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THE CULTIVATOR 
Aug 
Dixon and Kerr’s Poultry Book. 
J UST Published, a treatise on the history and Management of Or¬ 
namental and Domestic Poultry. By Rev. Edmund Saul Dixon, 
A. M., with large additions, by J. J. Kerr, M. D. Illustrated with 
sixty-live portraits, from nature, engraved expressly for this 
work. 
CONTENTS. 
The Domestic Fowl. 
The Rearing and Management of Fowls. 
Eggs—their Color, Form, and Sex. 
Eggs—their Preservation for Culinary Purposes. 
Eggs—their Preservation for Incubation. 
Varieties of the Shanghae Fowl. 
The Cochin China Fowl. 
Burnham’s Importation of Cochin China Fowls. 
The Malay Fowls, sometimes (though erroneously) called Chitta- 
The Pheasant—Malay Fowl. 
The GuelderlandFowl. 
The Dorking Fowl—Colored Dorkings. 
The Spanish Fowl. 
The Game Fowl—The Mexican Hen Cock Game Fowl. 
The Chittagdigs, The Java, The Shakebag, and the Jersey Blue 
Fowls. 
The Poland or Polish Fowl. 
The Spangled Hamburghs—The Bolton Grays or Creole Fowls. 
The Rumpless Fowl, the Silky and Negro Fowls, the Frizzled or 
Friesland Fowl, the Cuckoo Fowl, the Blue Dun Fowl, and the 
Lark-crested Fowl. 
The Smooth-legged Bantam. 
The Dung-hill Fowl, the Dominique Fowl, Colonel Jacques’ 
Chicken Coop, Devereux’s Method of Rearing Chickens without a 
Mother, and Cope’s Letter on Early Chickens. 
Caponizing Fowls. 
The Pea Fowl. 
The Ring-necked Pheasant. 
The Turkey. 
The Guinea Fowl. 
The Mute Swan (Cygnus Olor.) 
The AVild or Canada Goose. 
The Domestic Goose. 
The Hong Hong or China Goose. 
The Bremen Goose. 
The AVhite-fronted or Laughing Goose. 
The AVhite China Goose. 
The Bernicle Goose—The Brent Goose. 
The Tame Duck. 
This work is well bound in muslin and is printed on the finest paper. 
The illustrations are engraved in the most elegant manner, from 
original and accurate drawings, and the whole is comprised in one 
volume of 480 pages duodecimo, price $1. A few copies have been 
colored after nature. Price for the colored copies, $2.50. For sale 
by all Booksellers, and by the Publishers, 
E. H. BUTLER A CO., 
Aug. 1—It.* 23 Minor street, Philadelphia. 
Situation Wanted, 
A S FARM SUPERINTENDENT, by a young single man. well 
qualified not only for out-door arrangements, particularly with 
reference to the breeding and management of Choice Stock, but also 
to keep the book accounts connected therewith. For further informa¬ 
tion address L. G. MORRIS, of Mount Fordham, AA r estchester Co., 
N. Y., who will furnish satisfactory recommendations. Aug. 1—1 1. 
FOWLS AND EGGS. 
T HE great desire manifested in New-England for procuring good 
Poultry, has induced H. B. COFFIN, Newton , Mass., to pay 
particular attention to breeding and importing"first rate stock All 
persons desirous of having the purest and best to breed from, may de¬ 
pend upon being faithfully served. Among many kinds of Fowls for 
sale by him, are the following, which he is very particular in breed¬ 
ing. ' 
Shanghae—Forbes stock. 
Imperial Chinese—Marsh stock. 
Cochin China—Coffin do 
AVhite Shanghae do do 
Black Shanghae do do 
Golden Poland, or Spangled Hamburgh. 
Dealers in Fowls or Eggs for hatching, supplied upon liberal terms. 
Orders addressed to No. 5 Congress Square, Boston, will be promptly 
executed. Boston, Aug. 1, 1851—12t. 
FOR SALE. 
G IFFORD MORGAN, a very superior stallion colt, of a beauti¬ 
ful dapple bay color, sired by Gen. Gifford, g. s. Gifford Morgan. 
Age 3 years on the 26th August next; weighed 900 lbs. June 6, gain¬ 
ing GO lbs. from 12th March, and measures 14-| hands, gainingone inch 
from ‘March 12th. In spirit, figure, and activity, closely patterns 
after his sire, and promises to fully equal his sire. 
His dam is bay, Morgan built, and it is believed can trot 100 miles 
with any other of her age. 
Or I will sell Z. TAYLOR, a bay entire horse colt, same sire and 
dam, 1 year old June 8, 1851; or the above named breeding mare, in 
foal by Gen. Gifford. Either two of the three, which if not previous¬ 
ly disposed of, will be exhibited at the next New-York State Fair at 
Rochester. See Genesee Farmer for Feb. p. 63, for notices of Gen. 
Gifford, now conceded to be the best living entire Morgan horse, (and 
for whicli large offers have been made to take back to Vermont,) see 
also Albany Cultivator for 1846, p. 286, 319, 342, 355; do. for 1847, p. 
258. J. DORR/ 
Scottsville, Monroe Co., N. Y., Aug. 1, 1851—It. 
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