[1861 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
157 
A RELIABLE AGENCY 
FOR PURCHASING 
Implements for the Farm, 
Garden and Household, 
SEEDS, 
ARTICLES OP MERCHANDISE, 
ETC., UESTO., ETC. 
ALL ARTICLES PURCHASED 
WARRANTED TO BE OF THE 
BEST CJ XT “2* . 
No Charge made to Purchasers, 
BEYOND THE 
Lowest Kegaalar EPa*ice. 
The suoscriber would respectfully inform the public, 
that at the suggestion and particular request of a number 
of gentlemen (including the Editor of the American 
Agriculturist) he lias opened at 
42 Park ESow, New-¥ork City, 
(under the Publication Office of the N. Y. Daily Times,) 
A Purchasing' and Commission Agency, 
for the purpose of receiving and executing orders from 
those who may wish any article which they can not conve¬ 
niently obtain direct from known reliable dealers ; such as: 
O 
GOO® BOOKS; also 
Agricultural and Horticultural Imple¬ 
ments, Good Fertilizers, Fruit and Orna¬ 
mental ’Frees and Flauts, Seeds, Mouse- 
hold Articles—in siiort, any tiling to be 
procured in New-York City and at oilier 
accessible points.—Special attention will also be 
given to procuring Sewing Machines. 
Subscriptions for all good periodicals will also be 
received at the usual subscription price. 
If persons at a distance send their orders through this 
agency for anything not believed to be valuable, the money 
will be promptly returned. The invariable rule in the 
transaction of all business will be, Promptness, Integrity, 
and a strict regard for the interests of the purchaser. 
Persons coming to the City may leave their orders at the 
Office, and the desired articles will be procured with all 
convenient dispatch, and brought to the office to be called 
for, or be forwarded by express, or otherwise, as directed. 
No charge will be made beyond the lowest regular 
price of the article purchased—as dealers have kindly offer¬ 
ed to allow a wholesale discount to this Agency, sufficient 
to cover the expense of supporting it, especially as all 
transactions will be strictly for cash. 
{5PAU orders should be as plain and definite as possible, 
describing particularly what is wanted, and in all 
cases state exactly how it is to be forwarded .—Send as 
nearly as possible the exact amount to be paid for it. if 
not certain on this point, either inquire by letter for the 
cost, or send enougli to cover all expenses ; and any sur¬ 
plus will be returned with the bill. Articles can not 
be sent out on credit. When a reply is needed, a postage 
stamp should be enclosed. 
Address all Orders and communications to 
HARVEY B. LANE, 
No. 42 Park Stow, New York City. 
REFERENCES. 
To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. 
New-York, March ‘Itsth, 1861. 
We take pleasure in testifying to the well known Business 
Ability and Integrity of Harvey B. Lane. His Educa¬ 
tion and Habits peculiarly fit him for the New Enterprise 
which he is starting; and we do not hesitate to say that 
any business that may be entrusted to his care will be con¬ 
ducted with strict fidelity and for the best interests of those 
who may patronize him. Signed : 
Daniel Drew, Esq . New-York City. 
Francis Hall, Esq. Editor of N. Y. Com. Advertiser. 
Orange Judd, Esq.. Editor of American Agriculturist 
Wm. B. Skidmore, Esq. Treas'r Erie Tt. It. Long Dock Co 
Hon. Geo. T. Cobb, M. C. ...Morristown, N. J. 
Messrs. Harper & Bro„. Publishers, New- York. 
Messrs. Carlton & Porter. Methodist Book Concern, N. Y. 
Ralph Mead, Esq. . No. 11 Coenties Slip, New-York. 
A. V. Stout, Esq. President Shoe <fc Leather Bank. 
Henry .J. Baker, Esq.18a Pearl-street, New-York. 
Lewis B. Loder, Esq . Firm of Loder dc Co. 
Charles C. North Esq... Firm of North, Sherman dc Co. 
Isaac Rich, Esq... Boston, Mass. 
Jacob Sluper, Esq. Boston, Mass. 
