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RURAL ADORNMENT 
BY CAPT. A. BKEMAN. 
I have seen in the Rural New-Yorker 
many beautiful plans for yards and sur¬ 
roundings of farmer's homes. Many of these, 
however, are too expensive for a large ma¬ 
jority of the farmers of the country. In con¬ 
nection with this, some lady writers for the 
Rural, justly complain of filthy, unsightly 
front and rear yards, no neat, shaded prom¬ 
enade for the farmer’s wife and daughters; 
no clean, close-clipped lawn for the lit Lie 
ones to gambol and play upon; hence the 
depression of spirits and discouragement of 
the women ; and the discontent and disgust 
of the boys for farm life. 
“ Can wc remedy this, and if so, how ?” 
That’s what I am going to tell you; and 
you need not take an hour’s time from the. 
plow, either; for the time spent lounging in 
the store or corner grocery, or talking idle 
gossip, is generally all-sufficient. 
I suppose your woodshed—if you have 
one—has been thoroughly renovated this 
spring, or your wood yard has been cleansed 
out, and your next year's wood carefully 
corded up. Now with your wood saw dis¬ 
sect that old broken sled, the old hay rig¬ 
ging, old plows, hoards in bits and pieces of 
rails, which have so long accumulated about 
all the buildings ; neatly pile up such parts 
as will make fuel, with the other wood. 
Down with the old rickety fence which lias 
so long boon propped up to keep it from fall¬ 
ing upon the children; if any part is worthy 
to go into the new fence, lay it carefully by 
itself. Dig ttp every dead tree, bush and 
stump; grub out the stone, and old weeds 
and useless brush. Nmv for the team, and 
cart out all this mass of rubbish to some 
suitable place; burn it,and scatter the ashes 
upon your poorest land. Smooth down your 
grounds as nice as you can; sow a little 
grass serd upon bare places, and the ship is 
cleared ready for action. 
Arc there any evergreens for sale in your 
vicinity? If so, a pair of Irish Junipers, 
Norway Spruce, Balsam of Fir, or even a 
thick growing Hemlock or Pine, from your 
own woods; a dozen Hard or Soil Maples, 
set any way except In straight lines; a Pop¬ 
lar, Lin wood, Ash,—all are desirable. If 
you cannot obtain trees, perhaps you can beg 
a half dozen dahlia bulbs of a more fortunate 
neighbor; dig a hole two feet in diameter 
and eight inches deep, fill with good, rich 
earth; set up some bricks around it, or even 
stones, or make a diamond shaped box an<\ 
set around the hills. If you cannot do Lhis, 
you can beg a dozen cucumber seeds and 
plant in these hills, and your wife or daugh¬ 
ter will go to the woods and cut a dry stick, 
with as many branches ns possible, stick in 
the hills and train the cucumbers upon them; 
or even a few hills of common corn, in a bare 
yard, are some relief' to the eye. Now build 
as good a fence as you can; keep your 
grounds mowed close during the summer, 
and try a little harder for the trees next year. 
Lay off a plot in some part of the grounds 
for flowers. Raise It six or eight inches; let 
the girls design the plan and the boys do the 
work. During the summer propagate or 
beg a few potting plants for fall and winter. 
Let your family become accustomed to see 
trees, shrubs and flowers in the yard, instead 
of old, tumble-down barrels and rubbish. 
Have a good vegetable garden, well tend¬ 
ed. On rainy days don’t go to the store or 
grocery, but arrange conveniences about the 
house to make the work easier, and about 
die barn for your own convenience. Let 
this thrift once begin, and it will soon ex¬ 
tend over the farm, eventuating in a heavy 
pocket and a light heart for yourself and 
each member of your family. Try it on 
and see. 
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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Tim Fanner's Door-yard. 
Cuo Dare writes us:—“ A question I 
have never been able to answer is, ‘ Why 
does a man with one, two or three hundred 
acres of land, coop himself up to live in a 
space of less size than he gives his cattle in 
the barn yard ?’ ” 
Destruction id Worms la Lawns. 
