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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
SUPERIOR STANDARD WORKS. 
FRANK FORESTER'S FISH AND FISHING. 
100 engravings. Embracing a full illustrated description of 
the Game Fish of North America ; Trout and Salmon Fish¬ 
ing; Shoal Water and Deep Sea Fishing; Lake and River 
Fishing ; Trolling, Fly Fishing,etc. 12th edition. One post¬ 
octavo volume. Post-paid, $3.50. 
FRANK FORESTER'S COMPLETE MANUAL. 
For Young Sportsmen, of Fowling, Fishing, and Field 
Sports. With directions for handling the Gun, the Ilifle, and 
the Rod. Art of Shooting on the Wing. The Breaking, Man¬ 
agement, and Hunting of the Dog. The varieties and habits 
of Game. River, Lake, and Sea Fishing. Post octavo. 
Post-paid, $3.00. 
FRANK FORESTER'S AMERICAN GAME 
IN ITS SEASONS. 
January. Caribou or American Reindeer.— February. 
Moose Deer. Wild Goose.— March. Mallard and Wid¬ 
geon.— April. American Snipe. Striped Bass.— May. 
American Trout. Brent Goose.— June. Bay Snipe. God- 
wit. Salmon.— July. Woodcocks.— August. Summer 
Duck. Common Deer. —September. Teal. — October. 
Quail. Bittern. — November. Ruffed Grouse. Yellow 
Perch.— December. Canvas Back. Winter Duck. 
Fully Illustrated and Described. New edition. 
Post-paid, $3.00. 
Published by OBAJSTGJE JUDD COMPANY. 
FIELD SPOETS . 
THE DOG. 
By Dinks, Mayliew & Hutchinson. Compiled and edited 
by Frank Forester. .Containing full instructions in all that 
relates to the Breeding, Rearing, Breaking, Kenneling, and 
Conditioning of Dogs, with valuable recipes for the treat¬ 
ment of all diseases. Illustrated. Post octavo. 
Post-paid, $3.00. 
THE BREECH LOADER. 
By Gloan. Description, Selection, Manufacture, Separa¬ 
tion, Loading, Cleaning, Shooting, etc. Post-paid, $2.00. 
THE DEAD SHOT: 
Or, Sportsman's Complete Guide; a Treatise on the use of 
the Gun, with Rudimentary and Finishing Lessons in the 
Art of Shooting Game of all kinds. By Marksman. 
Post-paid, $1.75. 
THE CRACK SHOT: 
Or, Young Rifleman's Complete Guide; being a Treatise 
on the use of the Rifle, with Lessons, including a full descrip¬ 
tion of the latest improved hreecli-loadiug weapons; rules 
and regulations for Target Practice, and directions for Hunt¬ 
ing Game. By Kdward C. Barber. Post-paid,$1.75. 
GUN, ROD, AND SADDLE. 
Nearly fifty practical articles on subjects connected with 
Fishing, Shooting, Racing, Trotting, etc. Post-paid, $1. 
PRACTICAL TROUT CULTURE. 
By J. II. Slack, M. D., Commissioner of Fisheries, New Jer¬ 
sey 7 . Fully illustrated and describing thoroughly all that is 
requisite to successful Trout Culture, Post-paid, $1.50. 
AGRICULTURE. 
WOODWARD'S GRAPERIES AND HORTI¬ 
CULTURAL BUILDINGS. 
Designs and Plans of Hot-beds, Cold Pits, Propagating 
Houses, Forcing Houses, Hot and Cold Graperies, Green¬ 
houses, Conservatories, Orchard Houses, etc., with the va¬ 
rious modes of Ventilating and Heating. Post paid, $1.50. 
JAQUES' MANUAL OF THE GARDEN, FARM, 
AND BARN-YARD. 
Embracing the Cultivation ot Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers, 
all Field Crops, Detailsof Farm Work and Rearing Domestic 
Animals. New and Revised Edition. One volume. 
Post-paid, $1.75. 
YOUNG FARMER'S MANUAL. 
Vol. I. The Farm and the Workshop, with Practical Di¬ 
rections for laying out a Farm, Erecting Buildings, Fences, 
Farm Gates, Selecting good Farm and Shop Tools, and per¬ 
forming Farm Operations. Fully Illustrated. 
Post-paid, $1.75. 
YOUNG FARMER'S MANUAL. 
Vol. II. How to Make Farming Pay, with full Details of 
Faim Management, Character of Soils, Plowing, Manage¬ 
ment of Grass Lands, Manures, Farm Implements, Stock, 
Drainage, Planting, Harvesting, etc. Illustrated. 
Post-paid, $1.75. 
HUSMANN'S GRAPES AND WINE. 
The Cultivation of the Native Grape and Manufacture of 
American Wine. By Geo. Husmann, of Missouri. 
Post-paid, $1.50. 
ELLIOTT'S LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
For Planting Parks, Gardens, Cemeteries, Private 
Grounds, and Avenues. Fully Illustrated and described. 
Post-paid, $1.50. 
FULLER'S FOREST TREE CULTURIST. 
The Cultivation of Forest Trees for Shade, for Shelter, 
for Fuel, for Timber, and for Profit. Illustrated. 
Post-paid, $1.50. 
THE HORSE. 
FRANK FORESTER'S HORSE OF 
AMERICA. 
By Henry Wm. Herbert. Revised, corrected, enlarged, 
and continued to 1871, by S. D. and B. G. Bruce. Always an 
acknowledged standard, and now the most complete and 
authentic work on the horse. With steel-engraved portraits 
of thirty of the most famous representative horses, includ¬ 
ing pedigrees, histories, and performances. Two superb 
royal octavo volumes of upward of 1300 pages. 
