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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
397 
Standard Architectural Books 
FOR CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS. 
Hussey’s National Cottage Archi¬ 
tecture; or, Homes for Every One. 
—With Designs, Plans, Details, Specifica¬ 
tions, and Cost; with Working Scale, Draw¬ 
ings complete, so that Houses may be built 
direct from the book. Adapted to the pop¬ 
ular demand for practical, handsome, and 
economical homes. Royal Quarto. Six 
Dollars, post-paid. 
Atwood’s Country and Suburban 
Houses.— Illustrated with about 150 en¬ 
gravings. Hints and Suggestions 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 illus¬ 
trated by large scale diagrams, in two colors, 
with designs for Staircases, Newels, Balus¬ 
ters, and Hand-Rails. Royal Quarto. Post¬ 
paid, $6.00 
Monckton’s National Carpenter and 
Joiner. —A complete work, covering the 
whole science of Carpentry, Joinery, Roof¬ 
ing, Framing, etc., fully explained and illus¬ 
trated by large scale diagrams in two colors. 
Royal Quarto. Postpaid, $6.00. 
Woodward’s National Architect.— 
1,000 Designs, Plans, and Details for Coun¬ 
try, Suburban,and Village Houses; with Per¬ 
spective Views, Front and Side Elevations, 
Sections, Full Detail Drawings, Specifica¬ 
tions, and Estimates. Also, Detail Draw¬ 
ings 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, Cornices, Ceilings, Hard-wood 
Mantels, and all that is required by a Builder 
to design, specify, erect, and finish in the 
most approved style. One superb quarto 
volume. Post-paid, $12.00 
W oodward’s Cottages and Farm 
Houses. —188 Designs and Plans of low- 
priced Cottages, Farm Houses, and Out- 
Buildings. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Woodward’s Suburban and Country 
Houses. —70 Designs and Plans, and nu¬ 
merous examples of the French Roof. Post¬ 
paid, $1.50. 
Woodward’s Country Homes.-I50 
Designs and Plans, with Description of the 
Manner of Constructing Balloon Frames. 
Post-paid, $1.50. 
Woodward’s Graperies and Horti¬ 
cultural Buildings. —Designs and Plans 
of Hot-Beds, Cold-Pits, Propagating Houses, 
Forcing Houses, Hot and Cold Graperies, 
Green Houses, Conservatories, Orchard 
Houses, etc., with the various modes of 
Ventilating and Heating. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Jacques’ Manual of the House. — 
How to Build Dwellings, Barns, Stables, 
and Out-Buildings of all kinds. 126 De¬ 
signs 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 Constructive and Miscellaneous Details. 
Post-paid, $3.00. 
Harney’s Barns, Out-Buildings, and 
Fences. — Containing Designs and Plans 
of Stables, Farm-Barns, Out-Buildings, Gates, 
Gateways, Fences, Stable Fittings and Furni¬ 
ture, with nearly 200 Illustrations. Royal 
quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Lakey’s Village and Country 
Houses, or Cheap Houses for All Classes, 
comprising eighty-four pages of designs. 
The object, in almost every instance in these 
designs, has been to secure as large an 
amount of space and comfort as was pos¬ 
sible with the least expenditure of money, 
without neglecting the exterior features of 
each building. Royal Quarto. Post-paid, $6. 
Eveleth’s School-house Architecture. 
—A new and original work, containing Seven¬ 
teen Designs for School-houses, Sixty-seven 
Plates with Perspectives, Elevations, Plans, 
Sections, Details, Specifications all drawn to 
working scale, with methods of Heating and 
Ventilation. Large quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Copley’s Plain and Ornamental Al¬ 
phabets.—Giving examples in all styles, 
together with Maps, Titles, Borders, Meri¬ 
dians, Ciphers, Monograms, Flourishes, etc., 
adapted for the practical use of Surveyors, 
Civil Engineers, Draughtsmen, Architects, 
Sign Painters, Schools, etc. Post-paid, $3.00. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, Publishers, 245 Broadway, New York. 
containing a great variety of Items , including many- 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller ■ 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere,. 
Continued from p. 371. 
Founder in a. Horse.— “C. B.,” Groten,. 
