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AMERICAN AGKEIC (JLT URIST. 
313 
Valuable Architectural Books 
For Carpenters and Builders, 
Hussey’s 
national Cottage Architecture; 
OK 
Homes for Every One. 
With Designs, Plans, Details, Specifications, and Cost; 
witli Working-Scale Drawings complete, so that houses may 
he huilt direct from the book. Adapted to the popular de¬ 
mand for practical, handsome, and economical homes. 
Royal Quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Atwood’s 
Country and Suburban Houses. 
Illustrated with about 150 engravings. Hints and Sug¬ 
gestions as to the General Principles of House-building, 
Style, Cost, Location, etc. Post-paid, $1.50. 
SVionekton’s 
National Stair-Builder. 
Is a complete Work on Stair-Building and Hand-Railing. 
Fully explained and illustrated by large scale diagrams in 
two colors, with designs for Staircases, Newels, Balusters, 
and Hand-Rails. Royal Octavo. Post-paid, $6.00. 
fVJonckton’s 
national Carpenter and Joiner. 
A complete work, covering the whole science of Carpen¬ 
try, Joinery, Roofing, Framing, etc., fully explained and 
illustrated by large scale diagrams in two colors. Royal 
Quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Woodward’s 
national Architect. 
3,060 Designs, Plans, and Details, for Country, Suburban, 
and Village Houses; with Perspective Views, Front and Side 
Elevations, Sections, Full Detail Drawings, Specifications, 
and Estimates. Also, Detail Drawings to Working Scale, of 
Brackets, Cornices, French Roofs, Sectional and Framing 
Plans of French Roofs, Dormer-Windows for French Roofs, 
Bay-Windows, Verandas, Porches, Plaster Finish, Corncies, 
Ceilings, Hard-wood Mantels, and all that is required by a 
Builder to design, specify, erect, and finish in the most ap- 
provedstyle. One superb quarto volume. Post-paid, $12.00. 
Woodward's 
Country Homes. 
150 Designs and Plans, with Description of the Manner of 
Constructing Balloon Frames. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Woodward’s 
Suburban and Country Houses. 
70 Designs and Plans, and numerous examples of the 
French Roof. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Woodward’s 
Draperies and Horticultural 
Buildings. 
Designs and Plans of IIot-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. 
Jacques’ 
Manual of the House. 
How to Build Dwellings, Barns, Stables, and Out-Build¬ 
ings of all kinds. 176 Designs and Plans. Post-paid. $1.50. 
Wheeler’s 
Rural Homes. 
Houses suited to Country Lite. Post paid, $2.00. 
Wheefier’s 
Homes for the People. 
100 Original Designs, with full Descriptions, and Construc¬ 
tive and Miscellaneous Details. Post-paid, $3.00. 
Hartley’s 
Barns, Out-Buildings, & Fences 
Containing Designs and Plans of Stables, Farm-Barns, 
Out-Buildings,Gates, Gateways, Fences, Stable Fittings and 
Furniture, witli nearly 200 Illustrations. Royal quarto. 
Post-paid, $6.00. 
Cummings’ 
Architectural Details. 
387 Designs and 907 Illustrations of ibe Various Parts need- i 
ed in the Construction of Buildings, Public and Private, 
botli for City and Country. Also, Plans and Elevations of \ 
Houses, Stores, Cottages, and other Buildings. Royal 
Quarto. Post-paid, $10.00. 
Croff’s 
Progressive 
American Architecture. 
This work presents, in illustration, a great variety of 
Choice and Original Matter, embracing Elevations and 
Plans of Dwellings of various styles, costing from one thou¬ 
sand to one hundred thousand dollars. Store Fronts, School, 
Bank, and Church Buildings; beautiful Perspectives in 
color and black, giving designs of elaborate and charming 
Floral decorations; Horticultural Plans, Fountains, Shrub¬ 
bery, Offices, Arbors, Cupolas. Cemetery Vaults in Stone, 
Stables, &c. Royal Quarto. Post-paid. $10.00. 
Lakey’s 
Village and Country Houses. 
Or, Cheap Houses for All Classes, comprising eighty-four 
pages of designs. The object, in almost every instance of 
these designs, has been to secure as large an amount of 
space and comfort as was possible with the least expendi¬ 
ture of money, without, neglecting the exterior features of 
each building. Royal Quarto. Post-paid. $6.00. 
Eveleth’s 
School-House Architecture. 
