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THE STANDARD DAIRY BOOK! 
WILLARD’S 
PRACTICAL DAIRY HUSBANDRY: 
A COMPLETE TREATISE ON 
DAIRY FARMS AND FARMING,—DAIRY STOCK AND STOCK FEEDING,—MILK, 
ITS MANAGEMENT AND MANUFACTURE INTO BUTTER AND CHEESE,— 
HISTORY AND MODE OF ORGANIZATION OF BUTTER AND 
CHEESE FACTORIES,—DAIRY UTENSILS, Ere., Etc. 
My X. A. WILLARD, A. IL, 
Editor of the Dairy Department of “ Moore's Rural New-Yorker,'’ and Lecturer at the Maine 
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FULLY AND HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED. 
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Management of for the Dairy. V, Milk. VI.-Associated Dairying: Its Rise and Progress. 
VII.—English Dairy Practice. VIII. Composition of Cheese. IX. Voelcker s Cheese Ex¬ 
periments. X— Preliminary to Cheese Making. Xl.-Cheese Manufacture. XII. Butter 
Manufacture. XIII— Appendix. 
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RURAL AND OTHER GOOD BOOKS, 
For sale at the rural Nkw-Yorker Office, No. 5 
Beekman 8t., New York, or sent by mall, pout- 
paid, on receipt of price : 
Willard’* Pi'iicilcnl Dairy Himbntidry 
(Junt iHHiuall.82 OO 
Allen's (I,. F.) American Cattle. 2 00 
Do. New American Farm Book... 2 50 
l)o. Diseases of Ommtilie Animals... . 1 00 
DO. Rural Architecture... 1 oo 
American Bird Fancier. .. 30 
American Pomology (HSU Illustrations) Warder. 3 (Hi 
American Practical v<K»k«v. .. I 7h 
American Ro*e Oultnrtat... HI 
American Standard of Excellence In Poultry... 1 IRI 
American Wheat CnlttirGt (Todill. * 6(J 
A roll I lecture. Nation;,! t<lor.. Id. VVood ward)...-. 12 (X) 
Atwood’* Ountrj and Suburban Houaea. 1 50 
Barry'.* Fruit Garden (new edition).. 2 HI 
Bee keeper*' Text Hook, l’aper, tile.; Cloth. 75 
BorneoV* ftabbit Fancier... . 30 
Biokueil’e Village Builder (56 Platen, showing 
New ami Praottpal Dcalgoa)...1U 00 
Bommer’s Metloal of Making Manures. 26 
Brack's Book Of. Flower* (tiow).. . 175 
Brldjtsnian's Gurdun-ir'a A-MatanL.. 3 60 
llnlat’* Kamil* Kitchen Gardener. 1 0(1 
Do. Flower Garden....... 150 
Canary Birds, Pa per,,Vic. j ClUh.,. 75 
Carpentry Made Easy inewi. . ... 6 00 
Chomlatry of the Firm (Nlchola).. .. 1 26 
Chorlton » Grace Grower'# Guide. 76 
Older Maker's Manual.... 1 50 
Clater'* Nrvw III. Catf-ln Doctor, colored trlatca... 6 00 
Cole'* American Fruit Hnok. 75 
Cole’# American Veterinarian. 75 
Cotton GnUute (Lyman e,).. . ISO 
Crack Shot (Barberl. 175 
Cranberry Culture I J. J. White).,.. 1 26 
Dadd'* American ( utile Doctor.. I 60 
Do Modern Hurra Doctor.. i 60 
Dana'* Mack Manuel. . 1 26 
ltarwlu’* Variation* of Animal* and Plant*. 6 00 
Dead Shut: of, Sport,man'# Complete Guide. I 75 
Downing'* Fruit* and Fruit Tree* of America. 
HUH) PP.).. . 5 IH) 
Do. Rural lfi*»uy*. .... 3 60 
Drainage for Profit and Health. 1 60 
Dj or anil Color Maker * Companion. 1 26 
ifattwood'# Cranberry Culture. 76 
Elliot’* Lawn and Shade Tree*. I 60 
Everybody'* Lawyer.. , 2 00 
Every W"toan ll'srOwn Flownr Gardener (Dew). 
