^^ERICATS HERD-BOOlt 



DEVOTED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry. — Liebio. 



Vol. XII.— No. 11.] 



Gth mo. (Jane) 15th, 1848. 



[Whole No. 161. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY J O S I A H T A T U M, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — Forcondiiions see last page. 



NOTICE. 



The Editor of this paper being about to 

 relinquish its publication at the close of the 

 current volume, ne.xt month, has made an 

 arrangement with the publisher of the Ame- 

 rican Agriculturist, of New York, by which 

 all the subscribers to the Cabinet will be 

 supplied with that work: and it is earnestly 

 requested that those who mean to continue 

 their subscription, will irnmediately give 

 evidence of it by remitting payment by 

 mail, either to the publisher in New York, 

 or to the present publisher of the Cabinet, 

 50 North Fourth street, Philadelphia. 



Subscribers in arrears for the Cabinet, to 

 •whom bills have been recently forwarded, 

 will see the necessity of settling their ac- 

 counts, and remit by mail, as early as pos- 

 sible. 



The American A5?riculturist autl Farm- 

 ers' Cabinet, 



Will be published promptly on the 1st of 



each month in future, by C M. Saxlon, 205 



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Broadway, IS. Y., to whom all subscriptions 

 and monies may be sent. The friends of the 

 Farmers' Cabinet are informed, that the 

 July number will be sent them bill enclosed 

 for the year, those who do not wish the paper 

 continued, will please return the number 

 with their address distinctly written on the 

 lorapper, and addressed "American Agri- 

 culturist, New York." 



TERMS. 



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3 copies, 2 " 



8 copies, 5 " 



20 copies 12 " 



The American Agriculturist is now in 

 the seventh year of its publication. From 

 its commencement it took a high stand; and 

 has ever since been considered by the press 

 and all unbiased judges, as the leading pe- 

 riodical of its class in America. It has a 

 large and rapidly increasing circulation 

 throughout the United States, the Canadas,. 

 and other British possessions, the West In- 

 |dies, and South America; and we may fear- 

 lessly assert, that it has given more reliable 

 information on rural subjects, and been pe- 

 Irused with greater general satisfaction, than 

 iany paper of the kind yet published. 

 I The Agriculturist treats of every descrip- 

 Ition of domestic animals and poultry; their 

 characteristics, breeds, the best and the 

 I worst; their advantages and disadvantages; 

 their mode of breeding, feeding, and rearing; 

 their uses, profits, and management. It treats 

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