Poultry 12 weeks 
Fridays 2—4 April 12 to June 28 
General Course in Poultry rearing with special attention to War 
rations for fowls. 
captains' course 
Mondays to Fridays inclusive 12 weeks April 8 to June 28 
This course includes the War Courses in Vegetable Gardening, 
Fruit Growing, Canning and Preserving and Poultry; also lectures 
and practical work in Floriculture and a Practical Business Course, 
most essential in the management of a unit. 
BOOK REVIEWS 
Food Will Win the War 
Grow It 
Books to Help You 
Experience is, of course, the most thorough teacher. But experience 
takes time, and we must hurry and do to win the war with our gardens. 
Most of us planted vegetables last year, and canned them, too. 
It- was a wonderful growing season nearly everyw^here, and fortune 
stood with us. But when some of us counted our pennies at the end 
of the season, we found that what we grew cost more than if we had 
bought it. 
That was disheartening, of course, but it need not happen again. 
One reason was lack of knowledge. Those who had acreage left the 
management to a gardener or superintendent. They accepted all 
he said as gospel truth, not taking into account that older methods 
do not fit modern conditions of labor and material. The uninitiated 
home gardener may have planted a pint of peas and a pint of squash, 
and then vowed never to look a squash in the face again. What a 
little study might have spared her! 
If we have not had experience, we at least have good books. 
Read them now while the soil is still asleep under its white blanket. 
Read them over again when the sun feels warm, and again and 
again while the seeds are jumping into life and when the weeds and 
the bugs and all the other dreadful things are trying to rob us of our 
harvest. 
There are books for all kinds of gardens. Some of the older ones 
have never been outdone by the new. On the nearest comer of my 
shelf stands a shabby little volume by L. H. Bailey called "Garden 
Making" (Macmillan and Co.), and on the fly-leaf is the date 1903. 
It has been in constant use for fifteen years. It is a book w^hich fits 
