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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[June, 
JUST PUBLISHED. 
BROOM-CORN and BROOMS. 
A TREATISE ON 
Raising Broom-Corn and Making 
Brooms 
On a Small or Large Scale. 
Written and Compiled by the Editors of the American 
Agriculturist. 
CONTENTS. 
Introduction. Broom-Corn and its Varieties. Description 
of the Plant. Introduction and Extent of Culture. Second¬ 
ary Products, Seed, Fodder and Stalks. Cultivation, The 
Land. Rotation. Manure. IIills or Drills. Quantity of Seed 
to the Acre. Time of Planting. Cultivating. Implements. 
Thinning. Time for Harvesting. Harvesting Dwarf Corn. 
Lopping, Bending or Breaking. Crooked Brush. Tabling. 
Cutting. Preparing for Market. Curing the Brush. Scrap¬ 
ing or Removal of the Seed. Assortin'; the Brush. Drying 
or Curing House. Racks for Drying. Curing. Curing and 
Handling the Crop on the Large Scale. Baling. The Press. 
Marketing. Commissions and Charges. Profits of the Crop. 
General Conclusions. Growing on the Large Scale. Wliat 
a Retired Grower says. Making Brooms. Home-Made 
Brooms. Home-Made Brooms, Another Method. Making 
Brooms by Machinery. Extent of the Manufacture. 
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FARM TALK: 
A Series of Articles in tiie Colloquial 
Stylo, illustrating; Various Common 
Farm Topics, 
By GEO. E. BRACKETT. 
Contents Guess Farming; Pedigree Corn; About Hay¬ 
ing ; Fancy Farmers; When to sell Produce; Butter Mak¬ 
ing; Getting Ready for the Cattle Show; Agricultural Col¬ 
leges; Apple Trees and Insects; Middle Men; Taking the 
Papers; The ’Ologies; An Evening’s Chat; Planting for 
Posterity; Road Making and Breaking; In the Barn ; How 
Trees Grow; Pigs and Poultry ; Farm Fences; Out in the 
Fields. 
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AN E£r& FARM. 
THE MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY IN 
LARGE NUMBERS. 
By H. H. STODDARD. 
BEING A SEMES OF ARTICLES WRITTEN FOR TIIE AMERICAN 
AGRICULTURIST. 
WITH OTHER ARTICLES. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
In the last half of 1871, and the first half of 1872, there 
appeared in the columns of the American Agriculturist 
a series of articles upon the raising of poultry on a large 
scale. As eggs, rather than chickens were aimed at, the 
articles were called: “ An Egg Farm," a title both novel 
and descriptive. As the author, Mr. II. H. Stoddard, of 
Hartford, Conn., presented his plans so clearly, and with¬ 
out making any extravagant claims, the articles at once 
attracted general attention. Since they appeared the 
calls for sets or volumes of the Agriculturist which con¬ 
tained them have been regular and numerous, showing 
that the articles had a permanent value, and they are 
now brought together in the more convenient form of a 
book, to meet a regular demand. In revising the articles 
for re-printing, no changes have been made, other than 
to make the corrections suggested by the author in the 
last article of the series, and such unimportant verbal al¬ 
terations as were peculiar to the serial form in which 
they first appeared. The subject of the production of 
eggs upon a large scale is one to which the author has 
evidently given not only close personal attention, hut 
careful thought, and no difficulty to he avoided, or point 
in which labor may be saved, seems to be left unpro¬ 
vided for, and the book will he found a valuable addition 
to our poultry literature. 
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. 
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The American Fruit Culturist. 
Containing practical directions for the Propagation 
and Culture of all Fruits adapted to the United States. 
A THOROUGHLY REVISED EDITION. 
Illustrated, with 50S accurate figures. 
By JOHN J. THOMAS. 
The first edition of the Fruit Culturist, the basis of the 
present work, was written more than twenty years ago, and 
a year before the appearance of Downing’s first edition of 
Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. It was subsequently 
much enlarged, and several revised editions afterwards ap¬ 
peared. Being intended as a guide to tiie practical cultiva¬ 
tor, its object is to furnish useful directions in tiie manage¬ 
ment of tiie nursery, garden, and orchard, and to assisi. in 
tiie selection of the best varieties for cultivation. It does 
not claim to be a complete work on tiie pomology of the 
country, but aims to give full descriptions only of valuable 
or promising fruits suited to tiie country at large, or which 
may have been popular in certain districts—varieties which 
are very little known, whose position or value is undeter¬ 
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tion, are consigned to the General Descriptive List and In¬ 
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BARRY’S 
FEUIT GAUDEH. 
By P. BARRY. 
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“Barry’s Fruit Garden” is one of those practical, pro¬ 
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Tills volume of 4'JO pages, as its title implies, is devoted to 
tiie culture of fruits of every variety in orchards and gar¬ 
dens. It describes tiie diseases incident to the various fruit 
trees, the kinds of insects that prey upon them, and tiie 
remedies for ridding trees of tiie evil —Scientific American. 
