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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
99 
Books for Winter Reading 
SENT POST-PAID ON RECEIPT OF THE PRICE. 
Do you raise Poultry? 
Lewis’ Practical Poultry Book. 
A Work on the Breeds, Breeding, Rearing, and General 
Management of Poultry, with Full Instructions for 
Caponizing. 100 Engravings. Cloth, Octavo. 1.50 
Stoddard’s An Egg Farm. 
The management of Poultry in large numbers, being a 
series of articles written for the American Agriculturist. 
Illustrated. By H. H. Stoddard. 12mo. Paper cover, 
.50; Cloth. •' r5 
Have your Own Fish Pond. 
Norris’ Fish Culture.$1.75 
Embracing all the details of Artificial Breeding and 
Rearing of Trout, Salmon, Shad, and other Fishes, 
by Thaddeus Norris. Finely Illustrated. Cloth, 
12mo. 
Roosevelt and Green’s Fish Hatching 
and Fish Catching. .$1 50 
The authors’ names are sufficient to indicate the char¬ 
acter, scope, and value of this new work. By R. B. 
Roosevelt and Seth Green. Cloth, 12mo. 
Menhaden.$2.00 
By Prof. G. Brown Goode, with an account of the 
Agricultural uses of the Fish, by Prof. W. O. At- 
watrr. 30 Plates. Cloth, 8vo. 
Do you keep Birds, Babbits, 
etc.? 
American Bird Fancier.50 
Or How to Breed, Rear, and Care for Song and Domes¬ 
tic Birds. This valuable and important little work for 
all who are interested in the keeping of Song-Birds, 
has been revised and enlarged, and is now a complete 
manual upon thesubject. All who.ovvn valuable birds, 
or wish to do so, will find the new Fancier indispensa¬ 
ble. New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition. By D. J. 
Browne, and Dr. Fuller Walker, Illustrated. 
Paper Cover. 
Bird Keeping.$1.50 
A practical guide for the management of Singing and 
Cage Birds. Fully Illustrated. Several Colored 
Plates. By C. E. Dyson. Cloth, 12mo. 
Canary Birds ..Paper, .50, Cloth, .75 
A Manual of Useful and Practical Information for 
Bird-Keepers. 18mo. 
Bement’s Rabbit Fancier.30 
Breeding, Rearing, Feeding, and General Management 
of Rabbits; their Diseases and Remedies; Full Di¬ 
rections for the Construction of Hutches, Rabbitries, 
etc. Recipes for Cooking and Dressing for the Table. 
Illustrated. By C. M. Bement. Paper cover, 12mo. 
Take a little Recreation, and 
Give your Boys some. 
Stonehenge’s Rural Sports. 
Re-written, greatly enlarged, and brought down to 
18S2. By Stonehenge and Others. Profusely nius- 
trated. One large octavo volume, with 966 pages, half 
morocco. 7.50 
Do you want to Learn to 
Shoot on the Wing? 
Shooting on the Wing. 
Plain Directions for Acquiring the Art, with Useful 
Hints concerning all that pertains to Guns, Shooting, 
i and particularly in regard to Loading to Kill. Cloth, 
I 12mo. .75 
American Came Bird Shooting. 
By John Mortimer Murphy, author of “Shooting 
Adventures in the Far West,” etc., etc. Profusely H- 
lustrated, and describing the haunts and habits of 
Game Birds generally. 12mo., tinted paper, 2,00 
Do you Hunt and Trap ? 
The Dogs of Great Britain, America, 
and other Countries.—1882-3 Edi¬ 
tion. 
(New, Enlarged, and Revised Edition.) Their Breed¬ 
ing, Training, and Management in Health and Disease. 
Comprising all the essential parts of the two Standard 
Works on the Dog, by “ Stonehenge,” thereby fur¬ 
nishing what once cost $11.25 for $2 00. Over One 
Hundred Beautiful Engravings. Chapters by Ameri¬ 
can Writers. Most Complete Dog Book ever Publish¬ 
ed. Gives Complete Official Lists of Premiums 
Awarded at Bench Shows, down to 18S2. Cloth, 
12mo. 2.00 
How to Hunt and Trap. 
By Jos. H. Batty, Hunter and Taxidermist for the 
U. S. Surveys. A Companion Book to “ Practical Taxi¬ 
dermy and Home Decoration,” and by the same author. 
It contains eighty illustrations from photographs and 
field sketches by the author. A book of rough experi¬ 
ence, treating on hunting, camping, horses, mules, 
dogs, guns, boats, canoes, traps, and trapping; tells 
how to hunt all game, from the English Snipe to the 
Buffalo. Cloth, 12mo. 1.50 
Long’s American Wild Fowl Shooting. 
Fnlly Describing all Wild Fowl: their Haunts, Hab¬ 
its, and Best Modes of Decoying and Shooting Them : 
Gives a True History of Choke Bores ; Tells How to 
Train Retrievers; and How to Test the Shooting 
Powers of Shot Guns. By Joseph W. Long. Illus¬ 
trated. Cloth, 12mo. 2.00 
Batty’s Practical Taxidermy and Home 
Decoration. 
