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Allen'ii lb. F.t American <'tittle. 2 DO 
Do. New American Farm Hook...... 2 60 
Do. Diseases or Domestic. Animal*.. 1 I® 
Do. Hural AruhU«cU)i«... 1 60 
American Bird Fancier ... HO 
American Pomology 1290 III,ustratlons) Warder.. 3 00 
American Practical (looker'. . 1 75 
American HoneCulrurlst. 30 
Amerloau Wheat Cuituiist (Todoi.. 2 00 
Architecture. Natlniial (Geo. K. Woodward)..... 12 00 
Atwood's Country and BabUrhuii Mouses,.. 1 50 
Barry s Fruit Durden (new edition). 2 50 
Bee Keeper*' Text Book, Paper, *()«.; Clbth. 76 
Bements Kttbblt Fancier. 30 
BicknulUs Village Builder (Mi Plates, showing 
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Bummer's Method ot .Making Manures..... 25 
Breck’a Book of Flowers (new). .. 176 
Brid«i*man'a Oaruetier's Assistant. 2 50 
Bulat'* Fanillv Kitchen Gardener. I 00 
Do. Flower Garden-. 1 60 
Carpentry Mad« Kasy (new). 6 00 
Chemistry of the Farm iNlebola)... 1 25 
Chorl ton's Grape Grower s Guide. 75 
Cider Maker's Muininl. . 1 60 
Clater's N«w III, Cattle Doctor,colored plates... 0 00 
Cole’s American Fruit Book. 76 
Col®’* American Veterinarian. 75 
CottOu Culture i l.yiuan B.)...... 160 
Crack Hliut (Barber)... 1 76 
Crimberry I'nlturn (.1. J. White). 1 25 
Dadd's American Cattle Doctor.... 1 50 
Do .Modern Horae Doctor. I 60 
Diliut's Muck Manna).. i 26 
Darwin's Variation* of Animals and Plants. II 00 
Dead cilllit: or. Hportmun’s C, uiplete G ulde..... 1 76 
Downlnu's Fruits anil fc rn)t Tv *es of America. 
rlue pp.i.. 6 oo 
Do. llnrul Kssiiy*...... 3 50 
UriUnnge for Profit and Health. j 60 
Dyer and Color Maker's Companion. I 26 
Eastwood’s Cranberry Culture... 76 
Billot's l.mvn and 8 hado Trees...... 1 60 
Everybody's Lawyer... 2 00 
Kvory Woman I ter Own Flower Gardener (new). 
patter, 50c.: cloth,.. 1 00 
Farm Drainage (It. F. French). I 60 
Farm I luploiuerits tind Machinery fj. j. Thomas) I 60 
Field’s Pear Culture.. 126 
Fishing In American Waters (Scott). 3 50 
Do. Milch Cows and Dairy Fanning. 2 aff 
Forest Trees (llrvanl)..,.. l 5 ( 
Frank Forrester's Field Sport* (2 vein.). a 
I)o. Fish aud li'ishluK (100 enKiktyliius). 6 00 
Do. Man util for Yopn*; SporteOieu ,. .. .100 
Fuller's illustrated Mlrawborry Cultu »t. 20 
Do. Forest Tree t’ultui ist. 1 60 
Du. Small bruits (Illustrated)....,,,, i 60 
Fulton's Peach (Vulture. A flair, -Book and 
Guide to Every C ar ( ir .... 1 no 
Gardening fur Pro 1 I 1 1 undersoil). 160 
Gardening for the AOiUh (While's). 2 00 
(Jrapo Cullarisi iA. d. Fuller). 1 60 
Gray's Manual or Botany'll lid l.ossons............ 3 00 
Do. Scltuul aud Field Book of Botany .. 2 60 
Do. IIow Plants Grow t'rw lllnsi.riirioris). t 12 
Do. Introduction to Structural an 1 Kysi email e 
Bn tan v and Vegetable Physiology 11,300 Ulus.). 3 50 
Guenon oh Mtlcli Cows ..... 75 
Gun. Dot! ami Saddle. .. . t 60 
Barney’s Barns. Outbuilding# and Fences.II) 00 
Harris on Insects... . . 4 00 
Do. on the fir Breeding. Management, (to. 1 50 
Hatfield's American House Carpenter. 3 60 
Hints to Horse Keepers 1 Herbert's). I 76 
High Farming without Manure.. 40 
Holly's Art of Saw-Filing . 75 
Holly’s Carpenter's Hand Book luew). 7 b 
Hooper's Dog and Guu. . 30 
Hoopoe’ Book of Evergreens. 3 00 
Hop Culture..... 40 
ll"W 'Tops Feed. 2 00 
lluw (.Tops Grow... 200 
Hunter ami Trapper. 100 
Husmaon’" Grapes and Wine. . I 50 
Hussey's Naliotni Cottage Architecture. 0 00 
