APPLEGATE t CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. 



FARMER'S HAND-BOOK. 



By JosiAH T. Marshall, author of " Emigrant's True Guide." 12mo., cloth, 

 500 pages. 



The publishers are gratified that they are enabled to satisfy the universal demand 

 for a volume which comprises a mass of superior material, derived from the most 

 authentic sources and protracted research. 



The contents of the " Farmer's Hand-Book " can be accurately known and duly 

 estimated only by a recurrence to the Index of Subjects, which occupies twenty-fou] 

 columns, comprising about fifteen hundred different points of information respecting 

 the management of a Farm, from the first purchase and clearing of the land, to all 

 its extensive details and departments. The necessary conveniences, the household 

 economy, the care of the animals, the preservation of domestic health, the cultivation 

 of fruits with the science and taste of the arborist, and the production of the most 

 advantageous articles for sale, are all displayed in a plain, instructive, and most 

 satisfactory manner, adapted peculiarly to the classes of citizens for whose use and 

 benefit the work is specially designed. Besides a general outline of the Constitution, 

 with the Naturalization and Pre-emption Laws of the United States, there is 

 appended a Miscellany of 120 pages, including a rich variety of advice, hints, and 

 rules, the study and knowledge of which will unspeakably promote both the comfort 

 and welfare of all who adopt and practice them. 



The publishers are assured that the commendations which the " Farmer's Hand- 

 book " has received, are fully merited ; and they respectfully submit the work to 

 Agriculturists, in the full conviction that the Farmer or the Emigrant, in any part 

 of the country, will derive numberless blessings and improvements from his acquaint- 

 ance with Mr. Marshall's manual. 



ELLEN, OR THE CHAINED MOTHER, 

 And Pictures of Kentucky Slavery, drawn from Real Life. 

 By Mary B. Harlan. 12mo., cloth; illustrated on tinted paper. 

 This little volume is full of sympathetic scenes and touching narratives of wrongs 

 peculiar to American Slavery. It is written in a happy style and chaste language ; 

 is free from abusive epithets or unkind words, and will fascinate the reader. 



From the Middletown Herald. 

 We have seldom, if ever, read a book of this character with so much interest. 

 The style in which it is written is admirable. It is smooth, easy, unostentatious, and 

 natural. No one can, read much of it without wanting to read all of it. The whole 

 end and aim seems to be to exhibit the practical workings of slavery, and we think 

 this has been successfully accomplished. Every page seems to impress you with its 

 truthfulness. It requires no ''Key" to explain it, for written, as it is, in plain 

 Anglo-Saxon, it explains itself. 



From the Western Christian Advocate. 

 This work is founded on facts and events in real life, and is given from personal 

 observation ; and this fact alone should give the authoress precedence over those who 

 stand at a distance, and write of things of which they know but little, except second- 

 hand information. It is written with a graphic pen, and more than ordinary facility 

 and power of description. It is worthy of general circulation. 



