April, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[ 1873 . 
Western Corn Beats 
the World. 
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We offer the Long John White and Nexo Madrid Yellow, 
the premium Seed Corns of the Great St. Louis Fair of 1872. 
Per pound, by mail, post-paid, 50 cents. 
Five pounds, •• “ $2.00. 
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Allen's (L. F.) American Cartle.$ 2 50 
AHen’9 (L.F.) Rural Architecture. 1 50 
Allen’s (It. L.) American Farm Book. 1 50 
Allen’s (R. L. and L, F.) New American Farm Book.. 2 50 
Allen’s (It. L.) Diseases of Domestic Animals. 1 00 
Am. Agricultural Animal. '67 to ’71. each, pa.,50c.; clo. 75 
Am. Horticultural Annual, '07 to'71,each, pa., 50c.; clo. 75 
American Bird Fancier. 30 
American Rose Culturist. SO 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. 1 75 
Atwood's Country and Suburban Houses. 1 50 
Barry’s Fruit Garden.. 2 50 
Beinent's Rabbit Fancier. .... 30 
Bommer's Method of Making Manures. 25 
Boussingault's Rural Economy. 1 60 
Breck's New Book of Flowers. 1 75 
Brill’s Farm-Gardening and Seed-Growing. 1 00 
Bryant’s Forest-Tree Culturist... 150 
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory. -. 1 50 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener . 1 00 
Caldwell’s Agricultural Chemical Analysis. 2 00 
Chorlton’s Grape-Grower’s Guide. • 75 
Cohbett’s American Gardener. 75 
Cole's (S. W.) American Fruit Book. 75 
Cole’s Veterinarian. 75 
Copeland’s Country Life. 5 00 
Copley’s Plain and Ornamental Alphabets. 3 00 
Crack Shot. (Barber.). 175 
Dadd’s (Geo. H.) Modern Horse Doctor. 1 50 
Dadd's American Cattle Doctor. 1 50 
Dana's Muck Manual. 1 25 
Darwin’s Variation ot Animals and Plants. 2 Volumes. 6 00 
Dead Shot; or Sportsman’s Complete Guide. 1 75 
De Voe’s Market Assistant .. 2 50 
Downing's Fruits & Fruit Trees. New Ed. Oct., 1122 pp. 5 00 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening. 6 50 
Eastwood on Cranberry. 75 
Eggleston's Hoosier School-Master. 1 25 
Eggleston’s End of the World. 1 50 
Elliott’s Western Fruit Grower’s Guide. 1 50 
Eveleth’s School-House Architecture. 10 00 
Every Woman her own Flower-Gardener, .pa., 50e. clo. 1 00 
Field’s (Thomas W.) Fear Culture... 1 25 
Flax Culture. 50 
Frank Forester’s Field Sports. 8vo, 2 vols. 6 00 
Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing. 8 vo. 100 eng’s_ 3 50 
Frank Forester’s Manual l'or Young Sportsmen. 8vo. 3 00 
Frank Forester’s Horse and Horsemanship. 8vo, 2 vols.. 15 00 
French’s Farm Drainage. 1 50 
Fuller’s Forest Tree Culturist. 1 50 
Fuller’s Grape Culturist. 1 50 
Fuller’s Small Fruit Culturist. 150 
Fuller's Strawberry Culturist. 20 
Fulton's Peach Culture.. 1 50 
Gregory on Squashes.paper.. 30 
Guenon on Milch Cows. 75 
Gun, Rod, and Saddle. 1 00 
Harney's Barns. Out-buildings, and Fences. 10 00 
Harris'Insects Injurious to Vegetation, clo. $4; col. pits 6.50 
Harris on the Pig. 1 50 
Henderson’s Gardening for Profit. 1 50 
Henderson’s Practical Floriculture. 1 50 
Herbert’s Hints to Ilorsekeepers. 1 75 
Hoopes’ Book of Evergreens. 3 00 
Hooper's Dog and Gun.paper, 30c_cloth.. 60 
Hop Culture. 40 
Hunter and Trapper. 1 00 
Jacques' Manual of the House. 1 50 
Jacques’ Manual of the Garden and Farm-Yard. 1 75 
Johnson’s How Crops Feed. 2 00 
Jphnson's How Crops Grow. 2 00 
Johnson’s Peat and Its Uses. 1 25 
Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry. . 1 75 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 1 50 
Leucliar's How to Build Hot-Houses. 1 50 
Lyman’s Cotton Culture. 1 50 
Miles on the Horse’s Foot. 75 
Mohr on the Grape-Vine. 1 00 
Monckton’s National Builder.12 00 
Mrs. Cornelius’s Young Housekeeper’s Friend. 1 50 
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My Vineyard at Lakeview. 
