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JUST PUBLISHED. 
AS AN 
AGRICULTURAL STATE 
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Fans, Fields, and Garden Lands. 
By WILLIAM E. PABOR. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
▲ Volume of Great Value and Interest to 
Those Seeking Farms and Homes 
In the Far West. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
“ Of great interest to all who contemplate mov¬ 
ing to Colorado. Chapters are devoted to ‘ Irriga¬ 
tion,’ ‘ How Farming Pays,’ ‘ The Poudre Valley,’ 
etc., etc.”— Evans ( Colorado) Journal. 
“The book contains two hundred and twenty 
pages, is handsomely printed and illustrated, and 
gives a very full review of the agricultural inter¬ 
ests of the Centennial State. Mr. Pabor’s twelve 
years’ residence in Colorado, and his connection 
during the most of that time with the leading agri¬ 
cultural journals of the State, especially qualifies 
him for the work he has in hand. This book 
should be in every farmer’s hand.”— Fort Collins 
( Colorado) Courier. 
“Mr. Pabor has furnished in this work all the in¬ 
formation required by any one who contemplates 
making Colorado his home. Mr. Pabor has bad un¬ 
usual facilities for obtaining information on the vari¬ 
ous topics treated in his work, having travelled over 
nearly every portion of the State. The valleys 
where agriculture is already practised, are fully 
described, and also those now being opened to 
settlement. All the methods of irrigation, the 
measurement of water, the capacity of dutches, will 
be found clearly explained ; chapters are given on 
fruit culture, gardening, artesian wells, reservoirs, 
the cattle and sheep interests, the railway systems 
of the State, together with such other information 
as a person desiring to come here from the older 
States would wish to obtain. We heartily com¬ 
mend Mr. Pabor’s work to those for whom it is es¬ 
pecially intended, while others will doubtless find 
many facts of interest in its pages to them.”— 
Greeley ( Colorado) Tribune. 
“Colorado is generally looked upon as the chosen 
home of the miner; but a neat volume entitled 
‘ Colorado as an Agricultural State ’ (Orange Judd 
Co.) has been prepared by William E. Pabor to 
prove that it is destined to be the farmer’s paradise 
as well. No richer soil can be found than that in 
the parks and valleys which at the altitude of a 
mile or a mile and a half above sea level nestle 
among the loftiest mountains of the continent. 
Wherever water can be made to overrun and per¬ 
meate the soil bountiful crops can be grown. 
Irrigation is the essential condition of success, and 
Eastern readers cannot help being interested in the 
description of methods of farming as old as 
Egyptian and Indian civilization, but wonderfully 
strange and novel in their departure from the prac¬ 
tice of husbandry familiar to those who live where 
the rains descend from Heaven instead of running 
through a ditch. It is worth noting that the great 
canals which “cover” the larger valleys are costly 
works, and therefore they necessitate a kind of co¬ 
operation which extends over a large region, de¬ 
pending on a common water supply. The influence 
of this combination must be beneficial in many 
ways, for the farmers will be schooled to make 
common cause in other matters by the profitable 
experience of united effort in this one. A long 
residence in Colorado, a personal study of almost 
every one of its parks and valleys, and experience 
as the editor of an agricultural paper have admir¬ 
ably fitted Mr. Pabor for the preparation of his 
book. It should not be neglected by any one who 
is inclined to become a farmer in a land where but 
twelve inches of rain can be looked for in a year.” 
— N. T. Tribune, Jan. 5, 1883. 
Cloth, 12mo. Price, post-paid, SI.50. 
orange judb company, 
DAVID W. JUDD, Vice-President. 
JUST PUBLISHED. 
Gardening 
FOR 
YOUNG and OLD. 
The Cultivation of Garden Vegetables in 
the Farm and Kitchen Garden. 
By JOSEPH HARRIS, M.S. 
Author of “ TPaffcs and Talks on the Farm," “ Farris 
on the Pig," “ Talks on Manures," etc. 
The object of the work is to show bow garden 
crops may be grown in field culture, and the teach¬ 
ings of Mr. Harris are mainly from his own experi¬ 
ence, presented in that familiar style so well known 
to those who have read his other writings. We are 
sure that the work will be welcomed by a large 
class who are concerned over the problem “ how to 
make the farm pay.” If his work is properly 
studied and its teachings followed, it cannot fail 
to be of great service, especially to the coming 
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to do in “keeping boys on the farm.” A small 
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of the mothers and sisters as well as of the boys. 
Contents. 
Introduction..—An Old and a New Garden.—Gar¬ 
dening for Boys. 
How to Begin.—Preparing the Soil.—Killing the 
Weeds.—About High Farming. 
Competition in Crops.—The Manure Question.— 
The Implements Needed. 
Starting Plants in the House or in the Hot-bed.— 
The Window-box.—Making the Hot-bed.— 
Cold Frames. 
Insects.—The Use of Poisons.—The Care of 
Poisons. 
The Cultivation of Vegetables in the Farm-Garden. 
The Cultivation of Flowers. 
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