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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TEAS 
We are now supplying all our customers with Extra 
Choice Teas at the very lowest wholesale price, 50c. 
per pound. Good Teas, 30c., 35c. and 40c. per pound; 
and on Tea Orders of $5 and upwards, 
All Express Charges Paid. 
Our business connections with China and Japan, direct 
importations from the place of growth, long experience in 
the business, and special contracts with the Express Co.’s 
for reduced rates, place us before the public as the 
Leading Tea House in tbc U. 8., 
and the PIONEERS Iff REDUCING PRICES 
and KEEPING THEM DOWN. 
Don’t give high prices, but send direct to the 
OLD RELIABLE TEA HOUSE 
(The Great American Tea Company), 
and get your goods at 
Greatly Reduced Prices. 
Don’t be deceived by other concerns who imitate our style 
and manner of doing business. 
We urge all lovers of good Teas to give us a trial. 
Special Inducements on Large Orders, 
FULL PARTICULARS FREE. 
THE GMT AMERICAN TEA CO., 
Importers, 31 and 33 VESEY STREET, 
P.O.Box4,335. NEW YORK. 
The Largest and Cheapest Tea House in the United Stales. 
A SK YOUR WATCHMA KER FOR 
Holder, by mail 
25c—Birch’s Pat. Key-Ring, ine—Circulars Iree. 
J. S. BIRCH «& CO., 38 Dey St., N-„ Y. 
Steam - Engines. 
FOR 1878 AND 1879. 
More effective and more complete, and more readily 
adapted to the various mechanical and agricultural uses 
than any other in the market. Practical improvements 
accumulated from twenty years’ manufacturing experience, 
with reputation maintained and success established. 
Send for Circulars, descriptive^and containing testimoni¬ 
als concerning our PORTABLE STATIONARY 
and AGRICULTURAL, STEAM-ENGINES. 
WOOD, TABER &. MORSE, 
Eaton, Madison Co., N. Y. 
Liquid Paints, Roofing, Boiler Coverings, 
Steam Packing, Sheathings, Fire Proof Coatings, 
Cements &c. Sind fob Descriptivk Price List. 
H. W. JOHNS M’F’C CO. 87 MAiOEK LANE, N.Y. 
J 
J. M. THORBURN & CO. 
15 John St., New York., 
Will issue in January and mail to applicants their new 
DESCRIPTIVE PRICED CATALOGUE OF 
for the VEGETABLE and FLOWER 
Garden, for the LAWN, the FARM, 
and NURSERY. 
SEEDS! 
Flower and Vegetable, all of the finest kinds. Unequaled 
in Quality. Packets well tilled with fresh seeds, bare t<> 
grow and give satisfaction. New Catalogue just published 
lor 1879, mailed free. Send for it. Address 
_ E. WYMAN, JR., Rockford, Ill. 
NORTH STAR SEED FARMS, 
Full lists of Northern grown seeds. Minn. Early Amber 
Sugar Cane. St. Paul and North Star Tomatoes, and other 
specialties of northern growth and origin. Catalogue free. 
Hollistek, Castle & Co.. 
Seed Growers and Dealers, 
St. Paul, Minn. 
BAUGH & SONS 
No. 30 South Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia, 
And No. 103 South Street, Baltimore. 
WARBANTED PURE DISSOLVED 
ANIMAL BONES, 
Acid Phosphate, 
PURE BONE MEAL, 
HIGH GRADE CHEMICALS, 
AND ALL OTHER 
Supplies for Fertilizers, 
furnished in any quantity, of our own Manufacture or 
Importation. 
U3V* All goods we sell are sold under a legal and binding 
guaranty, as to chemical analysis. 
“A A NITROGEN” (Trade Mark)—Pure flesh, con¬ 
taining 14 per cent of Ammonia—In fine mechanical condi¬ 
tion for mixing in fertilizers as an ammoniate. 
NITROGENOUS FOOD, an exceedingly fine and ab¬ 
solutely pure and sweet preparation of flesh for feeding 
Poultry and Animals. Consumers can relv upon this as be¬ 
ing made from fresh and healthy flesh and bones, and they 
can add the meal or grains to it for feeding in just the pro¬ 
portions they choose to adopt. 
VW Goods Delivered Free of Charge to any Wharf in 
Philadelphia. Prices promptly given by Letter. 
BAUGH & SONS, 
No. 30 South Delaware Ave-, Philadelphia. 
HEATING ROOMS. 
Send to Whitney & Hall Mfg. Co., 1123 Chestnut St., Phila¬ 
delphia, for description of the 
HOT BLAST OIL STOVE. 
Plants flourish where it is used. It is also the best stove 
for cooking. 
