[September, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1876 .] 
BOOKS for FARMERS and OTHERS. 
[Published and for sale by the Orange Judd Company, 
2-43 Broadway, New York. Any of these books will be for¬ 
warded by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price.] 
Ailea’s (L. F.) American Cattle.*.$2 50 
Allen’s (L. F.) Rural Architecture. 1 50 
Allen’s (R. L.) American Farm Book. 1 50 
Ailen’s (It. L. & L. F.) New American Farm Book. 2 50 
Allen’s CR. L.) Diseases of Domestic Animals. 1 00 
American Bird Fancier. 30 
American Gentleman's Stable Guide*. 1 25 
American Rose Culturist. 30 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. 1 75 
Atwood’s Country and Suourban Houses. 1 50 
Atwood’s Modern American Homesteads*.3 50 
Baker’s Practical and Scientific Fruit Culture*. 3 00 
Barber’s Crack Shot*. 1 75 
Barry’s Fruit Garden. 2 50 
Bement’s Rabbit Fancier. 30 
Bicknell’s Village Builder and Supplement. 1 Vol*— 12 00 
Bicknell’s Supplement to Village Builder*. 5 00 
Bogardus’ Field. Cover, and Trap Shooting*. 2 00 
Bommer’s Method of Making Manures. 25 
Boussingault’s Rural Economy. 1 60 
Brackett’s Farm Talk.*.paper, 50 cts.; cloth.. 75 
Breck’s New Book of Flowers. 1 75 
Brill’s Farm-Gardening and Seed-Growing. 1 00 
Brown’s Taxidermist’s Manual*.... . 1 00 
Broom-Corn and Brooms.paper, 50 cts.; cloth 75 
Bruckner’s American Manures*. 150 
Buchanan’»Culture of the Grape and Wine Making*... 75 
Buel’s Cider-Maker’s Manual*. 1 50 
Buist’s Flower-Garden Directory. 1 50 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener. 1 00 
Burges’ American Kennel and Sporting Field*...4 00 
Burnham’s New Poultry Book*.2 00 
Burnham’s The China Fowl*. 1 00 
Burns’ Architectural Drawing Book*. 1 00 
Burns’Illustrated Drawing Book*. 1 00 
Burns’Ornamental Drawing Book*. 1 00 
Burr’s Vegetables of America*. 3 00 
Caldwell’s Agricultural Chemical Analysis. 2 00 
Canary Birds. Paper 50 cts. Cloth. 75 
Chorlton’s Grape-Grower’s Guide. 75 
Cleveland’s Landscape Architecture*. 1 50 
Clok’s Diseases of Sheep*. 1 25 
Cobbett’s American Gardener. 75 
Cole’s American Fruit Book. 75 
Cole’s American Veterinarian. 75 
Cooked and Cooking Food for Domestic Animals*. 20 
Cooper’s Game Fowls* . 5 00 
Copley’s Plain and Ornamental Alphabets*.. 3 00 
Corbett's Poultry Yard and Market*. 50 
Croff’s Progressive American Architecture*.10 00 
Cumming’s Architectural Details*.10 00 
Cummings & Miller’s Architecture*.10 00 
Cupper’s Universal Stair-Builder - . 3 50 
Dadd’s Modern Horse Doctor, 12ino.. 1 50 
Dadd’s American Cattle Doctor, 12mo. 1 50 
Dadd’s American Cattle Doctor, 8vo, cloth*. 2 50 
Dadd’s American Reformed Horse Book, 8vo, cloth*.. 2 50 
Dana’s Muck Manual. 1 25 
Darwin’s Variations of Animals&Plaots. 2vols*[new ed.] 5 00 
Dead Shot; or, Sportsman’s Complete Guide*. 1 75 
Detail Cottage and Constructive Architecture*.10 00 
De Voe’s Market Assistant*. 2 50 
Diuks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson, on the Dog*. 3 00 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening.6 50 
Dwyer’s Horse Book*.2 00 
Eastwood on Cranberrv. 75 
Eggleston’s Circuit Rider*. 1 75 
Eggleston’s Hoosier School-Master. 1 25 
Eggleston’s End of the World. 1 50 
Eggleston’s Mystery of Metropolisville. 1 50 
Eggleston’s (Geo. C.) A Man of Honor.1 25 
Elliott’s Hand Hook for Fruit Growers*.. .Pa., 60c.: clo. 1 00 
Elliott's Lawn and Shade Trees*. 
