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AMEBICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[Makch, 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS and OTHERS. 
[Any of the foUowins books can be obtained at the Of- 
fice of the AgricuUuri'it at the prices named, or they will be 
forwarded by mall, post-paid, on receipt of the price. These 
prices are positively good to April Ist.] 
Allen's (L. F.) Rnrnl Architpcture....* % I 50 
Allen's (K. L.) Americnn Fiu-m Book* 1 50 
Allen's Diseases of Domestic Animals 1 00 
American Bird Fancier SO 
American Farmer's Encyclopedia 6 00 
American Rose CuUurlst 30 
American Weeds and useful Plants .T... 1 75 
Art of Saw Filintr ..(Hollv) 60 
Barry's Fruit Garden '•** 1 75 
Beecher's (Hy Ward) Frnit Flowers and Farming 1 25 
Bement'8 Ponlterpr's Companion *• 2 00 
Bement's Rabbit Fancier 30 
Blake's Farmer's Encyclopedia 1 50 
Boussinganlt's Rural Economy 1 50 
Brldseman's Fruit Cultivator's Manual 75 
Bridsreman's Youne Gardener's Assistant,. 2 00 
Brid^eman's Kitchen Garden Instructor. 75 
Brideeman's Florist's Guide . 75 
Brandt's Atre of Horses (EnsUsh and German) * 50 
Breck'B Book of Flowers * 1 50 
Browne's Field Book of Manures 1 50 
Browne's Poultry Yard 1 25 
Bnlst'B Flower erardfn Directory 1 50 
" Family Kitchen Gardener 1 00 
Barr's Vegetables of America * 4 50 
Carpenters and .Joiners' Hand Book. .(Holly) fiO 
Chorl ton's Grape-Grower's Guide 75 
Cobbett's American Gardener 75 
Cole's f S. W.) American Fruit Book. . . .* 60 
Colman's Agriculture 5 00 
Copeland'3 Country Life 4 50 
Cottage Ree-Keeper — 75 
Cotton Planters Manual (Turner) 1 50 
Dadd'8 Modern Horse Doctor ,,, 150 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) American Cattle Doctor, . . .* 1 50 
Dadd's Anatomy of the Horse (colored) 5 00 
Dana's Muck Manual 1 25 
Dog and Gun (Hooper's) 1^0 
Domestic Poultry 30 
Downlnps Cottage Residences *• 2 50 
Downlng's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America ■••*.... 3 00 
Kastwood on Cranberry 75 
Elliott's Western Fruit Grower's Guide 1 50 
Employment of Women— By Virtrlnia Penny..,.* 1 5() 
Every Lady her own FInwef Gardener 30 
Fe^senden's Complete Farmer and Gardener 1 50 
Flax Culture (Keady next month) 
French's Farm Di-alnage • 1 50 
Field's (Thomas W.) Pear Culture , 1 25 
Fish Culture 125 
Flint (Charles L.) on Grasses....*" 2 00 
Flint's Milch Cows and Dairy Farminjj **• 2 00 
Fuller's Grape Cultnrist.. . *'"' 1 50 
Fuller's Strawberry Cultnrist •. . . 20 
Goodale'B Principles of Breeding . .**.. 100 
Gray's Manual of Botany and Lessons in one Vol..*"*.. 4 00 
Grav's How Plants Grow 1 25 
Gnenon on Milch Cows 75 
Hflll's (Mtss) American Cooltery 1 25 
Haraszthy Grape Culture, &c 5 00 
Harris' Insects Injurious to Vegetation, plain •• 3 ?0 
do. do, do. do. colored plates,*" 4 50 
Herbert's Hinis to Horsekeepers....**" 1 75 
Hints to Riflemen, by Clavplimd 150 
Hop Culture (Reativ last of March) 40 
How to Buy a Farm and \^hcre to B'Ind One 1 75 
Jaques's Fruits and Fruit Trees CO 
Jennings on Cattle. Sheep. &c 1 .'^0 
Johnston's ^riculturnl Chemistry 1 75 
Johnston's ^renienfsof Agricultural Chemistry 1 25 
Kemp's Landscape Gardening 2 00 
Lanrsn-ntli on tlie Money Bee ...** 2 00 
Loudon's (Downine's) Ladies' Flower Garden *.... 2 00 
Lenchav'p Howto Build Hot-bou<*e8 150 
Lleblg's Familiar Letters on Chemistry.. 50 
Liebig's Modern Agriculture 1 25 
Llnslfiv's (D. C.) Morcan flovsps 1 50 
Manual of Agriculture by G. Emerson and C. L. Flint. 1 00 
Mavliew's TlluFitnited Horse Doctor **• 3 50 
Mavhew's Illustrated Hoi-se Management ***. ,. 3 50 
McMahon's American Gardener, ... .* 2 50 
Miles on the Horse's foot 75 
MorrelTs American Shepherd 1 25 
My Farm of Edgewood *• 2 00 
National Almanac and Annual Record ** 1 50 
Nelll's Practical Gardener (Pardee) 150 
Norton's Scientific Agriculture 75 
Olcott's Sorgho ano Imphee 125 
Onion Culture ...***, 20 
Onr Farm of Four Acres (bound) 60c....* (paper) 30 
Onr Hardy Grapes 25 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture 75 
Parsons on the Rose , 1 25 
Phantom Bouquet, or Skeleton Leaves 150 
Pedder's Land Measurer 60 
Onlnbv's Mvsterles of Bee keeping •• 1 75 
Rabbit Fancier 30 
Randall's SheepHusbandry 1 50 
