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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
AL new work. 
THE 
PERCHERON 
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF 
CHARLES DU HAYS, 
Author of the “ Dictionary of the Pure Race“ Trotters 
“ The Horse Breeder’s Guide etc. 
FINELY lLLCSTRATED. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PRODUCTION, REARING, AND IMPROVEMENT 
OF THE PERCH ERON HORSE. 
PART FIRST. 
GREATNESS AND DECLINE OF THE PER¬ 
CH ERONS. 
GLANCE AT PERCHE. 
SKETCH OF THE PERCHERON RACE. 
ORIGIN OF THE PERCHERON. 
MODIFICATIONS OF THE PERCHERON RACE. 
HIS 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. 
PART SECOND. 
OF THE MEANS OF REGENERATING THE 
PERCHERON HORSE. 
REGENERATION OF THE PERCHERON BREED. 
REGENERATION OF THE BREED THROUGH 
ITSELF OR BY SELECTION. 
CONSANGUINITY. 
OUGHT THE GRAY COAT OF THE PERCHERON 
TO BE INFLEXIBLY MAINTAINED ? 
PRESERVE PURE, AND WITHOUT INTERMIX¬ 
TURE THE THREE TYPES OF THE PER¬ 
CHERON RACE-TIIE LIGHT HORSE, THE 
DRAFT-HORSE, THE INTERMEDIATE HORSE. 
IMPROVEMENT OF THE BREED BY MEANS 
OF FOREIGN CROSSINGS. 
THE - ARAB CROSS. 
THE ENGLISH CROSS. 
IMPROVEMENT BY MEANS OF THE STUD¬ 
BOOK. 
RECAPITULATION. 
PART THIRD. 
INFORMATION TO STRANGERS WISHING TO 
BUY PERCHERON HORSES. 
FOOD AND BREEDING. 
TRADE. GLANCE AT THE MOST CELEBRATED 
BREEDING DISTRICTS. 
SPEED AND BOTTOM OF THE PERCHERON 
HORSE. 
TESTS OF SPEED OF THE PERCHERON HORSE. 
TESTS OF ENDURANCE OF THE PERCHERON 
HORSE. 
SENT POST-PAID, - - - PRICE, $1.00. 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 
245 Broadway, New York. 
THE GREAT. PURIFIER. 
CRESYLIC SOAP 
AND 
Saponaceous Compounds. 
Disinfectant, Insect Destrnyer, Pre¬ 
ventive of Fungus, etc. 
Frequent mention has been made in the columns of the 
American Agriculturist of Cresylic Compounds, as being 
valuable for destroying insects on animals and plants, and 
for other purposes. For some months past we have heen 
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 lias been 
used to a limited extent by chemists and physicians, for 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 be readily applied, and hence 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 in 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 the 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 their solution. Tims, contagion from Small Pox, 
Typhus Fever, Cholera, and other diseases, may be effectu¬ 
ally prevented. They are used in the New York and other 
Hospitals for these purposes. 
3<l. 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 on 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. 
disinfecting and insect-destroying effects, that we not ohly 
continue its use in above places, but recommend that it 
should be generally used for those purposes. 
JOHN L. RYDER. ) Committee on Jnils 
STEPHEN CLARK, > of Supervisors of 
D. S. VOORH1ES, ) Kings County,N.Y. 
Corpus Christt. Texas, Marcli 15,1868. 
Messrs. James Buchan & Co.— Gentlemen : Your Sheep 
Dip is wonderful in its effects. I have dipped 2,100 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 lias the same good effect as on sheep. 
F. W. SHAEFFER. 
On the use of disinfectants, the following is the testimony 
of Dr. Eltsha Harris, Registrar of the Metropolitan Board 
of Health, New York City: 
“The Disinfecting and Antiseptic Power of Goon 
Carbolic Acid* is so Great that One Part of it to 
Fifty or 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 to be so 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 All orders at wholesale or retail, at the follow¬ 
ing prices. 
