[February. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1882. ] 
STANDARD BOOKS FOR FARM AND GARDEN. 
Allen’s New American Farm Book. 
The very best work on the subject; comprising all that can be condensed into an available volume. 
Originally by Richard L. Allen. Revised and greatly enlarged by Lewis F. Allen. Cloth, 12 
mo. Price, post-paid, $2.50. 
Barry’s Fruit G-arden. 
One of the reliable books on Fruits and Fruit Trees; the author having had over 30 years’ practical 
experience at the head of one of the largest nurseries in this country. By P. Barky. Illustrated. 
Cloth, l2mo. Price, post-paid, $2.50. 
Curtis’s Wheat Culture. 
How to double the yield and increase the profits. By D. S. Curtis. Illustrated. Paper covers. 
Price, post-paid, 50 cents. 
Farm Law: A Treatise on the Legal Rights and Liabilities of Farmers. 
Containing articles upon such subjects as the following : How to Buy a Farm ; How Far tne Farm 
Extends; What a Deed of a Farm Includes; Hiring Help; Rights in the Road; Ways Over the 
Farm ; As to Farm Fences ; Impounding Cattle; Farmer’s Liability for his Animals ; Dogs ; Liabil¬ 
ity for his Men ; About Fires ; Water Rights and Drainage; Trespassing on the Farm ; Overhanging 
Trees; with copious Index. Adapted to the statutes of all the States. By Edmund H. Bennett, 
LL.D., Dean of Boston University School of Law; and formerly a member of the Mass. Board of 
Agriculture. Price, post-paid, extra Cloth binding, 75 cts. ; sheep, $1.0U. 
Heinrich’s Window Flower-Garden. 
A. complete Guide to the Art of Window Gardening. By Julius J. Heinrich. Profusely and hand¬ 
somely illustrated. Cloth, 12 mo. Price, post-paid, 75 cents. 
Henderson’s Gardening for Profit. 
The standard work on the subject. By Peter Henderson. Finely illustrated. Cloth, 12 mo. Price, 
post-paid, $1.50. 
Henderson’s Gardening for Pleasure. 
This work is prepared to meet the wants of all classes in Country, City, and Village, who keep a 
garden for their own enjoyment rather than for the sale of products. It is adapted to the wants of 
the amateur in in-door and out-door gardening. The work includes fruit, vegetable, and flower¬ 
gardening, greenhouses and graperies, window gardening and Wardian cases. By Peter Henderson. 
Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
Harris’ Talks on Manure. 
In this work Mr. Harris continues the talking style which he has made entirely his own iu agricul¬ 
tural teachings. Starting with the question, “ What is Manure?” it runs through in sufficient detail 
every source of manure on the farm, discussing the methods of making rich manure; the proper 
keeping and applying it, and especially the “ Uses of Manure,” and the effects of different artificial 
fertilizers, as compared with farm-yard manure, upon different crops. By Joseph Harris. Cloth, 
12mo. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
Johnson’s Winter Greeneries at Home. 
A most excellent Guide to successful House-Gardening. By Rev. E. A. Johnson. Illustrated. 
Cloth, 12mo. Price, post-paid, $1.00. 
Johnson’s How Crops Grow. 
A Treatise of the Chemical Composition, Structure and Life of the Plant. This book is a guide to 
the knowledge of agricultural plants, their composition, their structure, and modes of development 
and growth ; of the complex organization of plants, and the uses of the parts; the germination of 
seeds, and the food of plants obtained both from the air and the soil. The book is an invaluable 
one to all real students of agriculture. With Numerous Illustrations and Tables of Analysis. By 
Prof. Samuel W. Johnson, of Yale College. Cloth, 12mo. Price, post-paid, $2.00. 
Johnson’s How Crops Feed. 
A Treatise on the Atmosphere and the Soil, as related in the Nutrition of Agricultural Plants. The 
work entitled “ How Crops Grow,” has been received with very great favor, not only in America but 
in Europe. This volume—the companion and complement to the former—has been welcomed by 
those who appreciate the scientific aspects of Agriculture, and are persuaded that a true Theory is 
the surest guide to a successful practice. Illustrated. By Prof. Samuel W. Johnson, of Yale Col¬ 
lege. Cloth, 12mo. Price, post-paid, $2.00. 
Leland’s Farm Homes, In-Doors and Ont-Doors. 
This is a most charming book and should be in every farm home in the land. It is written in a most 
captivating style by a writer thoroughly familiar with the subjects treated Every page abounds in 
valuable bints and suggestions, communicated in an entertaining, narrative form. By E. H. Leland. 
The volume is very handsomely illustrated, printed on tinted paper, bound in extra cloth, 12mo., 
beveled edges, black and gold. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
Silos and Ensilage. 
The Preservation of Fodder Corn and other Green Fodder Crops. Bringing together the most recent 
information, from various sources. Edited by Dr. George Thurber. Fully Illustrated. Dr. Thur- 
ber’s eminent reputation as a horticulturist and agriculturist must secure a wide sale for this volume 
among farmers, who are now so actively interested in the construction of silos. Cloth, 12mo. Price, 
post-paid, 50 cents. 
Stewart’s Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Orchard. 
This work is offered to those American Farmers, and other cultivators of the soil, who, from painful 
experience, can readily appreciate the losses which result from the scarcity of water at critical periods. 
By Henry Stewart. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
Robinson’s Facts for Farmers. 
