1871.' 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
235 
NEW 
American Farm Book. 
ORIGINALLY BY 
R. L. AL4.EN, 
Author of " Diseases of Domestic Animals" and formerly 
editor of the "American Agriculturist." 
REVISED AND ENLABGED BY 
LEWIS F. ALLEN, 
Author of "American Cattle" editor of 0ie "American 
Shorthorn Herd Book" etc. 
NOTHCE3 BY THE PRH83. 
Everything connected with the business of farming 
finds a place in it ; soils, manures of every kind, irriga- 
tion and draining, grasses, grain and root crops, fruits, 
cotton, hemp, fences, farm buildings, domestic cattle, 
eheep, poultry, and the like. The work has been written 
with great care by men qualified to discuss the subject, 
and it is really valuable. The chapter on soils should be 
read carefully by every farmer who desires to make the 
most of the land he cultivates. The chapter on fruits 
constitutes an important feature of the work; and there 
is nothing in it which is not well considered and useful. 
Worcester Daily Spy. 
Comprehensive and careful, telling, and telling specif- 
ically, just what the tillers of the soil need to know : it 
will prove of great advantage to all who faithfully follow 
its counsels in the spirit in which they are given. 
Conaregationalist &. Recorder. 
It intelligently and quite fully discusses the various 
operations of farm life, and is invaluable to all engaged 
in agriculture. Farmer's Cabinet. 
For the young man of rural tastes, but without a train- 
ing at the plow-handles, who asks for a general guide and 
Instructor that shall be to agriculture what the map of 
the world is to geography, it is the best manual in print. 
For the working farmer, who, in summer noonings and 
Vy the winter fireside, would refresh his convictions and 
reassure his knowledge by old definitions and well-con- 
sidered summaries, it is the most convenient hand-book. 
From its double authorship one might expect some show 
of patch-work, the original statement of the author of 
1846, annotated and qualified by the writer of this year. 
But this has been wisely avoided. The book is a unit, 
and snows no disparity of style nor contradiction in 
statement. Practically it is altogether a recent and time- 
ly volume. Only so much, of the original Book of the 
Farm, by R. L. Allen, as time could not change, has been 
adopted by the reviser. New York Tribune. 
It is a volume of over fire hundred pages, and in its 
present shape comprises all that can well be condensed 
into an available volume «f its kind. 
Hartford Daily Times. 
It is almost as comprehensive as a cyclopaedia. We 
tan safely recommend it as a valuable and standard work. 
Salem Gazette. 
It has a very wide range of subjects, taking up nearly 
all matters that are most important to farmers. Com- 
prising the combined wisdom and experience of two em- 
inent agriculturists, it must prove of great value to the 
class for whom it is prepared. New York Observer. 
It is crammed full of just the information that is want- 
ed, which it is a pleasnre to recommend. We know of 
no better encyclopaedia of farming. 
New York Independent. 
In its present revised aud enlarged form, it is a work 
that every practical farmer may consult with advantage, 
and none can well afford to do without. 
Christian Intelligencer. 
It is something in favor of this work, that it has been 
before the public for many years. The original work was 
prepared with extraordinary care, and contained a vast 
amount of general truth that is as applicable now as it 
was then ; it has therefore been made the basis of the 
present work, which, to all intents and purposes, is new, 
since it is adapted to the present improved state of agri- 
cultural knowledge. Every department is prepared with 
conscientious care, and with a view of making the work 
a reliable source of agricultural information. 
Chicago Republican. 
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AMERICAN CATTE : 
HISTORY, BREEDING, 
MANAGEMENT. 
By Lewis F. Allen, 
Late President New York State Agricultural Society, editor 
" Atnerican Shorthorn Herd Book" author " Rural 
Architecture" etc., etc. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
We consider this the most valuable work that has 
recently been issued from the American press. It em- 
braces all branches of the important subject, and fills a 
vacancy in our agricultural literature for which work the 
author by his many years' experience and observation was 
eminently fitted It ought to be in the hands of every 
owner of cattle ; and the country, as well as individuals, 
would soon be much richer for its teachings. 
Journal of Agriculture (St. Louis). 
The large experience of the author ki improving the 
character of American herds adds to the weight of his 
observations, and has enabled him to produce a work 
which will at once make good its claims, as a standard 
authority on the subject. An excellent feature of this 
volume is its orderly, methodical arrangement ; condens- 
ing a great variety of information into a comparatively 
small compass, and enabling the reader to find the point 
on which he is seeking light, without wasting his time 
in turning over the leaves. If. Y. Tribune. 
This will rank among the standard works of the coun- 
try, and will be considered indispensable by every breed- 
er of live-stock. Practical Farmer {Phila). 
We think it is the most complete work upon neat- 
stock that we have seen ; embodying as it does a vast 
amount of research and careful study and observation. 
Wisconsin Farmer. 
