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The Dictionary and Supplement can be had bound together, if preferred, in vola. Price $6 50. NEW WORK ON PRACTICAL FARMING, IN ITS RELATION WITH CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS. AND METEOROLOGY: OR, CHEMISTRY APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE. BY J. B. BOUISSANGAULT, Member of the Institute of France, etc. TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY One handsome volume, 12mo. of 500 pages. Price $1 50. VI. VIII. HEADS OF CHAPTERS.-I. PHYSICAL PHENOMENA of VEGETATION-VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY. II. Of the CHEMICAL CONSTITUTION of VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. III. Of the SACCHARINE FRUITS, JUICES, and INFUSIONS used in the PREPARATION of FERMENTED and SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. IV. Of SOILS. V. Of MANURES. Of MINERAL MANURES or STIMULANTS. VII. Of the ROTATION OF CROPS. Of the FEEDING of the ANIMALS belonging to a FARM and of the IMMEDIATE PRIN CIPLES of ANIMAL ORIGIN. IX. Of the ECONOMY of the ANIMALS attached to a FARM. Of STOCK in general, and its RELATION with the PRODUCTION of MANURE-METEOR. OLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS. Extract from Translator's Introduction. In the person of the distinguished author of this work the man of science is happily associated with the practical farmer-the accomplished naturalist, the profound che mist and natural philosopher, and friend and fellow-laborer of Arago, Biot, Dumas, and all the leading minds of his age and country-M. Bouissangault's title to consideration is recognised wherever letters and civilization have extended their influence. Surely, the collected and carefully recorded experience of such a man must have value in the estimation of every educated mind, and cannot fail to be especially welcome to that class of readers who are professionally engaged in the practical application of that noble science which his labors have contributed to illustrate and advance. The chemical portion of this work is of inestimable value, and conducted with consummate skill and knowledge; and with a minuteness and accuracy perfectly unexampled. At the same time the results of the writer's researches, as well as the means and processes by which these results were obtained, are displayed with such absolute perspicuity as to be intelligible and instructive to every agricultural inquirer, however superficial his previous acquaintance may be with the details of chemical science. Nothing from the pen of the editor could throw additional light upon the author's most interesting elucidation of vegetable physiology; his exposition is at once masterly and complete, and contains much that is both valuable and new. Every intelligent farmer will find his account not merely in a repeated perusal of this portion of the work, but in regarding it as a text-book and manual to be kept by him for permanent reference and consultation. On the subject of soils the distinguished author is so thoroughly explanatory and judicious that nothing is left for the editor but to approve and recommend. The subject of Manures is taken up, and discussed with characteristic minuteness through many succeeding pages. To the author's sixth chapter the reader may be advantageously referred, as containing a very full and valuable description and discussion, under the head of Mineral Manures, of the different varieties of the class usually denominated stimulants, and concluding with a brief but lucid and interesting account of water, considered as an agent of vegetation, and of its importance for manuring purposes. The composition and preparation of liquid manures, as well as the various means of procuring and preserving them, will be found to have engaged much of the author's attention. The Editor is anxious to direct especial attention to the author's seventh chapter, wherein he treats of the organic and inorganic manures, and of crops-of the ele ments of manures and of crops, with their relations inter se, &c.-a section of the work which presents, in synopsis, a more copious and complete body of new, interesting and important facts, of a nature more valuable to the practical farmer than has eve been collected in any previous treatise on agricultural science. The interesting and ample instruction conveyed in the observations of this pro found observer upon the food and alimentary treatment of cattle of every species, accompanied as they are by minute details of the results obtained in the shape of organic and inorganic elements, cannot be too urgently recommended to the attentive consideration of every one interested in that important branch of rural economy to which they more particularly relate. The meteorological section of the volume will be found no less instructive to the agriculturist thun fascinating to the general reader D. Appleton & Company have recently published A TREATISE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HORSES, IN RELATION TO Veterinary Surgeon, and lately Professor of Veterinary Medicine, in the Andersonian University, Glasgow. From the third English edition, with Notes and Additions, adapting it to American Food Climate. By A. B. ALLEN, Editor of the American Agriculturist.-Illustrated with numerous Engravings. One volume, 12mo. Price, $1. HEADS OF CHAPTERS. CHAPTER I. STABLING-CONSTRUCTION of STABLES.-VENTILATION of STABLES.APPENDAGES of STABLES. CHAPTER II. STABLE OPERATIONS.-STABLE MEN. GROOMING.-OPERATIONS of DECORATION,-MANAGEMENT of the FEET.-OPERATIONS in the STABLE. CHAPTER III. STABLE RESTRAINTS. — ACCIDENTS. HABITS. VICES. CHAPTER IV. WARMTH. CHAPTER V. FOOD.-ARTICLES of.-COMPOSITION Of.-PKEPARATION of.-Ass:MILATION of INDIGESTION Of.-PRINCIPLES of FEEDING.-PRACTICE of FEEDING.-PASTURING.-SOILING.-FEEDING at STRAW YARD. CHAPTER VI. WATER. CHAPTER VII. SERVICE GENERAL PREPARATION for WORK.-PHYSIOLOGY of MUSCULAR EXERTION. PREPARATION for FAST WORKS PRESERVATION of WORKING CONDITION — TREATMENT after WORK.-ACCIDENTS of WORK. KINDS of WORK.-REPOSE. CHAP. TER VIII. MANAGEMENT of DISEASED and DEFECTIVE HORSES.-MEDICAL ATTENDANCE, Extract from Author's Preface.-"To trace the operation, so far as known, of every agent by which the horse is materially affected-to analyze compound agents-to consider the effects of each individually and in combination-and to make practice the master of theory, are the principal objects at which I have aimed in this work. I have labored to obtain all the information that labor could promise me, and I have endeavored to arrange the whole subject into divisions which will, as I think, render every part of it easily understood, and easily referred to by any one not ignorant of the English tongue." American Editor's Preface-It may be thought perhaps, by some, presumptuous on the part of any American to undertake the editing with a view of improvement, a work of the standard reputation of Stewart's Stable Economy. But it must be recollected that the climate and much of the food, and, consequently, the general management of the horse in Great Britain, are so different from what they necessarily must be in North America, that great in jury is often done to that noble animal by following British instructions too closely in h. rearing, and above all in his stable management. The horse, both theoretically and practically, has been a favorite study with me froe childhood; and for the past ten years I have been more or less engaged in breeding aa rearing them on my own farm and in breaking and fitting them for market. I also had i early life during a residence of nearly two years in the North of Europe the advantage studying the stable economy of large military establishments; and to inform myself, I personal inspection, on the subject of the horse in general, and particularly his rearin and stable treatment; and in so doing, examined alike the thorough-bred, the hunter, th roadster, the farm, and the dray-horse. Mr. Stewart evidently knew little of chemistry, either animal or vegetable; and in speak ing of these matters incidentally, particularly regarding the composition of food, the effects o cold and heat on the animal, etc., etc., has made some gross mistakes. 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