[November, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1870.] 
THE PRACTICAL 
POULTRY KEEPER, 
A COMPLETE AND STANDARD GLIDE TO THE 
MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY, 
FOR DOMESTIC USE, THE MARKETS, OR 
EXHIBITION. 
Beautifully Illustrated. 
By L. WRIGHT. 
NEW AND VALUABLE WORK. 
HARRIS ON THE PIG. 
Breeding, Rearing, Management, 
AND 
Improvement. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
This book is a valuable manual for everybody who 
feeds chickens or sells eggs. It suits at once the plain 
poulterer who must make the business pay, and the chick¬ 
en fancier whose taste is for gay plumage, and strange, 
bright birds. The most valuable portion is the first sec¬ 
tion, extending through fifty-five pages. These were writ¬ 
ten with the intention of producing a manual so plain, 
minute, and practical, that any one could, by using it as a 
guide, with no previous experience with poultry, become 
atonce successful in producing eggs, young chickens, and 
fat fowls for market. The author has not missed his aim. 
The middle parts of Mr. Wright’s Manual are taken up 
with minute directions for making show fowls for Fairs, 
a nice discussion of the good and bad points of the dif¬ 
ferent breeds, and a brief sketch of such fancy stock as 
peafowl, pheasants, and water-fowl. Then follows a 
section on artificial hatching, and another, worth special 
attention, on large poultry yards-A study of Mr. 
Wright’s hook will convince any farmer’s wife that all 
she needs is to give a half hour each day, of intelligent 
and sagacious attention to her poultry, in order to obtain 
from them, not tape, and knitting needles, and buttons, 
and nutmegs merely, but the family supplies of sugar, 
shoes, and cloth. New York Tribune. 
It is the most complete and valuable work on the mat¬ 
ters of which it treats yet published. It will be found a 
plain and sufficient guide to any one in any circumstances 
likely to occur, and is illustrated with elegant engravings 
of many breeds of fowls. Farmers' Cabinet. 
This is a reprint, with nnmerous wood engravings, of 
an English book, the object of which is to convey in 
plain language a great deal of practical information about 
the breeding and management of poultry, whether for 
domestic use, the markets, or exhibition....The book is 
eminently practical, and we recommend it to farmers and 
others interested in breeding and selling poultry. 
Philadelphia Press. 
It is a handsome volume, brought out in the best style, 
and enriched with nearly fifty illustrations. It is evidently 
the fruit of a thorough, practical experience and knowl¬ 
edge of fowls, and will he found a plain and sufficient 
guide in all the practical details of poultry management 
as a profitable business. United Presbyterian. 
The subject is treated fully and ably by an experienced 
hand, and the volume will doubtless find a large sale 
among the growing class of poultry fanciers. It is em¬ 
bellished with numerous illustrative engravings. 
New York Observer. 
The author has called to his aid all who were experi¬ 
enced in the subject whereof he writes, and the conse¬ 
quence is a volume of more than ordinary thoroughness 
and exhaustiveness. Rochester Democrat. 
The hook is a complete and standard guide to the man¬ 
agement of poultry for domestic use, the market, and 
for exhibition. Watchman and Reflector. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $2.00. 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 
245 Broadway, New York. 
With Numerous Illustrations. 
By JOSEPH HARRIS, 
OF MORETON FARM, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
This is the only American treatise upon the breeding, 
rearing, and management of swine, and is by one thor¬ 
oughly familiar with the whole subject. The points of 
the various English and American breeds are thoroughly 
discussed, and the great advantage of using thorough¬ 
bred males clearly shown. Hhe work is equally valuable 
to the farmer who keeps but a few pigs, and to the breed¬ 
er on an extensive scale. 
CONTENTS: 
Chapter I.—Introductory. 
Chapter II.—Breeds of Pigs. 
Chapter III.—The Form of a Good Pig. 
Chapter IV.—Desirable Qualities in a Pig. 
Chapter V.—Large vs. Small Breeds and Crosses. 
Chapter VI.—Value of a Thorough-bred Pig. 
Chapter VII.—Good Pigs Need Good Care. 
Chapter VH3.—The Origin and Improvement of our 
Domestic Pigs. 
Chapter IX.—Improvement of English Breeds of Pigs. 
Chapter X.—The Modem Breeds of English Pigs. 
Chapter XI.—Breeds of Pigs in the United States. 
Chapter XII.—Experiments in Pig Feeding. 
Chapter XIII.— Lawes and Gilbert’s Experiments in 
Pig Feeding. 
Chapter XIV.—Sugar as Food for Pigs. 
Chapter XV.—The Value of Pig Manure. 
Chapter XVI.—Piggeries and Pig Pens. 
Chapter XVII.—Swill Barrels, Pig Troughs, etc. 
Chapter XVIII. — Management of Pigs. 
Chapter XIX.—English Experience in Pig Feeding. 
Chapter XX.—Live and Dead Weight of Pigs. 
Chapter XXI. — Breeding and Rearing Pigs. 
Chapter XXII. — Management of Thorough-bred Pigs. 
Chapter XXIII. — Profit of Raising Thorough-bred Pigs. 
Chapter XXIV. — Cooking Food for Pigs. 
Chapter XXV.—Summary. 
Chapter XXVI.—Appendix. 
Price, Post-paid, $1.50. 
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After E. Wolff. Fresenius, Krocker, and others. Edited by 
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In this work Professor Caldwell lias brought together the 
processes of analysis which apply especially to soils, fertil¬ 
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the methods of the best foreign authorities, and presented 
them in a compact hand-book. Such a work lias long been 
needed by all who teach agricultural chemistry, and by 
analytical chemists generally. Professor Caldwell modestly 
calls himself the editor, but his book shows that he lias not 
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The Rose is the only flower that can be said to have a his¬ 
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