| IN OVEMBER, 
AMK KI .(JAN A(iKIC U LT UK1ST. 
1877.] 
A Book for the Fireside in the 
long Winter Evenings. 
The Farm-Yard 
Club of Jotham. 
An Account of the Families and 
Farms of that Famous Town. 
By GEORGE B. LORING. • 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. ' 
The Farm-Yard Club of Jotham, an Account of the Fami¬ 
lies and Farms of that Famous Town, so happily combines 
the information which both the amateur, and the professional 
farmer need, with the charms of individual experience and 
characterization, that it will please a great variety of tastes. 
The number and excellence of the illustrations deserve spe¬ 
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skillfully executed, and having, moreover, a peculiar ap¬ 
propriateness.— Globe, Boston, Mass. 
Dr. Loving has given us a book which is at once cyclopedic 
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interesting as a story, for the bright thread of real life and 
love that runs through it.— Golden Rule. 
Octavo, 603 pages, with 70 Illustrations of Characters, Coun¬ 
tv Scenes. Farm Animals, and Implements, by Champney, 
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The Western Grasshoppers. 
A NEW WORK BY PROF. RILEY. 
TheLocustPlague 
IN- THE 
UNITED STATES: 
Being more particularly a treatise on the llocky Mountain 
Locust, or so- called Grasshopper, as it occurs east of the 
Rocky Mountains. Witli practical recommendations for its 
destruction. By Prof. Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist 
of Missouri; Chief of the U. S. Entomological Commission ; 
Author of “Potato Pests,” etc. With 15 illustrations. 
Price, Post-paid, $1.25. 
The Poultry Yari ai Market; 
OR, 
A Practical Treatise on Gatlinocnltnre. 
Hy Prof. A.. Corbett, 
Inventor of tlie 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 Stafe and County Fairs, and tbe American Institute. 
CONTENTS. 
The artificial incubation of the past and present.—Re¬ 
searches and success with the use of liorse-manure.—Tlie 
sort of manure.—How to use it.—The best breed to keep.— 
Diseased feet in chickens.—Infectious water for chickens.— 
How hens sit only six days.—How to see whether eggs are 
fertilized.—How twenty dollars profit can be obtained from 
each hen.—Advice to the ladies about'raising poultry.—How 
to establish a poultry-yard. —Practical rules for making 
money.—How to help chickens out of tlie shell.—Cooked 
food for poultry.—How to keep the chickens growing.— 
Treatment of hens that eat eggs.—The number of liens to a 
rooster.—How to keep eggs for winter.—How to fatten and 
dress poultry for market.—Diseases and their cure. 
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