1872.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
431 
Cheap Farms ! Free Homes ! 
On the lino of the UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 
12,000,000 acres of the best Farming and Mineral Lands 
in America. 
3,000,000 Acres in Nebraska, in the Platte Valley, 
now for sale. 
Jttilcl Climate, Fertile Soil, 
for Grain-growing- and Stock-raisins unsurpassed by any 
in the United Suites. 
CHEAPER IN PRICE, more favorable terms given, and 
more convenient to market than can be fonnd elsewhere. 
Free Homesteads tor Actual Settlers. 
The best location for Colonies. Soldiers entitled to ;i 
Homestead of 160 Acres. 
Send lor the new Descriptive Pamphlet, with new maps, 
published in English, German, Swedish, and Danish, mailed 
tree everywhere. Address 
U. F. DAVIS, 
Land Commissioner, V. P. R.li. Co, 
OMAHA, NEB. 
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SOLDIERS 
$30 
900,000 ACRES 
OF 
EXCELLENT FARMING 
AND SPLENDID 
Michigan Pine Lands 
FOR SALE, 
On which are ONE THOUSAND MILLIONS OF 
PINE TIMBER, and inexhaustible quantities of Maple, 
Beech, Elm, Ash, Hemlock, Oak, etc. 
The grant of lands to the Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail- 
road Company, to build their Road from Fort Wayne, Ind., 
to Traverse Bay and Mackinaw, Michigan, comprises in its 
farming lands every variety of soil, from the rich clay loam 
to the fight sandy, and they are found in that section of 
Michigan, north of the city of Grand Rapids, and contiguous 
to the great fruit belt on the eastern snores of Lake Michi- 
gan, now being rapidly developed by railroad and other eu- 
erprlaes. 
Farming Lands are sold to actual settlers, on cre- 
dit, one quarter down, balance in yearly payments, interest 
7 per cent. Persons desirous of locations for farms will, on 
application at the Office in Grand Rapids, he fur- 
nished with Tickets over the Road, entitling them to 
Return of Fares, in the event of purchasing any of the 
Company's farming land. For information about the lands, 
prices, location, etc., etc., address 
WM. A. HOWARD, Land Commissioner, 
Titlh Perfect. Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
I NEW COLONY IN K1I1S ! 
At "CKI^DY," in Neosho Valley, on 
MISSOURI, KANSAS, and TEXAS RAILWAY. 
Under the auspices of the 
NATIONAL BUREAU OF MIGRATION. 
Mr. Wm. P. Tomlinson, Local Agent, is on the ground, 
and will give advice and assistance in locating land. 
THE AMERICAN COLONIST AND HOME- 
STEAD JOURNAL, 
Containing maps, with full particulars as to the Organiza- 
tion of the Colony, the Lands, Productions, Climate, Wood, 
Water, etc., SENT FREE, on application to 
S. R. WELLS, Sec'y of the National Bureau of Migration, 
389 Broadway, New York. 
LANDS IN IOWA. 
Upon application to the undersigned, there will be sent by 
mail to any address, post-paid, a new RAILROAD MAP OF 
IOWA, corrected to date, and a descriptive pamphlet, con- 
taining a Sectional Map of that part of the State in which Is 
situated the Land Grant of the Chicago, Rock Island, and 
Pacific WAX. Co., and giving full and detailed information as 
to the location, quality, products, terms of 6alc, etc., of more 
than 500,000 acres of land now for sale near the line of the 
railroad. The lands are the cheapest and best Farming Lands 
now in the market in Iowa, the most productive and pro- 
gressive agricultural State in the Union, and are being offered 
at low prices and most favorable terms to actual settlers. 
J. L. DREW, Land Com'r, 
C. K. I. & P. R.R. Co., Davenport, Iowa. 
FOR reliable information on North Carolina, her 
agricultural, mineral, industrial, and commercial re- 
sources, address J. L. Labiaux, Ridge way, Warren Co.,N. C. 
HEAP HOMES in Shenandoah Valley. For cir- 
cular, send stamp to J. H. Bristor, Martlnsburg.W.Va. 
Desiring to secure the benefits 
of the late Homestead Law. will 
learn something of advantage by 
addressing M. D. FLOWER, Adjutant-General of Minne- 
sota, St. Pavl, Mcnx. 