Barry’s Fruit Garden strikes us as about as complete a 
manual of the kind as could be desired. Nearly everything, 
in fine, needed seems to be provided in tins compact volume, 
and its abundant illustrations render everything intelligible 
to even tiie uninitiated.— The Methodist (N. Y.). 
The author writes from his own practical experience ; and 
that experience is of no ordinary character, being tiie result 
of more than thirty years’ work at tiie head of the largest 
nursery in America, where every operation is conducted 
with eminent skill.— The Country Gentleman. 
It explains all tiie minutiae of fruit-gardening, even to the,. 
implements, copiously illustrated by engravings, so that tiie 
merest novice need not err; gives descriptions of ail tiie 
different kinds of fruit that can he raised in our climate in 
every stage of their lives, from the germ to the fruit-bearing 
period, with instructions in pruning and grafting, in a most 
satisfactory manner. Tiie chapter on grapes alone is worth 
more than tiie price of tiie book.— Jersey City Times. 
Mr. Barry lias long been known as an authority upon fruit 
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON 
THE SHEEP. 
DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR 
AMERICAN SHEPHERDS. 
By HENRY STEWART. 
ILLUST R, .A. T K D . 
This Manual is designed to bo a hand-book for Ameri¬ 
can shepherds and farmers. It is intended to be so plain 
that a farmer, or a farmer’s son, who has never kept a 
sheep, may learn from its pages how to manage a flock 
successfully, and to be so complete that even the ex¬ 
perienced shepherd may gather some suggestions from 
it. The results of personal experiences of some years 
with the characters of the various modern breeds of 
sheep, and the sheep-raising capabilities of many por¬ 
tions of our extensive territory and that of Canada, most 
of which have been visited with a view to the effects 
upon our sheep of the varying climate and different soils; 
and the careful study of tiie diseases to which our sheep 
are chiefly subject, with those by which they may even¬ 
tually be afflicted through unforeseen accidents ; as well 
as the methods of management called for under our cir¬ 
cumstances, were finally gathered into the shape in which 
they are here presented to the shepherds of America, 
with the hope that they may he as acceptable and useful 
to them as they would have been, when he first under¬ 
took the care of a flock, to The Author. 
CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I.—The Sheep as an Industrial Product. 
—Antiquity of Sheep Husbandry — Tiie Future of 
Sheep Husbandry—Its Effects upon Agriculture—De¬ 
mand for Mutton Sheep—Value of the Wool Product 
—Extent of Pasturage in America. 
CHAPTER II.—The Summer Management of a Flock, 
—Selection of a Sheep Farm—Effects of Soils upon 
tiie Health of Sheep—What is a Good Pasture?— 
Value of Certain Grasses—The Western Plains as 
Sheep Pasture—Pastures—Fodder Crops—Root Crops 
—Folding Sheep—Dqg Guards. 
CHAPTER III.—Management of Ewes and Lambs.— 
Marking Sheep—Record for Breeders—Management 
of Rams—Care of Ewes—Care of Lambs—Selecting 
Lambs for Breeders—Prevention of Disease—Dip¬ 
ping Preventive of Parasites. 
CHAPTER IV.—Winter Management of Sheep.— 
Barns and Sheds—Feed Racks—Feeding Value of 
Different Fodders, Roots and Grains—Experiments 
in Feeding—Profit of Feeding—Raising Early Lambs 
for Market—Feeding Sheep for Market—Value of 
Manure—Markets for Sheep. 
CHAPTER V.—Breeding and Breeds of Sheep.— 
How Breeds are Established—Improvement, of Flocks 
—Cross Breeding—Breeding for Sex—Maxims for 
Breeders—Native Breeds—Improvement, of tiie Meri¬ 
nos—The Merino Fleece—Long-Wool Breeds—Me¬ 
dium and Short-Wool Breeds — Foreign Breeds — 
Cross-bred Sheep—American Cross-breeds. 
CHAPTER VI.—The Structure and Uses of Wool.— 
The Method of Growth of Wool—Its Peculiar Struc¬ 
ture—Its Composition—The Yolk—Classification of 
Wools—Character o! Merino Woo)—Washing Wool— 
Shearing—Packing and Marketing the Fleeces—Pro¬ 
duction of Wool in tiie World—Comparative Values 
of Wool in Different Countries—Favorable Conditions 
for Producing Wool in the United Slates. 
CHAPTER VII.—The Anatomy and Diseases of the 
Sheep.—P hysiology of tiie Sheep—The Teeth—The 
Bones—The' Vital Functions, Respiration, Circula¬ 
tion, and Digestion—The Causes and Prevention of 
Diseases of tiie Sheep—Diseases of the Respiratory 
Organs ; of the Digestive Organs ; of the Blood—En¬ 
zootic Diseases—Epizootic Diseases—Diseases of tlie 
Urinary and Reproductive Organs; of the Brain— 
Parasitical Diseases of tiie Intestines ; of tiie Skin- 
Diseases of the Feet—Diseases Incident to Lambing 
—Special Diseases—Diseases of Lambs. 
Table of Approximate Equivalent Measures. 
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