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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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American Farm Book. 
UltlUlNAI.LY' BY 
R. L. ALLEN, 
Author of “ Diseases of Domestic Animalsand formerly 
editor of the “ American Agriculturist." 
ltKVISEl) AND ENLARGED BY' 
J. E W IS F. ALLEN, 
Author of "American Cattle," editor of Dee “American 
Shorthorn Herd Book," etc. 
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Everything connected with the business of farming 
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cotton, hemp, fences, farm buildings, domestic cattle, 
sheep, poultry, and the like. The work lias been written 
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and it is really valuable. The chapter on soils should be 
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most of the land lie cultivates. The chapter on fruits 
constitutes an important feature of the work; and there 
is nothing in it which is not well considered and useful. 
Worcester Daily Spy. 
Comprehensive and careful, telling, and telling specif¬ 
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its counsels in the spirit, in which they are given. 
Congregationalist A Recorder. 
It intelligently and quite fully discusses the various 
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From its double authorship one might expect some show 
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1S4G, annotated and qualified by the writer of this year. 
But this has been wisely avoided. The book is a unit, 
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Farm, by R. L. Allen, as time could not change, has been 
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It is a volume of over five hundred pages, and in Its 
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It has a very wide range of subjects, taking up nearly 
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In its present' revised and enlarged form, it is a work 
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