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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Stockbridge Manures 
Originated by Prof. STOCKBRIDGE, Profes¬ 
sor of Agriculture in the 
MASS. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
40 to 80 Bushels Corn per Acre, 
25 to 50 “ Wheat “ “ 
20 to 40 “ Rye “ 
25 to 50 Barley 
S 50 to 250 Potatoes 
1500 to 2 100 lbs. Tobacco “ ” 
2000 to 4000 “ Hay “ “ 
and other crops in proportion, have been produced by the 
use of these manures alone. The results on Corn and 
Grass are truly wonderful. 
A special manure is made for each Farm and Garden. 
Crop, containing the Plant-Food which eacli particu¬ 
lar Plant requires. These manures were used on more than 
10,000 acres in 1877, and with Great Success. 
Send for Pamphlet for 1878, full of informa¬ 
tion, mailed free. 
MADS ONLY BY 
W. H. BOWKER & CO,, 
3 PARK Place (opposite the Post-Office), 
§*3EW YORK. 
Boston, 43 Chatham Street. 
Nothing Better than Stable Manure. 
There is nothing better than stable manure, all things 
taken into account, and the Stockbridge is not intended to 
displace it; but when the barn manure is all used, and some¬ 
thing more is wanted, or when time is short and the crop 
must be hurried in, or you have a long distance to haul your 
stable manure, or when you desire to cultivate more land, 
the Stockbridge may be used and will produce, we believe, 
equally as good crops, and will be found fully as lasting in 
the effects if applied to the same extent ns stable-dung. 
But in comparing them, remember you can put on enough 
stable-manure “ to beat ” the Stockbridge, or enough Stock- 
bridge “to beat” the stable-manure. In making trials, do 
not put ten bags of Stockbridge against one load of manure, 
or one bag of Stockbridge against ten loads of manure, but 
apply equal values, remembering the extra expense of haul¬ 
ing and applying stable-manure form a large part of its cost. 
Do All Soils Need Complete Manures? 
If not, what do they require? Who has ever determined 
satisfactorily what his soils require? This can not be settled 
in a practical way, if indeed it can be settled at all. Some 
one niay say chemical analysis of soils will settle it, but this 
idea was exploded long ago. Another suggests a series of 
experiments in growing crops, but this is not practicable, for 
a crop only tells what it has taken out, and not what is left 
and how much if any of any substance is left in the soil. 
Therefore, for the great mass of farmers to determine by 
their crops what their soils need, is practically impossible, 
and hence, the only safe way is to apply complete manures. 
And in using complete manures, is it not more reasonable 
to use those like the Stockbridge, which have for their 
standard the analysis ot plants, than any made by an arbi¬ 
trary standard, which has no relations whatever to the 
plant? So we think, and so do the majority of our custom¬ 
ers. Farmers, drop this manuring by guess, and adopt the 
Stockbridge plan, which is economical, and appeals to your 
common sense. 
ALLEN’S PLANET, Jr. HAND SEED DRILLS AND WHEEL HOES 
are standard machines; thousands in use; have taken the Centennial, Franklin Institute 
Silver, Erfurt, Germany, and other medals. Sold either separate or combined: the com¬ 
bined tool ( Agriculturist Premium), is greatly improved for 1878. PRICES much re¬ 
duced. TEE Pl.ANET Jr. HORSE HOE, popular in 1877, is perfected for 1878. 
■Wrought bolted frame, polished cast steel teeth, patent clevis, etc. Our catalogue IS 
FREE. S. L. ALLEN & CO., No. 229 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
PEARCE’S IMPROVED 
llfi CAHOON 
M| BROADCAST 
ISSjSEED SO WEE. 
if Sows all kinds of Grain 
and Grass Seed. 
j No more sowing too much 
Ito the left. Small gate forgrass 
seed. Sows 4 toSacres per hour. 
Does better work than can be 
7 done bv any otlier means what 
“ ^ ever. Only $5. Sold every 
, where. Send Stamp for circular 
GooclcH Company, Antrim, N. H.,Sole Manufacturers 
up 
Holbrook'S “VETO” SEED DRILL & “HEW” 
Hand Cultivator sow and cultivate all 
kinds vegetables. Do work of ID 
men. Best and cheapest. 
Price §12.50 combined. 
Steel Teeth. 
Circulars Free. Made ^7 E. E. LU1IMTJS & CO., Boston, Macs. 
Matthews’ Garden Seed Drill, 
Matthews’ Hand Cultivator, 
Matthews’ Drill and Culti¬ 
vator combined, surpass all 
others. Send for circular before 
you buy. .Manufactured only by 
EVERETT & SMALL, 
Boston, Mass. 
Holbrook’s “ Hew Regulator” Seed Drill 
v Sows all kinds of Vegetable Seeds with regularity. 
K T £ c Standard machine. Remodeled for 1875. 
Combines the best points ever produced. Sim¬ 
ple, durable, easiest handled , OPEN WHITE 
Seed Conductor biiowb 
tiie Seed Dropping. Give 
satisfaction. Circulars Free. 
Made by E.E.L.UMMU8 & Co. 
20 S.Market St. Boston,Mass* 
Hue’s Hand Cultivator & Seed Drill. 
Send for circulars to GEO. TV. pjTE, Hamilton, Ohio. 
MISHAWAKA 
FEED MILL 
Shells and Grinds Six to Fifteen 
bushels of Corn per hour. Two to 
four horse power. Send for Circu¬ 
lar. Address 
St. Joseph Manufacturing Co,, 
Mishawaka, Iml. 
