1878.1 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
39 
WAKING'S 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS. 
DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
AND 
DRAINING FOR HEALTH. 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jrt M 
Engineer of the Drainage of Central Park, New York. 
CONTENTS. 
Lamp to tve Drained; now Drains Act; now to 
Make Drains; How to Take Care op Drains; 
What Draining Costs; Will It Pay? How to Make 
Tit.es; Reclaiming Salt Marshes; House and Town 
Drainage. 
EXTIiA CTS FROM NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
lie (the author) describes the action of draining' upon 
the soil, the construction of single drains and systems of 
drains, the cost and the profit of thorough drainage, the 
making of tiles, and the reclaiming of salt marshes, 
treats sensibly of malarial diseases, and closes with a 
chapter which should be widely read, on house drainage 
and town sewerage in their relations to the public health. 
[Portland (Me.) Press. 
Nowhere docs this book merit a wider circulation than 
in the West. Every year adds to the thousands of dollars 
lost to this State from want of proper surface drainage, 
to say nothing of the added gain to result from a com- 
plete system of under-drainage. This book will prove 
an aid to any farmer who may consult it. 
[CJiicago (111.) Republican. 
A Book that ought to be in the hands of every Farmer. 
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EARTH-CLOSETS 
AND 
EARTH-SEWAGE. 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jr. (of Ogden Farm). 
INCLUDING : 
The Earth System (Details). 
The Manure Question. 
Sewage and Cess- pool Diseases. 
The Dry-Earth System for CrrrEs and Towns. 
The Details of Earth Sewage. 
The Philosophy of The Earth System. 
With Seventeen Illustration*. 
Paper Covers, Price, Post-paid, 50 cts. 
ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. 
A BOOK FOR YOUNG FARMERS, 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jr., 
Formerly Agricultural Engineer of the Central Park, in 
New York. 
CAREFULLY REVISED. 
CONTENTS. 
The Plant ; The Soil ; Manures ; Mechanical Cul- 
tivation ; Analysis. 
The foregoing subjects are all discussed in plain and 
Simple language, that any farmer's hoy may understand. 
The book is written by a successful practical farmer, and 
is full of information, good advice, and sound doctrine. 
HORACE GREELEY says of it: "Though dealing 
With facts unfamiliar to many, there is no obscure sen- 
tence, and scarcely a hard word in the book ; its 2o4 fair, 
open pages may be read in the course of two evenings 
and thoroughly studied in the leisure hours of a week; 
and we pity the man or boy, however old or young, who 
can find it dull reading. Hardly any one is so wise that 
he will not learn something of value from its perusal ; no 
one is so ignorant or undeveloped that he cannot generally 
understand it; and no farmer or farmer's son can study it 
thoughtfully without being a better and more successful 
cultivator than before.'" 
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HARRIS ON THE PIG. 
Breeding, Rearing, Management, 
AND 
Improvement. 
With Numerous Illustrations. 
By JOSEPH HARRIS, 
OF MORETON FAItM, ROCHESTER, N. T. 
NOTICES ET TnE TRESS. 
To say that this work on the pig is by Joseph Harris, 
that genial philosopher-fanner of Rochester, N. Y., who 
writes the '• Walks and Talks upon the Farm " in the 
Agriculturist, is to insure for his book at once a large 
circle of delighted readers. Ho is jnst the man to lay 
down the gospel for the raising of pigs or any other do- 
mestic animal. If all breeders and farmers would follow 
Mr. Harris's directions, pork would be a very different 
article of food from what it is now, and coukl he eaicu 
without any fears of the trichina. 
[Springfield Republican. 
The author discusses the pig— for he takes exception 
to the word hog as applied to the domesticated animal— 
with a view of showing how the most pork and lard can 
be produced from the smallest amount of feed, ne gives 
elaborate descriptions of the different breeds of swine, 
showing the peculiarities of each, and the relative ad- 
vantages to the producer.— [Prairie Farmer (Chicago). 
The pig is doubtless one of the most valuable animals 
that a farmer can raise, and it is the laudable purpose of 
Mr. Harris to tell farmers how to treat their pigs so as to 
get the most profit from them, and what kind of pigs are 
best.— [Daily Evening Traveller (Boston). 