$100 to 250 r^^fT^ 
wbere selling our new seven-strand White Platika 
Clotuks-Lixks. Sells readily »t every house. Samples 
free. Address the Gikard Wir.« -Mills, Philadelphia, Pa. 
PER WEEKandcxpensespaid. We 
want a reliable u^ent in every County in 
the D. S. Address Hudson R. Wire Co., 
130 Maiden Lane. N. Y.. or Chicago, 111. 
"REMINGTON'S" 
Breech-loadinjr Snortinp. Hunting, and Target Rifles. Best 
in the World. E. REMINGTON & SONS, 281 and 283 
Broadway, New York. 
Cut this out and send for Illustrated Price-List. 
O 
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Pi 
TARGET MADE WITH 
REMINGTON • 
BREECH-LOADING SPORTING RIFLE. 
GREAT WESTERN 
Breech-ioadlntr Shot-Guns. »10 to f ;00. Donlile Shot-Guns, 
fa to (ISO. Single Guns, $; to p. Rifles, $8 to $33. Re- 
volvers. »6 to |:5. Send Stamp foe Price-List. Army 
Guns, Revolvers, etc., bought or tnuledfor. 
HORSE-POWER GOVERNOR. 
This Governor can be attached to any power in a few 
minutes, and it will control the power at any desired speed 
without taking power from the machinery. 
With it all danger to the horses is avoided, as it is a con- 
stant safeguard atttae brake. Price $10. Send for circulars. 
THOS. B. McCONAUGHEY, Newark, Delaware. 
TTEEDSTie^MJER 
For full particulars, address 
EVGLE, KELLER & CO., Lancaster, Pa. 
A LIVE FARMER WANTED 
In each county as Wholesale Agent for O'Hara'g Dol- 
lar Champion Corn-Slieller, patented July 18, 1871, 
Indorsed by leading Agricultural Papers: and O'Harn/s 
Practical Corn-Hnsker, patented Aug. 1, 1871. Sure 
sale. Very large profits. Samples of both, delivered, $1.75. 
C. M. O'HA KA, HillBboro, O. 
FLAX BRAKES 
Mallory & Sanford Flax Machine Co. 's new and improved 
Flax Brakes are the best in any market. Easily worked, 
strong, and very desirable. Send for circular to 
JOHN W. Q,UINCV, Treai., 
98 William St., New York. 
COM AM WHEAT MILLS. 
Mill and Bolt 
complete in same 
case. Send 
for Circular. 
Edward Harrison, 
New Haven, Conn. 
The Celebrated Bone Fertilizers, 
CROUND BONE, 
BONE MEAL, 
BONE FLOUR. 
Fresh ISone Superphosphate of Lime, or 
Dissolved Bone. Send for Circulars. 
LISTER BROS., Newark, N. J. 
SCRIBXER'S LUMBER & LOG BOOK. 
New, enlarged, and improved edition of this valuable 
book just published, giving correct measurements for 
scantling, boards, plank, saw-logs, by Doyle's role. Cubical 
contents of square and round timber, staves, and heading 
bolts. Capacity of cisterns, wood tables, tables of wages, 
board, interest tables, etc. This is the most valuable and 
popular book ever published of its kind. Half a million 
copies have been 6old. Ask yonr bookseller for the new 
edition of 1872, or I will send one for 35 cents, post-paid. 
GEO. W. FISHER, 
P. O. Box '438, Rochester, N. T. 
GOOD CIDER ALL THE YEAR BOUND. 
The neutral sulphite of lime, as prepared by James R. 
NichoIS £ Co.. Boston, keeps cider sweet all the year 
round. Full directions. Call for Nichols & Co.'s Sul- 
phite of Lime. Sold by druggists and grocers generally, 
and at wholesale by JOHN T, HENRY, 8 and 9 College 
Place, New York. Send stamp for circular. 
AGENTS Wanted.— Agon Is make more money at 
work for us than at anything else. Particulars free. 
G. STINSON & CO., Fine Art Publisher-:, Portland, Maine. 
ATTENTION, CHOIRS! 
THE ANTHEM OFFER 
By D. F, Hodges, Geo. \V\ Foster, and J. H. Tenney. 
350 Pages of ENTIRELY NEW Anthems, 
Sentences, Motets, Chants, etc. 
A complete collection for opening and closing Pvblici 
Worship. The Music is of tliat practical diameter and 
pleasing simplicity so popular in our Protectant Clinrches. 
