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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
101 
!5©OK§ wmi FARMERS 
AWB OTHERS. 
[Any of tlie following hooks can ho obtained at the of¬ 
fice of the Agriculturist at the prices named, or they will be 
forwarded by mail, postpaid, on receipt of the price. Other 
books not named in the list will be procured and sent to sub¬ 
scribers whon desired, if the price be forwarded. All of these 
books may well be procured by any one making up a libra¬ 
ry. Those we esteem specially valuable, are marked with a *.] 
American Bird Fancier.$0 23 
American Farmer’s Encyclopedia. 4 00 
American Weeds and Useful Plants*. 1 50 
Allen’s (It. L.) American Farm Book*. 1 00 
Allen’s Diseases-of Domestic Animals. 75 
Allen’s (L. F.) liural Architecture. 1 25 
Allen on the Culture of the Grape. 1 00 
American Architect. 6 00 
American Florist’s Guide. 75 
Barry’s Fruit Garden*.. j 25 
Bement’s (C. N.) Babbit Fancier. 25 
Boussingault’s (J. B.) Itural Economy. 1 25 
Bridgeman’s Young Gardener’s Assistant*. 1 50 
Bridgeman’s Kitchen Garden Instructor. 60 
Bridgeman’s Florist’s Guide. 60 
Bridgeman’s Fruit Cultivator's Manual. 60 
Breck’s (Joseph) Book of Flowers*. .. 1 00 
Brandt’s Age of Horses *. 50 
Bement’s Poulterer’s Companion *. 1 25 
Buist’s American Flower Garden Directory. 1 25 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener*. 75 
Central Park Guide*. 25 
Chorlton’s Grape-Grower’s Guide*.. 60 
Cole’s (S. W.) American Fruit Book. 50 
Dadd’s (Geo. H.) Modern Horse Doctor*. 1 00 
Dadd’s (Geo. H.) American Cattle Doctor. 1 00 
Dadd’s (Geo. H.) Anatomy of the Horse. 2 00 
Dana's Muck Manual for Farmers. 1 00 
Domestic and Ornamental Poultry. 1 00 
Downing's Landscape Gardening*. 8 50 
Eastwood on the Cranberry* . 50 
Elliott’s Western Fruit Book . 1 25 
Every Lady her own Flower Gardener.. 50 
Every Man his own Lawyer. 1 25 
Farm Itecord. for 25 years. 8 00 
Farmer’s Practical Horse Farrier. 60 
French's Farm Drainage *. 1 00 
Fessenden’s American Kitchen Gardener. 25 
Field’s (Thomas W.) Pear Culture. 1 00 
Fish Culture*. 100 
Flint (Charles L.) on Grasses*. 1 25 
Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (Downing’s)**. 1 75 
Guenon on Milcli Cows. 60 
Hall’s (Miss) American Cookery . 1 00 
Herbert’s Hints to Horsekeepers**. 1 25 
Jenning’s Horse and his Diseases. 1 25 
Johnson on Manures. 75 
Langstroth on the Honey Bee*. 1 25 
Liebig’s Lectures on Chemistry. 50 
Leucliars’ Hothouses. 1 25 
Linslcy’s (D. C.) Morgan Horses. 1 00 
Mayhcw’s Illustrated Horse Doctor. 2 50 
Milburn on the Cow and Dairy. 50 
Miles on the Horse’s Foot. 50 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture. 60 
Our Farm of Four Acres_*_cloth 50 cts.; paper_ 25 
Onion Culture*. 21 
Olcott’s Sorgho and Imphee. 1 00 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 60 
Pedder’s Farmer’s Land Measurer. 50 
Quinby’s Mysteries of Bee keeping*. 1 00 
Randall's Sheep Husbandry .. 1 25 
Eichardson on the Dog. 25 
Eichardsou on the Hog..*. 25 
Bose Culturist. 25 
Kobin’s Produce and Beady Eeckoner. 50 
Shepherd’s Own Book . 2.00 
Smith’s Landscape Gardening. 125 
Spencer’s Education of Children**. 1 00 
Stephens’ Book of the Farm .2 vols. 4 00 
Stewart’s (John) Stable Book. 1 00 
Thomas’ (John J.) Farm Implements *. 1 00 
Thomas’ (John J.) American Fruit Culturist . 1 25 
Todd’s (S. E.) Young Farmer's Manual. 1 25 
Tucker’s Eegister Eural Affairs. 25 
Turner’s Cotton Planter’s Manual. .. 1 00 
Warder's Hedges and Evergreens*. 1 00 
Week's (John M.) Manual on Bees. 25 
AVhite’.s Gardening for the Soutli. 1 25 
Yale College Lectures.. 25 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse. 1 25 
Youatt and Martin on Cattle. 1 25 
Youatt on the Hog. 75 
Youatt on Sheep. 75 
To ©ailoat Growers. 
