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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
PURCHASING AGENCY. 
HARVEY B. LANE, 
42 PARK. ROW, NEW-VORK. 
A RELIABLE AGENCY 
FOR PURCHASING 
ARTICLES OF MERCHANDISE, 
Implements for the Farm, 
Garden and Household^ 
SEEDS, 
ROOKS; (American and Foreign,) also 
Good Fertilizers, purchased of the most 
reliable Healers, Fruit and Ornamental 
Trees and Plants—In short, anything to be 
procured in Netv-York City and at other 
accessible points. —Special attention will also be 
given to procuring Sewing Machines; Pianos 
and other Musical Instruments; Philoso¬ 
phical and Astronomical Apparatus; 
Rooks for Schools and Colleges, and 
School Furniture. 
Subscriptions for periodicals will also be received 
at the usual subscription price. 
No Charge made to Purchasers, 
BEYOND THE 
Lowest Regiilar Pa*ace. 
Op^AH 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 enough 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. 
The Subscriber s agent for PARSONS & CO., 
Nurserymen, Flushing, L. I., and for tlic 
UNIVERSAL CLOTHES WRINGER, 
\N rings any thing from a glove to a bed spread, and 
tits all kinds of Machines, Tubs or Laundries. 
PRICES—No. 1, Hotel size..$10 00 
No. 2. 7 00 
No. 3.:. 5 00 
METROPOLITAN WASHING MACHINE. 
Price $10. 
THE PATENT CLOTHES DRIER 
of the 
METROPOLITAN WASHING MACHINE CO., 
Folding, Revolving and Elevated by a crank, 
Price, $-1. 
Also, Wholesale at Manufacturer's Prices. 
HAWSE’S PATENT CLOTHES DRYER, 
PORTABLE, ELEVATING, FOLDING AND REVOLVING. 
See Agriculturist , July, 1861, page 113. 
PRICES. 
;Jize No. 1, including 150 ft. of clothes line...$6 00 
“ 2, “ 120 “ “ “ ... 5 00 
Cost of socket, or neatly turned post. 50 
PATENT RETURN TABLE APPLE PARER. 
Superior to any apple parer sold. Price 75 cts., 
or $7.50 per Dozen. 
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II 
WOODRUFF’S BAROMETER, 
OR IMPROVED 
WEATHER INDICATOR. 
While in this age of invention and 
progress, our American Farmers have 
seized with avidity almost every inven¬ 
tion and implement of husbandry that 
Art or Science could bring to their aid, 
one of the most important auxiliaries 
—the Barometer—has been almost en¬ 
tirely overlooked. This has arisen part¬ 
ly from a want of knowledge of its 
value and importance, but principally 
because the peculiar delicacy of con¬ 
struction, and high cost of the instru¬ 
ment have made it unavailable to the 
masses. In this instrument these objec¬ 
tions have been entirely obviated. 
While its simplicity of construction, 
and scientific arrangement, render it 
perfect ly portable and accurate, its cost 
is so low as to place it within the means 
of all. Indicating with unerring cer¬ 
tainty coming changes in the weather, 
it also affords a simple and accurate 
f |,n ^ medium for measuring higlits, while the 
I J—Ml accompanying Thermometer gives the 
:|[ temperature. The Scientific American, 
Profs. Williams, Carr, Holmes, Doug¬ 
lass, and a host of public journals and 
scientific men, recommend it as theAp 
ricultural Barometer , par excellence. 
Profs. Henry, Hackley, Maury, Drs. Ar- 
not and Dick, have computed that an 
annual saving of live per cent, on all 
crops, might be made by its use, thus 
affording an annual saving of over fifty 
million dollars to the farmers of the 
United States. It is simple, durable, 
accurate, perfectly portable, and very 
cheap; is nicely finished, and affords a 
very beautiful and ornamental piece of 
furniture, some of the carved cases be, 
Ing very elegant. We give below a 
brief description of it, from the accom¬ 
panying cut, in which the cistern is seen 
divided to show its construction. The 
a cistern, A, is of cast iron—cast with two 
compartments—partly filled with mer¬ 
cury. The tube C, filled with mercury, 
is sealed into the cistern, A, and being 
placed upright, the air is admitted by 
turning back the screw, D, which has a 
flat place filed in its side near the outer 
end, where air can pass through the 
outer wall, when the mercury takes its 
r , level, and it is ill working condition. 
wiSSI! To make portable, turn it upon its 
side, when the spare mercury runs 
from B to A, filling tube and cistern, A, 
full—turn in the screw, and it is shut 
into A perfectly solid, and may be thrown about with im¬ 
punity, or carried by Railroad or Stage Express all over 
the world in safety. 
