1877.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
115 
ANY GRADE of Fertilizer supplied in CONCENTRATED FORRfl 
at prices unprecedently low, based upon actual amount 
of ammonia, phosphoric acid and potash contained. 
Prof. VILLE’S COMPLETE MANURE and fertilizers for special crops, Corn, Potatoes, To¬ 
bacco, Grain, Clover, Fruit Trees and Nursery stock, Hops, Lawns, Onions, Asparagus, Vegetable Garden, etc., 
will be furnished in a ready mixed slate or in the form of the articles employed, viz., Peruvian Cuano, 
POTASH SALTS, Dried Blood or Meat, and plaster—shipped in their separate and original 
packages. 
No charge made for plaster necessary for preparation of formula. Any additional quantity of plaster, desired 
for reducing strength of formula, furnished at market rates. 
We copy from our circular on formulas the following, which will illustrate our method of furnishing special for¬ 
mulas. 
Prof. VILLE’S COMPLETE MANURE, (a substitute for barn-yard manure). 
This formula contains :— 
Per 100 lbs. Per 1,000 lbs. Price per lb. 
Ammonia 7.69 76.90 17*c. $13.45 
Phosphoric Acid 5.00 50.00 9c. 4.50 
Potash .7.59 75.90 7Xc. 5.69 
Cost per 1,000 lbs $23.64 
(Supplied in form of Peruvian Guano, Potash, Dried Flesh or Blood, and Plaster in original packages.) 
This Complete Formula mixed with an equal weight of plaster or earth, will contain more plant food than found 
generally in a ton of average Commercial Fertilizer. 
The POTATO FORMULA (Ville’s) contains:- 
Per 100 lbs. Per 1,000 lbs. Price per lb. 
Ammonia 4.50 45.00 \7Hc. 7.87 
Phosphoric Acid 5.97 59.70 9c. 5.37 
Potash . 13.64 136.40 7'Ac. 10.23 
Cost per 1,000 lbs. (inoriginal packages). 
$23.47 
Among the advantages of this plan of obtaining any desired fertilizer or fertilizing ingredients may be mentioned: 
4 St.— Saving in cost of at least twentyflve percent, and upwards over commercial manures sold by the 
ton at current prices. 
2d.— Saving of fifty per cent, in freight and transportation on account of concentration. 
3d.— Admits of any desired rotation of crops, or even continued, one crop culture without exhaustion 
of soil. 
4th . -Deficiency in quality or quantity of barn-yard manure can be supplied, or any one or more ingredients 
required for the compost heap, furnished at will. 
5th .—The soil having become out of balance from continued use of any one class of fertilizer, which failed to 
supply a|| of necessary ingredients, (Ammonia, Phosphoric Acid and Potash) the defect can be 
readily remedied. 
6th. —Absence of objectionable odor sufficient to affect the storage or transportation. 
7th .—Facility for use or top dressing at any stage of crop—ease of eveu distribution or drilling. 
8th .—All the materials furnished in these formulas, possess in themselves an established agricultural as well as a 
commercial value, and therefore, no risk or experiment is incurred in their use. 
Descriptive Pamphlets on Peruvian Guano—Special Formula's—Analyses of Crops—Barnyard Manure, Pe¬ 
ruvian Guano and Chemicals compared, etc., mailed free. 
THE MAPES FOI&MEEA A\» PERUVIAN GJJAJJO CO. 
CHARLES V. MAPES, General Agent, 158 Front St., N. Y. 
ALLEN’S 
PLANET Jr, _ _ _ I_ 
. Diploma, and tne Medal 
of the Great Horticultural Exposition , held at Erfurt, Germany, besides a large number of First rremiums at State and 
bounty Fairs. Full Descriptive Catalogue of our whole line of goods free. Including our Wrought Frame Horse Hoe , 
iron Age ” Cultivator , Paris Green Duster , Hand Garden Plow , Transplanting Hoes , Corn Knives , etc. Every Farmer 
should have a copy, and we want a live agent at work, or a club formed in every town. Send for new terms. 
American Agriculturist Premium. T._ /Sr ^io.. 110 >. /ttv» tr i>i,; i-> 
SILVER Hand Seed Drills 
and Wheel Hoes, 
MEDAL 
S. L. ALLEN & CO., 119 8. 4th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Cahoon’s Broadcast Seed-Sower 
Is th* only practical Broadcast Grain and 
Grass-Seed Sower known. 
It Is now sold in all grain-growing countries. The Hand- 
Machine will sow r>0 acres of wheat, or 30 acres of grass-seed 
in 10 hours, and do the work far better than it can be done 
by any other means whatever. These machines have been 
undormly sold for the past 1.0 years for $10 a piece, lint now 
we have reduced the price to $5 a piece, and our sales have 
already increased astonishingly. Send stamp for circular. 
GOODEI.li COMPANY, 
Sole Manufacturers. Antrim, \. H. 
O 1,1 1T7I TT'V Cj Superior Hartford Vegetable Seeds. 
ri r. I B by mail or express. Send stamp for 
tx„- a - A * J 17 ^ price catalogue to RODNE V KEL¬ 
LOGG, Hartford, Conn., Dealer in Seeds and Fertilizers. 
Matthews’ Garden Seed Drill 
Is the latest production of the inventor of the 
Holbrook “Regulator” and 
other drills and is the best in use. 
It has been further improved 
for 1877. Send for descriptive 
Circular. Manufactured only by 
EVERETT & SMALL, 
Boston, Mass. 
‘ .:’S “VETO” SEED DRILL & “NEW 
l Cultivator sow and cultivate all 
kinds vegetables. Do work of 10 
s. men. Best and cheapest. 
