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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
317 
Standard Arcliitectiiral Books 
FOR CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS. 
Hussey's National Cottage Archi- 
tecture ; or, Homes for Every One. 
— With Designs, Plans, Details, Specifica- 
tions, 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, Locutiou, 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 by large scale diagrams, in two colors, 
■with designs for Staircases, Newels, Balus- 
ters, and Hand-RaUs. 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. Postp.iid, $6.00. 
Woodward's National Architect.— 
1,000 Designs, Plan?, and Details for Coun- 
try, Suburban, and Village Houses; willi Per- 
spective Views, Front and Side Elevations, 
Sections, Full Detail Drawings, Si>ecifica- 
tions, and Estimates. Also, Detail Draw- 
ings to Working Scale, of Brackets, Cornices, 
Frencli Roofs, Sectional and Framing Plans 
of French Roofs, Dormer- Windows for French 
Roofs, Bay-Windows, Verand.is, Porches, 
Plaster Finish, Cornices, Ceilings, Hard-wood 
ManleU, and all that is required by a Builder 
to design, specify, erect, and finish in the 
most approved slj-le. One superb quarto 
volume. -Post-paid, $12.00 
"Wood-ward's Cottages and Farm 
Houses.— 188 Designs and Plans of I.,w- 
priced Cottages, Farm Houses, and Out- 
BuiUiings. Post-paid, $1.50. 
ORANGE JUDD COilPANT. 
"Woodward's Suburban and Country 
Houses. — TO Designs and Plans, and nu- 
merous e.\amples 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 G-raperies and Horti- 
cultural Buildings.— Designs and Plans 
of Hot-Beds, Cold-Pils, Propagating Houses, 
Forcing Houses, Hot and Cold Grajieries, 
Green Houses, Conservatories, Orchard 
Houses, etc., with the various modes of 
Ventilating and Heating. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Jacques' Manual of the House.— 
How to Build Dwellings, Barns, St;ibles, 
and Out-Buildings of all kinds. 136 De- 
signs and Plans. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Wheeler's Rural Homes.— Houses suited 
to Country Lite. Post-paid, $2.00. 
Wheeler's Homes for the People.— 
100 Original Designs, wilh lull Descriptions, 
and Constructive and Miscellaneous Details. 
Post-paid, $3.00. 
Harney's Bams, Out-Buildings, and 
Fences. — Containing Designs and Plans 
of Stables, Farm-Barns, Oitl-Buildings, Gates, 
Gateways, Fences, Stable Fittings and Furni- 
ture, with 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-sevcu 
Plates with Perspectives, Elevations, Plans, 
Sections, Details, Specifications 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, Ciphers, Monograms, Flourishes, etc., 
adapted for the practical use of Surveyors, 
Civil Engineers, Drau2htsmen, Architects, 
Sign Painters, Schools, etc. Post-paid, $3.00. 
Publishers, 245 Broadway, New York. 
containing a great varittij of Itemi!. indwling viany 
good Hints and Suggestions vhich n-e thwiv into smailtr 
type and condensed form, for ivant of gpace dseivhere. 
Continued from p. 291. 
Seir-Opcuing Oate.— "M. M.," Chat> 
tahoochee. Fla. We do not know of any maniifticturer 
of any automatic gate, nor do we know of any such gate 
that i? of practical use; the difficulty of keeping them 
in working order being too mnch for the patience of the 
owners. A really serviceable gate of this kind would be 
very desirable. 
Caliooii-s Ifiroadcast So-wer,— " S. H. 
J.," Colfax Co., New Mexico. We c mnot vouch for the 
trutli of the represeiitationa made by the engravings of 
the Cahoou's Broadcast Sower, as to the vigorous and 
eflective ecattering of the seed, but we do know it to be 
a good machine for sowing seed broadcast, and that it 
does its work better and more quickly than hand sowing. 
To Remove Mildew.— "Mrs. A. G.," 
Louisville, Ky. Chloride of lime water will remove mil- ■ 
dew from cotton cloth or linen. A large teaepoonful of 
the fresh chloride is stirred into a quart of water and 
strained. The cloth is dipped in the solution, and laid 
in the sunlight for a few minutes ; if this is not eftective, 
the dipping should be repealed. This will not injure the 
cloth, if sufficiently weak, and the cloth is well rinsed 
in clear water, as soon as the spots are discharged. 
Cement or Plank Floors.— "C. H. 
C, Owatonna, Minn. The relative cost of cement and 
plank floors are as follows. One barrel of cement, three 
barrels of sand, and seven barrels of coarse gravel or 
broken stone will lay 25 cubic feet of concrete, or 75 
square feet of stat.le floor, four inches thick. At $4 per 
bbl. for the cement, the cost of cement alone would be 
$.V2 for a floor of about 1000 square feet, or for a stable of 
40x55 feet. If plank can be procured for $16 a thousand 
feet, b. m., the same floor will cost for this material only 
$32. The labor of laying a cement floor is many tiraea 
greater than that of laying a plank floor, and if it is not 
skillfully done, it will not last so long. You will doubt- 
less choose the plank floor. 
PlymontU Rocks, — *' Enquirer,'' Detroit, 
Mich. Some varieties of Plymouth Rocks have the legs 
slightly feathered ; this is not a sign of impurity of 
blood, but whether it is a disqualification for exhibition 
or not, we arc unable to say. To breed out the leg feath- 
ers is probably a judicious course, so as to produce uni- 
formity in the various strains. Chick? may be permanent- 
ly marked by clipping off any one of the toe claws. 
Ifle;*ri'inis in Ponllry.— "H, D. W.," 
Baltimore. When fowls arc over-fed and have but little 
exercise, they sometimes become dull, sleepy, and 
stupid, staggering or moping about, or standing or sitting 
lazily with closed eyes. Water frcqui-nlly drops from 
the mouth when thns aff"ected. The cause is probably 
indigestion and inaction of the liver. The usual treat- 
ment is to give a tea-spoonful of castor oil daily, reduce 
the food, turn the fowls out and let them scratch, giving 
them morning and evening a few pills of bread and 
castile soap, with a pinch of cayenne pepper in each. 
HomeoMade Morse-Po^^'er. — '*A. J. 
W.," Apsley, Out. Asubstatial horsse-power would need 
much iron work, the castings of which would cost more 
to make than the ready made machine could be pur- 
chased for. It would be better and cheaper to buy a 
good railroad horse-power than to attempt to make cue. 
Cattle at the International. — The 
Centennial Commission proposes to adopt a scale to regu- 
late the respective numbers of each breed of neat or homed 
cattle to be entered for competition. It is assumed that 
seven hundred (700) head will cover all desirable entries ; 
and upon that basis will be calculated the number of 
stalls which will be apportioned each breed. The scale 
divides the aggregate number into ten parts, and of these, 
four-tenths (Vio) ^^e assigned to Short-horns, two-tenths 
(Vio) to Channel Islands, one-tenth ^Vio) to Devons, 
one-tenth (Vio) to Holsteins, one-tenth (Vio) to Ayr- 
shires, and one-tenth (Vio) to animals of other pure 
breeds. The exhibition in each breed will comprehend 
animals of various ages, as well a3 of both sexes. Draft 
and fat cattle will be admitted irrespective of breed. The 
exhibition of horned cattle will open September 20th, 
1876, and continue fifteen days. It is desirable that all 