Ar English horticulturist says, that when 
worms have so Infested a lawn that they 
threaten its destruction, tlie destroyers may 
be destroyed by the use of corrosive subli¬ 
mate, according to the following directions: 
The quantities given are suitable for a 
lawn about 30ft. by 30ft. Dissolve 3 oz. of 
corrosive sublimate in cold water (which is 
more readily effected by first reducing the 
corrosive sublimate to powder, and adding, 
at the same time, about 3 oz. of muriate of 
ammonia,) this quantity Is sufficient for 24 
gallons of water. Sprinkle the grass-plot 
with this solution by means of an ordinary 
watering-can, and the surface will immedi¬ 
ately be covered with worms-largc and 
small, wriggling in agony. Ho picks them 
off and throws them Into salt, though no 
doubt they would die if not removed. It is 
better to apply the solution in wet weather. 
The grass is not injured by it, but should it 
turn yellow for a short time it soon recovers 
its green color, as the roots are not injured. 
The corrosive sublimate is a most deadly 
poison, and, of course, requires care. This 
is generally sufficient for one season, hut as 
the borders round the grass-plot cannot lie 
sprinkled in the same way, they generally 
furnish a fresh supply of worms by the fol¬ 
lowing season.” 
floriculture. 
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IVY FOR PICTURE FRAMES. 
Isabella T., in the Scottish Farmer, fur¬ 
nishes the following article and illust rations, 
which we transfer to our columns. She 
says:—“ Ivy is one of the best plants to have 
in the bouse, as it bears a large amount of 
neglect and abuse, and gratefully repays 
good treatment. It is not rare to sec a pot 
of ivy placed where it cun be trained around 
pic ture Frames or mirrors, and thus border 
them with living green. 
imr 
Ihr 
Fig. 1—Ivy trained round a Picture Frame 
or Mirror. 
“ 1 have bit upon a way of dispensing with 
the pot, or rather I have a substitute for it, 
which is kept out of sight. Figure l shows 
a picture frame wreathed with ivy after this 
method. Only a good-sized picture or mir¬ 
ror can ho treated in this way, and as such 
arc usually hung so that the top of the frame 
leans forward, the space between the frame 
and the wall is available for the receptacle 
for the plant. A pot or pan of zinc, of a 
wedge shape, and of ft sizu to suit the space 
between the frame and the wall, as shown 
in flg. 2, can be readily made by any tin¬ 
smith. This is to be hung against the wall, 
so as to be quite concealed by the picture, 
and the ivy tastefully trained over the frame. 
fcf fra “ A rustic frame is better 
''r- -- suited to this purpose, as it 
I I not only affords better facil- 
I I ities for attaching the stems 
f / to the frame, hut its style 
I seems better adapted to this 
I kind of decoration than 
/ more pretentious ones. Still, 
I a gilt frame may be bcauti- 
I fled in the same way. There 
j I is only one precaution to be 
11 / used—viz., notto hang such 
I a frame over the fireplace 
I_—i for the combined heat and’ 
fio. j.—pot to dust would soon destroy the 
Wid th* ivy. plant L et it i,ang so that 
it may face a North or East window. 
“ Don’t forget the water; the pan holding 
the plant is out of sight, and therefore should 
be kept in mind. In slimmer, the pan con¬ 
taining the plants may he hung up on the 
shady side of the house, or the plants may 
be turned out in the Open ground. Ivy, 
when planted out in the garden, if it is in¬ 
tended to repot it in autumn, should be kept 
tied up to a stake; if the branches are al¬ 
lowed to lie upon the ground, they will take 
root at nearly every joint. There is no plant 
easier to start from cuttings than Ivy, and 
none grows more readily if it has a good 
soil and does not suffer from dryness. One 
precaution must, however, be observed— 
viz., to provide proper drainage for the pot.” 
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FL0RI0ULTURAL NOTES. 
Disitzln GmcIM*. 