Norton's Scientific Agriculture. 
Onion Culture.... 
Our Farm of h our Acres.paper, 30c_cloth.. 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 75 
Parsons on the Rose. By Samuel B. Parsons... . 150 
Pedder’s Land Measurer. 60 
Percheron Horse. 100 
Potato Culture. (Prize Essay.). . paper 25 
Quinby’s Mysteries of Bee Keeping. 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry. 
Randall's Fine- Wool Sheep Husbandry. 
Richardson on the Dog.paper, Sue_cloth_ 
Rivers’ Miniature Fruit Garden. 
Rural Church Architecture. Folio, in colors, 45 plates. 12 00 
Saunders’Domestic Poultry .paper,40c_hound.. 75 
Schenck’s Gardener’s Text-Book 
Simpson’s Horse Portraiture. 
Skillful Housewife. 
Slack's Trout Culture. 1 50 
Stewart’s (John) Stable Book. 1 r,o 
The Dog. By Dlliks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson. 3 00 
Thomas’Farm Implements and Machinery. 1 50 
Thompson’s Food of Animals. 1 00 
Tim Bunker Papers. 1 50 
Tobacco Culture. 25 
Turner’s Cotton Planter’s Manual. 1 50 
Wallace’s American Trotting Register . 5 00 
Wallace’s American Stud Book. Vol. 1. 10 00 
Warder's American Pomology. 3 00 
Warder’s Hedges and Evergreens. 1 50 
Waring's Draining for Profit and Health. ] 50 
Waring’s Elements of Agriculture. 100 
Waring’s Earth Closets and Earth Sewage. 50 
Weidep.mann’s Beautifying Country Homes. A superb 
quarto volume. 24 lithograph plates, in colors_ 15 00 
Wheeler’s Rural Homes. 2 00 
Wheeler’s Homes for the People. 3 00 
White’s Cranberry Culture. 1 25 
White’s Gardening for the South. 2 00 
Window Gardening. 1 50 
Woodward’s Cottages and Farm-Houses. 1 50 
Woodward’s Suburban and Country Houses. 1 50 
Woodward’s Country Homes..... . 1 50 
Woodward’s Graperies ami Horticultural Buildings. . 1 50 
Woodward’s National Architect . 12 00 
Wright’s Practical Poultry Keeper. 2 00 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse. 1 50 
Youatt and Martin on Cattle. 1 50 
Youatt on the Hog. 1 0) 
Youatt on Sheep. ] 00 
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Architecture; Modern American. By C. & M.. 10 00 
“ Bicknell’s Village Builder. 10 00 
“ Supplement to Village Builder. 5 00 
“ Village Builder and Supplement, 1 Vol. 12 00 
Art of Saw Filing. (Holly.).$ 75 
Bailey’s Our Own Birds of the United States.. 1 50 
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Bements Poulterer’s Companion.. 
Bridgeman s Young Gardener's Assistant. 
Burr's Vegetables ol America. 
Carpenters’and Builders’ Guide. 
Carpenters and Joiners’Hand-Book. (Holly). 
Carpenter and Joiner. (K. Riddell.). 
Chemistry of the Farm. (Nichols.). 
Cider-Maker’s Manual. 
Downing’s Cottage Residences. 
Downing’s Rural Essays. 
Du Breull’s Vineyard Culture. (Dr. Warder.). 
Farming for Boys. 
Fishing in American Waters. (Scott.). 
Flagg's European Vineyards. 
Flint (Charles L.) on Grasses. 
Flint’s Milch Cows and Dairy Farming. 
Geyelin’s Poultry Breeding.. 
