1876.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
69 
“Standard Pure” 
RUBBER BOOTS. 
MADE BY THE 
“ Can dee Rubber Co.” 
TESTIMONIALS. 
New York, Dec. 22d, 1873. 
Z. B. HEYWOOD, Esq., 381 Broadway, ) 
Or Messrs. L. CANDEE & CO., New Haven, Ct. j 
Dear Sir— Iii ansivei' to your inquiry , / will say, that a 
pair of your “ Standard Pure Gum Rubber Boots," ivltich 
1gave to my gardener, a year ago, wore very well, proving 
strong, pliable, and durable. After a good deal of me, 
they are still doing good service. 
Respectfully, ORANGE JUDD. 
(These boots were put in use Dec., 
1874, and consequently have given 
one year’s wear.) 
New York, Dec. 2ith, 1875. 
L. CANDEE RUBBER COMPANY. 
Gentlemen—/ made my farmer a qrresent of a pair of 
your Pure Rubber Boots, last winter, with the most satis¬ 
factory results Ob respects durability and comfort t. 
Tours, truly, C. C. NORTH. 
Any size Expressed C. O. D. Send for 
price-list. Correspondence Solicited. 
Z B. HEYWOOD, 
Wholesale and Retail dealer in all 
kinds of Rubber Goods. 
331 BROADWAY, NEW VOISK. 
Pratt’s Astral Oil. 
Absolutely SAFE! 
Perfectly Odorless J 
ALWAYS UNIFORM. ILLUMINATING QUALITIES 
SUPERIOR TO GAS. 
Bums in any lamp without danger of exploding or taking 
fire. Manufactured expressly to displace the use 
of highly volatile and dangerous oils. 
ITS SAFETY under EVERY possible 
TEST, and its perfect burning 
qualities, are proved by its 
continued use in over 
500,000 Families! 
While no accident, directly or indirectly, has ever occur¬ 
red from burning, storing, or handling it. 
CHAS. PRATT & CO., 
138 Pearl Street, Yew York. 
(CIRCULAR.) 
Consumers’ Importing Tea Co.,) 
No. 8 CImreli Street, r 
P. «. Box 5,509. New York City. ) 
This is a combination of capitalists to supply the consum¬ 
ers of Teas throughout the United States on the mutual 
principle 
We have experienced agents in- all the best districts of 
China and Japan to select Teas especially for our trade. 
We expect every consumer of Teas to render us all the 
assistance they can in carrying out our enterprise, as we 
make a specialty of SUPPLYING CONSUMERS ONLY 
Rot 
For sale by Watchmakers. By mail, 50 cents. Circulars 
free. J. S. BIRCH, 37 Maiden Lane, New York. 
Boiaris’s Patent Universal Eccentric Mils 
for Grinding Bones, Pot Shells, Ores, Old Crucibles, Fire 
Clay, Guanos, Oil Cake, Feed, Corn and Cob, Tobacco, Snuff, 
Sugar, Salts, Roots, Spices, Coffee, Cocoanut, Tomatoes, 
Saw-dust, Flax Seed, Asbestos, .Mica, Horn, etc., and what¬ 
ever cannot be ground by other Mills. Also for Paints, 
Printers’ Inks, Paste, Blacking, etc. 
JOHN W. THOMSON, Successor to James Bogardus, 
Cor. White and Elm Sts., N. Y. , 
Hoofing, Hoof Coating, Cement, Roof Paint, 
Paints— all colors— Fire Proof Coating, Boiler Cov¬ 
erings, for Steam Pipes, &e., Steam Packing, Sheath¬ 
ing Felts, Moth Proof Lining, &c. Ready for use, 
and easily applied. Send for Pamphlets, Price Lists, &c. 
H. W. JOHNS, 87 Maiden Lane, N. Y, 
DOMESTIC 
SEW1TO 
machines. 
liberal terms of Exchange 
for Second-hand Machines 
of every description. 
“DOMESTIC” PAPER FASHIONS. 
The Best Patterns made. Send 5 cts. for Catalogue 
Address DOMESTIC SEWINS MACHINE CO., 
E3“ Agents Wanted. NEW YORK. 
TM PF.lt CF.MT ~ 
of all your grain saved by using the Grange Farm Mill. 
Simple, cheap, reliable. Write for circular and samples to 
HENRY H. SWIFT, Millbrook, N. Y. 
distinct variegated Geranium “HAPPY 
4-N THOUGHT.” The most novel and welcome addi¬ 
tion yet added to this most popular class of plants. Send for 
Catalogue, containing colored Plate, ready 1st of February. 
SKED PADDOCK dj CO., Cleveland, Ohio. 
YF A. COVERT, Produce C#m> 
• mission Merchant, No. 112 Warren St., New 
York. “Quick sales and prompt returns.” ff3?“Send for 
my weekly Price-current and Marking Plat e. .£Fi 
(and allow no middlemen to make any profit on our impor¬ 
tations), which will enable us to supply them with Teas at 
prices lower than have ever been known, and of those tine 
qualities that seldom reach the interior, being sold only in 
tiie large cities and among the very wealthy. 
