week, and writes 

 for no other paper. Prof. W. F. Massey besides editing the Experience Pool, contributes 

 to the general departments and answers all quiries which come from his section. And by 

 the way, the QUERY DEPARTMENT is one of the strong points of THE PRACTICAL 

 FARMER. Specialists answer all queries sent to it, and its readers get the very best and 

 most practical light to help them solve the problems that confront them in their daily labors 

 and experiences. THE GARDEN DEPARTMENT is under the charge of T. Greiner, 

 one of the best practical gardeners living, who makes that department crisp and fresh as 

 an early spring radish. Joseph Meehan an horticulturist of many years experience and 

 among the leaders keeps the Horticulural Department in the forefront. Dr. Galen Wilson 

 does a similar work for the STOCK AND DAIRY DEPARTMENT. Dr. A. Alexander 

 answers exhaustively all questions relating to animal ailments. Mrs. V. C. Melville edits 

 the Home Circle, making it a practical help to every housekeeper who reads it. 



IT IS THE FARMERS OWN PAPER AND COSTS ONLY $ 199 PER YEARo 



THE PRACTICAL, FARMERS LIBRARY 



is a quarterly publication, consisting of a Year Book and Almanac, published January 1st, 

 and three other numbers published April 1st, July 1st and Oct. 1st respectively. These 

 numbers are published along the same general line of usefulness which distinguish 

 THE PRACTICAL FARMER. It enters on the third year of its publication under the 

 most flattering auspices. The eight numbers of 1899 and 1900 have obtained a firm 

 hold on its subscribers, and now circulate in all parts of the Union. Being printed in book 

 form, they are handy for preservation, and their character is such as to make them 



A COMPLETE AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY. 



The Programme for 1901 is especially good. The Year Book will contain a mass of 

 figures and facts of special value to the farmer, including those of the 1 900 Census which 

 will be ready for publication by Jan. 1st. Prof. Massey is writing a work for it entitled 

 "Crop Growing and Crop Feeding ", which we predict will be a standard hand book on the 

 subject. During the last year the home mixing of fertilizers and their judicious and in- 



telligent use has been freely advocated in the columns of THE PRACTICAL FARMER. 

 The times are ripe for a new departure in the use of fertilizers and the book will treat the 

 whole subject in the most thorough manner and from the stand point of one who knows 

 the use and abuse of commercial fertilizers. No intelligent farmer can afford to be without 

 it. Mr. T. Greiner is also writing a work, "The Garden Book", which will be one of the 

 1901 numbers of THE PRACTICAL FARMER LIBRARY. In addition to his .contri- 

 bmions to the columns of THE PRACTICAL FARMER and other agricultural papers, 

 Mr. Greiner has written several works on gardening and related topics which have taken a 

 high position in agricultural literature. He brings to this latest work an experience ex- 

 tending over many years and the ability to put his thoughts and experience into bright 

 entertaining language. We mention these forthcoming numbers of the Library to show 

 its practical character. You need it. You need THE PRACTICAL FARMER. They 

 will help you to get the most out of your soil, and yet keep it growing 'better and better 

 from year to year. 



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