"Well-ripened sound fruit is healthful. It is also a valuable food. It should form a part of every meal, fresh where possible, or dried, canned or otherwise preserved. Home-grown fruit is desirable -- Because it reaches the family fresh and in the best possible condition. Because the family has fruit of which it would often be deprived if it had to be purchased. Because, if the proper varieties to be selected, a continuous supply of fruit of superior quality may be secured regardless of market prices. Because any surplus may be sold without difficulty or may be canned, evaporated, or otherwise conserved for use when fresh fruit is not available. Because the care of the home fruit garden provides for spare time congenial and profitable occupation which is in reality recreation for those who enjoy seeing things grow, This bulletin aims to furnish, in concise form, information that will be of practical help to the beginner in fruit growing. It deals with the widely grown, temperate-climate fruits, such as the apple, pear, peach, and plum. Lists of desirable varieties of these fruits are given for the different parts of the country. Because of the number of fruits considered and the territory covered, cultural directions are necessarily brief, but they cover the most important general points."--Page 2

"The hay stacker is to stacking what the horse-fork is to putting hay in the barn, a saver of man labor. It enables the farmer to life the hay on to the stack by horse power instead of man power. The stacker is used almost universally in the West where stacking is the usual method of storying hay. In the East and South, where mush of the hay grown is stored under cover, the stacker could be used to advantage when it becomes necessary to stack, especially where labor is scarce. Where the stacker is used, a boy or woman, driving the team that hoists the hay, can take the place of a man in the haying operation.Stackers are comparatively inexpensive; there are several serviceable types which may be cheaply made at home." -- [2]