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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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SUPERIOR STANDARD WORKS. 
FIELD SPORTS. 
FRANK FORESTER'S FISH AND FISHING. 
100 engravings. Embracing a full illustrated description of 
tlie Game Fisli 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 Rifle, 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.— Makch. 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. 
Quaii. Bittern. — November. Ruffed Grouse. Yellow 
Perch.— December. Canvas Back. Winter Duck. Fully 
Illustrated and Described. New edition. Post-paid, $3.00. 
THE DOG. 
By Dinks, Mayhew & 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, $1.73. 
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 breech-loading weapons; rules 
and regulations for Target Practice, and directions for Hunt¬ 
ing Game. By Edward 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. H. Slack, M. D., Commissioner of Fisheries, New Jer¬ 
sey. 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. 
JA QUES' MANUAL OF THE GARDEN, FARM, 
AND BARN- YARD. 
Embracing the Cultivation of Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers, 
all Field Crops, Details of Farm Work and Rearing Domestic 
Animals. New and Revised Edition. One volume. 
Post-paid, $1.73. 
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, $1.73. 
YOUNG FARMER'S MANUAL. 
Vol. II. How to Make Farming Pay, witli full Details of 
Farm Management, Character of Soils, Plowing, Manage¬ 
ment of Grass Lands, Manures, Farm Implements, Stock, 
Drainage, Planting, Harvesting, etc. Illustrated. 
Post-paid, $1.75. 
WILLARD'S PR A CTICAL DAIR YHUSBANDR Y. 
A Standard Work on Dairy Farms and Farming, Dairy 
Stock and Stock Feeding, Milk, its Management and Manu¬ 
facture into Butter and Cheese, History and Mode of Organi¬ 
zation of Butter and Cheese Factories, Dairy Utensils, etc., 
etc. By X. A. Willard, A. M. This is a most full, practical, 
and reliable work on Dairy Husbandry, and it describes the 
recent great improvements in the Dairy Business. It is 
highly recommended by leading agricultural and other in¬ 
fluential journals, and is a Standard Authority. It will pay 
every one engaged in any branch of dairy business, or who 
keeps a single cow, to obtain and study this work. Prac¬ 
tical Dairy Husbandry embraces 5J0 large octavo pages, 
is handsomely and fully illustrated, printed on superior 
paper, and elegantly bound. Post-paid, $3.00. 
PRACTICAL BUTTER BOOK. 
A complete treatise on Butter Making at factories and 
farm dairies, including the selection, feeding, and manage¬ 
ment of stock for butter dairying—with plans for dairy 
rooms and creameries, dairy fixtures, utensils, etc. By X. 
A. Willard, A. M., Author of Practical Dairy Husbandry. 
Post-paru, $1.00. 
THE PEOPLE'S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK. 
A Work on the Breeding, Rearing, Care, and General 
Management of Poultry. By William M. Lewis. This is one 
of the finest gotten-up works on the subject on which it 
treats, for its size and price, of any publication of the kind 
in this country. It is finely and profusely illustrated and 
printed, and bound in extra style. Contains 224 large octavo 
pages. Contains also full descriptive Details of the art of 
Caponizing, witli description of the implements used for the 
purpose. Post-paid, $1.50. 
RANDALL'S SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
With an account of the different Breeds, and general direc¬ 
tions in regard to summer and winter management, herd¬ 
ing, and flic treatment of diseases. With portraits and 
other engravings. By Henry S. Randall, LL.D., with his 
letter to the Texas Almanac on Sheep Husbandry in Texas, 
and Geo. W. Kendall’s on Sheep-Raising in Texas. Octavo, 
S3S pp. Post-paid, $1.50. 
RANDALL'S PRACTICAL SHEPHERD. 
A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management, and 
Diseases of Sheep. With Illustrations. By Henry S. Iiandail, 
LL.I)., Author of “ Sheep Husbandry in the South,” ‘-Fine- 
Wool Sheep Husbandry,” etc., etc. 12mo„ 452 pp. 
Post-paid, $2.00. 
HUSMANN'S GRAPES AND WINE. 
The Cultivation of the Native Grape ana Manufacture of 
American Wine. By Geo. Husmaun, 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. 
Vol. 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 1S40. 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 1SG0. By 
J. II. Wallace. Royal octavo of over 1,000 pages, elegantly 
bound in extra cloth, 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 1SG8, and a full record of the performances of 1809 and 
1S70. Giving complete summaries of 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. H. 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. 
containing a great variety of Hems , including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of space elsewhere. 