A new and original work, containing Seventeen Designs 
for School-houses, Sixty-seven Plates with Perspectives, 
Elevations, Plans, Sections, Details, Specifications, all 
drawn to working scale, with methods of Heating and Ven¬ 
tilation. Large Quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Copley’s 
Plain & Ornamental Alphabets 
Giving examples in all styles, together with Maps, Titles, 
Borders, Meridians, Ciphers, Monograms, Flourishes, etc., 
adapted to the practical use of Surveyors, Civil Engineers, 
Draughtsmen, Architects, Sign Painters, Schools, etc. 
Post-paid, $3.00. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 245 Broadway, New York. 
containing a great variety of Items , including many 
good Hints anil Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of space elsewhere. 
Continued from p. 288, 
A Tnmip Soil. —The popular idea in favor 
of immense roots is shown to be an unwise one by the 
results of investigations into the comparative feeding 
value of the largest and moderate sized roots. The latter 
have been found the more valuable in a very considerable 
proportion. Recently some experiments made in feed¬ 
ing turnips grown upon a rich clay soil, have shown that 
these roots thus grown are more valuable for feed than 
when grown upon sandy soils. The results show that the 
choice or the preparation of the soil for this crop is of 
great importance. Few crops are more carelessly grown 
than this, and it is a seasonable matter for consideration 
at this time that a good feeding root is not grown upon 
either a poor or an extra rich soil. 
A Larg;e lEg - ®'.—An Aylesbury duck in Eng¬ 
land is reported to have laid an egg 10 % inches long and 
9% inches in girth. This extraordinary egg weighed 8 
ounces ; the outer shell contained two yolks, and also a 
perfectly formed egg of the usual size and character. 
Weteriisary WusttFirics.—A new work, 
a “ Text Book of Veterinary Obstetrics,” by George 
Fleming, tiie well known English veterinary surgeon, 
and Editor of The Veterinary Journal, is announced. 
This work, treating as it docs of those most important 
functions of animal life, pregnancy and parturition, will 
fill a void in veterinary literature, and will meet one of 
the greatest needs of the farmer and stock breeder. The 
many ailments to which stock are subject during this 
period, and the serious losses borne by stock owners in 
consequence of these ailments, chief among which arc 
abortion and puerperal fever, render (lie careful and prac¬ 
tical treatment of them of the highest importance, and a 
trustworthy text hook relating to them of the greatest 
value. The work will be published in eight or ten parts, 
to appear at intervals after the present month. The pub¬ 
lishers are Bailliere, Tindall & Co., London. 
Swelling;' Oil ii Colt’s '1'ltrbiif.—“ J. 
A Clayton Co., Iowa. Swellings beneath the jaw on the 
tl.roat of a colt frequently occur as the result of a cold, 
or the colt is sometimes dropped with them. They may 
be removed by rubbing them with common iodine oint¬ 
ment, or more slowly but as effectively in the end by 
rubbing the skin well with mustard mixed with warm 
water. A dram of chlorate of potash may he given in 
some sugar, or a little oat-meal which the colt may be in¬ 
duced to lick. 
Tlie SI 8iift4 a ii ci Strawberry. — Our 
plants of this variety have not yet fruited, and our 
knowledge of it is confined to an examination of very 
abundant specimens sent by its introducers, E. & S. O. 
Williams, Montclair, N. J. The notable quality of the 
fruit is its great firmness; it has a good color, and runs 
of a very fair size. In quality it is better than the Wil¬ 
son. From what we have thus far seen of it, we regard 
it as a very promising market berry. 
'1'Iae Ellect oi" i ' BSi-eetliaig;- ” saaitl 
Feeding upon the Skin.— An article in the Shoe 
and Leather Reporter, by Air. J. S. Schultz, an extensive 
and thoroughly well informed tanner, makes a curious 
reference to the effect of the high breeding to which 
Short-horn stock has been subjected for some years, 
upon the quality of the hide, and also to the effects upon 
the condition of the skin, of high feeding, starvation, and 
climate. Thus hides grown in a cold climate such as 
Canada or Russia, are thick and coarse in texture and 
fiber, and those from warm countries arc fine and thin. 
The hides of “improved” cattle are thin and less valu¬ 
able than those of the semi-wild cattle of South America 
and Texas, and in this respect the improved breeding 
which these cattle are undergoing, tends to overcome the 
influence of climate, and is changing the character of 
their hides. Poor feeding and ill health, as might be ex¬ 
pected, cause the hide to he fine and close in texture, 
shrinking the fiber; this result follows the condition 
known amongst farmers as “ hide-bound.” It is not held 
as a serious consideration amongst farmers, how muck 
the hides of their cattle may he worth, butyct as the value 
of the skins as a material for the manufacture of so wide¬ 
ly used an article as leather, is of no little consequence 
to the world at large, it is interesting to note that the 
better the cattle are fed and cared for, the better is the 
leather manufactured from their hides. 
