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Address all orders to 
ORANGE JUDD Si CO., 
_ 245 Broadway New Yokk. 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 
BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
A School of Agriculture and Horticulture. 
Tliis School is to bo opened September 23,1871. It will 
teach Practical Agriculture and Horticulture, and the 
sciences and arts subservient thereto. The regular course 
of study will fill three years. Any person 18 years of age. 
not being a candidate for a degree, may take such part of 
the regular course as lie pleases. The year extends from 
Sept. 28, 1871, to June 27, 1871. The tuition fee for regular 
students will be $150 a year; this fee will he freely remitted 
to poor, meritorious students. The teachings of the school 
will he amnly Illustrated by the rich scientific collections of 
the University, and by a botanic garden, a large and profit¬ 
able farm, greenhouses, propagating houses, and field exper¬ 
iments. For particulars, address 
JAMES W. HARRIS, Secretary, Cambridge, Mass. 
Turnip Seed 
FROM SELECTED 
STOCK. 
BY MAIL, 
Postage Free, 
Early Flat Dutch. 
Early Snow-hall. 
White-top Strap-leaved. 
Red-top Strap-leaved. . 
Large White Norfolk. 
Long White Tankard. 
Long White, or Cow’s Horn. 
White Glohe. 
Yellow Malta. 
Early Yellow Finland. 
Yellow Aberdeen Purple-top. 
Robertson's Golden Ball. 
Large Yellow Glohe. 
Teltow, or Small Berlin. 
TURMIP,—Ft uta-Baga. 
Skirvlng’s Purple-top. 10 25 75 
Laing’s Improved. 10 25 73 
Improved American. 10 25 7.7 
Sweet German. 10 SO 1.00 
Long White French.. 10 30 1.00 
Prices for larger quantities to dealers, either In bulk or 
packets, will he given on application. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS, BY MAIL, 
Postage Free. 
Celery Plants—Incomparable Dwarf White,per 100... 75 cts. 
“ " Giant White Solid, per 100.75 cts. 
Cabhage Plants, Drumhead, Flat Dutch, Savoy, and 
Red .75 cts. per 100. 
RICHARDSON & GOULD, 
P. O. Box 5,134 245 Broadway, N. Y. 
American Agriculturist Uuilding. 
Eureka Sutter Worker, 
Per oz. 
Hlb. 
Per lb. 
10 
30 
1.00 
10 
30 
1.00 
to 
25 
75 
10 
25 
75 
10 
25 
75 
10 
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30 
1.00 
20 
60 
2.00 
10 
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60 
2.00 
P, T. BARNUM’S 
Great Traveling 
Working position . Draining. 
Detached. 
Common bowls are used, and of all sizes. A large ladle is 
attached to a lever, enabling a person to wash, salt, press, 
cut, turn and work hard butter easily all d perfectly in every 
part of the bowl, in any manner desired. Exactly the hand- 
ladle principle. Three times faster and easier than with a 
hand-ladle, and not as liable to injure the butter. It is 
light; convenient to carry; nothing liable to get out of 
order ; very simple, and as handily washed ns any bowl and 
ladle. The bowl is securely held against a solid rest, is 
easily revolved, and tipped to drain by the strength of one 
Unger; also removed as readily as from a table. Retail 
T) rices. &7. S7 , r ift Stft TIitpa cLmu l.ihprnl rlieeoiint to the 
MUSEUM, MENAGERIE, 
Caravan, and Hippodrome, 
THE MOST STUPENDOUS EXHIBITION ON EARTH, 
comprising the largest, most novel, most, varied, most inter¬ 
esting, and most comprehensive EXPOSITION OF MORAL 
AND INSTRUCTIVE AMUSEMENTS ever brought togeth¬ 
er in any country, presenting to the public Three Distinct 
Entertainments, in three different tents, for one single price 
of admission, is now on its triumphal tour through the coun¬ 
try, atfd will devote the whole of the present season to the 
NEW ENGLAND STATES. This Great Exposition of the 
Wonders of all Nations comprises 500 Men and Horses; Liv¬ 
ing Wild Animals and Strange Reptiles in infinite variety ; 
100,000 Curiosities, animate and inanimate, including Giants, 
Dwarfs, and other human phenomena; moving Automaton 
Figures, Egyptian Mummies, Wax Statuary, and other ob¬ 
jects of interest, that it would require columns to enumer¬ 
ate; and DAN COSTELLO’S MAGNIFICENT CIRCUS, 
with fifty talented performers from all parts of the world, 
and an unapproachable collection of performing Horses and 
Ponies, the whole brought together at an expenditure of 
over Half a Million Dollars , and all exhibited for a single 
price of admission. From the very beginning of its present 
tour this monster establishment has achieved a success with¬ 
out parallel, and although its three enormous tents have 
been enlarged again and again, in the large cities thousands 
have been turned away at each entertainment for want of 
room. The STRICTLY MORAL CHARACTER of all the 
entertainments, and the care taken to render the Exhibi¬ 
tion in all its departments entirely free from any features 
which could be deemed objectionable to the religious por¬ 
tion of the community, have received a cheerful recognition 
from the public and the press, and have contributed in a 
great measure to the unbounded popularity of the establish¬ 
ment. All the leading New York papers, and the most re¬ 
spectable and influential journals, wherever it has been, 
have united in pronouncing BARNUM'S NEW SHOW the 
most gigantic, meritorious, unique, refined, and attractive 
Exhibition extant. Its progress through the Eastern States 
will be duly announced through the local papers, and by a 
lavish use of illustrated advertisements, large and small, 
which will afford particulars in all their detail. 