Randall^! Fine Wool SheepHusbandry 1 00 
Rand's Flowers for Parlor and Garden 
Rich's American Architect , 
Richardson on Dog 
Rivers' Orchard Houses 
Rural Affairs (bound) ?Vols ...each 
300 
6 00 
30 
50 
1 50 
Saxton'a Farmers* Library.. set of 8 Vols morocco 9 50 
do do do do 3 Vols.. cloth. 8 50 
Schenck'fl Gardener's Text Book 60 
Shepherd's own Rook 2 25 
Skillful HonspwUe 75 
Smith's I-andscape Gardening 150 
Spencer's RMncatlon of ChiUn-en*" 1 CO 
Stewart's (Johni i^rable BooK 1 50 
Ten Acres Enough, . — 1 50 
Thaer's (A. D.) Principles of Agriculture 2 .50 
Thomas' Fruit Cultunst 1 50 
Thompson's Food of Animals 1 OO 
Tobacco Culture . . *•• 25 
Todd's (S. E.) Young Farmer's Manual •• 1 50 
Tucker's ReglstPr Rural Aflairs . , , .* 80 
Vanx's Villas and Cottages 3 00 
Walden's Complete Soil Culture 1 50 
Warder's Hedges and Evergreens 1 50 
TTaring's Elements of Agriculture 1 oO 
Watson's Amerimn Home Garden....*** 2 00 
Wax Flowers CArt of Making) 1 50 
Wheat Plnnt fJobn Klinpart'a) 1 50 
Woodward's Conntrv Homes 1 50 
Yale College Agricultural Lectures 60 
Youatt and Snoonet- on the Horse 1 50 
Youatt and Alartin on Cattle 1 50 
Youatt on the Hog — • 1 oo 
Youatt on Sheep 1 00 
Toumans' Household Science ••* 1 75 
Toamans* New Chemistry • 1 75 
Important Work on Flax Culture. 
The attention directed to these subjects by our recent 
offer of prizes has called out a great amount of infoima- 
tion, in just that form most suited to the public wants, for 
while many are anxious to learn more respecting the grow- 
ing of these important products, many others desire to 
know whether they can profitably commence the culture. 
We have the plain, full directions, given by a large 
number of practical growers of long experience re- 
siding in different parts of I'je country. Any item omitted 
by one is sure to be brought out by others. We give one 
of the Hop-growing essays this month. Next month we 
shall give the best one of between thirty and forty good 
Flax essays. In order to place the mass of this inform- 
ation within the reach of all, as we cannot print a tenth 
part of it in the Agriculturist we shall get out as soon as 
possible a well-printed but low-priced pamphlet or book, 
containing the essays on Hop-culture— costing about forty 
cents. We hope to liave this ready as early in March 
as the 15th or 2Qth. A similar work will be prepared from 
the great mass of information in all departments of Flax- 
culture, and dressing it for market. This will be in simi- 
lar form. We shall try and keep the price as low as 50 
cents. This will be ready in April if not before. 
U. S. 7-30 LOAN. 
By authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, the un- 
dersigned has assumed the General Subscription Agency 
for the Sale of United States Treasury Notes, bearing 
seven and three-tenths per cent, interest, per annum, 
known as the 
SEVEN-THIRTY liOAN. 
These notes are issued under date of August 15th, 1864, 
and are payable three years from that time, in currency, 
or are convertible at tJie option of the holder into 
U. S. 5-20 Six per cent. 
GOLD-BEARING BONDS. 
These bonds are now worth a premium of nine per 
cent., including gold interest from Nov., which makes 
the actual profit on the 7-30 loan, at current rates, in- 
cluding inleiest, about ten per cent., per annum, besides 
its exemption from State and municipal taxation, which 
adds from one to three per cent, more, according to the 
rate levied on other property. The interest is payable 
semi-annually by coupons attached to each note, wliich 
may be cut off and sold to any bank or banker. 
The interest amounts to 
One cent per day on a $50 note. 
Two cents ' ** " $100 
Ten • '• " " $500 
20 " " •' " $1000 
$1 " '< « .< $5000 ." 
Notes of all the denominations named will be prompt- 
ly furnished upon receipt ot subscriptions. This is 
THE ONLY LOAN IN MARKET 
now offered by the Government, and it is confidently ex- 
pected that its superior advantages will make it the 
GREAT POPULAR LOAN OF THE PEOPLE. 
Less than $200,000,000 remain unsold, which will pro- 
bably be disposed of within the next 60 or 90 days, when 
the notes will undoubtedly command a premium, as has 
uniformly been the case on closing the subscriptions to 
other Loans. 
