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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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VALUABLE 
ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS 
Atwood’s 
Country and Suburban Houses. 
This work Is finely illustrated with about one hundred and 
fifty engravings, and gives instruction upon all points, from 
the selecting of a place to build, to the perfect completion 
of the house. By D. T. Atwood, Architect. Cloth, 12mo. 
Post-paid, $1.50. 
Hussey's 
Home Building 1 , 
From New York to San Francisco. 
It is Extensively Illustrated, containing 42 Plates of 
Perspectives, with Plans of 45 Original Buildings, of as many 
classes, and their cost; and an invaluable Table of ma¬ 
terials, labor, and prices, at about 400 cities, towns, and ham¬ 
lets, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Also, complete and 
elaborate Specifications of materials and labor; mer¬ 
chandise, and where it maybe procured. It also contains 
original descriptions and valuable statistics for 1876 of over 
250 Cities and Towns. By E. C. Hussey, Architect, author of 
Hussey's National Cottage Architecture, &c. Post-paid, $5.00. 
Palliser’s 
American Cottage Houses. 
Entirely New Designs for Country, Suburban, and Village 
Cottages; Villas and Houses. The authors of this work 
have endeavored to combine good taste with practical, con¬ 
venient plans, and sound construction. Their aim is to get 
the best effect in the simplest, most common-sense, and least 
expensive manner. 
The designs are entirely new and attractive, and are ac¬ 
companied with plans, elevations, specifications, details, 
working scales, and estimated cost of construction. The 
estimates run from $350 to $3,500, so that it may be called a 
book for all. Post-paid, $5.00. 
JUST PUBLISHED. 
Bicknell’s 
Specimen Book of 100 Archi¬ 
tectural Designs. 
This work shows a great variety of Plans, Elevations, and 
Vlews.of Model, Modern Homes, from Designs of the fore¬ 
most architects in the country. 
It is a very desirable book for builders, and all who con¬ 
template building or remodeling. Handsomely bound in 
cloth, 8vo. Post-paid, $1.00. 
Allen’s 
Rural Architecture. 
Practical Directions and Suggestions for Construction of 
convenient Farm-Houses, Cottages, and Out-Buildings, in¬ 
cluding Barns, Stables, Sheds, Carriage and Wagon-Houses, 
Work-Shops, Wood-Houses, Ash and Smoke-Houses, Ice- 
Houses, Poultry and Bee-Houses, Dove-Cotes, etc., together 
with directions for the Gardens and Grounds ; useful and 
ornamental Domestic Animals, etc. By Hon. Lewis F. Allen, 
Editor of “ American Herd-Book,” “New American Farm 
Book,” etc. Cloth, 12mo. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Lakey’s 
Village and Country Houses. 
Or, Cheap Houses for All Classes, comprising eighty-four 
pages of designs. The object, in almost every instance of 
these designs, has been to secure as large an amount of 
space and comfort as was possible with the least expendi¬ 
ture of money, without neglecting the exterior features of 
each building, Royal Quarto. Post-paid, $5.00. 
Leuohars’ 
How to Build Hot-Houses, 
Green-Houses, Graperies, etc., etc., and how to Ventilate 
them. Illustrated with numerous Engravings. This is the 
only work published in this country, specially devoted to 
this subject. By Robert B. Leuchars, Garden Architect. 
Cloth, 12mo. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Either of the above books sent post-paid on receipt of 
price by 
ORANGE JUDD CO., 345 Broadway, New York. 
THE PRACTICAL 
POULTRY KEEPER. 
A COMPLETE AND STANDARD GUIDE TO THE 
MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY, 
FOR DOMESTIC USE, THE MARKETS, OR 
EXHIBITION. 
Beautifully Illustrated. 
Br L. WRIGHT. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
This book is a valuable manual for everybody who 
feeds chickens or sells eggs. It suits at once the plain 
poulterer who must make the business pay, and the chick¬ 
en fancier whose taste is for gay plumage, and strange, 
bright birds. The most valuable portion is the first sec¬ 
tion, extending through fifty-five pages. These were writ¬ 
ten with the intention of producing a manual so plain, 
minute, and practical, that any one could, by using it as a 
guide, with no previous experience with poultry, become 
at once successful in producing eggs, young chickens, and 
fat fowls for market. The author has not missed his aim. 
The middle parts of Mr. Wright’s Manual are taken up 
with minute directions for making show fowls for Fairs, 
a nice discussion of the good and had points of the dif¬ 
ferent breeds, and a brief sketch of such fancy stock as 
peafowl, pheasants, and water-fowl. Then follows a 
section on artificial hatching, and another, worth special 
attention, on large poultry yards_A study of Mr. 