Elliott’s Western Fruit-Grower’s Guide. 
Emerson’s Farmers’ and Planters’ Encyclopedia* 
Emerson & Flint’s Manual of Agriculture*. 
Eveletli’s School House Architecture*. 
Every Horse Owner’s Cyclopaedia*. 3 75 
Farmers’ Barn Book*. 1 50 
Field's Pear Culture. . 1 25 
Flax Culture !. 30 
Flint (Charles L.) on Grasses*. 2 50 
Flint’s Milch Cows and Dairy Farming*.2 50 
Frank Forester's American Game in its Season*. 3 00 
Frank Forester s Field Sports, 8vo„ 2 vols*. 6 00 
Frauk Forester’s Fish and Fishing, 8vo., 100 Eng’s*.3 50 
Frank Forester’s Horse of America, 8vo. 2 vols*.10 00 
Frank Forester’s Manual for Young Sportsmen, 8vo*.. 3 00 
French’s Farm Drainage. 1 50 
Fuller’s Forest-Tree Culturist*.1 50 
Fuller’s Grape Culturist. 1 50 
Fuller’s Small Fruit Culturist. 1 50 
Fuller’s Straw berry Culturist..*.. 20 
Fulton’s Peach Culture. 1 50 
Gardner’s Carriage Painters’ Manual*. 1 00 
Gardner’s How to Paint*. 1 00 
Geyelin’s Poultry-Breeding. 1 25 
Gloan on Breech-loaders*. 2 00 
Gould’s American Stair-Builder s Guide*.4 00 
Gould’s Carpenter’s and Builder’s Assistant*. 3 00 
Gregory on Cabbages*.paper.. 30 
Gregory on Onions*. paper.. 30 
Gregory on Squashes.paper.. 30 
Guenon on Milch Cows. 75 
Guillaume’s Interior Architecture*. 3 00 
Gun, Rod, and Saddle*. 1 00 
Hallett's Builders’ Specifications*. 1 75 
Hallett’s Builders’ Contracts*. 10 
Harnev's Barns, Out-Buildings ana Fences*.6 00 
Harris’s Insects Injurious to Vegetation.Plain $4; 
Colored Engravings*. 6 50 
Harris on the Pig. 1 50 
Hedges’ on Sorgho or the Northern Sugar Plant*. 1 50 
Helmsley’s Hardy Trees, Shrubs, and Plants*. 7 50 
Henderson’s Gardening for Pleasure. 1 50 
Henderson’s Gardening for Profit. 1 50 
Henderson’s Practical Floriculture. 1 50 
Herbert’s Hints to Horse-Keepers. 1 75 
Holden’s Book of Birds.*. .Paper. 25 
Hop Culture. 30 
Hoopes’s Book of Evergreens. 3 00 
Hooper’s Dog and Gun.paper, 30c; cloth. 61) 
Hooper’s Western Fruit Book*. 1 50 
How to Get a Farm and Where to find One* . 1 25 
How to Make Candy*. 50 
How to Use the Pistol*. 50 
Hunter and Trapper. 1 00 
Husmann’s Grapes and Wine*. 1 50 
Hussey’s National Cottage Architecture* . 6 00 
Jacques’s Manual of the House*. L 50 
Jacques’s Manual of the Garden, Farm and Barn-Yard* 1 75 
Jennings on Cattle and their Diseases*. 1 75 
Jennings’ Horse Training Made Easy*. 1 25 
Jennings on the Horse and his Diseases*. 1 75 
Jennings on Sheep, Swine, and Poultry*. 1 75 
Jenny June’s Cook Book*. 1 50 
Jersey, Alderney, and Guernsey Cow*. 1 50 
Johu 'Andross (Rebecca Harding Davis). 1 50 
Johnson’s How Crops Feed. 2 00 
Johnson’s How Crops Grow. 2 00 
Johnson’s Peat and its Uses. 1 25 
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Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistry. 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 
Kern’s Practical Landscape Gardening*. 
