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pertaining to Agriculture and ttural Economy, a few of which 
are enumerated, with the retail prices, from which a liberal dis¬ 
count will be made when a number of works are ordered at one 
time, viz. 
Townley on the Honey Bee. 50 cents. 
The American Flower Harden Directory. Price $1.25. 
The American Shepherd. Price $1. 
Vols. 1, 2, 3, and 4, American Agriculturist. Price $1.25, 
Johnson’s Agricultural Chemistry. Price $1.25. 
Ruscheaberger’s Horsemanship, Price $1. 
Slock Raiser’s Manual. Price $3. 
American Farmer’s Encyclopaedia. Price $4. 
Treatise on Cattle. Price $3. 
Prince’s Pomological Manual. Price $1.50. 
McMahon’s American Gardener. Price $3.50. 
Hoare on the Vine. Price 63 cents. y 
The American Florist. Price 38 cents. 
Parnell’s Applied Chemistry. Price $1. 
Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, &c. Price $6. 
Dana’s Prize Essay on Manures. Price 12£ cents. 
P’essenden’s American Gardener. Price 80 cents. 
Knowlson’s Cattle Doctor or Cow Doctor. Price 25 cents. 
Complete Gardener and Florist. Price 37 cents. 
Buisl on the Rose.. Price 75 cents. 
Prince on the Rose, in press. 
Downing’s Fruit and Forest Trees. Price $1.50. 
“ Landscape Gardening. Price $3.50. 
“ Cottage Residences. Price $2. 
Lang’s Highland Cottages. Price $1.50. 
Every Lady her own Flower Gardener. Price 38 cents. 
Mason’s Farriery. Price $1. 
Hind’s Ditto. Price 75 cents. 
Every Man -his own Gardener. Price 12| cents. 
The Horse, its Habits and Management. Price 12£ cents. 
Boussingault’s Organic Nature. Price 50 cents. 
Draper’s Treatise on Plants. Price $2.50. 
Agricultural Almanac. Price 6 cents 
The American Poulterer’s Companion ; a practical Treatise on 
the Breeding, Rearing, Fattening, and General Management of' 
the Various Species of Domestic Poultry, with Illustrations 
(fifty or sixty) and Portraits of Fowls taken from Life. By C 1 
N. Beinent. Price $1,25. 
Clater and Youatt’s Cattle Doctor, containing the Causes, 
Symptoms, and Treatment of all the Diseases incident to Oxen, 
Sheep, and Swine. 50 cents. 
Essays on Practical Agriculture, by Adam Beatty, of Kentucky. 
Pri^e $ l. 
The American Turf Register and Stud Book. By P. N. Edgar. 
Price $2. 
Liebig’s Agricultural and Animal Chemistry. Price25 cts. each. 
“ Familiar Letters on Chemistry. Price 12j cents. 
Loudon’s Encyclopaedia of Agriculture (English). Price $10. 
“ Encyclopaedia of Gardening. Price $10. 
“ Encyclopaedia of Architecture. Price $14. 
Bridgeman’s Young Gardener’s Assistant, new edition, much 
enlarged. Price $2. 
Bridgeman’s Fruit Cultivator’s Manual. Price 62 cents. 
“ Kitchen Gardener. Price 62 cents. 
“ Florist’s Guide. Price 62 cents. 
The Farmer’s Mine, being the most complete work on Manures 
ever published. Price 75 cents. 
The Vegetable Kingdom, or Hand Book of Plants. Price $1.25. 
Yowatt on the Horse ; a new edition. Price $1.75. 
Rural Eccnomy. By Boussingault. Price $1.50. 
Stable Economy, by Stewart. Revised by A. B. Allen. Price $1. 
Johnston’s Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 
25 cents. 
The Complete Farmer and Rural Economist, by Thomas G. 
Fessenden. Price 75 cents. 
. The New American Orchardist, by Wm. Kenrick. Price 87£ cts. 
The Honey Bee, its Natural History, &c., with 35 engravings. 
Price 31 cents. 
Bees, Pigeons, Rabbits, and the Canary Bird, familiarly de¬ 
scribed. Price 37d cents. 
The American Poultry Book; being a practical Treatise on the 
Management of Dome stic Poultry Price 37 cents. 
A Treatise on Sheep, with the best means for their General 
Management, Improvement, &c., by A. Blacklock. Price 50 cents. 