Gray’s How Plants Grow.. 125 
Gray's Manual of Botany and Lessons. In one vol. 4 00 
Gray's School and Field Book of Botanv. 2 50 
Harazthy's Grape Culture and Wine-Making. 5 00 
Hatfield s American House Carpenter. 3 50 
Hay’s Interior Decorator. . 2 25 
Horse Training Made Easy. (Jennings.). 125 
Hu9inann’s Grapes and Wine. ' ... 150 
Jennings on Cattle. 175 
Jennings on Sheep, Swine, and Poultry. 175 
Jennings on the Horse and his Diseases. 1 75 
Kemp’s Landscape Gardening. 2 50 
Langstroth on the Honey Bee. 2 00 
Loth’s Stair Builder. 10 00 
Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Doctor. 
Mayliew’s Illustrated Horse Management. 
Mayhew’s Practical Book-Keeping lor Farmers. 
Blanks for do do do. 
Manufacture of Vinegar (Dussnnce). 
Mechanic's Companion. (Nicholson.). 
Morrell's American Shepherd. 
Mrs. Hale's New Cook Book. 
My Farm of Edge wood.. 
Norris’ Fish Cultnre. 
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Packard’s A Guide to the Study of Insects. 6 00 
Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher. ’ 
Quincy (Hon. Josiah) on Soiling Cattle.. 
Quinn's Money in the Garden. 
Quinn’s Pear Culture for Profit. 
Rand’s Bulbs. 
Rand’s Flowers for Parlor and Garden. 
Register of Rnral Affairs. Bound, 6 vols., each. 
Riddell's New Elements of Hand Railing. 
Roosevelt's Five Acres too Much. 
Rural Studies. 
Scribner's Ready Reckoner and Log-Book. 
Sllloway’s Modern Carpentry. 
Stonehenge on the Dog. . 
Strong's Cultivation of the Grape. 
Tegctmeier's Poultry Book. 
Ten Acres Enough. — 
The Horse. (Stonehenge.) Am. edition, 8vo. 
The Mule. (Riley.). 
Thomas’ Fruit Culturist. 
Trapper’s Guide.. 
Tucker's Register ol Rural Affairs. 
Vanx’s Villas and Cottages. .. 
Watson’s American Home Garden. 
Wllliard’s Practical Dairy Husbandry. 
Yonmans’s Household Science. 
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EDWARD EGGLESTON’S 
LATEST AND BEST STORY. 
The Mystery 
OF 
Metropolisville, 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON, 
Author of “ The Hoosier School-Master," “ The End 
of the World," etc. 
FINELY ILLUSTRATED. 
The chief critical authorities have awarded to Dr. 
Edward Eggleston a very high place as a writer of 
genuine American fiction, and it. is the unanimous ver¬ 
dict that his second story, “ The End of the World," is 
a great advance on his first. All, we think, who read 
"The Mystery of Metropolisville " will agree that the 
third story surpasses its predecessors in all regards. 
The wild land-speculation of 1856 furnishes a rare back¬ 
ground to Dr. Eggleston’s story, and the tale itself 
touches depths of human feeling not before sounded by 
the author. The mysterious transaction which gives 
title to the hook is founded upon a strange and romantic, 
incident, of which Dr. Eggleston was cognizant at the 
time of its occurrence. In “ The Mystery of Met.ropolis- 
viile,” the author of the ‘‘Hoosier School-Master" 
drives his plowshare into an entirely new field, a field 
richer, perhaps, than the one in which he has already 
achieved so great a success. The characters, Minorkey, 
the hypochondriac money-lender; Plausaby, the land- 
shark; Mrs. Plausaby; Miss Minorkey; Sweet Little 
Katy; Isabel Marlay; Albert Charlton, the man of 
ideas; Whisky Jim, the stage-driver; the Fat Gentle¬ 
man ; the Hoosier Poet; Smith Westcott; the gawky Il¬ 
linoisan, Dave Sawney, with the others, give play to a 
higher order of genius than the author has had the 
opportunity to show in his previous works, while the 
singular plot has far more of interest and action in it 
than is found in them. 
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Practical Floriculture, 
A Guide to tlie Successful Propagation and 
Cultivation of Florists’ Plants. 
Tty PETER HKNYiTERKOINT, 
Author of “ Gardening for Profit.” 
beautifully Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, $1.50. 
In this work, which has everywhere become so deservedly 
popular, not only is tlie whole “ art and mystery ” of propa¬ 
gation explained, hut tlie reader is taught liow 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 arc constantly kept in mind, and wc have a very com¬ 
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in the open air, suited to those who grow flowers for plea¬ 
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The work is characterized by the same radical common- 
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it holds a high place in the estimation of lovers of 
floriculture. 
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