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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
THE PRACTICAL 
READ THE NEW BOOK 
ON 
Fa rm - Gardening 
AND ' 
SEED - GROWING. 
BY FRANCIS BRILL, 
POULTRY KEEPER. 
A COMPLETE AND STANDARD GUIDE TO THE 
MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY, 
FOR DOMESTIC USE, THE MARKETS, OR 
EXHIBITION. . 
JSea'u.tifu.lly lllixsti’u.tecl. 
By L. WRIGHT. 
NOTICES BY THE TRESS. 
This book is a valuable manual for everybody who 
feeds chickens or sells eggs. - It suits at once the plain 
poulterer who must make the business pay, and the chick¬ 
en fancier whose taste is for gay plumage, and strange, 
bright birds. The most valuable portion is the first sec¬ 
tion, extending- through fifty-live pages. These were writ¬ 
ten with the intention of producing a manual so plain, 
minute, and practical, that any one could, by using it as a 
guide, with no previous experience with poultry, become 
at once successful in producing eggs, young chickens, and 
fat fowls for market. The author lias not missed his aim. 
The middle parts of Mr. Wright’s Manual are taken up 
with minute directions for making show fowls for Fairs, 
a nice discussion of the good and bad points of the dif¬ 
ferent breeds, and a brief sketch of such fancy stock as 
peafowl, pheasants, and water-fowl. Then follows a 
section on artificial hatching, and another, wortli special 
attention, on large poultry yards—A study of Mr. 
Wright’s hook will convince any farmer’s wife that all 
she needs is to give a half hour each day, of intelligent 
and sagacious attention to her poultry, in order to obtain 
from them, not tape, and knitting needles, and buttons, 
and nutmegs merely, but the family supplies of sugar, 
shoes, and cloth. New York Tribune. 
It is the most complete and valuable work on the mat¬ 
ters of which it treats yet published. It will be found a 
plain and sufficient guide to any one in any circumstances 
likely to occur, and is illustrated with elegant engravings 
of many breeds of fowls. Farmers' Cabinet. 
This is a reprint, with numerous wood engravings, of 
an English book, the object of which is to convey in 
plain language a great deal of practical information about 
tlie breeding and management of poultry, whether for 
domestic use, the markets, or exhibition-The book is 
eminently practical, and we recommend it to farmers and 
others interested in breeding and selling poultry. 
Philadelphia Press. 
It is a handsome volume, brought out in the best style, 
and enriched with nearly fifty illustrations. It is evidently 
the fruit of a thorough, practical experience and knowl¬ 
edge of fowls, and will be found a plain and sufficient 
guide in all the practical details of poultry management 
as a profitable business. United Presbyterian. 
Tiie subject is treated fully and ably by an experienced 
hand, and the volume will doubtless find a large sale 
among the growing class of poultry fanciers. It is em¬ 
bellished with numerous illustrative engravings. 
New York Observer. 
The author has called to his aid all who were experi 
enced in the subject -whereof be writes, end the conse¬ 
quence is a volume of more than ordinary thoroughness 
and exhaustiveness. Rochester Democrat. 
Tlie book is a complete and standard guide to the man¬ 
agement of poultry for domestic use, the market, and 
for exhibition. Watchman and Reflector. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $2.00. 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 
245 Broadway, New York. 
( ' NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
j Orange Judd & Co. have added to their splendid.catalogue 
I of agricultural books “ Farm-Gardening and Seed-Grow¬ 
ing,” by Francis Brill; it is practical, plain, complete, and 
satisfactory, so that for a small amount of money a great 
deal of desirable information can lie obtained. If there is 
any firm anywhere which is to-day disseminating so much 
knowledge in regard to tilling of tlie soil as this same said 
firm of Orange Judd & Co., we will present a medal to our 
i informer.— Watchman and Reflector (Boston). 
The want occasionally expressed to us of a work on tlie 
| cognate subjects above named (Farm-Gardening and Seed- 
| Growing), is now met in a book under this title from the 
pen of Mr. Francis Brill, formerly a market-gardener and 
seed-grower at Newark; N. J., and at present engaged in 
raising seeds at Mattituck, L. I. Its directions are concise 
and practical,.covering those points on which a beginner is 
most likely to require information.— Country Gentleman. 
Mr. Brill has had large experience, and derived his knowl¬ 
edge wholly from the school of actua’ tests.— Chicago 
Evening Journal. 
We have in this volume the results of a practical man's 
experience in raising root crops and other vegetables in tlie 
market-garden. Not only the professional seed-grower and 
trucker, but tlio amateur gardener who lias a little patch in 
his suburban home, will find many a valuable hint and di¬ 
rection in this full and comprehensive manual.— Sunday- 
School Times. 
It seems to be a very sensible, practical work by a practi¬ 
cal mail. Mr. Brill’s father was a gardener; and he himself 
has had an extensive experience, and he talks about wliat 
lie knows, which is more than can be said of many authors of 
industrial works.— Moore's Rural Few Yorker. 
