[August, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1877 . ] 
BOOKS for FARMERS and OTHERS. 
[Published and for sale by the Orange Judd Company, 
245 Broadway, New York. Any of these books will be for¬ 
warded by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price.] 
Allen’s (R. L. & L. F.) New American Farm Book.$2 50 
Allen’s (L. F.) American Cattle. 2 50 
Allen’s (R, L.) American Farm Book. 1 50 
Allen’s (L. F.) Rural Architecture. 1 50 
Allen’s (R. L.) Diseases of Domestic Animals. 1 00 
American Bird Fancier. 30 
American Rose Culturist. 30 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. 1 75 
Atwood’s Country and Suburban Houses. 1 50 
Atwood’s Modern American Homesteads. 3 50 
Barber’s Crack Shot... 1 75 
Barry’s Fruit Garden. 2 50 
Bell’s Carpentry Made Easy. 5 00 
Beuaent’s Rabbit Fancier. 30 
Bicknell’s Village Builder and Supplement. 1 Vol.12 00 
BlckneH’8 Supplement to Village Builder. 5 00 
Bogardus’ Field, Cover, and Trap Shooting. 2 00 
Boramer’s Method of Making Manures. 25 
Boussingault’s Rural Economy. 1 60 
Brackett’s Farm Talk.paper, 50 cts.; cloth. 75 
Greek’s New Book of Flowers. 1 75 
Brill’s Farm-Gardening and Seed-Growing. 1 00 
Broom-Corn and Brooms.paper, 50 cts.; cloth 75 
Brown’s Taxidermist’s Manual. 1 00 
Bruckner’s American Manures. I 50 
Buchanan’s Culture of the Grape and Wine Making.... 75 
Buel’s Cider-Maker’s Manual. 1 50 
Buist’s Flower-Garden Directory. 1 50 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener. 1 00 
Burges’ American Kennel and Sporting Field. 1 00 
Burns’ Architectural Drawing Book. 1 00 
Burns’Illustrated Drawing Book. 1 00 
Burns’ Ornamental Drawing Book. 1 00 
Caldwell’s Agricultural Chemical Analysis. 2 00 
Canary Birds. Paper 50 cts. Cloth. 75 
Cliorlton’s Grape-Grower’s Guide. 75 
Cleveland’s Landscape Architecture. 1 50 
Cobbett’s American Gardener. 75 
Coburn’s Swine Husbandry. 1 75 
Cole’s American Fruit Book. 75 
Cole’s American Veterinarian. 75 
Cooked and Cooking Food for Domestic Animals. 20 
Cooper’s Game Fowls.5 00 
Corbett’s Poultry Yard and Market. ...pa„ 50 cts.; cloth 75 
Croff’s Progressive American Architecture.10 00 
Cummings’ Architectural Details.10 00 
Cummings & Miller’s Architecture.10 00 
Cupper’s Universal Stair-Builder. 3 50 
Dadd’s Modern Horse Doctor, l’imo.. 1 50 
Dadd’s American Cattle Doctor, liimo. 1 50 
Dadd’s American Cattle Doctor, 8vo, cloth. 2 50 
Dadd’s American Reformed Horse Book, 8vo> cloth... 2 50 
Dana’s Muck Manual. 1 25 
Darwin’sVarlationsof Animals&Plants.2vols.[newcd.l 5 00 
Dead Shot; or. Sportsman’s Complete Guide. l 75 
Detail Cottage and Constructive Architecture.10 00 
De Voe’s Market Assistant.2 50 
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson, on the Dog. 3 00 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening.6 50 
Dwyer’s Horse Book. 2 00 
Eastwood on Cranberry. 75 
Eggleston’s Circuit Rider. 1 75 
Eggleston’s End of the World. 1 50 
Eggleston’s Hoosier School-Master. 1 25 
Eggleston’s Mystery of Metropolisville. 1 50 
Eggleston’s (Geo. C.) A Man or Honor.. 1 25 
Elliott’s Hand Hook for Fruit Growers_pa., 60c.: clo. 1 00 
Elliott’s Hand-Book of Practical Landscape Gardening. 1 50 
Elliott’s Lawn and Shade Trees. 1 50 
Elliott’s Western Fruit-Grower’s Guide. 1 50 
Eveleth’s School House Architecture.6 00 
Field’s Pear Culture. 1 25 
Flax Culture. [Seven Prize Essays by practical growers.] 30 
Flint (Charles L.i on Grasses.2 50 
Frank Forester’s American Game in its Season. 3 00 
