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.AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
viz.: we employ no soliciting agents, as do many other 
papers. On the contrary, the advertisers choose this 
journal of their own accord, and those who began with 
us many months ago are foremost in engaging space in 
advance. We suppose they find it pays, and why should 
it not? Few Agricultural journals now have a larger, 
more wide-spread circulation, and that, too, among a 
highly intelligent class of readers. 
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Ten cents per line (of ten words) for each insertion. 
No advertisement taken at less than one dollar. 
By the column or half column, $12 per column for the first 
nsertion, and $10 for each subsequent insertion. 
15?- Business Notices 20 cents a line. 
AGRICULTURAL BOOKS. 
C. M. SAXTON & CO., 
140 FULTON-STREET, NEW-YORK, 
PUBLISH THE FOLLOWING BOOKS FOR THE 
COUNTRY] 
And will send them, Free of Postage, to any 
part of the United States, upon receipt of Price. 
1 . The Stable Book — the best work on the Horse - SI 00 
2. The Horse’s Foot, with Directions How to Keep it 
Sound; paper 25 cents, cloth - - - - . - 50 
3. Brown’s American Bird Fancier; paper 25 cents, 
cloth - -- -- -- -- -50 
4. Dadd’s American Cattle Doctor; cloth - - - - 1 00 
5. Dana’s Muck Manual ; cloth - - - - - 1 00 
6 . Dana’s Prize Essay on Manures, ----- 25 
7. Stockhardt’s Chemical Field Lectures - - - 1 00 
8 . Blake’s Farmer at Home - - - - - -125 
9. Buist’s American Flower Garden Directory - - 1 25 
10 Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener ----- 75 
11. Norton’s Scientific and Practical Agriculture - - 60 
12. Johnston’s Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry (for 
Schools) - - 25 
13. Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and 
Geology -100 
14. Johnston’s Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and 
Geology ----- .125 
15. Downing’s Landscape Gardening - - - - - 3 50 
16. Fessenden’s Complete Farmer and Gardener - - 1 25 
17. Fessenden’s American Kitchen Gardener; cloth - 50 
18. Nash’s Progressive Farmer ------ 60 
19. Richardson’s Domestic Fowls - 25 
20. Richardson on the Horse—Varieties, Breeding, &c. - 25 
21. Richardson on the Diseases and Management of the 
Hog « 25 
22. Richardson on the Destruction of the Pests of the 
Farm - -- -- -- --25 
23. Richardson on the Hive and Honey Bee 25 
24. Milburn & Stevens on the Cow and Dairy Husbandry 25 
25. Skinner’s Elements of Agriculture 25 
26. Topham’s Chemistry Made Easy ; for use of Farmers 25 
27. Allen’s Treatise on the Culture of the Grape - -100 
28. Allen on the Diseases of Domestic Animals - - 75 
29. Allen’s American Farm Book - - - - - 1 00 
30. Allen’s Rural Architecture. -125 
31. Pardee on the Cultivation of the Strawberry, &c. - 60 
32. Pedder’s Farmer’s Land Measurer 50 
33. Phelps’ Bee-Keepert Chart ------ 25 
34. Guenon’s Treatise on Milch Cows; paper 38 cts., cloth 63 
35. Gunn’s Domestic Medicine—a book for every married 
man and woman.- - - 3 00 
36. Randall’s Sheep Husbandry - - - - - - 1 25 
37. Youatt, Randall, and Skinner’s Shepherd’s Own Book 2 00 
38. Youatt on the Breed and Management of Sheep 75 
39. Youatt on the Horse - - - - - - -125 
40. Youatt, Martin, and Stevens on Cattle - - - 1 25 
41. Youatt, and Martin, on the Breeds and Management 
of the Hog --------- 75 
42. Munn’s Practical Land Drainer ----- 50 
43. Stephens’ Book of the Farm, complete, 450 Illustra¬ 
tions ----------4 00 
44. The American Architect ; or, Plans for Country 
Dwellings - -- -- -- - - 6 00 
45. Thaer, Shaw, and Johnson’s Principles of Agriculture 2 00 
46. Smith’s Landscape Gardening, Parks and Pleasure 
Grounds --------- i 25 
47. Weeks on the Honey-Bee ; paper 25 cents, cloth - - 50 
48. Wilson Cultivation of Flax ------ 25 
49. Miner’s American Bee-Keeper’s Manual - - - 1 00 
50. Quinby’s Mysteries of Bee-Keeping - - - -100 
51. Cottage and Farm Bee-Keeper ----- 50 
52. Elliott’s American Fruit Grower’s Guide - - -125 
53. The American Florist’s Guide ----- 75 
