1873 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
39 
WAKING’S 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS. 
DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
AND 
DRAINING FOR HEALTH. 
By GEO. E. WARING,' Jr:, 
Engineer of the Drainage of Central Park, New York. 
CONTENTS. 
Land to re Drained; IIow Drains Act; now to 
Make Drains ; How to Take Care of Drains ; 
What Draining Costs ; Wile It Pat ? How to Make 
Tiles ; Reclaiming Salt Marshes ; House and Town 
Drainage. 
EXTRA GTS FROM NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
He (the author) describes the action of draining upon 
the soil, the construction of single drains and systems of 
drains, the cost and the profit of thorough drainage, the 
making of tiles, and the reclaiming of salt marshes, 
treats sensibly of malarial diseases, and closes with a 
chapter which should be widely read, on house drainage 
and town sewerage in their relations to the public health, 
j [Portland (Me.) Press. 
Nowhere does this book merit a wider circulation than 
in the West. Every year adds to the thousands of dollars 
lost to this State from want of proper surface drainage, 
to say nothing of the added gain to result from a com¬ 
plete system of under-drainage. This book will prove 
an aid to any farmer who may consult it. 
[ Chicago ( El .) Republican. 
A Book that ought to be in the hands of every Farmer. 
SENT POST-PAID, PRICE, $1.50. 
EARTH-CLOSETS 
AND 
EARTH-SEWACE. 
Bt GEO. E. WARING, Jr. (of Ogden Farm). 
INCLUDING: 
The Earth System (Details). 
The Manure .Question. 
Sewage and Cess-pool Diseases. 
The Dry-Earth System for Cities and Towns. 
The Details of Earth Sewage. 
The Philosophy of The Earth System. 
Witli Seventeen Illustrations. 
Paper Covers, Price, Post-paid, 50 cts. 
ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. 
A BOOK FOR YOUNG FARMERS, 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jr., 
Formerly Agricultural Engineer of the Central Park, in 
New York. 
CAREFULLY REVISED. 
CONTENTS. 
The Plant ; The Soil ; Manures ; Mechanical Cul¬ 
tivation ; Analysis. 
The foregoing subjects are all discussed in plain and 
simple language, that any fanner’s boy may understand. 
The book is written by a successful practical fai'mer , and 
is full of information, good advice, and sound doctrine. 
HORACE GREELEY says of it: “Though dealing 
with facts nn.amiliar to many, there is no obscure sen¬ 
tence, and scarcely a hard word in the book; its 254 fair, 
open pages may be read in the course of two evenings 
and thoroughly studied in the leisure hours of a week; 
and we pity the man or boy, however old or young, who 
can find it dull reading. Hardly any one is so wise that 
he will not learn something of value from its perusal; no 
one is so ignorant or undeveloped that he cannot generally 
understand it; and no farmer or farmer’s son can study it 
thoughtfully without being a better and more successful 
cultivator than before.” 
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HARRIS ON THU PIG 
Breeding, Rearing, Management, 
AND 
Improvement. 
With Numerous Illustrations. 
By JOSEPH HARRIS, 
OF MORETON FARM, ROCHESTER, N. V. 
NOTICES BT THE PRESS. 
To say that this work on the pig is by Joseph Harris, 
that genial philosopher-farmer of Rochester, N. Y., who 
writes the “ Walks and Talks upon the Farm ” in the 
Agriculturist , is to insure for his hook at once a large 
circle of delighted readers. He is just the man to lay 
down the gospel for the raising of pigs or any other do¬ 
mestic animal. If all breeders and farmers would follow 
Mr. Harris’s directions, pork would he a very different 
article of food from what it is now, and could he eaten 
without any fears of the trichina. 
[■Springfield Republican. 
The author discusses the pig—for he takes exception 
to the word hog as applied to the domesticated animal— 
with a view of showing how the most pork and lard can 
he produced from the smallest amount of feed. He gives 
elaborate descriptions of the different breeds of swine, 
showing the peculiarities of each, and the relative ad¬ 
vantages to the producer.— [Prairie Fai'mer (Chicago). 
The pig is doubtless one of the most valuable animals 
that a farmer can raise, and it is the laudable purpose of 
Mr. Harris to tell farmers how to treat their pigs so as to 
get the most profit from them, and what kind of pigs are 
host.— [Daily Evening Traveller (Boston). 
It treats of breeding, rearing, managing, and improv¬ 
ing swine; and what Mr. Harris don’t know on these 
topics, is hardly worth knowing at all. The hook is fully 
illustrated, and is very valuable to all who are interested 
in this branch of stock-raising. 