We believe every page of the Anthem Offering can be 
sung and will be admired by nine tenths of our Cboh'B 
throughout the country. 
The Anthem Offering will be found a first-class book 
for Schools and Societies. 
Any chorister or teacher who will Bend his address to the 
publishers before Nov. 15th, 1872, shall be entitled to a single 
copy for examination, on such terms as can not fail to give 
satisfaction. 
Price, $10 per doz. Single copies, $1. 
LEE & SHEPARD, Publfelu-rt. 
Boston, Mass. 
Endless Amusement for Spring, Summer, 
Autumn, and Winter. The 
BOYS' PHOTOGRAPHIC CABINET. 
With this Cabinet every boy is enabled to make a photo- 
graphic copy, without extra expense, of his own or friends* 
Carte-de-Vislte, every description of Pictures, Engravin 
Stereoscopic Slides, Designs, Ferns, Leaves, Flowers, et 
etc., and affords endless, harmless, and instructive amuse- 
ment to every purchaser. 
This Cabinet contains Printing Frame, Negatives, Gold, 
Silver, Toning, and Fixing BathB, Albumen Paper, Filters, 
Stirring Rod, etc. Also fnll instructions. Price $2. 
Sent post-paid on receipt of price by the HAPPY HOURS 
COMPANY, 22 Ann Street, New York. 
You ask WHY wo can sell First 
Class 7 Octave Pianos fur $290 ? 
We answer— It costs leys than 
$300 to make any $600 Piano 
sold through Agents, .ill of whom 
make lOO per ct. profit. We 
have no Agents, but ship direct to 
familicsatFacloryprice, and war- 
rant 5 Years. Send for illustrated circular, in which we 
refer to over 500 Bankers, Merchants, &c, (some of 
whom you may know), using onr Pianos, in 44 States and 
Territories, u. S. Piano Co., 865 Broadway, N.Y. 
A GREAT OFFER! no ^^S^S^ 
will dispose of ONE HUNDRED PIASOS, MELODEONS, 
and ORGANS of six llrst-class makers, including Waters'?, 
at extremely low prices for CAsn, or will take from $1 
to $15 monthly until paid ; the same to let, and rent applied 
if purchased. New 7 octave PIANOS, modern improve- 
ments, for $275, cash. A new kind of PARLOR ORGAN, 
the most beautiful style and perfect tone ever made, now on 
exhibition at 481 Broadway, New Y'ork. 
Steinway, Oliiokex'ing', 
Weber, Knabe, 
and other first-class Pianos sold on monthly installments at 
factory prices. New and elegant 7-octave Pianos for $275 
cash. Superb 6-stop Organs for $125 cash. PianoB and 
Organs to rent. Teachers and Seminaries supplied with 
sheet-music, etc. Catalogue free. Address 
WM. A. POND & CO., No. W7 Broadway, N. Y. 
AGENTS WANTED.— Vfe guarantee employment 
for all, either sex, at $3 a day, or $2,000 or more a year. 
New works by Mrs. H. IJ. Stowe, and others. Superb pre- 
miums given away. Money made rapidly and easily at 
work for us. Write and see. Particulars free. 
WORTHINGTON, DUST1N & CO., Hartford, Ct. 
HlKVriiACi, TRAPPING, FiaMnff. 
— Making traps, preserving, dressing, and tannine 
skinB and furs, baits, etc. 76 pages, "0 engravings. Only 140 
cts. Mailed by C. 8. RILEY, Holland, N. Y. 
INVENTIONS 
PATENTED, 
address DODGE & SON 
WASHINi 
>N, D. C. 
BEAUTIFYING COM HONES. 
AN ELEGANT QUARTO VOLUME. 
By J. H EIDENMANN. 
This magnificent work is illustrated not only with numer- 
ous fine wood -engravings, bnt also with seventeen full-page 
and seven double-page colored lithographs of places already 
improved. It embodies the results of a long practice in 
landscape architecture and rural adornment, and while Its 
teachings are In accordance with the received rules of art, 
they are thoroughly practical In their character. It is one 
of the most elegant, and ought to prove one of the most 
useful works ever issued in the country. The work, both in 
its let ter-press and colored lithographs, is beautifully printed, 
and it is elegantly bound in beveled boards. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $15.00. 
ORANGE JUDD & COMPANY, 
345 Broadway, New York. 
