20 MESSRS BLACK WOOD'S PUBLICATIONS In Two Volumes royal 8vo, price £3, handsomely bound in cloth, A NEW EDITION OF THE BOOK OF THE FARM; DETAILING THE LABOURS OF THE FARMER, FARM-STEWARD, PLOUGHMAN, SHEPHERD, HEDGER, CATTLE-MAN, FIELD-WORKER, AND FORMING A SAFE MONITOR FOR STUDENTS IN PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE. BY HENRY STEPHENS, F.R.S. E. This Edition is entirely rewritten, and embraces every recent application of Science to Agriculture; it is Illustrated with PORTRAITS OF ANIMALS painted from the Life, engraved on Steel by THOMAS LANDSEER and others; and with 600 ENGRAVINGS on WOOD by BRANSTON, representing the principal Field Operations, Implements, and Animals treated of in the Work. SUBJECTS TREATED OF IN THE BOOK OF THE FARM. INITIATION. ON THE BEST OF THE EXISTING METHODS DIFFICULTIES THE PUPIL HAS TO EN- THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF FARMING, ON THE BRANCHES OF SCIENCE MOST PERSONS REQUIRED TO CONDUCT AND ON THE INSTITUTIONS OF EDUCATION ON THE EVILS ATTENDING THE NEGLECT MESSRS BLACKWOOD'S PUBLICATIONS THE BOOK OF THE FARM-Continued. PRACTICE. WINTER. 21 SUMMARY OF THE FIELD-OPERATIONS VARIETIES OF TURNIPS CULTIVATED. AND OF THE WEATHER IN WINTER. CONSTRUCTION OF STABLES FOR FARMPLOUGH, SWING-TREES, AND PLOUGH HARNESS. PLOUGHING AND PLOUGHING-MATCHES. PLOUGHING DIFFERENT FORMS OF RIDGES. PLOUGHING STUBBLE AND LEA GROUND. OCCUPATION OF THE STEADING IN WINTER. PULLING AND STORING TURNIPS, MANGOLD-WURZEL, CARROTS, PARSNIPS, AND CABBAGE, FOR CONSUMPTION IN WINTER. FEEDING OF SHEEP ON TURNIPS IN WINTER. ACCOMMODATION AFFORDED TO CATTLE IN WINTER BY THE STEADING. REARING AND FATTENING OF CATTLE ON TURNIPS IN WINTER. HORSES. TREATMENT OF WINTER. FARM-HORSES IN TREATMENT OF THE FARMER'S SADDLE AND HARNESS HORSE IN WINTER. FATTENING OF SWINE IN WINTER. TREATMENT OF FOWLS IN WINTER. RATIONALE OF THE FEEDING OF ANIMALS ACCOMMODATION OF THE GRAIN CROPS IN THE STEADING. THRASHING AND WINNOWING OF GRAIN. FORMING OF DUNGHILLS AND COMPOSTS IN WINTER. LIQUID MANURE, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF LIQUID-MANURE TANKS AND CARTS. SEA-WEED AS MANURE. GAULTING OR CLAYING THE SOIL. 22 66 MESSRS BLACKWOOD'S PUBLICATIONS THE BOOK OF THE FARM-Continued. AUTUMN. SUMMARY OF THE FIELD-OPERATIONS AND OF THE WEATHER IN AUTUMN. SOWING OF WINTER TARES-RAPE AND ITALIAN RYE-GRASS. REAPING WHEAT, BARLEY, OATS, RYE, REALISATION. DIFFERENCES IN THE PHYSICAL GEO-TREATMENT OF DRAUGHT-STALLIONS. "We assure agricultural students that they will derive both pleasure and profit from a diligent perusal of this clear directory to rural labour. The experienced farmer will perhaps think that Mr Stephens dwells upon some matters too simple or too trite to need explanation; but we regard this as a fault leaning to virtue's side in an instructional book. The young are often ashamed to ask for an explanation of simple things, and are too often discouraged by an indolent or supercilious teacher if they do. But Mr Stephens entirely escapes this error, for he indicates every step the young farmer should take, and, one by one, explains their several bearings. The business matter of a farm is divided by Mr Stephens into four parts, each bearing the name of the season that influences the operations that are performed in it. By this arrangement every operation is described as it takes its turn in the fields described, we must in justice to the author observe, in so detailed and perspicuous a narrative, that no attentive reader can fail to comprehend the course he ought in practice to pursue. We have thoroughly examined these volumes; but to give a full notice of their varied and valuable contents would occupy a larger space than we can conveniently devote to their discussion; we therefore, in general terms, commend them to the careful study of every young man who wishes to become a good practical farmer." Editor of American Reprint. "No farmer who thirsts for knowledge himself, or who aspires to have his son rise 'to the true post of honour-the dignified station of an intellectual and accomplished agriculturist-can justifiably deny himself such a work." The Magnet. "It is one of the chief recommendations