CHARLES WILDER, Peterboro, N. II., 
Proprietor of the patent, 
who also manufactures an ENGINEER'S BAROMETER, 
adapted to the roughest usage of surveying and pioneering 
expeditions. 
HAKVEY I*. FANE, 42 Park Row, 
is Genera] Agent for New-York State. 
Agents wanted for every County in this State. For particu¬ 
lars address as above. 
GLASS FRUIT JARS, WITH A SMALL 
SHOULDER ON THE INSIDE OF THE NECK. 
Quart Jars with Corks.$1.25 per Dozcu. 
Pint Jars do. .90 cts. do. 
Tin Covers.12 cts. do. 
Bodine’s Fruit Jar with Screw Stopper, pints 
$1 75 per Dozen ; quarts $2 25 per Dozen. 
Also 
PATENT CYLINDER PLOW. Reduced Prices. 
The lightest draft and best sward turning plow. 
See Agriculturist , May No., p. 136. 
PRICES.—No. 0, with Coulter Share.$6. 
No. 1, do. do. 8. 
No. 2, do. do. 9. 
No. 3, do. do.11. 
With Wheel, $1 extm. With Skim or Front Plow, 
$1.50 extra. 
Also 
HALE’S MEAT CUTTER. 
See Agriculturist , October, 1860. 
Prices. No. 1, $2.25. No, 2, $2.75. No. 3, $3. 
Also 
JOHNSON’S PATENT CAMP STOOL. 
Very convenient for Hotels, Pic Nic Parties, and 
and portable Lawn Seats. Price 50 cents. 
HAKVEY IS. LANE, 
(Tunes Buildings), 42 Park Row, New-l'ork. 
TWO CONVENIENT PAPER FILES 
For the American Agriculturist. 
The Publisher has a supply of two excellent 
paper files, made expressly to fit the Agriculturist, 
for the convenience of our subscribers who desire 
to preserve the successive numbers of this j'ourual 
in regular order and ready for reference. 
The first, and most perfect, is the Portfolio Cover, 
resembling a neat book cover, provided with cord, 
needle, and India rubber spring, by means of which 
the numbers arc quickly fastened in, almost ns 
firmly as if full bound. The covers are stamped, 
and have the name of the paper printed on. When 
one volume is complete, the numbers can be 
stitched together in a volume, and the cover used 
for the next volume. It is the perfection of a 
newspaper file, combining the advantages of an ad¬ 
justable file, and a bound cover. Prices, 00 cents, 
75 cents, and $1, according to the material, style 
etc. If sent by mail, 21 cents extra for postage. 
The second, is a convenient cheap wood file, which 
clasps the papers at the back, lioldingthem about as 
firmly as if stitched together. This is the most 
convenient and perfect newspaper file, for its 2 >rice, 
that lias yet been invented. We have had them 
manufactured just to fit the size of this journal. 
Price 15 ets. If sent by mail, 12 c. extra for postage. 
farm produce 
SOLD ON COMMISSION, 
Such as Flour, Butter, Cheese, Lard, Provisions of all kinds. 
Gram, Eggs, Poultry, Game, &c., &c. 
Isaac emens, 226 front-st„ new-york 
SUCCESSOR TO THE FIRM OF HAIGHT & EMENS. 
Refers to the Editor American Agriculturist. 
“ E, R, Cooper, Cashier, M arket Bank, New-York. 
M USSIA OR BASS MATS, SELECTED Ex¬ 
pressly for budding and tying, GUNNY BAGS 
TWINES, HAT ROPES, &c., suitable for Nursery purposes! 
for sale in lots to suit by D. W. MANWARING 
Importer, 24S Front-st., New-York. 