paper.60c.; cloth... l 00 
F arm Drainage (II, F. French)... 1 60 
F'lirm Implement# and Machinery (J. J. Thomas) l 50 
Field'* Pear Culture ...,. .. 1 26 
F'l#hlng In A ra«mcbn Wutur* (Scott)... 3 60 
Do. Milch (low* and Dairy Fanning... 2 60 
Parent Tree# fBrvant). . 1 60 
Frank Forreswr'a Field Sport# (3 vol#.). 6 00 
Do. Fish and Fishing (100 engraving#). 6 00 
Do. Manual for Young Sportsmen ..... 3 IH) 
Fuller’# Hinstrated Strawberry Cullurl#t. 20 
Do. Forest Tree Cui turist. 1 60 
Do. Small F'ruli# (Illustrated).— l 60 
Fulton * Peach Culture. A Hand-Book and 
Outdo to Every Planter. . ) WJ 
Gardening (or Profit (P. llemlersou). 1 60 
Gardening Tor th« South (While's). 2 00 
Grape CulturlMt (A. S. F uller). I fd 
Gray's Manual of Botany and Lennon*. '3 00 
Do. School and Field Book of Botany. 3 60 
DO. How Plant* Grow (500 illustrations).. I 12 
Do. Introduction to Structural an 1 Systematic 
Botarivaud Vegetable Physiology (1.300 illus.L 3 60 
Uuurion on MUch Cow#. 75 
Dan, Rod and Saddle. .. 1 60 
Harney'* Barns, outbuildings and F'ences,.in no 
Harrison Insect#.... t DO 
Do. on the Pig Breading, Management, Ac. 1 60 
Hatfield's American House Carpenter. 3 60 
Hint* to )lnr#e Keeper# (Herbert'si,. 1 76 
High Farming without Manure. 10 
Holly's Art of Saw-Filing .. ... 7o 
Holly’# Carpenter'# Hand Book (new). 7b 
Hooper's Dog and Gan. 30 
Hftopjoi' Book of Evergreens. 3 oo 
Hop Culture. *0 
How Crop# Feed..... 2 00 
How Crop# Grow .... 2 00 
Hunter and Trapper. 1 00 
Husmaun'* Grape# and Wine. 1 50 
Hussey’* Nations' Cottage Architecture. C 00 
Indian Corn: u# Value. Culture ana uses. 1 50 
Jenning* on Cattle and tlielr Diseases. 1 76 
Do. HortiA and Ills Disease#.... 1 75 
Do. Horse Training Made Easy. 1 25 
• Do. sheep. Swine and Poultry. 175 
1 Johnston'# Agricultural Chemistry. I 76 
Do. Element# Agricultural Chemistry,.,,,,....,. 1 50 
Kemp's Landscape Gardening... 2 50 
LangMtroth on tlm iltvc and Honey Bee. 2 O0 
Cowls' American Sportsman. . 2 75 
Lightning Rods, and How to Construct Them, 
, by Juan Phln.. .... 20 
Minina! of Flax and Hemp Culture .. 23 
Manual or Tobacco Culture .. 26 
Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Management. 3 U0 
Do. Illustrated Horse Doctor. 3 00 
Mechanic’s Companion (Nicholson). 3 00 
Mechanic* for Millwrights, Machinists and others 1 50 
Miles on Horae's Foot (oloth). 76 
Modern Cookery (by Miss Acton and Mrs. 8. J. 
Hale)...,. 1 75 
McClure'# Diseases of Horse, cattle and 8heep. 2 00 
Money In the Garden, by P. T. Quinn. 1 60 
Norris' F'lsli Culture. .... 1 76 
Norton s Element* hulcntitio Agriculture. 75 
Onion Culture. 20 
Our F'arrn of Four Acre# .. 30 
Pardee i>n Strawberry Culture. 75 
Parsons OR the Rose... 1 26 
Pear Culture Tor Profit (I*. T. Quinn). 1 00 
Pedder’* Land Measure. HO 
Practical and Scientific Fruit Culture (Baker)... < 00 
Practical Floriculture (P. Ilomlerson). 1 50 
Practical Poultry KeeperlJ.. Wright)... 2 00 
Practical Hbapherd (Randall)... . 2 00 
Quinbv * Mv*>erl«« of lice Keeping. I 60 
Quincy on Soiling Cattle...,... 1 25 
Randall* Fine Wool Sheep Hn*0andry......... I (10 
Do. Sheep ll-aabandry In the South... 1 60 
Richards.00 on the Dag. .... 30 
Saunders' Domestic Poultry... . 40 
Bchenok'# Gardener*' Text-Book. 73 
Rcrihaer’s Produce Table#.. .. .. 30 
Do. Ready Reckoner and Log Book .. 30 
glmbsorrs Horse Portrultuiu — Breeding, Rear¬ 
ing and Training 'trotter*.2 50 
Six Hundred Recipes. 176 
Skeleton Leavus..... 2 00 
Skillful Fiouscwife. 76 
Slack’s Trout Culture (new). 1 60 
Stewart * (John) Stable Hook. 1 60 
Tegotnicior's Poultry Hook (colored plates). 9 00 
Tegetineicr's Pigeon Book (colored plates). 6 00 
Ten Aore# Enough. . I 60 
The Boston Machinist (bitzgorald). 76 
The Dog (by Dinks. Mayhow and llutchlnson).. 3 U) 
The Dog (new i... 2 50 
The Horse (Stonehenge). 8vo., 822 pp. 3 50 
The Mule (Riley)—A Treatise on the Breeding 
Training and uses to which he may be put..,. 1 50 
The People’# Practical Poultry Hook. 1 50 
Thomas' Am. Fruit Culturlst |46U Illustrations). 8 00 
Tranuer’s Guld* Newhouse)... 2 00 
Trout Culture Ideth Green)... I 00 
Trowbridge's (Mrs. Laura) Excelsior Cook Book 
and Housekeeper's Aid. 1 26 
Warder's Hedges and Flvergreen#.. 1 60 
Warm*'* Elements Of Agriculture. 1 U0 
Watson’s American Humo Garden. 2 00 
Wax Flowers, arid How to Make Them. 2 50 
Western Fruit Growers’Guide (Elliott). 1 60 
Wheeler’s Home* for the People.. 3 (XI 
Do. Rural Home*.. 2 00 
id Window Gardening ( 1 1. r, williams). I 60 
0 Woodruff’s Trotting Horse of America.. 2 26 
YVoodward's Graperies and Hort’l Buildings.... 1 60 
X- Oo. Country Homes. 160 
nT . Do. Cottage# and Farm Houses... 1 50 
0 Do. Suburban and Country Houses. 160 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse.. 1 60 
Youattand Martin on Cattle... 1 60 
:iC YOUAll and Martin on thfl Hog. 100 
Youatt on Bheep... 100 
a " Youman'B liand-Book of Household Science.... 175 
Address all orders to 
D. D. T. MOORE, 6 Beekman St., Hew York, 
pr Any Books desired, not named In this List 
will be f urnlshed on receipt of price. 
