To get the bulletins of another station than your own is not quite so simple. They have no fund for distributing bulletins in other states. But I have never failed to get them by asking for just the thing I need. It is well to offer to pay for these; the price is always small. Some of them are republished by the United States Department of Agriculture and appear in their free list as Experiment Station Work, I, II, III, etc.
(3) The booklets and catalogues sent out free by seedsmen and other commercial houses are mines of information, condensed and well arranged. You may be sure that the advice they give is good, too, as it is to their interest to have their patrons succeed. You can tell the difference very quickly between the "hot air" of advertising matter and the practical advice to beginners given in catalogues.
I most earnestly advise every one of you who is engaged in a money making enterprise to subscribe for some good periodical. There are good magazines devoted to many of the occupations, and some of the general magazines have special departments which are full of up-to-date suggestions which have not yet been put into books. The latest and best word on your subject is none too good and may make a difference of dollars in or out of pocket. If you devise any new apparatus or discover any time or money saving methods, don't keep these things to yourself. Help the world along by writing to some magazine about it. They are on the lookout for valuable novelties. The stories told by boys and girls in this volume have almost all appeared in a magazine first.
THE OUTDOOR WORKER'S LIBRARY
The following is a list of useful books, magazines, and bulletins on all sorts of outdoor occupations, written by experts. They are here arranged by subjects under eleven of the chapters of this book.
N. B. Some of these books are expensive. Get them from your library if you can. The librarian will usually order a good book which is in demand.
- Chapter II.
- United States Department of Agriculture:
- Farmers' Bulletin No. 332. Nuts and Their Uses as Food.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 188. Weeds Used in Medicine.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 252. Maple Sugar and Sirup.
Plant Industry Bulletin No. 107. Root Drugs. Price 15c.
- Farmers' Bulletin No. 332. Nuts and Their Uses as Food.
- Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 105. Maple Sap Flow.
- Vermont Experiment Station Bulletin No. 26. Maple Sugar.
- Practical Forestry. Gifford. D. Appleton & Co.
- Mushrooms, Edible and Otherwise. Hard. Mushroom Publishing Co., Columbus, O.
- Chapter III.
- Farmers' Bulletin No. 22. The Feeding of Farm Animals.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 205. Pig Management.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 49. Sheep Feeding.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 137. The Angora Goat.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 64. Ducks and Geese.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 234. Guinea Fowl.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 357. Methods of Poultry Management at the Maine Experiment Station.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 177. Squab Raising. Price 5c.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 390. Pheasant Rearing in the United States. - Bureau of Animal Industry Bulletin No. 68. Milch Goats. Price 13c.
- Cornell University Rural School Leaflet. Vol. 4. No. 1. Horses. Ithaca, N. Y.
- Poultry Bulletins Nos. 240, 282, 274, 249. Cornell University.
- The Poultry Book. Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Chapter IV.
- The Poultry Book. Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Our Home Pets. O. T. Miller. Harper & Bros.
- The Self-Supporting Home. St. Maur. The Macmillan Co.
- Goldfish Culture. Mulertt. H. Mulertt, publisher, 289 Fennimore St., Brooklyn, N. Y.