Frank Forester s Field Sports, 8vo., 2 vols. 6 00 
Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing, 8vo., 100 Eng’s.3 50 
Frank Forester’s Horse of America, 8vo. 2 vols.10 00 
Frank Forester’s Manual for Young Sportsmen, 8vo... 3 00 
French’s Farm Drainage. 1 50 
Fuller’s Forest-Tree Culturist.1 50 
Fuller’s Grape Culturist.. 1 50 
Fuller’s Illustrated Straw berry Culturist. 20 
Fuller’s Small Fruit Culturist . 1 50 
Fulton’s Peach Culture. 1 50 
Gardner’s Carriage Painters’ Manual. 1 00 
Gardner’s How to Paint. 1 00 
Geyelin’s Poultry-Breeding. 1 25 
Gould’s American Stair-Builder’s Guide.4 00 
Gould’s Carpenter’s and Builder’s Assistant. 3 00 
Gregory on Cabbages. 30 
Gregory on Carrots, Mangold Wurtzels, etc. 30 
Gregory on Onion Raising. 30 
Gregory on Squashes. 30 
Guenon on Milch Cows. 75 
Guillaume’s Interior Architecture. . 3 00 
Gun, Rod, and Saddle. 1 00 
Hallett’s Builders’ Specifications. 1 75 
Hallett’s Builders’ Contracts. 10 
Harney’s Barns, Out-Buildings and Fences.6 00 
Harris’s Insects Injurious to Vegetation.Plain $4; 
Colored Engravings. 6 50 
Harris on the Pig. 1 50 
Hedges’ on Sorgho or the Northern Sugar Plant. 1 50 
Helmsley’s Hardv Trees, Shrubs, and Plants. 7 50 
Henderson’s Gardening for Pleasure. 1 50 
Henderson’s Gardening for Profit. 1 50 
Henderson’s Practical Floriculture. 1 50 
Herbert’s Hints to Horse-Keepers. 1 75 
Holden’s Book of Birds.paper, 25c.; cloth.. 50 
Hooper’s Dog and Gun.paper, 30c; cloth. 60 
Hooper’s Western Fruit Book. 1 50 
Hoopes’s Book of Evergreens. 3 00 
Hop Culture. By nine experienced cultivators. 30 
How to Get a Farm and Where to find One. 1 25 
How to Make Candy... 50 
How to Use the Pistol. 50 
Hunter and Trapper. 1 00 
Husmann’s Grapes and Wine. 1 50 
Hussey’s Home Building.5 00 
Hussey’s National Cottage Architecture. 6 no 
Jacques’s Manual of the House. l 50 
Jacques’s Manual of the Garden, Farm and Barn-Yard. 1 75 
Jennings on Cattle and their Diseases. 1 75 
Jennings’ HorSe Training Made Easy. 1 25 
Jennings on the Horse and his Diseases. 1 75 
Jennings on Sheep, Swine, and Poultry. 1 75 
John Andross (Rebecca Harding Davis). 1 50 
Johnson’s How Crops Feed. 2 00 
Johnson’s How Crops Grow. 2 00 
Johnson’s Peat ana its Uses. 1 25 
Johnston’s Agricultural’Chemistry. 1 75 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 1 50 
Kern's Practical Landscape Gardening. — 1 50 
King’s Beekeepers’ Text Book, .paper, 40c_cloth. 75 
Klippart’s Wheat Plant. 1 75 
Lakey’s Village and Country Houses. 6 00 
Leuchar’s How to Build Hot-Houses. 1 50 
Lewis’People’s Practical Poultry Keeper. I 50 
Long’s American Wild Fowl Shooting.’.. 2 00 
Boring's Farm-Yard Club of Jotham. 3 50 
Loth’s Practical Stair-Builder..10 00 
Lyman’s Cotton Culture. 1 50 
Manual of Flax Culture. 25 
Marshall’s Farmer’s Hand Book. 1 50 
McClure’s Diseases of the Am. Horse, Cattle & Sheep.. 2 00 
Merrick’s Strawberry Culture. 1 00 
Miles on the Horse’s Foot. 75 
Mohr on the Grape-Vine. 1 00 
Monckton’s National Carpenter and Joiner. 6 00 
Monckton’s National Stair-Builder. 6 00 
Mrs. Cornelius’s Young Housekeeper’s Friend. 1 50 
Murray’s The Perfect Horse. 4 00 
My Vineyard at Lakeview. 1 25 
Nichol's Chemistry of the Farm and Sea. 1 25 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture. 75 
Onions—How to Raise them Profitably. 20 
Orange County Stud-Book.. . 1 00 
Our Farm of Four Acres.pa., 30c.; clo., 60c.; ex. clo. 1 00 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 75 