Hoping the consumer will take an interest in our enter¬ 
prise, and send at once for a circular with full explanations 
of how to proceed to obtain our goods, we remain, 
Most respectfully yours, 
Consumers’ Importing Tea Co., 
No. 8 Church Street, 
P. O. Box 5,509. New York City. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in January, 1874, 
by the Consumers’Importing Tea Co., in the Office of the 
Librarian of Congress. Washington, D. C. 
HARPER’S PERIODICALS. 
TERMS FOR 1876. 
Harper’s Magazine, One Year.$4 00 
Harper’s Weekly, One Year. 4 00 
Hap.per’s Bazar, One Year . 4 00 
One copy of either will be sent for one year. POSTAGE 
PREPAID by the Publisher's, to any Subscriber in the 
United States or Canada, on receipt of Four Dollars. 
Harper’s Magazine, Harper’s Weekly, and Harper’s 
Bazar, for one year, $10 00; or any two for $7 00: 
postage prepaid by the Publishers. 
An Extra Copy of either the Magazine, Weekly, or 
Bazar will be sent gratis for every Club of Five Sub¬ 
scribers at $4 00 each, in one remittance; or. Six Copies 
for $20 00, without extra copy; postage prepaid by the 
Publishers. 
HARPER BROTHERS, Franklin Square, New York. 
TOOLS, 
of all kinds for Farmers. Blacksmiths, Carpen¬ 
ters, and all classes of Mechanics. Illustrated 
Catalogues free to any address. GOODNOW «fc 
WIGHTMAN, 33 Coruhili, Boston, Mass. 
NEEDLES 
For all Machines at half the usual rates. Singer New Fam¬ 
ily, 40 cts. per doz. Wilcox & Gibbs, GO cts. Curved Needles, 
55 cts.; all others, 45 cts. Needle Threading Thimbles and 
Machine Needle Threader, 25 cts. each. Enclose the money 
in a letter, and the Needles will be sent by return mail. 
RELIABLE NEEDLE CO., Manufacturers, New Haven, Ct. 
STENCIL dies 
For cutting business 
Stencils, all sizes. Also 
complete outfits for 
Clothing Stencils ami Key Checks, witti which yonngmenare 
making from $5 to $20 a dav. Send for Catalogue ami samples 
to S. M, SPENCER, 347 Washington St„ Boston, Mass. 
Established in 1843. 
Agricultural Implements and 
Farm Machinery, Seeds, 
and Fertilizers. 
A full assortment of the best standard, as well as of the 
latest improved kinds, constantly in stock and lor sale by 
R. H. ALLEM & CO., 
189 & 191 Water Street, (P. O. Box 376), 
^_ MEW YORE CITY, 
Gaboon’s Broadcast Seed-Sower 
is Hie only practical grain and grass seed- 
sower known. It is now sold in all grain 
growing countries. 
Agencies— E. H. ALLEN & CO., New York.—AMES 
PLOW CO., Boston, Mass.—D. LANDRETH & SON, Phila¬ 
delphia: Pa,—E. WHITMAN & SONS, Baltimore, Md- 
WITHICNBURY & HAMPTON, Cincinnati, (). — H. W. 
LEUTKEMEYER, Cleveland, O.-.T. GEO. STILZ, Indiano- 
polis. Ind.—W. II. BANKS & CO., Chicago, III.—LEWIS 
GAGE & CO., Louisville, Ky—SEMPLE, DIRGE & CO., St. 
Louis, Mo.—FRANK BROS. & CO., San Francisco, Cal.— 
WM. EVANS, Montreal, P. Q. 
GOODELL COMPANY, Antrim, N. H., 
Sole Manufacturers. 
GOOD SEEDS 
Grown with care and painstaking from selected stocks 
always pay. Try mine. See advertisement "All About 
Gardening.” J. B. ROOT, Seed Grower, 
Rockford, Illinois. 
Our Annual Descriptive 
Seed Catalogue 
for 1876. 
Enlarged and Improved 
containing a com plcte list of 
all the best varieties of 
VEGETABLE, FIELD and 
FLOWER SEEDS, is now 
ready, and will be sent to 
any address on receipt of 
postage stamp. 
E. A. KEEVES, 
58 00URTLAHD ST,, 
New York City. 
ESTABLISHED IN 1854. 
HIGHLAND HARDY. 
The most profitable market Raspberry grown. 
Produced last season over $1,090 worth of fruit to the 
acre. It bears enormous crops, and is the earliest of all.— 
“ I regard the Highland Hardy as one of the most promising' 
raspberries grown. It is the earliest that I have seen, and is 
perfectly hardy.”— Rev. E. 1\ Roe , author of “Play and 
Profit in my Garden,” etc. 
Price by mail, post-paid: I By express: 
75 cts. per doz—$3.50 per 100. | $3 per lOO—$15 per 1,000. 
530,000 surplus and very fine American Arbor Vitae, 3 to 
6 ft., twice transp., very cheap—1.000.000 Am. Arb. seed¬ 
lings.—Downing Gooseberry, best Am. gooseberry; 
per doz., $2.50, post-paid. See our seed adv. in another 
column. Send for catalogue. 
Established 1863. W. JL« FERRIS, Jr., & CO„, 
Dutchess Nurseries. Pongh.Jc.eepsie, N. Y. 
Chilli Red, Early Goodrich, Peerless, 
and Rose Seed Potatoes, 
for sale by MEYERS & ABBEY. 
83 Murray St., N. Y. 