There can be no question that this farm-gardening can be 
made ill many districts of tlie Southern Atlantic States, es¬ 
pecially near the coast, far more profitable than growing the 
ordinary staple crops. In connection with producing tlie 
vegetables, tlie growing and saving their seeds receive 
minute attention.— American Farmer (Baltimore). 
A very useful hand-book, not merely for farmers and 
growers of seed on an extensive scale, but for all who, whe¬ 
ther for recreation or for tlie purpose of supplying their own 
families witli garden products, desire to know something 
• about tlie adaptation of seed to soil and the mode of culture. 
— Church Journal (New York). 
This industry is now occupying tlie attention of many per¬ 
sons who sell their products to tlie great seed-houses, and 
novices who have tlie facilities, and wish to enter upon tlie 
business, will find in this book just the hints needed.— 
Springfield Republican. 
Mr. Brill lias been a successful farm-gardener and seed- 
grower for a number of years, and gives in a clear and con¬ 
cise form the knowledge lie has gained.It gives tlie 
best method of manuring, planting, and cultivating every 
vegetable sold in markets—in short, everything required to 
be known, plainly and fully—and. should be in the hands of 
every one who cultivates so much as a rod of land, for 
family use, pleasure, or profit.— Suffolk (L. I.) Times. 
The seal of Orange ludd & Co. upon an agricultural pub¬ 
lication is sufficient guarantee of its wortli. Francis Brill’s 
book, published by thim, is a very complete work, giving 
plain, minute instructions as to raising, taking care of, and 
bringing to market those vegetables which are most in de¬ 
mand in tlie large cities, and those seeds which are being 
called for throughout Hie country.—IF. Y. Evening Mail. 
The work of showing how this can be accomplished lias 
fallen in good hands, and it lias been done well. The book 
will well repay perusal, and we hope soon to see its good 
effects in a more intelligent direction of farm industry, and 
accompanied by more satisfactory pecuniary results.— The 
Signal (L. I.) 
To tiie market-gardener, or even tlie owner of a small 
piece of tillable land, this book will be of great value. 
Qualities of soil required for the growth of different vegeta¬ 
bles, how to plant,how to cultivate, to harvest, and preserve 
during winter.—IF. Y. Citizen and Round Table. 
Price, Post-paid,. $1.00. 
ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY, 
215 Broadwat, New York. 
mill on tb m. 
Breeding, Bearing, Management, 
AND 
Improvement. 
"With Numerous Illustrations. 
By JOSEPH HARRIS, 
ur 3IOBETON FARM, ROCHESTER, N. T. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
To say that this work on the pig is by Joseph Harris, 
that genial philosopher-farmer of Rochester, N. Y., who 
writes the “ Walks and Talks upon the Farm ” in the 
Agriculturist , is to insure for his hook at once a large 
circle of delighted readers. lie is just the man to lay 
clown tlie gospel for the raising of pigs or any other do¬ 
mestic animal. If all breeders and farmers would follow 
Mr. Harris’s directions, pork would be a very different 
article of food from what it is now, and could be eateu 
without aDy fears of the trichina. 
[Springfield Republican. 
The author discusses tlie pig—for lie takes exception 
to the word hog as applied to the domesticated animal— 
with a view of showing how the most pork and lard can 
ho produced from tlie smallest amount of feed. He gives 
elaborate descriptions of the different breeds of swine, 
showing the peculiarities of each, and the relative ad¬ 
vantages to the producer. — f Prairie Farmer (Chicago). 
The pig is doubtless one of the most valuable, animals 
that a farmer can raise, and it is the laudable purpose of 
Mr. Harris to tell farmers how to treat their pigs so as to 
get the most profit from them, find what kind of pigs are 
best.— [Daily Evening Traveller (Boston). 
It treats of breeding, rearing, managing, and improv¬ 
ing swine ; and what Mr. Harris .don’t know on these 
topics, is hardly worth knowing at all. The book is fully 
illustrated, and is very valuable to all who are interested 
in this branch of stock-raising. 
[Lowell (Mass.) Daily Courier. 
The author is a practical farmer, and lias gathered the 
results of many experiments besides his own. The book 
is amply illustrated. 
[Republican Statesman (Concord, N. H.). 
Almost everything a farmer wants to know about the 
breeding, keeping, and fattening of pigs, is here put 
down in plain, common sense, and is mainly the result 
of the writer’s own management.— [Maine Farmer. 
This is an interesting, valuable, and a much-needed 
treatise on an important department of rural economy. 
It contains about 56 illustrations of pigs, piggeries, 
troughs, etc. We are heartily glad our old friend Harris 
was persuaded to prepare this useful Manual on the Pig— 
breeds, breeding, feeding, etc., comprising what farmers 
need know respecting this department of husbandry. 
[Boston Cultivator. 
This little book is profusely illustrated, and contains 
information in abundance, which every farmer ought to 
possess.— [Weekly Mail (St. Louis). 
Here is a book written by a practical farmer, who has 
brought to the aid of his own large experience and ob¬ 
servation the most extensive acquaintance with the 
science of breeding, and, as might reasonably be ex¬ 
pected, we have from bis pen the best book on the Pig 
ever written.—[ Western Stock Journal. 
IPrice, iPost-pnid, 81.50. 
ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
