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The Publishers respectfully announce that they have undertaken the publication of this large and beautiful work, with a view to supply a desideratum that has long been felt—a book for every Farmer's Library—believing that the venerable author has produced a work which will be worth its weight in gold to every farmer's family that thoroughly peruse it. It is proper to state that Dr. Blake is a practical farmer, and has reclaimed a sterile and worn-out piece of land into a valuable and productive farm which experience, with his well known qualifications as an author, peculiarly fit him to prepare a book for farmers.

The work contains 654 pages, large octavo, with a motto surrounding each page. It is printed on fine paper, and bound in substantial imitation Turkey Morocco, gilt back. Invariable retail price, $2,50. Among the most interesting and useful works connected with agriculture, it must hold a conspicuous and high rank. Besides a large amount of practical matter, it abounds in valuable articles and sentiments that tend to improve the taste and elevate the farming community. The work is executed in a neat and handsome style, and embellished with neat and very appropriate engravings. Dr. Blake has been long and extensively known as a popular author of numerous works, and we are pleased that, with the wisdom of long experience and the ripeness of vigorous age, he has given his attention to agriculture, and has commended and adorned it with his pen. His work should not only be in the library of every farmer, but it should hold a prominent place in the library of every family in the country, for it presents ably and truly the importance of agriculture, and the advantages and pleasures of rural pursuits.—New England Farmer.

The Farmer's Every Day Book, or Sketches of Social Life in the Country, is the volume which was advertised in our January number, and we are happy to be able to announce to our readers that, upon perusal, it fully makes good the claim set up for it in said advertisement. Its great merit consists in the selection of topics fruitful in their practical bearings upon country life, and presenting them in a most popular and attractive form, thus blending amusement and instruction, in a most felicitous style of execution. In reading it, you are not conducted over a barren desert, but through green fields and along purling brooks, amid fruits and flowers, bleating flocks, lowing herds, and singing birds.

Farmers, if you want to get in love with your profession, and learn how to do everything imaginable pertaining to it, in the very best manner, with all your gettings do not fail to get this book.—Michigan Farmer.

This is a common sense book for farmers; it is well worth reading and keeping for family use. The author recommends no extravagant theories for farmers, and avoids all the hyperboles that are so offensive to those who know what it is to overcome difficulties, and to manage so as to make both ends meet.—Massachusetts Ploughman.

“The Farmer's Every Day Book” contains a whole library of miscellaneous information, and will be found to be a valuable compend for the rural household, and an amusing companion for the rainy day or winter evening.—New York Tribune.

The “Farmer's Every Day Book,” by Dr. Blake, N. T., is the best work on agriculture and rural economy, as connected with information upon almost every topic of morals. Every family ought to have a copy, and will richly find their money's worth.—D. , Pres't Agricultural Society. Publishers,&emsp; &emsp;25 Park Row,, and 107 Genesee-st.,.