1872.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
473 
You aefc WHY wc can poll First 
Class 7 Octavo Pianos for $290? 
kWc answer- It costs luss than 
|f$300 tn make, any $600 Piano 
U™Jsold through Agents, all of whom 
'/ife O BBmakc l0 ^ per ct.. profit. We 
elf P\ g have no Agents, bnfcB&ip direct to 
, kj„ T& families at Factory price, and war- 
rant 5 Years. Send for illustrated circular, in which wc 
refer to over 500 Bankers, Merchants, &c, (some of 
whom you may know), using our Pianos, in 44 States and 
Territories, u. S. Piano Co., S65 Broadway, N.Y. 
A GREAT OFFER ! H ° 4 f r„V2d*™ *' 
will dispose of ONE HUNDRED PIANOS, MELODEONS, 
and ORGANS of six first-class makers, including Waters's, 
at rcx ii:kmklv r.ow prices foi; cash, or will take from $1 
to 815 monthly until paid; the Paine to let. and rent applied 
if purchased. New i octave PIANOS, modern improve- 
ments, for $375, cash. A new kind of PARLOR OUGAN, 
the most beautiful style and perfect tone ever made, now on 
exhibition at Isi Broadway, ~Suw York. 
Pianos on Time. 
Instruments pent to all parts of the United States on our 
Easy MonthEy Payment Plan a 
Many who could not pay the full cash value at once can 
bv this system purchase and pay lor a Piano or Organ and 
NEVER Miss THE MONET. 
Send for price-lists and rates of payment. 
\VM. A. POND & CO., No. 547 Broadway. 
and 3'.) Union Square, New York City. 
sG Worth of Music for 50c, 
M BLTJME*S ALBUM."— Each number has S3 large quarto 
pages, first-class piano music, best songs, waltzes, galops, 
quadrille^, etc., by Kucken, Abt, Mendelssohn. Claribel, 
Strauss, Faust. Parlow.Weingarten, for 50c., mailed. Bank's 
new song, * l Slwert/ Mars are Softly Gleaming ,*' 30c. ; hew 
Straus-; waltzes, " Fusir.nen," "High Lite," ''Academic," 
" Mir Flood," "" Danube," each 75C, abridged 50c, mailed. 
FREDERICK BLUME, 
'il Union Square, Broadway, New York. 
BEST HOLIDAY GIFT! 
CVSRMffiT 
GrHET the bsst. 
10,000 Words and Meanings not in other Dictionaries. 
3,000 Engravings. 1,840 Pages Quarto. Price $12. 
ty Warmly recommended by Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, 
Geo. P. Marsh, Halleck, Whittier, Willis, Saxe, Klilm Burritt, 
Daniel Webster, Rufus Choate, and the best American and 
European scholars. 
A necessity lor i-veiv Intelligent family, student, teacher, 
and professional man. What Library is complete without 
the best English Dictionary? 
Published by G. St C. MEURIAM, Springfield, Mass. 
Sold by all Booksellers. 
JOSEPH GII-ILOTT'S 
STEEL PENS, 
OF THE OLD STANDARD QUALITY, 
The well-known Original and Popular Nos., 
303 404 170 35 1, 
having been assumed by other makers, we desire to caution 
the public in respect to said imitations. 03^" ASK FOB 
GILLOTT'S. 
JOS. GILLOTT <& SONS, 
01 .Tolm Street, New York. 
"OUR DARLING," 
A First-class Chromo, is given to every Subscriber to 
GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK for 1873, 
Whether a Single Subscriber for Three Dollars, or in a Club 
of Six lor Fourteen Dollars, Address 
L. A. GODEY, 
N. E. cor. Sixth and Chestnut Sis., Philadelphia. 
See Advertisement in Lady's Book for other Clubs. 
S( U!B\ER'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 rule. Cubical 
contents of square and round timber, staves, and heading 
bolt-. 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 Bold. Ask your bookseller for the new 
edition ot' 18?.', or 1 will send one for 35 cents, post-paid. 
GEO. W. FISHEK, 
P. O. Box 23S, Rochester, N.Y. 
GENTS WANTED.— We guarantee employment 
for all. either sex. at *". :i (lav, m- £i,000 or more a year. 
New works by Writ, ll. /;. Siowe, and others. Superb pre- 
miums given worry, Money made rapidly and easily at 
work for us. \\ rite and see, Particulars free. 
WOUTHlXfiToy. DUST IX & CO., Hartford, Ct. 
1 THE HOWE PATENT 
V Elastic Belt Truss (for 
a rupture), is durable, cheap 
:(>•; is :is easily wmii as a garter ; has cured patients in 
Jrom 5 to 35 weeks. For particulars, scn.l lor Circular. Ad- 
dresa HKNBY HOW!-;, liox T5S , Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
VTMFfi-AT? Qwiok! Cheap !Pnre! 
¥ A.AM JJU\Ci.j_»Ji :.;r* \$ my plan of making is the 
best, persona arc fraudulently selling Descriptions which I 
giveaway. Send threi ntato A. D.STI1GNG, Ashtabula* O. 
ANTED, AfiENTS to edl household articles 
needed by every one. PLUMB & CO., Phila., Pa. 
W 
THE "SUCCESS 1 
WASHING MACHINE. 
Is simple in construction. Easy of operation. A child 
can perform the labor. 
It cleans PERFECTLY, and WITHOUT IN- 
JURY, any article, from the Finest Lace Curtain to the 
Heaviest lied- Clothing, 
From five to six white shirts, though badly soiled, can be 
cleansed in from rive to eight minutes, not excepting 
Collars and Wristbands. 
