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ADVEfttisEMfiJrfs.—T erms.—contents. 
SOUTH-DOWN AND LONG-WOOLLED 
SHEEP FOR SALE. 
Will be sold at Auction on Thursday the 23d of October next? 
at 11 o’clock A. M., at Coldenham, 8| miles west of Newburgh* 
about 70 head of South-Down Sheep, consisting of Bucks, Ewes, 
and Lambs. They are all hred from stock selected from the most 
celebrated flocks in Sussex, England, and imported by the. sub¬ 
scribers. 
Also 30 head of choice Long-Wciolled Sheep, several of them 
imported. S. & J. WAIT. 
Coldenham, August 24, 1843. , 2t 
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the Editor of the American Agriculturist. 2t 
FARM TO LET. 
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Prince’s Descriptive Catalogue of the Liimseaii 
Hotanic Garden and Nurseries at Flushing* 
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inferior varieties of every class that have been rejected during the 
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per mail, will receive prompt attention. 
WM. PRINCE & Co. 
Flushing, Aug. 26, 1843. 2t 
American Agriculturist Almanac for 1844. 
This work comprises 64 pages, double columns octavo, with 
numerous wood cuts, price $8 per hundred, 12£ ceiits each. In 
the contents will be found—Agricultural Statistics of the United 
States—Aspects and Nodes—Astronomical Calendars for Montreal, 
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, and New Orleans— 
Characters and Names of the Planets, &c.—Farmers’ Northern 
Calendars, with particular directions for the management of the 
Farm, Cattle, Fruit and Flower Garden,,.&c.—Southern Calendars 
for the Planter and Farmer, with explicit directions for the cul¬ 
ture and harvesting of Cotton, Rice, Tobacco, &c., &c. 
CONTENTS OF OCTOBER NUMBER. 
EDITORIAL. 
Buckwheat Straw, ) _ 
Keeping Apples, \ 
Rules for Improvement in Breeding Stock, ) 
.Stock on Long Island, i 
Newstead Abbey, ) 
Farm of G. G. Howland, Esq., \ 
The Bamboo, - - - - - - - - 
The Annual Show and Fair of the N. Y. S. Ag. Society 
for 1843, 
New York Farmers’Club, ? 
Effect of Electricity, > 
Miscellaneous, - * - - - - - 
Foreign Agricultural News, - 
Editor's Table, Reply to the Albany Cultivator, 
Notices of the Press, 
To Correspondents, j 
Review of the Market, - - - - - - 
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 
J. C. B., The best Sheep Country, - 
D. J. Browne, Agriculture of Cuba, No. 3, 
S. S., The Strawberry.—Concluded, - • 
R. L. Allen, Soils and their Management, 
D. J. B., Frye's Lactometer, - 
Samuel J. Bayard. The best Sheep Country, - 
E. Cornell, Farming in Maine, - - - - 
An Observer, New Method of making Manure, 1 _ 
Solomon Jewett. Paular Merinos, ) 
Obituary, John Prince, ( 
D., Southern Calendar for October and November, J 
S. B. Parsons, Northern Calendar for October, - 
Agricultural and Horticultural Fair of the American In¬ 
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