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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
317 
WAKING’S 
DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
AND 
DRAINING FOR HEALTH. 
By GEO. E. WAKING, Jr., 
Engineer of the Drainage of Central Park, New A. ork. 
C O N T E NTS. 
Land to be Drained; How Drains Act: How to 
Make Drains; How to Take Care op Drains; 
Wiiat Draining Costs; Will It Pay? How to Make 
Tiles; Reclaiming Salt Marshes; House and Town 
Drainage. 
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He (the author) describes the action of draining upon 
the soil, the construction of single drains and systems of 
drains, the cost and the profit ol thorough drainage, the 
making of tiles, and the reclaiming of salt marshes, 
treats sensibly of malarial diseases, and closes with, a 
chapter which should be widely read, on house drainage 
and town sewerage in their relations to the public health. 
[Portland (Me.) Pi'ess. 
Nowhere does this book merit a wider circulation than 
in the West. Every year adds to the thousands of dollars 
lost to this State from want of proper surface drainage, 
to say nothing of the added gain toaresnlt from o, com¬ 
plete system of under-drainage. This book will prove 
an aid to any farmer who may consult it. 
[ Chicago (111.) Republican. 
A Book that ought to be in the bands of every Farmer. 
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EARTH-CLOSETS 
AND 
EARTH-SEWAGE, 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jr. (of Ogden Farm). 
INCLUDING: 
The Earth System (Details). : 
The Manure Question. 
Sewage and Cess-pool Diseases. 
The Dry-Earth System for Cities and Towns. 
The Details op Earth Sewage. 
The Philosophy op The Earth System. 
Witli Sevesiteesi Illustrations. 
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ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. 
A BOOK FOE YOUNG FARMERS, 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jr., 
Formerly Agricultural Engineer of the Central Park, in 
New York. 
CAREFULLY' REVISED. 
CONTENTS. 
The Plant ; The Soil ; Manures ; Mechanical Cul¬ 
tivation ; Analysis. . 
The foregoing subjects are all discussed in plain and 
simple language, that any farmer’s boy may understand. 
The book is written by a successful practical farmer , and 
is full of information, good advice, and sound doctrine. 
HORACE GREELEY says of it: “Though dealing 
with facts unfamiliar to many, there is no obscure sen¬ 
tence, and scarcely a hard word in the book; its 254 fair, 
open pages may be read in the course of two evenings 
and thoroughly studied in the leisure hours of a week; 
and we pity the man or boy, however old or young, who 
can find it dull reading. Hardly any one is so wise that 
he will not learn something of value from its perusal; no 
one is so ignorant or undeveloped that he cannot generally 
understand it; and no firmer or farmer’s son can study it 
thoughtfully without being a better and more successful 
cultivator than before.” 
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THE AMERICAN 
Cattle Doctor. 
[OCTAVO.) 
A COMPLETE WORK ON ALL THE DISEASES OF 
CATTLE, SHEET, AM) SWINE, 
incluiling every Disease peculiar to Am¬ 
erica, and embracing ali tiie latest 
Information on tlae Cattle lPlague 
and '.ffricliina 5 containing also 
a « uide to Symptoms, a Table 
of Weights and Measures, 
and a Edst of Valuable 
Medicines. 
By GEO. H. DADD, V. S., 
Twenty-five years a Leading Veterinary Surgeon in Eng¬ 
land. and (he United States , and Author of the 
"American Reformed Horse Book." 
I. —Diseases and Management of Cattle. 
Showing how, by means of the remedies found to be so 
useful in the author’s practice, to overcome the many 
troublesome and usually fatal diseases of cattle. 
The proper care and management of cattle during calving 
are plainly set forth. 
The relative value of different breeds is fully discussed. 
In this division will be found, in full, the History, Causes, 
Symptoms, and Treatment of RINDERPEST or CATTLE 
PLAGUE. 
II. —Diseases and Management of Sheep. 
Beginning with a most valuable chapter on the Improve¬ 
ments of our Breeds of Sheep. Such diseases as Rot, Yel¬ 
low's, Foot-rot, Grubs, etc., are fully treated. 
III. - Diseases and Management of Hogs. 
Commencing w'ith an able article on the importance of 
Cleanliness and Pure Air for Hogs. The various diseases of 
this valuable animal, with their Prevention, Causes, and 
Cure, receive full attention. The great majority of Amer¬ 
ican farmers are largely interested in the most reliable 
treatment of that scourge among hogs— Hog Cholera. 
After years of practice in Illinois, the author confidently 
presents his Remedy for this destructive malady, as the 
most successful one yet discovered, and it is so simple as to 
be within easy reach of all. 
376 pages, Octavo, Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, 42.50. 
THE AMERICAN 
REFORMED HORSE BOOK. 
[OCTA VO.] 
