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ADVERTISEMENTS.—TERMS.—CONTENTS. 
PREMIUM EAGLE, SUBSOIL, AND OTHER 
PLOWS. 
The subscriber having been appointed agent in this city for the 
sale of the celebrated Premium Plows, made by Ruggles, Nourse, 
& Mason, of Worcester, Massachusetts, now offers them at the 
manufacturers’ home prices. They are calculated alike for the 
Northern farmer and Southern planter, and embrace the following 
varieties :— 
ters are only necessary to cut through the sod and render it easy 
to turn over while breaking up green sward land, and of course 
are scarcely wanted South. Extra moulds and lands are not often 
wanted. Two extra points should always accompany each plow. 
The great number of premiums which these plows have obtained 
at the most important plowing-matches, and the universal satisfac¬ 
tion they have given wherever introduced, render it unnecessary to 
particularise their merits. They are made of the best materials, 
are highly finished, and combine light weight and easy draught, 
with great strength and durability. They are especially liked at 
the south, and though the first price is higher than the common 
kinds, they do their work in so superior a manner, and with a 
draught so much easier for the team, that they are universally 
preferred wnore known. It has been proved that a single pair of 
good mules attached to the Eagle plow, No. 1, in any reasonably 
friable soil, will easily turn a furrow of 6 inches deep by 12 inches 
wide. In addition to the above good qualities, being made of the 
best materials and highly finished, these plows last much longer 
than the common kind. 
A. B. ALLEN, 205 Broadway, N. Y. 
IMPERIAL OATS. 
The subscriber is just in receipt of a few barrels of the above 
superior oats—price $3 50 per barrel, delivered on board vessel. 
If two or more barrels are taken, a deduction will be made of ten 
per cent. The imperial oats are considered the best kind now cul¬ 
tivated, having less husk about them than any other known. Their 
Weight is from 40 to 44 lbs. per bushel; 
A. B. ALLEN, 205 Broadway, N. Y. 
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. 
JO 3 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 v 
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-breeding, and horticulture, extant. When several 
copies are ordered, a liberal discount will be made. 
LECTURES ON AGRICULTURE. 
Dr. Gardner will commence his annual course of Popular Lec¬ 
tures on the Applications of Science to the Practice of Agricul¬ 
ture, in the chemical lecture room of the University of New 
York, on Wednesday evening, the 4th of December, at half past 7 
o’clock. The Introductory Lecture is open to all the friends ol 
agriculture. Subject: A Plant agriculturally considered. The 
course will consist of fifteen or sixteen lectures—fee $5. During 
the winter the subjects of the rotation of crops, composting, econ¬ 
omy of fodders, causes of exhaustion, nature of smut and similar 
diseases, and other important questions, will be fully considered. 
The course is intended for practical men and students in agricul¬ 
ture. 
PRINCE’S LINNiEAN BOTANIC GARDEN 
AND NURSERIES, 
Flushing, L. I., near New York. 
William R. Prince & Co.’s new descriptive catalogues of Fruit 
and Ornamental Trees and Plants (34th edition) with prices much 
below those usually charged, and comprising additions of above 
500 select varieties of fruits, and 1200 varieties of ornamental 
trees, shrubs, and roses, but few of which are contained in any 
other American nursery, will be sent to every post-paid applicant. 
The cost of the present edition is above $700, and it is the most 
complete ever published. 
Also, Prince’s Treatise on Fruits, $2 00, and on the Vine, 
$1 50, and on Roses, 50 cents. Orders left at 23 Pine street, or 
per mail, will be executed in a superior manner, and forwarded as 
ordered. , WM. R. PRINCE & CO. 
Flushing, October, 1844. 
DURHAM CATTLE FOR SALE. 
One or two cows, 3 years old, in calf by the Duke of Welling¬ 
ton, and. two heifers, in calf by the prize bull Meteor ; also, a su¬ 
perior bull calf got by Meteor, for sale at reasonable prices. Let¬ 
ters post paid will receive a prompt answer. 
GEORGE VAIL. 
Troy, 19th Oct., 1844. 
CONTENTS OF DECEMBER NUMBER. 
To our Subscribers, - 
Care of Young Stock, 
Remedy for Rot in Potatoes, 
The Hand Flower, 
Cheap Horse Power, 
Improvements in Sugar Making, - 
Premiums of the Cattle Show of the American Institute, 
Management of Poultry, 
Culture of Madder, M. B. Batebam, - - 
Are Rotations of Crops Necessary, R. L. Allen, 
A Plow for Turning under the Cow-Pea, T. Affleck, 
Fruit at the South, M. W. Philips, - 
Durham Bull Meteor, - 
The Policy of American Farmers, R., ) 
Saratoga Farming, Dendy Sharwood, ) 
Composition of Saleratus, Wm. Partridge, ) . 
Subsoil Plowing, Thomas Spalding, J 
Pedigrees of Mr. Randall’s Sheep, H. S. Randall, - 
Northern Calendar for December, - 
Southern “ “ .... 
Foreign Agricultural News, * 
Editor’s Table, -------- 
Review of the Market, - 
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