Wm B. Ogden, Esq. Chicago, III. 
HOMES FOR THE INDUSTRIOUS, 
IN THE 
Garden State of the West. 
THE 
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY 
HAVE FOR SALE 
1,200,000 ACRES OF RICH FARMING LANDS 
In 
TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARD, 
On 
LONG CREDIT AND AT LOW PRICES. 
The attention of the enterprising and industrious por¬ 
tion of the community is directed to the following state¬ 
ments and liberal inducements offered them by the 
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, 
which, as they will perceive, will enable them, by proper 
energy, perseverance, and industry, to provide coinforta- 
ble homes for themselves and families, with, compara¬ 
tively speaking, very little capital. 
I. LANDS OF ILLINOIS. 
No State in the Valley of the Mississippi offers so great 
an inducement to the settler as the State of Illinois. 
There is no portion of the world where all the conditions 
of climate and soil so admirably combine to produce those 
two great staples, Corn and Wheat, as the Frames of 
Illinois. 
II. EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MARKETS. 
These lands are contiguous to a railroad 700 miles iu 
length, w]uch connects with other roads, and navigable 
lakes and rivers, thus affording an unbroken communica¬ 
tion with the Eastern and Southern markets. 
III. RAILROAD SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS. 
Over $100,000,000 of private capital have been expended 
on the railroad system of Illinois. Inasmaeh as part of 
the income from several of these works, with a valuable 
public fund in lands, go to diminish the State Expenses, 
the TAXES ARE LIGHT, and must, Consequently, 
every day decrease. 
IV. THE STATE DEBT. 
The State Debt is only $10,105,398 14, and, within the 
last three years, has been reduced $2,959,746 80 ; and we 
may reasonably expect that in ten years it will become 
extinct. 
V. PRESENT POPULATION. 
The State is rapidly filling up with population ; 808,026 
persons having been added since 1850, making the present 
population 1,719,496—a ratio of 102 per cent in ten years. 
VI. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. 
The Agricultural Products of Illinois are greater than 
those of any other State. The Products sent out during 
the past year exceeded 1,500,000 tuns. The wheat crop 
of 1860 approaches 35,000,000 of bushels, while the corn 
crop yields not less than 140,000,000 bushels. 
VII. FERTILITY OF THE SOIL. 
Nowhere can the industrious farmer secure such imme¬ 
diate results for his labor as upon these prairie soils, they 
being composed of a deep, rich loam, the fertility of which 
is unsurpassed by any o-n the globe. 
VIII. TO ACTUAL CULTIVATORS. 
Since 1854, the Company have sold 1,300,000 acres. 
They sell only to actual cultivators, and every contract 
contains an agreement to cultivate. 1 lie road has been 
constructed through these lands at an expense of 
$30,000,000. In 1850, the population of the forty-nine 
counties through which it passes was only 335,598, since 
which 479,293 have been added, making the whole popu¬ 
lation 814,891—a gain of 143 per cent. 
IX. EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY. 
As an evidence of the thrift of the people, it may be 
stated that 600,000 tuns of freight, including 8,600,000 bush¬ 
els of grain and 250,000 barrels of flour, were forwarded 
over the line last year. 
PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT. 
The prices of these lands vary from $6 to $25 per acre, 
according to location, quality, &c. First-class farming 
lands sell for about $10 or $12 per acre ; and the relative 
expense of subduing prairie land as compared with wood 
land is in the ratio of 1 to 10 in favor of the former. The 
terms of sale for the bulk of these lands will be 
ONE YEAR’S INTEREST IN ADVANCE 
at six per cent per annum, and six interest notes at six 
per cent, payable respectively in one. two, three, four, 
five, and six years from date of sale; and four notes for 
principal, payable in four, five, six, and seven years from 
date of sale ; the contract stipulating that one-tenth of the 
tract purchased shall be fenced and cultivated each and 
every year, for five years from the date of sale, so tiiat at 
the end of five years one-half shall be fenced and under 
cultivation. 
