xx THE JOURNAL OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. — Advertisements. 



FARM, FIELD, & FIRESIDE COUNTRY 

 HOUSE SERIES OF HANDBOOKS. 



Obtainable by Ordering through any Bookseller, or Railway Bookstall, 

 price Sixpence each, or Post Free direct from 3, Wellington Street, Strand, 

 London, price Sevenpence each (cash with order). 



No. 1 —Out-Door Carpentry.— Deals 



with useful as well as decorative structures — with 

 plans, sketches, and details for doors, gates, stiles, 

 fences, seats, summer-houses, dog-kennels, chicken 

 coops, window-boxes, green-houses, etc. Designs of 

 some fifty subjects. 



No. 2— Gardens and Grounds: How 



to Lay Out and Arrange.— Suggestions for j 

 laying out, planting, and improving the small plot, j 

 or the country grounds of several acres. With plans ' 

 and sketqhes. 



No. 3— Heating and Ventilation of 



Houses. — Intended to enable anyone, in any house, 

 to secure full supply of fresh air without chilling 

 draughts. Economy and existing conditions are 

 first considerations. 



No. 4— Utility Fowl Houses and 



Appliances. — With about 40 measured drawings j 

 and plans, and with concise instructions, not only for 

 home construction, but for guidance in purchasing 

 for the fowl-yard. Treats of ventilation, site aspect, 

 etc. , of houses ; the laying out of large and small runs, ! 

 construction of nest-boxes, coops, etc. 



No. 5— Utility Fowl Feeding and 



Management. — The requirements of fowls from 

 birth to maturity, feeding stuffs, and how to use 

 them for feeding of chickens, hens for summer and 

 winter laying, and for the fattening of surplus stock. 



No. 6— Utility Fowls: Their Selec- 

 tion, Improvement and Diseases.— The 



breeds most suitable for confinement or a free range ; 

 crossing, and the improvement of mongrel stock, i 

 Turkeys, guinea fowl, and water-fowl are spoken of. ! 



No. 7— Incubating and Rearing 



Utility Fowls.— Water-tank and non-moisture 

 incubators ; brooders and brooder-houses, with hints, 

 instructions, and precautions for the hatching and 

 rearing of fowls for profit. 



No. 8— Propagating Plants: By 



Seeds, Cuttings, Layers, Grafts, Buds, 

 etc.— Propagation of all classes of plants, by many 

 methods, with lists of those suitable fur the various 

 treatments, hints on the preparation of seed beds, 

 etc. Many illustrations 



No. 9— Hardy Perennials.— All infor- 

 mation necessary for selecting hardy perennials, 

 and for arranging borders, wild gardens, water- 

 gardens, etc. 



No. 10— Utility Rabbits.— Simple enough 



for the boy who keeps but one or two rabbits, yet 

 sufficiently thorough for the man who wishes to 

 make a living from a trade which is almost entirely 

 in foreign hands. 



No. 11 — Cold Greenhouses and 



Frames.— Howto secure foliage and bloom through 

 the whole year. Lists of most useful plants, with 

 brief description and cultutal directions. 



No. 12 — Carnations, Pinks, and 



Picotees.— Simple and sufficient directions for 

 raising pinks, selfs, bizarres, flakes, fancies, picotees, 

 winter flowering, malmaison, and marguerite car- 

 nations from seeds, cuttings, or layers, and for their 

 culture for exhibition flowers, cut blooms, etc. 



No. 13 — Spring Gardening.— Deals 



with the aspects of out-door Spring gardening; wild 

 woodland, border walks, edgings, bulbs in grass and 

 under trees, flowers in orchards, bog gardens, 

 rooteries, walls, arches, bedding,house decoration, etc. 



No. 14— Hardy Fruits. Full instructions 

 for growing all British fruits — Propagation, culture, 

 manuring, watering, training, pruning, gathering 

 the fruit, and storing. With diagrams of garden 

 arrangements, forms of trees, etc. ; also recipes for 

 cures for pests and diseases. 



No. 15 — Keeping a Dog. — Written 



clearly and concisely, for the keeper of one or two 

 dogs as pets, companions, or guardians of the yard. 



No. 16 — Rose -Growing.— The whole 



elementary art and practice of rose-growing for 

 garden glory, for cut blooms, or for perfect exhibition 

 specimens. Preparation of ground, site, and aspect, 

 when and how to plant. 



No. 17 — Chrysa nthemums. — 



Directions fur treating the principal varieties of 

 chrysanthemums, annual or perennial, indoors, or 

 out of doors, for pleasure, profit, or show. 



No. 18— Bulb Culture.— Directions for 

 growing all kinds of bulbs under glass and out of 

 doors. Also for many tuberous (etc.) rooted plants 

 which are familiarly called "bulbs." Lists and 

 illustrations. 



No. 19 — The Vegetable Garden 



Calendar.— Gives, in twelve openings, graphic 

 charts of the vegetable garden for each month. 

 Each chart shows at a glance what crops should be 

 in the ground, what should be yielding produce, 

 what proportion of space should be occupied by 

 each, and what operations should be in hand. Many 

 illustrations. 



No. 20— Goats for Profi t.— Selection 



and purchase, housing (with working plans), breed- 

 ing and the treatment of young kids, feeding, groom- 

 ing, milking, uses of the milk, making of butter 

 and cheese : killing and dressing kids, training goats 

 to harness, treatment of their diseases, etc 



No. 21— Garden Operations.— 



Digging, trenching, preparing for seed, sowing, 

 thinning, planting, ridging, earthing, hoeing, weed- 

 killing, staking, protecting, harvesting, tools and 

 make-shifts, water-supply, watering, lawn-making, 

 mowing, rolling, making paths and beds, and many 

 other operations. 



No. 22 -Pruning, Training, and 



Trimming Trees and Shrubs.— Explains 

 and illustrates the whole art of using knife and 

 shears in a garden, d. 



No. 22a— City and Suburban Win- 

 dow Gardening. — Contains an Alphabetical List 

 of Plants for town culture. Making tubs, frames, 

 and window boxes. The town greenhouse, how fur- 

 nished. Diagrams for making rustic baskets, etc., 

 etc. 



No. 23— To Manure at a Profit. 



Every Farmer His Own Experimenter. By H. B. M. 

 Buchanan, B.A. (Cantab), and J. J. Willis, Superin- 

 tendent of the Rothamsted Field Experiments. 



NOTE :—It is ONLY necessary to quote the Number when ordering. 