Indian Con.. l'-s v a I a u. , uiinn. aim Uses... 1 60 
Jennings on Cattle and rhclr Diseases. 1 75 
Do. Horse and Ins Diseases..... 1 76 
Do. Moian Training Me le Flair... . 1 25 
Do. Sheep,-(wine ami P ultrj . 1 76 
J i-iiiB toll's AgnouilUl .1 (.huiuletry... 1 76 
Do. iOloiuenls Agricultural Chemistry..... 1 50 
Kemp's Landscape Gardening. 2 60 
I.ungstroth on the Give and Honey Boe. 2 00 
l,wwl.i' American Sportsman.. 2 75 
Lightning Rods. and How to Obstruct Them, 
by Julio I’lllu.. go 
Manual of riitxitiid Hemp Culture. 23 
Manual nf Tnba/iefiCulture.-. 26 
'.lanual of Wood Carving. .. 3 00 
iMaynew s Illustrated Dorse Management. 3 00 
Do. Illustrated Hulks Doctor..... g 00 
Mechanic’s Companion (Nicholson). 3 00 
M pollan Ion for Millwrights, Machinists and others 1 60 
.Ylimion Horse's Foot (cloth). 75 
Modern Cookery (by Miss Aolou and Mrs. 8 . j. 
. 1 76 
McClure's Diseases of Horse, Cuttle aud Khcep. 2 00 
Money 111 thp Garden, by P. Y. yulnn . 1 60 
Norris’ Fish Culture .. . . 1 75 
Norton's Elements Kcleulillo Agriculture. 76 
Onion Culture. 20 
Our Farm of Four A ores .... 30 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture.... 76 
Parsons on the Hose. 1 26 
Pear Culture for Profit (P. T. <$ulnn).. 1 00 
Pedaer's bund Measure. 00 
Practical at.d Snlentuio Fruit Culture (Baker)... 4 00 
Practical Floriculture (P. Henderson). 1 50 
Practical Poultry Keeper (b. Wright)..,. 2 00 
Pram leal Shepherd 1 Kendall).... 2 00 
Preservation of Birds’ Eggs. 50 
(Juiuby's Mv.ill run, ot Hue Keeping. I 50 
H ulncy on Soiling Cattle... j 25 
andall's Flue Wool Sheeu Husbandry. i 00 
DO. Slump H-Iibamlry in the South. j 54 ) 
Richardson on the Dug. 30 
Saunders' Domestic Poultry... ..' 10 
Sclienck’s Gardeners’ Text-Book. 73 
Scribner’s Produce Tables. 30 
Ho. Ready Reckoner .mil Log Brink. 30 
Bunosons Horse Portraiture tiiceding, Bear¬ 
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Six Hundred Recipe#. 1 75 
Skc'etoo Leaves. . 2 00 
Skillful JIiiHsewife. 75 
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Stewart'* (John) Stable Book. 1 60 
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Ten Acres Knaugb.. ...... ....... 160 
The Boston .Machinist (Fitzgerald). 76 
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The itog (new 1 ... 2 50 
The Horse 1 Stonehenge). 8vO„ t>22 pp. 3 60 
The iltilc (Klley)— A Treatlnf in the Breading 
Training and uses to which he may bu put. .. 1 60 
The People’s Practical Poultry Book.. 1 66 
Thomas' Am. Fruit Culturiri (tat Illustrations). 3 06 
Trapper's Golds No vheusc).. 3 00 
Trout Culture .doth Green)... 1 gg 
Trowbridge » (Mr*, baura) Kxcelalur Cook Book 
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W-rder's Hedges and Evergreens.... 1 60 
Warm*’# Elements of Agrictl 1 an. 1 go 
Watsno’S American Home Garden.. 2 00 
Well Digging aud Boring. .. 40 
Western rruit Grower* GoiOi* 1 Elliott).160 
Wheeler’s Homes for the People... 3 00 
Do. Hural Homes... 2 00 
Window Gardening (II. T. Williams). 1 60 
Woodruff’ll Trotting Horse of America. 2 26 
Woodward's Graperies and Uort'l Buildings .... J r? 
Do. Country Homes. 1 60 
Do. Cottage# aud Farm Houses.. 1 60 
Do. Suburban and Country House#.. 1 60 
YmiMtt. and Hpooneron the Hor*e. 1 66 
Youatt. and Martin on Cattle. 160 
Youatt and Martin on the Hog. 1 00 
Youatt on Flump. .. 1 00 
Yonraan’# Hand-Book of Household Science.... 1 76 
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