THE 
Only Sensible Shoe for Children 
Are those with the SILVER or 
THE <AiSci> BLACK TIP UPON THEM, 
THEY REDUCE SHOE BILLS ONE-HALF. 
Stockbridge Manures 
Originated by Prof. Stockbridge, Professor of Agriculture in tbc Mass. Agricultural College. 
A special manure is made for each FARM and GARDEN CROP, containing the Plant-Food which each par¬ 
ticular Plant requires. These manures were used on more than 35,000 acres in 1878, and.with Great Satisfaction. 
BOWKER’S PHOSPHATES AND LAWN DRESSING. 
These are the very best articles of the kind manufactured. Prices reasonable, and all goods guaranteed. 
ANIMAL MEAL for Fowls and Swine will make your HENS LAY and PIGS GKOW. 
Made from Fresh Meat, Fresh Bones, and parched and carbonized grains. Fowls and Swine eat it greedily. Mix a 
small quantity with ordinary meal and feed as usual. It has been extensively used for five vears. Trial Bags of 15 lbs., 50 
cents; 30 lbs., $1.00; 100 lbs., $2.50.—Also for sale a full line of Special Feeds for Poultry, Swine, and Cattle. 
BOWKER’S AMMONIATED FOOD for FLOWERS. 
Free from Odor, Clean as Sugar. Gives Healthy Growth and Abundant Flowering. Ask your 
Grocer or Apothecary for it. Price 35 cents, which is enough for 12 ordinary house-plants for one year. Sent by mail. 
The Scientific American says: “ The lEcrald 
of* Health contains more sensible 
articles than any oilier magazine 
that comes to our sanctum.** 
W. ZZ. BOWItEIS. eft; CO., 
3 Park Place, New York. 43 Chatham St., Boston. 
Sole Manufacturers of all the above goods, and Importers and Dealers in Agricultural Chemicals. Agents wanted in 
-- -— Hr'a®nd for Price LlsU rad Circulars, giving full particulars, mailed Sr 
every County and important Town. 
for Price LlsU rad Circulars, giving full particulars. 
free. 
Herald of Health 
FOR 1879. 
It will give as its leading articles a series of twelve papers 
entitled 
Physiological and Sanitary 
Marriage and Parentage. • 
No subject lies nearer the health, the happiness, and the 
progress of the race. 
The following are some of the articles which will soon 
appear: 
1. The Headaches of Children. 
2. Headaches of Adults. 
3. Catarrh, its Cure. 
4. Constipation and its Relief. 
5. Prevention of Diphtheria, Scarlet 
Fever and Typhoid. 
6. Malaria, How to Exterminate. 
7. Sun Bathing, Air Bathing. 
8. Salt-water Baths at Home. 
Rack N umbel' will be worth the yearly 
price and save ten times Its cost in ill health, 
for it will teach how to KEEP WELL and 
retain health to old age, rear healthful, hap¬ 
py children, as well as bow to recover health 
without medicines. 
Price $1.00 per Year. 
SPLENDID PREMIUMS. 
Every subscriber sending $1.00 and 10 cents for postage, 
shall receive free 
Tie Complete Worts of SMspeare, 
in one volume of over 1,000 pages, good paper and type, and 
36 illustrations. 
Or a new book of over 200 pages, by Mrs. Berth* Myer, 
entitled 
How to Govern Children. 
This last work is the best hook of its kind ever written, 
and worth its weight in gold to any parent. Price, $1.00. 
The Herald and both Premiums for $1.60. 
Also just out: 
Hygiene of the Brain and 
Cure of Nervousness. 
By M. L. HOLBROOK, M. D. 
“ Get this hoolc and read, it, for 
it abounds in practical valuable 
kiiowledge .”—Chicago Inter-Ocean. 
PART I. CONTAINS: 
How the Nerves Act. 
Has Nervous Activity any Limit? 
Nervous Exhaustion. 
How to Cure Nervousness. 
The Cure of Nervousness ( Continued ). 
Food in Nervous Disorders. 
Fifty Important Questions Answered. 
What our Thinkers and Scientists Say. 
Nervousness in Girls. 
On Headaches. 
Besting the Brain. 
Hunting as a Bemedy. 
How to Banish the Blues. 
Mental Hygiene for Farmers. 
Becreation in a Work Shop, etc., etc. 
Part II contains 38 letters from distinguish¬ 
ed persons, including farmers on llieir physi¬ 
cal and intellectual habits. 
Price, by mail, $1.50. 
It and Herald of Healtli $2.00, without premiums; with 
premiums, $2.75, Samples, 10 cents. 
Address M. L. HOLBROOK, 
13 * IB Laight St., New Yc>r|<. 
