PLAN No. 554. CONDENSING GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
A former newspaper man who was incapacitated for active service on the city dailies, concluded that he could still make a comfortable living by turning his talents toward condensing the numerous publications issued by the department of agriculture, compiling their salient features into one volume, and selling the work to farmers, stock-raisers, gardeners and others who had either neglected to send for the government pamphlets, or did not know they could be secured free, or did not read them.
He therefore wrote to Washington, D. C., secured copies of all the various publications obtainable, and made a brief, concise synopsis of their contents, in attractive form.
He bound them in one book with paper covers, and advertised in farm and other papers at 50 cents a volume.