“ Daisy Eyebrigiit,” in the Country Gen¬ 
tleman, says the flowering shrub Deutsia gra¬ 
cilis *' is much cultivated in green-houses, 
though it is perfectly hardy.” In whose 
green houses? IVe doubt if anybody hav¬ 
ing a green-house is quite so stupid ns this, 
—Germantown Tdegrcph, 
Our Pennsylvania cotemporary must 
have been into the market without bis 
glasses, or, Rip Van Winki,E- like, been 
asleep for twenty years, or he would have 
seen thousands of this beautiful plant, com¬ 
ing from green houses, in full bloom, every 
spring. Deuttia gracilis has been for the last 
fifteen years, and is now, one of the most 
popular plants for forcing in winter known 
to the trade, and still it is as hardy os a 
white oak. Because a plant happens to be 
hardy, we do uot leave it to the tender mer¬ 
cies of “ Boreas,” or wait for old “Sol” to 
bring out its lavely flowers. We would ad¬ 
vise the Major, from whose stern battery the 
Telegraph is worked, to look into the Phila¬ 
delphia markets and learn “ who’s green¬ 
house ” furnishes tho thousands of Dcutzia 
gracilis plants annually sold there. 
Mrilrualn Vlrgliilcn— l’olrinonlum rcpinna. 
Can you give the names of the two plants 
enclosed? They are wild flowers, growing 
along the bank of the river here. We con¬ 
sider them one of the most beautiful as well 
as I he very earliest spring flowers we have. 
-Mrs. H. G. Dus Gkaw, Jones Co., Iowa. 
Tiie plant with the smooth, obovate entire 
leaves and clusters of purplish flowers, Is 
Mertcnsia I irginica, or Smooth Lungwort. 
In some of tho old botanical works it is 
called Pulmonano Yirginica, because used 
for pulmonary diseases. It is a very hand¬ 
some, early flowering plant, and often culti¬ 
vated in gardens. 
Tho other plant, which has numerous 
small lanceolate leaflets and corymbs of nod¬ 
ding bright blue flowers, is Polcmonium rep- 
tans. It is quite common in the Middle and 
Western States, usually growing in deep, 
shady woods. 
Splriiiii Primil'olla Plena, Sec. 
Will you please name the enclosed 
plants,and much oblige Mrs. A. II. Palmer, 
Wellington, Ohio. 
The flowering shrub is Spircea prunifolia 
plena, or Double flowering plum-leaved 
Spiraea. 
The small leaf with whitish veins is the 
Goodycra pvbescens, a plant belonging to the 
Orchis family. It is an elegant little plant 
producing a long spike of small white flow 
era. It succeeds well in half shady borders 
or as a bouse plant; but the soil in which it 
is grown should be coarse leaf-mold and of a 
poor quality, not rich nor very fine. 
Plant for it Rama. 
Inclosed l send a flower and leaf for 
name. Willi us it is an evergreen.—A New 
Subscriber, San Mateo Co., Cal. 
It is Veronica speciora —very pretty, with 
long, dense spikes of violet, purple flowers. 
Native of Now Zealand. There arc several 
other species which closely resemble the one 
named, the principal difference being in the 
form of the leaves. 
;Ijc ffiarbrntr. 
KEEPING ONIONS. 
A correspondent in Kentucky asks how 
to keep onions through whiter. A cool, dry 
place is all important; and in Kentucky we 
should select a cool room—perhaps a tight, 
warm barn would answer, for it will not in¬ 
jure onions to be slightly frozen, provided 
they are not handled while in that condition, 
but allowed to remain in the dark until the 
frost leaves them. Gather in fall and remove 
tho tops; then spread upon a barn floor or 
in any open shed, and allow them to remain 
there until thoroughly dry. Put into bar¬ 
rels or small bins or boxes, and place in a 
cool place, and at the approach of cold 
weather cover with straw or chaff, if there 
is danger of very severe freezing. 
We have known farmers in New York 
State to keep hundreds of bushels of onions 
through the winter, in barrels placed in one 
corner of the barn, and when very severe 
weather came on the barrels were covered, 
and the interstices between them tilled with 
wheat or oat chaff, and no farther attention 
was paid to them until spring. The onions 
were probably frozen during winter, but 
being excluded from air and sudden changes 
of temperature no injury followed. 
