THE AMERICAN FARM BOOK: 



OR, 



Compend of American Agriculture, 



Containing a concise and plainly written Exposition of Duties pertaining to th« 

 Cultivation of the Earth, the Management of the Farm, &c. Sec, on prac- 

 tical scientific principles. 



BY R. L. ALLEN. 



^he cheapest and most valuable book for a farmer ever printed : teing a com 

 plete Guide, both practical and scientific, for the 



MANAGEMENT OF THE FARM. 

 Bosides the varied practical knowledge which this book imparts, and which is 

 indispensable to the proper management of every department of agriculture, it 

 rives the elements of other information highly necessary to a successful farmer, 

 is History, Geology, Chemistry, Botany, Anatomy, Physiology, and Mechanics. 

 These branches of knowledge are given as applicable to agricultural pursuits 

 and when properly understood will essentially aid and assist the farmer. In fact 

 a knowledge of these sciences is a sure key to wealth for any agriculturist. I 

 gives the mode of preparation, and the effects of all kinds of manures ; the 

 trigin, texture, divisions, and description of every variety of soils ; the economy 

 »f sowing, reaping, and mowing, irrigation and draining ; cultivation of the 

 grasses, clovers, grains, and roots ; Southern and miscellaneous products, as cot- 

 ton, hemp, flax, the., sugar cane, rice, tobacco, hops, madder, woad, &.c. ; the 

 rearing of fruit — apples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes, Sec. ; farm buildings 

 ledges, &c. ; with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation 

 for market. Illustrated by 100 engravings. 

 The reader can form some idea. of the above work, from the fact that it treats 

 ' 800 different subjects important to a farmer. It contains 354 pages, and i 

 beautifully bound in cloth, gilt, suitable for a library. Price only .One Dollar. 

 Notices of the Press. 

 The author has been one of the most able contributors to the agricultural pres 

 or the last ten years ; aside from this he is a practical farmer and stock-breeder 

 *nd consequently knows from his own experience what he is writing about. - 



Commercial Advertiser. 



This book is by a gentleman of known experience ; the work is exceedingly 

 4eap, and the farmer will find it a valuable book of reference. — N. Y. Express. 



It is in fact a brief encyclopedia on the subjects treated, and the farmer will 

 Hud appropriate information on almost any subject coming within his reach. — 

 New York Observer. 



Hero is a book for the million, precisely what its title indicates. Compassed 

 within its pages, the reader will find the subject of soils, manures, crops, and 

 animals, treated in a style easily comprehended. — Spirit of the Times. 



This work is what might be expected from one so well qualified for the undei- 

 taking. — Boston Cultivator. 



We are glad, to meet a publication which can interest, as well as improve the 

 condition of the human race. We commend the work to every American farmer. 

 — Christian Intelligencer. 



_ Why shall not every good farmer economize his muscles by storing his mind 1 

 We hope this book will find its way into many family and school-libraries. — Net* 

 York Tribune. 



It ought to be found in every farmer's library.— Jerseyman. 



It is really a great satisfaction to get hold of an American treatise on Agricul- 

 ture, that has a plain, practical, common sense character of its own. The author 

 of this work is already known to the agricultural public as a thorough practical 

 farmer and stock-breeder. That he well knows what he is about on a farm, these 

 pages abundanty show. No mere book-maker could have written such a book ; 

 and we may add, also, that no mere practical farmer could have written it. A 

 " good practical work" can only be written by a man who has both thought and 

 acted, well. What, distinguishes this volume, is its conciseness, its clearness, and 

 its perspicuous treatment of the subject in hand. We think, therefore, that Mr 

 Allen's volume, the basis of. which is go«d practical farming, as practised by th 

 best cultivators in the United States, with an intelligent reference to those princi 

 pies of science which lie. at the root of all successful practice, is likely to be of aa 

 much or more real service to us, than any work on agriculture vet issued, from 

 the press, and we gladly, commend it to the perusal of every one of our reader* 

 •ngage.1 in the cultivaaon of land — A. J. Downing 3 a Horticulturist 



