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Books Published by William Blackwood and Sons. 



THE BOOK OF THE FARM Continued. 



REALISATION — Continued. 



THE POTNTS TO BE AIMED AT IN BREEDING 

 THE MOST PERFECT FORMS IN LIVE STOCK. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE ANIMALS WHOSE POR- 

 TRAITS ARE GIVEN IN THE PLATES. 



ACCOUNT OF SOME OTHER BREEDS OF CATTLE 

 AND SHEEP. 



THE PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING. 



SELECTION OF PARENTS IN BREEDING. 



BREEDING IN-AND-IN. 



CROSSING. 



HIRING OF FARM-SERVANTS. 

 WAGES OF FARM -SERVANTS. 



THE FARM SMITH, JOINER, AND SADDLER. 

 THE CARE DUE TO THE IMPLEMENTS. 

 MAKING EXPERIMENTS ON THE FARM. 

 CORN -MARKETS. 

 FARM BOOK-KEEPING. 



CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS TO THE YOUNG 



FARMER. 

 INDEX. 



EXTRACTS FROM NOTICES OF THE FIRST EDITION. 



Professor Johnston. 



" The best practical book I have ever met with." 



Times. 



" We assure agricultural students that they will derive both pleasure and profit from a diligent per- 

 usal of this clear directory to rural labour. The experienced farmer will perhaps think that Mr Stephens 

 dwells upon some matters too simple or too trite to need explanation ; but we regard this as a fault 

 leaning to virtue's side in an instructional book. The young are often ashamed to ask for an explana- 

 tion of simple things, and are too often discouraged by an indolent or supercilious teacher if they do. 

 But Mr Stephens entirely escapes this error, for he indicates every step the young farmer should take, 

 and, one by one, explains their several bearings. . . . The business matter of a farm is divided by 

 Mr Stephens into four parts, each bearing the name of the season that influences the operations that 

 are performed in it. By this arrangement every operation is described as it takes its turn in the fields — ■ 

 described, we must in justice to the author observe, in so detailed and perspicuous a narrative, that no 



attentive reader can fail to comprehend the course he ought in practice to pursue 



We have thoroughly examined these volumes ; but to give a full notice of their varied and valuable 

 contents would occupy a larger space than we can conveniently devote to their discussion ; we therefore, 

 in general terms, commend them to the cai-eful study of every young man who wishes to become a good 

 practical farmer." 



Editor of American Reprint. 



" No farmer, who thirsts for knowledge himself, or who aspires to have his son rise ' to the true post 

 of honour* — the dignified station of an intellectual and accomplished agriculturist — can justifiably deny 

 himself such a work." 



The XtXagnet. 



" It is one of the chief recommendations of this work that its instructions are both clear and compre- 

 hensive, so that they are quickly understood and their merits appreciated ; whilst the profusion of excel- 

 lent cuts with which the text is embellished brings the subjects treated upon fairly under the farmer's 

 observation. There are few books of so high a character, or so eminently useful as this." 



Farmers' Magazine. 



" A work, the excellence of which is too well known to need any remarks of ours." 



Inverness Courier. 



" Mr Stephens has tasked himself to produce a great work — the most splendid we possess on the sub- 

 ject ; and his title hardly conveys the full extent of his plan, which is more comprehensive and highly 

 finished than any other rural cyclopaedia we possess." 



Sell's Messenger. 



" Exhibiting in every page the combination of large experience, extensive observation, and a culti- 

 vated mind One of the most unique and valuable works to be found within the range of 



agricultural literature." 



Bell's Life. 



" We know of no single agricultural work to be compared with this. . . . Nothing can be more 

 disinterestedly earnest than our recommendation of the ' Book of the Farm.' " 

 Agricultural Gazette. 

 " One of the completest works on agriculture of which our literature can boast." 



Scottish Parmer. 



" A most accurate and useful digest of all that has been ascertained by observation, experiment, and 

 experience in relation to agriculture, more especially as conducted in our own country. By very many 

 of the most enlightened and enterprising farmers and proprietors in Scotland, we know it has been held 

 in the greatest estimation ; and were we to seek information on any particular subject connected with 

 rural affairs, it is certainly the book to which we should in the first instance refer." 



Newcastle Journal. 



" Of the excellence of this agricultural treatise there can be but one opinion ; it is the very best pub- 

 lication of the kind, whether as regards arrangement, typography, or beauty of illustration. The style 

 is adapted to the subject— plain and concise. The work presents at once the accumulations of experience 

 and the discoveries of science." 



Sherbourne J ournal. 



" One of the least theoretical of any of the numerous works on scientific agriculture. If it had been 

 written by a tenant-farmer himself its language could not have been plainer, or its operations of a more 



practical character Meanwhile, we recommend it to the earnest attention of every one 



connected with the soil." 



