AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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ALLEN’S PATENT MOWER. 
THEJ.MOST PERFECT MACHINE YET INVENTED. 
HPHIS MACHINE was patented in 1852, and has been used by a large number of intel- 
-■- ligent farmers for twc seasons; and so superior has it proved itself over all others, that it is now greatly preferred wherever 
known. 
This superiority consists: 
1st. In perfectly cutting any kind of grass, whether fine or coarse, lodged or standing, and Salt Meadows as well as upland. 
2d. Owing to the form of the knife and its rasp patent, it does not clog even in the finest grass. 
3d. The gearing being hung on horizontal shafts and justly balanced, enables the mower to run perfectly true in a straight or 
curved line and with one-third less draught than any other yet made. It also runs with much less noise, and with no jerking 
motion, in consequence of the knife being operated by a wheel instead of a crank. The knife can be taken off or put on in a moment, 
without the necessity of passing it through the arms of the driving-wheel. This is a very great convenience, and obviates a seri¬ 
ous objection to Mowing Machines. 
4th. The superior gearing enables the knife to play with sufficient rapidity to do its work well, at a speed of not over two and a 
half to three miles per hour. Most other Mowers require the team to walk at the rate of four miles per hour, which is very dis¬ 
tressing to the horses. 
5th. A smaller wheel is attached to this Mower, by a spring axle, which runs parallel with the driving-wheel. This enables 
the machine when thrown out of gear, to be driven over the field or along the road as readily as if hung on a pair of wagon- 
wheels. 
6th. A reaping-board can be attached when required, thus making it a Reaper or Mower, as desired. 
7th. This Mower is made in the most perfect manner, and is guaranteed to give satisfaction. 
WARRANTY. 
ALLEN’S MOWER is warranted to cut and spread from ten to fifteen acres per day, in a workmanlike manner, with a good 
pair of horses and driver. One day’s trial is allowed for the Mower, and in case any thing proves defective within this time, due 
notice must be given to me, and time allowed to send a person to repair it. If it does not work after this, and the fault is in 
the machine, it will be taken back and the money paid for it refunded, or a perfect Mower will be given in its place, at the option 
of the purchases. 
With the Reaper Attachment, it is warranied to cut from twelve to eighteen acres of grain per day, with a good pair of horses, 
driver and raker. 
R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water-st., New-York. 
IS*" Agents are solicited to sell tlie above machine. 
A gricultural implements.—T he 
subscriber offers for sale the following valuable Imple¬ 
ments : 
F AN MILLS—Of various kinds, for Rice 
as well as Wheat, Rye, &c. 
G RAIN DRILLS—A machine which eve- 
ry large grain planter should possess. They are of the best 
patterns, embracing several varieties and sizes, and all the most 
valuable improvements. 
QMUT MACHINES, Pilkington’s, the most 
approved for general use. 
AY AND COTTON PRESSES—Bul- 
H J 
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G 
• lock’s Progressive Power-presses, and several other pat¬ 
terns, combining improvements which make them by far the 
best in use. 
RAIN MILLS, Corn and Cob Crushers, 
a very large assortment and of the best and latest im¬ 
proved kinds. 
G rain mills, steel and cast iron 
Mills, at $6 to $25, and Burr-Stone at $50 to $250, for Horse 
or Steam Power. 
T ILE MACHINES—For making Draining 
Tiles of all descriptions and sizes. 
W ATER RAMS, SUCTION, FORCE and 
Endless-chain Pumps; Leather, Gutta Percha, India 
Rubber Hose, Lead Pipe, &c. 
G RASS SEEDS. — Timothy, Red Top, 
Kentucky Blue, Orchard, Foul Meadow, Ray, Sweet- 
scented Venial, Tall Fescue, Muskit or Texas, Tall Oat and 
Spurrey. 
Red and White Clover 
Lucerne. 
Saintfoin. 
Alyske Clover. 
Sweet-scented Clover. 
