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AMKRICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
271 
THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS 
OR. Y-AJVIiEE F-AJRIYIIIYGJ-. 
By Timothy Bunker, Esq., 
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS 
CONTENTS. 
1. — A Stroke of Economy. 
2. — Ornameutal Trees. 
3. — Timothy Bunker, Esq. 
4. — View of the Bird Law. 
6. — Guano in the Hill. 
6.— On Moss Bunkers. 
7. — On Subsoiling. 
8. — Going to the Fair. 
9.— In Tall Clover. 
10.— On Uorse Racing. 
11.— At the Fanners' club. 
12.— On an Old Saw. 
13.— Book Farming in Ilookertown. 
14.— Pasturing Cattle in Koads. 
15.— The Weaker Brethren. 
1(1.— Curing a Horse Pond. 
17.— Domesticities at Tim Booker's. 
18.— Takes a Journey. 
19.— On Farm Roads. 
20. — A New Manure. 
21. — Losing the Premium. 
2'2. — A New Enterprise. 
23.— Making Tiles. 
24.— The Clergy and Farming. 
25.— Women Horse Racing. 
26.— Beginning Life. 
27.— An Apology for Tim Bunker. 
28.— On County Fairs. 
29. — At Home again. 
30.— On Raising Boys. 
31.— On Raising Girls. 
32.— A new Case of the Black Art. 
33. — A Letter from Neighbors. 
34. — The Shadtown Parsonage. 
35. — Views of Dress. 
36.— A Rustic Wedding. 
37.— Saving a Sixpence. 
33.— On giving Land a Start. 
39.— On giving Boys a Start. 
40.— A Tile in the Head. 
41.— Jake Frink Sold. 
42.— The New York Central Park. 
43.— On Irrigation. 
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OF IIOOKEKTOWNT, Ct. 
BY HOPPIN. 
CONTENTS. 
-Feeding with Oil Meal. 
-The Farmers' Club. 
-On Bad Water. 
-Cattle Disease. 
On Seed. 
-On Breastworks in War. 
-Liu']itniii£ Rods. 
-Buying a Farm. 
-Top-dressing and Feeding Aftermath. 
-Painting Buildings. 
-The Value of Muck. 
( hi Family Horses. 
-The Horn -ail. 
-A Commentary on Rants. 
Stealing Fruit and Flowers. 
-The Cost of Pride. 
-Swamps Turning Indian. 
-Tim Bunker in his Garden. 
-On Running Astern, 
-i in Extravagance. 
-The Farmer's Old Age. 
-On Sheep Traps. 
-Old -Style Housekeeping. 
'in Keeping a Wife Comfortable. 
-Starting a Sugar Mill. 
-Reasons against Tobacco. 
-Trip to Washington. 
-The Sanitary Commission. 
-Raid among the Pickle Patches. 
-Raid among the Pickle Patches. 
On striking He. 
-Visit to Titus Oaks, Esq. 
The Pickle Fever in Ilookertown. 
-Ou Curing Pickles and Eating them. 
-The Cotton Fever and Emigration. 
-The Cotton Fever and Emigration. 
-The Food Question. 
-On Jim Crow. 
-The Eight- hour Law. 
-Base Ball Clubs. 
-The Rise of Real Estate. 
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HOW CROPS GROW! 
A TREATISE ON THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND LIFE OP THE PLANT. 
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES OP ANALYSES. 
BV SAJIIKI, W. .IOII\SO>. Iffl. A., 
PROFESSOr. OP ANALYTICAL AND AQKIOULTCBAL CI1EMI8TKY IN YALE COLLEGE; CUHMIST to TDK CONNECTICUT STATE AOHIOULTtTBAl SOCIETY ; MKUnKIt OF TITE NATIONAL 
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This ie a volume of nearly -10(1 
pages, in which Agricultural 
plants, or "Crops," are considered 
from three distinct, yet closely 
related, stand-points, as indicated 
by the descriptive title. 
The Chemical Compo- 
sition of the Plant. 
1st.— The Volatile Part. 
ii.— Tlte Ash — Its Ingredients, 
their Distribution, Variation, 
and Quantities. The Com- 
position of the Ash of various 
Farm Crops, with full Tables ; 
and the Functions of the Ash. 
U.—Comiiosition of the Plant in 
various Stages of Growth, and 
the Relations subsisting 
among the Ingredients. 
The Structure of the 
Plant and the Offices of 
its Organs. 
Tlic Primary Elements of Or- 
ganic Structure. 
Tlie Yegetatire Organs — Root, 
Stem, and Leaf, and their Func- 
tions ; and 
Tlie Reproductive Organs, main- 
ly. Flowers and Fruit, and the 
Vitality of Seeds with their In- 
fluence on the Plants they pro- 
duce. 
The Life of the Plant. 
Germination, and the conditions 
most favorable and unfavorable 
to it. 
77k Food of the Plant when in- 
^ dependent of the Seed. 
Maoniflt <i Secttonof Hurley Hoot. c , , ., lr ,. , 
" bTO Sap and us Motions, etc., etc. 
The Appendix, which consists of IS tables exhibiting the. Composition of a great number of Plants viewed from many different Btand-points, will be found of inestimable 
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Magnified Section of a Leaf. 
Magnified Stice of an Oat Kernel. 
value to practical agriculturists, students, and theorists. 
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