1875. 
AMERICAN AGRIC ULT URIST. 
19 
Standard Arcliitectnral Books 
FOR CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS. 
Hussey's National Cottage Archi- 
tecture ; or, Homes for Every One. 
— With Designs, Plans, Details, Specitica- 
tisns, and Cost ; with "Working Scale, Draw- 
ings complete, so that Houses may be built 
direct from the book. Adapted to the pop- 
ular demand for practical, handsome, and 
economical homes. Royal Quarto. Six 
Dollars, post-paid. 
Atwood's Country and Suburban 
Houses. — Illustrated with about 150 en- 
gravings. Hints and Suggestions as to the 
General Principles of House-building, Style, 
Cost, Location, etc. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Monckton's National Stair-Builder. 
— Is a complete work on Stair-Building and 
Hand-Railing. Fully explained and illus- 
trated bj- large scale diagrams, in two colors, 
with designs for Staircases, Newels, Balus- 
ters, and Haud-Rails. Royal Quarto. Post- 
paid, $6.00. 
Monckton's National Carpenter and 
Joiner. — A complete work, covering the 
whole science of Carpentry, Joinery, Roof- 
ing, Framing, etc., fully explained and illus- 
trated by large scale diagrams in two colors. 
Royal Quarto. Postpaid, iJO.OO. 
Woodward's National Architect.— 
1,000 Designs, Plans, and Details for Coun- 
try, Suburban, and Village Houses; with Per- 
spective Views, Front and Side Elevations, 
Sections, Full Detail Drawings, Specilica- 
tious, and Estimates. Also, Detail Draw- 
ings to Working Scale, of Brackets, Cornices, 
French Roofs, Sectional and Framing Plans 
of French Roofs, Dormer- Windows for French 
Roofs, Bay-Windows, Verandas, Porches, 
Plaster Finish, Cornices, Ceilings, Hard-wood 
Mantels, and all that is required by a Builder 
to design, specify, erect, and finish in the 
most approved style. One superb quarto 
volume. Post-paid, $12.00 
■Woodward's Cottages and Farm 
Houses.— 188 Designs and J'laus of low- 
priced Cott.ages, Farm Houses, and Out- 
Buildings. Pdst-paiJ, if;!. 50. 
ORANGE JUDD COjMPANY, 
Woodward's Siiburban and Country 
Houses. — TO Designs and Plans, and nu- 
merous examples of the French Roof. Post- 
paid, $1.50. 
Woodward's Country Homes. -150 
Designs and Plans, with Description of the 
Manner of Constructing Balloon Frames. 
Post-paid, $1.50. 
Woodward's Graperies and Horti- 
cultural Buildings.— Designs and Plans 
of HotBeds, Cold-Pits, Propagating Houses, 
Forcing Houses, Hot and Cold Graperies, 
Green Houses, Conservatories, Orcliard 
Houses, etc., with tlie various modes of 
Ventilating and Heating. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Wheeler's Rural Homes.— Houses suited 
to Country Life, Post-paid, $3.00. 
Wheeler's Homes for the People.— 
100 Original DtiignS, witli full Descriptions, 
and Constructive aud Miscellaneous Details. 
Post-paid, $3.00. 
Harney's Barns, Out-Buildings, and 
Fences. — Containing Designs and Plans 
of Stables, Farm-Barns, Out-Buildings, Gates, 
Gateways, Fences, Stable Fittings and Furni- 
ture, witli nearly 200 Illustrations. Royal 
quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Lakey's Village and Country 
Houses, or Cheap Houses for All Classes, 
comprising eighty-four pages of designs. 
The object, in almost every instance in these 
designs, has been to secure as large an 
amount of space and comfort as was pos- 
sible with the least expenditure of money, 
without neglecting the exterior features of 
each building. Royal Quarto. Post-paid, $6. 
Eveleth's School-house Architecture. 
— A new and original work, containing Seven- 
teen Designs for School-houses, Sixty-seven 
Plates with Perspectives, Elevations, Plans, 
Sections, Details, Speciflcations all drawn to 
working scale, with methods of Heating and 
Ventilation. Large quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Copley's Plain and Ornamental Al- 
phabets. — Giving examples in all styles, 
together with Maps, Titles, Borders, Meri- 
dians, Cijihers, Monograms, Flourishes, etc., 
adapted for the practical use of Surveyors, 
Civil Engineers, Draushtsnien, Architects, 
Sign Painters, Schools, etc. Post-paid, $3.00. 
