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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SOILS, LIMESTONES, AND MANURES. By JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON, F.R.S. E., &c. Fourth Edition, 25.

This work is intended as a first help to practical and economical chemical analysis-and its value in this and other obvious ways to the farmer, the pharmaceutical chemist, the youthful student, and to rural trainingschools and agricultural laboratories, will be seen by a perusal of the following brief notice of its contents: (1.) The work opens with a chapter showing how the physical properties of the soil are determined. (2.) How its organic matter is estimated, (3.) and its saline matter examined. These are followed by (4.) a chapter on the estimation of the saline matters, and an examination of natural water; (5.) and its earthy matters; with notes on tile and fire clay. (6.) The analysis of ores by measure is then discussed. (7.) General remarks on the analysis of soils, with practical suggestions thereon, follow. (8.) The analyses of limestones and marls, and (9.) of saline manures, next succeed; and the work closes with (10.) an examination of bone-manures, guanos, and oilcakes. ON THE USE OF LIME IN AGRICULTURE.

By JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON, F. R.S. E., &c. Foolscap 8vo, 6s. This work is designed to throw together, in a convenient form, the results of practice, and the suggestions of theory, in the use of a substance which has been called the basis of all good husbandry, so important a part does it perform in its practice. The points discussed are the use of lime in its application to the soil; the artificial states in which these are made; an investigation into the points as to whether it is indispensable to the fertility of the land; and when it should be applied. Its effects on the soil and the crops are then stated, followed by a notice of the theory of its action; its exhausting influence on the soil; the length of time which it acts; and its effects on animal and vegetable life; the work concluding with two elaborate chapters on the use of lime as a sulphate and a phosphate.

EXPERIMENTAL

AGRICULTURE; being the results of Past, and suggestions for Future Experiments in Scientific and Practical Agriculture. By JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E., &c. In 8vo, 8s.

In the other works by the same author there has been embodied all that is known with any degree of certainty in regard to the application of chemistry to agriculture. There are, however, a variety of important points about which there is as yet much obscurity, and a vast deal altogether unknown. To explain these in as far as they are capable of being immediately elucidated by experiment, is the scope of the present work. From the considerations dwelt upon, a variety of suggestions as to experimenting in the field and the feeding-house are evolved: these are presented in such a way as to point out to practical men what they may do for the advancement of the art of agriculture.

ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY

AND GEOLOGY. BY JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON, F.R.S. E.,
F.G.S., &c. Ninth Edition, greatly enlarged. Revised and
Edited by George T. Atkinson, B.A., F.C.S., Clifton College,
Bristol. 6s. 6d.

PHYSIOLOGY AT THE FARM, IN AID OF REARING AND FEEDING THE LIVE STOCK. By WILLIAM SELLER, M.D., F.R.S. E., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, formerly Lecturer on Materia Medica and Dietetics; and HENRY STEPHENS, F. R.S. E., Author of the Book of the Farm,' &c. Post 8vo, with Engravings, 16s.

A large amount of a farmer's capital is absorbed by horses, cattle, and sheep. The return on his live stock will be, as a rule, in proportion to the skill brought to bear on its management. When diseases assail his animals, the veterinary can be called into counsel; but in relation to their daily treatment, and the keeping of them in ordinary health, he should be able to rely on himself.

To have some acquaintance with the physiology of nutrition, and of the intimate connection between the condition of his stock and the several kinds of food thereby consumed, cannot but materially assist him in his daily tasks, and save him from a multitude of errors.

The work now offered to him is designed to bring such a knowledge within his reach.

OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON VETERINARY SUBJECTS. By WILLIAM DICK, Late Professor of Veterinary Surgery to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Veterinary Surgeon to the Queen for Scotland, Founder of the Edinburgh Veterinary College, &c. WITH A PORTRAIT, AND MEMOIR BY R. Ó. PRINGLE. 8vo, 12s. 6d.

"The present work, which consists of gleanings from the elaborate opinions of Professor Dick on the numerous diseases to which horse and cattle flesh is heir, is a highly useful one. To the veterinary student it must prove an invaluable assistant, while it will go far to strengthen the hands of the experienced practitioner. A more thoroughly practical work we have seldom perused. Every subject is treated in a sound and sensible manner-the meanest capacity can understand the teaching of Professor Dick."-Sportsman. COUNTRY ARCHITECTURE. A Work designed

for the Use of the Nobility and Country Gentlemen; being a Series of executed works and designs for Buildings connected with Landed Property, comprising Labourers' Cottages, Agents' Residences, Farm Houses, Schools, Country Residences, &c. By JOHN BIRCH, Architect. Medium 4to, £2, 2s.

