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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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American Weeds and Useful Plants".... 1 50 
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Allen's Diseases of Domestic Animals 75 
Allen's (L. F.) Rural Architecture 1 25 
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Brandt's Ape of Horses* (English and German) 50 
Breck'a Book of Flowers i 25 
Browne's American Poultry Yard 1 25 
BuiBt'fl American Flower Garden Directory 1 25 
Buist's Family Kitchen Gardener" 75 
Central Park Guide 25 
Cliorl Ion's Grape-Grower's Guide* 60 
Cole's (S. W.) American Fruit Book 60 
Cole's Veterinarian 60 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) Modern Horse Doctor 1 25 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) American Cattle Doctor 1 25 
Dana's Muck Manual for Farmers 1 00 
Downing^ Cottage Residences* 2 50 
Downing'* Fruits and Fruit Trees Of America**. 2 00 
Downing's Ladies' Flower Garden . ., l 50 
Eastwood on the Cranberry* 50 
Employment of Women— By Virginia Penny* 1 50 
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Fesaendeirs American Kitchen Gardener 25 
French's Farm Drainage * ; 25 
Field's (Thomas W.) Pear Culture 1 00 
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Flint (Charles L.) on Grasses* 1 25 
Flint's Milch Cows and Dairv Farming* 1 25 
Fuller's Strawberry Culturist 10 
Goodale's Principles of Breeding 100 
Gray's Manual of Botany 2 50 
Guenon on Milch Cows , 60 
Hall's (Miss) American Cookery ] 00 
Harris' Insects Injurious to Vegetation, plain 3 00 
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Herbert's Hints to Horsekeepers*" 1 25 
Hooper's Doc and Gun 25 
Johnson on Manures 75 
Kidder's Bee Culture .'. 50 
Langsti-oth on tlte Honey Bee* 1 50 
Leslie's Recipes for Cooking 1 25 
Lcuchars' Hothouses 1 25 
Lleblg's Lectures on Chemistry 50 
Linslev's (D. C.) Morgan Horses 1 25 
Manual of Agriculture by G. Emerson and C. L. Flint. 1 00 
Mavhew's Illustrated Horse Doctor 3 00 
McMahon's American Gardener*. 2 50 
Meeh an's Ornamental Trees 75 
Milburn on the Cow and Dairy. , 25 
Miles on the Horse's Foot 50 
Mistakes of Educated Men 50 
Munn's Land Drainer. -. GO 
National Almanac and Annual Record 1 25 
Norton's Scientific Agriculture 75 
Olcott's Sorgho and Imphee 1 00 
Our Farm of Four Acres..*.... (paper) 25 
Onion Culture* 21 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture 60 
Parlor Gardener.. 65 
Parsons on the Rose 1 25 
Peddcr's Farmer's Land Measurer 50 
Phantom Bouquet, or Skeleton Leaves 100 
Phin's Grape Culture 1 25 
Ouinbv's Mysteries ot Bee keeping* 1 25 
Randall's Sheep Husbandry 1 25 
Richardson on the Dog 50 
Richardson on the Hog 25 
Robins' Produce and Ready Reckoner 60 
Rose Culturist. 25 
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Skillful Housewife 25 
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Week's (John M.) Manual on Bees 50 
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Yale College Agricultural Lectures 25 
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Youatt and Martin on Cattle 1 25 
Youatt on the Hog 75 
Youstt on Sheep 75 
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The Cranberry and its Culture. 
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ing on the Cranberry and its Culture. Said Circular will 
give persons the proper information as to the commence- 
ment of the culture. He will lake pleasure in forwarding 
them to all parts of the United States, to those sendingstamp 
to pay postage. Persons wishing plants in large or 6mall 
quantities, may receive them by express, for wet or dry soil. 
Address GEORGE A. BATES, 
Bellingham, Norfolk Co., Mass. 
ASS BARK OR MATTING— FOR BUDDING 
and Tying Purposes. Price 20 cts. per pound, $18 per 
100 pounds. For sale by SHEPPAKD it SEWARD, 
214Pearl-st., New-York. 
R 
USSIA OR BASS MATS, SELECTED EX- 
UMj nressly for budding find tying, GUNNY BAGS, 
TWINES, HAY HOl'ES, jka, suitable lor Nursery purposes, 
for sale in lols to suit, by D. TV. M AN WAllING, 
Importer, 248 Front-st.. New-York. 
TO FARMERS 
AND OTHERS. 
