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ADVERTISEMENTS.-CONTENTS. 
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS FOR SALE. 
Horse-Powers.- Taplin’s & Eddy’s Circular Horse-Powers, 
Price $60 to $75 ; Wheeler’s & Whitman’s Endless Cham ditto, 
single-horse, $75, Double-Horse, $100; Trimbles, Warren’s & 
Child’s Cast-Iron, ditto, $50 to $75. 
Grain-Threshers.— Wheeler’s Thresher at. $25, ditto -with 
Separator, $35 ; Taplin’s Sc Eddy’s Thresher, $40 ; Trimble’s & 
Warren’s ditto, $25 ; Whitman & Pitt’s Thresher with Separator 
and Cleaner, for one or two horses, $100, Pitt’s Thresher, Sepa¬ 
rator, Cleaner, and Horse-Power complete, $200. 
Corn Shellers. —Corn-Shellers to work by hand or other power. 
Price $3 to $50. 
Straw-Cutters. —Straw-Cutters of various kinds to work by 
hand or other power. Price from $3 to $40. 
Grain-Mills. —Grain-Mills to work by hand or other power. 
Price from $5 to $30. Ditto of Burr Stone, from $50 to $125. 
Corn and Cob-Crushers. —These grind com and cobs together. 
Price $35 to $50. 
Spice and Coffee-Mills .—Several of these are of a new and su¬ 
perior kind. Price from $2 to $10. 
Plows for the South and North-— Superior Plows of various 
kinds for sod and stubble-land, from one-horse to six-horse draft. 
Also, the Scotch Iron, Centre-Draft, Self-Sharpening, Side-Hill, 
Wet-Meadow, Double-Mould-Board, Paring, and Sub-soil Plows, 
with common or patent dial-clevis. Price from $2 to $20. The 
woods of the above plows are of choice white oak, and got out by 
patent machinery; the castings are of the best kind. 
Also, a complete assortment of all kinds of Agricultural and 
Horticultural Implements, Field and Garden Seeds. 
A. B. ALLEN Sc CO., 187 YVater st., N. Y. 
NEARLY READY: 
ILLUSTRATED TREATISE ON DOMESTIC ANIMALS: 
Being a history and description of the Horse, Mule, Cattle, 
Sheep, Swine, Poultry and Farm-Dogs ; with directions for their 
management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation 
for a profitable market. Also, their diseases and remedies ; to¬ 
gether with full directions for the management of the dairy, and 
the comparative economy and advantages of working animals, 
the horse, mule, oxen, See. By R. L. Allen, Author of “ Com- 
pend of American Agriculture,” etc. 
The above work contains more than 40 engravings and por¬ 
traits of improved animals, illustrative of the different breeds and 
various subjects treated in it. 
The most minute as well as general principles for breeding, 
crossing, rearing, feeding, and management of all domestic ani¬ 
mals, are herein given, to produce the utmost marketable value 
for the food and attention bestowed on them ; as well as to pre¬ 
vent disease, and save the immense losses which annually occur 
from this source. 
The diseases of animals are also fully treated with their reme¬ 
dies, management. &c. 
This work will be furnished to the trade by 
C. M. SAXTON, 205 Broadway, 
H. LONG & BROTHERS, 
WM. II. GRAHAM, and 
BURGESS, STRINGER & CO. 
Price 75 cents. A liberal discount to agents. 
!N PRESS, 
AND will be ready in a few days, a Compendium of English 
Literature, chronologically arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to 
William Cowper—consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Au¬ 
thors, choice selections from their works, with notes, explanatory 
and illustrative, and directing to the best editions and to various 
criticisms—designed as a text-book for the highest classes in 
schools and academies, as well as for private reading. By 
Charles Dexter Cleveland. C. M. SAXTON, 
Agent for the Publishers, 205 Broadway, back office. 
McMURTRIE’S SCIENTIFIC LEXICON. 
THIS day received, a Dictionary of Terms used in the various 
branches of Anatomy, Astronomy, Botany, Geology, Geometry, 
Hygiene, Mineralogy, Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Zoology, 
&c., for the use of all who read or study in College, school, or 
private life. By Henry McMurtrie, M.D., Professor of Anatomy, 
Physiology, and Natural History, in the Central High School of 
Philadelphia. Price 75 cents. For sale, wholesale and retail by 
C. M. SAXTON, Agent for the Publisher, 
205 Broadway, back office. 
FARM FOR SALE, OR EXCHANGE. 
