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Practical System of Farm Book-Keeping : Being that re- 



commended in the " Book of the Farm" by H. Stephens. Koyal Octavo, 2s. 6d. 

 Also, Seven Folio Account-Books, printed and ruled in accordance with the 

 System, the whole being specially adapted for keeping, by an easy and accurate 

 method, an account of all the transactions of the Farm. A detailed Prospectus 

 may be had from the Publishers. Price of the complete set of Eight Books, 

 £1, 6s. Od. Also, A Labour Account of the Estate, 2s. 6d. 



"We have no hesitation in. saying, that of the many systems of keeping farm -accounts wiiich 

 are in vogue, there is not one which will hear comparison with that just issued by Messrs Black- 

 Wood, according to the recommendations of Mr Stephens,, in his invaluable 'Boole of the Farm.' 

 The great characteristic of this system is its simplicity. When once tlie details are mastered, which 

 it will take very little trouble to accomplish, it will be prized as the clearest method to show 

 the profit and loss of business, and to prove how the soundest and surest calculations can be 

 arrived at. We earnestly recommend a trial of the entire series of books — they must be used 

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 who make such a trial will speedily accord with our own." — Bell's Messenger. 



Agricultural Statistics of Scotland. Report by the High- 



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Ainslie's Treatise onland-Surveying. Anew and enlarged 



Edition, edited by William Galbraith, M. A., F.R.A.S. One Volume, Octavo, 

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' ' The best book on surveying with which I am acquainted. "— W. Rutherford, LL. D. , F.R.A.S. , 



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Reports of the Association for Promoting Improvement in 



the Dwellings and Domestic Condition of Agricultural Labourers in Scotland. 

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The Torester : A Practical Treatise on the Planting, 



Rearing, and Management of Forest Trees. By James Brown, Wood Manager 

 to the Earl of Seafield. Third Edition, greatly enlarged, with numerous Engrav- 

 ings on Wood. Royal Octavo, 30s. 



" What we have often stated in these columns we now repeat, that the book before us is. the 

 most useful guide to good Arboriculture in the English language. The Author is a man of great 

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 so that he does not fall into the mistakes which mere theorists, or mere practicals, have each 

 committed on so large a scale, in too many great places. We will even add, that it has been to 

 the advice and instruction given in two former editions of the ' Forester,' now exhausted, that 

 the general improvement in timber management may be fairly ascribed." — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



"Beyond all doubt this is the best work on the subject of Forestry extant." — Gardeners' 

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Handbook of the Mechanical Arts concerned in the Con- 



struction and Arrangement of Dwellings and other Buildings ; Including Car- 

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