Price $12.50 combined. 
$7.00 
Steel Teeth. 
Circulars Free. Made by E. B. LT7MMUS & CO.,Bosl«3,Mass. 
^Holbrook's “ New Regulator ” Seed Drill 
all kinds of Vegetable Seeds with regularity, 
e Standard machine. Remodei.f.d lor 1875. 
ombines the best points ever produced. Sim- 
’ durable, easiest handled, OPEN WHITE 
Seed Conductor shows 
tiie Seed Dropping. Give 
satisfaction. Circulars Free. 
Made by E.E.Lummus & Co. 
20 S.Market St. Boston,Mass- 
TO NURSERYMEN & 
GARDENERS, 
Now is a good time to plant small trees, and we have a 
large stock to sell at very low prices. Also Bancroft’s 
■Wheel Hoe and Noyce & Bancroft’s Hand Weeder. which 
are death to weeds without hard work Price List free. 
THOS. JACKSON, Portland, Me. 
Fish Guano. 
T i ‘ sh G , Ka ““> s to 10 Per cent Ammonia: 
] n (,s Pbsite ol Lime. 
Half-Dry Fish Scrap, good qualitv. Also Siu>pr. 
Phosphate suul Pine Iskud Guano. 1 
-PRICES LOW. 
Address 
QUINNIPIAC FERTILIZER CO. 
isu btatc Street, Mkw Haven, Conn. 
Genuine Peruvian Guano. 
As received direct from Peruvian Gov- 
Vernment AgeDts. 
* Co.’s AMMONIATED SU¬ 
PERPHOSPHATE OF LIME-the beBt in 
the market. 
GROUND BONE—the purest and best. 
FARM IMPLEMENTS-the latest lm- 
I proved. 
N?f. 
JEERUVIAN [ 
fGUAMO' 
kmmmm Jenifers at?*’ to 
Send for 22d Annual Pamphlet. 
H. B. GRIPPING, 
__60 Courtlandt St., New York City. 
CHAPMAN & VAN WYCK, 
(Established 1849), 
DEALERS IN 
PERUVIAN (tiUAAO 
EXCLUSIVELY, 
_ 1*^0 Front Street, Me w York. 
Feed the Plant and the Plant 
ivill Feed You. 
75 to 100 Bush. Shelled 
CORN per ACRE 
Produced by the 
Stock bridge Manures, 
equally as good for other crops. These manures arc made by 
Formulas originated by Levi Stockbridge, a practical farmer 
and Professor of Agriculture in the Massachusetts Agricul¬ 
tural College, and in 1876 were applied to over 4,000 acres witli 
such success, that our best advertisement is to refer to farm¬ 
ers who used them. They are prepared for special crops, re¬ 
cognizing the fact that plants, like animals, differ, and re¬ 
quire different food, or in different proportions, and must 
have it properly compounded to insure the best results. 
Four years of extensive trial in the field have proved beyond 
question that'these manures are a SAFE, SURE and 
CHEAP mode of fertilization, NOT exhausting the soil, 
but leaving it richer by actual test. 
PAMPHLETS Sent Free, containing full and valu¬ 
able information, and the experience of scores of farmers. 
Every farmer should send for a copy. 
W. H. BOWKER & CO., (Sole Agents), 
BOSTON, 
Importers and Dealers in Reliable Fertilizers and High 
Grade Chemicals. 
“We state what we sell and sell wh at we state.” 
jpi'emimii Pure, «1H)1SI,ESS, Fine 
Jr Ground RAW BONE, produces luxuriant grass. 
Sow now on land newly seeded. Perfectly Inoffensive. 
i er y popular with Ladies and Gentlemen for house plants, 
Lawns, Gardens, ana the Grapery. It never fails in pro¬ 
ducing grain crops. Send 20 cents for Invaluable book, 
showing composition of cereal grains, and howto grow 
them. Address, 
EXCELSIOR FE11T1UZER WORKS, 
Salem, Ohio. 
--CHEAP CROPS. . . 
Fo'urth year of MATFIELD FERTILIZER, the 
only fertilizer prolessedly containing all the soil elements 
I? 111 .. I iL e ?£ h 5 r °P.- Loss 111:111 °>'e per cent of complaint of 
the Matfield of 18.0. ShOOD offered for proof that the Mat- 
field Fertn zers of 18i7 are below the standard of the labels 
attached to packages. Send for circular to 
HENRY N. HOOPER, Manager Matfield Fertilizer Co.. 
State where you saw this. 13 Doave St., Boston, Mass. 
Hoeing 
Machine, .gj 
.This new labor-saving machine will hoeTobaccoTnd cot¬ 
ton better than can be done by hand, and corn notatnps 
® t „ c -if b .® tt e r than I? usually done by hand-hoe. wilF pay for 
itself in one year in hoeing 10 acres of tobacco and cotton 
formation* address ° r P 0 * at0es ' Mce, $30. For 
THE BELCHER & TAYLOR AG’L TOOL CO., 
Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
Also manufacturers of the Self-Sharpening, Lion and 
Twm r Fe £ d Cutters, Corn-Shellers, Plows, Bullard’s Hay 
Tedders,. Balance Rakes, etc., etc. 7 
W— An American, Protestant, young and 
■ P has had experience in the management of 
a . nd is familiar with general work and the use of 
»fo P .n^ er 8 jL°°' 3 '™ us I be well educated, obliging, temper- 
hni?in S? y,to do whatever called upon-will lodge and 
board on the premises. References required. Address 
stating wages, etc., C. S. v., P. O. box 316, New York CltY 
E SfL a M e T^ e n, P s f profitable product of the farm. 
Use Imperial Egg Food.’’ See adv’t page 118. 
