STANDARD BOOKS. f 



Batty' s Practical Taxidermy and Home Decoration. 



By Joseph II. Batty, taxidermist for the ii^overiiment surveys and 

 many colleges and museums in the United States. An entirely new 

 and complete as well as authetitic work on taxidermy — giving in 

 detail full directions for collecting and mountinc: animals, birds, rep- 

 tiles, fish, insects, and general objects of natural history. 125 illus- 

 trations. Cloth, 12mo.- 1.50 



Stewart's Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Orchard. 



New aTid Enlarged Edition. This work is offered to those American 

 Farmers, and oilier cultivators of the soil, who from painful expe- 

 rience can readily appreciate the losses whicli result from the scarcity 

 of water at critical periods. By Henry Stewart. Fully illustrated. 

 Cloth, 12mo 1 50 



Johnson's How Crops Grow. 



New Eiiition, entirely rewritten. A Treatisp on the Chemical Compo- 

 sition, Structure, and Life of the Plant. Revised Edition. This booii 

 is a guide to the knowledge of agricultural plants, their composition, 

 their structure, and modes of development and growth ; of the com- 

 plex organization of plants, and the use of the parts ; the L'^ermination 

 of seeds, and the food of plants obtained both from the'air and the 

 soil. The book is an invalu ible one to all real students of agricul- 

 ture. With numerous illustrations and tables of analysis. By Prof. 

 Samuel W. Johnson, of Yale College. Cloth, 12mo 2.0O 



Johnson's How Crops Feed. 



A treatise on the Atmosphere and the Soil, as related in the Nutrition 

 of Agricultural Plants The volume— the com[)anion and complement 

 to " How Crops Grow,"— has been welcomed by those who appreciate 

 scientitic aspects of agriculture. Illustrated. By Prof. Samuel W. 

 Johnson. Cloth, 12mo 3.00 



Warington's Chemistry of the Farm. 



Treating with the utmost clearness and conciseness, and in the most 

 popular manner i)ossible, of the relations of Chemistry to Agriculture, 

 and i^roviding a welcome manual for those, who, while not having 

 time to systematically study Chemistry, will gladly have such an idea 

 as this gives them of its relation to operations on the farm. By R. 

 Warington, F. C. S. Cloth, I2mo- 1.00 



French's Farm Drainage. 



The Principles, Process, and Effects of Draining Land, with Stones, 

 Wood, Ditch-plows, Open Ditches, and especiaJly with Ties; includ- 

 ing Tables of Rainfall, Evaporation, Filteration, Excavation, Capacity 

 of Pipes, cost and number to the acre. By Judge French, of New 

 Hampshire. Cloth, ]2mo 1.50 



Hunter and Trapper. 



The best modes of Hunting and Trapping arc fully explained, and 

 Foxes, Deer, Bears, etc., fall into his traps readily by following his 

 directions. By Halsey Thrasher, an old and experienced sportsman. 

 Cloth, 12mo 75 



The American Merino. For Wool or for ^'^.''^utton. 



A practical and most valuable work on the selection, care, breeding; 

 and diseases of the Merino sheep, in all sections of the the United 

 States. It is a full and exhaustive treatise upon this one breed of 

 fiheep. By Stephen Powers. Cloth, Timo l..V> 