Wright's hook will convince any farmer’s wife that all 
she needs is to give a half hour each day. of intelligent 
and sagacious attention to her poultry, in order to obtain 
from them, not tape, and knitting needles, and buttons, 
and nutmegs merely, but the family supplies of sugar, 
shoes, and cloth. New York Tribune. 
It is the most complete and valuable work on the mat- 
„ers of which it treats yet published. It will be found a 
plain and sufficient guide to any one in any circumstances 
likely to occur, and is illustrated with elegant engravings 
of many breeds of fowls. Fanners' Cabinet. 
This is a reprint, with numerous wood engravings, of 
an English book, the object of which is to convey in 
plain language a great deal of practical information about 
the breeding and management of poultry, whether for 
domestic use, the markets, or exhibition... .The hook is 
eminently practical, and we recommend it to farmers ant' 
others interested in breeding and selling poultry. 
Philadelphia Press. 
It is a handsome volume, brought out in the best style, 
and enriched with nearly fifty illustrations. It is evidently 
the fruit of a thorough, practical experience and knowl¬ 
edge of fowls, and will he found a plain and sufficient 
guide i:i all the practical details of poultry management 
as a profitable business. United Presbjterian. 
The subject is treated fully and ably by an experienced 
hand, and the volume will doubtless find a large sale 
among the growing class of poultry fanciers. It is em¬ 
bellished with numerous illustrative engravings. 
New York Observer. 
The author has called to his aid all who were expen 
enced in the subject whereof he writes, and the conse¬ 
quence is a volume of more than ordinary thoroughness 
and exhaustiveness. Rochester Democrat. 
The book is a complete and standard guide to the man¬ 
agement of poultry for domestic use, the market, and 
for exhibition. Watchman and Reflector. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $2.00. 
ORANGE JUDD CO., 
245 Broadway, New York. 
Potato Pests. 
Being an Illustrated Account of the 
Colorado Potato-beetle 
AND THE OTHER 
Insect Foes of the Potato 
IN NORTH AMERICA. 
WitU Suggestions for tlielr Repression 
and OTetUods for their Destruction. 
BY 
CHARLES V. RILEY, M. A., PH. D, 
(STATE ENTOMOLOGIST OF MISSOURI.) 
FINELY ILLUSTRATED. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
THE COLORADO POTATO-BEETLE. 
Its Past History.—The Insect’s Native Home.—Rate at 
which it traveled.—How it traveled.—It spreads but does 
not travel in the Sense of leaving one District for another.— 
Area invaded by It.—Causes which limit its Spread.—How it 
affected the Price of Potatoes.—The Modification it lias 
undergone.—Its Natural History.—Its Poisonous Qualities.— 
Its Food Plants.—The Beetle eats as well as the Larva.—Its 
Natural Enemies.—Remedies.—The Use of Paris Green.— 
Bogus Experiments.—Alarm about the Insect Abroad.— 
Nomenclature.—Tlic Bogus Colorado Potato-beetle. 
OTHER INSECT FOES OF THE POTATO. 
The Stalk-borer.Ythe Potato Stalk-weevil.—The 
Potato or Tomato-worm.—Blister-beetles. The Striped 
Blister-beetle. The Ash-gray Blister-beetle. The Black-rat 
Blister-beetle. The Black Blister-beetle. The Margined 
Blister-beetle.— The '1 hree-lined Potato-beetle.—Thk 
Cucumber Flea-beetle.—The Clubbed Tortoise-beetle. 
Price, Post-paid, paper covers, 50 cts.; cloth, 75 cts. 
The Farm-Yard 
Club of Jotham. 
An Account of tSae Families ant! 
Farms of tlmt Fasnous Town. 
By GEORGE B. LORING. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
The Farm-Yard Club of Jotham, an Account of the Fami¬ 
lies and Farms of that Famous Town, so happily combines 
the information which botli the amateur and the professional 
farmer need, with the charms of individual experience and 
characterization, that it will please a great variety of tastes. 
Tne number aud excellence of the illustrations deserve spe¬ 
cial mention, the designs being tastefully conceived and 
skillfully executed, and having, moreover, a peculiar ap¬ 
propriateness.—Globe, Boston, Mass. 
Dr. Loring lias given us a book which is at once cyclopedic 
in its information, entertaining for its wit and humor, and 
interesting as a story, for the bright thread of real life and 
love that runs through it .— Golden Rule. 
Octavo, 603 pages, with 70 Illustrations of Characters, Coun¬ 
try Scenes, Farm Animals, and Implements, byChampney, 
Rose, Lathrop, Forbes, and others. Price, post-paid, $3.50. 
Either of the above books sent post paid on receipt ol 
price, by 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
