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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[March, 
MW INTMNDAY SCHOOL. 
Every superintendent nrd teacher knows the value of 
nusic in the Sunday School. It is one of its chief attractions 
and most profitable exercises. If you would have your 
Sunday School well attended, make its musio attractive. 
If you would have your Sunday School efficient as a means 
af good, make IT3 mix sio EFFICIENT. Song has peculiar 
power to reach the heart and arouse the feelings. All this is, 
In some measure, at least, understood and appreciated, and 
the problem, often a difficult one, is how to make the music 
what it should be. 
No one means Is more Important to this end, than a good 
Office of VEE.MILYE & C0-, Bankers, 
No. 44 WALL STREET, N. Y., Jan 22, 1364. 
We have notice from the General Subscription Agent of the 
5.20 Loan that THE WHOLE AMOUNT OF THIS LOAN 
authorized by law HAS BEEN TAKEN by subscribers. 
We cannot, therefore, furnish, as heretofore, the Bonds at 
par and interest. 
We shall be pleased to fill orders for these Bonds AT 
MARKET RATES, and shall endeavor to keep constantly 
on hand, ready for immediate delivery, a full assortment. 
We also buy and sell all kinds of 
GOVERNMENT STOCKS: 
The New 5 Per Cent. INTEREST-BEARING LEGAL- 
TENDER NOTES. 
6 Per Cent. CF.TIFICATES of INDEBTEDNESS. 
7-30 TREASURY NOTES. 
0 Percent. COUPON and REGISTERED BONDS, 1881. 
U. S. QUARTERMASTER’S CHECKS. 
Maturing Certificates collected or cashed on favorable 
terms. VERMEL YE &■ CO., 
Gov’t Agents Five-Twenty Loan. 
accompanying instrument. However excellent the leader 
I S K. Sc II j\. T O II, 
may be, he needs an instrument to help him; and where the 
leader has not much confidence in himself; an accompanying 
No. 38 WaII-st., New-York: City. 
liODI POUDRETTE. 
THE LODI MANUFACTURING CO., with 
an experience of 24 years, again offer a uniform 
T article of Poudrette, prepared from the night 
isoil of the City of New-York. 
I The experience of thousands of customers' 
(attest to tlie fact that it is the cheapest and 
(the very best fertilizer in mark et. it is par¬ 
ticularly adapted for Tobacco, Corn, Potatoes, 
| and Garden truck. A pamphlet containing 
directions for use, &e„ may be had free by ad¬ 
dressing a letter to the 
LODI MANUFACTURING CO., 
66 Courtlandt-st„ New-York, 
We call attention to the following experiences of prac¬ 
tical farmers, who have used Poudrettc for years: 
Melrose, near Hickory, Hartford Co., Md. • 
October 13,1S63. 
Agents Lodi Manufacturing Co. 
Gents: I have used the Lodi Poudrettc on corn and ota 
toes. I tried it by the side of barn-yard manure, anc i jiink 
the POUDRETTE PRODUCED ONE-THIRD MORE CORN. I SOU- 
sider it a very cheap fertilizer. 
JAMES BILLINGS & CO. 
.nstrument is of yet more value. Such an instrument will 
Attract and interest the children; will Induce them to try to 
sing, and render it much easier for them to do so. It will add 
vastly to the impressiveness of the music; and, indeed, so 
great is its value that no Sunday School which has enjoyed 
the use of a good one, will afterward he satisfied to do with¬ 
out one. 
BANKERS AND DEALERS IN 
All kinds of Government and other Se¬ 
curities. Orders from the Country for pur¬ 
chase of Government Honds, etc., attend¬ 
ed to WITH CAIS1E and Promptness. 
Magnolia, Harford Co., Md, October 31, 1863. 
Agents Lodi Manufacturing Co. 
Dear Sirs: In answer to your request respecting mv onin- 
ion of the Lodi Poudrette, I used it last spring on coin iuid 
all kinds of garden vegetables, and I consider it the cheap 
est and best manure for the hill I ever used, although I have 
used Peruvian Guano, Phosphate, and many other fertilizers 
I would give it the preference to anv other. 
Yours respectfully EDWARD SWEETING, 
A great difficulty in the way of the general introduction of 
accompanying instruments in Sabbath Schools, has Jieen the 
lack of these, which were both desirable and available. Such 
an instrument must have good quality of tone, for this is 
ihe first essential; it must have great volume or power, be¬ 
cause it should be sufficient to guide and sustain, (though 
not overpower) a chorus of hundreds of voices; it must oc¬ 
cupy little space, because not many Sunday School rooms 
have much to spare for such a purpose; it must be durable, 
. not liable to get out of order, or out of tune: and last, (not 
least, practically) it must be afforded at a moderate cost, for 
few Sunday Scliool3 can afford to expend a very large sum 
for an instrument. The melodeon has failed, chiefly because 
It lacked power or volume of tone; the various harmoniums, 
school^organs, &c„ have had more power, hut have been de¬ 
ficient in quality of tone, and in other respects. 
