THE
AMERICAN FARM BOOK,
OR
COMPEND OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE
CONTAINING A CONCISE AND PLAINLY-WRITTEN EXPOSITION OF DUTIES PERTAINING TO THE CULTIVATION OF THE EARTH, THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FARM, &C., &C., ON PRACTICAL SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES.
BY R. L. ALLEN.
The cheapest and most valuable book for a farmer ever printed; being a complete guide, both practical and scientific, for the
MANAGEMENT OF THE FARM.
Besides the varied practical knowledge which this book imparts, and which is indispensable to the proper management of every department of agriculture, it gives the elements of other information highly necessary to a successful farmer, as History, Geology, Chemistry, Botany, Physiology, and Mechanics. These branches of knowledge are given as applicable to agricultural pursuits, and when properly understood will essentially aid and assist the farmer. In fact, a knowledge of these sciences is a sure key to wealth for any agriculturist. It gives the modes of preparation, and the effects of all kinds of manures; the origin, texture, divisions, and description of every variety of soil; the economy of sowing, reaping, and mowing, irrigation, and draining; cultivation of the grasses, clovers, grains, and roots;Southernand miscellaneous products, as cotton, hemp, flax, the sugar cane, rice, tobacco, hops, madder, woad, &c.; the rearing of fruit—apples, pears, peaches, plums, grapes, &c.; farm buildings, hedges, &c.; with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation for market. Illustrated by 100 engravings.
The reader can form some idea of the above work, from the fact that it treats of 800different subjectsimportant to a farmer. It contains 354 pages, and is beautifully bound in cloth, suitable for a library.Price only One Dollar.
NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
The author has been one of the most able contributors to the agricultural press for the last ten years; aside from this, he is a practical farmer and stock-breeder, and consequently knows from his own experience what he is writing about.—Commercial Advertiser.
This work is by a gentleman of known experience; the work is exceedingly cheap, and the farmer will find it a valuable book of reference.—N.Y. Express.
It is in fact a brief encyclopedia on the subjects treated, and the farmer will find appropriate Information on almost any subject coming within his reach.—N.Y. Observer.
Here is a book for the million, precisely what its title indicates. Compassed within its pages, the reader will find the subject of soils, manures, crops, and animals, treated in a style easily comprehended.—N.Y. Spirit of the Times.
This work is what might be expected from one so well qualified for the undertaking.—Boston Cultivator.
Why shall not every good farmer economise his muscles by storing his mind? We hope this book will find its way into many family and school libraries.—N.Y. Tribune.
We think that Mr. Allen's volume, the basis of which is good practical farming, as practised by the best cultivators in the United States, with an intelligent reference to those principles of science which lie at the root of all successful practice, is likely to be of as muck or more real service to us, than any work on agriculture yet issued from the press, and we gladly commend it to the perusal of every one of our readers engaged in the cultivation of the land.—Horticulturist.
THE
FAMILY KITCHEN GARDENER;
CONTAINING
PLAIN AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS
OF ALL THE
DIFFERENT SPECIES AND VARIETIES
OF
CULINARY VEGETABLES:
Farming tools and equipment lying in a field.
BY ROBERT BUIST,
AUTHOR OF THE AMERICAN FLOWER-GARDEN DIRECTORY, ROSE MANUAL, ETC.
NEW YORK:
C. M. SAXTON, 152 FULTON STREET,
ALSO, STRINGER & TOWNSEND, H. LONG & BROTHER, W. F. BURGESS,DEWITT & DAVENPORT, WILSON & CO., DEXTER &BROTHER, BOSTON: REDDING & CO. PHILADELPHIA:W. B. ZIMMER, LINDSAY & BLAKISTON.
THE
AMERICAN BIRD FANCIER;
CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO THEBREEDING, REARING, FEEDING, MANAGEMENT, AND PECULIARITIES OF
CAGE AND HOUSE BIRDS.
Illustrated with Engravings
Tee branches with a nest and birds
BY D. J. BROWNE,
AUTHOR OF THE SYLVA AMERICANA, THE AMERICAN POULTRY YARD, ETC.
NEW YORK:
C. M. SAXTON, 152 FULTON STREET.
ALSO, STRINGER & TOWNSEND, H. LONG & BROTHER, W. F. BURGESS,DEWITT & DAVENPORT, WILSON & CO., DEXTER & BROTHERPHILADELPHIA: W. B. ZIEBER, LINDSAY & BLAKISTON.BOSTON: REDDING & CO.
LECTURES
ON THE
GENERAL RELATIONS WHICH SCIENCE
BEARS TO
PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE,
DELIVERED BEFORE THE
NEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
BY
JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON, F.R.S.S. L. & E.
A cast iron tool for making rows in soil
WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS
NEW YORK:
C. M. SAXTON, AGRICULTURAL BOOKSELLER.
AN
ESSAY ON MANURES,
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES OF
THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY
FOR
PROMOTING AGRICULTURE,
FOR THEIR PREMIUM.
BY SAMUEL L. DANA.
A cast iron tool for making rows in soil
From the New York Observer:
Essay on Manures. BySamuel L. Dana
This Essay contains much useful information for the practical farmer, in a small compass, in reference to the nature and management of manures immediately under his control; the knowledge and practice of which will amply compensate for the expense of ascertaining its value.
NEW YORK:
C. M. SAXTON, 152 FULTON STREET.
ALSO, STRINGER & TOWNSEND, H. LONG & BROTHER, W. F. BURGESS,DEWITT & DAVENPORT, WILSON & CO., DEXTER &BROTHER. BOSTON: REDDING & CO. PHILADELPHIA:W. B. ZIEBER, LINDSAY & BLAKISTON.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE
ON THE
CULTIVATION OF THE GRAPE VINE
ON OPEN WALLS.
WITH A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF PLANTING AND MANAGING
THE
ROOTS OF GRAPE VINES.
BY CLEMENT HOARE
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
AN APPENDIX,
CONTAINING
REMARKS ON THE CULTURE OF THE GRAPE VINE IN
THE UNITED STATES.
NEW YORK:
C. M. SAXTON, 152 FULTON STREET.