N. II. Founder consists of inflammation of the laminae 
or leaves of the foot—those highly sensitive plates 
which dovetail into each other, and connect the interior 
of the foot with the outside and insensitive horny part or 
hoof. When foundered, the horse will hardly move, 
throws his weight upon the hind feet, and spreads his 
fore feet forward as far as possible, to relieve them from 
weight. The head is thrown up, the horse breathes hard 
and fast, is highly fevered, and expresses in many ways- 
his distress and suffering. Acute founder may be cured,, 
but always leaves the horse tender in his fore feet, and 
subject to a repeated attack on the first imprudence in. 
feeding, watering or driving. Chronic founder renders- 
the horse valueless, and a burden to itself and its owner, 
I®oitlti*y for Eggs and Meat.—" F. 
II. S.,” Chicago, relates his experience as to the best 
fowls for market and for winter layers. He writes: “I 
crossed a Brown Leghorn cock to a Dark Brahma hen. 
This cross produced a splendid bird. And here let me 
say to those that raise poultry for the market, do not 
breed those large raw-honed Asiatics, they do not pay. 
When dressed for the market, they will not bring as much 
per pound as even the common barn-yard fowl, and, 
though I admit that their weight will make up the de¬ 
ficiency, they will consume twice as much food to do it. 
As to food, I give corn-meal, barley, wheat, bran, and. 
oats, mixed and scalded ; also once a week chopped liver. 
The fowls do not get tired of this food, and it is excel¬ 
lent for producing eggs. In winter I keep my poultry in 
a warm cellar. With good feed, warm housing, and care- 
that too many fowls are not kept on the farm, there is no¬ 
danger that poultry will not pay.” 
Manure for tSrain.— “ E. T. B.,” Jewell 
City, Kansas. A soil rich in vegetable matter, hut de¬ 
ficient in mineral constituents, will be apt to produce 
plenty of foliage and but little grain. What is wanted 
in this case is lime, superphosphate of lime, wood ashes,, 
or hone dust. In your case it would undoubtedly pay to- 
arrest a portion of the immense quantities of bones 
which are daily carried from the western parts of the 
state, and apply them to the soil. They would furnish 
lime, phosphoric acid, and nitrogen, all indispensable- 
substances for the production of grain, and very rapidly- 
exhausted by grain crops. Unfortunately the vast sup¬ 
ply of bones so near at hand, is neglected by western 
farmers, and allowed to go past their doors, to he profita¬ 
bly used by farmers 3,000 miles away. 
Capacity of a Cistersi.—“M. L. W.,”' 
Selin’s Grove, Pa. To find the contents in gallons of a. 
rectangular cistern, multiply the deptli and width both 
ways in feet together, and then multiply this by 7 X- The 
first sum is the cubic feet, and the latter the quantity of 
gallons contained very nearly. For a circular cistern., 
multiply the diameter by itself, and then by .7854, (or those 
who do not; understand decimal fractions, may take three- 
fourths of the product). This sum is multiplied by the 
depth, and the result is cubic feet. Then multiply by- 
7% as above. 
Merino Slacep aia«l Shepherd Bogs, 
— “ C. H. C.," Chatham Co., Neb. The flock of Merinos- 
bred by Mr. Chamberlin, of Ited Hook, Dutchess Co., N, : 
Y., is a very choice one, and is under the care of an ex¬ 
cellent shepherd, Mr. Carl Ileyne. By stating the sort 
of ram wanted, yon could probably he suited from this 
flock, without the expense of selecting personally. 
Probably a shepherd dog could also be procured there, 
SprinldiBE"- Ilatclaing Egg^s.—“W. 
S.,” Wilson Co., Tenn. For very good reasoqfc it is con¬ 
sidered of use to moisten the eggs during the process of 
hatching. This may be clone without any difficulty by 
sprinkling the nest while the hen is off for feeding; once- 
or twice during the incubation is sufficient. 
Cow Pox.— “ S. E. C.,” Stormont Co., Ont, 
The teats and udders of cows are liable to various other 
forms of eruptions, which may he confounded with the 
true cow pox. The true cow pox may he distinguished 
by the fevered condition of the animal for three or foui- 
days before the eruptions appear. These are at first hard, 
red spots, about the size of the point of the finger, which 
