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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
July.] 
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Increased Facilities to Club Organizers. 
Scn;l for New Price-List. 
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Eaton, Madison Co., JV. Y. 
MAXITACTI'KERS OP 
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Hundreds In use In Shops, Print- 
ing Rooms, Mills, Mines, and on 
Farms and PliintfUions Tor Grain 
Threshing. Food Cooking for 
Stock .Cotton Ginning, Sawing, etc. 
Circulars seut on application. 
Gardening for Proft 
A Guide to tlic Successful Cultivation of 
tHc Market and Family Garden. 
By PETBIl HEXDERSOiV. 
Finely Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, SI .50. 
The success of this book has probably not been equaled 
by that of any horticultural work of the present daj r . Its 
popularity Is due to the fact that it tells just what people 
wish to know— the way in which the author made money by 
gardening— and puts in a plain, striking light all the requi- 
sites to success. The writer was not afraid to have people 
know that he cultivated his land for profit, and, more than 
that, he was quite willing that all should know and practice, 
if ihey chose, the very processes which he had found most 
conducive to the desired end. The late Horace Greeley said 
of this book: "There are marvels of transformation and 
rapid reproduction recorded therein which might well 
shame the dull fancy of the author of Aladdin or of Kaloolah. 
There-is no theory about it; a man who has made himself 
rich by market-gardening plainly tells our young men how 
they can get rich as easily as he did, and without wandering 
to California or Montana for it either.'! And tens of thou- 
sands who have read and profited by the work could give 
similar testimony. It is unquestionably the most thorough 
and the best book of its kind that has 3Uit_corue from the 
hand of an American author. 
Practical Floriculture, 
A Guide So the Successful Propagation and 
Cultivation of Florists* Plants. 
I5y PETER K[lSIS"I3TER,®OTsr, 
Author of "Gardening for Profit." 
Beautifully Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, $1.50. 
In this work, which has everywhere become so deservedly 
popular, not only is tlic whole " art and mystery " of pvopa 
gation explained, but the reader is taught how to plant and 
grow the plants after they have been propagated. The work 
is not one for florists and gardeners only, but the amateur's 
wants are constantly kept in mind, and we have a very com- 
plete treatise on the cultivation of flowers under glass, or 
in the open air, suited to those who grow flowers for plea- 
sure as well as those who make them a matter of trade. 
The work is characterized by the same radical common- 
sense that marked the author's "Gardening for Profit," and 
it holds a high place in the estimation of lovers of 
floriculture. 
Herbert's Hints to Horse-Keepers. 
By the late HENRY WILLIAM* HERBERT, 
(frank forester.) 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $1.75. 
A complete manual for Horsemen, embracing: TTow to 
Breed a Horse; How to Buy a Horse; How to Break a 
Horse ; How to Use a Horse ; How to Feed a Horse ; How 
to Physic a Horse; How to Drive a Horse; Ponies— Different 
Breeds ; Farriery ; How to Shoe a Horse ; Boucher's 
Method of Training; How to Ride a Horse ; Ladies Biding ; 
Rfvrey'e System of Horse- Taming; etc.; and a chapter on 
Mules and Ponies, etc. Beautifully illustrated. 
HARBIS ON THE PIG. 
Breeding, Searing, Management, and Improvement. 
With numerous Illustrations. 
By JOSEPH HARjiIS. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $1.50. 
This is tlie only American treatise upon the breeding, 
rearing, and management oi swine, and is by one thorough- 
ly familiar with the whole subject. The points of the various 
English and American breeds are thoroughly discussed, and 
tlic meat advantage of using thorough-bred males clearly 
shown. The work is equally valuable to the farmer who 
keeps but few pigs, and to the breeder on an extensive scale. 
Either of the above books sent post-paid on receipt of 
price by 
OEANGE JUDD & CO., 245 Broadway, N. T. 