A neat pamphlet of 42 pages, containing the condensed 
but plain directions of Seventeen practical Onion Growers, 
residing in different parts of the country ; and embracing 
full directions for every item of labor from selecting seed 
and preparing ground, to harvesting and marketing crop. 
Nowhere else can so full, complete, and useful informa¬ 
tion on this subject be found. Sent post-paid on receipt 
of 21 cents (or seven 3-cent stamps). Address 
Publisher of American Agriculturist. 
S WANT 100 SMART MEN (unemployed) to sell 
War Books ! Sure to sell fast and large profit given. 
Address GEO. EDWD. SEARS, 181 WilFiaui-St., New-York. 
C ARROT, BEET, AND TURNIP SEEDS, of the 
various kinds, of extra quality, for sale bv J. E. MA- 
COMBER, Wholesale Seed Grower, Portsmouth, B. I. 
D warf broom corn seed for sale. 
1 oz. of the above seed sent post-paid on receipt of 15 cts. 
J. D. VAIL, Southern!, Long Island, N. Y 
School Teachers Wanted. 
The subscriber wishes to employ one School Teacher in 
each county of the United States, to travel and introduce the 
“New Encyclopaedia of all Nations,” and the “ Pictorial New 
World,” with Steel and Colored Engravings, Maps, Charts, 
dsc. Just issued. Apply by letter immediately to 
HENRY BILL, Publisher, Norwich, Conn. 
R ussia or bass mats, selected Ex¬ 
pressly for budding and tying, GUNNY BAGS, 
TWINES, HAY ROPES, &e., suitable for Nursery purposes, 
£br sale in lots to suit by D. W M.YNWARING, 
Importer, 248 Front-st-., New-Yovk. 
W HALE OIL SOAP. For destroying insects on 
Boses. Trees, etc. For sale in large and small quanti¬ 
ties at DAVID S BROWN’S Soap and Candle Works. 
10 Peck-slip, New-York. 
Put out the Fires! Kill the Insects! Wa¬ 
ter the Gardens! Wash the Wagons! 
Sprinkle the Streets! Lay the Dust! 
THE HVBROPUIiT 
will do all this most effectually and much more. 
Read the following Proofs. 
Extinguishing Fires. 
“ Diploma awarded by the American Institute to the 
American Hydropult Company for 
THE PATENT HYBEOPULT. 
This effective invention was the means of saving the 
Palace Garden Hall from destruction by Fire, during the 
32d Annual Fair of the American Institute, on the even¬ 
ing of the 5th of October, 1860. WM. HALL, Prest. 
John W. Chambers, Rec. Sec. 
Thomas McElrath, Cor. Sec.” 
THE UNIVERSAL 
CLOTHES WRINGER. 
WITH OH WITHOUT 
The 
Metropolitan Washing Machine. 
Wrings any thing from a Glove to a bed spread, fits all 
kinds of machines or Tubs or Laundries. For sale at Man 
nfacturers prices by the House Furnishing and Washing Ma¬ 
chine Trade generally. 
Prices $5, $8 and $10. 
Caution.— All parties are hereby cautioned against using 
Vulcanized India Rubber Rollers for Washing, Wringing, or 
Starching Machines, not furnished by us, under penalty of 
the Law, as we have the exclusive right under Goodyear's 
Patent, for such purposes. 
METROPOLITAN WASHING MACHINE CO„ 
Middlefleld, Conn. 
Extract from a Business Letter. 
Jamestown, Chautauqua Co., N. Y„ April 12,18G1. 
American Hydropult Co., 151 Nassau-st., N. Y. 
At what price will yon sell the Hydropults per dozen. We 
wish to form a fire company of 30 to 50 members to use them. 
From good effects witnessed in this vicinity we believe they 
would be very efficient_A few weeks since in this town a 
fire was discovered burning in a store between the plastering 
and siding, and near the top of the building, where it could 
not he readied with water thrown from buckets. Fortunate¬ 
ly one of your Hydropults was brought, and the flames were 
soon extinguished, and probably from fifty to one hundred 
thousand dollars worth of property was saved, Ten nights 
after tills a large fire occurred here, destroying about $200,000 
worth of property, during which a block of buildings on the 
opposite corner was saved by the Hydropult. On another 
adjoining corner, fire caught under the eaves of the building, 
but engines, ladders, and Hydropult were busy elsewhere, 
and tile entire block went down. In two other cases since, 
the instrument rendered great service in protecting the ad¬ 
joining property ; in one it saved the building that first took 
lire. E or further particulars of these incidents refer to prom¬ 
inent citizens of this place. L. P. JUDSON. 
Destroying Insects. 
Important and Reliable Testimony. 