Parsons on the Rose. 1 50 
Pedder’s Land Measurer. 60 
Percheron Horse. 1 00 
Phin’s How to Use the Microscope. 75 
Phin’s Lightning Rods and their Construction. 50 
Phin’s Open Air Grape Culture. 1 50 
Plummer’s Carpenters’ and Builders’ Guide. 1 00 
Potato Culture. (Prize Essay.). 25 
Pretty Mrs. Gaston (J. Esten Cooke). 1 50 
Quinby’s Mysteries of Bee-Keeping... 1 50 
Quincy (Hon. Josiah) on Soiling Cattle. 1 25 
Quinn’s Money in the Garden. 1 50 
Quinn’s Pear Culture for Profit. 1 00 
Randall’s Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry. 1 00 
Randall’s Practical Shepherd. 2 00 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry. l 50 
Register of Rural Affairs, bound, 7 vols., each. 1 50 
Register of Rural Affairs P877]. 30 
Reemelin’s Wine Makers’ Manual. 1 25 
Richardson on the Dog .paper, 30c.; cloth.... 60 
Riley’s Potato Pests.paper, 50 cts.; cloth.. 75 
Rivers’s Miniature Fruit Garden. 1 00 
Roe’s Manual on the Culture of Small Fruits. 50 
Roe’s Play and Profit in my Garden. 1 50 
Rural Church Architecture. 6 00 
Samuels’ Birds of New England and Adjacent States... 4 00 
Saunders’s Domestic Poultry_paper, 40c.; cloth. 75 
Schenck’s Gardener’s Text-Book. 75 
Shooting on the Wing. 75 
Simpson’s Horse Portraiture.3 00 
Skillful Housewife. 75 
Slack’s Trout Culture. 150 
Starr's “ Forest and Stream ” Hand Book for Riflemen. 50 
Stepping Stone to Architecture. 60 
Stewart’s Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Orchard 1 50 
Stewart’s Shepherd’s Manual. 1 50 
Stewart’s Stable Book.. 1 50 
Stoddard’s An Egg Farm.paper, 50 cts.; cloth 75 
Stonehenge on the Dog. 3 75 
Stonehengeon the Horse in Stable & Field. Eng.Ed.8vo. 3 75 
Tegetmeier’s Poultry Book. 9 00 
Ten Acres Enough. 1 25 
The Rifle: Its Theory and Practice. 50 
The Thomery System of Grape Culture. 50 
Thomas’s American Fruit Culturist. New Ed. 3 75 
Thomas’s Farm Implements and Machinery.1 50 
Thompson’s Food of Animals. 1 00 
Tim Bunker Papers ; or, Yankee Farming.. 1 50 
Tobacco Culture. By fourteen experienced cultivators. 25 
Todd’s American Wheat Culturist. 1 00 
Todd's Young Farmers’Manual. 2 vols.3 50 
Turner’s Cotton Planters’ Manual. 1 50 
Vine’s Chemical Manures. 50 
Wallace’s American Trotting Register. Vols. 1 & 2, each.10 00 
Wallace’s American Stud Book. Vol. 1.10 00 
Warder s American Pomology. 3 00 
Warder’s Hedges and Evergreens . 1 50 
Waring s Draining for Profit and Health. 1 50 
Warlng’s Earth Closets and Earth Sewage. 50 
Waring’s Farmers’ Vacation. 5 00 
Waring’s Elements of Agriculture. 1 00 
Weldenmann’s Beautifying Country Homes. A superb 
quarto volume. 24 lithograph plates, in colors.15 00 
Wheeler’s Rural Homes. 1 5o 
Wheeler’s Homes for the People.2 00 
White’s Cranberry Culture. 1 25 
White’s Gardening for the South. . 2 00 
Willard’s Practical Butter Book. 1 00 
Willard’s Practical Dairy Husbandry. 3 00 
Wooden and Brick Buildings, with Details. 2 vols.18 00 
Woodward’s Cottages and Farm Houses. 1 50 
Woodward’s Suburban and Country Houses. 1 50 
Woodward’s Country-Homes.. 1 50 
Woodward’s Graperies and Horticultural Buildings.... 1 50 
Woodward’s National Architect.12 00 
Woollett’s Villas and Cottages.:. 3 00 
Wright’s Brahma Fowl. 2 50 
Wright’s Practical Poultry-Keeper....-.2 00 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse. 1 50 
Youattand Martin on Cattle. 1 50 
Youatt and Martin on the Hog. 1 00 
Youatt on Sheep. .. . 1 00 
IN STOCK: 
American Racing Calendar of 1876 for use in 1877. 
