1870.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
277 
pAKMEKS, BUY THE BEST ! 
Excelsior Cultivator and Hilling Plow. 
Price, combined, $16 ; or $10 as a Cultivator. 
Palmer's Horse Hay Fork. 
Price, with three pulleys, $10. 
Steel Toot h Horse Rakes. 
$35 and $43. 
Tiffin Revolving Horse Rake. 
Price $9. 
Tlic American Hay Tedder 
Price $90. 
Send for Circulars to J. R. DECATUP. & CO., 
197 Water St., New York. 
Look at This! 
A patent PROPELLING SWING for only 33.00. Can 
Bwing yourself without assistance. The best and cheapest. 
Will dispose of the right to manufacture in a few of the 
principal cities. Send Btamp for particulars. 
A. H. SEAVEIi, P. O. Box 6183 New York City. 
NEW HAVEN FAMILY KNITTER. 
Lateat, cheapest, and best in the -world for family use.— 
Patented in nine countries. Company invite any test or 
comparison. Machine knits everything. Price only §25 for 
plain, $30 for silver-plated, $35 for gold-plated. Price in- 
cludes Keel, Winder, Bobbins, Oiler, etc. Eights sold. 
Agents wanted. Address NEW HAVEN KNITTING CO. 
SELF-ACTING GATES. 
Nicholson's Patent Self-Acting Carriage Gates and Self- 
Shutting Hand Gates are the latest improved and best in. the 
world. 
For illustrated Circulars and Price-List send to the 
AMERICAN GATE COMPANY, 
CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
Rifles, Shot-Guns, Revolvers, etc., 
of all kinds at reduced prices, warranted and sent by Ex- 
press (co.d.) to be examined before paid for. Liberal terms 
to the trade, agents, or clubs. Write for a Catalogue. Ad- 
dress, GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. Army Guns, Revolvers, etc., 
nought or traded tor. 
Titus Oaks 5 ILactometers. 
See page 252, this number. 
Sold (boxed to go Dy Express) 3 for $1, by 
L 3 - 
DAVIS COLOMOKE, 
No. 747 Broadway, New York. 
SELPHO'S PATENT LEGS and AEMS. 
These celebrated Artificial Limbs, combining simplicity 
with great durability and comfort, and which contain all the 
latest improvements, can be had only of WM. SELPHO & 
SON, 516 Broadway, N. T. Government orders attended to. 
I^HRASHERMEK.— If you want to get paid for 
every bushel of grain vou thrash, send for The Thrash- 
er's Circular, which gives information free. Address 
BCESON, HARTZELL & CO., Alliance, Ohio. 
MAOY HAS IT. 
Every new thing, _ 
If you order anything, 
Any advantage In price, 
We buy and sell for cash— , 
Every new book, 
Everything in Lace Goods, 
Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, 
Small Wares, Trimmings, &c. 
All at popular prices— ' 
Cash orders, by Mail, or Express. 
R. H. MACY, 14th St. & 
Macy has it. 
Macy has it. 
Macy has it. 
Macy has it. 
Macy has it. 
Macy has it. 
Macy has it. 
Macy has it. 
Macy always lias it. 
6th Ave., New York. 
ALL WANTING FARMS.— 9,000 acres, good 
soil, mild climate, 34 miles south of Philadelphia. Price 
only $25 per acre. Also improved farms. The place is grow- 
ing more rapidly than almost any other place in the United 
States. Thousands are settling. Address 
C. it. LAND1S, Yiuelaud, N. J. 
IfltfWb FARMS iu Maryland and Virginia. 
•""" Send stamp for Catalogue. 
J. M. AIAYNADlliK, EdgCWOOd, Aid. 
G 
RANVILLE, OHIO, FEMALE COLLEGE— 
car— opens Sent. 8tli. $200 n vear. Address 
W. P. KEEK, Granville, Licking Co., O. 
INSTITUTE OF PRACTICAL CIVIL ENGI- 
NEERING, Surveying and Drawing— Courses of three, 
six and twelve months. For circular, address 
A. VANDEU-NAILLEN, Room C, Reynolds Block, Chicago. 
GRAY'S UNION CHARTS. 
CIMPLE AND DURABLE GUIDE FOR CUT- 
*^ ting Men's and Hoys' Clothing and Ladles' Dresses. 
Will last a lifetime, subject to all the changes of Fashion. 
Warranted to cut all sizes perfectly accurate. Any person 
can use them. They are printed upon a paper that will 
neither break nor tear. Full directions arc printed on each 
Chart. Single Chart or lull sets sent by mall, post-paid, on 
receipt of the following retail prices: Ladles' Dress, Boys' 
Sack Coat and Vest Charts, $1 each. Pauls and Men's Sack 
Coat Charts, S1.S0 each, or full set if, Charts). $".. Agenls 
wanted Address UNION CHART CO., OraugevUle, Ohio, 
pr R. H. ROGERS * CO., Chicago, 111. 
MAGIC PHOTOGRAPHS— The Greatest Wonder 
of the Age— Curious and amusing. 25 cts. a package. 
