out and the construction of
tile drains will enable the farmer to avoid the errors of imperfect
construction, and the disappointment that must necessarily follow.
This manual for practical farmers will also be found convenient for
reference in regard to many questions that may arise in crop growing,
aside from the special subjects of drainage of which it treats.
Illustrated. 200 pages. 5 x 7 inches. Cloth. $1.00
+Barn Plans and Outbuildings+
Two hundred and fifty-seven illustrations. A most valuable work, full
of ideas, hints, suggestions, plans, etc., for the construction of
barns and outbuildings, by practical writers. Chapters are devoted to
the economic erection and use of barns, grain barns, horse barns,
cattle barns, sheep barns, cornhouses, smokehouses, icehouses, pig
pens, granaries, etc. There are likewise chapters on birdhouses,
doghouses, tool sheds, ventilators, roofs and roofing, doors and
fastenings, workshops, poultry houses, manure sheds, barnyards, root
pits, etc. 235 pages. 5 x 7 inches. Cloth. $1.00
+Irrigation Farming+
By LUTE WILCOX. A handbook for the practical application of water in
the production of crops. A complete treatise on water supply, canal
construction, reservoirs and ponds, pipes for irrigation purposes,
flumes and their structure, methods of applying water, irrigation of
field crops, the garden, the orchard and vineyard, windmills and
pumps, appliances and contrivances. New edition, revised, enlarged and
rewritten. Profusely illustrated. Over 500 pages. 5 x 7 inches.
Cloth. $2.00
+Forest Planting+
By H. NICHOLAS JARCHOW, LL. D. A treatise on the care of woodlands and
the restoration of the denuded timberlands on plains and mountains.
The author has fully described those European methods which have
proved to be most useful in maintaining the superb forests of the old
world. This experience has been adapted to the different climates and
trees of America, full instructions being given for forest planting of
our various kinds of soil and subsoil, whether on mountain or valley.
Illustrated. 250 pages. 5 x 7 inches. Cloth. $1.50
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