8 STANDARD BOOKS. 



Stewart's Shepherd's Manual. 



A Valuable Practical Treatise on the Sheep for American fanners 

 and slleep growers. It is so plain that a farmer or a farmer's son 

 who has never kept a sheep, may learn from its pages how to 

 manage a fioclc successfully, and yet so complete that even the ex- 

 perienced shepherd may gather many suggestions from it. Tlie 

 results of personal experience of some years with the characters 

 of the various modern breeds of sheep, and the sheep raising capa- 

 bilities of many portions of our extensive territory and that of 

 Canada— and the careful study of the diseases to which our sheep 

 are chiefly subject, witli tliose by which they may eventually be 

 afflicted througli unforseen accidents — as well as the methods of 

 management called for under our circumstances, are carefully 

 described. By Henry Stewart. Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo. 1.50 



Wrigfht's Practical Poultry-Keeper. 



By L. Wright. A complete and standard guide to the management 

 of poultry, for domestic use, the markets or exhibition. It suits at 

 once the plain poulterer, who must make the business pay, and the 

 chicken fancier whose taste is for gay plimiage and strange, bright 

 birds. Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo. §2.00 



Harris on the Pi§:. 



New Edition. Revised and enlarged by the atithor. Tlie points of 

 tlie various English and American breedsaretlioroughly discussed, 

 and the great advantage of using thoroughbred males clearly 

 shown. The work is equally valuable to the farmer who keeps but 

 few pigs, and to the breeder on an extensive scale. By Joseph 

 Harris. Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo. 1.50 



The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



A guide to the Prevention and Treatment of Disease in Domestic 

 Animals. This is one of the best works on this subject, and is es- 

 pecially designed to supply the need of the busy American Farm- 

 er, wiio can rarely avail himself of the advice of a Scientific Veter- 

 inarian. It is brouglit up to date and treats of the Prevention of 

 Disease as Avell as of the Remedies. By Prof. Jas. Law. Cloth. 

 Crown, 8vo. 3.00 



Dadd's American Cattle Doctor. 



By George H. Dadd, M. D., Veterinary Practitioner. To help every 

 man to be his own cattle-doctor; giving tlie necessary information 

 for preserving the health and curing the diseases of oxen, cows, 

 sheep and swine, with a great variety of original recipes, and val- 

 uable information on farm and dairy management. Cloth, 12mo. 1.50 



Cattle Breeding:. 



By Wm. Warfield. This work is by common consent the most 

 valuable and pre-eminently practical treatise on cattle-breeding 

 ever published in America, being the actual experience and. ob- 

 servance of a practical man. Cloth, 12mo. 2.00 



