SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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P. D. GATES, 
COMMISSION MERCHANT, 
A nd DE A.LER IN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS and 
‘machinery, No. 12 Broadway, New York. 
Ketchum’s Mowing Machines, Hay Presses, Horse Hoes, 
Cn^^ators Plows, Straw Cntters, Corn Shellers, Reapers, Horse 
Powers and Threshers, Combined Threshers and Winnowers and 
other Agricultural Machines. June55— Cly* 
MERINO RAMS FOR SALE. 
T he Subscriber offers for sale several full-blood MERINO 
RAMS. Having reduced the number of my flock, I have 
more Rams I need. They are from two of the best flocks in New 
York, and their fleeces, both in fineness and quantity, running from 
9 to 14 pounds. ’ 
Jaly55— tf 
J. B. JONES, 
Birdsville. Burke Co., Ga. 
HOW TO USE MANURES. 
I N order to know the best fertilizers for each crop and how to use 
ail manures in the most economical manner the Farmers and 
Planter will find the following BOOKS invaluable : 
Browne’s Field Book of Manures 25 
Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistry 1 2:5 
Dana’s Muck Manual 1 00 
Norton’s Scientific Agricifiture 60 
Nash’s Progressive Farmer 60 
Chemistry Made Ea.sy 25 
Sent by mail, paid, on receipt of price. Catalogues of all 
our AgriUiltural works sent to those who favor us with their ad 
di-ess. 0. M. SAXTON & Co., 
Agricultural Book Publishers, 
Juue56 — ^2t 140 Fulton, st.. New Y’ork. 
GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH. 
ri'^HE work, secxtrely enveloped, will be sent bymail (pre-paid) to 
_L any person remitting at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five 
cents per copy in postage stamps, or in the lulls of any specie pay. 
ing Banks. Address WM. N. WHITE, 
May56 — tf Athens, Ga. 
THE BEST WORK ON THE HORSE. 
PRICE ONE DOLLAR. 
C M. SAXTON & CO., New York, have just published, and will 
• send it free of postage, THE STABLE BOOK ; a Treatise on the 
Management of Horses, in relation to Stabling, Grooming. Feeding, 
Watering, and Working, by John Stewart, Veterinary Surgeon, and 
Professor of Veterinary Medicines in the Andersonian University, 
Glasgow, with Notes and Additions adapting it to American Food 
and climate, by A. B. Allen, Editor of the Ameidcan Ag l•icuUurist^ 
illustrated with numerous engravings. 
CONTENTS. 
Chap. L— Stabiing, Construction of Stables, Ventilation of Stables, 
Appendages of Stables. 
Chap. II. — Stable Operations, Stable Men, Grooming Operations 
of Decoration, Management of the Feet, Operations in the Stable. 
Chap. III. — Stable Restraints, Accidents, Habits, Vices. 
Chap. IV.— Warmth. 
Chap. V. — Food — Articles of. Composition of, Preparafion of. As- 
similation of. Indigestion of- Principles of Feeding, Practice of Feed- 
ing, Pasturing, Soiling, Feeding at Straw Yard. 
Chap. VI. — Water. 
Chap. VH. — Service, General Preparation for Work, Physiology of 
Muscular Exertion, Preparation for Fast Work, Treatment after 
Work, Accidents of Work, Repose. 
Chap. VUI.— Management of Diseased and Defective Horses, Medi- 
cal Attendance. 
“I have aimed in this work to make Practice the Master of Theory, 
and have endeavored to arrange the whole subject into divisions 
which will render every part oiit easily understood, and easily re- 
ferred to by everv one.” — Author’’ s Frrface 
THE HORSE’S ‘FOOT, AND HOW TO KEEP IT SOUND, with 
illustrations, by William Miles. Price — pai)er — Twenty-Five Cents, 
and sent free of postage. C. .M. SAXTON & CO., 
Jan56— tf Agricultural Book Publishers, New York. 
SHEEP FOR SALE. 
O NE very five half French and half Spanish MERINO BUCK, 
one year old. Also, two superior pure breed jmarling SOUTH 
DOWN BUCKS, of the Webb stock. 
June56— tf RICHARD PETERS, Atlanta, Ga. 
TO FARMERS, MECHANICS AND OTHERS, 
McCORD’S PATENT PORTABLE ANTI-FRICTION HORSE POWER, 
THE BEST IN USE. 
PATENTED, JULY llTH, 18:34. 
rp HIS is an invention by which a larger proimrtion of the power of the horse is rendered available than by anj- other arrangement 
known. Its parts are few and simple, not liable to derangement, redily adjusted for working, with ordinary care very durable and 
efficient. 
The Machines are manufactured with great exactness and all precisely alike, so that in case a piece sliould be broken we can alwavs 
furnish a piece to rep' ace it. 
It is designed for one or two horses, and cun be used for a great variety of work, thereby saving a large amount of labor, expense and 
valuable time to the Farmer, Mechanic and others. 
By reason of Its portability the owner can readily locate it wherever it may suit his business. It can be used to good advantage for 
driving cotton gins, threshing machines, circular, or other saws, planing and other machines for working wood, .di'iving mills, of various 
kinds, for grinding, paint. <fcc., straw-cutters, com-.«hellers, lathes, grindstones, &c., and for churning, washing, pumping water for cattle, 
irrigation, or draining, and aU other purposes to which a Horse Power is adapted. 
We also keepj the most approved Spike and Beater THRESHERS, which can be driven by the above Powers. 
FAN MILLS, for Hand or Horse Power, 
t SMUT MACHINES, GRAIN CRADLES, BELTING, &c. 
Scott’s LITTLE GIANT CORN AND COB MILLS, CARmCHAEL & BEAN, 
Mai'ch56— tf Dealers in Hardware, Cutlery aud Agrictfilural Implements, Augusta, Ga, 