UTICA UNION NURSERIES. 
New Firm. Low, War Prices! 
A large and select assortment of GRAPEVINES, CUR¬ 
RANTS, GOOSEBERRIES, BLACKBERRIES, RASPBER¬ 
RIES, STRAWBERRIES, DOWNING'S MULBERRY, &c. 
NO CHARGE FOR PACKING. 
Full Descriptive Catalogue, and Trade List sent to all ap¬ 
plicants. Address HEFFRON & BEST, 
October, 1861, _ Utica, N. Y. 
E vergreens, small fruits, &c.— j. w' 
ADAMS, Nourseryman, Portland. Me., lias readv bis 
Roses, and Shrubs, as can be supplied at reasonable prices. 
HIGHLAND NURSERIES. 
JSyi-ffcO'sji.fso, iKT. 
Per 1000. 
200,000 Apple Trees, Standard, 5 to 6 feet. *50 00 
200,000 Apple Trees, 3 to 5 feet.SO 00 
10,000 Apple Trees, Dwarf .... 80 00 
50,000 Pear Trees, Standard, 1 and 2 vears. 175 00 
100.000 Pear Trees, Dwarf, 1 and 2 yeafs.150 00 
20.000 Cherry Trees, Dwarf, 4 to 5 feet. 100 00 
50,000 Cherry Trees, Standard, 4 to 7 feet.. 100 00 
50,000 Grapes, Transplanted, Approved Varieties. 50 00 
250,000 Blackberries, Lawton. 20 00 
10,000 Currants, Red and White. 30 00 
10,000 Gooseberries, Houghton. 35 00 
10,000 Roses, Perpetual, Moss, and Climbing.100 00 
STOCKS. Per 1000. 
500,000 Pear Seedlings, very fine.$0 00 to 12 01. 
500,000 Apple Seedlings, extra. 2 00 to 5 Ot 
500,000 Plum Seedlings, Splendid. 4 00 to 10 00 
200,000 Angers Quince, extra. 0 00 to 10 00 
400,000 Quince Cuttings. 2 00 
500,000 Apple, Cherry, and Peach Scions. . 1 00 to 5 0C 
Apple Grafts furnished to order, of best leading 
varieties, for East or West, per 10,000... $50 0C 
Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, and all other products, usn 
ally found among Nurserymen, at low rates. 
COWLES, ROBERTS & CO 
TREES AND PLANTS AT LOW PRICES^ 
The subscriber having a full and desirable stock of Fruit 
Trees, Grape Vines, and Small Fruits, as well as Ornamental 
Trees and Plants, will sell at prices much below usual 
rates, affording great inducements to those wishing to plant 
desirable market varieties, including Double worked Bart¬ 
lett, Flemish Beauty, and Sheldon, which are rarely to be 
found. Trees safeiv packed for distant transportation in 
large and small quantity. 
Dated Walworth Nurseries, Wayne Co., N. T„ Oct. 1. 
_T. G. YEOMANS. 
Trees for Hie Autumn of 1§61. 
The Subscribers invite the attention of Planters, Nursery¬ 
men, and Dealers, to their large Nursery Stock, which, for 
thriftiness of growth and beauty, is seldom excelled, if equal¬ 
led, and will be offered at prices to suit the times, consisting 
of Apple, Pear, Cherry, Peach, Plum, Apricot, and Quince 
Trees. Apple and Peach Trees, a large slock. 
Also, the small fruits, such as Grape Vines, Cm ants, 
Gooseberries, Raspberry and Strawberry Plants, 
Of all desirable sorts. 
Also, a large stock of Ornamental Trees, both Deciduous 
and Evergreen. STEPHEN HOYT & SONS, 
_ New Canaan, Ct„ (near Ngp v alk.) 
Delaware Grape Vines 
$20 to $10 per 100, with from 1 to 6 ft. of wood; per 1000, 
much less. Diana, $10 per 100. Concord $10 per 100. Cuya¬ 
hoga, $1 each. Send for Catalogue. Enclose stamp to p'ro 
pay postage. Address WILLIAM PERRY & SON, 
Bridgeport, Conn 
