STANDARD BOOKS, 7 
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Batty’s Practical Taxidermy and Home Decoration. 
By Joseph H. Batty, taxidermist for the government surveys and 
many colleges and museums in the United States. An entirely new 
and complete as well as authentic work on’ taxidermy—giving in 
detail full directions for collecting and mounting animals, birds, rep- 
tiles, fish, insects, and general objects of natural history. 125 illus- 
trations. Cloth, 12mo 1.50 
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Stewart's Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Orchard. 
New and Enlarged Edition. This work is offered to those American 
Farmers, and other cultivators of the soil, who from painful expe- 
rience can readily appreciate the losses which result from the scarcity 
of water at critical periods. By Henry Stewart. Fully illustrated. 
Cloth, 12mo 1.50 
Johnson's How Crops Grow. 
New Kuition, entirely rewritten. A Treatise on the Chemical Compo- 
sition, Structure, and Life of the Plant. Revised Edition. This booix 
is a guide to the knowledge of agricultural plants, their composition,’ 
their structure, and modes of development and growth ; of the com- 
plex organization cf plants, and the use of the paris; the germination 
of seeds, and the food of plants obtained both from the air and the 
soil. The book is an invaluable one to all real students of agricul- 
ture. With numerous illustrations and tables of analysis.. By Prof. 
Samuel W. Johnson, of Yale College. Cloth, 12mo_.-..--..... » 2,00 
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Johnson's How Crops Feed. . 
A treatise on the Atmosphere and the Soil, as related in the Nutrition 
of Agricultural Plavts. The yvolume—the companion and complement 
to ‘How Crops Grow,’”—has been welcomed by those who appreciate 
scientific aspects of agriculture. Ilustrated. By Prof. Samuel W. 
Johnson, Cloth, 12m0... 2.22. -22--20scce vence cece es secosncee « 2.00 
Warington’s Chemistry of the Farm. 
Treating with the utmost clearness and conciseness, and in the most 
popular manner possible, 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 
aa this gives them of its relation to operations on the farm. By R. 
Warington, F. ©. 8. Cloth, 12mo.......-------.--------------+ 1.00 
Hampshire. Cloth, 12mo.-..-..-.--.---------------------+---- 
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, 12M. ose oss ee tet cas eessenbecieescesaas seca easees 05 
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. Itis a full and exhaustive treatise upon this one breed of 
sheep, By Stephen Powers. Cloth, 12mo........ Jecceseussewen 1,50 
