Show standing in their own light. Books on agriculture are a Condensed record rec-ord of farming experience. From a book a person can often get more facts in an hour than he could get in weeks visiting with his neighbors. It is rapidly being found that the man who has not learned how to use books cannot compete with the man who has at his fingers' ends the best things that have been published on farming and who knows how to get at these facts when he needs them. Farmers should spend a few dollars each year enlarging their agricultural agricultur-al library so that they may keep themselves posted on the best the world knows regarding their business. BOOKS FOR THE FARM Not one farmer in ten has as many books on agriculture as he should have. Farmers in many cases fail to realize that by spending a dollar or two for a book which contains valuable val-uable information they might save hundreds of dollars. Farmers should form a stronger habit of consulting books that will help them in their work. Many farmers farm-ers have a prejudice against what they call book farming but by having these prejudices they are simply |