His history of cattle in general and of the individual 
breeds in particular, which occupies the first 180 pages 
of the volume, is written with much of the grace and 
charm of an Allis*n or a JIacauley. His description of 
the leading breeds is illustrated by cuts of a bull, a cow, 
and a fat ox, of each race. The next one hundred pages 
are devoted to the subject of Breeding. This is followed 
by chapters on Beef Cattle, Working Oxen, Milch Cows, 
Cattle Food, Diseases, etc. The arrangement, illustra- 
tions, analytical index, etc., of the work are in the best 
style of modern book-making. 
New England Farmer. 
The work is one that has long been needed, as it takes 
the place of the foreign books of like nature to which 
our farmers have been obliged to refer, and furnishes in 
a compact and well-arranged volume all they desire upon 
this important subject. Maine Farmer. 
Whatever works the stock farmer may already have, he 
cannot afford to do without this. Ohio Farmer. 
It is one of the best treatises within our knowledge, 
aud contains information sound and sensible, on every 
page. The People, ( Concord, N. H.) 
The object of the work, as stated by the author in his 
preface, " is not only to give a historical account of the 
Bovine race, to suggest to our farmers and cattle breeders 
the best methods of their production and management, 
but to exalt and ennoble its pursuit to the dignity to which 
it is entitled, in the various departments of American 
agriculture." From the little examination we have been 
able to give it, we can not recommend it too highly. 
Canada Farmer. 
Considering that there are some ten millions milch cows 
in the United States, and nearly a thousa»d millions of 
dollars invested in cattle, the magnitude of this interact 
demands that the best skilled talent be devoted to the 
improvement of the various breeds, and the investigation 
of the best method of so caring for the animals, as to gain 
the greatest profit from them. This volume will give the 
farmer just the instruction which he wants. 
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FARM IMPLEMENTS 
FARM MACHINERY, 
AM) THE 
Principles of their Construction and Use: 
WITH 
SIMPLE ANX> PRACTICAL EXPLANATIONS 
or THE 
LAWS OF MOTION AND FORCE 
A3 APrLIEO 
ON THE FARM. 
With »87 Illustration*. 
BT 
JOHN J. THOMAS. 
The basis of this admirable work was an essay 
published in 1850, in the Transactions of the N. T. State 
Agricultural Society, which was enlarged, and in 1854 
published by the Harpers. It has been, and remains, the 
only work in which the principles of Natural Philoso- 
phy, namely, the mechanical powers, and the powers of 
water, wind, and heat, are systematically discussed as 
applied to the operations of the farm. 
The work baa now been most carefully revised by the 
author. >t is much enlarged, and a great part has been 
re- written, while the illustrations, before abundant, irow 
number two hundred and eighty-seven. A large number 
of new implements are described, with the heavier farm 
machinery ; and the use of steam, both in cooking and as 
power on the farm, is clearly discussed 
NOTICES BT THE nUESS. 
The great value of this woi-k is the application of natural 
philosophy to farm labor, in the use of power, and it will 
supply one of the best text-books in our agricultural 
schools. Every farmer's son should carefully study this 
book, and he will be saved much hard labor, accom- 
plish more work, and have less wear and breakage in the 
implements he uses. The chapter on plowing is of great 
value to all plowmen, whether old or young, and is worth 
more than the cost of the book. Chicago Tribune. 
"We welcome this new and re-written edition of an old 
and very valuable work. The six pages on road-making are 
worth more than the price of the book to every highway 
eurveyor in Vermont. Farmers need to study the me- 
chanics of Agriculture. . . .This volume is admirably cal- 
culated to aid the farmer in determining what he needs 
and how to supply that want. Burlington Free Press. 
The volume is one of great value, and should be in 
every Farmer's Library, for it is full of practical sugges- 
tions and useful information. Salem Observer. 
Mr. Thomas' illustrations are largely drawn from ob- 
jects with which the farmer is familiar, and any one of 
ordinary intelligence can readily grasp the whole, follow- 
ing the author step by step, from the inertia of the load- 
ed wagon which snaps the harness traces on a sudden 
start, to the laws which govern the shape of the working 
parts of the plow, and the construction of the steam 
engine, or the radiation of heat causing the phenomena 
of dew and frost. Cultivator and Country Gentleman. 
Those who are acquainted with Mr. Thomas' previous 
works need not to be told that it is written in a clear, 
concise, practical style, and though eminently scientific, 
the language is so free from all unecessary technicalities, 
and so pleasingly familiar, and at the same time so well 
illustrated and enlivened by appropriate incident, anec- 
dotes, experiments, etc., as to excite and repay the con- 
tinued attention of the reader. Galesburg Free Press. 
The whole work is of a thoroughly practical char- 
acter, and the application ef the principles taught to 
the farmer's daily work makes its instructions of very 
great valne. There is not an agricultural writer that 
could be named more respected than Mr. Thomas, or 
one whose judgment and freedom from personal bias 
in discmssing new implements could be mtre implicitly 
relied upon. Hartford Daily Times.. 
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