of this work that its instructions are both clear and comprehensive, so that they are quickly understood and their merits appreciated; whilst the profusion of excellent cuts with which the text is embellished, brings the subjects treated upon fairly under the farmer's observation. There are few books of so high a character, or so eminently useful as this." Farmers' Magazine. "A work, the excellence of which is too well known to need any remarks of Inverness Courier. ours. "Mr Stephens has tasked himself to produce a great work-the most splendid we possess on the subject; and his title hardly conveys the full extent of his plan, which is more comprehensive and highly finished than any other rural cyclopædia we possess." Bell's Messenger. "Exhibiting in every page the combination of large experience, extensive observation, and a cultivated mind. One of the most unique and valuable works to be found within the range of agricultural literature.' Bell's Life. "We know of no single agricultural work to be compared with this. Nothing can be more disinterestedly earnest than our recommendation of the 'Book of the Farm.'" Agricultural Gazette. "One of the completest works on agriculture of which our literature can boast." Scottish Farmer. "A most accurate and useful digest of all that has been ascertained by observation, experiment, and experience in relation to agriculture, more especially as conducted in our own country. By very many of the most enlightened and enterprising farmers and proprietors in Scotland, we know it has been held in the greatest estimation; and were we to seek information on any particular subject connected with rural affairs, it is certainly the book to which we should in the first instance refer." 24 MESSRS BLACK WOOD'S PUBLICATIONS A TREATISE ON LAND SURVEYING. By JOHN AINSLIE. "The best book on surveying with which I am acquainted."-WM. RUTHERFORD, "I hardly expected, from the title, to have found such complete directions for marine surveying, a branch of the subject that has been too little attended to,especially as to the proper observations on the rise and fall of the tides. I should like to see the book in every midshipman's berth in the Royal Navy."-CAPTAIN JOHN WASHINGTON, R.N., one of the Admiralty Marine Surveyors. TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEYING, LEVELLING, AND RAILWAY ENGINEERING. By WILLIAM GALBRAITH, M.A. 8vo, price 7s. 6d. AN INTRODUCTION TO METEOROLOGY. Wherein the Laws of that important branch of Natural Science are explained by numerous interesting Facts, methodically arranged and familiarly described. By DAVID P. THOMSON, M.D. In Octavo, with numerous Illustrations. Price 12s. 6d. "I consider it a most valuable treatise, and one likely to become popular when its merits are made known to the public."-Sir David Brewster. "It appears to me that you have grappled successfully with your subject, and produced a useful and valuable volume, and one which, I have no doubt, will have a great circulation, if only for the number of curious and interesting facts described and collected in it."-Sir John Herschel, Bart. "We borrow these refreshing passages from the Introduction to Meteorology of Dr Thomson-a work of a full and well-assorted mind-to which we shall often refer in the department now engaging our attention."—Dublin University Magazine. "A complete treatise on the subject, including all the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements. It is a great storehouse of facts scientifically and carefully arranged."-The Economist. STEPHENS ON DRAINING. A Manual of Practical Draining. "A complete manual of draining in all its branches, clearly and concisely written; the various systems and practices in use are fairly discussed and commented upon, their peculiar advantages pointed out, and their applicability to the various descriptions of soil shown. The method of construction of the different drains is described, their relative cost summed carefully up, with plain and simple directions to the farmer to guide him in the choice of the particular system of draining he should adopt, as well as the mode in which it should be done."-Bolton Free Press. 46 L.H. 7168 |