Sheep Dip, for Curing Scab and Destroying Insects 
on Sheep. 
5 lb Canisters.$1.25 
10 ” “ . 2.25 
50 “ Kegs.10.00 
200 “ Bills .. .35.00 
Proportions are 1 lb 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 lb Dip will takes 
to 10 gallons water. The solution must he graded according 
to the age and strength of the animal. 
Pla.nt Protector.— In solution for destroying and re¬ 
pelling insects from Trees or Plants. 
In 1 ft. Canisters. @50 cts.; in 3 1 b. Canisters, @ $1.00; larger 
packages same price as Sheep Dip. See above. 
Cresylic Ointment, for Cure of Foot Rot, &c. In 
solution for killing Insects, &c„ on stock. In Sib Canisters, $1. 
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 Chafes of all kinds. In boxes, 3 dozen tablets, 
$3.60; in boxesofl lb bars, 10 each,$1.00. 
Cresylic No. 1 Soap.— In Bars. For all common uses 
in the House and Laundry; 24 1b boxes, 13 cts. per lb; GO lb 
boxes, 12 1 4 cts. per ft. 
Cresylic Laundry Soap.— A finer Soap, for the 
Laundry, and for the Bath, etc.; 60 1b boxes, 14 cts. per ft. 
24 ft boxes, and in 10 paper boxes containing 6 lbs. eacii, 
packed in a case. 15 cts. per lb. Address orders to 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 
41 Park Row, New York. 
Sofarastried.it has been efficacious in repelling insects 
from plants. We desire to have it more thoroughly tested 
for this purpose, and reports to he made. We believe it will 
free plants from Aphides, bark lice, slugs, bugs, caterpillars, 
striped bugs, curculio, and the whole host of minute but 
powerful enemies in the garden and fruit yard. 
3d. Preventive of Fungus Growth.— On this 
point we ask for further experiment. We feel confident this 
soap, properly applied, will prevent smut in wheat, mildew 
on vines, and 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 RECOMMENDATIONS of 
Cresylic Compounds, the following are 
selected as being specially valuable. 
Five Points House of Industry, 155 Worth St. 
New York, Nov. 15.186T. 
Messrs. Buchan & Co.—Gentlemen —Some months since 
we purchased a large building which had 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 and floors perfectly infested 
with vermin. We used freely in cleansing the CRESYLIC 
SOAPS, manufactured by your firm, and with the very best 
results, as the bugs, etc., have entirely disappeared. We 
propose to continue its use in cleaning our dormitories, hop¬ 
ing then to keep clear ot a plague so common to all house¬ 
keepers in cities. S. B. HALL1DAY, S.upt. 
" J.*' 
Brooklyn, November. 1867. 
M. C. Edey, Agent for Sale of James Buchan & Co’s, 
Cre9ylic Soaps, etc .—Dear Sir —We have had the Cresylic 
Soap used in the Raymond Street Jail and County Court 
House, and in washing and cleansing prisoners' clothing, 
cells, etc. -. and we are so much pleased with its cleansing, 
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 Make Drains. 
How to Take Care of Drains. 
What Draining Costs. 
Will It Pay ? 
How to Make Tiles. 
Reclaiming Salt Marshes. 
House and Town Drainage. 
A Book that ought to be in the hands of every Farmer. 
SENT POST-PAID,.PRICE, $1.50. 
MYSTEBTES OF BEE KEEPING. 
BY M. QUINBY. 
QUEENS. 
DISEASES. 
ANGER OF BEES. 
ENEMIES. 
WAX. 
COLONIES. 
WINTERING. 
BREEDING. 
HIVES. 
PASTURAGE. 
THE APIARY. 
ROBBING. 
FEEDING. 
MOTH WORM 
SWARMING. 
SENT POST-PAID 
- - - PRICE, $1.60. 
ORANGE JUDD & Co., 
245 Broadway, New York City. 
