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LEWIS’ 
Practical Poultry Book. 
Over 100 Illustrations. Octavo. 224 Pages. 
Extra Cloth, post-paid, $1.50. 
CONTENTS.—-Fowls, their General Management.—Breed¬ 
ing and Mating.—Setting Hens and Incubation.—Thq proper 
Food and Feeding.—Rearing Fowls for Market and Eggs.— 
Fattening and Packing Poultry for Market.—Varieties oi 
Fowls, all illustrated.—Turkeys, Management and different 
Breeds.—Ducks, their Varieties and Management.—Geese, 
Management and different Breeds—Diseases of Poultry.— 
Poultry Houses, Yards, and Runs, with Plans.—Poultry Ap¬ 
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Farm.—The English Standard of Excellence for every Va¬ 
riety. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 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. 
By 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 
ponlterer who must make the business pay, and the chick¬ 
en fancier whose taste is for gay plumage, and strange, 
brigtit birds. The most valuable portion is the first sec¬ 
tion, extending through fifty-five pages. These were writ¬ 
ten witli 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 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. Farmers' Cabinet. 
This is a reprint, with numerous wood engravings, oi 
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 book is 
eminently practical, and we recommend it to farmers ant 1 
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 sufficient 
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 targe 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. 
Gardening for Profit. 
A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of 
the Market and Family Garden. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 
Finely Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, St.50. 
HOTICE3 BY THE PEESS. 
Here is a book that will interest not only those who 
follow gardening for profit, but also the boys and the 
matrons upon the farm, who too often have the whole 
care and management of the family garden. Every minu- 
tia of garden management is plainly given and ill ustrated. 
There are a hundred things told aud described in this 
book that any wide-awake cultivator would give five 
times the cost to know. It interests the enterprising boy, 
because from it he can learn how much a small patch of 
ground can be made to yield. It interests the farmer, be¬ 
cause he can learn from it how well good cultivation and 
the proper management of soils will pay , and how an un¬ 
kindly soil can be ameliorated. He can learn much of 
what every farmer needs to know of the treatment of 
soils.— Farmers' Advertiser (St. Louis). 
This volume, which is alike creditable to Mr. Hender¬ 
son’s head and heart, and which powerfully illustrates the 
push inherent in the Scottish character, ought to be in 
the hands of every gentleman who would turn his gar¬ 
dening propensities to good account. 
[Scottish American Journal (New York). 
We are sure we shall do oui readers a favor if we can 
induce them to purchase and consult this book. We know 
of nothing on the subject equal to it. 
[The Telegraph (Painesville, O.). 
It is the summing up of the experience of one of the 
most extensive and most successful gardeners of New 
Jersey, and whose opinion is accepted as authority. 
[The North-western (Belvidere, Ills.) 
He (Mr. Henderson) began life as a poor boy, and by 
industry and aptitude has made a large fortune ; and, un¬ 
like his prototype, Grant Thorburn, he knows how to 
keep it. But he has neither shoddied nor speculated, 
nor traded; and not a dollar of his riches comes from a 
less honorable source than the culture of the soil. And 
now, with an unselfishness that does him honor, he gives 
us this book ; and the book is nothing less than the key 
to wealth—the same key he has used for twenty years— 
polished by wear, and working easily by long usage. 
[Rally Dispatch (Richmond, Ya.) 
In every department it is full and complete, furnishing 
an invaluable manual for the market gardener, while for 
the cultivator of a family garden its hints and instruc¬ 
tions are none the less practical and interesting. It has 
chapters upon location, situation and laying out of lands 
for gardening; soils, drainage and preparation ; manures 
and implements ; formation, management, and uses of 
hot-beds and cold frames ; how, when, and where to sow 
seeds ; vegetables, their varieties and cultivation; and 
upon several other kindred subjects. The most valuable 
kinds of vegetables are described, and the culture proper 
to each is given in detail.— New Hampshire Sentinel. 
We are creatures of habit, and many persons live with¬ 
out the pleasures and comforts of a garden because they 
have never known what these pleasures and comforts 
are. To all such we say, buy a little land and buy Peter 
Henderson’s “ Gardening for Profit,” and learn to live 
under your own vine and apple-tree. We can’t tell youin 
a newspaper article how to raise lettuce and asparagus, 
but Peter, in his little book, published by the Orange 
Judd Co., New York, tells the whole story in the most 
lucid manner.— Gleaner and Advocate (Lee, Mass.) 
Peter Henderson’s “Gardening for Profit,” at $1.50, 
will tell more than even most gardeners know as to how 
to select and to best raise the vegetables and fruits which 
make the most profit —Picayune (New Orleans). 
It is unquestionably tlie most thorough and the best 
work of its kind we have yet had form the pen of an 
American author. It is written in a clear, concise style, 
and tlms made more comprehensive than works which 
smack more of the office than the farm or garden. 
[Daily Evening Times (Bangor, Me.) 
There are marvels of transformation and rapid repro¬ 
duction recorded therein, which might well shame the 
dull fancy of the author of Aladdin or of Kaloolali. 
There is no theory about it; a man who has-made him¬ 
self rich by market-gardening plainly tells our young 
men bow they can get rich as easily as he did, and with¬ 
out wandering to California or Montana for it either. 
[Horace Greeley in the N Y. Tribune. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
