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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[January, 
THE AMERICAN 
Cattle Doctor. 
[OCTAVO.] 
A COMPLETE WORK ON ALL THE DISEASES OF 
CATTLE, SHEEP, AND SWINE, 
including every SJlsease peculiar to Am¬ 
erica, and embracing all tlie latest 
Snformation on the Cattle JPlague 
and 'ffricliina | containing also 
a Guide to Symptoms, a ’JTable 
of Weights and Measures, 
and a IList of Valuable 
Medicines. 
By GEO. H. DADD, V. S., 
Twenty-five years a Leading Veterinary Surgeon in Eng¬ 
land and the United States , and Author of the 
“American Reformed Ilorse Book." 
The work is comprised in Three Grand Di¬ 
visions, each one fall and complete. 
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. 
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., arc 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—H og Cholera. 
After years of practice in Illinois, the author confidently 
presents his Remedy for this destructive malady, as tlie 
most successful one yet discovered, and it is so simple as to 
be within easy reach of all. 
37G pages. Octavo, Illustrated. Price, in Strong Leather 
Binding, Post-paid, $3.00; Cloth Binding, full gilt back, 
Post-paid, $2.50. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
345 Broadway, New York. 
Practical 
Floriculture. 
A Guide to tlie Successful Propagation and 
Cultivation of Florists’ Plants. 
By BETEK, HENDEBSON, 
Author of “ Gardening for Profit.” 
Beautifully Illustrated. Price , Post-paid , $1.50. 
In tills work, which has everywhere become so deservedly 
popular, not only is the whole “ art and mystery ” of propa¬ 
gation explained, hut the reader is taught how to plant and 
grow the plants after they have been propagated. The work 
is not one for florists and gardeners only, but the amateur’s 
wants are constantly kept in mind, and we have a very com¬ 
plete treatise on the cultivation of flowers under glass, or 
in the open air, suited to those who grow flowers for plea¬ 
sure as well as those who make them a matter of trade. 
The work is characterized by the same radical common 
sense that marked tlie author's “Gardening lor Profit,” and 
it holds a high place in the estimation of lovers of 
floriculture. The new edition has been thoroughly revised 
by the author, and much enlarged by the addition of valu¬ 
able matter. 
The following are a few of the subjects embraced in the 
latest edition: 
Laying out Flower Garden and Lawn; Designs for 
Grounds and for Greenhouses; Soils for Potting; Cold 
Frames; Hot-Beds; Greenhouses Attached to Dwellings; 
Modes of Heating; Propagation of Plants by Seeds and by 
Cuttings; Culture of the Rose and Tuberose; Growing of 
Winter-flowering Plants; Construction of Bouquets. Baskets, 
etc.; Parlor and Window-Gardening: Wardian-Cases and 
Ferneries; Insects; Wliat Flowers Grow in the Shade; 
Culture of Grape-Vines under Glass ; Tlie Profits of Flori¬ 
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ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
345 Broadway, New Yobe ; [ 
THE AMERICAN 
REFORMED HORSE BOOK. 
[OCTAVO.] 
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, Bearing, 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 Professor of Anatomy and Physi¬ 
ology in the Veterinary Institute of Chicago , and for over 
25 years a Regular Practicing Veterinarian. 
This is a fresh book, 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 tlie 
most uniformly successful. Such was Dadd’s success that 
he became widely known, and it was no unusual thing 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. Being a thor¬ 
oughly American Work, it quotes foreign authors but very 
little. It aims to treat fully and plainly, 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, in Strong Leather 
Binding, Post-paid, $3.00; Cloth Binding, full gilt back. 
Post-paid, $2.50. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
345 Broadway, New York. 
Play and Profit 
IN MY GARDEN. 
By E. P. ROE, 
Author of “ Barriers Burned Away," etc. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
The author takes us to his garden on tlie rocky hill-sides in 
the vicinity of West Point and shows us how out of it, after 
four years’ experience, lie evoked a profit of $1,000, and this 
while carrying on pastoral and literary labors.It 
is very rare that so much literary taste and skill are mated 
to so much agricultural experience and practical good sense. 
—Harper's Magazine. 
This book is as poetical as it is practical. Still lie is no 
dreamer. He goes into every essential detail with as much 
minuteness and precision as if he were writing a manual for 
the practical farmer. Indeed few works professedly de¬ 
voted to agriculture give more sound and valuable informa¬ 
tion on the secret of winning golden harvests from the soil 
than this brief idyllic sketch.— N. T. Tribune. 
A very charming book, not only by reason of its pleasant 
style, but for its quiet refined humor and fund of really use¬ 
ful information on the subject of gardening.— Boston Gazette. 
It deserves to stand side by side with “My Summer in a 
Garden.”— Christian Register. 
A fresh, lively work.—V. Y. Observer. 
One reads without weariness and learns ranch of practical 
value.— Chicago Evening Journal. 
Full of information. Explains just wliat the reader wishes 
to know. We most heartily commend it.— Providence Even¬ 
ing Press. 
A chatty, sensible, profitable book.— Cleveland Herald . 
The book gives much valuable information, and gives it 
in the pleasantest manner imaginable.— Detroit Daily Union. 
Ur3ce, Post-paid - $1.50 
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