FRUIT I*3R/E]P^RE:D OP* 
THE AMERICAN FRUIT - DRIER 
Bins taken the FSRST E»BBEMIX T MS ivliei-cvcr Exhibited. 
The apparatus has been thoroughly tested two years, has given entire satisfaction, and its use is 
rapidly extending wherever it is known. 
WITH THE AMERICAN FRUIT-DRIER 
Surplus fruit of every kind, and also that which from over-ripeness or inferior size or quality is unfit 
for marketing in the unprepared state, can all be converted into a marketable commodity, which from 
its excellence will confmarid the highest price. Such fruit as is prepared by this meaus is now selling 
in this city at an average of fifty per cent more than ordinary dried fruit. 
NO MORE CAWS NEEDED. 
In preserving fruit, the end to be gained is to retain the sweetness and flavor permanently. The 
canning process was a great advance on the old-fashioned " pouud-for-pound " way of making preserves, 
but in the necessary steaming process there is loss of valuable constituents of the fruit, much of which 
is avoided by the new method. More than this, experiment proves that by this latter process the fruit 
is increased in sweetness by the change of its starch into glucose or fruit-sugar. In other words, while 
passing through the Drier it is ripened more fully. Fruit so prepared requires one quarter to one third 
less sugar to prepare it for the table than is needed for canned fruit. Other manifest advantages over 
the canning system are : TLess Trouble in Operatiiifi; ; Certainty of Keeping ; >o 
Eoss from lli-oliesii ISottles ; Great Saving' of Bloom in Storing-. 
TBBE ASBKISICA^l' ntUBT-BMeilEIE is so simple in plan audio working, that any 
carpenter can make it, and any ordinary laborer operate it. Its capacity can be adapted to small or large 
operations. The ordinary family size, No. 1, will in favorable weather dry apples as fast as two persons 
can prepare the fruit. The cost is so moderate, that every farmer can profitably buy it to save the 
surplus product of his orchard or fruit-yard. 
Having formed a company under the name and style of the American Drier Company, we are 
prepared to furnish Driehs to agents and others in the United States for the season of 1S73, in three 
different sizes, viz. : 
No. I, 24 inches wide and 12 feet long, $25. OO. 
No. 2, 30 inches wide and 14 feet long, $35. OO. 
No. 3, 36 inches wide and 16 feet long, $45. OO. 
The above are the factory prices, all complete except stove — delivered at the freight or express 
office, Loudon, Pa. An}' common nine or ten-plate or any other kind of wood or coal stove can be used. 
Printed directions for setting up and operating sent with each machine. 
No. 1 is a convenient size for general use, and will dry all the surplus fruit on any ordinary farm, 
drying as fast as two hands can hand-pare and cut the fruit. 
No. 3 will give employment to four hands. 
jgp" For fruitgrowers in the fruit districts we make a series of Driers to do any given amount of 
work, ranging in price from $100 to $500. 
Portable Driers with sheet-iron stoves all ready to operate, and exhibition models for agents, fur- 
nished to order; prices according to size, style, and finish. 
Q^~ Furnaces and steam-heaters for large Driers furnished at the lowest rales. 
Samples of fruits aud vegetables dried iu the American Drier seut by mail or express, prepaid, on 
receipt of 25 cents. 
We also iuvite the attention of manufacturers of various articles which require drying, to the com- 
bination of principles embraced in the American Drier patent claims. By special mechanical arrange- 
ments it may be adapted — on a large scale— to various purposes, such as drying grain, hops, herbs, 
chemicals, paper, straw-boards, lumber, and for drying and curing beef, pork, fish, etc., etc. 
Agents wanted to introduce and sell the Driers, and the rights to make and use them. 
For further information, show-bills, circulars, aud special terms to agents, send name aud post-office 
address, inclosing stamp, to the 
AMERICAN i>:riei£ CO., 
LOUDON, FRANKLIN CO., PA. 
A model of the Drier may be seen at the office of American Agriculturist, 245 Broadway, N. T. 