Crimson or Scarlet Clover. 
F IELD SEEDS.—Afull assortment of the 
best Field Seeds, pure and perfectly fresh, including 
Winter and Spring Wheat of all the best varieties. 
Winter Rye. 
Barley. 
Buckwheat. 
Oats, of several choice kinds. 
Corn, of great variety. 
Spring and Winter Fetches. 
Peas, Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, and all other useful Seeds 
for the farmer and planter. 
G ARGEN SEEDS.—A large and complete 
assortment of the different kinds in use at the North and 
South—all fresh and pure, and imported and home grown ex¬ 
pressly for my establishment. 
M iscellaneous seeds.-O sage,Or- 
ange, Locust, Buckthorn, Tobacco, Common and Italian 
Millet, Broom Corn, Cotton, Flax, Canary, Hemp, Rape and 
Rice. 
F RUIT TREES.—Choice sorts, including 
the Apple, Pear, Quince, Plum, Peach, Apricot, Nectarine, 
&c., &c. 
O RNAMFNTAL TREKS AND SHRUB- 
8EHY.—O'tiers received for all the native Forest Trees 
Shrubs and for such foreign kinds as have become acclimated. 
R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water-st. 
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RAINING TILES OF ALL FORMS and 
sizes. 
T hreshers and fanning-mills 
combined, of three sizes and prices, requiring from two to 
eight horses to drive them, with corresponding horse powers. 
These are the latest improved patterns in the United States. 
SOUTHERN PLOWS—Nos. I0i, 111, 12* 
14,15,18,18%, 19,19%, 20, A1, A 2, Nos. 50,60, and all other 
P 
LOWS — A large variety of patterns, 
among which are the most approved Sod, Stubble, Side-hill, 
Double-mold, Sub-soil. Lock Coulter, Self-Sharpener, &c. 
f'lARTS AND WAGGONS—With iron and 
wood axles, on hand or made to order, in the best and most 
serviceable manner. 
H ay, straw and stalk cutters 
of all sizes and great variety of patterns. 
C ORN SHELLERS—For Hand or Horse 
Power. 
F armers and merchants will 
find at my Warehouse every Implelement or Machine re- 
uired on a PLANTATION, FARM, or GARDEN. I would 
call attention to a few of many others offered for sale: 
VEGETABLE CUTTERS and VEGETABLE BOILERS, 
for cutting and boiling food for stock. 
BUSH HOOKS and SCYTHES, ROOT-PULLER&, POST- 
HOLE AUGURS, OX YOKES, OX, LOG and TRACE 
CHAINS. 
Grub Hoes, Picks. Shovels, 
Spades, Wheelbarrows, Harrows, 
Cultivators, Road-Scrapers, Grindstones, 
Seed and Grain Drills, Garden Engines. 
Sausage Cutters and Stuffers, Garden and Field Rollers, Mow¬ 
ing and Reaping Machines, Chums, Cheese Presses, Portable 
Blacksmith Forges, Bark Mills, Corn and Cob Crushers, Weath¬ 
er Vanes, Lightning Rods, Horticultural and Carpenters’Tool 
Chests. 
Clover Hullers, Saw Machines, Cotton Gins, 
Shingle Machines, Scales, Gin Gear. 
Apple Parers, Rakes, Wire Cloth, 
Hay and Manure Forks, Belting for Machinery, &c. 
R. L. ALLEN. 189 and 191 Water-st. 
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HORT HORN BULLS.—I have for sale 
three young, thoroughbred SHORT HORN BULLS; ages 
—four months, seven mouths, eighteen months; colors—roan, 
red, chiefly red ; the get of SPLENDOR, a son of Vane Tern 
pest and imported Wolviston, 
JOHN R. PAGE, 
73— Sennett, Cayuga Co. N Y. 
D irections for the use of gu- 
ANO.—A full and minute description ofthe different crops 
and soils to which Peruvian Guano is adapted, with full direc¬ 
tions for its application, a pamphlet of 96 pages, and can be sent 
through the mail. Price 25 cents. 