There are very few cellars sufficiently dry 
and cool to keep onions, and losses are pretty 
suro to occur if such places are used for 
storing, especially if in large quantities. 
GARDEN NOTEa 
Culture of the Horse-Radish. 
The cultivation of this vegetable is as sim¬ 
ple as anything can be. The soil should be 
deep and moist. Cut off slips from a root 
with a little of the crown and plant three or 
four Inches deep in rows, if for field culture, 
so as to admit of handy working. If in a 
garden it matters little whether in rows or 
not, as it soon sprouts up in every direction. 
Unless the whole crop is removed the bed 
will supply itself year after year, and a space 
ten feet square will be enough for ait ordinary 
fum i ly .—Germantown Telegraph. 
Chinese Yum* in the Month. 
A Mississippi correspondent asks if Chi¬ 
nese yams will grow well in that State and 
climate. We should think so. 
Arboriculture. 
TROUBLE m THE ORCHARD. 
I have a small orchard, on slight eastward 
declivity, on black, Randy loam, day subsoil, 
planted about fourteen years, which has been 
cultivated in corn nearly every year until 
1870, when I look possession, and Sowed it 
in oats and clover. Most of the trees I pruned 
pretty heavily last season and this, they hav¬ 
ing previously been neglected. They fruit 
well until just before maturity; then the 
fruit specks, and falls off unlit tliu ground is 
covered with apples. Scarcely any of the 
fruit, comes to perfection, A short time after 
the fruit begins to speck, the leaves begin to 
die, taking on what l suppose is leaf-blight. 
Tell me, please, how to remedy the defect. 
I never saw a curculio, but intend to try the 
“chip traps” immediately in ibis orchard, 
as I have read a good deal about the curcu¬ 
lio sling. 
I wish to plant a young orchard this fall 
on the same kind of soil as the one spoken of 
above, and wish to know wliftt you think of 
setting apple trees thirty or forty feet apart 
each way, and putting between the rows a 
row of standard or dwarf pears in half the 
orchard, and quinces in tho other half.—J. 
Ad. Weatherly. 
We cannot say what is the trouble with 
your apple trees, but fear that it is the leaf- 
blight. We would advise planting the 
orchard with some kind of low growing crop 
requiring cultivation in summer,—such as 
beans, potatoes or peas. An application of 
lime might do good, and perhaps dusting the 
trees witli it soon after the apples appear 
may prevent the blight. It is well to try va¬ 
rious remedies where the character of the 
disease Is not known. As for mixing differ¬ 
ent species of fruit trees, like pears, apples 
and quinces in the same orchard by placing 
them in alternate rows, we never could see 
the ut ility of such a practice, for the trees of 
either kind,if well cultivated, will live a hun¬ 
dred years. With short-lived fruit trees like 
the pencil in some localities, tho intermin¬ 
gling of different kinds may be practiced eco¬ 
nomically, hut wc doubt its advisability with 
those you name. Plant each kind by itself, 
and then tho special culture required may be 
given economically and judiciously. 
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ARBORIOULTURAL NOTES. 
Hedge Plant. 
Subscriber, Page Co., Iowa, had better 
try Three-lhorned acacia ( Qledilchia Irican- 
thos) for a hedge to keep pilferers from his 
apple orchard. A man, or boy, who will 
venture to climb over a hedge of this kind 
will deserve all the fruit he will get. 
White Willow for Fence. 
An Ohio correspondent of tho Rural 
New-Yorker has evidently been badly sold 
with White Willows. He says:—“For a 
fence, they will not pay for planting. Miles 
of them were planted here six or eight years 
since, and they are not fences yet, nor likely 
to be.” 
Whitewashing Ap|ilu Trees. 
II. Miles, Pine Valley, N. Y., writes the 
Rural New-Yorker that be whitewashed 
his apple trees to kill the bark louse, but 
thinks he shall never do it again; it almost 
killed them. The next spring ho dug up 
the grass and soil about six inches deep 
about a foot from the body of the trees, and 
put in manure from the barn-yard, covered 
it over with dirt, and then washed his trees 
with ley from wood ashes. Now they are 
very thrifty. He does not. tell us whether 
he whitewashed them in I he fall or spring. 