Aveling’s Carpentry and Joinery. 
Bailey's Our Own Birds of the United States. 
Baker’s Practical and Scientific Fruit Culture. 
Barnard’s A Simple Flower Garden . 
Barnard’s Farming by Inches. 
Barnard’s Gardening for Money. 
Barnard’s My Ten Rod Farm. 
Barnard’s Strawberry Garden. 
Bemcnt’s Poulterer’s Companion. 
Blake’s Farmer at Home. 
Book of Household PetB.boards, 50c.: cloth. 
Brldgeman’s American Gardener’s Assistant. 
Browne’s Trees of America...'. 
Bruce’s Stud Book. 2 vols— . 
Buel’s Farmers’ Companion. 
Building Construction.. 
Burnham’s Diseases of Domestic Poultry. 
Burnham’s Secrets in Fowl Breeding. 
Burr’s Vegetables of America. 
Butler’s Family Aquarium.. 
Butler’s Ventilation of Buildings. 
By-Laws and Rules of the Am.Trotting Turf, pa.,25; clo. 50 
Carr’s History of the Booth Herds of Shorthorns. 1 00 
Clater’s Cattle Doctor. (Colored plates.). 6 00 
Clok’s Diseases of Sheep.’.. ... 1 25 
Coleman on Pathological Horse-Shoeing.2 00 
Cook’s Injurious Insects of Michigan. 15 
Cook’s Manual of the Apiary. 30 
Coues’ Field Ornithology...2 50 
Coues’ Key to North American Birds. 7 00 
Culver’s Fruit Preserver’s Manual. 25 
Delisser’s Horseman’s Guide.:.boards, 75c.; cloth.. 1 00 
Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. New ed. 5 00 
Downing’s Rural Essays..... 3 50 
Du Breuil’s Fruit Culture.2 00 
Du Breuil’s Vineyard Culture.. 2 00 
Emerson’s Farmers’ and Planters’ Encyclopedia. 6 00 
Emerson & Flint’s Manual of Agriculture. 1 50 
Enfield’s Indian Corn. 1 00 
Every Horse Owner’s Cyclopaedia. 3 75 
Farmers’ Barn Book. 1 50 
Farmer’s Cash Book, with Cattle-Feeding Tables. 1 00 
Farming for Boys,.. 1 50 
Flagg's European Vineyards. l 50 
Pollen's Suggestions on Landscape Gardening.. 15 
Fowler’s Alderney and Guernsey Cow. 20 
Floy’s Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden. l 00 
Fur, Fin, and Feather.... 50 
Gardner's Farmers’ Dictionary. .. 2 00 
Gaylord & Tucker’s American Husbandry. 2 Vols. 1 50 
Gibson’s Complete American Trapper. l 75 
Gray’s Field, Forest and Garden Botanv. 2 00 
Gray’s How Plants Behave. 75 
Gray’s How Plants Grow. l 25 
Gray’s Manual of Botany and Lessons, in 1 vol. 3 00 
Gray’s School and Field Book of Botany. 2 50 
Gray’s Structural Botany....3 50 
Greeley’s What I Know of Farming.. 1 50 
Gregg’s Hand-book of Fruit Culture. . 1 00 
Greener’s Choke-Bore Guns.1.3 50 
Grindon’s Trees of Old England. l 25 
Hand-Book of the Grasses of Great Britain & America. 1 50 
Hanover’s Law of Horses. 4 00 
Harazthy’s Grape Culture and Wine Making.5 00 
Harlan's Farming with Green Manures. 50 
Hibbard’s The Fern Garden. 1 75 
History and Structure of Plank Roads.. . 50 
Hobbs' Country and Suburban Residences. 3 00 
Holly’s Art of Saw Filing. 75 
Holly’s Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Hand-Book. 75 
Home Cook-Book. 1 50 
How I made $350 a Year by my Bees. 25 
Howard’s Grasses and Forage Plants at the South. 30 
Idstone on the Dog. 1 25 