It treats of breeding, rearing, managing, and improv- 
ing swine ; and what Mr. Harris don't know on these 
topics, is hardly worth knowing at all. The book is fully 
illustrated, and is very valuable to all who are interested 
in this branch of stock-raising. 
[Lowell (Mass.) Daily Courier. 
The author is a practical farmer, and has gathered the 
results of many experiments besides his own. The book 
is amply illustrated. 
[Republican Statesman (Concord, N. H.). 
Almost everything a farmer wants to know about the 
breeding, keeping, and fattening of pigs, is here put 
down in plain, common sense, and is mainly the result 
of the writer's own management. — [Maine Farmer. 
This is an interesting, valuable, and a much-needed 
treatise on an important department of rural economy. 
It contains about GG illustrations of pigs, piggeries, 
troughs, etc. We are heartily glad our old friend Harris 
was persuaded to prepare this useful Manual on the Pig- 
breeds, breeding, feeding, etc., comprising what farmers 
need know respecting this department of husbandry. 
[Boston Cultivator. 
This little book is profusely illustrated, and contains 
information in abundance, which every farmer ought to 
possess. — [Weekly Mail (St. Louis). 
nere is a book written by a practical farmer, who has 
brought to the aid of his own large experience and ob- 
servation the most extensive acquaintance with the 
science of breeding, and, as might reasonably be ex- 
pected, we have from his pen the best book on the Pig 
»ver written.—[ Western Stock Journal. 
Price, Post-paid, SI. 50. 
ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY, 
345 Broadwat, New York. 
FARM IMPLEMENTS 
AND 
FARM MACHINERY, 
AND THE 
Principles of their Construction and Use: 
WITH 
HTMPLK AND PRACTICAL EXPLANATIONS 
OP TBK 
LAWS OP MOTION AND FORCE 
AS APPLIED 
ON THE FARM. 
With 287 Illustration*, 
BT 
JOHN J. THOMAS. 
The basis of this admirable work was AW essay 
published in 1S50, in the Transactions of the N. T. State 
Agricultural Society, which was enlarged, and in 1S54 
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, arc systematically discussed as 
applied to the operations of the farm. 
The work has now been most carefully revised by the 
author. It Is much enlarged, ami a great part has been 
re-written, while the illustrations, before abundant, now 
number two hundred and eighty-seven. A large number 
of new implements arc described, with the heavier farm 
machinery ; and the use of steam, both in cooking and «• 
puwtt uu tnc iann, is Clearly dlscnased 
NOTICES ET THE TOES9. 
The great value of this work 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 
Echools. 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 siz pages on road-making are 
worth more than, the price cf the book to every highway 
enrveyor in. Vermont. Tanners need to study the me- 
chanics cf Agriculture This volume i3 admirably cal- 
culated to aid the fanner in determining what he needs 
and how to supply that want. Burlington Free Press. 
The volume 13 one of great value, and shonld bo 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 i3 familiar, and anyone of 
ordinary intelligence can rcadilygraspthe whole, follow- 
ing the author step by step, from the inertia cf the load- 
ed wagon which snaps the harness traces on a sadden 
start, to the ]aw3 which govern the shape cf the working 
parts of the plow, and the construction cf the steam 
engine, cr the radiation cf heat causing the phenomena 
of dew and frost. Cultivator end Country Gentleman. 
Those who are acquainted with Mr. Thomas* previous 
works need not to be told that it 13 written in a clear, 
concise, practical style, and though eminently scientific, 
the language 13 so free from all nnccessarytcchnicalities, 
and so pleasingly familiar, and at the same lime so well 
illustrated and enlivened by appropriate incident, anec- 
dotes, experiments, etc., as to crcitc and repay the con r 
tinned attention cf the reader. Cclesburg Free Press. 
The whole work 13 cf a thoroughly practical char- 
acter, and the application cf the principles taught to 
the farmer's daily work makes its instructions cf very 
great value. There U not an agricultural writer that 
could be named more respected than Mr. Thomas, or 
one whose judgment and freedom from personal bias 
in discussing new implements could be more implicitly 
wlied upon. Hartford Daily Times. 
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