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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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NEW EXCELSIOR LAWN MOWER. 
IT HAS THE LARGEST SALE OF ANY LAWN 
MOWER IN THE WORLD. 
It has been adopted, and can be seen in practical operation on Central 
Park, and all the other City Parks, New York; Government 
Grounds and City Parks, Washington; Boston Common, 
Boston; Prospect Park, Brooklyn; and on almost every promi¬ 
nent Park throughout the United States ami Canada. 
THE GREAT TRIAL of Lawn Mowers was held in New York City 
June 25th, 1874. There the Excelsior came into competition with all the best 
Lawn Mowers in the world, and was awarded the HIGHEST PREMIUM. 
Four sizes for hand-power; four sizes for horse-power. 
Prices from 814 to SliOO. EVERY MACHINE WARRANTED. 
Address CHADBORN Si COLDWELL MTG CO., 
Send for Circular. Newburgh, N. Y. 
N. B.-We call special attention to our new HORSE MOWER. 
Gears entirely covered and weight reduced 200 lbs. It is the LIGHTEST 
and BEST HORSE MOWER EVER MADE. 
CITY AXB> COUNTRY TRADE 
SUPPLIED WITH THE 
Celebrated Eicelsior Lam fewer. 
H. B. GRIFFIIMG, 
60 Cortlandt Street, N. Y. City. 
1877 . • 
Lawn Mower. 
EIGHT SIZES FOR HAND USE. 
Weighing from £8 to 55 Il»s. 
THREE SIZES FOR HORSE POWER. 
These machines did work on the Centennial Grounds equal 
to ten years’ ordinary wear, without lossof time for sharpen* 
ing or repairs—completely distancing their competitors in 
the trial of six months constant use. 
GRAHAM, EMLEN & PASSMORE, 
Patentees & Manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
AGENTS: 
R. H. Allen & Co., 189 & 191 Water St., New Tork. 
Jos. Bueck & Sons, 51 & 52North Market St.,Boston.Mass. 
Wm. E. Barrett & Co., 44 Canal St., Providence, It. Island. 
J. M. Childs & Co., 12 & 14 Fayette St., Utica, N. Y. 
Steele & Avery, 44 & 48 State St., Rochester, N. Y. 
Everson, Frisselle & Co.. 10 So. Salina St.,Syracuse,N.Y. 
T. Hawley & Co., 93 Water St,, Bridgeport, Conn. 
FOUST’S 
HAY LO'ADEEt 
, barley, and all 
Hay Loader, 
tlon, based on field trial. Thousands in successful operation. 
Send for circulars early to the manufacturers, STRAT¬ 
TON & CULLUM, Meadville, Pa. £2?" KINGMAN & CO., 
Peoria, Ill., Gen’l Agents for Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas. 
CHICAGO 
SCRAPER I DITCHER. 
Guaranteed to do double the work of common scrapers,and 
do it easier for man and team. But one man required to 
work It. No hand-work to finish up a road. Good roads can 
be made with them at 25 cents per rod. Broad open ditches 
at 10 cents. Townships and counties can take them on trial. 
Price $13, on cars at factory. Send for Manual of Road 
Making and Ditching, free. Address 
Chicago Scraper and Ditcher Co.. CHICAGO. 
Water & Air Proof Paper, 
Strong and suitable for packing plants by mail, and in 
all cases where air and dampness should be excluded. 
CRANBERRY PLANTS in variety, by mail. 
Send for circular giving mode of culture, soil, &c. 
F TROWBRIDGE, Milford, Conn, 
Qniall Fruit Plants a Specialty. Good stock, low 
S3 prices. See page 111 (March No.) JOHN 6. COLLINS. 
ADAMANT 
PLOWS. 
THE NEW YORK PLOW CO., 55 BeekmauSt., N. Y. 
THE GILPIN SULKY PLOW. - 
Constructed entirely of iron and 
steel. Easily operated entirely by 
one lever. Simple, strong, dura¬ 
ble. Performs better work in 
unskilled hands than a skillful 
plowman can do with walking 
plow. 7,000 sold and in use in two 
years, giving unbounded satisfac¬ 
tion. Gold Medal at Illinois State 
trial 1874, and Indiana State trial 
1870, the two highest ever award¬ 
ed sulky plows. 