King’s Beekeepers’ Text Book. .Paper, 40c_cloth*.. 
Klippart’s Wheat Plant*. 
Lakey’s Village and Country Houses*. 
Leavitt’s Facts about Peat*. 
Leuchar’s How to Build Hot-Houses. 
Lewis’ People s Practical Poultry Book*. 
Long’s American Wild Fowl Shooting*. 
Loth’s Practical Stair-Builder*. 
Lyman’s Cotton Culture. 
Marshall’s Farmer’s Hand Book*. 
McClure’s Diseases of the Am. Horse, Cattle & Sheep 
Merrick’s Strawberry Culture*. 1 
Miles on the Horse’s Foot. 
Mohr on the Grape-Vine. 1 
Monckton’s National Carpenter and Joiner*. 6 
Monckton’s National Stair-Builder*. 6 
Mrs. Cornelius’s Young Housekeeper’s Friend*. 1 
Murray’s The Perfect Horse*. 4 
My Vineyard at Lakeview. 1 
Nichol’s Chemistry of the Farm and Sea. 1 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture. 
Onion Culture... 
Orange County Stud-Book*. 1 
Our Farm of Four Acres.Paper, 30c.; Cloth. 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture... 
Parsons on the Rose. 1 
Pedder’s Land Measurer... 
Percheron Horse. 1 
Pliin’s How to Use the Microscope*. 
Pliin’s Lightning Rods and their Construction*. 
Phin’s Open Air Grape Culture*. 1 
Plummer’s Carpenters’ and Builders’ Guide*. 1 
Potato Culture. (Prize Essay.)*.paper. 
Pretty Mrs. Gaston (J. Esten Cooke). 1 
Quinby’s Mysteries of Bee-Keeping. 1 
Quincy (Hon. Josiah) on Soiling Cattle. 1 
Quinn’s Money in the Garden. 1 
Quinn’s Pear Culture for Profit. 1 
Randall’s Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry. 1 
Randall’s Practical Shepherd*. 2 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry. 1 
Register of Rural Affairs, oound, 7 vols., each*. 1 
Register of Rural Affairs [1876]*. 
Reemelin’s Wine Makers’ Manual*. 1 
Richardson on the Dog.Paper, 30c.; Cloth.... 
Rivers s Miniature Fruit Garden. 1 
Roe’s Manual on the Culture of Small Fruits*.. 
Roe’s Play and Profit in my Garden. } 
Saunders’s Domestic Poultry_Paper, 40c.; cloth. 
Schenck’s Gardener’s Text-Book. 
Scribner’s Ready Reckoner and Log-Book*. 
Shooting on the Wing*. 