Wo do not recommend whitewashing trees 
until late in the fall; not then in warm cli¬ 
mates. 
be fHttjeirarir. 
VINEYARD NOTES. 
A Giant (.inpc Vim*. 
We have received from John S. Coui.son, 
Natchez, Miss., a section of a monstrous 
grape vine, measuring eight and a half inch¬ 
es in diameter. This almost equals the great 
vine so often referred to in history, from 
which the doors of tho Cathedral at Raven¬ 
na, Italy, were made. If anybody can show 
a larger grape vine stem than this one from 
Mississippi, we shall be pleased to hear from 
them. 
Grnftlng Grnpc* in California. 
I can tell Mr. H. N. Langwortiiy that 
wc are very successful in California grafting 
the grape vine. If the stock is half an inch 
or more in diameter, wc seldom use ligatures 
of any kind, or wax. We graft belmv the 
surface, and the Bolt, moist earth is better 
than wax. 
Hundreds of thousands of vines arc graft¬ 
ed in this State. Some large ones; and 
these are better to be slit with a saw. Open 
the cleft a little with a wedge, and, witli a 
sharp knife, shave each side smooth for the 
cions. We graft all the way from February 
to April, and seldom fail.— O. N. Cadwkll, 
Santa Barbara Co., Cal. 
WHAT THE PEOPLE AND PRESS SAY 
OK THE 
PMWS PMCTIMI, rOULTRI BOOK. 
Opinion* or the People. 
From S. J. nr* fee. Preeidrntor the Conn. Stair Fault ni 
Society. 
A i.i.ow me to express my appreciation of the cul- 
m unit Ion of your effort* to further tho poultry luter- 
e»t« of the country, Dy putlinK forth " Tim I'ooplo’s 
Practical Poultry Book." I nml much in it, i iseful. 
“tid a* its title Indicates practical. Inform,HI.in, at¬ 
tractively. tersely, and well stated. It i* a work 
which has been long needed, and ut tho low price 
Offered stnmld have, anti doubtless will have, a [urge 
sale. 
Fram Lewis F. Allen, President nf Western .V. Y. 
Poultry Association. 
Any publication, honestly trentlufr the advance¬ 
ment of fowls as articles of household economy, tnsto 
In their display of homey, symmetry, excellence, or 
ffrntMention to their possession. Is worthy both of 
patronage and study, Such wo consider 'The Peo¬ 
ple Practical Poultry Book ” to bo, and wish for It 
a wide circulation. 
From II. i»f. Beckwith, President o) the Northwestern 
Poultry Association. 
Know the hasty examination l have matin of 
lho People's Practical Poultry Book," I uni siitls- 
ned that it has merits that will bo appreciated. 
From F. IP. Babcock, Fair Haven, Conn. 
I hi CKIVEn "The. People's Practical Poultry 
Hook " at my cOnntry sent. Pair Haven, on Sal unlay. 
I rewind it u» the finest one which I own and l liavo 
eight. 
From .V. A. tVflltial, Dairy Editor Rural New-Yorker. 
Vault Poultry Book In received. It makes n henn- 
lil nl volume, and it l i a wood one too. I congratu¬ 
late you on your success, for you have made a very 
excellent hook. 
OpIniouH of the I* l'e**. 
Major Lewis has written a book on Poultry, which 
la almost exhaustive In Its treatment, of the subject, 
and so accurate In every respect, that li must become 
standard authority. Everything relating in poultry 
breeding and Uiamiffomrtnt Is found In t ills volume, 
and wherever Illustrations could mid Interest, or 
Clearness to the text,, they have been trcely used. 
