[September, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1876 .] 
Valuable Architectural Books 
For Carpenters and Builders. 
TREES AND PLANTS. 
S. B. Parsons &> Sons, near 
Kissena Station, Flushing, N. Y. 
GOOD BOOKS. 
BURAL AFFAIRS. 
By JOHN J. THOMAS. 
SEVEN VOLUMES NOW READY. 
Price, Post-paid, $1.50 Each, Sold Separately or Together. 
Being a reprint on larger, finer and heavier paper, oi' the 
very valuable articles in every department of Rural Econo¬ 
my, which have heretofore appeared in annual numbers, 
from 1835 to 1875 , inclusive, under‘the title of the Annual 
Register of Rural Affairs. These volumes contain about 
3-10 pages each, or over Twenty-Three Hundred Pages in all, 
of reading matter, and are illustrated with more than Three 
Thousand Engravings, a large part of them from drawings 
and designs made expressly for the purpose. A brief Ab¬ 
stract of the Contents ot the several Volumes is subjoined, 
although necessarily so compressed as to convey but a very 
Incomplete idea of the number ana variety of the topics em- 
raced, and the concise and practical manner in which they 
are treated: 
VOLUME ONE. 
Four. nUNDKED AND FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Country Dwellings.—Laying Out Grounds—What Fruits to 
Choose. — Domestic Animals. — Fruit Culture.—Farm 
Buildings.—Farm Implements.—Butter and Cheese Mak 
ing.—Rural Economy.—Rustic Seats and Structures.— 
School Houses. — Weights aud Measures. — Domestic 
Economy. 
VOLUME TWO. 
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS. 
A Complete Country Residence.—Country Houses.—Fruits 
and Fruit Culture.—Flower and Kitchen Garden.—Farm 
Buildings.—Farm Management.—Farm Fences and Gates. 
—Domestic Animals.—'Nursery Lists.—Ornamental Plant- 
, ing.—Implements of Tillage.—Other New Implements.— 
Rural and Domestic Economy. 
VOLUME THREE. 
Four. HUNDRED AND FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS. 
■Workingmen's Cottages. — Grounds and Greenhouses.— 
Farm Buildings. — Architecture. — Farm Husbandry.— 
Weeds and Grasses.—Practical Entomology.—Fruits and 
Fruit Culture.—Flowers.—Vegetable Physiology.—Do¬ 
mestic Animals — The Dairy.—The Poultry Yard. 
VOLUME FOUR. 
THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Farm Work.—Orchard and Nursery.—Kitchen and Flower 
Garden and Greenhouse.—Road Making.—Cheese Dairy¬ 
ing.—Entomology.—Country Homes.—Pruning. — Poul¬ 
try.—Fruits and Flowers. — Domestic Economy.—Do¬ 
mestic Animals.—Implements and Inventions.—Wood¬ 
lands. 
VOLUME FIVE. 
FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS. 
©rape Culture.—Milk Farming.—The Duck.—Turnips and 
their Culture.—Garden Insects.—Reapers and Mowers. — 
Rotation of Crops.—Small Fruits.—Shrubs.—Labor Sav¬ 
ing Contrivances. — Vermin. — Wheat.—Hedges.—Pota¬ 
toes.—Rural Improvements. — Fruits. — Strawberries.— 
Flowering Planls. 
VOLUME SIX. 
FOUR nUNDRED AND FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Culture of Indian Corn.—Draining, Fencing and Wall Mak¬ 
ing.—Measuring and Mapping Farms.—Town and Coun¬ 
try Roads.—Farm Buildings.—Culture of the Carrot.— 
Destructive Insects.—Plowing without Dead Furrows.— 
Weed Hooks and Chains in Plowing. — Plowing with 
Three Horses. — Fruit Culture. — Cheese Making.—Hay 
Making by Machinery.—Implement's and Machines.—Or¬ 
namental Planting.—Domestic Economy.—Miscellaneous 
Papers.—The Farmer’s Register. 
VOLUME SEVEN. 
FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Laying Out Home Grounds. — Cooking Food for Animals. — 
‘The Great Sale of the Century.—'rhe Circle of Fruits. — 
Houses of Moderate Cost.—Construction of Greenhouses. 
—Barns for Different Purposes.—Piggeries anti Pig Rais¬ 
ing.—Cranberry Culture in New .Jersey.—Small Fruit 
Culture for Profit.—Ornamental Plants.—Pigeons, Man¬ 
agement and Varieties.—Tying Knots.—Accidents and 
Emergencies. — Market Gardening for Profit. — Sug¬ 
gestions in Rural Economy.—Miscellaneous Papers.— 
The Farmer’s Register. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
BEAUTIFYING 
COUNTRY HOMES. 
AN ELEGANT QUARTO VOLUME. 
By J. WEIDENMANJV. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $15.00. 
This magnificent work is illustrated not only with numer¬ 
ous line wood-engravings, hut also with seventeen full-page 
and seven double-page colored lithographs of places already 
improved. It embodies the results of a long practice in 
landscape architecture and rural adornment, and while its 
teachings are in accordance with the received rules of art, 
they are thoroughly practical in their character. It is one 
ef the most elegant, and ought to prove one of the most 
iselul works ever issued in the country. The work, hotli in 
its letter-press and colored lithographs, is beautifully printed, 
aud it Is elegantly hound in beveled boards. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
Hussey’s 
National Cottage Architecture; 
OR 
Homes for Every One. 
With Designs, Plans, Details, Specifications, and Cost; 
witli Working-Scale Drawings complete, so that houses may 
be built direct from the hook. Adapted to the popular de¬ 
mand for practical, handsome, and economical homes. 
Royal Quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. A 
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. 
Monckton’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. 
Monckton’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. 
1,000 Designs, Plans, and Details, for Country, Suburban, 
and Village Houses; witli 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- 
provcdstyle. Ouesuperb quarto volume. Post-paid, $12.00. 
Woodward’s 
Cottages and Farm Houses. 
188 Designs and Plans of low-priced Cottages, Farm 
nouses, and Out-Buildings. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Woodward’s 
Country Homes. 
150 Designs and Plans, with Description of the Manner of 
Constructing Balloon Frames. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Woodward’s 
Graperies and Horticultural 
Buildings. 
Designs and Plans of Hot-Beds, Cold-Pits, Propagating 
Houses, Forcing Houses, Hot and Cold Graperies, Green¬ 
houses, Conservatories, Orchard Houses, etc., witli the va¬ 
rious modes of Ventilating and Heating. 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. 
Jacques’ 
Manual of the House. 
How to Build Dwellings, Barns, Stables, and Out-Build¬ 
ings of all kinds. 126 Designs and Plans. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Wheeler’s 
Rural Homes. 
Houses suited to Country Life. Post paid, $2.00. 
Wheeler’s 
Homes for the People. 
100 Original Designs, with full Descriptions, aud Construc¬ 
tive and Miscellaneous Details. Post-paid, $3.01). 
Harney’s 
Barns, Out-Buildings, & Fences 
Containing Designs and Plans of Stables, Farm-Barns, 
Out-Buildings, Gates, Gateways, Fences, Stable Fittings and 
Furniture, with nearly 200 Illustrations. Royal quarto. 
Post-paid, $6.00. 
Cummings’ 
Architectural Details. 
387 Designs and 967 Illustrations of the Various Parts need¬ 
ed in the Construction of Buildings, Public and Private, 
both for City and Country. Also, Plans and Elevations of 
Houses, Stores, Cottages, and other Buildings. Royal 
Quarto. Post-paid, $10.00. 
Croft’s Progressive 
American Architecture. 
Tltis 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, etc. Royal Quarto. 
Post-paid, $10.00, 
Lakey’s 
Village and Country Houses. 
Or, Cheap Houses for All Classes, comprising eiglity-four 
p iges of designs. The object, in almost every instance of 
these design?, has been to secure as large an amount of 
space aud 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 scaie, witli methods of Heating and Ven¬ 
tilation. Large Quarto. Post-paid, $0.00. 
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. 
