AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 681, 4 November 1921, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY.

s A GOOD START MADE. FRANKLIN A. & F, SOCIETY’S ENTERPRISE. The modem farmer is a man first and a country dweller second. This is made necessary because of the very narrow margin between success and failure in farming to-day. The old-time “hayseed,” who went by rule of thumb or planted his crops any old time and chanced, the odds, is only a memory. To-day success in farming, as in anything else, means learning the wisdom gleaned by the study and experience of others, and applying that wisdom in an intelligent manned _ . The Franklin A. & P. Society, with commendable initiative, has instituted at its offices in Manukau Road, an Agricultural Library. Books have been donated and ithe nucleus of whac must eventually form a. valuable reference library on agriculture, has been founded. This library ?s open for every farmer to make use of, whether a member of the A. & F, Society or not, and the value it should prove ,to the district must be immense. Following is a list of the works in hand, with the author s names in brackets : . “Principles of Agriculture (Bailev) • “Agriculture for New Zealand (Connell and Hardfield) ; “Buildings for Small Holdings” (Potter) : Porcluctive Soils” (Weir) ; ‘ Land Draining” (Miles) ; “Forage Crops” (Voorhees) ; “Wheat Production in New Zealand” (Copland) ; “Economic Farm Buildings” (Lawrence) ; ‘Manures and Fertilizers” (Wheeler) ; “Bone Products and Manures’ (Lambert) ; “Plants Poisonous to Live Stock” (Long) ; “British Grasses i( Armstrong) ; “Crops and Methods, for Soil Improvements (Aqee) , “Silos, Ensilage and Silage” (Miles) ; “A Manual of the Grasses and Foliage Plants Useful to New Zealand, Part 1” (Mackay) ; “A Text Book of Grasses” (Hitchcock); Plants and Pastures of New Zealand (Hilgendorf) ; “New Zealand' Plants and their Story” (Dr Cockayne) ; “Modem Methods of Testing Milk and Milk Products” (Van Slvke) *, “Soils and Manures” (Wild) ; Agricultural Botany” (Peftfval) ; Romance of Electricity” ; “Agricultural Note Book” (By Primbose)v presented bv Mr E. Allan; “Fream’s Elements of Agriculture” (Ainsworth-Davis) ; “Friesian Herd Book” (9 volumes) , “Utility Poultry Standards (by Department of Agriculture).