Send for full descriptive circular. Agents wanted. 
S. WEBB & CO., Hoboken, N. J. 
PEINDLE'S 
AGRICULTURAL STEAMER. 
The best in the market for cooking food for stock. For 
sale as below, and by the trade generally. 
Prize Essays on Cooking and Cooked Food for Stock, with 
Circular, containing price, capacity, directions for use, etc., 
forwarded, postage' paid, on receipt of twenty cents. 
Circulars sent free. 
BAKEOWS, SAVEET & 00., Manufacturers, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
OFFICE, No. 28 Cliff Street, New York. 
JAMES C. HAND & CO., Factors, 
G14 and 61G Market St., Philadelphia. 
3E*JEE D Stig AM£ ft 
For full particulars, address 
EXUL.K, KELLER & CO., Lancaster, Pa. 
horse-poweh 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 at the brake. Price $10. Send for circulars. 
THOS. B. McCONAUGHEY, Newark, Delaware. 
. 1C5 Weit lGth EL, CHICAGO, 
" Wilkinson Are., N. ST. LOCISi 
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 
JOH.V W. QUIlVCr, Trcas., 
98 William St., New York. 
WANTED. — Agents and Canvassers to sell 
The Home Corn-Sheller, 
The besthand-sheller for family use in the market. 
EVERY MACHINE WARRANTED. 
Retails quick at $3. Profits 100 per cent. Address 
LIVINGSTON & CO., Manufacturers of Builders' 
Hardware and Light Castings, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
INVENTIONS 
PATENTED, 
address DODGE & SON 
"WASHINGTON, D. C. % 
f.ON« «fc CO., Cleburne, Tex., Real Estate 
*-* and Collecting Agents and Snrveyors. Land certificates 
located, and land titles investigated and perfected; also, any 
law business intrusted to them will receive prompt atten- 
tion. References given. Correspondence solicited. 
ANOTHER WONDERFUL INVENTION, 
Changing the Whole Manner of Driving Sewing 
Machines, and 
Producing Most Astonishing Results. 
€OHLES'S 
TREADLE 
POWER 
FOI! ALL KINDS OF 
SEWBR9G MACHINES. 
Saves naif the labor, can not turn the wrong way, conse- 
quently does not tangle the thread, break the nccdleB, and 
damage the machine. A child can run any machine with 
CowleB'a Treadle, it saves half tlie labor, and avoid.- the 
hecl-nud-toc motion which destroys the nervous system and 
is so Injurious that physicians forbid its use to many. Makes 
the hardest machine run so easy that one is astonished. 
Gives complete control at fast or plow speed with the feet 
alone, so that both hands are free to hold the work, and no 
starting the wheel with hands. In 12 weeks this Treadle has 
gained a notoriety unparalleled, and the sales arc immense. 
We have thousands of certificates, both from physicians and 
operators, testifying In the strongest terms. Send for circu- 
lars. Territory for~sale. 
IIOTj?IBS & CO., 7 Murray St., New York. 
REMINGTON'S 
Breech-loading Snorting, Hunting, ami Target Rifles. Best 
in the World. E. REMINGTON & SONS, 2SI and 283 
Broadwav, New York'. 
Cut this out and send for Illustrated Price-List. 
Division 
:akget made with a *• remington" 
bueecii-loading spouting rifle. 
Christimas-Tree Rosettes. 
(Made oj the bent glazed paper 
of bright colors.) 
FINEST ORNAMENT FOR 
A CHRISTMAS-TREE. 
Easily put on — Will not be 
torn down by the children- 
Will not break— Can be used 
again— Two dozen suffice tor a 
large tree— Sent by mail, post- 
paid. 
1 doz., Scol., SOc; 5 doz., £1.23. 
1 doz.. 4 col., 40c, 5 doz., $1.75. 
Address 
CARL BENNO ZANDER, 
P. O. Box 4589, New York. 
Depots— 2S9 Grand St., corner Eldridgc, and 
st., New York. 
DWARD S. BROWN, 181 Broadway, New York, 
Buyer and Genera,] Dealer, furnishes for cash 
anything that can be procured in the New York market. 
Perishable articles and goods contraband to good morals 
excepted. Correspondents solicited. 
itoKRi*' rvvruKviE bank". 
NOTES bought— four (4) per Cent premium. 
Full printer! lists fnrni6hed free. 
I>E HAVEN & BROTHER, 
So. 40 SimtU Third St.. Pliila<l»l|ilii;i. Pa . 
PRACTICAL 
TROUT CULTURE. 
By J. H. SLACK, M.D., 
Commissioner of Fisheries, X. J. ; Natural History Editor 
of Turf, Field, and Farm, _V. Y. ; Proprietor of 
Trouldafe Ponds, near Bloomxhuiy. -Y. J. 
ILLUSTRATED, 
CONTENTS: 
—History of FMl Culture. 
—Choosing :i Location. 
—Planning and Construction of Ponds. 
-Hatching- Houses rind Apparatu 
-Spawning Races. 
-Artificial Impregnation. 
-Incn hat-ion. 
Car ■ of Young in Nursery. 
-First Year. 
-Second and Third Years 
-Transportation. 
-Bibliography of Fish Culture. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $1.50. 
ORANGE .ll'On & COMPANY, 
24.5 Broadway, New York. 
Introduction. 
Chapter 
1 
Chapter 
11 
Chapter 
III. 
Chapter 
IV. 
Chapter 
V. 
Chapter 
VI. 
Chapter 
\ II. 
Chapter VIII. 
Chapter 
IX. 
Chapter 
X 
Chapter 
XI. 
Chapter 
Ml. 