Celery Plants, Improved Dwarf, 75 
cents per 100; $3.00 per 500; $5.00 per 
1,000 ; $20 per 5,000. Larger quailti- 
' ties at lower rates. Large White 
Solid, at same rates. Either of the 
above kinds sent by mail, post-paid, 
for $1 per 100. Also, Cabbage plants. 
Drumhead, Flat Dutch, Savoy, or 
Red, 75c. per 100; $3 per 500; $5 per 
1,000. I am also making extensive 
preparations for the production of 
Greenhouse and Bedding plants, and 
I call the attention of the trade and 
all lovers of Floriculture to this fact. 
•JOHN WHITE Si SON, 
P. O. Box 75, Bergen, Jersey City, N. J. 
[Jon>r White, late Foreman for P. Henderson.] 
Vegetable 
PLANTS! 
For Fsail 
CROPS, 
Now Heady. 
GREAT NATIONAL LOAN. 
prices, $7, $7.50, 
trade. 
Tliree sizes. Liberal discount to the 
J. P. COUBIJV, 
"Whitney's Point, N. Y. 
REMOVAL 
HITCHCOCK’S MUSIC 
TO 
Store 29 BEEKMAN ST., N. Y. 
O UR PATRONS arc INVITED to call at our 
new store and examine our stock of SHEET MUSIC. 
Those who send by Mail can address lo Post-Office Box Ko. 
3,008. Any piece of music published in tliis country can lie 
ordered of us, provided the retail price is inclosed with the 
order. Catalogues, containing over 000 pieces, mailed free. 
The following 30 pieces will lie mailed on receipt of Tliree 
Dollars, or singly at 10 cents each. Please use name and 
number. 
No. 
100. I love a Little Body. Sony. 
90. Josie Galop. Instrumental. 
97. The Tyrolese and his Child. Song. 
76. Remembrance. Song. 
75. Ristori Waltz. Instrumental. 
71. Do you Really Think lie Did?. Song. 
07. Was there any Harm in That ?. Song. 
57. Corinna Waltz. Instrumental. 
54. Maiden's Prayer.'. Song. 
49. Monastery Bells... Instrumental. 
43. Alpine Bells. Instrumental. 
40. The Bridge. Song. 
38. Reaper and the Flowers. Song. 
21. Carnival of Venice. Instrumental. 
17. Kiss Waltz. Instrumental. 
16. In Tears I Pine for Thee. Song. 
15. Grand Ducliesse Waltz. Instrumental. 
14. Pulling Hard against the Stream. Song. 
13. Indian March. Instrumental. 
12. Tlie Frost Flower. . Song, 
11. Daughter of Eve. Instrumental, 
10. Nun’s Prayer. Song, 
9. Faust March. Instrumental. 
8. Nelly Carey. Song. 
7. Delhi Galop. Instrumental, 
0, Sleep Well. Sweet Angel. Song, 
5. Orpliee aux Enters Galop. Instrumental'. 
4. It Is Better to Laugh than he Sighing. Song'. 
S. Wedding March. Instrumental', 
2. My Soul to God, my llearfto Thee. Song, 
Address, BENJ. W. HITCHCOCK, Publisher, 
}Ji) Beckman St., New York. 
$133,000,000 NEW 5 PER CENTS, 
PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST PAYABLE IN 
COIN. 
Interest quarterly, February, May, August, and 
November. 
BONDS FREE OF ALL TAXES, LOCAL 
OR NATIONAL. 
The Treasury Department having already received sub¬ 
scriptions to the amount of $67,000,000 to the first two hun¬ 
dred millions of the New Loans authorized by tlie Act of 
Congress, of July 14, 1870, for refunding the Public Debt, 
hearing five per cent per annum interest, now offers to pop¬ 
ular subscription the remaining $133,000,000 of this particu¬ 
lar Loan, and is prepared to promptly deliver the Coupon 
Bonds or Registered Certificates in exchange dollar for dol¬ 
lar for any of the United States six per cent Bonds or Reg¬ 
istered Stocks, known as Five-Twenties, or for Gold Coin at 
the par value of tlie New Loan, and accrued Interest from 
tlie first of May. When this amount, to which preference is 
given, is taken up, the remainder of the Five per Cents, 
$300,000,000, embraced in tlie Act, will be offered in connec¬ 
tion with $300,000,000 Four and one-half per Cents, and any 
part of $700,000,000 of Four per Cents, the one running fifteen 
years and the other thirty years. 
