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Do. Rural Architecture ., 
American Bird Fancier.. 
American Pnroi'log 
Americab pTncticn _ 
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American Stun. 
— Utah has a quarter of a million sheep. 
— Ohio has 10,000 Patrons of Husbandry. 
— The debt of Cuba amounts to $87,000,000. 
— California has about 8,000,000 head of sheep, 
— Vermont's potato crop, this year, is 6,157,- ! 
428 bushels. 
— Iowa has 10,500,000 acres of land under 
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— Small boys in Boston are now called Hub¬ 
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— Bock Island, Ill., employs twenty-six 
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adulterating cigars. 
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have 219 traveling and local preachers. 
— The ILnal decision of the Treasury Depart¬ 
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— The handsomest woman at Janesville 
Wis., is to be presented with a gold watch. 
— The Vermont State Prison contains seven¬ 
ty-seven convicts, of which three are females. 
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cheese. 
— Several newspapers of Federal proclivities 
have been suppressed by the Government at 
Madrid. 
— It is not probable that our flag will bo sa¬ 
luted by Spain on accoant of the Virglnius 
outrage. 
— Twenty-one couples of Belleville, Ill., and 
vicinity arc tired of matrimony and want 
divorces. 
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sign for a State Prison to hold one thousand 
prisoners. 
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fence around his 45,OGlO-aero farm. It isn't 
painted yet. 
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question of holding their Sabbath on the Chris¬ 
tian Sunday. 
— Japanese editors are allowed to carry 
swords, and a common man has to take off his 
hat to them. 
— A rich old fellow in Georgia purchased two 
camels in a circus, and is teaching his children 
to ride them. 
— The farmers of England number only 40C,00‘.) 
and, of that number, only 71,000 farm more 
than 100 acres. 
— Sixty railways have defaulted in 1873, and 
a much greater number of railway directors 
and managers. 
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age of 400 years. 
— There .ire 70,178 milts of railroad in this 
country, against 65,000 in all the States of 
Europe combined. 
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liquor In that town. 
— Thirteen of tho Western roads, mostly cen¬ 
tering In Chicago, have decided to give no more 
free passes after Jau. 1. 
— An old chap living in Philadelphia has 
spent $50,000 and ten years’ time trying to make 
gold out of other metal. 
— Tt Is estimated that Texas cattle dealers 
have taken $18,000,000 into their State from cat¬ 
tle transactions in Kansas tills year. 
— Six mure of the Communists have been 
condemned to death by the court-martial at 
Versailles, for being in contumacium. 
— A somnambulist at Elkhart, Ind., lately 
climbed to the top of a hundred-foot chimney 
and came down safely, while List asleep. 
— A Dubuque, Iowa, firm has contracted to 
supply a Naw York house with 150,000 turkeys, 
10,000 obirkerns, and 100,000 geese and ducks. 
— The oldest tombstone in Trinity Church¬ 
yard is that of Richard Churoher, who died on 
August 5th, 1081, aged 5 years and 5 mouths. 
— Grlnnell, Iowa, has a glove-ranking and 
tanning establishment, where 1,200 goat skins 
were tanuiud and worked up the past season. 
— The Legislature of Western Virginia is said 
to have passed a law at its last session "to pre¬ 
vent the owners ot hogs from running at 
large." 
— It is related that a Haverstraw man felt so 
badly about the recent Cuban outrage that he 
erected a guillotine in his poultry yard and 
beheaded all his Spanish fowls. It relieved 
him. 
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H) Illustrations) Warder.. 3 ifl 
okery....... 1 75 
l' i_ in mi ni..... 39 
_„ deril of Excel leuoirIn Poultry.. £0 
American Wheat Cnlturliit (Todd).. . 3 pO 
Architecture, National ifJeu. K. W'-odward)... ..13 00 
Atwoml'a Country and ljubUrhan Houses,. 1 SO 
Barry’s Fruit Harden (new edition).. 2 50 
Bee If supers’ Text Book, Paper, •We.; doth. 75 
Beuiem * Rabbit Fancier.... ..... 30 
Rick null's- Village Builder (55 Plaice, showing 
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Boiunipr'n Method of Making Munurcs. ‘15 
Brack's Book of Flower* (now). 1 75 
Bridge iiati's Gardener's Assistant.. 3 50 
Buiit’s Family Kit lieu (Hardener. . I HO 