In order that citizens of every town and section of the 
country may be afforded facilities for taking the loan, 
the National Banks, Slate Banks, and Private Bankers 
throughout the country have generally agreed to receive 
subscriptions at par. Subscribers will select their own 
agents, in whom they have confidence, and who only are 
to be responsible for the delivery of the notes for which 
they receive orders. 
JAY COOKE, 
Subscription aqent Philadelphia, 
BANKERS, 
'AND DEALERS IN 
GOVERXMEMT SECVRITIES. 
38 WALL STREET, NEW YORK, 
ARE 
U. S. GOVERNMENT A«ENTS, 
FOR THE SALE OF THE 
Popular 7-30 Loan. 
Under the recent arrangement of the Treasury Depart 
ment with Mr. JAY COOKE, General 
Subscription Agent. 
Checks and Drafts on New York, Legal Tender 
Notes and National Bank Notes may be remitted in 
payment. We also receive all Legal Tender Five Per 
Cent. Notes, and allow the accrued ^interest to date of 
subscription. 
The 7-30 Notes will be forwarded by Express, free of 
charge, to all points reached by the Express Companies. 
Orders may be forwarded to us direct, or through your 
nearest Bank or Banker^ 
Persons visiting the city will find a full assortment of 
the Notes on hand at our Office for immediate delivery. 
Orders by mail should be accompanied with the address 
in full to which the Notes are to be forwarded. 
We also keep on hand, and buy and sell at market 
rates, all kinds of 
UI^ITEI> STATES SECURITIES. 
Accounts of Banks, Bankers, and individuals received 
on favorable terms. 
FISK & HATCH, 
BANK^ERS, 
as ^Vall Sti-eet, TSevr ^ox-lt. 
Commercial Notes— Prices Current. 
— ♦■ — - 
New-York, Feb. 18. 
We give below condensed and convenient tables refer- 
ring to the transactions in the New York Produce mar- 
kets during the month ending February 19, to whirli date 
they are made up. These tables have been carefully pre- 
pared specially for the American Ai^riculturist, from offi- 
cial and other reliable sources, inclufling the notes of our 
own reporter. 
1. TRANSAOTrONS AT THE NKW-TORIC MAREKTS. 
Receipts. Flour. Wlteat. Com. Rye. Barley. OaU. 
2lrtay8I»ism'th.l07.000 2,100 185,000 6.250 27.000 2,'i5,000 
28 days tosl m'tli.231.000 11,000 137,000 10,500 24.000 178.000 
Sales. Flour. 'Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barley. 
24 d.lysl/iis month, 221,000 434,000 196,000 31,000 87,000 
28days (ns< raonth, 267,000 461,000 884,000 83,500 141,000 
2. Comparison with same period at this time last year. 
RECEIPTS. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Bye. Barley. Oats. 
21 rtavslS65 ...107.000 2,100 185,000 6.250 27.000 255,000 
28 days 1864 ... 808,000 20,500 191,000 6,500 68,000 282,000 
Sales. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Bye. Barley 
24 days 1865 221,000 431,000 196.000 31.000 37.000 
28 days IStH 415,500 3,891,000 1,853,000 13.400 98.500 
3. Exports from New-York, January 1 to February 18. 
iFlour, Wheat, Corn. Eye, Onta. 
bbls. bus. bus, bus. bus. 
1865 193.225 69.444 63.404 141 9.298 
1864 261,249 2,115,441 18,318 255 3,142 
The tables above show the amount of transactions, and 
the price table below gives piesent prices and changes 
from last month. The prices are mainly regulated by 
the value of gold ; breadsluffs. meats, etc., are relatively 
lilgher than they would be but for the very limited sup- 
ply in the city, the severe winter having greatly im- 
peded the bringing forwaid of freight. 
Current Wholesale Prices. 
.Ian. 20 Feb. IS. 
Flour— Super to Extra State $9 50 laio 40 ipio CO ©10 80 
Super, to Extra Southern 10 50 @15 00 11 10 @14'!iO 
Extra Western 10 10 (al3 00 10 65 @12 50 
Extra Genesee 10 50 (al3 00 10 85 012 50 
Superfine Western 9 50 ca 9 85 10 10 ®10 45 
Hye Flour 8 25 9 25 7 75 ® 8 75 
Corn Meal 7 75 Ci 9 00 7 75 @ 8 65 
Wheat— .411 kinds of White.. 2 .50 ® 2 70 2 45 @ 2 65 
All kinds of Red 2 20 ® 2 52)< 2 10 @ 2 45 
Corn— Yellow 1 80 @ 1 82 1 72 @ 1 70 
Mixed... 188 @ 1 90 1 8S ® 
Oats— Western 1 06 ® 1 07 110 @ 1 10)< 
State 1 05 ® 1 06 1 OS ® 1 09 
Ktk 1 68 ® ] 70 1 60 ® 1 6» 
B.^ELET 1 85 ® 2 05 1 85 ® 2 03 
Cotton— Middlings, per lb.... 98 ® 1 00 85 ® 87 
Hops, crop of ISOC per lb 23 ® 52K 25 @ M 