54. Every Lady her own Flower Gardener ; paper 25 cts., 
cloth - 50 
55. The American Rose Culturist; paper 25 cents, cloth - 50 
56. Hoare on the Cultivation of the Vine - - - - 50 
57. Chorlton’s Cold Grapery, from direct American Prac¬ 
tice 50 
58. Saxton’s Rural Hand Books, 3 vols. - - - - 3 75 
59. Bemcnt’s Rabbit Fancier; paper 25 cents, cloth - - 50 
60. Reemelin’s Vine-Dresser’s Manual - - - 50 
61. Neil’s Fruit, Flower, and Vegetable Gardener’s Com- 
panion. - 1 00 
62. Browne’s American Poultry Yard - - - - - l 00 
63. Browne’s Field Book of Manures - - - - 1 25 
61. Hooper’s Dog and Gun ------- 50 
65. Skillful Housewife; paper ------ 25 
66 . Chorlton’s Grape Grower’s Guide ; paper 50 cts., cloth 60 
67. White’s Gardening for the South - - - - - 1 25 
68 . Eastwood’s Manual for Cultivating the Cranberry - 50 
69. Johnson’s Dictionary of Modern Gardening 1 - 1 50 
70. Persozonthe Culture of the Vine - - - - 50 
11 ’ American Agriculturist, first 10 vols. - - - - 12 50 
J2. Boussingault’s Rural Economy - - - - - 1 25 
73. Thompson’s Foo 1 of Animals; paper 50 cents, cloth - 75 
74. Richardson on Dogs—their Origin, Varieties, &c. ; 
_ t cents; cloth.- - 50 
1 5 . Liebig’s Familiar Letters to Farmers on Chemistry; 
paper 25 cents, cloth - - - - - - ' 1 50 
117M08 
Y^ILLARD FELT, No. 14 Maiden-lane 
, p 7p5?£ n „ u SU’q nvf n 00,1 s ’ an<1 Importer and Dealer 
anc * STATIONARY of evey description. Paitic- 
ar attention paid to orders. 8-30 
WHERE TO SEND THE BOYS. 
There is, perhaps, no more difficult question for many parents 
to decide, than where to place their sons, so that while they are 
developing and improving their mental faculties systematically 
and harmoniously, they may at the same time be surrounded 
with genial moral influences. 
The more intelligent and far-seeing parent will also look 
after proper physical culture, believing that a sound mind can 
only exist in a sound body. 
Some of the requisites of a proper school for young lads arc 
the following : 
1. One located in a country place, away from the contami¬ 
nating influences of a city or large town. 
2. One of mo’.crate size, where each pupil can be under the 
immediate care of the principal instructor. 
3. One surrounded with ample grounds, where each pupil 
may have opportunity for out-door exercise, and cultivate a 
taste for rural pleasures. 
4. One under the care of a skillful, diligent, said interesting 
Instructor, who is “ apt to teach,” and who is naturally fitted 
to exercise a kind and parental influence overtliose placed under 
his care. 
That there are such Schools there is no doubt, and it behooves 
every parent to search for the very best when he sends forth his 
children from his own immediate care. 
Among those Schools of this class, it.is believed that there are 
few possessing more requisites, like those named above than the 
located at DURHAM, Connecticut, twenty milesjnortheast of 
New Haven, and six miles south of Middleton, from which 
place it is most easily reached. The many special advantages 
possessed by this School can not well be detailed in the limits of 
a notice like this. It is therefore respectfully asked that per¬ 
sons interested in finding a good School will take the trouble to 
look into the merits of this one, and afterwards decide for them¬ 
selves whether it be especially worthy of their patronage. 
N. B.—The pupils of this School, when desired, receive 
instructions both m the Science and Practice of Agriculture 
Horticulture, &c. 
The Semi-annual Sessions will commence“on the ’last Wed¬ 
nesday of April and October, respectively. 
Board, Tui tion, Washing, &c., $200 per annum. 
Full particulars may' be learned by a personal visit, or by 
addressing the Principal, 
W. R. GRISWOLD, A. B, 
Durham, Connecticut. 
Circulars may be obtained at the Book Store of Messrs. 
Blakeman & Birdsey, No. 115 Nassau-street, New Yerk. 
References may also be made to 
Wm. H. Van Pelt, Esq., 100 Pine-street, New-York; 
5. Alpheus Smith, Register’s Office, City Hall, Brooklyn; 
Andrew Ross, Esq., 129 Maiden Lane, New-York. 
UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Office No. 160 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
T he fourth annual exhibition 
of the UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
will be held at Powelton (Philadelphia), on Tuesday, Wedhes- 
day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 7, 8, 9,10 and 11. 
Premiums from $25 to $200, amounting in the aggregate to 
$14,000, will be offered for the various classes of Domestic Ani¬ 
mals, Fruits, American Wines, Vegetables, Grains, and Agri¬ 
cultural Implements and Machinery. 
A Local Committee at Philadelphia, representing the various 
branches of industry, has already been appointed to co-operate 
with the officers of the Society in perfecting arrangements for 
the Exhibition. Fifteen Thousand Dollars have been g uaranteed 
to meet expenses. This material aid, coupled with the excel¬ 
lence of the selected location, and the large amount of premi¬ 
ums offered, induces the expectation that the Exhibition of 1856 
will be superior to any of its predecessors. 
A GRAND AGRICULTURAL BANQUET, 
In which ladies as well as gentlemen will participate, will take 
place on Friday afternoon, October 10, when distinguished 
speakers will address the assemblage. 
Favorable arrangements with the various railroads for the 
transportation of stock and other articles are in progress, the 
terms of which will be given on application to the office. 
The List of Entries, the Awards of Premiums, and the Pro¬ 
ceedings, will be published in the Journal of the Society for 1856. 
The Premium List, with the Regulations and Programme of 
the Exhibition, will be furnished on application to Mr. John 
McGowan, Assistant Secretary of the United States Agricultu¬ 
ral Society, 160 Chestnut-street, (Rooms of the Philadelphia 
Agricultural Society,) or by addressing the Secretary at Boston. 
MARSHALL P. WILDER, President. 
William S. King, Secretary. 116-117n90 
September 1, 1856. 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE 
CATTLE SHOW, 
E mbracing an exhibition of 
CATTLE of all breeds, HORSES, SHEEP, SWINE and 
POULTRY, 'will be held at Hamilton Square, in tlie CITY OF 
NEW-YORK, on 
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY, 
The 14th, 15th, and 16tli day9 of October. 
Owners and Breeders of Stock, from all parts of the United 
States, are invited to bring their STOCK to the Exhibition. 
All Animals must be on the ground by 10 o’clock A. M., on 
TUESDAY, the 14th. 
The Twenty-eighth Annual Fair of the American Institute 
will be held at the Crystal Palace, commencing on THURS¬ 
DAY, the 22d of September, and will positively close on SAT¬ 
URDAY, the 25th of October. 
Circulars, with Premium Lists, can be had at the Office of the 
American Institute, No. 351 Braadway. 116-117nl03 
EINDERUOOK NURSERY. 
T he subscriber having pur- 
chased of Henry Snyder the above Nursery.has now ready 
his Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, which will be 
sold at very low prices. 
Persons applying by mail, enclosing stamp, will receive 
prompt attention. Address JOHN H. CORNING, 
116-117n86 Valatie Post-Office. 
FAIR OF N. Y. STATE AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY, 
At Watertown, Sept. 30, and Oct. 1, 2, and 3. 
T he annual exhibition of the 
New-York State Agricultural Society will be held at 
Watertown, Jefferson County, September 30, and October 1,2, 
and 3. 
The Rome and Watertown, and Potsdam Railroads, will carry 
stock and articles free, and passengers at half fares. The Lake 
Ontario Steamboat Company will carry stock, and articles and 
passengers at half fares. The Hudson River, and New-York 
Central Roads will carry stock and articles free, with the usual 
condition of payment when shipped, to he repaid if stock and 
articles are returned, ownership unchanged, with certificate of 
Exhibition. 
The arrangements at Watertown will be of tho most satisfac¬ 
tory character, and provisions for stock upon the ground, sucli 
as to enable the owners to have them upon the ground the week 
previous, and during the Fair, in comfortable quarters, with 
plenty of food. 
The stock and articles passing over the Rome and Water- 
town Railroad must be sent the week previous to the Fair, as the 
road will, the week of the Fair, be exclusively devoted to passen¬ 
gers, and trains will be run as often as may be necessary from 
Rome and Cape Vincent to Watertown, to transport passengers 
intending to attend the Exhibition without delay. 
A very choice herd of Devon Cattle, and superior Short 
Homs and Herefords, are already entered for public sale, afford¬ 
ing an opportunity never before given at our Fairs of purchasing 
the very best stock at public sale. 
Entries may be made at the office on the show grounds the 
week previous to the Fair, or with the Secretary at Albany, at 
any time previous. 
