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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[September, 
WAKING’S 
DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
AND 
DRAINING FOR HEALTH. 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jr., 
Engineer of the Drainage of Central Park, New York. 
CONTENTS. 
Land to be Drained ; How Drains Act ; How to 
Make Drains; How to Take Care op Drains; 
What Draining Costs; Will It Pay? How to Make 
Tiles ; Reclaiming Salt Marshes ; House and Town 
Drainage. 
EXTRACTS FROM NOTICES JIT THE PRESS. 
He (the author) describes the action of draining npon 
the soil, the construction of single drains and systems of 
drains, the cost and the profit of thorough drainage, the 
making of tiles, and the reclaiming of salt marshes, 
treats sensibly of malarial diseases, and closes with a 
chapter which should he widely read, on house drainage 
and town sewerage in their relations to the public health. 
[Portland (Me.) Press. 
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 to result from a 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 hands of every Farmer. 
SENT POST-PAID, .... PRICE, $1.50. 
EARTH^OLOSETS 
AND 
EARTH-SEWAGE. 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jr. (of Ogden Farm). 
INCLUDING: 
Tiie Earth System (Details). 
Tiie Manure Question. 
Sewage and Cess-pool Diseases. 
The Dry-Earth System for Cities and Towns. 
The Details of Earth Sewage. 
The Philosophy' of The Earth System. 
With Seventeen Illustrations. 
Paper Covers, Price, Post-paid, 50 cts. 
ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. 
A BOOK FOR 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. 
Tiie 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 farmer or farmer’s son can study it 
thoughtfully without being a better and more successful 
cultivator than before.” 
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Either of the above books sent post-paid on receipt ot 
price, by 
ORANGE JUDD CO., 245 Broadway, New York. 
THE AMERICAN 
Cattle Doctor. 
[OCTAVO.] 
A COMPLETE WORK ON ALL THE DISEASES OF 
CATTLE, SHEET, AM) SWINE, 
including every Bisease peculiar to Am¬ 
erica, and embracing all the latest 
Information on the Cattle Plague 
and Trichina; containing also 
a ii uidc to Symptoms, a Table 
of Weights and Measures, 
and a IList of Valuable 
Medicines. 
By GEO. H. DADD, V. S., 
Twenty-Jive years a Leading Veterinary Surgeon in Eng¬ 
land and the United States , and Author of the 
"American Reformed Horse Hook." 
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. N 
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¬ 
lows, Foot-rot, Grubs, etc., are fully treated. 
III. —Diseases and Management of Hogs. 
Commencing with 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, $2.50. 
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 Touatt, Mason, and others. Em¬ 
bracing also full details of Breed¬ 
ing, Rearing, 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 Proj'essor of Anatomy and Physi¬ 
ology in the Veterinary Institute of Chicago , and for over 
25 years a Regular Practicing Veiennanan. 
This is a fresh hook, 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 owners 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 such “ 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 
he became widely known, and it was no unusual tiling for 
him to be sent for, hundreds of miles, to attend valuable 
horses. His career as a practicing Veterinary Surgeon has 
been one of rare success, and deeming it his 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. Beingathor- j 
oughly American Work, it quotes foreign authors but very 
little. It aims to treat fully and plainlj-, 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. 
442 pages, Octavo, Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, $2.50. 
Either of tiie above books sent post-paid on receipt ol 
price by 
ORANGE JUDD CO., 245 Broadway, New York. 
THE PRACTICAL 
POULTRY KEEPER, 
A. COMPLETE AND STANDARD GUIDE TO THE 
MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY, 
FOR DOMESTIC USE, THE MARKETS, OR 
EXHIBITION. 
Beautifully illustrated. 
By L. WRIGHT. 
NOTICES by the tress. 
This book is a valuable manual for everybody who 
feeds chickens or sells eggs. It suits at once the plain 
poulterer who must make the business pay, and the chick¬ 
en fancier whose taste is for gay plumage, and strange, 
brigtit birds. The most valuable portion is the first sec¬ 
tion, extending through fifty-five pages. These were writ¬ 
ten with the intention of producing a manual so plain, 
minute, and practical, that any one could, by using it as s 
guide, with no previous experience with poultry, become 
at once successful in producing eggs, young chickens, and 
fat fowls for market. The author has not missed Ids aim. 
Tiie middle parts of Mr. Wright’s Manual are taken up 
with minute directions for making show fowls for Fairs, 
a nice discussion of tiie good and bad points of the dif¬ 
ferent breeds, and a brief sketch of such fancy stock a3 
peafowl, pheasants, and water-fowl. Then follows a 
section on artificial hatching, and another, worth special 
attention, on large poultry yards_A study of Mr. 
Wright’s hook will convince any farmer’s wife that all 
she needs is to give a half hour each day, of intelligent 
and sagacious attention to her poultry, in order to obtain 
from them, not tape, and knitting needles, and buttons, 
and nutmegs merely, hut the family supplies of sugar, 
shoes, and cloth. New York Tribune. 
It is the most complete and valuable work on the mat- 
„ers of which it treats yet published. It will be found a 
plain and sufficient guide to any one in any circumstances 
likely to occur, and is illustrated with elegant engravings 
of many breeds of fowls. Farmers' Cabinet. 
This is a reprint, with numerous wood engravings, of 
an English book, the object of which is to convey ill 
plain language a great deal of practical information about 
tho breeding and management of poultry, whether for 
domestic use, the markets, or exhibition_The hook is 
eminently practical, and we recommend it to farmers and 
others interested in breeding and selling poultry. 
Philadelphia Press. 
It is a handsome volume, brought out in the best style, 
and enriched with nearly fifty illustrations. It is evidently 
the fruit of a thorough, practical experience and knowl¬ 
edge of fowls, and will be found a plain and sufficient 
guide i:i all the practical details of poultry management 
as a profitable business. United Presbyterian. 
The subject is treated fully and ably by an experienced 
hand, and the volume will doubtless find a large sale 
among the growing class of poultry fanciers. It is em¬ 
bellished with numerous illustrative engravings. 
New York Observer. 
The author has called to his aid all who were expen 
enced in the subject whereof he writes, mid the conse¬ 
quence is a volume of more than ordinary thoroughness 
and exhaustiveness. Rochester Democrat. 
The book is a complete and standard guide to the man¬ 
agement of poultry for domestic use, the market, and 
for exhibition. Watchman and Reflector. 
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