II. H. ALLEN & CO., 1S9 Water St., New York, Agent. 
DEERE & CO.. Moline, Ills. Established 1847. Manufac¬ 
turers of Gang Plows, Cultivators, and Steel Plows of all 
sizes, especially adapted to sticky soils. Send for circulars. 
THE CHARTER OAK SWIVEL PLOW. 
THE ONLY PERFECT SWIVEL PLOW. 
Middletown, Nov. 12, 1875. 
Cents :—The Side-Hill Plow, No. 160, you sent me last 
summer, has been used thoroughly on stony, turf, level, and 
side-liill, with equal success. It proves to be strong, well 
made, easily worked, good for one yoke, and does excellent 
work. It is a plow that will recommefid itself. We have 
plowed 12 or more acres, and had many visitors who were 
Jiiehly pleased with its operations. 
Yours truly, CHESTER SAGE. 
Send for illustrated circular with full particulars to 
THE HIGGANUM M’F’G CO., 
HICCANUM, CONN. 
SPRING STEEL TOOTH 
HORSE RAKES. 
Highest Award. Medal of Honor at the | 
Centennial and Vienna Exhibitions. 
THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD. 
No Cogs or Ratchets, Easiest Hand or 
Horse Dumping. Purchasers prefer theml 
to all others for Durability and Efficiency. I 
Fully guaranteed; so no risk is incurred I 
in ordering from ns. Responsible Agents! 
wanted. Where we have none. f 
Send Stamp for- Catalogues of Rakes, | 
Threshing Machines. Ac. 
WHEELER & MELICK CO., 
ALBANY, N. Y. 
HUES HAND CULTIVATOR 
A SEED DRILL 
Highest prize at Ccntenuial for the Best Hand Cultivator 
GEO. W. RUE, Hamilton, 0. 
“ Our Preference is the Buckeye.” 
—American Agriculturist, June, 1S72. 
The Simplest, 
The Strongest, 
[TheLiglitestDraftj£: u |^/ 
The Most Durable, ' 
US. Tho Safest. 
Off> 
m 
^ . Factor^ 
J*jVEp$ie, 
Best Mower, 
Best Reaper, 
[TheBestCom'biiiedJ 
0 \ Circulars sent 7 
E7Man - 
THE JOHNSTON HARVESTER CO., 
Manufacturers of 
Self Raking Reapers. Combined Machines, 
and Mowers, 
Send for Catalogue. Brockport, N. Y. 
GAKDIVER^ 
Hay Pitching Apparatus, 
consisting of Grapple Fork, Carrier, Pulleys, and Hooks. It 
pitches long and short fine hay, straw, grain, and corn stalks 
in the bundle. It certainly is the best. Send for circular. 
V. R. GARDNER, Johnson’s, Orange Co., N. Y. 
use. unloads and carries Hay, Grains, &c., over deep 
mows, into sheds, barns, &c. Saves labor, time,money. 
Sent on trial. Circulars sent. Agents wanted. 
G. B. Weeks Svrnoiisp. V V. 
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The Anti-Friction Hay Carrier 
>r and money. It is simple; the grap- 
tive; it runs on friction rolls, hence 
back on slight incline. The track is 
inexpensive; the carrier costs but a trifle; many 
put up now while barns are full. 
Send for circulars and designs for tracking 
barn, to U. S. Wind Engine «& Pump Co., Ba¬ 
tavia, Ill., manufacturers of the Old Reliable 
Halladay Standard Wind Mill. 
The Chamberlin Screw Stump Machine. 
-; after 10 years test, has proved its 
I superiority over all others, by its 
I great exhibition of strength and 
durability, combined with cheap¬ 
ness and ease In pulling all classes of 
stumps. The Company’s challenge 
of $1000 for a stump machine which 
would excel theirs, has stood since 
1867 without being taken. They build 
6 different sizes of machines, to pull 
all kinds of stumps. They make 
Subsoilers and Ditching Plows. For 
Particulars. Prices, etc., address 
THE CHAMBERLIN M’F’G CO., 
- Olean, N. Y. 
“NEW ROCHELLE. 
A wonderful R^s^berry. _§end_for ^ circular. 
CARPENTER, New Rochelle, N. i . 
