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Farm and Carden. 
Allen’s (R. L, & L. F.) New American Farm Book.$2 50 
Allen’s ,R. L.) American Farm Book.. l 50 
Bailey’s The Book of Ensilage. 1 00' 
Barnard’s Farming by Inches... 38 
Barnard’s.Gardening for Money. 1 50 
Barnard’s My Ten Rod Farm. 38 
Barnard’s Strawberry Garden. 38 
Barry’s Fruit Garden. 2 50 
Brackett’s Farm Talk .paper, 50 cts.; cloth 75 
Brill’s Farm-Gardening and Seed-Growing. 1 00 
Broom-Corn and Brooms.paper, 50 cts.; cloth 75 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener. 1 00 
Cobbett's American Gardener. 75 
Curtiss on Wheat Culture. 50 
Emerson's Farmers’ and Planters’ Encyclopaedia. 6 00 
Farming for Profit. 3 75 
Flax Culture. [Seven Prize E-says by practical growers.] 30 
French’s Farm Drainage. 1 50 
Gregory on Cabbages. 30 
Gregory on Carrots, Mangold Wurtzels, etc. 30 
Gregory on Onion Raising... 30 
Gregory on Squashes. 30 
Hand-Book of the Grasses of Great Britain & America. 1 50 
Harlan's Farming with Green Manures. 1 50 
Henderson’s Gardening for Pleasure. 1 50' 
Henderson’s Gardening for Profit. 1 50 
Hop Culture. By nine experienced cultivators. 30 
How to Get a Farm and Where to find One. 1 00 
Johnson’s How Crops Feed. 2 00- 
Johnson’s How Crops Grow-. 2 00 
Klippart’s Land Drainage. 1 75 
Klippart’s Wheat Plant. 1 75 
Leland 8 Farm Homes, In-Doors and Out-Doors. 1 50 
Loring's Farm-Yard Club of Jotliam. 3 50 
Nichol’s Chemistry of the Farm and Sea. 1 25 
Onions—How to Raise them Profitably. 2? 
Our Farm of Four Acres.paper., 30c.: cloth.. 60 
Potato Culture. 'Prize Essay.). 25 
Quinn’s Money in the Garden. 1 50 
Register of Rural Affairs, hound, 8 vols., each. 1 50 
Register of Rural Affairs [1879]. 30 
Riley’s Potato Pests.paper, 50 cts.; cloth.. 75- 
Roe's Play and Profit in my Garden. ’ 50 
Sclienck’s Gardener’s Text-Book. 73 
Stewart’s Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Orchard 1 58 
Ten Acres Enough. i 00 
Thomas’s Farm Implements and Machinery. 1 50 
Tim Bunker Papers ; or, Yankee Farming. l 50 
Tobacco Culture. By fourteen experienced cultivators. 25 
Todd’s Young Farmers’Manual. 3 vols.4 58 
Ville’s High Farming without Manures. 25 
Waring's Book of the Farm. 2 CO 
White’s Gardening for the South. 2 00 
Fruits and Flowers. 
American Rose Culturist. 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. l 
Barnard’s A Simple Flower Garden . 
Breck’s New Book of Flowers. 1 
Buist’s Flower-Garden Directory... 1 
Chorlton's Grape-Grower’s Guido. 
Cole’s American Fruit Book. 
Culver's Fruit Preserver’s Manual. 
Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. New ed. 5 
Eastwood on Cranberry. 
Elliott’s Hand l ook for Fruit Growers_pa., 60c.: clo. 1 
Field’s Pear Culture. . l 
Fuller’s Grape Culturist. l 
Fuller’s Illustrated Strawberry Culturist. 
Fuller’s Small Fruit Culturist . l 
Fulton’s Peach Culture. 1 
Heinrich’s Window Flower Garden. 
Henderson’s Practical Floriculture. ;New&Enlar’dEd.) 1 
Husmann’s American Grape Growing & Wine Making.. 1 
Johnson’s Winter Greeneries at Home. l 
Mohr on the Grape-Vine... 1 
My Vineyard at Lakeview... 1 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 
Parsons on the Rose...1 
Phin's Open Air Grape Culture. l 
Quinn’s Pear Culture for Profit. l 
Rivers’s Miniature Fruit Garden. 1 
Robinson’s Ferns in their Homes and Ours. 1 
Roe’s Success with Small Fruits. 5 
The Thomery System of Grape Culture. 
Thomas’s American Fruit Culturist. New Ed. 3 
Vick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden, .paper, 50c.; clo. i 
White’s Cranberry Culture. l 
Horses. 
Baucher’s New Method of Horsemanship. l 
Bruce’s Stud Book. 3 vols.30 
Clarke on Horses’ Teeth. i 
Cole’s American Veterinarian. 
Coleman on Pathological Horse-Shoeing. 2 
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Dadd’s Modern Horse Doctor, l'jmn, . 1 
Delisser’s Horseman's Guide.boards, 75c.; cloth.. 1 
Durant’s Horseback Riding from Medical Point of View. 1 
Dwyer’s Horse Book. 2 
Every Horse Owner’s Cyclopaedia. 3 
Famous American Race Horses. 
Famous American Trotting Horses. 
Famous Horses of America. 1 
Flower's Bits and Bearing Reins. 
Going’s Veterinary Dictionary. .. . 2 
Heim’s American Roadsters. 5 
Herbert’s Hints to Horse-Keepers.. 1 
Hints and Helps to Horsemen . 
Horses and Hounds.. 
Jennings’ Horse Training Made Easy. 1 
Jennings on the Horse and his Diseases. 1 
Law’s Farmers’ Veterinary Adviser. 3 
Mayhew s Illustrated norse Doctor. 3 
Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Management.. 3 
McClure's American Gentleman’s Stable Guide. 1 
Miles on the Horse’s Foot. 
Percheron Horse. 1 
Rarey and Knowlson’s Complete Horse Tamer. 
Riley on the Mule. 1 
Simpson’s Horse Portraiture. 2 
Stewart’s American Farmer's Horse Book. 3 
Stewart’s Stable Book. 1 
Stonehenge on the Horse in Stable & Field. Eng.Ed.8vo. 3 
Stonehenge on the Horse in Stable&Field, Ara.Ed.12mo. 2 
Wallace's American Stud-Book. Vol. 1.10 
Wallace’s American Trotting Register. Vols. 1 & 2_20 
Woodruff’s Trotting Horse of America. 2 
Youatt, and Skinner on the Horse.. 2 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse. 1 
Cattle, Sheep, and Swine. 
Alien’s fL. F.) American Cattle. 2 50 
Allen’s CR. L.l Diseases of Domestic Animals. 1 00 
Clok’s Diseases of Sheep. 1 25 ‘ 
Coburn’s Swine Husbandry. 1 75 
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