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ADVERTISEMENTS. CONTENTS. 
NEW-YORK AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE, 
BY A. B. ALLEN & CO., 
189 4- 191 Water Street, JVeio York . 
THE Implements kept, embrace upwards of FIFTY different 
kinds of Flows, a great variety of Harrows, Cultivators, Rol- 
lers, Seed Sowers, Horse Powers, Grain Cradles, Threshing 
and Fanning Machines, Mills, Hay Cutters, Corn Shellers, 
Shovels, Spades, Hoes, Scythes. Rakes, "Wagons, Wheels, 
Carts. Wheelbarrows, Pumps, Rice Threshers and Hullers, 
Road Scrapers, Axes, Chains. &c, Sec. These implements are 
mostly made up from new and highly-improved patterns, and 
are warranted to be of the best materials, and put together in 
the strongest manner, and of a superior finish. 
Horticultural Tools — A complete assortment. 
Castings, Skeleton Plows, Harrow Teeth, and Iron Work of 
all kinds done to order in the cheapest and best manner. 
Stcum Engines, Sugar Boilers, Sugar Mills, Saw Mills, Ket- 
tles, Cauldrons, &c. for Plantations. 
Wire Cloth and Sieues — Different kinds and sizes, kept con- 
stantly on hand. 
Seeds for the Field and Garden — Such as Improved Winter 
and Spring Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Corn, Beans, Peas, 
Turnip, Cabbage, Beet. Carrot, Parsnip, Clover, and Grass 
Seeds, improved varieties of Potatoes, &c, &c. These are 
warranted fresh and superior of their kind. 
Fertilizers — Peruvian and African Guano, Lime, Plaster of 
Paris, Bone Dust, &c, &c. 
Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs — Orders taken for 
these, and executed from a choice of the best Nurseries, Gar- 
dens, and Conservatories in the United States. 
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and Swine — Orders received for stock 
of all kinds, to be executed to the best advantage, and shipped 
in the most careful manner. 
Agricultural Books — A general assortment of these for 
sale. 
Produce on Consignment — All kinds of Agricultural Produce 
will be received for sale on consignment. 
A Catalogue of the above Implements, Seeds, &c, of 100 
pages, handsomely illustrated with plates, will be forwarded 
by mail, when requested, post paid. 
GOLD WASHING MACHINES-LEAVENWORTH'S 
PATENT. 
THE superiority of these machines over all others is, that 
the gold, platina, cinnabar (ore of quicksilver), and black 
sand (containing a large per centage of gold), cannot escape ; 
and that the gravel and dirt pass off without detention. These 
machines will perform more and better work than any other 
ever constructed. They may be operated by hand, horse, wa- 
ter, or steam power. Price of hand machines $25 to $35 each ; 
horse power, ditto, $50 each. Additional castings, sieves, 
irons, and boxing, extra. 
In addition to the above, emigrants to California will find at 
our warehouse, a large and complete assortment of the best 
and most recently constructed mining tools of all kinds, smelt- 
ing and assaying apparatus, crucibles and retorts, with print- 
ed directions for using the same ; pumps and hose ; Whitney's 
celebrated rifles ; wagons, carts, and wheelbarrows ; agricul- 
tural implements, field and garden seeds, &c, &c., at the low- 
est prices. 
The public are cautioned against purchasing gold machines, 
imitations of Mr. Leavenworth's patent, as he nas directed his 
agent at San Francisco, E. Crosby, Esq., to enjoin all persons 
from using such, on their arrival in California. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO. 
f 2t 189 & 191 Water st., New York. 
AYRSHIRE CATTLE FOR SALE. 
THE subscriber having disposed of his farm, will sell at pub- 
lic auction, at Three-Hills Farm, on the Cherry- Valley turn- 
pike road, three and a half miles west of Albany, on the 14th 
of March next, his choice herd of Ayrshire cattle, consisting 
of the imported cow "Alice," her daughter "Fairy," for 
which the first premium was awarded at the fair of the New 
York State Agricultural Society, held at Saratoga Springs, in 
1847; <: Lassie," three years; " Moggy," two years; " Nor- 
na," one year, and " Jenny Deans," nine months old. Two- 
year old bull and bull calf. Also several head of cows and 
neifers, a cross of Ayrshire and Durham. These cattle, ex- 
cept Alice and Fairy, were bred by the subscriber, and are 
principally young and rich milkers. Also, two young boars 
and several breeding sows of the Medley breed. 
Catalogues, with pedigrees, will be furnished on the day of 
sale. C. N. BEMENT. 
Jilbany, Jan. 1st, 1849. f2t- 
ROCK 9ALT. 
THIS Salt is as hard as alum, and is the best known. It comes 
In large lumps, and is the most suitable and economical kind for 
stock. It may be placed on the ground in the open field where it 
will be exposed for years to the weather with but little waste. 
It is the best kind to put in a rack, manger or trough, to be licked 
by horses, cattle, ana sheep, as they may desire. By this means 
stock never get an excess, or suffer injury from its use. Price $1 
per hundred pounds, for a single barrel, or 75 cents per hundred 
pounds for larger quantities. 
