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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
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A. NEW WORK. 
THE 
mmmm horse. 
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF 
CHARLES DU IIAYS, 
Author of the “ Dictionary of the Pure Race“ Trotters 
“ The Horse Breeder’s Guide etc. 
FINELY ILLUSTRATED. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PRODUCTION, REARING, AND IMPROVEMENT 
OP THE PERCIIERON HORSE. 
PA 1ST FIKST. 
GREATNESS AND DECLINE OF THE PER- 
CIIERONS. 
GLANCE AT PERCHE. 
SKETCH OF THE PERCHERON RACE. 
ORIGIN OF THE PERCIIERON. 
MODIFICATIONS OF THE PERCIIERON RACE. 
IIIS FIRST MODIFICATION DUE TO CONTACT 
WITH THE BRITTANY RACE. 
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY ARE BRED. 
CAUSES OF THE DEGENERACY OF THE PER¬ 
CHERON HORSE. 
STARTING POINT OF THIS DEGENERATION. 
paist s:ec<o>ns>. 
OF THE MEANS OF REGENERATING TnE 
PERCIIERON HORSE. 
REGENERATION OF THE PERCHERON BREED. 
REGENERATION OF THE BREED THROUGH 
ITSELF OR BY SELECTION. 
CONSANGUINITY. 
OUGHT TIIE GRAY COAT OF THE PERCHERON 
TO BE INFLEXIBLY MAINTAINED? 
PRESERVE PURE, AND WITHOUT INTERMIX¬ 
TURE TIIE THREE TYPES OF THE PER¬ 
CIIERON RACE—THE LIGHT HORSE, TnE 
DRAFT-HORSE, THE INTERMEDIATE HORSE. 
IMPROVEMENT OF TIIE BREED BY MEANS 
OF FOREIGN CROSSINGS. 
THE ARAB CROSS. 
THE ENGLISH CROSS. 
IMPROVEMENT BY MEANS OF THE STUD¬ 
BOOK. 
RECAPITULATION. 
PASSX THIRD. 
INFORMATION TO STRANGERS WISHING TO 
BUY PERCHERON HORSES. 
EOOD AND BREEDING. 
TRADE. GLANCE AT TIIE MOST CELEBRATED 
BREEDING DISTRICTS. 
SPEED AND BOTTOM OF THE PERCHERON 
IIORSE. 
TESTS OF SPEED OF THE PERCHERON HORSE. 
TESTS OF ENDURANCE OF THE PERCHERON 
HORSE, 
SENT POST-PAID, , . . PRICE, $1.00, 
ORANGE 4UDB & COr, 
249 Broadway New Yorki 
CRESYLIC SOAP 
AND 
Saponaceous Compounds. 
Disinfectant, Insect Destroyer, Pre¬ 
ventive of Fungus, etc. 
Frequent mention lias been made in the columns of the 
American Agriculturist of Cresylic Compounds, as being 
valuable for destroying insects on animals and plants, ancl 
for other purposes. For some months past we have been 
investigating the merits of these preparations, with the 
following results. 
Cresylic Acid is extracted from gas-tar, to which it gives 
the peculiar odor perceived on burning the tar. It has been 
used to a limited extent by chemists and physicians, lor va¬ 
rious purposes, and their experiments have shown it to pos¬ 
sess remarkable properties as a disinfectant, and in destroy¬ 
ing insect life and fungus growth. In its ordinary form it 
could not lie readily applied, and lienee was not available 
for common use. About two years since, Messrs. JAMES 
BUCHAN & CO., of New York, well-known as extensive 
manufacturers of family soaps, conceived the idea of com¬ 
bining this acid ill saponaceous compounds. By long and 
careful experimenting, they succeeded in producing soaps 
in various forms, possessing the active properties of this 
acid, and thus bringing it within the reach of all classes. 
These compounds have been patented. 
We have watched with great interest tlie results of vari¬ 
ous applications of these compounds, knowing that if suc¬ 
cessful, they would be of incalculable benefit to the commu¬ 
nity. By tests made under our own supervision, and the re¬ 
ports of careful observers, we believe it to be established 
that these Cresylic Compounds are 
1st. Complete Disinfectants.—They not only re¬ 
move all noxious odors from sinks, privies, stables, etc., but 
will destroy all infection in clothing, rooms, etc., washed 
with tlieir solution. Tlius, contagion from Small Pox, 
Typlins Fever, Cholera, and oilier diseases, may be effectu¬ 
ally prevented. They are used iu the New York and other 
Hospitals for these purposes. 
“3(1. Insect Destroyers.—An animal washed with 
Cresylic Soap will be entirely freed from all vermin. It 
will destroy ticks on sheep, fleas on dogs, lice ou cattle or 
poultry, roaches, ants, bedbugs, etc., in rooms. It repels 
flies from animals, and thus is especially useful in case of 
wounds or sores from any cause. 
So far as tried, it has been efficacious iu repelling insects 
from plants. We desire to have it more thoroughly tested 
for this purpose, and reports to be made. We believe it will 
free plants from Aphides, bark lice, slugs, bugs, caterpillars, 
striped bugs, curcnlio, and the whole host of minute but 
powerful enemies in the garden and fruit yard. 
3d. Preventive of Fungus Growth.—On tills 
point we ask for further experiment. We feel confident this 
soap, properly applied, will prevent smut in wheat, mildew 
on vines, aud similar parasitic growth, and trust that exper¬ 
imenters will furnish the result of their trials. 
4th. Cleaning Sores, etc.—For washing ulcers and 
other foul sores, and preventing gangrene in wounds, etc., 
Cresylic Soap is, we believe, unequaled. We know also that 
it has been successful wherever used, for foot rot in sheep, 
and mange, itch, ring-worm, and other skin diseases. 
