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ADY ERTISEJVIENTS.—TERMS. —CONTENTS. 
NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE. 
The great demand for scientific information in its bearings upon 
Agriculture, both among those already engaged in the art, and 
others entering upon it as a profession, has induced the subscriber 
to make arrangements for a full course of instruction during the 
ensuing winter. For this purpose a lecture-room and all necessary 
fixtures have been secured in the University of New York. 
Lectures and recitations on the sciences connected with AGRI¬ 
CULTURE, with applications to practice, will take place daily. 
Numerous opportunities will occur of examining the improved 
farms, market-gardens, nurseries, orchards, vineyards, and con¬ 
servatories which abound near the city. Agricultural implements 
and other appliances of the art can be freely investigated ; students 
can also attend Prof. Draper’s lectures on Chemistry ; and 
Prof. Pattison’s on Anatomy and Physiology . 
Full instruction in the analysis of soils, the ashes of plants and 
saline manures forms another principal study of the course. The 
student will conduct these analytical inquiries himself, so as to be¬ 
come proficient. 
The Institute opens on the 1st Monday of November, and closes 
on the 1st of March. Fee for the course on agriculture $20. An¬ 
alysis $30. For both $40. Board and Lodging can be procured 
near the University at $2.50 to $3.00 per week. 
The courses on Agriculture and Analysis will be undertaken by 
the subscriber, with such assistance in the latter as may be neces¬ 
sary. D. P. GARDNER. M. D., 
Formerly Professor of Chemistry and Botany 
in Hampden Sidney College, Va., Consuliing 
Chemist to the New York Farmers’ Club, &c. 
For further information, or a prospectus, address, post-paid, Dr. 
Gardner, 412 Fourth street. 
Reference is made to the following gentlemen who formed a part 
of the class in Agriculture last winter :— 
R. L. Pell, 
J. Brinkerhoff, 
Arch. Russell, 
Hugh Maxwell, 
Shepherd Knapp 
H. Leroy Newbald, 
Gouverneur M. Wilkins, 
R. Jaffray. 
VALUABLE NEW WORKS, 
JUST IMRORTED. 
Encyclopedia of Farm and Cottage Architecture, - $16.00 
Hutchinson’s Treatise on Draining Land, ... 2.75 
Greenwood’s new method of Lifting Trees, ... 2.25 
Stephens’ Practical Irrigator and Drainer, ... 2.50 
Whitley’s Application of Geology to Agriculture, - - 2.50 
Black’s Practical Treatise on Breeding, - 3.50 
Rham’s Dictionary of the Farm, - - - - - 3,00 
Farming for Ladies, 1 vol., ------ 2.50 
Falkner’s Muck Manual, 1 vol., - - - - - 2.00 
Gardener and Practical Florist, vol. 2, - - - - ?.50 
Neil’s Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Gardener, - - - 1.75 
Stephens’Book of the Farm, part 1st, - - - 1.25 
Hunter on the Scotch Swing Plow..1.50 
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IO’ Single copies of books imported to order, per steamer, and a 
return of the same received in six weeks. 
BEMENT’S AMERICAN HOTEL, 
No. 100 State street, Albany, 
Is now open for the reception of company, having undergone a 
thorough repair and complete renovation from the cellar to the at¬ 
tic. It has been newly furnished throughout, and in quality of 
beds, cleanliness, and airy rooms, will now compare with any other 
establishment in the city. 
In location, this house has many advantages, being situated in 
the centre, and on one of the most beautiful streets in the city; 
within a few moments’ walk of the Eastern and Western Railroad 
Depots and the landing of the Steamboats ; about midway between 
the Capitol, Public Offices and the Banks, Post-Office, and the busi¬ 
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business, as well as the gentleman of leisure. 
The subscriber places much reliance on the countenance and 
support of the Agriculturists throughout the Union, who may 
visit the city, and pledges himself to spare no exertions to render 
their stay agreeable, should they favor him with their company. 
Three Hills Farm will be carried on as usual, under my own su¬ 
perintendance, by a careful manager, and the breeding and rearing 
of improved stock will be continued as heretofore. 