R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water-st. 
F ine angers quince cuttings 
from one to two feet in length, for 
SEVEN DOLLARS PER THOUSAND 
READY PACKED, 
At the South Norwalk Nurseries.- 
Address, GEO. SEYMOUR & CO., 
76—88nll6J South Norwalk, Conn. 
B ooks for the farmers. 
ALL SENT FREE OF POSTAGE, 
on receipt of the price annexed. 
Furnished by R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water-st. 
I. The Cow, Dairy Husbandry, and Cattle Breeding. Price 
25 cents. 
II. Every Lady her own Flower Gardener. Price 25 cents. 
III. The American Kitchen Gardener. Price 25 cents. 
IV. The American Rose Culturer. Price 25 cents. 
V. Prize Essay on Manures. By S. L. Dana. Price 25 cents. 
VI. Skinner’s Elements of Agriculture. Price 25 cents. 
VII The Pests of the Farm, with Directions for Extirpation 
Price 25 cents. 
VIII Horses—their Varieties, Breeding, Management, &c. 
Pi ice 25 cents. 
IX. The Hive and Honey Bee—their Diseases and Remedies 
Price 25 cents. 
X. The Hog—its Diseases and Management. Price 25 cents. 
XI. The American Bird Fancier—Breeding, Raising, &c., &c 
Price 25 cents. 
XII. Domestic Fowl and Ornamental Poultry. Price 25cents. 
XIII. Chemistry made Easy for the Use of Farmers. Price 
25 cents. 
XIV. The American Poultry Yard. The cheapest and best 
beekpublished. Price $1. 
XV. The American Field Book of Manures. Embracing all 
the Fertilizers known, with directions for use. By Browne. 
Price $1 25. 
XVI. Buist’s Kitchen Gardener. Price 75 cents. 
XVII. Stockhart’s Chemical Field Lectures. Price $1. 
XVIII. Wilson on the cultivation of Flax. Price 25 cents. 
XIX. The Farmer’s Cyclopedia. By Blake. Price $1 25. 
XX. Allen’s Rural Architecture. Price $1 25. 
XXI. Phelps’s Bee Keeper’s Chart. Illustrated. Price 25 
rents. 
XXII. Johnston’s Lectures on PracticaUAgriculture. Paper, 
price 25 cents. 
XXIII. Johnson’s Agricultural Chemistry. Price $1 25. 
XXIV. Johnson’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and 
Geology. Price $1. 
XXV. Randall’s sheep Husbandry. Price $1 25. 
XXVI. Miner’s American Bee-Keeper’s Manual. Price $1. 
XXVII. Dadd’s American Cattle Doctor. Complete. Price'll. 
XXVIII. Fessenden’s Complete Farmer and Gardener. 1 vol 
Price $1 25. 
XXIX. Allen’s Treatise on the Culture of the Grape. Price 
$ 1 . 
XXX. Youatt on the Breeds and Management of Sheep. Price 
75 cents. 
XXXI. Youatt on the Hog. Complete. Price 60 cents. 
XXXII. Youatt and Martin on Cattle. By Stevens. Price 
$1 25. 
XXXIII. The Shepherd’s own Book. Edited by Youatt, Skin¬ 
ner and Randall. Price $2. 
XXXIV. Stephens’s Book of the Farm ; or Farmer’s Guide. 
Edited by Skinner. Price $4. 
XXXV. Allen’s American Farm Book. Price $1. 
XXXVI. The American Florists’Guide. Price 75 cents. 
XXXVII. The Cottage and Farm Bee-Keeper. Price 50cents. 
XXXVIII. Hoare on the Culture of the Grape. Price 50 
cents. 
XXXIX. Country Dwellings; or the American Architect. 
Price $6. 