From numerous RECOID1ENRATIONS of 
disinfecting and Insect-destroying effects, that we not only 
continue its use in above places, but recommend that it 
should be generally used for those purposes. 
.JOHN L. RYDER, ) Committee on Jails 
STEPHEN CLARK,! of Supervisors of 
D. S. VOOEHIES, ) Kings County, N.Y. 
Corpus Chkisti, Texas, March 15,1868. 
Messrs. James Buchan- & Co —Gentlemen : Your Sheep 
Dip is wonderful in its effects. I have dipped 2,150 head 
with nine months’ fleeces on their backs. It is now three 
weeks since, and no scratching as yet. Your Dip is far su¬ 
perior to tobacco, not so disagreeable or unpleasant, much 
less trouble and more permanent. 
I have used it on horses when diseased with a species of 
mange or itch, and it inis the same good effect as on sheep. 
F. W. SHAEFFEIi 
On tlie use of disinfectants, the following is the testimony 
of Dr. Elisha Harris, Registrar of the Metropolitan Board 
of Health, New York City: 
“ The Disinfecting and Antiseptic Powep. of Good 
Carbolic Acid* is so Great that One Part of it to 
Fifty op. One Hundred Parts is Sufficient for Ordi¬ 
nary' Purposes.” 
* CRESYLIC ACID is the active property of Carbolic 
Acid. 
Desiring that our readers should be benefited by the ex¬ 
tended introduction of what we believe tobeso valuable, we 
have established a general agency for the sale of these 
compounds, at our branch office, No. 41 Park Row, and are 
prepared to fill orders at wholesale or retail, at the follow¬ 
ing prices. 
Sheep Dip, flpr Curing Scab and Destroying Insects 
on Sheep. 
5 ft Canisters.$1.25 
ivegs.lu.ut) 
200 “ Bbls. .35.00 
Proportions are 1 ft Dip to 5 gallons water for 5 to 10 Sheep, 
if they are very large and heavily fleeced. For ordinary 
sized animals, or those recently shorn, 1 ft Dip will takes 
to 10 gallons water. Thesolution must be graded according 
to the age and strength of the animal. 
Plant Protector.—In solution for destroying and re¬ 
pelling insects from Trees or Plants. 
Ill 1 ft. Canisters, @50 cts.; in 3 ft. Canisters, @ $1.00; larger 
packages same price as Sheep Dip. See above. 
Cresylic Ointment, for Cure of Foot Rot, &e. In 
solution for killing Insects, &c., on stock. In 3ft Canisters, $l. 
Carbolic Disinfecting Soap.— In tablets for con¬ 
venient use in washing Horses, Dogs, Pigs, &c., destroying 
Insects of all kinds, protecting from Flies, curative of Sores, 
Scratches, and Ciiafes of all kinds. In boxes, 3 dozen tablets, 
$3.60; in boxes of 1 ft bars, 10 each, $1.00. 
Cresylic No. 1 Soap.—In Bars. For all common uses 
in the House and Laundry; 24 lb boxes, 13 cts. per 1b; 00 ft 
boxes, 12>3 cts. per ft. 
Cresylic Laundry Soap.—A finer Soap, for tlie 
Laundry, and for tlie Bath, etc., 60 1b boxes, 14 cts. per ft. 
24 1b boxes, and ill 10 paper boxes containing 6 fts. each, 
packed in a case, 15 cts. per ft. Address orders to 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 
41 Park Row, New York. 
DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
AND 
DRAINING FOR HEALTH. 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jr., 
Engineer of the Drainage of Central Park, New York. 
CONTENTS. 
Land to be Drained. 
How Drains Act. 
How to Lay Out Drains. 
How to EVJake Drains. 
How to Take Care of Drains. 
What Draining Costs 
Will It Pay? 
Cresylic Compounds, flic following are 
selected as being specially valuable. 
Five Points House of Industry'. 155 Worth St. 
New York, Nov. 15,1SCT. 
Messrs. Buchan & Co.— Gentlemen —Some months since 
we purchased a large building which bad been used as a 
tenement establishment for thirteen years, and was occupied 
by some ninety families. We tore away partitions, turning 
between three and four hundred rooms into less than one 
hundred. We found the walls aud floors perfectly infested 
with vermin. We used freely in cleansing tlie CRESYLIC 
SOAPS, manufactured by your firm, and with the very best 
results, US tlie bugs, etc., have entirely disappeared. We 
propose to continue its use in cleaning our dormitories, hop¬ 
ing then to keep clear of a plague so common to all liouse- 
keppprs in cities, S. B. HALL1DAY, Supt, 
Brooklyn, November, 1SG7. 
M, C, Epey, Agent for Sale of James Buchan s% Co’s, 
PrcsyUo Soaps, eto .—Dear Sir —We have had the Cresylic 
Poap fused In tli b Raymond Street Jail and County Court 
House, and in washing and cleansing prisoners' clothing, 
colls, eto, t Btitl ora tmsoh pleased with its filemisihg. 
How to Make Tiles. 
Reclaiming Salt Marshes. 
House and Town Drainage. 
A Book that ought to be iu the hands of every Farmer. 
SENT POST-PAID, - PRICE, $1.50. 
MYSTERIES OF BEE KEEPING. 
BREEDING. 
HIVES. 
PASTURAGE, 
THE APEARY. 
ROBBING. 
FEEDING. 
MOTH WORi, 
SWARMING. 
SENT POST-PAID, 
BY M. QUINBY. 
QUEENS. 
DISEASES. 
ANGER OF BEES. 
ENEMIES. 
WAX. 
COLONIES. 
WINTERING, 
. . . PRICE, $1,80, 
ORANGE JUDD & Co., 
groadway, 