Post-paid, Ten Dollars. 
WALLACE'S AMERICAN STUD-BOOK. 
\ ol. One. Being a compilation of the pedigrees of Ameri¬ 
can and imported blood horses, from the earliest records, 
with an appendix of all named animals without extended 
pedigrees prior to 1840. And a Supplement, containing a 
history of all horses and mares that have trotted in public, 
from the earliest trotting races until the close of 1S6G. By 
J. II. Wallace. Royal octavo of over 1,000 pages, elegantly 
bound in extra elotb, beveled boards, and splendidly illus¬ 
trated. Post-paid, Ten Dollars. 
WALLACE'S AMERICAN TROTTING 
REGISTER. 
Containing all that is known of the pedigrees of trotting 
horses, their ancestors and descendants, with a record of all 
published performances in which a mile was trotted, or 
paced, in 2.40 or less, from the earliest dates until the close 
of 1S6S, and a full record of the performances of 1869 and 
1870. Giving complete summaries erf over 6,000 contests. 
With an introductory essay on the true origin of the Ameri¬ 
can Trotter. And a set of rules for the government of all 
trials of speed. By J. II. Wallace, compiler of Wallace’s 
American Stud Book. Royal octavo. Post-paid, Ten Dollars. 
HORSE PORTRAITURE. 
Breeding, Rearing, and Training Trotters. Preparations 
for races, management in the stable, on the track, horse 
life, etc. By Joseph Cairn Simpson. Post octavo. 
Post-paid, $3.00. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, Publishers, 245 Broadway, New York, 
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containing a great variehj of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
Continued from p. 207. 
Advice to st. “ Would toe Facmea’.” 
—A young man whose father will buy him a farm, and 
establish him upon it, writes to us for advice. Our first 
advice is this : When you write a long letter to an editor, 
asking him about matters which are of no possible inter¬ 
est to any one in the world except yourself, sign your 
name to it, like a man, for really there is nothing in yours 
of the 24th of April to be ashamed of. Then don't think: 
your personal affairs arc of so much consequence that the 
editor will print his answer to your questions. Before 
you go on a farm, it will he well to learn that people 
in this busy world pay no attention to anonymous letters. 
Am 111 iniiwis Farmer wrote in April; 
Taxes are high, times hard, and money scarce. The 
roads all about here have been, since last fall, practically 
impassable for loads, and still it holds, rain. rain, rain ! 
The country is full of corn, but we can't get it to market, 
and my chances of visiting the Centennial, as I had 
hoped to do, are now very slim indeed. 
IPaliiis for Palm Swiaday. — To supply 
the churches in Rome for this important ceremonial, 
palms are especially cultivated at Bordighera, Italy, 
where the date palm lias been grown for this purpose for 
many years. It is now the fashion to have the palm 
leaves blanched and gilded, and a recent Gardener's 
Chronicle, gives a picture of a plantation, showing the 
manner iu which the leaves are tied up to blanch them. 
The people at Bordighera have a monopoly of this branch 
of eclesiastical horticulture. 
A Potato §li#w in Eiig-laiid.—Au 
“ International Potato Exhibition ” will be held at Alex¬ 
andra Palace, near London, on Sept. 2Stli and 29th, next, 
at which very liberal prizes are offered, most of which 
are open to all the world. There are 17 classes, in which 
American varieties have a fair share. We notice that B. 
K. Bliss, Esq., is one of (lie Executive Committee. The 
Secretary is John McKenzie, Winchester Buildings, Lou¬ 
don, E. C., from whom schedules may be had. 
Potato U2ei»os-ts.— In January last, we 
published an engraving from a photograph which Mr. J. 
H. Burnett, of Onondaga Co., N. Y., had taken of his 
crop of Snowflake, as it lay on the ground after digging, 
and incidentally mentioned the yield from 1 lb., which 
was GO lbs. 9 oz. The amount was not at all remarkable, 
and the engraving was not intended to show a large re¬ 
turn, but simply the remarkably uniform crop of large, 
potatoes. Many, supposing that it was published as a 
large amount to be grown from 1 lb. of seed, have sent us 
an account of their own trials, and these in ail cases ex¬ 
ceed in weight Mr. Burnett's crop. These reports con¬ 
tinue to come, but as the results are small, compared with 
those which took premiums, both in this country and in 
England, we can not give space to publish them. Still 
we thank the senders all the same. 
Feeding ESog’s for Profit.— “J. W. 
R.,” Smythe Co., Ya. In feeding a hundred hogs we be¬ 
lieve that it would pay to soak or boil the corn, instead 
of feeding it dry and whole. As grinding generally costs 
one-tenth of the corn, and cooking costs much less, it 
would be preferable to have a cheap boiler, and thus pre¬ 
pare the feed, than to grind it. The cooked feed would 
be as digestible as the ground meal. We also believe 
that in fattening the hogs it would be economical to cook 
some potatoes with the corn, if they can be purchased at 
12% to 15 cents a bushel. If the corn can not be cooked, 
we would grind it rather than feed it whole. As to the 
prospects for pork, we can only say that they seem to be 
favorable for good prices next fall. 
Aldci •nicy and Jersey Cattle.—“G. 
W. T.,” Dearborn Co., Ind. There are very few, if any, 
| real Alderney cattle in the United States. Some breeders 
of Jersey cattle strangely enough persist in calling their 
stock Alderney, and thus help to perpetuate a mistake. 
The differences between the two are that they come from 
different islands of the group of the Channel islands, or 
the Alderney islands, as they are sometimes called in 
England, which consist of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, 
and some lesser ones. The Jerseys are considered the 
better cattle, and have been bred more carefully, although 
there is not much difference in the appearance of the two. 