The Theory of Horticulture; or, an attempt to explain the 
principal operations of Gardening upon Physiological Principles, 
by J. Lindley. Trice $1.25. 
Gardening for Ladies, and Companion to the Flower Garden, 
by Mrs. Loudon. Price $1.50. 
American Husbandry. Price $1. 
The Farmer’s Instructor; consisting of Essays, Directions, and 
Hints for the Management of the Farm and the Garden. By J. 
Buel. 2 vols. Price $1. 
A Muck Manual for Farmers, by Samuel L. Dana. Price 50 cts. 
Chemistry Applied to Agriculture, by M. Le Comte Chaptal. 
Price 50 cts. 
Skinner on the Dog. Price 75 cents. 
Mills’ Sportsman’s Library. $1. 
Pastoral Life of the Ancients. $3. 
Winter on the Horse, in press. 
Ives’ New England Fruit Book. 62 cents. 
American Sylva ; a Description of Forest Trees in America. 
Gray’s Botanical Text Books. $1.50. 
Gardner’s Farmer’s Dictionary. $1.50. 
Fruit Culturist, by J. J. Thomas, 62 cents. 
Treatise on Milch Cows. 25 cents. 
Stable Talk. $1. 
Eaton’s and Wright’s Manual of Botany. $3. 
First Lessons in Botany. 25 cents. 
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AGENTS FOR THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
New Haven, Ct. .F. Trowbridge. 
Newark , N.J .B. Myers. 
Philadelphia .J. M. Campbell and David Landreth. 
Washington, Pa ...Dr. R. R. Reed. 
Albany, N. Y ...E. H. Pease. 
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Rochester, NY. .C. F. Crossman. 
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( A. G. Munn. 
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Cincinnati, Ohio .W. H. Moore & Co. 
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Athens, Geo .J. J. Richards. 
Savannah, Ga .Denslow & Webster. 
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Richmond , Va .Wm. Palmer. 
Natchez, Miss .G S. Tainter. 
Woodland, La., East Feliciana .. .Rev. A. W. Pool. 
Genera! TraveUing Agen.s, j “=1, 
Bound volumes can be obtained of any of our Agents at $1.25 
per volume. 
Just Published, 
A TREATISE ON MILCH COWS, 
Whereby the quality and quantity of milk which any cow will 
give may be accurately determined by observing Natural Marks 
or External Indications alone ; the length of time she will con¬ 
tinue to give milk, &c., &c. By M. Francis Guenon, of Liborne, 
France. Translated for the Farmers’ Library from the French, 
by N. P. Trist, Esq., late U. S. Consul at Havana. With Intro¬ 
ductory Remarks and Observations on the Cow and tiik Dairy. 
By John S. Skinner, Editor of the Farmers’ Library. Illustrated 
with numerous engravings. 
Price for single copies, neatly done up in paper covers, 37 1-2 
cents. Full bound in cloth and lettered, 62 1-2 cents. The usual 
discount to booksellers, agents, country merchants and peddlers. 
Farmers throughout the United States may receive the work 
through the mails. The postage on each copy will be about 7 
cents. By remitting $2 free of postage we will send seven copies 
of the work done up in paper covers; or Country Merchants visit¬ 
ing any of the cities will procure the work for those who may 
wish to obtain it. Please send on your orders. Address 
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PERUVIAN GUANO AT REDUCED PRICES. 
The subscriber keeps this superior fertilizer constantly on 
hanjl for sale, in bags, barrels, half barrels, and kegs. It comes 
direct from the Agent of the Peruvian Company, and is warranted 
genuine and of a first rate quality. 
Five tons and over.2 cents per lb. 
One ton and under five tons.2 1-8 do. 
Half a ton and under one ton.2 1-4 do. 
Under half a ton...2 1-2 do. 
This Guano is packed in bags weighing from 120 to 150 lbs.; 
barrels, from 220 to 250 lbs.; half barrels from 115 to 130 lbs.; 
kegs about 60 lbs. each. When a larger quantity than one 
ton is taken, it is expected it will be in bags. No allowance 
for tare, and no charge for packages. Cartage extra. 
A. B. ALLEN, 187 Water Street, N. Y. 
HOVEY’S SEEDLING STRAWBERRY. 
Price $1.50 per hundred plants, and $10 per thousand. 
A. B. ALLEN, 187 Water Street, N. Y. 