CATTLE AND CATTLE-BREEDERS. By WILLIAM M'COMBIE, M.P., Tillyfour. A New and Cheaper Edition. 2s. 6d., cloth.

"Much as we enjoy the first part of the book, which is mainly a record of trading incident, the hints on breeding and care of capital are most useful. The student will do well to carefully study this section of the book; every sentence being the result of practical experience, is thoroughly reliable."-Field.

THE LIVE STOCK OF THE FARM. By ROBERT OLIPHANT PRINGLE, Editor Irish Farmers' Gazette.' Author of the Highland Society Prize Essay (30 Sovereigns) on the Agriculture of the Orkney Islands, 'Purdon's Veterinary Handbook,' &c. In one volume, crown octavo.

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THE BOOK OF THE LANDED ESTATE. By ROBERT E. BROWN, Factor and Estate Agent, Wass, Yorkshire, Royal Octavo, with numerous Engravings, One Guinea. "We can heartily commend this book for the instruction of both landowners and estate agents. It is full of solid practical knowledge, clearly arranged and expressed- a repertory of all that is essential to be known theoretically by the managers of properties. How estates should be divided into farms, what sort of farm-buildings there should be, what leases or arrangements with tenants should be most profitably entered into, the management of a home farm, the use of machinery, especially steam-machinery, in agriculture, estate book-keeping-are all discussed with ample detail and information. The author is evidently a shrewd Scotchman or North-country man, who has thought out the whole business in his own practice, and writes accordingly."Economist.

"It is impossible even to glance at a tithe of the useful information and advice contained in this volume, which will be certain to be the landlord and the agent's vade mecum."-Saturday Review.

"Mr Brown's book offers minute and ample answers to every possible inquiry which the landowner's ingenuity can suggest."-Pall Mall Gazette.

"Mr Brown is plain and practical in his remarks; he is evidently a cautious and sensible land-agent, and his valuable work testifies to his having made good use of his opportunities, his observation, and his experience."-North British Agriculturist.

THE CHEMISTRY OF VEGETABLE AND ANI-
MAL PHYSIOLOGY. By Dr J. G. MULDER, Professor of
Chemistry in the University of Utrecht. Translated by Dr P.
F. H. FROMBERG; with an Introduction and Notes by Profes-
sor JOHNSTON. 22 coloured Plates, 8vo, £I, IOS.
THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE. With
Illustrations. By JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON, F.R.S. E., &c.
New Edition, Revised and brought down to the present time,
by G. H. Lewes. In 2 vols., crown 8vo, 11s. 6d.

The common life of man is full of wonders, Chemical and Physiological. Most of us pass through this life without seeing or being sensible of them, though every day our existence and our comforts ought to recall them to our minds. One main cause of this is, that our schools tell us nothing about them-do not teach those parts of modern learning which would fit us for seeing them. What most concerns the things that daily occupy our attention and cares, are in early life almost sedulously kept from our knowledge. Those who would learn anything regarding them, must subsequently teach themselves through the help of the press: hence the necessity for a Popular Chemical Literature.

"All will concur in admiring the profound thought which has ennobled so many familiar things, and has even tinged the commonest process of household life with the hues of novelty and surprise. The work deserves to be universally read."-British Quarterly Review.

THE PREPARATION OF COOKED FOOD FOR

THE FATTENING OF CATTLE, AND THE ADVANTAGE OF USING IT ALONG WITH CUT STRAW, HAY, TURNIPS, OR OTHER VEGETABLES. BY THOMAS HARKNESS. 6d' DAIRY MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF MILCH-COWS: Being the recorded Experience of Mrs AGNES SCOTT, Winkston, Peebles. Third Edition, fcap. Is.

THE BOOK OF FARM - BUILDINGS;

THEIR

ARRANGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION. By HENRY STE-
PHENS, F.R.S. E., Author of 'The Book of the Farm;' and
ROBERT SCOTT BURN. Illustrated with 1045 Plates and
Engravings. In One Volume, Large Octavo, uniform with
'The Book of the Farm,' &c. I, IIS. 6d.