Continued from p, 328. 
'fi'Ite Potato IBiEg.— “Logan,” Utah, asks, 
“ Can you explain why the Colorado potato beetle has 
never migrated west of the locality in which it origin¬ 
ated?”—The insect did not migrate eastward, until 
settlers planted potatoes, and provided it with food for 
its abundant increase, and thus tempted it to move east¬ 
ward. In the opposite direction there is nothing to eat, 
and, like other armies, this of Colorado can not move 
without a commissariat. 
A Tree-Fence. —“D. O. S.,” Saginaw Co., 
Mich. There are several fences in the Western States, 
consisting of rows of trees, with wires stretched from 
one tree to another, that are satisfactory to their owners. 
One of these consists of maple trees, and some of white 
willows and cottonwoods. We see no reason why such 
fences might not be useful, and as permanent, or more 
so, as posts. The wires are fastened to the trees by 
staples in most of these fences. Where cottonwoods or 
willows thrive, these might be used for this purpose. 
Wc have not heard of the lightning injuring any wire- 
fence, and doubt if it would, if it should strike one. 
SCJll> Sbi Staeep.—“ R. O. L.,” Rock Island, 
Ill. Scab is a disease that is easily cured, if the proper 
remedy is sought. This is dipping in a decoction of to¬ 
bacco and sulphur in hot water. Full directions for ap¬ 
plying this remedy, and for the general management of 
sheep arc given in Stewart's “ Shepherd's Manual,” 
price $1.50. 
Fieas on CSiiclfens.—“A. G.,” Hamilton, 
Canada. To get rid of fleas, the chicken house should be 
thoroughly whitewashed—not half done—with hot lime- 
wash. The floor should he well sprinkled with a solu¬ 
tion of carbolic acid, and the roosts thoroughly greased 
with a mixture of one pound of lard, one pint of raw 
linseed oil, a quarter of a pint of kerosene oil, and a 
quarter of a pound of sulphur. This will bo rubbed oil' 
on to the feet, legs, and feathers of the fowls, and soon 
rid them of vermin. 
Tlie ESest C«iraiM. for a Morse.—“II. 
B. B.,” Waddam's Center, Ill. The best grain for a 
horse is certainly oats ; the next is barley ; corn as a 
steady feed is not wholesome at all. Oats have about 
the requisite quantity of nutritious and indigestible mat¬ 
ter to be healthful, and barley approaches very near to 
oats in this respect. The actual values of these grains 
are as nearly as possible equal to their usual market 
values, the latter being in reality based upon the former. 
Ebiseases of Cattle.—“II. S.,” Durham 
Park, Ks. There are several books on diseases of cattle 
that would be useful to a stock breeder. Different authors 
have different methods of treatment, and have observed 
various different phases of the same disease. It is there¬ 
fore sometimes useful to consult more than one author. 
Dadd's “ American Cattle Doctor,” price $2.50, Clater's 
“Cattle Doctor,” an English work, price $8.00, and a 
new work by Prof. Law, “ The Farmer’s Veterinary Ad¬ 
viser,” price $3.00, are all useful to keep in the house. 
(We shall be glad to hear from you as you suggest.) 
Soxrisag ©rcliard Cnrass-.—“ E. G. P.,” 
Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Orchard grass may be safely 
sown with rye in September. It survived the winters of 
New York and Pennsylvania with safety, and could hard¬ 
ly be endangered in your milder climate. It resists sum¬ 
mer drouths very stubbornly, and is a valuable grass for 
early pasture or hay, if cut early. As it is fit for cutting 
when red clover is in blossom, it is profitable to sow 
both; but as there would bo some doubt of the clover 
passing the winter safely, unless sown very early this 
month, it would behest to sow it early in the spring. 
Orchard grass is apt to stool, and should therefore he 
sown thickly and evenly. A bushel and a half of orchard 
grass seed per acre (14 pounds to the bushel) would be 
a proper quantity, and of clover, 6 quarts per acre. 
Potatoes Mixing 1 . — “ Farmer.” There 
arc some who claim that potatoes of different kinds, 
when planted near to each other, will mix. We do not 
believe it, and have never seen an alleged case that could 
not more rationally be accounted for by bud variation, 
instances of which from buds above ground are common. 
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