The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-15
THE BRITISH PERIODICALS AND THE
s FARMERS GUIDE, ss.t

IT EONARD SCOTT & Co., No. 81 Gold street,
i .Nstu York, continue to publish the four Lead
Ing British Quarterly Reviews and Blackwood's
Magazine; in addition 10 which they have recent
ly commenced the publication of valuable Agr-
cultural work, called the
I" FARMERS GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC AND PaAcrIcAL
s'tt AGRICULTURE"
BY HENRY STEPHENS, +. Il. s., OF Edinburgh, au-
thor of the Book Of the Farm, &C., &C.; assisted
by JonN I: NoRros, MA, New Haven, Professor
Of Scientific Agriculture in Yale College, &c., 90
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pages, with Is or 20 splendid steel engravings,
and more than 600 engravings on wood in the
highest style of the art, illustrating almost every
implement of hnsbandry now in use by the best
farmers, the best methods Of ploughng, planting,
haying, harvesting, &C., &C., the various domes-
tic animals in their highest perfection; in short,
| the pictorial feature of the book is unique, and
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Of agriculture.
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The British Periodicals re-published are as fol-
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The LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW (Conseryatiye),
The EoiNBuRcH REuEw (Whig),
TnE NORTH BRIrisn REVIEW Gree church,,
| The WEsrMlNsTER REVIEW (Liberal.)
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