The object of this Work is to indicate, in the most distinct manner, that arrangement of the Apartments in Farm-Steadings best adapted for each of the methods of Farming practised in the kingdom. It may surprise those unacquainted with Agriculture to learn that there are various modes of Farming. There are not fewer than five distinct systems of Farming pursued in this country. In view, then, of this variety in modes of practice, it will be obvious that no single arrangement, however apparently complete and well conceived, can meet the requirements of all circumstances of practice, or be calculated to secure the strictest economy of labour. As the manufactures of wool, cotton, silk, or flax require arrangements of premises suited to the peculiarities of the material to be operated upon, so, in like manner, do the peculiarities of "dairy," "pastoral," or of "mixed" husbandry, demand arrangements calculated to aid their practice. A very slight consideration indeed of this subject will suffice to show that the accommodation required on a farm solely devoted to the rearing of live-stock, should not be the same as that required for one which is cultivated entirely for the raising of corn. But although the arrangement of the Apartments of Steadings should vary in accordance with the kind of Farming, yet every arrangement suited to the various modes of Farming may be founded upon such a general principle as shall insure the greatest convenience and economy in the use of each arrangement.

The Authors are quite aware of the difficult task they have undertaken in order to attain the important object they have thus enunciated: but, nevertheless, they flatter themselves that the object has been attained in this Work, and that for the first time by any writer who has hitherto attempted to illustrate Farm-Buildings. VILLA RESIDENCES AND FARM ARCHITEC

TURE: A Series of Designs. By JOHN STARFORTH, Architect. 102 Engravings. Second Edition, medium 4to, £2, 17s. 6d. The work comprises a series of one hundred and two Plates, finished in the highest style of art, all the drawings and designs being carefully prepared by the author.

General details of construction and descriptions of each Plate are added; and in the preparation of the work every pains have been taken to produce a practical and useful volume, calculated to meet the wants of the present time.

VILLA RESIDENCES; A SERIES OF DESIGNS WITH DESCRIPTIONS. By JOHN STARFORTH, Architect. Engravings. Medium quarto, 25s.

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THE HANDBOOK OF THE MECHANICAL ARTS Being Practical Hints on the Construction and Arrangement of Dwellings and other Buildings, and in Carpentry, Smith-Work, Cements, Plastering, Brick-Making, Well-Sinking, Enclosing of Land, Roadmaking, &c. By R. SCOTT BURN, Engineer. In 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, Second Edition, 6s. 6d.

JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE, AND TRANS-
ACTIONS OF THE HIGHLAND & AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.

Old Series, 1828 to 1843, 21 vols. bound in cloth, £3, 3s.
New Series, 1843 to 1865, 22 vols. £4, 4s.

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE HIGHLAND

AND

1866

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.
1871, 6 Nos., sewed, 4s. each; 1872-1874, cloth, 5s. each.
Continued Annually.

THE GRASSES OF BRITAIN. Illustrated by 140
Figures, Drawn and Engraved by the Author. By R. PARNELL,
M.D., F.R.S.E. This work contains a Figure and full de-
scription of every Grass found in Britain, with their Uses in
Agriculture. Royal 8vo, 42s.

TABLES FOR CONVERTING

LINLITHGOW

BARLEY MEASURE INTO IMPERIAL BUSHELS AND STONES. Showing the value of one Lippie to eightyone Bolls, at different rates per Bushel and Stone. Prepared by WILLIAM LAIDLAW, assistant to Charles Stewart, Esq., Hillside. Foolscap 8vo, 5s.

ON THE MANAGEMENT OF LANDED PROPERTY IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. GEORGE G. MACKAY, C.E. Crown 8vo, Is. 6d.

THE

COTTAGE,

By

THE BOTHY, AND THE KITCHEN; BEING AN INQUIRY INTO THE CONDITION OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS IN SCOTLAND. BY JAMES ROBB, with a Preface by the Right Hon. Lord KINNAIRD. Second Edition, 6d.

LANDLORDS AND LABOURERS. By ROBERT Second Edition, fcap. 8vo,-sewed, Is. ;

SCOT SKIRVING. cloth, Is. 6d. HANDY BOOK OF METEOROLOGY. BY ALEXANDER BUCHAN, M.A. F.R.S. E., Secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society, &c. Third Edition. In preparation. In this Edition the Charts of the Distribution of Atmospheric Pressure and of Terrestrial Temperature will be thoroughly revised; the Relations of Temperature to Atmospheric Pressure and Winds will, with the aid of Illustrative Charts, be more fully discussed, and the principle will be applied in explanation of unusually Hot and Cold Seasons, as well as Seasons of excessive Drought or excessive Rainfall. Charts will be given showing the Distribution of Rain over the Continents of the Globe, and its connection with the Distribution of Atmospheric Pressure and Temperature. Prevailing Winds will be pointed out; the Prevailing Winds over the Globe will be laid down on Charts; and otherwise the Book will be revised throughout.

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