TWENTY PER CENT WILL BE DEDUCTED 
from the valuation for cash, except the same should be at 
six dollars per acre, when the cash price will be five 
dollars. 
Pamphelts descriptive of the lands, soil, climate, pro¬ 
ductions, prices, and terms of payment, can be had on 
application to 
J. W. FOSTER, LAND COMMISSIONER, 
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD, 
Chicago, Illinois. 
For the names of the Towns, Villages, and Cities situ¬ 
ated upon the Illinois Central Railroad see pages 188,189, 
190, Appleton’s Railway Guide. 
WITH FLEXIBLE FOLDING-BAR. 
The unprecedented success of this machine is a convincing: 
proof of ItB excellence. It has never failed, wherever intro¬ 
duced, to take precedence over all other Mowers, and the 
important principles COVERED BY ITS PATENTS are now: 
universally conceded to be indispensable to a 
PERFECT MOWER. 
IN THE FIELD. 
This concession is in the strongest manner attested by th« 
fact that so many mowing machine manufacturers, abandon¬ 
ing their own patterns, are now modelling after the BUCK¬ 
EYE in all points where they think it possible to- evado its 
patents, and tiie popularity of their machines is found to he 
iu exact proportion to the extent of their Imitations and in¬ 
fringements. 
The farmer who contemplates purchasing a mower for the 
harvest of 1861 will, in selecting the-Buckeye, secure the only 
machine which 
COMBINES Alili THE REQUISITES 
of a perfect Mower, including strength, durability, simplici 
ty, lightness of draft, freedom from side-draft, portability, 
convenience, perfect adaptation to uneven surface, ease in 
backing and turning, safety and comfort to the driver, ease 
to the team, and capability of doing 
Good Work on any Description of Land, 
and in any variety or condition of grass. 
TO THE nuCKEYE WAS AWARDED THE FIRST PREMIUM 
GRAND GOLD MEDAL, BY THE UNITED STATES AG¬ 
RICULTURAL SOCIETY, AT TEE GREAT SYRA¬ 
CUSE FIELD TRIAL IN JULY, 1857. 
JR. BUCKEYE ON THE ROAD. 
TIIE FOLLOWING LIST, COMPRISING A 
FEW OF THE PROMINENT PREMIUMS A- 
WARDED TO TIIE BUCKEYE DURING THE SEA¬ 
SON OF 1860, WILL SERVE TO INDICATE THE PO¬ 
SITION IT OCCUPIES IN ALL SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. 
New-York State Agricultural Society, 1st Premium as Best 
Mower. 
Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, 1st Premium as Best 
Mower. 
Maryland State Agricultural Society, 1st Premium as Best 
Mower. 
Virginia State Agricultural Society, 1st Premium as Best 
Mower and Reaper Combined. 
Indiana State Agricultural Society, 1st Premium as Best 
Mower. 
Tennessee State Agricultural Society, (Field Trial,) 1st Pre¬ 
mium as Best Mower. 
Tennessee State Agricultural Society, (Field Trial,) 1st Pre¬ 
mium as Best Combined. 
Kentucky State Agricultural Society, 1st Premium as Best 
Mower. 
Kentucky State Agricultural Society, 1st Px-emium as Best 
Reaper. 
Kentucky State Agricultural Society, 1st Premium as Best 
Combined. 
Monmouth Co., (N. J.,) Field Trial, 1st Premium as Best 
Mower. 
Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden (Massachusetts) Agri¬ 
cultural Society, 1st Premium as Best Mower. 
Mass. Char. Mechanics' Association, Boston, Silver Medal & 
Diploma, (their highest award.) 
Farmers wishing to avoid disappointment will give their 
orders early in the season. 
Circulars, with full description and testimonials, forwarded 
by mail. 
C. ADLTMAN & CO., | JOHN P. ADRIANCE, 
Patentees and Manufacturers, Manufacturer and Proprietor, 
Canton, Ohio. | Po’keepsie, N. Y. 
Sole Warehouse in New-York, 165 Greenwich-street, near 
Courtlandt-street. 