Registered Bonds will he issued of the denominations of 
$50, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, and coupon bonds of 
cacti denomination except the last two. The interest will 
be payable in the United States, at the office of tlie Treas¬ 
urer, any Assistant Treasurer, or designated depository of 
the Government, quarterly, on tlie first days of February, 
May, August, and November, in each year. 
The interest on the Registered Stock of tliis Loan, it is de¬ 
termined by tlie Treasury Department, will be paid under 
tlie following convenient regulations, thus bringing a Gold 
Cheek for tlie Quarterly Interest, to the Post-office of every 
holder, free of trouble or expense, dispensing with attend¬ 
ance, in person or by proxy, at tlie Treasury, for the purpose 
of receipting for and drawing such Interest. 
The whole proceeds of tlie New Loan will he applied to 
tlie payment or redemption and cancellation of the 5-20 
years six per cent bonds, and in addition to these proceeds, 
the 5-20s are being reduced by purchases, averaging, for two 
years past, about $10,000,000 per month. 
The entire effect, therefore, of the New Loan, in connec¬ 
tion with tlie existing Sinking Fund process of the Treasury, 
is to reduce both Principal ami Interest of the Public Debt 
of the United States. The Loan creates no additional sup¬ 
ply of Government Stocks, while the application of the sur¬ 
plus'revenue is constantly lessening the Funded Stocks hear¬ 
ing six per cent Gold Interest. 
steadily both Debt and Taxes; to reduce tlie Principal of 
the Debt by actual payments, and to lessen tlie annual bur¬ 
den of Interest, and thereby the burden of Taxation, not 
onlv through such payments, but by funding tlie debt at the 
cheapest rates of interest practicable lrom time to time, un¬ 
til it is now felt that tlie very cheapest rates are due to the 
high Credit, unblemished Public Faitli, and vast and grow¬ 
ing resources of the country. From $2,735,000,000, tlie Prin¬ 
cipal of the Debt lias been reduced to $2,260,000,000—botli 
sums exclusive of accrued interest—and from the heavy 
burden of $151,832,000 per annum, the Interest charge has 
been reduced to $112,730,000 per annum; while the annual 
taxation, under the Internal Revenue system, which the 
necessities of tlie War and tlie Debt thereby created render¬ 
ed necessary for at least a short, series of years, lias been re¬ 
duced from $311,000,000 in 1363-60 to about $154,000,000 per 
year in 1870-71, (estimating for the highest probable collec¬ 
tions in tlie current month, the last of the Fiscal year,) or 
less than one-lialf the first named sum. And in tlie year 
1871-72 a further reduction of $28,000,000 will come in under 
the Act of July, 1870, so as to give only $126,000,000 for the 
year, or about two-fifths tlie maximum of 1S65-66. 
By tlie successful refunding of tlie Public Debt at moder¬ 
ate rates of Interest, and by continued economies in tlie ex¬ 
penditures of tlie Government—which in two years from 
March 4, 1860, to March 4, 1871, amounted to $126,700,949, or 
all average saving per year of $03,350,474—it is believed tliat 
nearly the entire system of Internal Taxes can be dispensed 
with in a few years, or so much of it as requires tlie ma¬ 
chinery of District Assessors and Collectors. 
The Secretary of the Treasury lias just published the 
Monthly Schedule of the Public Debt to June 1, from which 
it appears that lie lias further reduced the total of Funded 
Gold-hearing debt since May 1, by tlie sum of $8,000X00 by 
purchase of United States 5-20s lor tlie Sinking Fund, and 
reduced the 5-20s bv the further sum of $8,217,400 hv conver¬ 
sion into tlie New 5 per Cents. Tlie whole Funded Debt now 
stands, $1,804,128,750, as against $2,107,846,150 two years ago 
when tlie present Administration came into office. Adding 
to these sums tlie net Circulation of tlie Treasury, (that is, 
in Greenbacks and Greenback Certiffcatcs. after deducting 
Gold and Currency on hand.) the following is tlie compari¬ 
son of Debt of all kinds, at present, and at tlie close of thq 
War, and in 1809: 
July. 1865. Mnroli, 1369. June, 1871. 
17. S. Stocks... .$2,150,784,112 $2,107,846,150 $1,894,128,750 
Circulation 605,211,163 S>3,54a,8o4 366,oS3,00o 
Total.$2,755,995,275 $2,491,399,904 $2,260,461,753 
Tlie proposed further reduction of the annual interest 
charge upon the Public Debt by refunding is as follows; 
By exchange of $500,000,000 United States six 
per cents for new five per cents of 1881— $5,000,000 
By exchange of $300,000,010 United States su¬ 
per cents for lour and a half per cents of 
1886. 4,500,000 
By exchange of $700,000,000 United States six 
per cents for four per cents of 1901. 14.000,000 
Total saving per annum by refunding. $13,500,000 
C. C. NORVELL, 
In charge of Advertising U. S. Loans. 
Tkeastiby Office, ) 
New Yons, June 3, 1S71. S 