DOUBLE HARFOOiM 
HAY-FORK. 
BEST 8SJ THE WORLD. 
Descriptive Catalogue sent free. 
Peimoclt Manufacturiiig Company, 
Kennett Square, Chester Co., Pa. 
Fitzhugh’s Am. Hay-Elevator. 
The greatest labor-saving ma¬ 
chine in use. Easily put up and 
operated. It will take one ton of 
hay from the wagon and carry it 
back 100 feet in mow in 0 % minutes. 
Only occupies 14 in. of space in 
peak of barn. It is very durable 
and cheap. Price $12.00. Send for 
descriptive catalogue. J. R. Fitz- 
iiugii, Mfr. and Pat., 1,708 Barker 
St., Philadelphia, Penn. Branch 
ODice 55 Beekmau St., N. Y. 
Use the Anti-Friction Hay-Carrier, 
For elevating and conveying Hay, Grain, etc., in ham, bar¬ 
rack,shed, or field. It elevates perpendicularly and conveys 
horizontally any desired distance. No trouble about getting 
over high beams and to the end of deep mows, or to the top 
of high stacks. Thousands sire now in use. Five 
tons nave been stacked and the frame moved in 45 conse¬ 
cutive minutes. Fifty tons have been stacked in a single day 
with this Frame and Carrier. Send for Circular 'Ll ” to 
TJ. S. Wil l) ENGINE & PUMP CO., Batavia, Ill. 
WIND ENGINES, 
forpumping water, grinding grain, 
irrigating, and general use where 
economy and regular power is re¬ 
quired. Adapted to all kinds of 
farming and mechanical business. 
Estimates given and printed in¬ 
structions furnished. Apply to 
S. W. KENNEDY, 
1G Fairmount Ave., Philadelphia. 
Agents Wanted. 
Ask 
The Chamberlin Screw Stump Machine, 
after 10 years test, has proved its 
superiority over all others, by its 
great exhibition of strength and 
durability, combined with cheap¬ 
ness and ease in pulling all classes of 
stumps. The Company’s challenge 
of ¥1000 for a stump machine which 
would excel theirs, has stood since 
1867 without being taken. They build 
0 different sizes of machines, to pull 
all kinds of stumps. They make 
Pubsoilers and Ditching Plows. For 
Particulars, Prices, etc., address 
THE CHAMBEP.LIN M'F’G CO., 
Olean, N. Y. 
Now is the time to make up 
your order for the STOCli- 
JB RIDGE MANURES for 
all crops, and to 
TOP 
your "Winter Grain Fields, Grass Lands, and Pastures. The 
Stockbridge, applied as a top-dressing during this month 
and a part of next, on Winter Grain, will give most excel¬ 
lent results. Winter Grain which lias suffered from the open 
winter will also he greatly benefited. For top-dressing 
Grass, the Stockbridge has given universal satisfaction, pro¬ 
ducing from two to three tons to the acre. Eemember it is 
tree fioin weed seeds, and you can haul, at one two-horse 
load, enough to go over six or seven acres. It may he ap¬ 
plied from now till early May, hut those who used it early 
last season were enabled to cut a heavy crop in early .June, 
and also obtained a good second crop before the August 
drouth set in. 
THE WESTSNCHOUSE 
THRESHING MACHINES & HORSE POWERS 
Hest at (Centennial Trial. 
Powers fori to 10 Horse, and Endless Chain Powers for 2 
and 3 Horses—and Engines from 4 to 10 Horse Power. All 
with late and important improvements. Send for Circular. 
G. WEST1NGHOUSE & CO., Schenectady, N. Y. 
The Peerless Thresher and Cleaner—Clover 
Holler and Cleaner— SIraw-Preserving Rye 
Threshers—Rail way and Li ver Powers—The 
Howland Feed Mill—Grain Fans and Corn 
Shelters. Our machines are guaranteed to work well, and 
have received the highest testimonials andcannot be excelled. 
B. GI1.U. & SON, 
Trenton Agricultural Works, Trenton, N. .f. 
HEEBNER^HORS^POWER 
PATENT LEIEL TISEAD 
AND 
SPEED REGULATOR. 
Heebner’s Improved Threshing Machines. Send for Illus¬ 
trated Circulars to 
_HEEBXEI, & SONS. Lansdale, Mont. Co., Pa. 
SAW MILL FOR THE PEOPLE. 
rpHIS patent portable Mulay Saw .Mill is adapted 
JL to any locality, will saw any kind of logs, 
and will do as much work (power and hands be- 
considered) as the best Circular Mills. Its 
v> frame, head-blocks, and working parts 
are of tire most substantial and perma¬ 
nent kind, being made entirely of iron 
and steel. It is usually set up and 
started in from one to two days time. 
It is generally driven by threshing en- 
_gines of not exceeding ten horse power. 
cuts from 2000 to 4000 feet of inch lumber per 
y. The Mill and Engine may conveniently be 
operated by two men. Send for circular. 
INDIANAPOLIS IND. CHANDLER & TAYLOR. 
ST ITT) AT A 7S T & CO., 
M A X U F A C T U P. E P. S OF 
ENGINES, SAW MILLS, SHAFTING, PUL¬ 
LEYS, and HANGERS. HAY and 
COTTON PRESSES. 
Power Corn Shelters and Cleaners. 
AURORA, INDIANA. 