The poultry list Includes Inmiyurd fowls, turkeys, 
ducks and fjPiUie, and the varieties of nut h arolllustra- 
tod by original engravings taken innstiv from premi¬ 
um fowls. The foot hod of arlttlclul hutch i up and euro 
of tho ynupw. are full v set forth, mid I ho most. Improv¬ 
ed Incubator* Illustrated. Those who hn vu had years 
of expcrlonco III poultry raising will Mod new and 
valuable information In the Chapter on canonizing, 
while for the beginner and amateur the wide work 
l« Indispensable. Rochester Dally Express. 
A GOOD, practical and I rust wr/Hliy work on poul¬ 
try, breeding and rearing. lias bccii a want that Is 
now most opportunely supplied. A low small works 
have been published m mis country in vrnrsjionn 
hy, but no book tInir. wns worthy ot being considered 
* Standard authority hits ever appeared until lho 
one under consideration. Our wealthy poultry 
brooders, or course, could purchase Tepetrm-lor's 
excellent hut. expensive work: hut Lb is oply give* 
the English views of poultry and poultry breeding, 
which are not always suited to our climate ami 
breeds. Mr, Lewis Iiiim nut only given u« In tils 
work tao cream of Tegetmoicr* noon, mu tins added 
that, which hr has gathered I ruin a long niol practi¬ 
cal experience. It is Jtisf such a book na every per¬ 
son want' whs) keeps domestic low I a, either for 
prolllor'pleasure. New YmliSnn. 
IS his preface the author says he pro,-nuts Ills own 
views ami experience on Uin subjects treated, nini, 
likewise, these of the most, careful, -.otcinillo and 
reliable breeders and l.melers It, thl- e-mut ry ns 
given from limn in time for tho past twenty one 
vears, through the press, lie bus evidently aimed 
to bring together the greatest nniollot, of practical 
Information from all sources within ills reach, and 
present, II to the reader in a popular and convenient 
lortu, making Ills work rspcriully valuable for rctor- 
ence. The hook lx profusely Illustrated, and lho 
drawingsnrc IMe and, wc judge, generally accurate, 
-American Rural Home 
The style and excellence of thu binding, the clear 
type, and line ilnbed paper, tho pm/umniess of Illus¬ 
trations, lover one htludp'rt.l the form oi the work, 
ami tho fltct tlilit wilhin itn 224 |»h^hh in ennefflo Inn- 
gauge the wisdom ut the poultry faut'iera and tho 
virtucrtof tho various bicerls dow n to the present 
time are embodied, it, is quite enough to say to recom¬ 
mend It. * * It Is Mil' American poultry hook of 
the limes, without, dount, and Mr. Moore ih entitled 
to a yoio ot thanks for bringing It out, as well us Mr. 
Lewi* for writing It.—Mich. Fa/mer. 
Its object Is to place In Juxtaposition, ami arrange 
for Convenient reference, the best, publications or 
their substance, which have been brought out during 
thu past twenty year*. In pm suing this idea the au¬ 
thor has qtmted, with good Judgment, „|ikc f r ,, m 
hooks and papers, and has iiltisLrnted Ids pages with 
abundant woodcuts. An appendix Contains the Eng¬ 
lish " standard of excellence.” giving those points of 
different breed} on which Judges al poulterers' exhi¬ 
bitions render their decisions.— Christian L'nioil. 
It was prepared by IV ,vt. Lewis, a former resident 
of Rochester, now of Mrooklyn. The book has evi¬ 
dently been prepared wllh grout cure, so as to ttiulto 
It ■ practical hand-book Co aid In the culture of those 
fowl* which are reared in tin*country both for profit 
and fancy, * • The suggestions, in all respects, 
madti by tho anlhor "t this ... are entirely prueti- 
ratl.und will no doubt greatly assist those Who heed 
them. Rochester Daily Ifhtan and .hlrertiser. 
It absolutely exhausts the clii.: ken theme. It. is it 
book not merely for furdUM* and largo poultry rais¬ 
ers, bat the village and city resident, who ow ns his 
do*en fowls may cluck with sutlsfaci Ion or crow wit h 
lusty lungs over Hie knowledge lie will derive from 
Its perusal. ’ * The author, .Mr. Lewis, has reared 
fowls in Hie city, and speaks from his own expiul- 
eneo. Ho Ini* written his book plainly and clem ly. 
