No. 12. 



Editorial JVotices. 



383 



PHILADELPHIA AGRICULTURAL, HORTICUL- 

 TURAL, AND SEED WAREHOUSE. 



No. 104J Market street, between Fifth and Sixth 

 streets. South side. 



For sale as above, Prouty Sc Mears' Patent Centre 

 Drausht Self-sharpening Ploughs, with all the new 

 improvements attached. These ploughs have taken 

 nine premiums the last fall, in the States of Pennsyl- 

 vania and Delaware. Subsoil ploughs for one or two 

 horses — Taylor's new Patent Straw-cutters— Guillotine 

 Improved do. — Corn-Planters— Cultivators— Harrows; 

 Turnip-Drills, &c. Garden tools of every description. 

 Also, Vegetable and Flower seeds, crop of 1844, grown 

 for this establishment, and warranted true to name. 

 Among the collection are several new kinds, very su- 

 perior—as Seymour's Wliite Giant Celery— Union 

 Head Lettuce. Also, Peas — Beans— Potatoes, &c. — 

 Fruit-trees — Bulbous roots, &c., for sale at the lowest 

 prices, by D. O. PROUTY. 



Poudrette. 



A valuable manure— of the best quality, prepared 

 in Philadelphia, for sale at the office of the Farm- 

 ers' Cabinet, No. 50, North Fourth Street, or at 

 the manufactory, near the Penitentiary on Coates' 

 street. Present price, $1 75 per barrel, containing 

 four bushels— $5 for three barrels— $15 for ten barrels, 

 or thirty cents a bushel. Orders from a distance, en- 

 closingthe cash, withcost of porterage, will be prompt- 

 ly attended to, by carefully delivering the barrels on 

 board of such conveyance as may be designated. 

 The results on corn and wheat have been generally 

 very satisfactory. Farmers to the south and in the 

 interior, both of this State and of New Jersey, are 

 invited to try it. It is now seasonable for turnips, &c. 

 JOSIAH TATUM. 



Water Melons from the South were in oar market 

 on the 25th ult. Tomatoes we had some time previ- 

 ously. 



Dr. Geib, of this city, showed us a fortnight ago, a 

 simple, yet ingeriious machine, which he calls the Chi- 

 ROGRAPHAST, designed to assist young beginners in ac- 

 quiring the art of properly holding the pen. The young- 

 sters, we should suppose, would thank the Doctor. Some 

 of us who recollect the raps our unlucky knuckles were 

 in the habit of receiving half a century ago, and which 

 after all, only taught us to scratch unsightly marks, 

 ourselves can but just decipher, can appreciate the 

 benefit to be conferred by an instrument of this kind 

 upon the uninitiated. 



Agency for the Purchase & Sale of 



IMPROVED BREEDS OF CATTLE & SHEEP. 



The subscriber takes this mc-thod of informing his 

 friends and the public, that he will attend to the pur- 

 chase and sale of the improved breeds of cattle, sheep, 

 &c., for a reasonable commission. All letters post 

 paid, addressed to him at Philadelphia, will he attended 

 to without delay. AARON CLEMENT. 



March 15£A, 1845. 



Chester County Farm for Sale. 



The subscriber offers for sale the valuable farm on 

 which he has resided for a number of years piist, situ- 

 ated on the Brandywine, two and a half miles from 

 the borough of Westchester, and about twenty-five 

 miles from Philadelphia. It comprises 13(5 acres of 

 naturally fertile and highly improved land, and equal 

 to any of that which has made this vicinity so cele- 

 brated as a grazing district. It has been well limed, 

 fenced and drained, and every field contains a spring 

 or run of water for the stock. The buildings are large, 

 with every convenience attached. The mansion is of 

 modern finish, five rooms on the first floor, with entry 

 running through the middle. The spring water is in- 

 troduced by iron pipes into the kitchen and bath room 

 in the second story, and also flows into the barn-yard. 

 The grounds around are handsomely laid out with 

 fruit and shade trees and shrubbery. There is an or- 

 chard in prime bearing, and a young one of Apple, 

 Pear and Peach trees, is just coming int« productive- 

 ness. The barn is double floored, with straw house, 

 granaries, wagon house, and shedding attached. 



This property presents the advantages seldom met 

 with, of combining a beautiful country seat with that 

 of a highly fertile and productive farm. Application 

 to be made to the subscriber, residing thereon, or to 

 Anthony P. Morris, No. 23 Filbert street, Philadelphia. 

 PASCHALL MORRIS. 



Allerton Farm, near West Chester, Chester co.. Pa., 

 Sixth month 14th, 1845. 2t. 



Some farmers were cutting their wheat in Salem and 

 Burlington counties, N. J., on the 18th ult. The har- 

 vest was no doubt hastened by the long continued 

 drought. The editor recollects beginning to cut his 

 rye on the 24th of Sixth month, in 1826. This was the 

 earliest he ever commenced harvesting. 



William Parry, of Burlington co., N. J., left at 

 this office two or three weeks ago, a couple of stalks 

 of wheat, with remarkably large and well filled heads. 

 They were a part of the produce of a single head of 

 21 grains, which was sent him from the seat of govern- 

 ment, by his uncle O. H. Smith, of the U. S. Senate, 

 from Indiana, and which came from Italy with Green- 

 ough's statue of General Washington. He planted 

 those grains on the 19th of First month, 1842, and has 

 been nursing their increase ever since. Last year he 

 had three bushels lacking one quart, on one-twelfth of 

 an acre. This season he will probably have 50 or 60 

 bushels. He stated that some of it would be for sale 

 at .1. P. H. Coates' Seed store, in Market street. It is 

 a white bearded variety, and our friend proposed call- 

 ing it the Washington wheat. A few stalks of this 

 wheat were left by S. L. Clement at the room of our 

 Agricultural Society, at its meeting on the 2nd inst. 



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