TEXT-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 099 



to the use of rural primary schools of the United States of America 



by F. G, Skinner. C. M. Saxton & Co., New York. Cop\'right 



1848. Pp. 91. 



Part I: Chapter I, General Notions on the Art of Cultivating the Soil and of 

 the Different Objerta that Exist in Nature; Chapter II, Ve<retal)li^ Anatomy and 

 Physiology; Chai^ter III, the Reproduction of Vegetal)les. Part II: Chapter I, 

 General Consideration of the Soil; Chapter II, the Physical Properties of Soil. 

 Part III: Chapter I, Ameliorators; Chapter 11, Stimulants; Chapter III, Manures. 



1850. John P. Norton, M. A., Professor of Scientific Agriculture in 

 Yale College. Elements of Scientific Agriculture, or the Connection 

 Between Science and the Art of Practical Farming. Prize Essa}' of 

 the New York State Agricultural Society. Adapted to the use of 

 Schools. A. O. Moore, New York. Copyright 1850. Pp. 208. 



Introduction; Organic PHements of Plants; Inorganic Part of Plants, or Ash; 

 Sources of the Organic Food of Plants; the Organic Sul)stances of Plants; the Soil; 

 Manures; Composition (if Different Crops; Application of the Crops in Feeding; 

 Milk and Dairy Produce generally; Recapitulation; Nature of Chemical Analysis; 

 Applications of Geology to Agriculture. 



Norton's book went to a second edition in 185J and to a fifth in 1854. 



1851. Rev. John L. Blake, D. D. Lessons in Modern Farming, 

 or Agricidture for Schools. Containing Scientific Exercises for 

 Recitation and Elegant Extracts from Rural Literature for Aca- 

 demic or Famil\' Reading. Mark H. Newman & Co., New York. 

 Pp. 432. The cov^er stamp is "Agriculture for Schools." 



Has no table of contents. The first essays are Moral Dignity of American 

 Lalx)r, The Harbinger of Spring, the Old Grist-mill (poem), Thanksgiving Day 

 (poem), Scientific Terms in Agriculture, Agricultural Chemistry, The Crop of 

 Acorns (poem), The American Ploughman, Physiological Reflections on Water, 

 The Superiority of Educated Labor. 



1854. George E. Waring, Jr., Consulting Agriculturist. The Ele- 

 ments of Agriculture: A Book for Young Farmers. With Questions 

 Prepared for the Use of Schools. Clark & Maynard, New York. 

 Copyright 1854. Pp. 288. 



Section I, The Plant: Chajiter I, Introduction; Chapter II, Atuiosphere; Chap- 

 ter III, Hydrogen, Oxygeu, and Nitrogen; Chapter IV, Inorganic flatter; Chapter 

 V, Growtli; Chapter VI, Proximate Division of Plants; Chapter VII, Location of 

 the Proxiniates and Variations in the Ashes of Plants; Chapter VIII, Recapitula- 

 tion. Section II, The Soil: Chai)ter I, Formation and Character of the Soil; 

 Chapter II, Uses of Organic Matter; Chapter III, Uses of Inorganic Matter. Sec- 

 tion III, Manure-^: Chapter 1, Character and Varieties of .Mainne; Chapter II, 

 Excrementeof Animals; Chapter III, Waste of Manure; Chapter IV, Absorbent,"?; 

 Chapter V, Comjtosting Stable Manure; ("haitter VI, Different Kinds of Animal 

 Excrement; Chapter VII, Other Organic Manures; Chapter VIII, Mineral Ma- 

 nures; Chapt«'r IX, Deficiencies of Soils, .Means of Restoration, etc.; Chapter X, 

 Atmospheric Fertilizers; Chapter XI, Recapitulation. Section IV, Mechanical 

 Cultivation: Chai>ter I, .Mechanical Character of the Soil; Chapter II. UndiTdrain- 

 ing; ('hapter III, Advantage of rnilerdraining; Chapter IV, Subsoil Plowing; 

 Chapter V, Plowing and Other Modes of Pulverizing the Soil; Chapter VI, 



