STANDARD COOKS. 7 



Batty' s Practical Taxidermy and Home Decoration. 



By Josei)h II. Batty, taxidermist for the government surveys and 

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

 and complete as vfcW as autlientic worlv on taxidermy — giving in 

 detail full dh'ections for collecting and mounting 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 and Enlarged Edition. This work is offered to those American 

 Farmers, and oiher cultivators cf the soil, who from painful expe- 

 rience can readily appreciate the losses which result fro.nthe scarcity 

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

 Cloth, 12mo 1.50 



Johnson's How Crops Grow. 



New Ecjition, entirely rewritten. A Treatise on the Chemical Compo- 

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

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

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

 plex organization cf plants, and the use of the parts ; the germination 

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

 Boil. The book is an invaluable one to all real students of agricul- 

 ture. With numerous illustrations and tables of analysis. By Pi'of. 

 Samuel W. Johnson, of Yale College. Cloth, 12mo 3.00 



Johnson's How Crops Feed. 



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

 of Agricultural Plants The volume — ihc companion and complement 

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

 scientific 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 jiossible, of the relations of Chemistry to Agriculture, 

 and providing 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, 12mo.. 1.00 



French's Farm Drainage. 



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

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

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

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

 llampshu-e. Cloth, ]2mo 1.50 



Hunter and Trapper, 



The best modes of Hunting and Trapping are 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 Mutton. 



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 

 sheep. By Stephen Powers. Cloth, 12mo 1.50 