The Library of Lave, Etiquette, Courtship, and Marriage. I 
Hooks for 50 cts. Send to w. C. Wksiyss, 8 Astor Place, N. Y. 
' "'&* IS ;TH ERR EAf»?^ G POFt! LAR<*?^N^ 
sDM&IML 
KlOtaTlnlwIlir 
_ t8p~Terms TWO l>OIit.ARS per Year In Advance. TSiree months on Trial 
tor FIFJl'li CENTS. Magnificent Inducements to Ctab Agents. Sample Copies, 
Posters, Premium Lists and Canvassing Documents SENT FSEE on applica- 
tion. Address THE PRAIK1K MBMES COMPANY, Chicago. 
g" Remit at our Bisk by Registered Letter or P. O. Money Order. 
"PRIZE POULTRY." 
Twelve First Prizes awd Two Sec- 
ond, Royal £>atblisB. Society's Show, 
i>ubiiu, April, 1ST©. 
1st Dark Brahmas, 
1st "White Cochins, 
1st La Fleches, 
1st Crevecceurs, 
1st Aylesbury Ducks, 
1st Turkeys, 
2d La Fleches, and 
1st Buft' Cochins, 
1st Spanish, 
1st Houdans, 
1st Sultans, 
1st Toulouse Geese, 
1st Single Turkey Cock, 
2d Dorking Cock. 
JAMES C. COOPER,, Cooper Hill, Limerick, 
Ireland, Winner of the above, with Gold Medals, Paris 
and New York Shows ; besides several hundred prizes dur- 
ing the last Five years. Can supply " Birds " of the several 
species, as well as any other variety desired. 
Prices from C to 10 pounds sterling for Trio, with 2 pounds 
expenses on a single Trio, 3 pounds on two Trios to New 
York, Boston, or Montreal. 
Prices quoted are those only for really good Birds up to 
the very best specimens for Exhibition. 
No inferior Birds supplied. 
Large Shipment of Improved Stock. 
L. B. SILVER, of Salem, Oliio, shipped into the 
various States, Territories, and Canada, in the week ending 
June 4th, 1870, One Hundred and Ninety-seven (191) head of 
his famous Ohio Improved Chester Swine. 
See his advertisement below. 
qpME ohio a^a^aiOTKS) 
-«■ CHESTER HOGS produce the great- 
est amount of Pork, for food consumed, of any 
known breed. Send stamp for description, ancl 
a great variety of other Thorough-bred and Im- 
ported Animals and Fowls. 
Address h. B. SILVER, Salem, Ohio. 
IMPROVED CHESHIRE HO«S. 
— We have the entire stock of breeding swine of this cele- 
brated breed, formerly owned by A. C. Clark of Henderson, 
N.Y., and subsequently by Clark & McLean. Our references 
are the Transactions of the New York State Agricultural 
Society for the last teu years. 
Semi for Circulars. Address 
CLARK & GREEN, at Belleville, Jefferson- Co., N. Y. 
Premium Chester White Pigs. 
Warranted as pure bred stock as can be obtained iu Ches- 
ter Co., Pa. Bred and for sale by 
JAMES YOUNG, Jr.. & CO., Marshallton, Pa. 
Send for Circular and Price List. 
PtJRE-BRE9> CHESTER WHITE 
Pigs, Sheep, Poultry, Pigeons, Rabbits, <&e., 
bred and shipped bv J. W. &M. IRWIN, Penningtonville, 
Chester Co., Pa. Send for Illustrated Circular. 
JERSEY CATTLE.— Choice in color, rich in 
quality, and of deep milking strains. For sale by 
G. \v. FARLEE, Cresskill, N. J., 1 hour from New York. 
HOW TO MAKE 
THE FARM PAY!!! 
SEND f% GENT STAMP 
FOR BOOK .< CONTAINING 08 
pages of valuable Beading :t*best Seed Wheat; Early 
Mammoth Orange Dent Corn; Excelsior Oats; Cattle. Hogs. 
Sheep, Fowls, and How to Make the Farm Fay, lor one 3 
cent stamp, Send to 
GEO. A. DEITZ, Cliambersburg, Pn. 
SCRIBNER'S 
LUMBER AND LOG BOOK, 
This book has had a salo of over 400,000 copies, with a 
greater demand than ever before. 
It gives correct measurement for all kinds of Logs, Lum- 
ber, Plank, Boards, Wood, etc., and has now become the 
Standard Book throughout the United States. 
Every farmer, lumberman, and mechanic, Should have a 
copy. Ask your bookseller for it, or send SO cents to me and 
I will forward one post-paid. GEO. W. FISHER, 
Publisher, Rochester, N. Y. 
Aleuts Wanted for Geo. E. Wariug's New Illus- 
trated "Handy Book of Husbandry. 11 A guide for farm- 
ers, young and old." K.B.Trkat & Co.,Pub.,G5! Broadway, N.Y. 
INCORPORATE© 1851. 
%& 
TH0S. F, PLUMETT, 
President. 
JAMES FRANCIS, 
Vice-President. 
BEJIJ, CHICKERISG, 
Sec'y a tul Treas'r. 
JACOB L. GREENE, 
Ass't Secretary. 
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