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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
December.] 
GREAT DEDUCTION. 
TEAS and COFFEES 
At Wholesale Prices. 
Increased Facilities to Club Organizers. 
Semi fur New Pricc-LIst. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 
(P. O. Box 5643.) 
31 and 33 Vesey St., New York. 
WOOD, TABES, & MOKSE, 
Eaton, Mad i soil Co., JV. Y. 
MAZTUFACTUBBBS OF 
Steam-Engines, 
Portable, Stationary, and 
Agricultural. 
Hundreds in use in Shops, Print- 
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Farms and Plantations for Grain 
Thrashing, Pood Cooking for 
Stock, Cotton Ginning, Sawing, etc. 
Circulars sent on application. 
BOCARDUS' PATENT 
UNIVERSAL E00ENTEI0 MILLS, 
For Grinding Bones, Ores, Fire Clay, Guanos, 
Oil-Cake, Feed, Corn. Corn nnil Col), Tol>aeeo, 
Rooli, Sails, Spices, Flax-seed. Tomatoes, Sic., 
ami whatever can not bo ground by other Mills. Also, for 
Faints, Inks, Blacking, &c. 
JOHN \V, THOMSOX, Successor to James Bogardus, 
Comer of White and Elm Streets. New York. 
FOR FALL AND WINTER. 
Horse-Powers, Engines and Threshers. 
Corn ohellers. Fan SViills. Fodder and 
Root Cutters. Smut Machines. Grain 
and Flouring Mi its. Steamers and Boilers. 
Hay and Cotton Presses. Churns, Carts, 
Wagons, Stump Pullers and ice Tools. 
Address R. h. ALLEN & CO., 
P. O. Bus 370, 189 & 191 Water St., New York City. 
On account of the popularity of the Wheeler 
& Wilson Sewing Machines, parties have large- 
ly heen engaged in puroliaeing uKl nml doooiitI- 
hancl machines of that make, and imposed 
upon the public by selling them as new ma- 
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than others can afford them, and be assured of 
what they are buying. Address 
WHEELER & WILSOK M'F'G CO., 
625 Broadway, New York. 
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