American Pocket Library of Useful Knowledge/General Contents
AMERICAN POCKET LIBRARY
OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
With upwards of One Thousand Valuable Recipes.
GENERAL CONTENTS.
Agriculture. Comprising a mass of information on the management of Soil, Manures, Grass, Grain, Roots, Horses, Cattle, the Dairy, &c., &c., carefully gleaned and condensed from the papers of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, the agricultural papers of the day, and the actual experience of the best practical Farmers.
Health. Furnishing instructions for the treatment of Wounds, Poisons, Bruises, and diseases generally, and especially for the Preservation of Health; condensed, in part, from the Journal of Health, conducted by an Association of Physicians, and edited by Dr. Bell, the best medical writer in the United States, and which has received the sanction of Professors in the University of Pennsylvania and others. Containing, in addition, a large number of valuable recipes, &c., all of which may at times be of importance to families and individuals.
Political. The Constitution of the United States, entire, with the Amendments, a national document which should be in the possession of every Freeman. Also, the year in which each State was settled, and by whom, number of square miles, time of holding Elections, qualification of Voters, Members of Congress, Electors, &c., in each State in the Union, Office Hunters, &c., by Judge Hopkinson.
Sugar Beet. Here is furnished ample instructions for the cultivation of the Sugar Beet, by James Ronaldson, Esq., who visited Europe expressly for the purpose of adding to the agricultural products of the United States.
Silk Culture. Comprising the Manual for producing and reeling Silk, growing the Foliage, managing the Eggs, Worms, and Cocoons, including the whole process of Silk making, as approved by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, on the Report of Committees recommending the purchase of two large editions.
Horticulture. Cultivation of Flowers, Plants, Fruits, Vines, &c., by Henry A. Dreer, Seedsman and Florist.
Birds. Instructions for the feeding and general management of Canaries, Mocking, and other favourite songsters.
Temperance. A comprehensive outline of the great Temperance movement, and a Certificate to the Young Men of the United States, by Ex-presidents Madison, Jackson, Adams and Van Buren, accompanied by engraved facsimiles of the signatures as written by each of those distinguished statesmen.
Canals and Rail-Roads. All in the United States, their Length, Location, Profits, &c., and Tables showing the comparative advantages of Animal and Mechanical labour.
Religion. Enumeration of different Sects, Washington's Farewell Address, the Atheist, &c.
Statistics. Valuable and interesting Statistical Tables, showing the amount of Grain of all kinds, Hay, Cotton, Sugar, Wine, Lumber, Wool, Horses, Mules, neat Cattle, in each and every State in the Union, together with the Population of the whole Country, Cities, Towns, &c.
Cookery. Nutriment in different Food, Directions for making Soups, Roasting, Boiling, Dressing, &c., Pies, Puddings, Preserves, Pickles, Pastry, Cakes, &c., with useful Recipes, on a variety of culinary and household affairs.
Also. A Treatise on the preservation, health and beauty of the Teeth, compiled from the best Dentists. The growth and beauty of the Hair, by J. Dalzell Moore, the superior Hair Dresser. The engraved Alphabet for the Deaf and Dumb. The Law. Important Advice to Emigrants and Western Settlers, by Rev. J. Flint, the result of sixteen years’ experience in the West. Manufactures. Foreign Trade. Value of Foreign Moneys as fixed by Law. Comparative Weights and Measures in different Foreign Ports.
Girard’s Will, and an engraving of the College for Orphans. Thompsonism, showing all the plants &c., used in the Botanic Practice of Medicine, with their properties, Mode of Administering, &c., &c., with valuable Directions, Recipes, &c., amounting in all to upwards of one thousand.
Engravings. Miniature Portraits of the Nine Presidents of the United States. Girard College. Four Phrenological Heads, and New Patent Office, and the splendid National Gallery at Washington.