Information for Growers and
Collectors of Wild Medicinal Plants--Tells How to Grow, Medicinal Uses,
Value, Etc.
Much additional information is also given about other Plants which
furnish Root Drugs, such as: Male Fern; Wild Turnip; Skunk Cabbage;
Sweet Flag; Helonias; American Hellebore; Aletris; Bethroot; Wild Yam;
Blue Flag; Lady's Slipper; Crawley Root; Canada Snakeroot; Serpentaria
(Southern Snakeroot); Yellow Dock; Pokeweed; Soapwort; Goldthread; Black
Cohosh; Oregon Grape; Blue Cohosh; Twinleaf; Mayapple; Canada Moonseed;
Bloodroot; Hydrangea; Indian Physic; Wild Indigo; Crane's Bill; Seneca
Snakeroot; Stillingia; Wild Sarsaparilla; Water Eryngo; American
Angelica; Yellow Jasmine; Pinkroot; American Colombo; Black Indian Hemp;
Pleurisy Root; Comfrey; Stoneroot; Culvers Root; Dandelion;
Queen-of-the-Meadow; Elecampane; Echinacea; Burdock.
A good photograph of each of these is shown with the description.
Considerable money can be made collecting and preparing for the market.
This book explains in detail.
Price, cloth bound, postpaid, $1.00
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Land Cruising and Prospecting
Is a valuable book for homesteaders, hunters, trappers, guides, etc. The
writer--Mr. A. F. Wallace, an experienced surveyor, land cruiser and
prospector--in his introduction says: "To the men who follow the
compass, the trap and the trail this work is inscribed. It is not
intended for the "Professors" who can tell you all about things after
they are done (by somebody else)."
The publishers say: A book of Valuable Information for hunters,
trappers, land cruisers, prospectors and men of the trail--tells how to
locate one's self on the map, etc.
This book contains about 200 pages 5 x 7 inches, is printed on good
quality paper, with nearly 40 illustrations and contains 20 chapters as
follows:
I. Maps.
II. The Compass.
III. Examining and Locating.
IV. Early Surveys.
V. Corner Marks.
VI. Miscellaneous Information.
VII. Points for Homesteaders.
VIII. Prospecting for Gold.
IX. Sampling Ore.
X. How to Locate a Claim.
XI. Poor Man's Ore Mill.
XII. Prospecting for Fur.
XIII. Prospecting for Pearls.
XIV. Prospecting for Bees.
XV. Rations and Camp Cookery.
XVI. Camp Kits.
XVII. Guns, Axes and Pack-straps.
XVIII. Building Cabins, Tanning, Etc.
XIX. Getting Lost.
XX. The Red River Trapper.
This book is practica
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