"We are manufacturing a Genuine Article of Fink, Medi- 
um, and Coarse BONE DUST, or RAW BONE SU- 
PERPHOSPHATE OF LIME, manufactured from 
unburned Bones, containing all the Animal and Chemical 
Fertilizing Properties. Please address the Manufacturers, 
and get the Intrinsic Value of your money. 
M. B. A Liberal Discount made to Dealers for Cash, 
Address A. LISTER & BUO., 
Tarry town, Westchester Co.. N. T„ 
Or Newark. N. J. 
PURE GROUND BONE. 
Farmers and Dealers will do well to send in their orders 
for BOXE early, as the demand is heavy. We will give you 
a PUKE AKTfCLE. North Uiver Agricultural Warehouse. 
GRIPPING, BEOTHKR& CO., 
60 Courtlandt-st„ New- York. 
& XT A TV O. 
CALIFORNIA AND PATOS ISLAND GUANO, rich in 
ammonia and phosphates, of which we are sole importers; 
also the celebrated ICHABOE. All for sale in lots to suit 
purchasers. Apply to WAKEMAN, DIMON & CO., 
73 South-st., New-York. 
Believed tobe the best and cheapest manure in the market. 
As it can not be kept in store, and a considerable quantity 
has tobe brought from the factory at a time, I will receive 
orders deliverable ahead. Price $25 per ton, 2000 lbs., packed 
in barrels. Order soon.— Bone-Dust, Superphosphate, Guano, 
Plaster, &C JOHN VANDERBILT, 
23 Fulton-st., New-Tork. 
POUDRETTE. 
Farmers and Dealers supplied with a pure article. 
Send for Farmers' Agricultural Almanac for the year 1863. 
GRIFFING, BROTHER & CO.. 
60 Courtlandt-st., New- York. 
B A TJ G H ' S 
RAW BONE 
SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME. 
1£AV4»II & SONS, 
MANUFACTURERS AND PROPRIETORS, 
No. 20 South Delaware Avenue, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
This Manure is manufactured from pure Raw Bones, and 
warranted to contain all their original organic matter— no 
burned or calcined bones are used, and it is sold under a guar- 
anty from the manufacturers that it is free from adulteration. 
B3?~Last season the demand for this manure exceeded that 
of any former one, and with few exceptions the results have 
been highly favorable. No pains will be spared to maintain 
its standard of popularity. |J3?~sexd in you r orders early. 
Price, $4© per 2,000 11>s., Cash. 
RHODES SUPER-PHOSPHATE, 
THE STANDARD MANURE. 
Prepared from Bones treated with Sulphuric Acid, uniform 
in quality and regular in price. 
OATS, CORN, TOBACCO, AND ROOT CULTURE, 
ALSO TOP-DRESSING' ON THE GROWING WHEAT. 
"RHODES' "—the long established MANURE in die Amer- 
ican market, besides having European reputation, can not 
be excelled for the ahove seasonable crops. 
Our usual large stock now ready for delivery. Dealers and 
farmers apply to HENRY E. MoRING. General Agent, 
9? Pearl-st., near Hanover Square, New- York. 
Or B. M. RHODES & CO., 
82 South-st., Bowly's "W hart, Baltimore, Md. 
COE'S SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME. 
Pure Bone Dust. 
The exborbitant price of Peruvian Guano, makes these the 
cheapest and best fertilizers which the farmers can use. 
OTHEK FERTILIZEUS OF AXL KIN'DS. 
K. H. ALLEN & CO.. 
New-York Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store, 
189 &. 191 Water-st., New-York. 
HOYT'S AMMONIATED BONE SUPERPHOS- 
PHATE OF LIME. A Substitute for Peruvian Guano. 
Sold at wholesale ami retail by 
GRIFFING. BROTHER & CO., 
60 Coartlaudt-st., New-TorK 
100,000 BARRELS 
L0DI MANUFACTURING COMPANY'S 
POUDRETTE 
FOR SALE BY 
JAMES T. FOSTER, 
66 COURTLANDT-ST., 
NEW-YORK. 
In lots to suit purchasers. This Company have the largest 
capital and factory of the kind in the world, and possess the 
best facilities for manufacturing the night soil of New-York 
City, for which they have the exclusive contract, into a dry, 
inodorous, but powerful manure— superior to any other fer- 
tilizer in market, taking cost and yield into consideration. 
Price §1.130 per barrel, free from cartage, for any quantity 
over 7 barrels— or only $ 16 per ton. 
C3T" Beware of spurious imitations, put up in barrels to re- 
resemble this Company's brand. 
