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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS 
OR-. YANKEE' ■EA.IMVIIIV'GJ-. 
By Timothy Bunker, Esq., 
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS 
CONTENTS. 
1.— A Stroke of Economy. 
2. — Ornamental Trees. 
3.— Timothy Bunker, Esq. 
4.— View of the Bird Law. 
5.— Guano in the Hill. 
6.— On Moss Bunkers. 
7.— On Subsoiling. 
8.— Going to the Fair. 
9.— In Tall Clover. 
10. — On Horse Racing. 
11.— At the Farmers' Club. 
12.— On an Old Saw. 
13.— Book Farming in Hookertown. 
14. — Pasturing Cattle in Roads. 
15.— The Weaker Brethren. 
16.— Curing a Horse Pond. 
IT.— Domesticities at Tim Bunker's, 
18.— Takes a Journey. 
19.— On Farm Roads. 
SO.— A New Manure. 
21. — Losing the Premium. 
22.— A New Enterprise. 
23.— Making Tiles. 
24.— The Clergy and Fanning. 
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. 
38.— On giving Land a Start, j 
39.— On giving Boys a Start. 
40.— A Tile in the Head. 
41.-Jake FrinkSold. 
42.— The New York Central Park. 
43. — On Irrigation. 
of Hookertown, Ct. 
BY^HOPPIK. 
CONTENTS. 
-Feeding with Oil Meal. 
-The Farmers' Club. 
-On Bad Water. 
-Cattle Disease. 
-On Seed. 
-On Breastworks in War. 
-Lightning Rods. 
-Buying a Farm. 
-Top-dressing and Feeding Aftermath. 
-Painting Buildings. 
-The Value of Muck. 
-On Family Horses. 
-Thenorn-ail. 
-A Commentary on Roots. 
-Stealing Fruit and Flowers. 
-The Cost of Pride. 
-Swamps TurniDg Indian. 
-Tim Bunker in his Garden. 
-On Running Astern. 
-On Extravagance. 
-The Farmer's Old Age. 
-On Sheep Traps. 
-Old - Style Housekeeping. 
-On 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. 
75.— Visit to Titus Oaks, Esq. 
7G. — The Pickle Fever in Hookertown. 
77. — On Curing Pickles and Eating them. 
73. — The Cotton Fever and Emigration. 
79.— The Cotton Fever aud Emigration, 
SO.— The Food Question. 
81.— On Jim Crow. 
S3.— The Eight- hour Law. 
S3.— Base Ball Clubs. 
84.— The Rise of Real Estate. 
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ORANGE JUDD & COMPANY, 345 Broadway, New-York: . 
HOW CROPS GROW. 
A TREATISE ON THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND LIFE OP THE PLANT. 
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES OF ANALYSES. 
BY SAMUEL W. JOIIXSO:\, M. A., 
PROFKSBOTt OP ANALYTICAL AND AGRICULTURAL. CHEailSTKY LH TALK COLLEGE ; CHEMIST TO THE CONNECTICUT STATE AQRIOULTUEAL SOCTHTY 
ACALMtMY OF SCIENCES. 
MTtwnBK OF THTt N-ATTOtfAL 
This is a volume of nearly 400 
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.— JTne Volatile Part. 
2d.— The 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. 
3d.— Composition of the Plant in 
various Stages of GrcnotJi, and 
the Relations subsisting 
among the Ingredients. 
The Structure of the 
Plant and the Offices of 
its Organs. 
Hie Primary Elements of Or- 
ganic Structure. 
TJie Vegetative Organs — Root, 
Stem, and Leaf, and their Func- 
tions ; and 
Tlie Peproductive Organs, name- 
ly. Flowers and Fruit, and the 
Vitality of Seeds with their In- 
fluence on the Plants they pro- 
duce. 
The Life of the Plant. 
Gemninafiohy and the conditions 
most favorable and unfavorable 
to it. 
Tlie Food of the Plant when in 
dependent of the Seed. 
Sap and its Motions, etc., etc. 
The Appendix, which consists of 12 tables exhibiting the Composition of a great number of Plants viewed from many different stand-points, will be found of inestimable 
Talue to practical agriculturists, students, and theorists. 
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Magnified Section of a Leaf, 
Magnified Slice of an Oat Kernel. 
Magnified Section of Barley Root. 