FOR City or Brooklyn property, situated at Matavan, Middle¬ 
sex county, N. J., one-half mile front on Raritan Bay, 2 miles 
from Key port, containing 180 acres, 100 acres under a high state 
of cultivation, the balance in wood. It is under good fence, and 
in small lots. A good apple-orchard of grafted fruit and 1000 
peach-trees, part of which is expected to bear largely the next 
season. The Buildings consist of a new two-story frame dwell¬ 
ing, with kitchen attached—a large and good barn, and all other 
out-buildings. The steamboat Joseph E. Coffee, plies daily from 
this city to Keyport. For further particulars, inquire of Stephen 
Crawford, on the premises, or of 
dlt* A. CADMUS, 195 West street, N. Y. 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
ISSUED Monthly, by C. M. Saxton, 205 Broadway, New York, 
containing 32 pages, royal octavo. 
TERMS—One Dollar per year in advance ; three copies for Two 
Dollars ; eight copies for Five Dollars. 
The subscription books of the Agriculturist will continue to be 
kept at the old office of publication, 205 Broadway, by Charles 
M. Saxton, of the late firm of Saxton & Miles. 
Travelling Agents wanted, to whom the most liberal compen¬ 
sation will be allowed. 
COMMERCIAL GARDEN AND NURSERY, FLUSH¬ 
ING, NEAR NEW YORK. 
PARSONS & CO., the Proprietors of this establishment, are 
constantly increasing their stock, which now covers nearly 
seventy acres of ground, and includes every desirable variety of 
fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Vines, &c. Their 
possession of experimental grounds for the testing of every variety 
of fruit they cultivate, affords them increased facilities for the at¬ 
tainment of correctness. They would also call attention to their 
large assortment of Foreign Grapes, some twenty varieties of 
which are ready for fruiting under glass. 
To venders, and those who purchase in large quantities, liberal 
discounts will be made. Catalogues can be obtained gratis of 
Parsons & Lawrence, 10 Pine street ; of A. B. Allen & Co., 187 
Water street, New York ; or of the Proprietors by mail. 
Flushing, L. Oct. 1st, 1847. o. 2t. 
CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 
THIS work is by Mr. John Fisk Allen, of Salem, Massachu . 
setts; one of the most experienced and successful Grape-Cultur- 
ists in the United States. It embraces directions for the treat¬ 
ment of the Vine in the Northern States of America, in the open 
air, and under glass structures, with and without artifioial heat. 
It is the best work on the subject yet published, and ought to be 
in the hands of every vine-grower. It is handsomely illustrated 
with wood cuts. Price 63 cents. 
A. B. ALLEN Sc CO., 187 Water Street, N. Y. 
AYRSHIRE BULL. 
A SPLENDID Ayrshire Bull for sale, six months old, and bred 
from one of the very best milking families. As the owner has 
uo use for him he is put at the low price of $50. 
A. B. ALLEN. 
LONG ISLAND FARM FOR SALE. 
BELONGING to the undersigned, 10 miles from Brooklyn, 3 
from the village of Jamaica, IK from the Union Race-Course, 
and within half a mile of the Railroad. The farm contains 
about 200 acres, 30 of which is in woodland and the remainder 
under cultivation, all of which is well adapted to meadow and 
general tillage. There is a large new farm-house with two barns, 
piggery, and out-houses attached; ai d at a convenient distance, 
another barn, and a large range of stalls, including 28 box-stalls, 
12 by 15 feet each. There is a splendid circular training track, 
handsomely graded, one mile in length, on the premises, fenced in 
with 'high palirif. The farm is capable of being divided into two, 
with good farm-buiidings for each. Terms will be easy on good 
security being given. Apply to 
ROBERT L. STEVENS, 31 Barclay street, or 
n t A. B. ALLEN Sc CO., 187 Water st., N.Y. 
CONTENTS OF DECEMBER NUMBER. 
Particular Notice; Farmers’ Winter Work. 
Apple-Orchards, No. 4 ; The Domestic Flora of China, ) 
No. 6 { **• 
Cutting Hay for Stock ; American Fresh Meats in Eng- \ 
land I * * 
Cultivation of Turnip; No. 6. 
New York State Agricultural Society; The ( 
Horse, No. 7 ). 
Reflections for the Farmer ; Fair of the Litchfield County >. 
Agricultural Society j 
Letters from Virginia, No. 2, A New-Yorker. 
Medley Hogs, C. N. Bement. 
Six Samples of Back-Jersey Farmers, A. R. D. 
How to make Rusks; Decomposition of Manures in the ) 
Soil, John P Norton $ 
Long Island Farming, G. P. Lewis ; An Old Saying. 
Choice Varieties of Apples. 
Review of the July No. of the Agriculturist, Reviewer. 
To Transplant Large Trees, L.; American Forest-Trees, > 
L. F. Allen f 
Test for Sound Eggs; Weight of Eggs.. 
Ladies Department : Rural Pastimes by Social ) 
Labor, No. 3, E. Sr; To Cook Seakale ; Marrying J. 
Boys’ Department : Good Advice to Boys, S. A. 
Foreign Agricultural News. 
Editor's Table.. 
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