1871.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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THE PRACTICAL 
POULTRY KEEPER. 
A COMPLETE AND STANDARD GUIDE TO THE 
MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY, 
FOR DOMESTIC USE, THE MARKETS, OR 
EXHIBITION. 
Beautifully Illustrated. 
Bt L. WRIGHT. 
NOTICES BT THE PRESS. 
This book is a valuable manual for everybody who 
feeds chickens or sells eggs. It suits at once the plain 
poulterer who must make the business pay, and the chick- 
en fancier whose taste is for gay plumage, and strange, 
bright birds. The most valuable portion is the first sec- 
tion, extending through fifty-five pages. These were writ- 
ten with the intention of producing a manual bo plain, 
minute, and practical, that anyone could, by using it as a 
guide, with no previous experience with poultry, become 
at once successful in producing eggs, young chickens, and 
fat fowls for market. The author has not missed his aim. 
The middle parts of Mr. WrighL's Manual are taken up 
with minute directions for making show fowls for Fairs, 
a nice discussion of the good and bad points of the dif- 
ferent breeds, and a brief sketch of such fancy stock as 
peafowl, pheasants, and water-fowl. Then follows a 
section on artificial hatching, and another, worth special 
attention, on large poultry yards A study of Mr. 
Wright's book will convince any farmer's wife that all 
She needs is to give a half hour each day, of intelligent 
and sagacious attention to her poultry, in order to obtain 
from them, not tape, and knitting needles, and buttons, 
and nutmegs merely, but the family supplies of sugar, 
shoes, and cloth. New York Tribune. 
It is the most complete and valuable work on the mat- 
ters of which it treats yet published. It will be found a 
plain and sufficient guide to any one in any circumstances 
likely to occur, and is illustrated with elegant engravings 
of many breeds of fowls. Fanners' Cabinet, 
This is a reprint, with numerous wood engravings, of 
an English book, the object of which is to convey in 
plain language a great deal of practical information about 
the breeding and management of poultry, whether for 
domestic use, the markets, or exhibition The book is 
eminently practical, and we recommend it to farmers and 
others interested in breeding and selling poultry. 
Philadelphia Press. 
It is a handsome volume, brought out in the best style, 
and enriched with nearly fifty illustrations. Itisevidently 
the fruit of a thorough, practical experience and knowl- 
edge of fowls, and will be found a plain and sufficient 
guide in all the practical details of poultry management 
as a profitable business. United Presbyterian, 
The subject is treated fully'and ably by an experienced 
hand, and the volume will doubtless find a "large sale 
among the growing class of poultry fanciers. It is em- 
bellished with numerous illustrative engravings. 
New York Observer, 
The author has called to his aid all who were experi 
enced in the subject whereof he writes, nnd the conse- 
quence is a volume of more than ordinary thoroughness 
and exhaustivencss. Iiochester Democrat. 
The book is a complete and standard guide to the man- 
agement of poulVy for domestic use, the market, and 
for exhibition. Watchman and Reflector. 
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GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH; 
OB, HOW TO GROW 
VEGETABLES AMD FRUITS. 
BY THE LATE 
WILLIAM N. WHITE, 
OP ATHENS, GA. 
WITH ADDITIONS BY MR. J. VAN BUREN, AND 
DR. JAS. CAMAK. 
REVISED AND NEWLY STEREOTYPED. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
Though entitled Ll Gardening for the South," the work 
is one the utility of which is not restricted to the South. 
It is an admirable treatise on gardening in general, and 
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the present day. Horticultural Operations arc clearly ex- 
plained, and more in detail than is usual in works of this 
kind. To those living in the warmer portions of the 
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the varieties of vegetables and fruits adapted to the cli- 
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follow. 
CONTENTS. 
Chatter I.— Formation and Management of Gardens in 
General. 
Chapter II.— Soils— Their Characteristics. 
Chapter III.— The Improvement of the Soil. 
Chapter IV.— Manures. 
Chapter V.— Manures— Their Sources and Preparation. 
Chapter VI.— Rotation of Crops. 
Chapter VII.— Hot-beds, Cold Frames, and Pits. 
Chapter VIII— Garden Implements. 
Chapter IX.— Propagation of Plants. 
Chapter X.— Budding and Grafting. 
Chapter XI.— Pruning aud Training. 
Chapter XII.— Transplanting. 
Chapter XIIL— Mulching, Shading, and Watering. 
Chapter XIV.— Protection from Frost. 
Chapter XV. — Insects and Vermin. 
Chapter XVI. — Vegetables — Description and Culture. 
Chapter XVII.— Fruits— Varieties and Culture. 
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HARRIS ON THE PIG. 
Breeding, Rearing, Management, 
AND 
Improvement. 
With Numerous Illustrations. 
By JOSEPH HARRIS, 
OT MORETON FARM, ROCHESTER, X. Y. 
This is the only American treatise upon the breeding, 
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CONTENTS: 
Chapter I.— Introductory. 
Chapter II.— Breeds of Pigs. 
Chapter III.— The Form of a Good Pigj 
Chapter IV.— Desirable Qualities in a Pig. 
Chapter V.— Large V6. Small Breeds and Crosses. 
Chapter VI.— Value of a Thorough-bred Pig. 
Chapter VII.— Good Pigs Need Good Care. 
Chapter VIII.— The Origin and Improvement of our 
Domestic Pigs. 
Chapter IX.— Improvement of English Breeds of Pigs. 
Chapter X.— The Modern Breeds of English Pigs. 
Chapter XI.— Breeds of Pigs in the United States. 
Chapter XII.— Experiments in Pig Feeding. 
Chapter XIII.— Lawes and Gilbert's Experiments in 
Pig Feeding. 
Chapter XIV. —Sugar as Food for Pigs. 
Chapter XV.— Tho Value of Pig Manure. 
Chapter XVI.— Piggeries and Pig Pens. 
Chapter XVII.— Swill Barrels, Pig Troughs, ect. 
Chapter XVHI.— Management of Pigs. 
Chapter XIX.— English Experience in Pig Feeding. 
Chapter XX.— Live and Read Weight of Pigs. 
Chapter XXI. — Breeding and Rearing Pigs. 
Chapter XXII.— Management of Thorough-bred Pigs. 
Chapteu XXIII. — Profit of liaising Thorough-bred Pigs. 
Chapter XXIV. — Cooking Food for Pigs. 
Chapter XXV.— Summary. 
Chatter XXVI. — Appendix. 
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