354, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[Septejibek. 
NEW 
American Farm Book. 
OKIGINALLY BY 
K L. ALLEN, 
Author of " Diseases of Domestic Animals,'" and formerly 
editor of tJie u American Agriculturist" 
REVISED AND ENLABGED BY 
LEWIS F. ALLEN,. 
Author of "American Cattle," editor of the li American 
Shorthorn Herd Book,''' etc. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
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, 
sheep, 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 DaUy 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. 
Congregationalist &. Recorder. 
It intelligently and quite fully discusses the various 
operations of farm life, and is invaluable to all engaged 
in agriculture. Fawner'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 prinj. 
For the working farmer, who in summer noonings and 
by 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 
184G, annotated and qualified by the writer of this year. 
But this has been wisely avoided. The book is a unit, 
and shows 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 K. L. Allen, as time could not change, has been 
adopted by the reviser. New York Tribune. 
It is a volume of over five hundred pages, and in its 
preseut shape comprises all that can well be condensed 
into an available volume of its kind. 
Hartford Daily 'Times. 
It is almost as comprehensive as a cyclopaedia. We 
can 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. Neiv York Observe?'. 
It is crammed full of just the information that is want- 
ed, which it is a pleasure to recommend. "We know of 
no better encyclopaedia of farming. 
Neiv York Independent. 
In its present revised and 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 .. ihe 
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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ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
WAKING'S 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS. 
DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
aito 
DRAINING FOR HEALTH. 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jr., 
Engineer of the Drainage of Central Park, New York. 
CONTENTS. 
Land to be Drained ; How Drains Act ; How to 
Make Drains; How to Take Care of Drains; 
What Draining Costs ; Will It Pay ? How to Make 
Tiles ; Reclaiming Salt Marshes ; House and Town 
Drainage. 
EXTRACTS FROM NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
He (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 theirrelations to the public health. 
[Po?'tland (Me.) Press. 
Nowhere does 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 wilt prove 
an aid to any farmer who may consult it. 
[Chicago (III:) 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 Eabth System (Details). 
The Manure Question. 
Sewage and Cess-fooe Diseases. 
The Dry -Earth System for Cities .and Towns. 
The Details of Earth Sewage. 
The Philosophy of The Earth System. 
Witli Seventeen Illustrations. 
Paper Covers, Price, Post-paid 50 ets. 
ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. 
A BOOK FOE YOUNG FARMERS, 
By GEO. E. WAFJNG, Jr., 
Formerly Agricultural Engineer of the Central Park, in 
New York. 
C AKKFULLT EEVISKD. 
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 boy 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 254 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 manor boy, however old or young, who 
cau 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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FARM IMPLEMENTS 
FARM MACHINERY, 
AND THE 
Principles of their Construction and Use : 
WITH 
SIMPLE AND PRACTICAL. EXPLANATIONS 
OF THE 
LAWS OP MOTION AND FORCE 
AS AFPLIKU 
ON THE FARM. 
With 387 Illustrations* 
BY 
JOHN J. THOMAS. 
The basis of thin 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, mid heat, are systematically discussed aH 
applied to the operations of the farm. 
The work -has now been most carefully revised by the 
author. It is much enlarged, and 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 are described, with the heavier farm 
machinery ; and the use of strain, both in cooking and as 
power on the farm, is clearly discussed 
noticks bt Trrp: rnnss. 
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 
Bchools. Every farmer's son should carefully study this 
book, and ho 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 i3 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 
surveyor 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 EreePress. 
"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 1 illustrations are largely drawn from ob- 
jects with which the farmer is familiar, and any one of 
ordinary intelligence can rcadilygraspthc whole, follow- 
ing the author step by step, from the inertia of the load- 
ed wagon which snaps the harness traces on a sadden 
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 end 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 sarac 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 of the principles taught to 
the farmer's daily work makes its instructions cf very 
great value. There is not an agricultural writer that 
could be named more respected than Hr. Thomas, or 
one whoBe judgment and freedom from personal bia3 
in discussing new implements could be more implicitly 
relied upon. Hartford Daily Times. 
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