The above work contains more than 40 Engravings and Portraits of Improved Animals ill.u.s.trative of the different breeds and various subjects treated in it.
The most minute as well as general principles for Breeding, Crossing, Rearing, Feeding, and Management of all Domestic Animals, are herein given, to produce the utmost marketable value for the food and attention bestowed on them; as well as to prevent disease, and save the immense losses which annually occur from this source. It can be sent by Mail, in Cloth Binding, for 75 Cents--Paper, 50 Cents. Published by C.
M. SAXTON, 152 Fulton St. New York. For sale by all the Booksellers throughout the country.
Agents wanted for _every county_ in every state. Address, _post paid_, the Publisher.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
The Compactness yet completeness will make it a favorite with agriculturists.--_Chronicle, Philadelphia._
Its greatest worth is, as a complete farrier, showing the diseases of animals, their treatment, and cure.--_Far. & Mec._
The portion which relates to the dairy alone, is worth the cost of the book.--_Worcester Transcript._
It is every way adapted to be serviceable in every household which has domestic animals.--_D. Adv.; Newark._
We believe it a complete guide for the farmer and dairyman in the purchase, care, and use of animals.--_Jeffersonian._
Here is a work which should be in the hands of every farmer.-_-Highland Courier._
We can confidently recommend this work as a very instructive one to those engaged in farming, raising stock, or husbandry.--_Northampton Courier._
The author is a practical farmer and stockbreeder, and is able to vouch for the correctness of the remedies for diseases of Domestic Animals, as well as the best mode of managing them.--_Huron, O. Reflector._
It costs but _seventy-five cents_, and cannot fail to be worth _ten times_ that amount to any farmer.--_Summit S.C. Beacon._
It is the best of that character we have yet seen; no farmer should be without it--_Democrat, Carlisle, Pa._
This is just such a book as every owner of stock should be possessed of.--_Easton Md. Star._
Here is a book which all--those who follow the plow, and those who direct it--can read to profit. It is a library of knowledge, presenting the latest improvements and discoveries, on all the topics treated of; and ill.u.s.trated by a great variety of cuts. The "Allens," one of whom is the author of the work before us, are quite famous in their especial _role_, so that what proceeds from them may be confidently credited at all events. The present book is a most interesting and instructive one, and must meet with a great sale.--_Sciota Gazette._
This work, to the farmer and stock raiser, will be useful, instructive, and profitable, enabling them to improve the breed of their stock, preserve them from sickness, and cure them when infected with disease.--_Herald, Morrisville, Pa._
The time has gone by when farmers can expect to _succeed_ without giving some attention to Book Farming, and we trust they begin to see it for themselves. We should like to hear that this work was in the hands of every farmer in the county.--_Mercury, Potsdam, N.Y._
The t.i.tle page of this work gives a good idea of its scope and intent.
It is a comprehensive summary of farm operations, and will prove very acceptable to the great ma.s.s of our farming population. We are informed that 3,000 copies of this work have been sold since the first of January. It is well printed and profusely ill.u.s.trated--_N.Y. Tribune._
It is furnished with numerous ill.u.s.trating cuts, and will form a complete "vade mec.u.m" for The agriculturist, convenient for reference, and to be relied on when consulted---_Baltimore American._
This is a practical book by a practical man, and will serve extensive practical ends. It is a companion which every farmer will feel that he cannot well be without.--_N.Y. Observer._
We cheerfully recommend this work to farmers.--_Signal, Juliett, Ill._
We antic.i.p.ate an extensive sale for this work--_Ohio Cultivator._
This work ought to be in the hands of every planter.--_N.O. Delta._
The author is a gentleman of fine attainments, and who ranks as one of the most accomplished writers on agricultural subjects in the country.--_Ala. Planter._
Many a valuable animal is lost, every year, for want of the knowledge here conveyed.--_Eagle Brattleboro, Vt._
The author (Mr. Allen), is a practical man, and everything from his pen, on subjects connected with agriculture and cattle breeding, is valuable to those who prefer matter of fact to mere theory--_Maine Farmer._
_Published by C. M. Saxton._
AMERICAN MUCK BOOK,
Treating of the Nature, Properties, Sources, Operations, &c.
OF ALL THE PRINc.i.p.aL FERTILIZERS AND MANURES IN COMMON USE, WITH SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR
PREPARATION, PRESERVATION, AND APPLICATION
to Soil and Crops; with the leading principles of Practical and Scientific Agriculture, &c., &c. By D. J. Browne. 420 pp. 12mo. price $1.
Opinions of the Press.
"The Muck Book contains a great deal of valuable matter. This has been drawn from a large number of the best authorities on the subjects indicated in the t.i.tle; the numerous a.n.a.lyses of plants and manures are particularly valuable, and are not to be found in any other single treatise. Those who wish to advance towards perfection in the saving, manufacturing, and judging of the comparative value of manures, and in applying them with the least possible waste to crops, will find in this book a vast magazine of suggestions and advice, worth many times its cost and the labor of perusal."--_Albany Cultivator._
"The t.i.tle "Muck Book" inadequately describes the character of the work; for it treats of all kinds of fertilizers, animal, vegetable and mineral, and in a style to instruct without perplexing. The manner in which the various manures operate, and the means whereby any required deficiency in the soil can be supplied, are plainly given; and none need waste a horn-pith or an old shoe, as many do, for want of knowledge how to turn it to advantage.
"We recommend the work to intelligent and inquiring farmers, who desire to make everything tell in the manure heap, and who would keep their soil in good heart."--_Journal of Agriculture._
"From an attentive examination of the pages of this book, I have come to the conclusion that it is one of the best works extant, on the principles of scientific agriculture, and the best compendium of our most recent knowledge of the nature of manures and their adaptation to particular soils and crops."--_N.E. Farmer._
"Mr. Browne was, we believe, bred and educated a practical farmer himself, and having a general knowledge of geology, chemistry, &c., and extensive personal knowledge of farming, gardening, &c, in almost every soil and climate, having been for five years a traveller and resident in America, Europe, Western Africa, and the West Indies, his observation and experience combined, would render him eminently qualified for the task. This he has accomplished with credit to himself, and no doubt the result will prove it highly advantageous to the farming community. It is just such a work as is needed by every agriculturist, and the very neat and excellent style in which the enterprising publisher has issued it, will we are very sure commend it to every friend of the farming interest in the country."--_N.Y. Farmer and Mechanic._
"This is a well-written work of over four hundred pages, printed and bound in the usual handsome and permanent style of Mr. Saxton. The importance to every farmer and horticulturist of the great subject of which it treats cannot fail to make this work invaluable to the library of every man who tills the soil. One feature of this work which pleases us, and which will make it universally acceptable is, that the subjects are treated in such a manner as to be easily understood by the "working farmer," who knows little or nothing of chemical science and learned technicalities. With such a work as this in his hands, the farmer is enabled to reclaim his lands, impoverished by his own or his ancestors"
mismanagement, and realize abundant crops where nothing would grow to reward his toil in the ordinary mode of culture."--_Phrenological Journal._
_The following is from. Dr. C. T. Jackson, of Boston, the best Agricultural Chemist in the United States_:
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 6th, 1851.
DEAR SIR: I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the "American Muck Book," recently published by you, and edited by Mr. D. Jay Browne.