XL. Lindley’s Guide to the Orchard. Price $1 25. 
XLI. Gunn's Domestic Medicine. A book for every married 
man and woman. Price $3. 
XLII. Nash’s Progressive Farmer. A book for every boy in 
the country. Price 50 cents. 
XLIII. Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals. Price 75 
cents. 
XLIV. Saxton’s Rural Hand-books. 2 vols. Price $2 50. 
XLV. Beattie’s Southern Agriculture. Price $1. 
XLVI. Smith’s Landscape Gardening. Containing Hints on 
arranging Parks, Pleasure Grounds, &c. Edited by Lewis F. 
Allen. Price $1 25. 
XLVII. The Farmer’s Land Measurer ; or Pocket Compan¬ 
ion. Price 50 cents. 
XLVIII. Buist’s American Flower Garden Directory. Price 
$1 25. 
XLIX. The American Fruit Grower’s Guide in Orchard and 
Garden. Being the most complete book on the subject ever 
publis hed, $1 25. 
"L. Quinby ’s Mysteries of Bee-Keeping Explained. Price 1. 
LI. Elliott’s Fruit Grower’s Guide. Price $125. 
LII. Thomas’s Fruit Culturist. Price $1. 
LIII. Chorlton’s Cold Grapery. Price 50 cents. 
LIV. Pardee on the Strawberry. Price 50 cents. 
LVI. Norton’s Scientific Agriculture—New Edition. Price 
75 cents. 
LVII. DADD’S MODERN HORSE DOCTOR. Price $1. 
LVIII. Diseases of Horse’s Feet. Price 25 cents. 
LIX. Guinon’s Milk Cows. Price 38 cents. 
LX. Longsl.roth on Bees. Price $1 25. 
LXI. Book of Caged Birds. Price $1. 
LXII. Gray’s Text Book of Botany. Price $2. 
LXIII. Directions for Use of Guano. Price 25 cents. 
F armers and gardeners who 
can not get manure enough, will find a cheap and powerful 
substitute in the IMPROVED POUDRETTE madefy the sub¬ 
scribers. The small quantity used, the ease with which it is 
applied, and the powerful stimulus it gives to vegetation, ren¬ 
ders it the cheapest and best manure in the world. It causes 
plants to come up quicker, to grow faster, to yield ^heavier and 
ripen earlier than any other manure in the world, and unlike 
other fertilizers, it can be brought in direct contact with the 
plant. Three dollars’worth is sufficient to manure an acre of 
corn. Price, delivered free of cartage or {package on board of 
vessel or railroad in New-York city, $1 50 per barrel, for any 
quantity over six barrels. 1 barrel, $2; 2barrels, $3 50; 3 bar¬ 
rels, $5 00; 5 barrels, $8 00 A pamphlet with information and 
directions will be sent gratis and post-paid, to any one applying 
for the same. 
Address, the LODI MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 
No. 74 Cortland-street, New-York 
Watertown, Mass., Oct. 19 1854 
Lodi Manufacturing Company : 
Gentlemen—At the request of John P. Cushing, Esq., of this 
place, I have, for the last five years, purchased from you 200 
barrels of Poudrette per annum, which he has used upon his 
extensive and celebrated garden in this town. He gives it al¬ 
together the preference over every artificial manure. (Guano 
not excepted), speaks of it in the highest terms as a manure for 
the kitchen garden, especially for potatoes. 
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, 
Your obedient, servant. 
70—121nll52 BENJAMIN DANA. 
No. 191 Pearl-street. 
x .... . Manufacturer of Blank Books, and 
Importer and Dealer m PAPER and STATIONERY of every 
description. Pari icular attention paid to orders. 78-130 
\7|Tillard felt, 
* ▼ (near Maiden-lane.) Ma 
SUPERIOR SEED WHEAT.—A LARGE 
assortment of the best varieties of improved Seed Wheat; 
among which are the Red Mediterranean, White Mediterranean, 
Soule’s and Blue stem. For sale by 
K. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water-st. 
