NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



As a sound and useful volume, we take pleasure in commending it 

 cordially to our readers. It can but rank as a standard American 

 dairy-book, the best, we have no hesitation in saying, yet issued 

 upon the subject. Country Gentleman. 



The committee would earnestly recommend to the perusal of all 

 farmers a very valuable work recently issued from the press, by 

 Charles L. Flint, Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of 

 Agriculture, entitled " Milch Cows and Dairy Farming." They will 

 find it filled with details of the most interesting and valuable fact? and 

 suggestions. Com. of the Essex Co. (Mass.) Agricultural Society. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE 



ON 



GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS, 



Comprising their Natural History, Comparative Nutritive 



Value, Modes of Cultivating, Cutting, and Curing, 



and the Management of Grass Lands. 



By CHARLES L. FLINT, 



SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE ; MEMBER 

 OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, ETC. ETC. 



I TJ B L, I S H E I> B "V 



PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO. 



11 WINTER STREET, BOSTON. 



OIF THE ZPIRESS. 



One of the most valuable essays ever printed. New York Tribune. 



The most complete American popular treatise we ever read. 

 Ohio Cultivator. 



The work is an eminently practical one, illustrated by more than 

 one hundred engravings of the various grasses, implements, &c., and 

 should be in every farmer's hands. Homestead, Hartford, Conn. 



The author has treated the subject in the proper manner, making 

 his treatise perfectly comprehensible to the ordinary intellect, and at 

 the same time so full of accurate details that it will be valuable to 

 the scientific student as a work of reference. New York Times. 



The work is a valuable contribution to the agricultural literature 

 of the day. Boston Vet. Journal. 



One of the most practical and valuable treatises on the subject of 

 grasses and forage plants ever published. Rural New Yorker. 



This is, we think, the best treatise of the kind we have ever seen 

 on this important subject. Agriculturist, New York. 



