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"^^ERICAN HERD-BOOTt 



DE VOT ED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



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



Vol. XII — No. 12. 



7th mo. (July) 15th, 1848. 



[Whole No. 1G2. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



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



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



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NOTICE. 



The Editor of this paper being about to 

 relinquish its publication with this Number, 

 which closes the current volume, 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 

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 their subscription, will immediately give 

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The American Agriculturist and Farm- 

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Will be published promptly on the 1st of 

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

 Cab.— Vol. XII.— No. 11. 



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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 

 ithroughout the United States, the Canadas, 

 [and other British possessions, the West In- 

 Idies, and South America; and we may fear- 

 llessly assert, that it has given more reliable 

 information on rural subjects, and been pe- 

 rused with greater general satistnction, than 

 any paper of the kind yet publistied. 



The Agriculturist treats of every descrip- 

 'tion of domestic animals and poultry; their 

 [characteristics, breeds, the best and the 

 iworst; their advantages and disadvantages; 

 their mode of breeding, feeding, and rearing; 

 jtheir uses, pro6ts, and management. It treats 



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