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other, just enough to eke out a subsistence, 

 under a system of the most rigid economy, 

 while the progress of the farm and its people 

 would be downward, instead of upward. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



The American ITerd Book, containing Pedigrees of 

 Shorthorn Cattle, with Introductory Notes, by Lewis 

 F. Allen, Buftalo, N. Y. Volume X. 



Though tolerably well posted as to the rapidly 

 increasing popularity of the Short-horn cattle in 

 this country, we think most persons will be sur- 

 prised by this bulky volume. Heretofore two 

 . years have intervened between the dates of previ- 

 ous volumes. This is issued only thirteen months 

 after volume nine. Judging from the past, the ed- 

 itor assumed, in his prospectus, that probably 

 some 3200 entries would be made, requiring a vol- 

 ume of 600 pages. But so man'ellous has been 

 the increase of American herds of Short-horns that 

 the pedigrees offered amount to nearly 5000, and 

 the volume is swollen to over 900 pages, without 

 including the 72 portraits with which the volume 

 is illustrated, — most of which are on stone, and all 

 of superior workmanship. 



The editor congratulates our Short-horn breed- 

 ers on the success which has attended their efforts 

 to increase this noble race of neat cattle ; alludes 

 to the fact that the American breeder has demon- 

 strated that he can not only equal the English 

 breeder in the merit of individual animals, but that 

 the English breeder, recognizing the value of our 

 American blood and breeding, now sends here for 

 crosses to maintain and still fui-ther improve at 

 home the blood from which they sprung; and 

 speaks of the vast grazing regions opening at the 

 West and South, wonderfully favorable to the 

 growth and extension of Short-horn cattle, as well 

 as of their increasing popularity in the older States. 

 He also mentions the importation during the past 

 year of cows which cost in England ^7500, gold ; 

 and of sales here of cows at ^'SoOO to §8000 each ; 

 and of $7500 being offered here by an English 

 breeder for two yearling heifers of the Bates' 

 Duchess family, and of f 5000 and $5750 for bulls 

 of Ameiican breeding. 



The price of this voluhie, based on the condi- 

 tions of the editors' prospectus of §6 for 600 pages 

 and $1 per 100 pages additional, is $1) per copy by 

 express and $9.60 bj' mail, post-paid. Remit by 

 check on a New York bank, Post-oiflce order, or 

 registered letter, to the editor, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Frank Forrester's Horse and Horsemanship of the 

 United States and British Provinces of North Amer- 

 ica. By Henry William Herbert, author of "Frank 

 Forrester's Field Sports," "Fish and Fishing," "The 

 complete Manual for young Sportsmen," &c. Re- 

 vised, corrected, enlarged and continued to 1S71, by 

 S. D. & B. G. Bruce. With thirty original Portraits 

 of celebrated Horses. In two volumes. New York : 

 Geo. E. Woodward, Publisher, 191 Broadway. 1871. 



Because we do not' approve of the union of the 

 race course and the agricultural foir, it is not ne- 

 cessary that wc should disguise our admiration of 



the horse, nor our interest in horse books. "The 

 Horse of America," by Henry Wm. Herbert, — 

 better known as "Frank FoiTCster," — was pub- 

 lished in 1857, and has long been recognized as 

 standard authority by horsemen. The present 

 beautiful edition continues the pedigrees, perform- 

 ances and the importations of both thoroughbred 

 and trotting horses down to 1871, including his- 

 tories of Asteroid, Kentucky, Dexter, Lady Thorn, 

 Goldsmith Maid, Thornedale, Bashaw, Jr., Rys- 

 dyk's Hambletonian, Ericsson, Edward Everett, 

 Young Morrill and imported Leamington. Twelve 

 new steel engraved portraits of the most famous 

 representative horses have been added to those in 

 the first edition, making thirty in all. The "Rac- 

 ing and Betting Rules of the American Jockey 

 Club," the "Rules of the Kentucky Association," 

 and the "Rules and Regulations of the National 

 Association for the Promotion of the interests of 

 the American Trotting Turf," are also given. The 

 work is published in good style ; the two volumes 

 comprise about 1300 pages, and are sold for $15. 



The Apple Cultlrist. A Complete Treatise for the 

 Practical Poniologist. To Aid in Propagating the 

 Apple, and Managing Orchards. Illustrated with 

 Engravings of Fruif, Young and Old Trees, and Me- 

 chanical devices employed in connectiouwitli Orchards 

 and the Management of Apples. By Sereno Edwards 

 Todd, Author of "Todd's Young Farmer's Manual," 

 "Americ;in Whe.it Culturist," "Todd's Country 

 Homes" and "How to Save Money." Isew York: 

 Harper & Brothers. 1871. 334 pages. 



Those familiar with Mr. Todd's previous publi- 

 cations, so fully enumerated in this title-page, will 

 know what to expect of the present volume ; and 

 the admirers of his style will not need any com- 

 mendation from us. We are however a little sur- 

 prised that the discovery of the fact that "there is 

 no little manual on apple orchards in all our agri- 

 cultural and pomological literature which a be- 

 ginner may study as a relialjle guide in every 

 branch of apple culture," should have been made 

 so late as 1870, by Sereno Edwards Todd or any 

 other man. But the deficiency is now happily 

 supplied, and at last we have a book in which "a 

 satisfactory answer will be found to almost any 

 question that an inquirer after pomological truth 

 touching the apple may ask." The author hopes to 

 induce beginners to plant trees in early life, but for 

 the encouragement of those who have put off the 

 work to old age, he tells the story, on page 17, of a 

 man in Ohio, who planted an orchard after he had 

 passed the age of threescore-and-ten, and lived to 

 eat fruit for several years from that orchard, and 

 "to get drunk on the cider made from the apples 

 of those trees!" 



To Correspondents. — We owe you, good 

 friends, one apology which we are always glad to 

 pay, — and that is to give the reason why we are 

 unable at this season to publish promptly all the 

 articles which you have prepared for our columns 

 during the long evenings and comparative leisure 

 of the winter months. Our long columns, compact 

 type, and condensed style are not quite equal to the 



