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MISCELLANEOUS MAND BOOKS. 



2 | Rats: How to Rid Farms and Buildings of 

 them, as well as other Pests of like Char- 

 acter... 15 



This little book ought to be worth dollars instead of the few 

 cents it costs to any one who has ever been troubled with these 

 pests, and who has not? It is written in such a happy vein 

 that every member of the family will read it clear through , 

 just about as soon as they get hold of it. It contains a com- 

 plete summing up of the best information the world can 

 furnish; 



1 I Silk and the Silkworm 10 



10 | Small-Fruit Culturist, Fuller 1 40 



10 | Success in Market-Gardening* 90 



Tnis is a new book by a real, live, enterprising, successful 

 market-gardener who lives in Arlington, a suburb of Boston. 

 Mass. Friend Rawson has been one of the foremost to make 

 irrigation a practical success, and he now irrigates his grounds 

 by means of a windmill and steam-engine whenever a drought 

 threatens to injure the crops. The book has 208 pages, and if 

 nicely illustrated with 110 engravings. 



! Ten Acres Enough .. 100 



| The Silo and Ensilage, by Prof. Cook, new 



edition, fully illustrated 2fc 



I Talks on Manures* 1 76 



Jhis book, by Joseph Harris is, perhaps, the most compre- 

 hensive one we have on the subject, and the whole matter ie 

 considered by an able writer. It contains 3G6 pages. 



2 | The Carpenter's Steel Square and its Uses. 15 

 10 | The New Agriculture; or, the Waters Led 



Captive 75 



2 | Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases 10 



5 I Tile Drainage, by W. I. Chamberlain 35 



Just out. Fully illustrated, containing every thing of im- 

 portance clear up to the present date. 



The single chapter on digging ditches, with the illustrations 

 given by Prof. Chamberlain, should alone make the book 

 worth what it costs, to every one who has occasion to lay ten 

 rods or more of tile. There is as much science in digging as 

 in doing almost any thing else; and by following the plan 

 directed in this book, one man will often do as much as two 

 men without this knowledge. The book embraces every thing 

 connected with the subject, and was written by the author 

 while he was enga-.ed in the work of digging the ditches and 

 laying the tiles HIMSELF, for he has laid literally miles of 

 tile on his own farm in Hudson, O. 



5 | Tomato Culture 35 



In three parts. Part first by J. W. Day, of Crystal Springs, 

 Miss., treats of tomato culture in the South, with some re- 

 marks by A. I Root, adapting it to the North. Part second 

 By D Cummins, of Conneaut, O,, treats of tomato culture 

 especially for canning-factories. Part third By A. I. Root, 

 treats of plant-growing for market, and high-pressure garden- 

 ing in general. This little book is interesting because it is one 

 of the first rural books to come from our friends in the South. 

 It tells of a great industry that has been steadily growing for 

 some years past; namely, tomato-growing in the South to 

 supply the Northern markets. The little book, which is fully 

 illustrated, gives us some pleasant glimpses of the possibili- 

 ties and probabilities of the future of Southern agriculture. 

 Even though you do not grow tomatoes to any considerable 

 extent, you will find the book brimful of suggestions of short 

 cuts in agriculture and horticulture, and especially in the line 

 of market-gardening. 



8 | What to Do and How to be Happy While 



Doing It, by A. I. Root 50 