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Carpentry Made Kusy (new)... 5 CO 
Chemistry of the Firm iNIcliolu)... 1 26 
CharltonUrni>o Grnwor’ii Cut da. 76 
Cider Mfiker'e Manual.. 1 00 
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Connell's American Hardener. 75 
Colo's American Fruit Book. 75 
Cole'S Artierlenn- VoUnlmirlan. 75 
Cotton Culture (Lymans,). 160 
Cruck Shot lHarbor).. 1 76 
Cranberry Culture- (.1. .1. White)... I 26 
Dadd's A merles i! Cattle Doctor,, .... 1 60 
Do Modern llorso Doctor. 1 50 
Dana’s Music Manila!... 1 26 
Darwin’s Variation.- of Animals and Plant*. li 00 
DeudSh"t: or, SOortmaii’r Complete Goble. I 75 
Downline's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 
Olid pp.j.... . 5 DO 
Do. Rural IDAiluya.. 3 60 
Drainage for Prnlit und Health. 1 50 
Dyeruud Color .11 a leer a Companion . 1 26 
Eastwood's Cranberry Culture. 76 
Elliot's Low)# and Shade Trees... 1 bO 
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Field'll Pear Culture.. . 1 25 
Fishing in American VValer.i iSoott). 3 60 
Flint "M Grasses. 2 60 
Do. Milch Cuwn arol Hairy Farming. 3 50 
Forest Trees (Errant)... 1 60 
Fratllc Forrester s Field Sports (3 vola.). 0 00 
Do. Fluh and Fishing (100 engravings). 5 00 
Do Manual for Young siportsainr.. 3 00 
Fuller's Illustrated fltrawborry Culturlst. 20 
Do. Forest Troe Culturlst... l 60 
Do. small Fruits (Illustrated). l 60 
Fulton's Peach Culture. A Iland-Uook and 
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Gardening for Front (P. Henderson)... I 60 
Gardening for the Bouth (White’s). 2 00 
Grape Culturlst (A. 8. Fuller).. .. I 50 
Uray'u Manual of Botany and I.cSSonn.'.. 3 eO 
Do. HetKioi ami Field Book <■( Botany.. 60 
Do. Mow Plants Grow i,t00 BluntraDono)...,. 112 
Do, Introduction to Structural ur I Systematic 
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Uuunon on .illicit cows... 76 
Cun, Roil and Saddle. 1 50 
Harney'* Baras, Outbuildings ami Fences,.10 00 
Harrison Insects. I 00 
Do. on tho Pig — Breeding, Management, &o. 1 SO 
I lalOeld’s Amuflcau House Carpenter. 3 CO 
Hints to tdorsu Keepers (Herbert’s). 1 75 
High Farming without Manure... 36 
Holly’* Art or Hew-Filing-. 75 
Holly’s Carpenter's Hand Book (new). 7b 
Hooper's Dog and Gun .. a..'.... ,’10 
1! iiiptii’ Boole of Evergreens. 3 no 
Hop i ulturii. 4i) 
How Crops Feed... 3 00 
Uow Crops Crow. m) 
Hauler and Trapper. 100 
Hnsmana b Crapes and Wine. ! 50 
Indian Corn : Ha Value. Culture and Dees....... 1 60 
Jenuings on Cuttle and their ntiteuaea. 1 75 
Do. llorsn mi J hi* Dlmaur* ... 1 '/6 
Do. Horse 'I lining Mado Busy. 1 25 
Do. Sheep, Swine ami Poultry. 1 75 
Job millin'-! Agricultural Ch .-mlstry . 175 
Do. Element* AurlollltimU I'liomistry. 1 6fj 
ff amp's Landscape Gardening.. i 50 
Lnngstroth oi) flit* illvoitJid Honey Bee. '! Co 
Lewis' iipcrlc' n Bpomtum. '.! vs 
Lightning llnds. anti Hviw to Ci r,«lruot Them. 
nt John f'bln. 25 
Manual on Fiax and Hemp Culture. 
Manual of Tobacco Culture. .. 
Mason's Furrier and Stud Book. 1 , j 
Muytiew'B Illustrated Horse Management.. 3 u0 
Do. Illustrated Horan i).ici„,r. . a CO 
Mechanic's Companion (Nicholson),..,. . I/O 
Menhuulcs for Millwrights, .Vschluists und others 1 50 
Mileu Oil llorsu'u Foot lelotu). 75 
Modem Ouukury (by Miss Auton and Mrs. s. J. 
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McClure's Disease < of Hnr»n, Cattle and rflmop. 2 00 
Money in the tlardOO, by P. T. . I SO 
Norris'Fish Culture. 175 
Morton's Kltiunj.’il* Sulcutino Agi multure........ 76 
Onion Culture-. 20 
Our Far m of Four Aerfti ... 20 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 75 
Parxonn on the UiiMo. .... 125 
Pear Culture for front (P. T. Guinn). 1 00 
Pedder’s I.aml Measure. tk) 
Practical and Suleiltllli) Fruit Culture (Halier),,. 4 00 
Prautlcul Floriculture (P. Henderson)..'... 1 60 
Practical Poultry keeper (L. VVrlgtit). 2 00 
Practical Shepherd (Randall;. 2 00 
Ouiuby'S Mysteries of Bee Keeping. 1 50 
uuinoy on Railing Cattle..... 1 25 
Randal! s Fine Wool Hheeo Husbandry. 1 00 
Do. Sheep Husbandry in the South. 1 50 
KUdiwdsou on r.nu Dog. 80 
naunders Domestic Poultry. <0 
Rofmnck’* liurdeuers 1 Text-Book. 75 
Fcrlbnct's ProduiP-’I’uhlos .. 39 
Do. Uoitily Rei ki nvr and I og BoO.Y. 30 
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81 x Hoc tiled R„clpdii.. 1 76 
Skeleton ) .oityes. .. 2 00 
Rkllltul noHaOwUu.. . 75 
Slaelt r Trmlt culture (new). 150 
dtdwart's l.Bihu) tt ruble Book. l so 
TogutWhlei's Potmry Boole (colored uiutes). 0 00 
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Ten aorus Enoilirtt,,... 1 00 
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