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ADVERTISEMENTS.
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WORKS ON AGRICULTURE & RURAL AFFAIRS,
PRINTED FOB
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS,
Publishers to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.
I.
THE BOOK OF THE FARM.
By Henry Stephens. Vol. I, with
Seventeen Engravings by Landseer and
others, and nearly 200 Woodcuts. Price
30s. bound in cloth. The Second Volume
is in course of Publication.
'" Skilful practice is applied science.' This
fact is illustrated in every chapter of the ex-
cellent and comprehensive work now before
us. * * * As a practical manual, for those
who wish to be good farmers, it is the best
book we know. It contains more of the prac-
tical applications of modern science, and ad-
verts to more of those interesting questions
from which past improvements have sprung,
and from the discussion of which future ame-
liorations are likely to flow, than any other of
the newer works which have come under our
eye." — Blackwood's Magazine for April.
" The best practical book I have ever met
with." — Professor Johnston of Durham.
II.
STABLE ECONOMY. A
TREATISE on the MANAGE-
MENTof HORSES. By John Stewart.
A New Edition in foolscap 8vo, with
numerous Woodcuts, price 7s. 6d. bound
in cloth.
it w or thy of the diligent perusal of every
person who keeps horses, whether the owners
of a stud of racers, or the more humble pro-
prietor of a single hack." — New Spotting Maga-
zine.
Ill
By the same Author,
ADVICE TO PURCHASERS
of Horses. Tenth Thousand. Price
2s. 6d. bound in cloth.
IV.
THE AGRICULTURISTS
MANUAL; being a familiar De-
scription of the Agricultural Plants cul-
tivated in Europe, including Practical
Observations respecting those suited to
\he climate of Great Britain. By Peter
Lawson & Son, Seedsmen to the High-
land Society of Scotland. 8vo, price
10s. 6d.
A TREATISE on the CULTI-
VATED GRASSES and other
HERBAGE and FORAGE PLANTS,
with the kinds and quantities of Seeds for
sowing down Land to alternate Husbandry,
permanent Pasture, Lawns, &c, By Peter
Lawson & Son, Seedsmen to the High-
land and Agricultural Society of Scotland.
Price One Shilling.
VT.
SEVEN LITHOGRAPHED
DESIGNS for the IMPROVE-
MENT of FARM COTTAGES and
STEADINGS, with Descriptions, Speci-
fications, and Estimates,Remarkson the Ac-
commodation required under the Modern
System of Husbandry, and the Defects of
Existing Farm Buildings. By James
Cunningham, Surveyor. Price 6s. 6d.
VII.
AINSLIE'S LAND SURVEY-,
ING, comprising the Theory and
Practice in all its Branches; in which the
use of the various Instruments employed in
Surveying} Levelling, &c, is clearly eluci-
dated by Practical Examples. Illustrated
by 40 Copperplates. With a treatise
appended on Trigonometrical Surveying,
Levelling, and Railway Engineering. By
William Galbraith, M.A. In 4to,
price 15s.
VIII.
AN AGRIC ULTURAL
TOUR in the UNITED STATES
and UPPER CANADA. By Captain
Barclay of Ury. In one Vol. post 8vo,
price 7s. 6d.
IX.
ELEMENTS OF AGRICUL-
TURAL CHEMISTRY AND
GEOLOGY. By James F. W. John-
ston, Esq., Reader in Chemistry and
Mineralogy in the University of Durham,
Author of " Lectures on Agricultural
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