Simpson’s Horse Portraiture*.3 
Skillful Housewife. 75 
Slack’s Trout Culture*. 1 50 
Starr’s “ Forest and Stream ” Hand Book for Riflemen* 50 
Stewart’s Shepherd’s Manual. 1 50 
Stewart’s Stable Book. 1 50 
Stewart’s Sorghum and its Products*. 1 50 
Stepping Stone to Architecture*. 60 
Stoddard’s An Egg Farm.paper, 50 cts.; cloth 75 
Stonehenge on the Dog*. 3 75 
Stonehenge on the Horse in Stable & Field, Eng.Ed.8vo* 3 50 
Tegetmeier’s Poultry Book*. 9 00 
Ten Acres Enough*. I 25 
The Rifle: Its Theory and Practice*. 50 
The Tbomery System of Grape Culture*. 50 
Thomas’ American Fruit Culturist. New Ed.*. 3 75 
Thomas’s Farm Implements and Machinery. 1 50 
Thompson’s Food of Animals. 1 00 
Tim Bunker Papers. 1 50 
Tobacco Culture. 25 
Todd’s Young Farmers’Manual. 2 vols*.3 50 
Turner’s Cotton Planters’ Manual.. 1 50 
Ville’s Chemical Manures'. 50 
Wallace’s American Trotting Register. Vol.l*.10 00 
Wallace’s American Stud Book. Vol. 1*.10 00 
Warder s American Pomology. 3 00 
Warder's Hedges and Evergreens. 1 50 
Waring’s Draining for Profit and Health. 1 50 
Waring’s Elements of Agriculture. 1 00 
Waring’s Earth Closets and Earth Sewage*. 50 
Waring's Essay on Jersey Cattle*. 50 
Waring’s Handy-Book of Husbandry*.. . 2 50 
Weidenmaun’s Beautifying Country Homes. A superb 
quarto volume. 24 lithograph plates, in colors.15 
Wheeler’s Rural Homes*..... 2 
Wheeler’s Homes for the People*.3 
White’s Cranberry Culture. 1 
White's Gardening for the South. 2 
Willard’s Practical Butter Book*. 1 
Willard’s Practical Dairy Husbandry*.3 
Wooden and Brick Buildings, with Details. 2 vols.*-18 
Woodruff’s Trotting Horse of America* .2 
Woodward’s Cottages and Farm Houses*. 
Woodward's Suburban and Country Houses*. 
Woodward’s Country Homes*. . — 
Woodward’s Graperies and Horticultural Buildings' 
Woodward’s National Architect*. 
Woollett’s Villas and Cottages*. 
Wright’s Brahma Fowl*. 
Wright’s Practical Poultry-Keeper*.2 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse. } 
Youatt and Martin on Cattle. 1 
Youatt on the Dog*. 3 
Youatt on the Hog. 1 
Youatt on Sheep.1 
IN STOCK: 
Bailey’s Our Own Birds of the United States.$1 
Barnard’s A Simple Flower Garden . 
Barnard’s Farming by Inches. 
Barnard’s Gardening for Money. 1 
Barnard’s My Ten Rod Farm. 
Barnard’s Strawberry Garden. 
Bell’s Carpentry Made Easy. a 
Bement’s Poulterer’s Companion. 2 
Brandt’s Age of Horses. ; . 1 
Bridgeman’s American Gardener’s Assistant. 2 
Bruce’s Stud Book. 2 vols.20 
Building Construction. 1 
Burr’s Garden Vegetables. 2 
By-Laws and Rules of the Am.Trotting Turf. Pa.,25; clo. 
Carr’s History of the Booth Herds of Shorthorns. 1 
Chawner’s Diseases of the Horse. 1 
Darrah’s Poulterers’ and Farmers’ Guide. 
Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. New ed. 5 
Doyle's Illustrated Book of Poultry. 4 
Du Breuil’s Fruit Culture .2 
Du Breuil’s Vineyard Culture. 2 
Farming for Boys. 1 
Flagg’s European Vineyards.1 
Fleming’s Animal Plagues . 4 
Follen’s Suggestions on Landscape Gardening. 
Frank Forester’s Sporting Scenes & Characters. 2 vols. 4 
Fulton’s Book of Pigeons. (50 colored engravings.)... .15 
Fur, Fin, and Feather. 
Garlick’s Fish Culture. 1 
Gill’s Epitome of Botany. 
