Now publishing in Moiuhly Parts, in the FARMERS' LIBRARY, 

 Price 50 cents each, or $5 per annum, 



THE BOOK OF THE FARM; 



BEING A SYSTEMATIC WORK OX, 



PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE, 



ON AN ENTIRELY NEW AND ORIGINAL PLAN. 



BY HENRY STEPHENS, 



Editor of " The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture," and " Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society of Scotland." 



ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS OF ANIMALS, 



PAINTED FROM THE LIFE— BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED ; aND NUMEROUS WOODCUTS AND 



PLATES OF AGRICULTIRAL IMPLEMENTS, 

 So particularized as to enable Country Mechanics to construct them from the descriptions. 



Of the style, costliness, and value of this celebrated work, some idea may be 

 formed, when we state that, in the first place, it contains more than 1400 pages, 

 with upward of Six Hundred Engravings I and, farther, that in England it re- 

 quired more than two years to publish it, and cost there §24. This neat work is 

 now publishing in the Farmers^ Library. "So farmer who thirsts for knowledge 

 himself, or who aspires to h^'e his son rise to the true " post of honor," the digni- 

 fied station of an intellectual and accomplished agriculturist, can justifiably deny 

 himself such a work as is found in the Farmers' Library and Monthly Jour- 

 nal OF Agriculture. 



Among the Six Hundred Engravings which will be published in this BOOK OF 

 THE FAE.M, we have only room to mention the following : — 



Views of Farmsteads, or Farm Buildings ; Fine Specimens of Cattle, Horses, 

 Oxen, Swine, Cows, Sheep, &:c. ; Thrashing-Machines ; Sowing-Machines : Grub- 

 bers; The Farm-House ; Servant's Houses ; Fences; Thorn Hedges; Field Gates ; 

 Stone Dykes; Embankments; Draining — an Open Drain in Grass: Covered do. : 

 Planks and Wedges to prevent Sides of Drains falling in, &:c., &c., 4cc. AGRI- 

 CULTURAL IMPLEMENTS of all kinds; Various Kinds of Plows: Sections 

 and Parts of do. ; Shovels ; Scoops ; Spades ; Plumb-Level ; Swing-Trees for two 

 Horses, for three Horses, for four Horses ; Harrows ; Horse-Hoes ; Rollers ; Straw- 

 Racks; Water-Troughs; Straw-Cutters ; Shepherd's Crook; SnowPiw; Dung- 

 Hawk; Scythe and Bend Sned ; Bull's Ring; Bullock Holder; Rakea Form of 

 Haystacks; Corn-Bruisers; Riddles; Rope-Spinners; Ladders; BeaiH '11 ; In- 

 strument for Topping Turneps ; Turnep-Trough for Feeding Sheep ; MovaS Shed 

 for Sheep ; Oil-Cake Breaker ; Wheelbarrow ; Turnep Slicer for Sheep ; Pt^ ing 

 for relieving Cattle of Choking; the Milking-Paii ; Curd-Cutter; Cheese-Vat; 

 Churns; Cheese-Press; ficc, i:c. Horse-Cart; Liquid-Manure Cart ; Single-horse 

 Tilt-Cart, &:c., &:c., kc. Various Operations connected with the Culture of Grain 

 &c., &c., &:c. Also, Plans for Irrigation ; Insects affec-ling Live Stock and Crops; 

 Harness, Bridle-Bit, Collars, kc, ficc, kc, ice. 



03^ This great Work is now publishing in the FARMERS' LIBRARY AND 

 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE, the subscription price of which 

 is $5 per annum. Every farmer, and every gentleman who owns land or culti- 

 vates a garden, is earnesilv requested to examine this Work. 



GREELEY & McELRATH, Puhlishtrs. 



New Yokk, July 1, 1846. 