Ives’s New England Book of Fruits. 75 
Jersey, Alderncv. and Guernsey Cow. 1 50 
Johnston's Analysis of Soils, Manures, etc. 60 
Kemp’s Landscape Gardening. 2 50 
Kennck’s American Silk Grower's Guide. 1 25 
Klippart’s Land Drainage. 1 75 
Langstroth on the Honey-Bee. 2 00 
Law’s Farmers’ Veterinary Adviser. 3 00 
Leavitt’s Facts about Peat. 1 75 
Leibig’s Complete Work on Chemistry.;. 2 00 
Low’s Elements of Practical Agriculture. 2 00 
Mason’s Farmers’ Practical Farrier. 1 25 
Masury’s House Painting; Plain and Decorative.. 1 50 
Mayhew s Illustrated Horse Doctor. 3 00 
Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Management. 3 00 
Mayhew’s Practical Book-Keeping for Farmers. 90 
Mayhew’s Blanks for Pract. Book-Keeping for Farmers 1 20 
Miles on Horse-Shoeing. 1 25 
Morrell’s American Shepherd. 1 75 
My F’arm of Edgewood. 1 25 
Nicholson's Mechanic’s Companion. 3 00 
Norris’ Fish Culture.. 1 75 
Packard’s Half-hours with Insects. 2 50 
Packard’s Our Common Insects. 2 50 
Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher. 1 50 
Parkman’s Book of Roses. 1 50 
Prime’s I Go A-fishing. 2 50 
Randolph’s Parlor Gardener. 1 00 
Rand's Bulbs. 2 50 
Rand’s Flowers for the Parlor and Garden. 2 50 
Rand’s Garden Flowers. 2 50 
Rand’s Orchid Culture. 3 50 
Rand’s Popular Flowers. 2 00 
Rand’s Rhododendrons. 1.50 
Rarey and Knowlson’s Complete Horse Tamer. 50 
Rcasor’s Treatise on the Hog. 1 50 
Riley on the Mule. 1 50 
Robinson’s Hardy Flowers. 3 60 
Roosevelt’s Five Acres too Much. 1 50 
Ropp’s Commercial Calculator. 1( 0 
Rural Studies. 175 . 
Sayer’s American Flower Garden Companion. 1 00 
Schley’s American Partridge and Pheasant Shooting... 2 00 
Schmidt’s Husks of the Vine-Grapes. 50 
Scribner’s Ready Reckoner and Log-Book. 30 
Skeleton Leaves and Phantom Flowers. 2 00 
Scott’s Fishing In American Waiers. 3 50 
Sidney’s Book of the Horse. (25 colored engravings.)..15 00 
Standard of Excellence in Poultry. 1 00 
Stewart’s Sorghum and its Products. 1 50 
Stone’s Domesticated Trout. 2 50 
Strong’s Culture of the Grape. 2 50 
The Greenhouse as a Winter Garden. 75 
Todd's Apple Culturist. 1 50 
Trapper’s Guide. 1 50 
Trap Shooters’ Referee. 50 
Vaux’s Villas and Cottages. 3 00 
Vick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden, .paper, 5()c.; clo. 1 00 
Ville’s School of Chemical Manures. (Fesquct). 1 25 
Vogdcs’ Architect’s and Builder’s Price Book. 1 50 
Waring’s Handy-Book of Husbandry. 2 50 
Waring’s Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns. 2 00 
Watson’s American Home Garden. 2 00 
Wildwood’s Hand-Book for Young Sportsmen. 25 
Window Gardener, (Rand). 50 
Wingate’s Manual for Rifle Practice. 1 50 
Wither’s Church Architecture ; Elegantly Illustrated. .15 00 
Woodruff’s Trotting Horse of America.2 50 
Wright’s Illustrated Book of Poultry (50 col’ed engrav.)15 00 
Youatt on the Dog. 3 75 
Youmans? Household Science. . 1 75 
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