By Jos. H. Batty, Taxidermist for the Government 
Surveys and many Colleges and Museums in the United 
States. 125 niustrations. An entirely new and com¬ 
plete, as well as authentic work on Taxidermy—giving 
in detail full directions for collecting and mounting 
Animals, Birds, Reptiles, Fish, Insects, and General 
Objects of Natural History. Cloth, 12mo. 1.50 
Valuable Miscellaneous Farm 
Information. 
Eassie’s Wood and Its Uses.$1.50 
A Hand book for the use of Contractors, Builders, 
Architects, Engineers, Timber Merchants, etc. By P. 
B. Eassie. Cloth, 12mo. 
Farming for Profit.$3.75 
A Hand-book for the American Farmer. A practical 
work. Edited by John E. Read. Illustrated. Cloth 
8vo., large. 
Henderson’s Hand-Book of tbe Grasses of 
Great Britain and America-•• $1.50 
Their Generic and Specific Character, Comparative 
Nutritive Value, Soils best adapted for their Cultiva¬ 
tion, etc. By John Henderson. Cloth, 12mo. 
Bennett’s Farm Law. Cloth, .75, Sheep 
$1.00 
A Treatise on the Legal Rights and Liabilities of 
Farmers. By Hon. Edmund H. Bennett, LL.D. One 
volume, 12mo. 
Broom Corn and Brooms. Paper, .50 
Cloth. 75 
A Treatise on Raising Broom-Corn and Making 
Brooms on a Small or Large Scale. Illustrated. 
12mo. 
Tucker’s Sugar Analysis.$3.50 
A Complete Manual on this subject, with an Introduc¬ 
tion on the Chemistry of Cane Sugar. By J. H. 
Tucker, Ph. D. Cloth, 8vo. 
Allen’s New American Farm Book$2,50 
The very best work on the subject; comprising all 
that can be condensed into an available volume. Orig¬ 
inally by Richard L. Allen. Revised and greatly en¬ 
larged by Lewis F. Allen. Cloth, 12mo. 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. $1.75 
An Important Work for every Cultivator—Farmer, 
Gardener, etc.; being an Enumeration and Description 
(with accurate Illustrations), of the Weeds and Plants 
found in American Fields and Gardens, which meet 
the observation, or require the attention of Cultivators; 
with practical suggestions for their Eradication when 
needed. By Wm. Darling, M. D., and Prof. Geo. 
Thurber. Thoroughly Illustrated with 277 Engrav¬ 
ings. Cloth, 12mo. 
Robinson's Facts for Farmers.$5.00 
Also for the Family Circle. By Solon Robinson. A 
variety of rich materials for all land-owners, about do¬ 
mestic animals and domestic economy: farm buildings, 
gardens, orchards, and vineyards, and all farm crops, 
tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation ; 
with an appendix on the diseases of domestic animals ; 
a choice selection of reliable and indispensable law 
forms; and tables calculating interest at any rate per 
cent required. Beautifully illustrated with steel en¬ 
gravings. Cloth, 8vo. 1,100 pages. 
Thomas’ Rural Affairs, (pervolume).. $1,50 
Complete in Nine Volumes. Being a reprint on larger, 
finer, and heavier paper, of the very valuable articles 
in every department of Rural Economy, which have 
heretofore appeared in annnal numbers, from 1855 to 
1881, inclusive, under the title of the “Annual Regis¬ 
ter of Rural Affairs.” These volumes contain about 
340 pages each of reading matter, and are illustrated 
with more than Three Thousand Engravings, a large 
part of them from drawings and designs made ex¬ 
pressly for the purpose. Cloth, 12mo. 
Chemistry of the Farm.$1.00 
Treating with the utmost clearness and conciseness, 
and in the most popular manner possible, of the rela¬ 
tions of Chemistry to Agriculture, and providing a 
welcome manual for those, who, while not having 
time to systematically study Chemistry, will gladly 
have such an idea as this gives them of its relation to 
operations on the farm. By R. Warington, F. C. S. 
Cloth, 12mo. 
Learn to Cook Well. 
Corson’s Twenty-five Cent Dinners for 
Families of Six. 
A useful book, especially for farmers’ families. New 
edition. Paper cover, 16mo. .25 
Corson’s Cooking School Text Book, 
And Housekeeper’s Guide to Cookery and Kitchen 
Management. A practical work, containing full in. 
formation. By Miss Juliet Corson, Sup’t N. Y. 
Cooking School. Cloth, 12mo. 1.25 
OUR CATALOGUES. 
New Revised Edition of the Sports¬ 
man’s Companion. 
Most elegantly and beautifully Illustrated with new en¬ 
gravings. Forty pages of descriptions of books, and 
over eighty illustrations. Price Ten Cents. 
Rural Catalogue. 
New Edition. 80 Pages, describing over 200 of our differ¬ 
ent publications on Out-door Life. 125 Illustrations. 
Sent on receipt of 6 cents for postage. 
SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS. 
Our beautifully illustrated, 32mo. Catalogue, containing 
descriptions of three hundred valuable books on Agricul¬ 
ture, Horticulture, Architecture, Field Sports, Horses, 
Cattle, Sheep, etc., etc., will be sent free to any one for¬ 
warding by postal card his address to the Publishers, and 
asking for it. 
ORANGE JUDD CO., 
DAVID IV, JUDD, Vice-President. 
SAM’L BURNHAM, Secretary. 
PUBLISHERS AND IMPORTERS OF ALL WORKS PERTAINING 
TO RURAL LIFE. 
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