Dr. Asa Fitch, the distinguished Entomologist of the State 
of New-York, in a communication to the Country Gentleman 
of.Feb. 14th, in directing a subscriber how to drive insects 
from his fruit trees, says“ In my experiments for destroy¬ 
ing noxious insects, I nave for a long time felt the want of an 
efficient instrument with which to shower and drench the 
leaves of trees and herbs with certain medical infusions and 
chemical solutions, to cleanse them from insect vermin 
thereon—an insturaent more capacious than the syringe and 
more economical than the garden engine. This want is at 
length fully supplied by the Hydropult of Wm. T. Vose, 
manufactured by the American Hydropult Company, at 151 
Nassau-street, New-York. This implement, costing twelve 
dollars, If I rightly remember, and sent by express wherever 
ordered, should be in every country habitation, as a safe¬ 
guard against fire, if not needed for any of the several other 
uses to which it is applicable. And the best advice I can 
give our querist, is to furnish himself with this instrument, 
and when those bugs again appear on Ills quince leaves, 
treat them each and every one to a dose of tobacco water, 
aloes, quassia, and other hitter infusions, soap suds, weak 
lye, lime water, etc., and long before he has exhausted the 
pharmacopeia, we think he will come to something that is 
such an efficacious remedy for this insect, that, elated with 
the discovery, lie will immediately let the world know it.” 
For Watering tlie Garden. 
A hose of any desired length can be attached to the 
Hydropult, to draw water from a cistern, and a large gar¬ 
den can be sprinkled in less time than would be required 
to draw the water in the ordinary manner. 
A Household Convenience. 
The Hydropult will serve every purpose to which a 
portable hand pump can be applied. A gentleman in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., who lias it in use says “ It is worth a 
servant girl and a half for washing windows, and is equal 
to three Patricks in cleaning a cairiage. My son aged 11 
JOUAS BROOK & BROS., 
PATENT GLACE AND PATENT SIX CORD 
SPOOL COTTON. 
■White, Black, and Colored : on spool 
of 200, 500, and 2100 Yards. Consumers 
of thread are requested to notice that 
BROOK S SPOOL COTTON took the 
HIGHEST PRIZES awarded to’SPOOL 
COTTON at the GREAT EXHIBI- 
TIONS in LONDON in 1851 and in 
PARIS in 1855. Being made under the 
S ersonal directions of the Messrs. 
rook, the quality will be uniform, and 
the lengths guaranteed. With the lustre 
of silk, it combines the strength of 
linen, and thousands of families and manufacturers, now 
using it, unite in testifying as to its excellency for either 
hand or machine sewing, its strength not being impaired 
either by washing or by friction of the needle. On every 
spool of tlie genuine is a ticket—as in margin of this adver. 
tisement—bearing the name and crest of Brook. Constantly 
for sale in cases of 100 Doz. each, assorted Nos., bv tlie manu 
facturer’s Agent, WM. HENRY SMITH, S2, 34 & 36 Vesey-st„ 
New-York. 
A RTIFICIAL ARMS AND LEGS— Manufactur¬ 
ed by WM. SELPHO, 516 Broadway, New-York. 
Chester County Pigs. 
Tlie undersigned continues to execute orders as heretofore 
for liis pure stock of the above, which will be carefully ship¬ 
ped to any point of tlie Union. 
The selections are made only from pure bloods, and chiefly 
from premium animals, which have been uniformly success¬ 
ful at our local Fairs. He refers to purchasers from him in 
all sections of the Union. 
PASCHALL MORRIS, Agricultural and Seed Warehouse, 
1120 Market-st„ Philadelphia, Pa. 
T horough bred north devon heifer 
“EUGENIA,” recorded in 3d vol. Devon Herd Book— 
in calf bv imported Duke of Sussex. Devon and Ayrshire 
yearling, and two-year old bulls. These are desirable ani¬ 
mals, with first rate pedigrees,’and for sale low. 
ALFRED M. TREDWELL, 45 Fulton-st., New-York. 
GUANO. 
Swan Island. 
ORGANIC, PHOSPHATIC AND AMMONIATE GUANO. 
The attention of Farmers is called to tills valuable Guano 
which contains over seventy per cent of Animal Bone Phos¬ 
phate of Lime, Organic Matter and Ammonia. 
A trial will prove it to be tlie best and cheapest concentrated 
fertilizer in use. 
Price, (packed in barrels,) only $40 per tnn. 
Imported and for sale by the 
SWAN ISLAND GUANO CO., 
184 Water-street, New-York. 
For sale also by GEORGE E. WHITE. 55 Cliff-st.: R L. 
ALLEN, 191 Water-sty and by GRIFFING, BROTHERS 4* 
CO., 60 Cortlandt-st„ New-Y"ork. 
enjoys the sport of using it for these and other purposes, 
and I consider it worth the price paid in tlie. amusement 
it gives him, to say nothing of its general utility.” 
The whole apparatus weighs but eight pounds, is easily 
worked, will last for a life time with ordinary care. 
Price$12, with a liberal discount to wholesa-le purchasers. 
Address AMERICAN HYDROPULT CO., 
151 Nassau-st., New-York. 
AMERICAN GUANO 
FROM 
Jarvis and Baker Islands 
IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN, 
Under the protection of the U, S. Government. 
Address AMERICAN GUANO CO., 
No. 66 William-st., New Yorlt 