C. N. BEMENT. 
Albany, June, 1844. 
JUST PUBLISHED, 
COLMAN’S AGRICULTURAL TOUR. 
The first part of Rev. Henry Colman’s Report on European Ag¬ 
riculture and Rural Economy, is received. The work will be com¬ 
pleted in ten numbers, at $5,00, $2,00 to be paid on the delivery 
of the first number. SAXTON & MILES, 
205 Broadway. 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Published Monthly, each number containing 32 pages, royal 
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. 
ID 5 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. 
They constitute the best and most complete treatise on American 
farming, stock-bi'eeding, and horticulture, extant. When several 
copies are ordered, a liberal discount will be made. 
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. 
ICHABOE GUANO. 
The subscribers have received by a late arrival from Liverpool, 
a few hundred weight of this superior guano, pure as imported from 
Africa, being taken direct out of the ship Clydesdale, arrived at Liv¬ 
erpool docks. A writer in the London Gardener’s Gazette, June 8, 
1844, remarks : “ The competition for this guano in the colonial 
market was so great, that two cargoes were sold in about twenty 
minutes. The desire for Ichaboe guano has arisen from the fact 
that all the eminent chemists who have analyzed it, found it to pos¬ 
sess the fertilizing properties in the highest degree : and the result 
of its application by practical agriculturists have proved the cor¬ 
rectness of their analysis. This island (Ichaboe) on the western 
coast of Africa, which three years since was unknown, is about a 
mile and a half in circumference, and is deeply covered with guano, 
the deposite of sea-birds that have for ages remained undisturbed 
in their possession.” 
Price $6 per hundred pounds, or $1 for 16 pounds, (which is suf¬ 
ficient for 40 gallons of water,) put up in neat boxes; also 7 lb. 
boxes for 50 cents. Tt should he applied in a liquid state, and im¬ 
mediately after a rain. A liberal watering with this liquid once a 
fortnight is sufficient for vegetables, Indian corn, potatoes and tur- 
neps, and once a week for flowers in pots, and dahlias, tuberoses, 
and chrysathemums. 
Also, the best of Artificial Guano, made from an exact analysis 
of the real, in boxes of 20 lbs., at $1 per box; or 10 lbs. for 50 cts 
3t. J. M. THORBURN & CO., 15 John st. 
CONTENTS OF AUGUST NUMBER. 
To Exchange Papers, 
Weeds, 
Plaster no Longer Beneficial, 
Farm of Mr. Clift, ------- 
The Egg-Hatcher, ------- 
Improved White Flint Wheat, - - - - - 
A Half Durham and Ayrshire Bull, ) 
Sketches of the West, No. 5, J 
Sowing Rye and Grass-Seed among Corn, y 
Agricultural Education, > 
Show of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, 3 
Patent Safety-Rein, J 
New York Farmers’ Club, ) 
Culture of Tobacco, No. 3, D. P. Gardner, 
Too Much Land, C. Casse,. 
The Cow-Pea and Peach, M. W. Philips, - - - 
Mulberry Paper, D. Stebbins, ) 
Butter-Making, George S. McWilliams, ) 
McCormick’s Reaping-Machine, C. H. McCormick, - 
Alabama Marl, D. P. Gardner, - - - - - 
Russian Fowls, Bement’s Poulterer’s Companion, ) 
Mexican Shepherd-Dog, J. H. Lyman, ] 
Raising Turkies, Charles Starr, Jr., - - - - 
Review of Mr. Dana’s Chemistry of Soil, Wm. Partridge 
Culture of Sea-Island Cotton, Thomas Spalding, 
Southern Agricultural Implements, Thomas Affleck, 
A Sheep-Trough, H. C. M., 
Coal-Tar as a Paint, Charles Roome, 
Improved Farming in Massachusetts, A Traveller, 
Agricultural Errors, Putnam, ) 
Southern Calendar for August, 
Northern do. do. 
Foreign Agricultural News, 
Editor’s Table, Forgetfulness, &c 
Review of the Market, 
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