IMPROVING THE FARM, or Methods of Culture that shall afford a profit, and at the same time increase the fertility of the soil.--By LUCIUS D. DAVIS, of Conanicut Park Farm. The contents treat exhaustively on renewing run-down farms, and comprise the following chapters: Book-Farming. The Run-Down Farm. Will It Pay to Improve the Farm? How Farms Become Exhausted. Thorough Tillage. Rotation of Crops. Green Manuring. More About Clover. Barn-Yard Manure--How Made, Its Cost and Value. How Prepared and Applied. The Use of Wood-Ashes. Commercial Fertilizers. Special Fertilizers. Complete Manures. Experiments with Fertilizers. Stock on the Farm. Providing Food for Stock. Specialties in Farming. Price, cloth, $1. LANDSCAPE-GARDENING.--By ELIAS A. LONG. A practical treatise comprising 32 diagrams of actual grounds and parts of grounds, with copious explanations. Of the diagrams, all but nine have appeared in the serial, "Taste and Tact in Arranging Ornamental Grounds," which has been so attractive a feature of _Popular Gardening_ and _American Gardening_ during the past year. But in the new form the matter has been entirely rewritten. Printed on heavy plate paper, it is unsurpassed for beauty by any other work on Landscape Gardening. Price, 50 cents. THE BUSINESS HEN.--Breeding and Feeding Poultry for Profit. The pat title of a unique book is The Business Hen. A condensed and, practical little encyclopedia of profitable poultry-keeping. P. H. Jacobs, Henry Hale, James Rankin, J. H. Drevenstedt and others equally well known have written chapters on their specialties, the whole being skillfully arranged and carefully edited by H. W. Collingwood, managing editor of _The Rural New-Yorker_. Starting with the question, "What is an Egg?" the book goes on step by step to indicate the most favorable conditions for developing the egg into a "Business Hen." Incubation, care of chicks, treatment of diseases, selection and breeding, feeding and housing, are all discussed in a clear and simple manner. Two successful egg-farms are described in detail. On one of these farms the owner has succeeded in developing a flock of 600 hens that average over 200 eggs each per year. Price, cloth, 75 cents; paper, 40 cents. FIRST LESSONS IN AGRICULTURE. (_2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged._)--By F. A. Gulley, M. S., Professor of Agriculture in the Agricultural College of Mississippi. This book discusses the more important principles which underlie agriculture in a plain, simple way, within the comprehension of students and readers who have not studied chemistry, botany, and other branches of science related to agriculture. It supplies a much-needed text-book for common schools, and is useful for the practical farmer. Includes all the latest developments in agricultural science as applied to the subject. Price, cloth, $1. Special prices for Schools and Colleges.