Also for the Family Circle.—A variety of rich materials for all laud-owners, about domestic animals 
and domestic economy ; farm buildings, gardens, orchards, and vineyards, and ail farm crops, tools, 
fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation ; with an appendix on the diseases of domestic animals ; 
a choice selection of reliable and indispensable law forms ; and tables carculating interest of any rate 
of per cent required. By Solon Robinson. Beautifully Illustrated with steel engravings. 8vo. 
1,100 pages. Price, post-paid, $5.00. 
Ville’s Artificial Manures. 
Their Chemical Selection and Scientific Application to Agriculture. By Georges Ville, translated 
and edited by Wm. Cookes, F. R. S. Illustrated with 31 Engravings. Cloth. Octavo. Price, post¬ 
paid, $6.00. 
ORANGE JUDD CO., 751 Broadway, New York. 
Recent Publications. 
FEBRUARY, 1882. 
The Wild Garden.— Or our Groves and Gardens made 
beautiful by the Naturalization of Hardy Exotic Plants ; 
being one way onwards from the Dark Ages of Flower 
Gardening, with suggestions, for the regeneration of 
tlie bare borders of the London Parks. By W. Robinson, 
F. L. S. Illustrated by Alfred Parsons. The illustra¬ 
tions and engravings in this beautiful volume are simply 
exquisite. It has recently received the most flattering 
notices from the American Agriculturist and the “ New 
York Tribune.” Price, post-paid, $4.25- 
The Theory of Horticulture, or an attempt to ex¬ 
plain the principal operations of Gardening. By John 
Lindley, Ph. D.,F. R. S., Vice-Secretary of the Horticul¬ 
tural Society of London, and a Professor of Botany in 
University College. By A. J. Downing. Price, post¬ 
paid, $1.50. . 
AValley’s Four Bovine Scourges ! Pleuro-Pneumo 
nia, Foot-and Mouth Disease, Cattle Plague, and Tuber¬ 
cle (Scrofula). With an Appendix on the Inspection of 
Live Animals and Meat. By Thomas Walley, M. R. C. V. 
S., Principal and Professor of Veterinary Medicine and 
Surgery in the Edinburgh Royal College, etc., etc., 
Price, post-paid, $7.50. 
Steel On the Diseases of the Ox: A Manual of Bovine 
Pathology. Especially adapted for the use of Vete¬ 
rinary Practitioners and Students. By John Henry Steel, 
M. R. C. V. S., Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Col¬ 
lege, London. Price, post paid, $6.00. 
Armsby’s Manual of Cattle Feeding: A Treatise on 
the Laws of Animal Nutrition and the Chemistry of 
Feeding-Stutt's in their Application to the Feeding of 
Farm Animals. With Illustrations and an Appendix of 
Useful Tables. By Henry P. Armsby, Ph. D., Chemist to 
the Conn. Experiment Station. Price, post-paid, $2.50. 
Practical Lessons on Architectural Drawing: Or 
How to make the Working Drawings and Write the 
Specifications for Buildings. An entirely new and or¬ 
iginal work. Containing over 40 pages of letter press. 
Illustrated by 33 full-page plates (one printed in colors), 
and 33 wood cuts, showing methods of Construction and 
Representation. Contents : Chapter I.—Introduction. 
Chaps. II. and III.—Frame Buildings. Chap. IV—Brick 
Buildings. Chap. V.—Stone Buildings. Chap VI.—Spec¬ 
ifications. Chap. VII.— olor. One large 8vo volume, 
oblong. Cloth. Price, post-paid, $2.50. 
New Volumes for Sportsmen. 
Canoe and Camera.— New Edition just published. 
Witli an entire new Map of all the great canoe tours of 
Maine. A Photographic Tour of two hundred miles 
through the Maine Forests. By Thomas Sedgwick Steele. 
Sixty Illustrations by well-known artists. With new 
mapB of the State, the result of recent personal explor¬ 
ation by the Author. Handsomely bound in cloth and 
gold. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
British Dogs: their varieties, history, characteristics, 
breeding, management, and exhibition. Illustrated 
with portraits of dogs of the day. By Hugh Daiziel 
(“ Corsincon,”) Author of “ The Diseases of Dogs,” 
“The Diseases of Horses,” etc., assisted by eminent 
fanciers. A most beautiful volume of 500 pages, bound 
in gilt and furnishing information regarding breeding 
dogs, which has not hitherto appeared in other publica¬ 
tions. Price, post-paid, $4.50. 
A Book of the Rabbit : Giving the history, variations, 
uses, points, selection, mating, management, exhibiting, 
judging, treatment of the diseases, and much other in¬ 
formation bearing on the subject of fancy rabbits. 
Edited by Leonard U. Gill, editor of “ Rabbits for Prizes 
and Profit.”—This volume is most elegantly bound in 
extra cloth, gilt, and makes one of the most beautiful 
works ever published. Very many of the illustrations 
are full page, printed iu colors. Price, post paid, $5.00. 
Practical Boat Building for Amateurs : Contain¬ 
ing full instructions for designing and building punts, 
skiffs, canoes, sailing boats, etc. Illustrated with work¬ 
ing diagrams: By Adrian Neison, C. E. New and re- 
vised edition. By Dixon Kemp, A. I. N. A. (Author of 
“ Yacht Designing.” “ A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sail¬ 
ing”) Price, post-paid. $1.00. 
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