MASON & HAMLIN, having been long extensively en¬ 
gaged in the manufacture of melodeons and harmoniums,(for 
Which they have invariable taken the first premiums at all 
industrial fairs and exhibitions), have had constant evidence 
of the need of a better instrument, such as has been describ¬ 
ed, for Sunday Schools and Churches, as well as for private 
use. The experience of this want led them to the institution 
of many experiments, looking to such improvements, the 
first important result of which was the introduction by them 
of tlie harmonium several years since. This instrument was an 
improvement upon the Melodeon in several respects. Aim- 
lng at still better results however, M. & H. continued their 
experiments, and had the satisfaction, something more than 
a year since, of introducing the CABINET ORGAN, an 
instrument similar in several respects to the melodeon and 
harmonium, hut possessing several very important improve¬ 
ments over these instruments and all others of its general 
class. 
Tlie CABINET ORGAN is recommended with con¬ 
fidence as admirably suited in. all respects to Sunday Schools 
and Churches, as well as private use. Some of its prominent 
excellences are its pure, round, organ like tone; its great 
volume of tone, adapting it to the accompaniment of large 
numbers of voices; its capacity for expression, arising chiefly 
from the AUTOMATIC BELLOWS SWELL, a new 
Invention cf much more practical value than any improve¬ 
ment made in such instruments for many years; its compact 
form ; its durability and quality of keeping in tuneforycars; 
its quickness of action, adapting it to the performance of very 
rapid music, and its moderate cost. $135 will procure 
a double reed CABINET ORGAN of five octaves compass, 
a most satisfactory instrument for any School. $110 is the 
price of a double reed Organ with four octaves compass. 
Single reed instruments are furnished at $85 and $100. The 
larger sizes at $260, $380 and $500 each, with six, eight and 
twelve stops, have, of course, much more power and variety. 
They are at least equal in power and variety, and quality of 
tone to the best pipe organ which can be built for double 
their cost, while they are more portable, durable, and less 
liable to get out of order. 
Any one who can play the piano, or melodeon a little, can 
play the Cabinet Organ. Or, If in any school there he no one 
who can already play, there will almost always be found 
some one who can and will learn enough in a very short 
tone to accompany well. 
The present is a good time for the Introduction of such an 
Instrument. Small contributions from the many Interested in 
almost every Sabbath School will raise the means. 
The manufacturers will be glad to send post-paid to any 
one Interested, an Illustrated Catalogue, containing full par¬ 
ticulars about these Instruments, with testimony to their 
value from a majority of tlie most eminent organists and 
musicians in the country. More than two hundred such have 
given their written opinions that they surpass ail other In¬ 
struments of their cl Asa tn tlie workt. Address 
MASON BROTHERS, 7 Mercer-St., New-York, 
Gr MASCOT & HAMLIN, 274 Washington-St., Boston. 
Also Agents for tke sale of XT. S. FIVE- 
TWENTY YEAR SIX PER CENT. BONUS. 
. S, B, C0NOYER, . 
Commission Dealer, 
260, 261 & 262 West Washington Market, 
FOOT OF FULTON-ST. 
Particular attention paid to selling all kinds of Fruit and 
other Farm Produce. 
Refers to the Editor of the American Agriculturist. 
CHARLES ¥. IDELL. 
FRUIT AND GENERAL PRODUCE 
COMMISSION MERCHANT, 
70 & 71 Broad Avenue, West Washington Market, New-York. 
Farmer’s Produce of all kinds, Green, Dried and Canned 
Fruits, Maple Sugar and Syrup, Pork, Poultry, Butter, Eggs, 
Game &c. 
Particular attention paid to Fruit. Consignments solicited. 
Sheppard, Seward & Co., 
Wholesale Dealers in 
AMERICAN & FOREIGN SEEDS. 
214 Pearl-Street, New-York. 
Catalogues on application. 
Win. M. KANLETT, Areltitec*. 
Hohokus, Bergen County, N. J. 
TO FARMERS 
AND OTHERS. 
We are manufacturing a Genuine Article of very Fine 
BONE DUST, and RAW BONE SUPERPHOS¬ 
PHATE OP DIME, manufactured from unburned 
Bones, containing all the Animal and Chemical Fertilizing 
Properties. Please address the Manufacturers, and get the 
Intrinsic Value of your money. 
N. B. A Liberal Discount made to Dealers for Cash, 
Address A. LISTER & BRO., 
Newark. N. J. 
AMM0NIATED PACIFIC GUANO. 
A real guano containing from seventy to eighty per cent 
of Phosphate of Lime, to which has been added, by a chemi¬ 
cal process, a large percentage of Actual Ammonia so fixed 
that it can not evaporate, making it equal if not superior to 
any other fertilizer. 
Pamphlets witli copies of Analysis liy Dr. Jackson, Mass. 
State Assayer, and testimonials from scientific Agriculturists 
showing its value can be obtained from 
J. O. BAKER & CO., Selling agents, 
87 Wall-st., New-York. 
CHEAP FERTSOEEHS. 
Agricultural Chemical Company, 
Is now manufacturing and prepared to supply Farmers and 
Dealers with “Palmlettc,” ‘‘CUemical Compost,” 
and Phosphate of Dime.” Fertilizers which, for 
value and cheapness, have never been equalled. The Co.’s 
pamphlet circular sent to all who wish it. 