A. B ALLEN & CO., 180 and 191 Water street, N. Y. 
THE INDEPENDENT, 
A NEW RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPER, published weeklv, 
by S. W. Benedict. Office 201 William street, N. Y. 
This paper is under the united editorial control of Leonard 
Bacon, D.D., of New Haven, Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, of 
New York, Pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, and 
Rev. Richard S. Starrs, jr., of Brooklyn, Pastor of the Church 
of the Pilgrims. The most efficient assistance has also been 
secured in all the departments of the paper, both foreign and 
domestic, and everything that transpiies in any part of the 
world, affecting the condition of man, will find the earliest re- 
cord in its columns. 
The paper is not the organ of any Christian sect or denomi- 
nation ; but as its editors and proprietors are all of them con- 
nected with the Congregational Churches of this city and 
Brooklyn, they will naturally look to their brethren connect- 
ed with such churches, both at the east and the west, for 
sympathj- and support. In return, they will endeavor to give 
them such information, advice or instruction, as may be most 
suited to their condition and wants as members of the great 
family of Christ. 
The size of the paper is the same as of the largest of the 
other religious papers in this city. 
Terms. — The price will be $2.50 cents per annum for single 
subscribers, payable in advance. 
Clergymen sending us four subscribers with $10, will be 
allowed a fifth copy gratis for one year. 
Advertisements of books, periodicals, schools, and of such 
matter as may be particularly important to churches, or reli- 
gious families, will be admitted at the rate of 75 cents for 16 
lines for the first insertion, and 50 cts. each subsequent inser- 
tion, f. 
PERUVIAN GUANO. 
ONE THOUSAND TONS of Peruvian Guano just received 
from the Chinche islands for sale, in lots to suit purchasers. 
Also, THREE HUNDRED TONS Patagonian Guano. 
A. B. ALLEN & Co., 18 9 & 191 Water St. 
TO FARMERS AND PLANTERS. 
FIVE THOUSAND PLOWS for sale at all prices, from 
$1.50 up; well made, of the most durable materials, on the 
latest improved principles, and adapted to every soil, crop, and 
manner of cultivation. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO,, 189 and 191 Water street, N. Y. 
CASTINGS MADE TO ORDER. 
GIN-GEAR SEGMEN TS, of all sizes, furnished at short no- 
tice, at low prices. 
BURR MILLSTONES of any size ; PATENT BURR MILLS, 
from 12 to 30 inches in diameter ; also, Nicholls' and Marsh's 
Burr Mills, 12 to 30 inches in diameter. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 189 and 191 Water street- 
CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY NUMBER. 
To Subscribers ; To Agents ; Work for February, North \ ^ ( 
and West $ 
Work for February, South 4<1 
The Rust in Wheat ; Adulteration of Food, No. 8 43 
The Cow — her Diseases and Management, No. 9 44 
Hoe & Co's Hydraulic Presses ; Review of the Novem- ) ^, 
ber No. of the Agriculturist, Reviewer. £ 
How to Preserve Eggs 47 
Disposal of the Filth of Paris 48 
Advantages of Thorough Draining ; Elements of Pro- } 
ductive Farming ; Cisterns and Mattresses — An- > 49 
swers to Reviewer, M. W. Philips. ) 
Rough Notes by the Way, No. 6, Samuel Allen 60 
Agricultural Tour, South and West, No. 2, Solon Robinson 51 
Effects produced under an Exhausted Receiver ; Lake > 
Champlain Shell Mail ?, E. Hibbard ; Wire Fence, S. $ 
T. Warren ; Vegetation the Source of Reproduc- ) 53 
tion. S 
Agricultural Manufacturing Productions, Capital, &c, \ _. 
of the U. S. * 
Culture and Preservation of Potatoes, John Wilkinson ; ) . 
Miner's Ornamental Bee House, T. B. Miner. ) O0 
Page's Stationary Wind Mill 57 
Letters from California, No. 1 . *** 58 
Grasses, Meadows, and Pastures, No. 1 69 
Substitute for the Potato 60 
Yankee Farming, No. 9, Sergeant Teltrue 61 
Wine Making in Rhode Island, A. C. M. ; Productive 1 
Farming ; How to Grow Rich ; Agricultural Edu- > 62 
cation ; August Felling Timber, William Painter. ) 
Spring Felling Timber, Henry Baker ; Rat Catching, > .^ 
E. S. ; Special Manures. ) 
Save your Egg Shells ; Yellows in Peach Trees, Wm. 1 
Day; Relative Cost of Mattresses; A Musical > 64 
Horse, B. ) 
Boys' Department : Agricultural Chemistry, No. 10, ) g. 
J. McKinstry ; Sagacity of the Barn-door Fowl, J. > ^ 
B. ; What the Steam Engine does. ) 
Foreign Agricultural News 67 
Editor's Table 68 
Review of the Market 6C 
