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399 
Valuable Architectural Books 
For Carpenters and Builders. 
Hussey’s 
National Cottage Architecture; 
OR 
Homes for Every One. 
With Designs, Plans, Details, Specifications, and Cost; 
with Working-Scale Drawings complete, so that houses may 
he built direct from the book. Adapted to the popular de¬ 
mand for practical, handsome, and economical homes. 
Royal Quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Atwood’s v 
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; with 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 Roof's, 
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¬ 
proved style. One superb quarto volume. Post-paid, $12.00. 
Woodward’s 
Cottages and Farm Houses. 
IBS Designs and Plans of low-priced Cottages, Farm 
Houses, 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 or 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. 
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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-Bnild- 
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, and Construc¬ 
tive and Miscellaneous Details. Post-paid, $3.00. 
Harney’s 
Barns, Out-Buildings, & Fences 
Containing Designs and Plans of Stables, Farm-Barns, 
Out-Buildings, Gates, Gateways, Fences, Stable Fittings and 
Furniture, witli 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 Eleyations of 
Houses, Stores, Cottages, and other Buildings. Royal 
Quarto. Post-paid, $10.00. 
Groff’s Progressive 
American Architecture. 
This 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 eighty-four 
pages of designs. The object, in almost every instance of 
these designs, lias been to secure as large an amount of 
space and comfort as was possible with the least expendi¬ 
ture of money, without neglecting the exterior features of 
eacli 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 scale, with methods of Heating and Ven¬ 
tilation. Large Quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
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, 
AM EGG FARM, 
THE MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY IN 
LARGE NUMBERS. 
By H. H. 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 Sitting- 
Fowls. — Testing the Eggs. — Winter Management. — 
House for Early Hatched Pullets.—Shelters for Fowi3 
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. 
Price, post-paid, paper covers, 50 cts.; cloth, 75 cts. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
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 he avoided or point in which labor may be 
saved, seems to he unprovided to*.—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.— 
Colman'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 id 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 host 
plans for breeding stock and management of young 
chickens, with cuts of the most economical houses, and 
showing fanciers how to make the business a profitable 
one.— Stoneham Sentinel , Stoneham, Mass. 
Tie Poultry Yard and Market; 
OR, 
A Practical Treatise on fianinocnltnre. 
By Prof. A. Corbett, 
Inventor of the New Process for Hatching Eggs and Raising 
Poultry, in means of Horse Manure alone, for which Gold 
and Bronze Medals, and several Diplomas, have been award¬ 
ed by State and County Fairs, and the American Institute. 
Leading newspapers endorsed the valuable discovery of this 
simple process, which is fully described in this book, giving 
the valuable information acquired by 20 years’ experience 
in Poultry Breeding. 
CONTENTS. 
Origin of Artificial Incubation.—Its Prolificness.—Particu¬ 
lars of what has been done in Artificial Incubation up to the 
present time.—The Discovery of how Eggs could be hatched 
in Manure.—The Researches of Prof. Corbett and His Dis¬ 
covery.—Prof. Corbett's Success.—Amount of Profit to be 
made auually by anybody with Twelve Hens.—How Poultry 
Breeders can raise Chickens in Manure, with slight expense, 
all the year round.—The Raising of Poultry with Large 
Profits.—The kind of Manure to be used.—The best Breed of 
Profitable Fowls.—Advice to the Ladies.—Important Hints 
how to keep Poultry and make Money.—Diseases and their 
Cure.—How to Fatten and Prepare for Market.—Opinions of 
tlie Press and Rewards given for this process. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, 50 CENTS. 
OPEN AIR GRAPE CULTURE: 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON TOE 
Garden and Vineyard Culture of tUe Vine. 
By JOHN PHIN. 
I L L U S T R A T E D . 
Contents : List of Works on the Vine; Natural and Civil 
History of the Vine; Choice of Soil; Preparation ; Planting 
Vines; Care of Vine in First, Second and Third Years; 
Management of Fruiting Vines; Subsequent Management; 
Pruning and Training; Walls, Trellises, etc.; Propagation ; 
Manures and their Application; Diseases and Insects; Hast¬ 
ening Maturity; Care of old Vines; To Preserve Grapes; 
The Manufacture of Wine. PRICE, POST-PAID, $1.50. 
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