HDd With little waste of words. ,V. )'. Com Adv. 
A ORKAT deal bat been written on the snhject of 
poullrv and poultry keeping during 111 ! mist, twenty 
year* In the agricultural periodical*. u>t • from tlie 
several treatises which liavo appeared, i • author 
of the present work onda.ivois to -oleel . this 
widely scattered maw* of material, what he ii .uiiils 
an Its most valuable portions,and uniting wllh them 
tho rertulta of his own oh*et vat ion, presents a in >k 
which will ho a convenient addition to the library of 
any poultry keoper.— Country Gentleman. 
No iMjj.vr it omitted,.from the analysis of the ogg 
and Illustration Of tho embryo chick, through all the 
subsequent stagesof development,mid manipulation, 
until It reaches the hands or the cook. * - So far 
a* wo ar* able to Judgo.tho anther has faithfully 
performed his tank, and furnished a practical work 
on poultry raising likely to become a popular lavor- 
ito.— IJticu DaUu tier Aid. 
This new and valuable book on the breeds, breed, 
ing, rearing and general management of poultry 
reaches u» tt»u late for an extended notice, We liavo 
only room to say that In paper, binding, typography, 
quality and number of Illustrations, It Is the finest 
work on the subject that has come under our notice. 
- Northwest e rn Farmer. 
Ah the latest and one of tho fullest and best illus¬ 
trated, and ns a reliable cheap work on Foultry, wn 
place tills !fr»t on the list tor tho gen cm I render. * 
Another merit at the book Is I hm It Is cheap ; It Is 
sent, postage paid, for ♦ 1..VI, nlihougli It com pit res 
favorably with most. 6-books. —UVif, i a Forme, . 
Aid. the vnrletles of poultry, useful and ornamen¬ 
tal, Incubators, poultry houses, pat king boxes, etc., 
are Illustrated. Ail necessary instructions in breed¬ 
ing and rearing poultry arugiveij minutely and dour¬ 
ly. * * It should be in the bands of all w ho are rais¬ 
ing poultry, .plantation. Atlanta. 
Thk subjuct rif poultry raising In all IIh feature* la 
fully and intelligently considered, besides which 
there Is an appendix containing the English standard 
of excellence, as given by Tcgctmclcr. It is Illus¬ 
trated with over one hundred line engravings, and 
i tho I el ter-proa* U very line. -HVjttm Rural. 
. IT Is tho most complete work of the kind ever pub- 
1 llshed, and contains everything anybody wishes to 
know about breeds*!! fowls, with tho roaring, fatten¬ 
ing and proper cure of all sort* of the feathered tribe, 
fully and attractively pictured out. -V. FJ, Homestead. 
THERE are extant scores of books professing to 
I, give information on the above topics, but. wo aro 
ready to concede, we have not. met with so com pie to 
r a W'.rk, alt in all, upon these subjects as this .admi¬ 
rably gott en-up Issue.— New York Day Book. 
* Tms hook is from the afflcoof the ID iiai. Nkw- 
5 I Yorker, and as the latter Is one of the best of pa¬ 
pers. it Is one of the best of book*. Wo heartily 
! commend it. It I* timely, practical and valuable.— 
Christian Intlexand Haytist. 
IT Is » book that contain* a lurg‘‘amount »>f pram I- 
cal Information about poultry, Hm broods, breeding, 
rearing and general management. It should bo in 
• the hand* of al Ithose tli at want to raise poultry.- 
I Farm Journal. 
The author has produced a good book, and any 
i person desirous of obtaining Information on mutters 
relating to the feed lug and management of poultry, 
1 may study this work to advantage. Maryland Far. 
, iner. 
IV this work wo have, doubtless, all the reliable ln- 
I formation that could bo obtained, and it is one that 
Is much needed. Iowa Uome*tmd. 
’ it Is a valuable book, and should bo In tho hands 
of all poultry raisers.—Missouri Valley Farmer. 