Attention is called to the following letter from a farmer: 
Farmington, N. H„ October 9, 1862. 
James R. Dry, Esq., President Lodi Manufacturing Co. 
For several years past I have used as a fertilizer, the Lodl 
Manufacturing Co.'s Poudrette. I commenced in 1HT.9. I 
thru had a tenant carrying on my farm upon shares. He 
agreed to use such artificial means as I should furnish free 
of expense to him, but he had but little faith in am thing but 
barn-yard manure. I purchased some Poudrette. He look 
it fro in the freight-house ; opened it; came to me with eyes 
wide open, and said, "you have got cheated, this stiff 
is NOTHING but dirt." I told him, "I supposed I had; it 
was nothing new; I was in the habit of getting cheated, but 
as it cost him nothing, I wanted him to use it. 
"We had a piece of poor, sandy loam land, which he plant- 
ed with potatoes, without manure. He put Poudrette m Hie 
hills eight rows, then omitted eight rows, and then put lime 
in the hill, as he had a mind to try that. 
The result was. that where the Poudrette was put, the po- 
tatoes came up three or four days before the others. The 
tops were twice the size during the season, and at harvest 
ing we measured two lots of each, one of which the Poudrette 
gave twice the quantity of potatoes, and the other in the 
proportion of rive to three. 
The lime had no perceptible effect. 
We had a piece of corn land, sandy loam, (my tillage land 
is sandv and gravelly loam,) the corn had a liberal dressing, 
say ten cords of barn dung to Hie acre, spread upon grass 
land, a part ploughed in the fall before, the balance in the 
spring. The tenant prepared a compost to put in the hill, a 
mixture of night soil, hog manure and loam well mixed, se- 
veral times shovelled over, and well incorporated together 
This was put in the hill. In eight rows through the middle 
of the niece, this was omitted and Poudrette was substituted 
instead. The result was, the Poudrette brought the corn up 
sooner, of a better color, and at the end of two weeks alter 
it came up, nearly twice as large, and it maintained it a 
head and shoulder above the other during the season. At 
harvi-sling, we measured the corn, and where we got five 
bushels with the compost, we had six bushels with the 
Poudrette. 
This satisfied me, and convinced my unbelieving tenant 
that it was something besides dirt. I have used it with 
whatever I plant ever since, and shall continue to do so, aa 
long as it maintains its character, and is furnished at reason- 
able prices. We sometimes think we save an entire crop ot 
corn by the use of Poudrette, in case of early frost, as it 
brings the crop to maturity at least a week earlier. 
There has been an increasing demand here since it has 
been introduced, and from my own observation, and the in- 
formation of others, I think it docsaswellon upland soils, 
as upon sandv loam. I have not been so particular since my 
first experiment, but every year 1 left a few rows so as to be 
sure that it maintains its character. The present year there 
is a very marked difference in the appearance of a few rows 
left without the Poudrette, in a piece of corn not yet har- 
vested. The appearance of your Poudrette to one not ac- 
customed to it, is not very flattering. I will relate an anec- 
dote on this point. In 18<>0 I prevailed upon a neighbor to 
try a couple of barrels, for which, I think, he paid me $4.20. 
He informed me afterwards, that he took it into his field all 
alone, and opened it: said he, I said to myself, if some one 
will come along and give me a dollar, he shall have both 
barrels. No one coming along, he tried it, and has used it 
every season since, and thinks very highly of its fertilizing 
qualities. Some of mv neighbors have said to me, that they 
thought if had been worth to them ?5 per barrel. I have used 
other fertilizers, such as Guano. Superphosphate, &c, most 
of which are beneficial, but none come fairly up to the Pou- 
drette. One particular advantage Poudrette has over other 
fertilizers is, tiiat the smell is not otleusivc, and it will not 
kill the seed. 
And again, it is not so expensive. My method is, to pit 
it in the hill with the seed. A quart, by measure is 
ample for ten hills, at which rate a barrel will manure a thou- 
sand hills. I have known it to do well when a less quantity 
was used. I think nothing else should he put with it. It is 
a light matter to put it in the hill with the hand, as a person 
can drop it faster than a boy can drop corn. And it does 
not require the large hole necessary to put in dung or com- 
post, and is a protection against the wire worm. 
Respectfully yours, 
GEO. L. TVIIITEHOUSE. 
The Company's pamphlet, containing directions for use 
and other valuable information, will be sent free to any one 
applying for the same. Address 
J. T. FOSTER, 
Care of the Lodi Manufacturing Co. 