Gray’s How Plants Grow. 1 
Gray’s Manual of Botany and Lessons, ip 1 vol. 3 
Gray’s School and Field Book of Botany. 2 
Greeley’s What I Know of Farming. J 
Greener’s Modern Breechloaders. } 
Grindon s Trees of Old England..... •. 1 
Hand-Book of the Grasses of Great Britain & America.$1 
Hallock’s ( amp Life in Florida. l 
Hanover’s Law of Horses. 4 
Harazthy’s Grape Culture and Wine Making. 5 
Hibbard’s The Fern Garden. 1 
History and Structure of Plank Roads. 
Hobbs' Country and Suburban Residences.y 
Holly’s Art of Saw Filing. 
Holly’s Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Hand-Book. 
How I made $350 a Year by my Bees. 
Howard’s Grasses and Forage Plants at the South. 
Idstone on the Dog. l 
James on the Game Cock.. l 
Kemp’s Landscape Gardening. 2 
Kenrick’s American Silk Grower’s Guide. 1 
Klippart’s Land Drainage. 1 
Langstroth on the Honey-Bee. 2 
Leibig’s Complete Works on Chemistry. 2 
Lewis’American Sportsman. 2 
Loudon’s Gardening for Ladies.2 
Mason’s Farmers’ Practical Farrier. 1 
Mayhew s Illustrated Horse Doctor. 3 
Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Management. 3 
Mayhew’s Practical Book-Keeping for Farmers. 
Mayhew’s Blanks for Pract. Book-Keeping for F’armers 1 
Meehan’s American Hand-Book of Ornamental Trees. 
Morrell’s American Shepherd. 
Mrs. Hale’s New Cook Book. 
My Farm of Edgewood. 
Nicholson’s Mechanic’s Companion. 
Norris’ American Angler. 
Norris’ Fish Culture.. 
Orthographic and Isometrical Projection. 
Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher. 
Perkins’ Farmers’ Accountant. 
Private Herd Record of Jersey Cattle. 3 
Racing Rules. 
Rand’s Bulbs. 2 
Rand’s Flowers for the Parlor and Garden. 2 
Rand’s Orchid Culture. 3 
Rand’s Rhododendrons. 
Reasor’s Treatise on the Hog. 
Ridde l’s Carpenter and Joiner. 
Riddell’s New Elements of Hand Railing. 
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Robinson’s Mushroom Culture..3 
Riley on the Mule.. 
Robinson’s Gleanings from French Gardens. 
Roosevelt’s Five Acres too Much.. 
Ropp’s Commercial Calculator. 
Rural Studies. 
Sayer’s American Flower Garden Companion.. 
Schmidt’s Diseases of the Wine. 
Schmidt’s Husks of the Vine-Grapes. 
Scott’s Ffisliing in American Walers.. 
Sidney’s Book of the Horse. (25 colored engravings.) .15 
Silk and Tea Culture. 
Silloway’s Modern Carpentry. 2 
Sloan’s Homestead Architecture. 4 
Standard of Excellence in Poultry . 1 
Stonehenge’s Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports. 5 
Stonehenge on the Horse in Stable & Field. Am.Ed.12mo 2 
Strong’s Culture of the Grape. 2 
The Farmer’s Receipt Book. 
The Model Potato.. 
The Orchard House. 
Todd’s American Wheat Culturist. 
Todd's Apple Culturist. 
Trapper’s Guide. 
Trap Shooters’ Referee. 
Turf Register and Racing Calendar. 7 Vols., each, 
Vaux’s Villas and Cottages. 
Ville’s High Farming without Manure. 
Ville’s School of Chemical Manures. (Fesquet)... 
Vogdes’ Architect’s and Builder’s Price Book. 
Watt’s Poultry Yard. 
Watson’s American Home Garden. 
Wharton's Treatment of the Horse.: 
Willow or Ozier Culture. 
Window Gardener, (Rand). 
Wingate’s Manual for Rifle Practice. 1 
Wither’s Church Architecture ; Elegantly Illustrated.. 15 
Wright’s Illustrated Book of Poultry (50 col’ed engrav.)15 
Y’ouinans’Household Science. 1 
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