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ENGLISH EI>ITION. 
AN EGG FARM. 
THE MANAGEMENT OF POULTEY IN 
LAEGE NUMBERS. 
By H. H. STODDARD. 
BEING A SERIES OP ARTICLES WRITTEN POR THE AMERICAN 
AGRICULTURIST. 
WITH OTHER ARTICLES. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
CONTENTS. 
Introduction.—Plan of Farm.— Manner of Feeding.— 
Location of Farm.—Kind of Soil.—Crops on the Farm.— 
Supplying Water and Food.—Collecting and Storing Dry 
Earth.—Houses for Layers.—Feeding House for Winter. 
—Houses for Sitters.—Arrangements for Breeding Stock. 
—Fowls for Layers.—Fowls for Sitters.—Management 
of Breeding Stock. — Coops for Chickens. — Feeding 
Chickens.—Setting the Eggs.—Management of Sitting 
Fowls. — Testing the Eggs. — Winter Management. — 
House for Early Hatched Pullets.—Shelters for Fowls 
and Chickens.—Kind of Food.—Building for Storing and 
Cooking Food. — Management of Young Chickens. — 
Feeding and Sheltering Chickens. — Additional Build¬ 
ings. — General Conclusions. — Farm Poultry House.— 
Poultry Farming.—Poultry Keeping as a Business. 
Price, post-paid, paper covers, 50 cts.; cloth, 75 cts. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
The work is very practical, all the illustrations and 
descriptions of building being of those of the plainest 
and cheapest construction, within the reach of any one 
who keeps a dozen fowls. The directions for manage¬ 
ment are plain, and evidently the result of the experience 
of the author.— Country Gentleman , Albany. 
Everything pertaining to the production of eggs and 
the breeding and raising of poultry is here given, and no 
difficulty to be avoided or point in which labor may be 
saved, seems to be unprovided for.— The Salem Gazette. 
Salem, Mass. 
This is a handsomely illustrated little work on the 
management of poultry in large numbers. It will no 
doubt be a valuable addition to our poultry literature.— 
Colman's Rural World, St. Louis. 
It contains a vast amount of information in a little 
space in regard to the management of poultry in large 
numbers. It contains about 100 pages, and is nicely il¬ 
lustrated with plans of buildings, implements, breeds of 
fowls, etc., - etc.— Ohio Faimer, Cleveland. 
It gives a full and instructive account of the manage¬ 
ment of poultry in large numbers, with plenty of excel¬ 
lent illustrations.— Christian Register , Boston. 
It gives in a clear and comprehensive manner the best 
plans for. breeding stock and management of young 
chickens, with cuts of the most economical houses, and 
showing fanciers how to make the business a profitable 
one.— Stoneham Sentinel, Stoneham, Mass. 
Tie Poultry Yari an! Market; 
OK, 
A Practical Treatise on Gallinociiltnre. 
By Prof. A. Corbett, 
Inventor of the New Process for Hatching Eggs and Raising 
Poultry, by means of Horse Manure alone, for which Gold 
and Bronze Medals, and several Diplomas, have been award¬ 
ed by State and County Fairs, and the American Institute. 
Leading newspapers endorsed' the valuable discovery of this 
simple process, which is fully described in this hook, giving 
tlie valuable information acquired by 20 years’ experience 
in Poultry Breeding. 
CONTENTS. 
Origin of Artificial Incubation.—Its Proliflcness.—Particu¬ 
lars of what has been done in Artificial Incubation up to the 
present time.—The Discovery of how Eggs could be hatched 
in Manure.—The Itesearclies of Prof. Corbett and his Dis¬ 
covery.—Prof. Corbett’s Success.—Amount of Profit to he 
made anually by anybody with Twelve Hens.—How Poultry 
Breeders can raise Chickens in Manure, with slight expense, 
all the year round.—The Raising of Poultry with Large 
Profits.—The kind of Manure to be used.—'The best Breed of 
Profitable Fowls.—Advice to the Ladies—Important Hints 
how to keep Poultry and make Money.—Diseases and their 
Cure.—How to Fatten and Prepare lor Market.—Opinions of 
tlie Press and Rewards given for this process. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, 50 CENTS. 
HARRIS ON THE PIG. 
Ordinary Pages. SI .00 per line (agate), eacli insertion. 
Last Page , and Third Cover Page, SI.25 per line. 
Second Cover Page— SI.50 per line. 
Pagenext to Reading and Last Cover Page— S2.00 per line. 
No advertisement taken for less than $3.00 each insertion. 
GERMAN EDITION. 
Inside Pages, 15 cents per line, each insertion. 
Business Notices and Last Page, 25 cents per line. 
No advertisement taken for less than SI.00 eacli insertion. 
1!3?"No Advertisement of Medicines or Humbugs received. 
Address all orders to 
ORANGE .TUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
Breeding, Bearing , Management , and Improvement. 
With numerous Illustrations. 
By JOSEPH HARRIS. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $1.50. 
This is tlie only American treatise, upon .'the breeding, 
rearing, and management of swine, and is by one thorough¬ 
ly familiar with the whole subject. Tlie points of tlie various 
English and American breeds are thoroughly discussed, and 
tlie great advantage of using thorough-bred males clearly 
shown. Tlie work is equally valuable to the farmer who 
keeps but few pigs, and to tlie breeder on an extensive scale. 
Either of the above books sent post-paid on receipt of 
price by 
ORANGE JUDD CO., 345 Broadway, New York. 
THE PRACTICAL 
POULTRY KEEPER. 
K 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 bad 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 book 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 he found a 
plain and suflicient guide to any one in any circumstances 
likely to occur, and is illustrated with elegant engravings 
of many breeds of fowls. Farmers' 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 foe 
domestic use, the markets, or exhibition... .The book is 
eminently practical, and we recommend it to farmers and 
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 be found a plain and suflicient 
guide in all the practical details of poultry management 
as a profitable business. United Presbyterian. 
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 hook 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. 
