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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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A. TSTB1W "WORK:. 
THE 
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF 
CHARLES DU HAYS, 
Author o[' the " Dictionary of the Pure Race ;" " Trotters ;" 
•" Tin- Horse Breeder's Guide ;" etc. 
FINELY 
.LUSTRA TED. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PRODUCTION, REARING, AND IMPROVEMENT 
OF THE PERCH ERON HORSE. 
PART FIRST. 
GREATNESS AND DECLINE OF THE PER- 
CH ERONS. 
GLANCE AT PERCHE. 
SKETCH OF THE PERCH ERON RACE. 
ORIGIN OP THE PERCnERON. 
MODIFICATIONS OF THE PERCHERON RACE. 
HIS FIRST MODIFICATION DUE TO CONTACT 
WITH THE BRITTANY RACE. 
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY ARE BRED. 
CAUSES OF THE DEGENERACY OF THE PER- 
CHERON HORSE. 
STARTING POINT OF THIS DEGENERATION. 
PART SECOND. 
OF THE MEANS OF REGENERATING THE 
PERCHERON HORSE. 
REGENERATION OF THE PERCnERON BREED. 
REGENERATION OF THE BREED THROUGH 
ITSELF OR BY SELECTION. 
CONSANGUINITY. 
OUGHT THE GRAY COAT OF THE PERCHERON 
TO BE INFLEXIBLY MAINTAINED ? 
PRESERVE PURE. AND WITHOUT INTERMIX- 
TURE THE THREE TYPES OF THE PER- 
CHERON RACE-TIIE LIGHT HORSE, THE 
DRAFTHORSE, THE INTERMEDIATE HORSE. 
IMPROVEMENT OF THE BREED BY MEANS 
OF FOREIGN CROSSINGS. 
THE ARAB CROSS. 
THE ENGLISH CROSS. 
IMPROVEMENT BY MEANS OF THE STUD- 
BOOK. 
RECAPITULATION. 
PART THIRD. 
INFORMATION TO STRANGERS WISHING TO 
BUY PERCHERON HORSES. 
FOOD AND BREEDING. 
TRADE. GLANCE AT THE MOST CELEBRATED 
BREEDING DISTRICTS. 
SPEED AND BOTTOM OF TI1F. PERCHESOffl 
HORSE. 
TESTS OF SPEED up THE PERCHERON HOUSE. 
TESTS OF ENDURANCE OF THE PERCHERON 
HORSE. 
SENT POST-PAID, 
PRICE. $1.0(1. 
ORANCE JUDD & CO., 
245 Broadway, New York. 
CRESYLIC SOAP 
Saponaceous Compounds. 
Disinfectant, Insect Destroyer, Pre- 
ventive of Fungus, etc. 
Frequent mention has been made in tlie columns of the 
American Agriculturist of Cresylic Compounds, as being 
valuable for destroying insects on animals and plants, and 
for other purposes. For some months past we have been 
investigating the merits of these preparations, with the 
following results. 
Cresylic Acid i8 extracted from gas-tar, to which it gives 
the peculiar odor perceived on burning the tar. It has been 
used to a limited extent by chemists and physicians, for va- 
rious purposes, and their experiments have shown it to pos- 
sess remarkable properties as a disinfectant, and in destroy- 
ing insect life and fungus growth. In its ordinary form it 
could not be readily applied, and hence was not available 
for common use. About two years since, Messrs. JAMES 
BOCHAN & CO., of New York, well-known as extensive 
manufacturers of family soaps, conceived the idea of com- 
bining this acid in saponaceous compounds. By long and 
careful experimenting, they succeeded in producing soaps 
in various forms, possessing the active properties of this 
acid, and thus bringing it within the reach of all classes. 
These compounds have been patented. 
We have watched with great interest the results of vari- 
ous applications of these compounds, knowiug that if suc- 
cessful, they would be of incalculable benefit to the commu- 
nity. By tests made under our own supervision, aud the re- 
ports of careful observers, we believe it to be established 
that these Cresylic Compounds are 
1st. Complete Disinfectants.— They not only re- 
move all noxious odors from sinks, privies, stables, etc., but 
will destroy all infection in clothing, rooms, etc., washed 
with their solution. Thus, contagion from Small Pox, 
Typhus Fever, Cholera, and other diseases, may be effectu- 
ally prevented. They are used in the New York and other 
Hospitals for these purposes. 
2cl. Insect Destroyers.— An animal washed with 
Cresylic Soap will be entirely freed from all vermin. It 
will destroy ticks on sheep, fleas on dogs, lice on cattle or 
poultry, roaches, ants, bedbugs, etc., in rooms. It repels 
flies from animals, and thus is especially useful m case of 
■wounds or sores from any cause. 
So far as tried, it has been efficacious in repelling insects 
from plants. We desire to have it more thoroughly tested 
for this purpose, and reports to be made. We believe it will 
free plants from Aphides, bark lice, slugs, bugs, caterpillars, 
striped bugs, curculio, and the whole host of minute but 
powerful enemies in the garden and fruit yard. 
3d. Preventive of Fungns Growth.- On this 
point wc ask for further experimeat. We feel confident this 
soap, properly applied, will prevent smut in wheat, mildew 
on vines, aud similar parasitic growth, anil trust that exper- 
imenters will furnish the result of their trials. 
4th. Cleaning Sores, etc.— For washing ulcers and 
other foul sores, and preventing gangrene in wounds, etc., 
Cresylic Soap is, we believe, uneqnaled. We know also that 
it has been successful wherever used, for foot rot in sheep, 
and mange, itch, ring-worm, and other skin diseases. 