B. P. JONSON, Secretary. 
Agricultural Rooms, Albany, Aug. 23, 1856. Il6-il7n99 
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FLUSHING, near NEW-YORK, 
FFER FOR SALE AN ASSORTMENT 
of Trees and Plants which they have grown for the use of 
Amateurs, and have prepared, by frequent transplanting and 
other modes, for success in moving. 
They are of fine size and symmetrical form, and among them 
will be found 
STANDARD APPLES of fine quality : 
STANDARD PEARS, PLUMS and CHERRIES ; 
PEACHES, APRICOTS and NECTARINES, on Plum 
stacks, and their own roots; 
DWARF PEARS, of fine form, and ready for bearing; 
GOOSEBERRIES and CURRANTS, str< ng plants of the 
RASPBERRIES, Fastolf, Red Antwerp, Fillbasket, and 
other known sorts; 
STRAWBERRIES, of all the best varieties; 
NATIVE GRAPES, Isabella, Catawba, and other hardy 
FOREIGN GRAPES; all the well known sorts, with some 
new varieties of great excellence. These plants are propagated 
from vines that have borne abundantly for some years, and are 
known to be correct. 
Great care is taken in the cultivation of Fruit Trees, and none 
but those of the best quality are allowed to be sent out. 
THE ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT 
Contains Trees of all sizes for lawns anti streets, including 
Elm, Silver , Norway and Sycamore Maples f Catalpas, Lindens, 
Tulip Trees, Cypress, Larch, Willows, Ash, Abele , Oriental Plane, 
and all the best varieties of deciduous trees. 
It also includes EVERGREENS of fine size for single plant¬ 
ing, and of small sizes at low prices, from one foot upwards, for 
massing; among them are Norivay Spruce .Balsam Fir, Austrian 
Pine, Hemlock, White Pine, Scotch Fir, and other varieties. 
The best Shrubs include many fine varieties at low prices, for 
massing, of which the Rhododendron Catawbiense can be par¬ 
ticularly recommended for its fine evergreen foliage, showy 
bloom, and perfect hardiness. 
The ROSES are cultivated in very large quantity, on their 
own roots, of all the most rare varieties, and to those who pur¬ 
chase in quantity, will be sold at greatly reduced rates. 
THE EXOTIC DEPARTMENT 
Contains a fine assortment of CAMELLIAS, grown as bushy, 
rather than tall, slender plants; and also contains all the well- 
known varieties of exotic plants, and many rare sorts introduced 
from Europe annually. These are all carefully grown for those 
who desire plants of symmetry and beauty. 
CATALOGUES of all the departments will be furnished on 
application. Great care will be taken in packing, and trees will 
be delivered in New-York, and thence shipped as directed. 
117nll3 
ANDRE LEROY’S NURSERIES AT ANGERS, 
FRANCE. 
M R. ANDRE LEROY, MEMBER OF 
the principal Horticultural and Agricultural Societies 
of Europe and America, and lately promoted by the French 
Emperor to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honor for the 
best Nursery products exhibited at the World’s Fair held in 
Paris, begs leave to inform his friends and the public that he 
has just published his new Catalogue for 1856, being more ex¬ 
tensive and complete than that of any similar establishment on 
the Continent. It contains the prices, &c., of all the Fruit, 
Ornamental and Evergreen Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Camellias, 
Stocks, Seedlings, &c., &c , with the necessary information for 
importing same. His experience in putting up orders for Amer¬ 
ica, and the superior quality of his plants, have been too well 
appreciated during a period of ten years to require further com¬ 
ment. The Catalogue can be obtained free of charge, on appli¬ 
cation to the undersigned agent, who will also receive and lor- 
ward the orders. Mr. A. Leroy is happy in being able to state 
that his Nurseries were not reached by the inundation which 
so recently devastated a portion of the district in which they 
are situated. ANDRE LEROY, Angers. 
F. A. BRUGUIERE, Sole Agent, 
117—119nl05 No. 138 Pearl-street, New-York. 
RHINEBECK NURSERY. 
G SNYDER & CO. OFFER FOR 
• sale this Fall and the coming Spring, a good assort¬ 
ment of all kinds of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Roses and 
V ines. 
Catalogues sent free, and Trees packed and shipped to.New 
York free of charge. Address 
117nI0G G. SNYDER & CO., Rhinebeck, N. Y. 
R ussia or bass mats, gunny 
BAGS, TWINES, &c., suitable for Nursery purposes, for 
sale in lots to suit, by 
D. W. MANWARING, Importer. 
llM28nUQ 248 Front-street, New-York- 