A Treatise on the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of every 
Disease incident to the Horse, including all Diseases 
peculiar to America, and which are not treated 
of in works based upon the English works 
of Youatt, Mason, and others. Em¬ 
bracing also full details of Breed¬ 
ing,' Hearing, and Manage¬ 
ment on the 
REFORMED SYSTEM OF PRACTICE. 
By Prof. GEO. H.. DADD, 
Veterinary Surgeon. “ Author of Anatomy and Physiology 
of the Horse," and late Professor of Anatomy and Physi¬ 
ology in the Veterinary Institute of Chicago, and Jor over 
25 years a Regular Practicing Veterinarian. 
This is a fresh book, the result of a lifetime of labor and 
research on the part of one of the foremost Veterinarians 
of the age. Years ago. Dr. Dadd perceived that incalculable 
loss was being entailed upon stock owmers every year by the 
reckless, unnatural, unscientific, and cruel modes of treat¬ 
ment which were so generally practiced upon the Horse. 
Burning, Blistering, Bleeding by the gallon, and the 
giving of Poisonous Drugs were the order of the day 
(and we are sorry to say such practices still find learned (?) 
advocates even in our day), and the result was that they 
killed more than they cured. Actuated by a laudable desire 
to rescue so noble an animal from sucli “ heroic practice,” 
Dr. Dadd adopted and strenuously advocated the Reform¬ 
ed System of Practice, which, under the guidance of 
such men as "Wooster Beach, John C. Gunn, and others, rose 
rapidly into popular favor in human practice, and de¬ 
monstrated beyond a doubt that nature's remedies are the 
most uniformly successful. Such was Dadd’s success that 
lie became widely known, and it was no unusual thing for 
him to he Bent for, hundreds of miles, to attend valuable 
horses. His career as a practicing Veterinary Surgeon has 
been one of rare success, and deeming it liis duty to spread 
abroad among his countrymen a knowledge of Reform 
Principles, as applied to the Horse, he has prepared this 
work, and asks that it be candidly examined. Being a thor¬ 
oughly American Work, it quotes foreign authors but very 
little. It aims to treat fully and plainly, on rational princi¬ 
ples, every ill that Horseflesh is heir to, including those 
complaints peculiar to this country, and which 
have hitherto been but very imperfectly treated of by 
authors aspiring to be educators of the public on Veterinary 
Science. 
412 pages, Octavo, Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, $2.50. 
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Gardening 
for Pleasure. 
A GUIDE TO THE AMATEUR IN THE 
Fruit, Vegetable, and Flower 
Garden, 
WITH FULL DIRECTIONS FOR THE 
Greenhouse, Conservatory, and 
WINDOW GARDEN. 
By PETEE HENDERSON, 
AUTHOR OF “GARDENING FOR PROFIT,” AND “PRAC¬ 
TICAL FLORICULTURE.” 
ILLUSTRATED. 
It is one of the best guides to window-gardening we 
know of. The (act is, that the number of plants that can 
be successfully grown in window-gardening is very limit¬ 
ed, and though it is possible to make a very large list of 
those which maybe grown, if unusual pains be taken, 
the general cultivator wishes only to undertake those 
which promise to be successful with a moderate expendi¬ 
ture of time and attention. The rules to be observed in 
order to succeed with window plants, are very few, and 
the whole story is plainly told.— Christian Advocate, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
IPj-iee, IPost-jpaid, $1,50. 
AN EGG FARM. 
THE MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY IN 
LARGE NUMBERS. 
By H. II. STODDARD. 
BEING A SERIES OF ARTICLES WRITTEN FOR THE AMERICAN 
AGRICULTURIST. 
WITH OTHER ARTICLES. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
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 Silting 
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 work is very practical, all the illustrations and 
descriptions of building being of those of the plainest 
and cheapest construction, within the reach of any one 
who keeps a dozen fowls. The directions for manage¬ 
ment are plain, and evidently the result of the experience 
of the author.— Country Gentleman, Albany. 
Everything pertaining to the production of eggs and 
the breeding and raising of poultry is here given, and no 
difficulty to be avoided or point in which labor may be 
saved, seems to be unprovided for.— The Salem Gazette. 
Salem, Mass. 
This is a handsomely illustrated little work on the 
management of poultry in large numbers. It will no 
doubt be a valuable addition to our poultry literature.— 
Caiman's Rural World, St. Louis. 
It contains a vast amount of information in a little 
space in regard to the management of poultry in large 
numbers. It contains about 100 pages, and is nicely il¬ 
lustrated with plans of buildings, implements, breeds of 
fowls, etc., etc.— Ohio Farmer, Cleveland. 
It gives a full and instructive account of the manage¬ 
ment of poultry in large numbers, with plenty of excel¬ 
lent illustrations.— Christian Register, Boston. 
It gives in a clear and comprehensive manner the best 
plans for breeding stock and management of yonng 
chickens, with cuts of the most economical houses, and 
showing fanciers how to make the business a profitable 
one.— Sloneham Sentinel, Stoneham, Mass. 
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