From numerous RE(OMME\D\TIONS of 
Cresylic Compounds, the following are 
selected as being specially valuable. 
Fivk Points House of In-dustuy. 156 Worth St. 
New rork, Nov. 1'., ISO? 
Messrs. Btchax & Co.— Gentlemen— Some months since 
we purchased a large building which had been used as a 
tenement establishment for thirteen years, aud was occupied 
by some ninety families. We tore away partitions, turning 
between three and four hundred rooms Into less than one 
hundred. We found the walls and floors perfectly infrsted 
with vermin. We used freely in cleansing the CHESVLIC 
soaps, manufactured by your firm, and with the very best 
results, as the bugs, etc, have entirely disappeared. We 
propose to continue its use in cleaning our dormitories, hop- 
ing then to keep clear ol a plague so common to all house- 
keepers in cities. S. B HALL1DAV, Supt. 
Brooklyn, November. 1S67. 
If. C. F.dfy. Agent for Sale of James Buchan & Co's, 
Cresylic Soaps, etc— Dtar iKr— We have had the Cresylic 
Soap used in the Raymond Street Jail and County Courl 
(Inns-', and In washing and cleansing prisoners' clothing, 
cells, etc. : and we are so much pleased with its cleansing, 
disinfecting and insect-destroying effects, that we not only 
continue its use in above places, but recommend that it 
should he generally used for those purposes. 
JOHN L. RTTJER, ) Committee on Jails 
STKPHKN" CLARK, [• of Supervisors of 
D. S. VOORHIES, ) Kings County, N.Y. 
Corpus Chkbti, Texas, Marcli 15, 1868. 
Messrs. James Buchan & Co.— Gentle men .- Your Sheep 
Dip is wonderful in its effects. I have dipped 2,150 head 
with nine months' fleeces on their backs. It is now three 
weeks since, and no scratching as yet. Your Dip is far su- 
perior to tobacco, not so disagreeable or unpleasant, much 
less trouble and more permanent. 
I have used it on horses when diseased with a species of 
mange or itch, and it has the same goo^l effect as on sheep. 
F. W. SHAEFFER. 
On the use of disinfectants, the following is the testimony 
of Dr. Eli sua. Harris, Registrar of the Metropolitan Board 
of Health, New York City: 
"The Disinfecting and Antiseptic Power of Good 
Carbolic Acid* is so Great that One Part of it to 
Fifty or One Hundred Parts is Sufficient for Ordi- 
nary Purposes." 
* CBESYLIC ACID Is the active property of Carbolic 
Acid. 
Desiring that our readers should be benefited by the ex- 
tended introduction of what wc believe to be so valuable, we 
have established a general agency for the sale ol these 
compounds, at our branch office. No. 4t Park Row, and are 
prepared to fill orders at wholesale or retail, at the follow- 
ing prices. 
Sheep Dip, for Curing Scab and Destroying Inserts 
on Sheep. 
:") lb Canisters $1.25 
10 " " 2.25 
50 r Kegs 10.00 
200 " Bbfs 35.00 
Proportions are 1 lb Dip to 5 gallons water for. "> to 10 Sheep, 
if they are very large and heavily fleeced. For ordinary 
sized animals, or those recently shorn, 1 lb Dip will take S 
to 10 gallons water. The solution must be graded according 
to the age aud strength of the animal. 
Plant Protector.— In solution for destroying and re- 
pelling insects from Trees or Plants. 
In 1 lb. Canisters, ©50 cts. ; in 3 lb. Canisters, © $1.00 ; larger 
packages same price as Sheep Dip. See above. 
Cresylic Ointment, for Cure of Foot Rot, <fcc. In 
solution for killing Insects, &c, on stock. In 31b Canisters, $l. 
Carbolic Disinfecting Soap. -In tablets for con- 
venient use in washing Horses, Dogs, Pigs. &c„ destroying 
Insects of all kinds, protecting from Flies, curative of Sores, 
Scratches, and Chafes of all kinds, in boxes, 3 dozeu tablets, 
$3.60 ; iu boxes of 1 lb bars, 10 each, $1.00. 
Cresylic No. 1 Soap.— In Bars. For all common use* 
in the House and Laundry ; 24 lb boxes, 13 cts. per tb; 60 lb 
boxes, \Z% cts. per Tb. 
Cresylic Laundry Soap.— A finer Soap, for the 
Laundry, and for the Bath, etc.; 60 lb boxes, 14 cts. per lb. 
24 lb boxes, and in 10 paper boxes containing 6 lbs. each, 
packed in a case. 15 cts. per lb. Address orders to 
ORANCE JUDD & CO., 
41 Park Row, New York. 
DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
AND 
DRAINING FOR HEALTH. 
By GEO. E. WARING. Jr., 
Engineer of the Drainage of Central Park, New York, 
CONTENTS. 
Land to be Drained. 
How Drains Act. 
How to Lay Out Drains. 
How to Make Drains. 
How to Take Care of Drains. 
What Draining Costs. 
Will It Pay? 
How to Make Tiles. 
Reclaiming Salt Marshes. 
House and Town Drainage. 
A Book that onght to be in the hands of every Farmer. 
SENT POST-PAID, .... PRICE. $1.50. 
MYSTERTES OF BEE KEEPING. 
BY M. QUtNBY. 
BREEDINC. QUEENS. 
HIVES. DISEASES. 
PASTURACE. ANCER OF BEES. 
THE APIARY. ENEMIES. 
ROBBINC. WAX. 
FEEDINC. COLONIES. 
MOTH WORM. WINTERINC. 
SWARMINC. 
SENT POST PAID. - PRICE, $1.50. 
ORANCE JUDD & Co., 
243 Broadway, New York City. 