Publishers, 245 Broadway, New York. 
conUtiniitg a gr^at vavkt'j of Items, indn^Uiifj mantj 
good Iliiits and Suggestions irhkh we throw into sm.alkr 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
Continued from p. 171. 
Hog's versus Dogs.— A newspaper item, 
eaya a Missouri farmer reports that in 32 counties, 10.G02 
sheep were killed by doga— a loss of $30,000 or $40,000. 
But this is nothing to his further figures. lie says an 
able-bodied dog will eat as much as a hog will need to 
thrive on ; that the hog, at the end of the year, will 
weigh 200 lbs., worth, at (Jets, per lb., $12. Then he says 
the above 32 counties have 463,000 dogs; and if 462,000 
hogs were kept instead, the hogs would be worth 
$5,544,000, or about twice the value of all the 
school-houses in the state, and double the amount used 
by the state for school purposes. Well, these are pretty 
strong calculations; but there are 113 counties in Mis- 
souri, and after allowing for a very large reduction in the 
estimates, there is something left in the item worth 
thinking and acting about— and not in Missouri alone 
either. Will not some expert lover of figures and statis- 
tics, estimate how long it would take for the actual loss 
by dogs, and cost of keeping them, over their useful- 
ness, to pay off the entire debt of tlie United States, 
that is such a load upon all of us in the way of taxation 
direct and indirect? 
Keepiug Varm Acconnts. — No doubt 
that the reason why so few farmers keep regular ac- 
counts, is the varied character of the business, and the 
supposed difficu/ty attending the necessary book-keep- 
ing. Several hooka have been devised especially for 
farmers, one of the most complete of which is "The 
Farmer's Accountant," by C. O. & F. Perkins. This 
provides for the recording of the expenses of the fami- 
ly, and the outgoes and receipts of the farm ; allows ac- 
counts to be kept with particular fields, with breeding 
and other stock, with help, etc. Indeed, it would soem 
as if every possible want in the way of a farm account 
book was met. Sold by the Orange Judd Company at $3. 
Profit irom one Coav and 70 Hens. 
— *' G. B. W.," Colun^bia Co., N. Y., Bonds the following 
statement of one cow's product for 1874, viz: 256 lbs. of 
butter, sold for $92.08 ; one calf raised, and a family of five 
supplied with butter and milk. From 70 hens, 252 dozen 
of eggs and 150 chickens, were sold for $133.91, leaving 
$52.80 profit, after paying $81.05 for feed. Kggs and 
chickeuB were also supplied to the family. 
A Shaving Horse.— "C. R. F.," Win- 
chester, 111. A shaving horse was iihistrated in an 
article upon hoop-poles, in the AgrkiiUurist of Jan., 1S75. 
Tlte Xuiiil>ler Cart.— "A. D. E.' The 
tumbler cart illustrated not long ago in the AQncuUnrisi, 
can easily be made by any wheelwright, from the descrip- 
tion given with the engraving. It is simply a body hung 
upon a bent or straight axle, and is tipped by a chain 
wound upon a roller in front of it. 
Catalogues Received. 
— -o 
The following catalogues and business circulars have 
come to hand since the publication of the last list. 
Please observe that some dealers carry on two and some- 
times three branches of business, but we can only afibrd 
space to name them once, under what we take to be the 
leading department. Ilenee it will pay to look the 
all through. 
SEEDSMEN. 
J. II. & W. G. Cone, Hartford, Conn. Wcthersfield 
garden seeds, wholesale and retail. 
Donnelly & Co., Rochester, N. Y. Flower see Is and 
summer tlowering bulbs. 
D. M. Ferky & Co.'s Seed Annual, Detroit, Mich. 
This, by accident, was omitted from last month's list, 
which we particularly regret, as it is one of the most 
noticeable of all. and shows remarkable enterprise. Its 
illustrations are, at least the majority of them, new- and 
it is altogether an interesting work of 218 pages. 
JoBDAN Horticultural Company, St. Louis. Mo., 
send two catalogues, one of seeds and wire-work of their 
own make, and another of nursery and greenhouse stock. 
John R. & A. Murdoch. Pittsburgh. Pa., who. besides 
flower and vegetable seeds, ofier a full stock of green- 
house and bedding plants. 
Geo. W. Park, Fannctlsburgh, Pa., has seeds ; also 
Park's Floral Gazette, to lell what to do with them. 
