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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[July, 
liAWLESS AMUSEMENT 
BOYS AND GIRLS. 
Crandall's Improved Building Blocks, 
which h:tvebeeu described in a former number of the Amer- 
ican Agriculturist, furnish i\ most attractive amusement for 
children. They are very simple in construction, will stand 
years of children's handling without breaking, and give 
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CHURCHES, 
DWELLINGS, 
BARNS, 
MILLS, 
FENCES, 
FURNITURE, etc., 
in almost endless variety, can be built with them, and when 
finished, the structure remains firm so that it can be carried 
about without falling to pieces. 
For developing the ingenuity and taste of children they 
are unequaled. Having given these blocks a practical trial 
in their own families, the publishers of the Agriculturist 
were so well pleased with them, that they consented to 
take the general agency for their sale. In offering them to 
parents for the instruction and amusement of their children, 
we feel that we are doing them a service which cannot be 
fully appreciated until they have seen the blocks in their 
wonderful combinations, affording a beautiful and lasting 
toy to the prattling infant, and serving as a delightful study 
and past inic for the older ones of the family. 
The T.locks are put up in neat boxes, each box containing 
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DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
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How Drains Act. 
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Reclaiming Salt Marshes. 
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Onions: How to Raise them Profitably, 
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^ IVE^T WORK. 
THE 
PERCHERON HORSE. 
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF 
CHAELES DU IIUYS, 
Author of the " Dictionary of the Pure Ruce ;" " Trotter.- ;" 
" The Horse Breeder's Guide ;" ete. 
FINELY ILll'STHATED. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PRODUCTION, REARING, AND IMPROVEMENT 
OF THE PERCHERON HORSE. 
PAKT FIRST. 
GREATNESS AND DECLINE OF THE PER- 
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SKEIcU OF TnE PERCIIERO.N RACE. 
ORIGIN of THE PERCHERON. 
MODIFICATIONS OF THE PERCHERON RACE. 
HIS FIRST MODIFICATION DUE TO CONTACT 
WITH TnE BRITTANY RACE. 
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY ARE BRED. 
CAUSES OF THE DEGENERACY OF THE PER- 
CHERON HORSE. 
STARTING POINT OF THIS DEGENERATION. 
PAKT SECOND. 
OF THE MEANS OF REGENERATING THE 
PERCHERON HORSE. 
REGENERATION OF THE PERCHERON BREED. 
REGENERATION OF THE BREED THROUGH 
ITSELF OR BY SELECTION. 
CONSANGUINITY. 
OUGHT THE GRAY COAT OF THE PERCHERON 
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TURE THE THREE TYPES OF THE PER- 
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