[Lowell (Mass.) Daily Courier. 
The author is a practical farmer, and has gathered the 
results of many experiments besides his own. The book 
is amply illustrated. 
[Republican Statesman (Concord, N. n.). 
Almost everything a farmer wants to know about the 
breeding, keeping, and fattening of pigs, is here put 
down in plain, common sense, and is mainly the result 
of the writer’s own management.— [Maine Farmer. 
This is an interesting, valuable, and a much-needed 
treatise on an important department of rural economy. 
It contains about 5G illustrations of pigs, piggeries, 
troughs, etc. We are heartily glad our old friend Harris 
was persuaded to prepare this useful Manual on the Pig- 
breeds, breeding, feeding, etc., comprising what farmers 
need know respecting this department of husbandry. 
[Boston Cultivator. 
This little book is profusely illustrated, and contains 
information in abundance, which every farmer ought to 
possess.— [Weekly Mail (St. Louis). 
Here is a hook written by a practical farmer, who has 
brought to the aid of his own large experience and ob¬ 
servation the most extensive acquaintance with the 
science of breeding, and, as might reasonably he ex¬ 
pected, we have from his pen the best hook on the Pig 
ever written.— [Western Stock Journal. 
Price, Post-paid, $1.50. 
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345 Broadway, New York. 
FARM IMPLEMENTS 
AND 
FARM MACHINERY, 
AND THIS 
Principles of their Construction and Use: 
WITH 
SIMPLE AND PRACTICAL EXPLANATIONS 
OF THK 
LAWS OF MOTION AND Fl&RCE 
AS APPLIED 
ON THE FARM. 
With »8T Illustration*. 
BY 
JOHN J. THOMAS. 
The basis of this admirable work was An essay 
published in 1850, in the Transactions of the N. Y. State- 
Agricultural Society, which was enlarged, and in 1854 
published by the narpers. It has been, and remains, the 
only work in which the principles of Natural Philoso¬ 
phy, namely, the mechanical powers, and the powers of 
water, wind, and heat, are systematically discussed as 
applied to the operations cf the farm. 
The work has now been most carefnlly revised by the 
author. It is much enlarged, and a great part has been 
re-written, while the illustrations, before abundant, now- 
number two hundred and eighty-seven. A large number 
of new implements arc described, with the heavier farm 
machinery ; and the use of steam, both in cookiDg and as 
power on the farm, is clearly discussed 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
The great value of this work is the application of natural 
philosophy to farm labor, in the use of power, and it will 
supply one of the best text-books in our agricultural 
schools. Every farmer’s son should carefully study this- 
book, and he will be saved much hard labor, accom¬ 
plish more work, and have less wear and breakage in the 
implements he uses. The chapter on plowing is of great 
value to all plowmen, whether old or young, and is worth, 
more than the cost of the hook. Chicago Tribune. 
We welcome this new and rc-written edition of an old 
and very valuable work. The six pages on road-making are 
worth more than the price of the hook to every highway 
surveyor in Vermont. Farmers need to study the me¬ 
chanics of Agriculture_This volume i3 admirably cal¬ 
culated to aid the farmer in determining what lie need3 
and how to supply that want. Burlington Free Press. 
The volume is one cf great value, and should he in 
every Farmer’s Library, for it is full of practical sugges¬ 
tions and useful information. Salem Observer. 
Mr. Thomas’ illustrations are largely drawn from ob¬ 
jects with which the farmer is familiar, and any one of 
ordinary intelligence can readily grasp the whole, follow¬ 
ing the author step by step, from, the inertia of the load¬ 
ed wagon which snaps the harness traces on a sudden 
start, to the laws which govern the shape of the working 
parts of the plow, and the construction of the steam 
engine, or the radiation of heat causing the phenomena 
of dew and frost. Cultivator and Country Gentleman. 
Those who are acquainted with Mr. Thomas’ previous 
works need not to he told that it is written i:i a clear,, 
concise, practical style, and though eminently scientific,, 
the language is so free from all unecessary technicalities, 
and so pleasingly familiar, and at tho same time so well 
illustrated and enlivened by appropriate incident, anec¬ 
dotes, experiments, etc., as to excite and repay the con : 
tinued attention of the reader. Galesburg Free press. 
The whole work is of a thoroughly practical char, 
acter, and the application cf tho principles taught to 
the farmer’s daily work makes its instructions cf very 
great value. There is net a;i agricultural writer that 
could bo named more respected than Mr. Thomas, cr 
one whose judgment and freedom from personal bias 
in discussing new implements could be more implicitly 
relied upon. Hartford Daily Times. 
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