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ADVERTISEMENTS.—TERMS.—CONTENTS. 
BUSINESS AGENCY. 
The Subscriber will attend promptly to the execution of all or¬ 
ders for the purchase of stock, seeds, agricultural implements, or 
merchandise of any kind ; also sales and purchases of lands, pay¬ 
ment of taxes, &c., &c. He has been more or less engaged m mer¬ 
cantile pursuits in this city for ten years, and has an extensive 
acquaintance with moneyed men, and a thorough knowledge of 
business in general. Cash or produce must invariably be in hand, 
before oiders for purchases can be executed. 
A. B. ALLEN. 
205 Broadway, New York. 
MATCHED & SINGLE MORSES 
FOR SALE. 
The subscriber has placed in his care several very superior 
match horses fresh from the country, for sale. They are from 5 
to 7 years old; 15£ t0 16£ hands high; well bred and broke; 
showy, fast, and enduring. 
Also single horses for the harness or saddle, some of which are 
very fast, and will trot inside of three minutes easily. 
A lady’s saddle-horse, racks and gallops, and is very gentle and 
easy on the bit._A. B. ALLEN, 205 Broadway. 
AGRICULTURAL works. 
For sale by SAXTON & MILES, 205 Broadway, 
New York. 
The American Race Turf Register, Sportsman’s Herald, and 
General Stud Book. By P. N. Edgar. Price $2. 
Liebig’s Agricultural and Animal Chemistry. Price 50 cts. 
Liebig’s Familiar Letters on Chemistry. JPrice 12£ cts. 
Loudon’s Encyclopaedia of Agriculture, English. Price $10. 
Loudon’s Encyclopedia of Gardening. Price $10. 
Bridgeman’s Young Gardener’s Assistant, new edition, much 
enlarged. Price $2. 
The Farmer’s Mine ; being the most complete work on Manures 
ever published. Price 75 cts. 
The Vegetable Kingdom, or Hand-Book of Plants. Price $1. 
Youatt on the Horse ; a new edition. Price $2. 
The Complete Farmer, and Rural Economist, by Thomas G. 
Fessenden. Price 75 cts. 
The New American Orchardist, by Wm. Kenrick. Price 87§ cts. 
The Honey Bee, its Natural History, &c., with 35 engravings. 
^Eees, 1 Pigeons, Rabbits, and the Canary Bird, familiarly de¬ 
scribed. Price 50 cts. 
The American Poultry Book ; being a practical treatise on the 
management of Domesti'c Poultry. Price 35 cts. 
A Treatise on Sheep, with the best means for their general 
management, improvement, &c.; by A. Blacklock. Price 50 cts. 
The Theory of Horticulture ; or an attempt to explain the prin¬ 
cipal operations of Gardening upon physiological principles; by 
John Bindley. Price $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, practical direc¬ 
tions, 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. 
50 cts. 
The American Gardener ; by William Cobbett. Price 75 cts. 
A Treatise on the Vine ; embracing its History, and a complete 
dissertation on the culture and management of Vineyards; by 
Wm. R. Prince. Price $1,50. . ._ . 
The Farmer’s Encyclopaedia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs ; 
by Cuthbert W. Johnson. Adapted to the United States by Gouver- 
neur Emerson. Price $4. . 
Cattle ; their Breeds, Management, and Diseases. Price $2. 
POLAND FOWLS. 
A few of these beautiful fowls can be had at $2 per pair. 
Thev are very choice of their kind and well bred. Apply post¬ 
in aid CHARLES STARR, Jr. 
v ' Mendham, Morris Co., N. J. 
FARM FOR SALE. 
A small farm of 25 acres, pleasantly situated in Passaic county, 
New Jersey, on the turnpike from Newark to Paterson. It is 3 
miles from Paterson, 4 from Bloomfield, and 8 from Newark. 
The soil is good, and about 10 acres seeded down with timothy 
and clover; 4 acres thrifty young wood; a well-built and sub¬ 
stantial stone house on it, near which is a never-failing spring of 
the purest water running through the grounds ; a good apple- 
orchard, and abundance of small fruit; also, about 60,000 Morus 
Multicaulis trees, which have stood the climate the last 6 years. 
