THE AMERICAN STOCK JOURNAL. 
The Publisher and Editors desire to return thanks for the patronage 
pestowed towards this Journal. 
Its influence is now too apparent to need a word of commzndation. 
Tts extended and valuable correspondence, presenting the experience of the 
most intelligent stock raisers in America, makes it eagerly sought after 
by all interested in Stock Breeding. 
To all who know the’r own interests, and those especially who do not 
appreciate such a paper, this Journal giving the best information in regard 
to the different breeds of all the domestic animals, and the vast intere ts 
connected therewith, the American Stock Journax will be found of great 
value. 
The Publisher therefore takes this method of making it known in 
various parts of our widely extended territory where it is not already 
known, and where he is quite sure it only needs to be examined, to be 
ordered at once. 
The Editors are gentlemen well known as able and practical men. 
In addition to their own knowledge, tney will receive assistance and 
co-operation from gentlemen of large experience in Stock Raising, in 
various parts of the country, so that the subscribers will be well pos ed in 
regard to what is transpiring in this particular dine throughout our whole 
territory. 
The Journal is published Monthly, and will be hand- 
somely illustrated with wood-cuts of animals. 
T e Journal will contain copious hints on Breeding, Feeding, Break~- 
ing, the Dairy, &c., &c. 
The first number of Volume V. will be illustrated by a beautiful 
Steel Engraving of a Group of Sheep. 

TERMS FOR VOLUME FIFTH: 
One Copy, one year, payable alwaysin advance, - - §1 00 
Five Copies, ‘ ‘6 “ “ - 4 50 
Ten Copies, “ Ts és &“ . . . 8 50 
Twenty Copies, “ ‘6 a 6 - + 16 00 
Back Vols., in numbers, same as above ; Bound Vols., $1.50 each. 
To all who will send One Dollar and a five cents stamp, I will send 
one copy Stock Journan and one of Saxton’s Rural Hand Books. 
To any one sending me Sixteen Dollars, I will send twenty copies, 
and one copy of Dadd’s Horse Doctor, or Herbert’s Hints to Horsekeepers. 
Address all communications to 
C. M. SAXTON, 
Ons FR warre, {Editors Agric’l Book Publisher, N. ¥. 
Saxton’s Rural Hand Books, 25 cents each. American Bird Fancier. American 
Kitchen Gardener. Chemistry Made Easy. Flax Culture. Elements of Agriculture. 
Every Lady her own Flower Gardoner. Dana’s Essays on Manures. Liebig’s Letters. 
Richardson on Hogs, Horses, Bees. Milburn on the Cow. Pests of the Farm. Yale 
Agricultural Lectures Horse’s Foot aud how to Keep it Sound, 
