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BOOKS FOR FARMERS and OTHERS. 
[Any oi' the following books can be obtained at the Of- 
fice of the Agriculturist at the prices named, or they will be 
forwarded by mail, post-paid, on receipt of the price. All of 
these books may be procured In making up a library. "We 
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These prices are only good for orders sent previously to 
October 1st. 
American Bird Fancier ¥0 95 
American Farmer's Encyclopedia 6 00 
American Weeds and Useful Plants....** 1 50 
Allen on the Culture of the Grape 1 2o 
All-en's (II. L.) American Farm Hook* 1 35 
Allen's Diseases of Domestic Animals 1 00 
Allen's (L.F.I Rural Architecture....* 1 50 
Barrv's Fruit Garden — *** 1 50 
Bement's Poulterer's Companion — ** 2 00 
Bement'a Rabbit Fancier : — 50 
BrWlgeman's Fruit Cultivator's Manual 75 
Bi-rdgeman's Yorihg Gardener's Assistant.. 2 00 
Bridgeman's Kitchen Garden Instructor 75 
Bridgeman's Florist's Guide 75 
Brandt's Aire of Horses (English and German) — * — 50 
Breck's Book of Flowers — *.. 1 50 
Browne's American Poultry Yard 1 25 
Buist's American Flower Garden Directory 1 50 
Buist's Family Kitchen Gardener * 1 00 
Burr's Vegetables of America * 4 50 
Chorlton's Grape-Grower's Guide 75 
Cole's (S. W.) American Fruit Book....* 60 
Cole's Veterinarian 60 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) Modern Horse Doctor 1 50 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) American Cattle Doctor....* 1 50 
Dana's Muck Manual for Farmers 1 25 
Downing s Cottage Residences ** 2 50 
Downlug's Fruits and Frnit Trees of America «**.. 2 00 
Eastwood on the Cranberry — * 60 
Employment of Women— By Virginia Penny — * 1 50 
Everv Lady her own Flower Gardener 50 
Fessenden's American Kitchen Gardener 25 
Fessenden's Complete Farmer and Gardener.. 1 50 
French's Farm Drainage * 1 50 
Field's (Thomas W.) Pear Culture 1 25 
Fish Culture 1 50 
Flint (Charles L.) on Grasses — ** 2 00 
Flint's Milch Cows and Dairy Farming....*** 2 00 
Fuller's Grape Culturist *** 1 50 
Fuller's Strawberry Culturist * 15 
Goodale's Principles of Breeding.. .**. 100 
Gray's Manual of Botany and Lessons in one Vol..***.. 3 00 
Gray's How Plants Grow 1 00 
Guenon on Milch Cows 75 
Hall's (Miss) American Cookery 1 25 
Harasatby Grape Culture &c 5 00 
Harris' Insects Injurious to Vegetation, plain ** — 3 50 
do. do. do. do. colored plates.** 4 50 
Herbert's Mints to Horsekeepers — *** 1 50 
Hints to Riflemen, by Cleveland 1 50 
Hooper's Dos: and Gun 25 
Johnson on Manures .- ** 1 00 
Kemp's Landscape Gardening 2 00 
LaiH'9i-roth on the Honey Bee ...** 1 50 
Loudon's (Downing's) Ladies' Flower Garden * — 1 50 
Leuchar's How to Build Hot-houses 1 50 
Licbig's Lectures on Chemistry 50 
Linsley's (D. C.) Morgan Horses 1 50 
Manual of Agriculture bv G. Emerson and C. L. Flint 1 00 
Mavhew's Illustrated Horse Doctor ...*** 3 50 
Mayhew's Illustrated Horse Management *** — 3 50 
McMuhon s American Gardener * 2 50 
Mllburn on the Cow and Dairy 25 
Miles on the Horse's foot 50 
Mistakes of Educated Men ....** 00 
Morrell's American Shepherd 1 25 
My Farm at Edgewood — ** 1 75 
National Almanac and Annual Record ** 1 50 
Norton's Scientific Agriculture 75 
Our Farm of Four Acres., (paper 30c.) bound * 60 
Onion Culture ...***.. 20 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture 75 
Parsons on the Rose 1 50 
Pedder's Farmer's Land Measurer 50 
Phantom Bouquet, or Skeleton Leaves 150 
Phin's Grape Culture 1 25 
Quinbv's Mvaterfes of Bee keeping ...** 1 50 
Randall's Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry 1 00 
Rand's Flowers for Parlor and Garden ** 3 00 
Richardson on the Dog 50 
Richardson on the Hog 25 
Robins' Produce and Ready Reckoner 75 
Skillful Housewife 50 
Smith's Landscape Gardening 1 50 
Spencer's Education of Children** 1 25 
Stewart's (.John) Stable Book 1 50 
Ten Acres Enough 1 25 
Tobacco Culture ...*** 25 
Todd's (S. E.) Young Fanner's Manual ** 1 50 
Tucker's Register Rural Affairs . ...* 25 
Turner's Cotton Planter's Manual — l 50 
Vaux's Villas and Cottages 3 00 
Warder's Hedges and Evergreens 1 50 
Watson's American Home Garden....*** 2 00 
Wax Flowers (Art of Making) 1 50 
Yale College Agricultural Lectures 50 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse 1 50 
Youatt and Martin on Cattle 1 50 
?ouatt on the Hog....* 1 00 
oustt on Sheep 1 00 
YoumanB' Chemistry * 1 25 
Youmans' Household Science **• 1 75 
Phrenological Journal, & 
Life Illustrated. 
SAMUEL E. WEILS. Editor. 
DEVOTED TO 
ETHNOLOGY— The Natural History of Man. 
PHYSIOLOGY— Functions of the Body— "Use and 
Abuse." 
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PSYCHOLOGY— Or the " Science of the Soul." 
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