This farm is well situated for raising fruits and vegetables for the 
New York market; being 14 miles from the Hoboken Ferry, and 
easy of access by both the Newark and Paterson Railroads. For 
particulars inquire of the Editor of this paper. 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Published Monthly, each number containing 32 pages, royai 
octavo. 
TERMS—One Dollar per year in advance ; single numbers, Ten 
Cents ; three copies for Two Dollars ; eight copies for Five Dollars. 
Each number of the Agriculturist contains but One sheet, sub¬ 
ject to newspaper postage only, which is one cent in the State, 
or within 100 miles of its publication, and one and a half cents , 
if over 100 miles, without the State. 
Advertisements will be inserted at One Dollar, if not exceed¬ 
ing twelve lines, and in the same proportion, if exceeding that 
number. 
K7’ Remit through Postmasters , as the law allows. 
Editors of Newspapers noticing the numbers of this work month* 
ly, or advertising it, will be furnished a copy gratis, upon sending 
such notice to this Office. 
Volume I. and II. of The American Agriculturist, with ta¬ 
bles of contents complete, for sale at $1,00 each ; elegantly bound 
in cloth, $1,25. These are handsome, tasteful books, and make 
very desirable premiums for distribution with Agricultural Socie¬ 
ties, and should also find place in all our District School Libraries. 
Thev constitute the best and most complete treatise on American 
farming, stock-breeding, and horticulture, extant. When several 
copies are ordered, a liberal discount will be made. 
HIT 3 To prevent confusion, all letters merely ordering this work, 
or enclosing money for subscriptions, should be addressed to Saxton 
& Miles, 205 Broadway, post-paid or franked by the Postmaster. 
Communications for publication, to be directed to the Editor; 
and all private letters, or those on business disconnected with the 
paper, should be addressed, simply, A. B. Allen, 205 Broadway. 
New York. 
WARREN’S IMPROVED HORSE POWERS 
AND THRESHING MACHINES. 
The subscribers continue to manufacture and vend these celebra¬ 
ted machines, with increased success and satisfaction. They will 
also manufacture a superior Four Horse Power and Thresher on 
the same principle this season, to sell together for only $100. The 
price of the Two Horse Power and Thresher together, is only $75. 
The Two Horse Power alone, $50. The Four Horse Power will 
be proportionable. Machines deliverable in this city for cash. 
Besides our Beater Threshing Machine, we are making a su¬ 
perior Spike Thresher, adapted to he used with any power. This 
we shall sell at the same price. It has been tested and proved to 
be excellent and safe. L. BOSTWICK & CO., 
2t. 272£ Pearl st., New York. 
FARMS AND REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. 
Several very fine farms in different parts of the United States 
can be had upon the most reasonable terms. Also, beautiful coun¬ 
try seats in this vicinity, at very cheap rates, and real estate in the 
city. A. B. ALLEN, 205 Broadway. 
CONTENTS OF MARCH NUMBER. 
EDITORIAL. Page. 
Ten Thousand Subscribers, 
Diseases of Sheep, 
Benefits of Salt as Manure, 
Culture of Hops, - 
Cocus on Orange Trees, 
Subsoil Plowing, 
Marl, J 
Culture of Asparagus, j 
Harrowing Grain, 
Lime as Manure, 
New York Farmers’ Club, 
Miscellaneous, 
Multicole Rye, 
Foreign Agricultural News, 
Editor’s Table, 
To Correspondents, 
Review of the Market, 
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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE, 
The Peach-Tree, S. S., 
Good Effects of Plaster, A Traveller, - 
Shepherd Dogs, T. C. Peters, 
Free Martins Breeders, Joseph Cope, 
Topping Cotton, M. W. Philips, - 
Jottings in England, .... 
Culture of Cranberries, Sullivan Bates, 
Scarcity of Swine and Sheep, S. W., 
The Curculio,. 
Superior Dutch Cheese, An Orange County Lady, 
Farm Horses, R. L. Allen,. 
Great Weight of Berkshires, Munson Beach, 
Annual Meeting of the N. Y. State Agricultura 
Northern Calendar for March, - 
Southern do. do. 
Paular Merinos, Examiner, No. 2, 
Society, 