R. B. FITTS, Genl. Agt„ “ A. C. Co.,” 
413X Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
BONE TAFEU. 
Manufactured by the Lodi Manufacturing Co., from Bones, 
dried Night Soil and guano ground fine. 
Tlie Bone is well known for its lasting effects, and the 
night soil and guano for their quick action, the combination 
producing a fertilizer EQUAL to guano, and far superior to 
Superphosphate or ground Bones. Farmers using it dnring 
the past two years, speak .of it in the highest terms. Price 
$15 per ton. Packed in hbls. of 200 lbs. each. 
Address LODI MANUFACTURING CO., 
66 Courtiandtst,, New-York. 
Woodville. Prince George Co., Md., 
October 26,1863. 
Agents Lodi Manufacturing Co., Baltimore, Md.: 
Dear Sirs; As to the result in my application of the Lopi 
Poudrette, I applied it to a portion oi my corn in ilie hill, 
according to directions. It caused a very rapid growth; and 
promises a good yield for a very bad season. I think at least 
one third more Ilian I ever raised on the same field before 
My opinion is, that it is preferable to Peruvian Guano foi 
Corn, Yours &c. JOS. C. THOMAS. 
Pine Iron Works, Pa., 7 mo., 3d, 1863. I 
James R. Dey, Pres. Lodi Manufacturing Co., N. Y. 
Respected Friend; Thine of the 26th ult. lias been received I 
asking what our experience was in tlie use of the Bone-Ta- 
Feu. We put tlie thirty barrels on about nine acres of I 
wheat, harrowing it in, before drilling in tlie wheat, and are i 
so far well satisfied with it, as it appears to be equally as ! 
good as any other nart of the field, (about 40 acres), which i 
was well manured with good barn-vard and stable manure, if 
Altogether likely to be a good crop, being now nearly I 
ripe. Respectfully thy friend, 
JOSEPH BAILEY. I 
Nortovile, Conn,, Litchfield Co., Dec., 1863, I 
Agent Lodi Manufacturing Co. 
I put four barrels of Poudrette upon an acre of ground I 
tills year, from which I raised a crop of Tobacco amounting I 
when sold to a little over $400. I might also state that, I I 
sowed it in a bed in one corner of the lot, from which I raised 1 
the earliest plant, and sold enough, beside what I used, to i, 
amount to $100. Thus you see, I realized over Five hundred | 
dollars, from an acre of ground. There was no other ma- ij 
nure of any consequence upon the lot. The Poudrette cost il 
me, delivered, about two dollars per barrel or eight dollars I 
in total Yours very respectfully, 
CHA 
IARLES BARTRAM. 
New Milford, Litchfield Co., Conn., Dec. 15, 1863. 
Agent Lodi Manufacturing Co. 
Dear Sir: I was induced by your Agent at Northville, Mr. 
F. S. Bartram, to try the Poudrette upon Tobacco this last 
year, which resulted most satisfactorily to me. I also tried 
the Super Phosphate of Lime and a mixture of lien Manure 
and Plaster, sid&by side with the Poudrette. Tlie Tobacco 
where I put the Poudrette was much earlier, larger and bet¬ 
ter color, and I shall use the Poudrette in future, in prefer¬ 
ence to all ether Fertilzers. Yours truly, 
MARSHALL PLATT. 
Northtille, Litchfield Co., Conn, jj 
Agent Lodi Manufacturing Co. 
I used the Poudrette upon Sorghum this vear, and am so 
well satisfied with its results, that I shall use it in future, I i 
also tried it upon Tobacco with good success. 
Yours truly, EARLE BUCKINGHAM. I 
Extract of a letter from Messrs. Brush Brothers of Fresh 
Pond, N. Y„ dated July, 1863. 
“ It has been very dry with ns so far, and oats are very 
short; but where we used tlie Bone-Ta Fen, they have grown 
faster than they have along side where there was none put. 
We could also see a big difference in the looks of the pota¬ 
to vines, as they where not only larger, hut looked black 
and rank. We think it a good manure.” 
Bruce’s Concentrated Manure. 
No. 1 Peruvian Guano, Bone, or Poudrette. 
In the year 1862, some fifty tons were sold. Last year or- ■, 
ders came in to theamount of four Hundred tons,only f 
.•*««*•***>"“» ..j.shall manufai 1 
half of which could be Ailed. This year i 
ture ONE THOUSAND TONS. 
Its “component” parts are: 
40 per cent, of Animal fibre and Blood. 
40 per cent, of pure Ground B yies, 
20 per cent, of Absorbents. 
The absorbents are Charcoal and Gypsum. 
Price S45 Per Ton, packed In barrels 250 lbs. in each. 
Send for Circular. Sendyour orders to 
GRIFFING BROTHER & CO. 
60 Courtlandt-st., New-York. 
AGENTS 
Wanted everywhere to sell WOODRUFF’S PATENT I 
TORTABLE BAROMETERS. 
CHARLES WILDER, Pcterboro’, N. H. I 
