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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
Barley. 1 25 ®— 
Oats, River and Canal. — 55 ®— 
Oats, New-Jersey.— 48 ®— 
Oats, Western...— 55 ®— 
Peas, Black-Eyed.pbush. 2 12 ®— 
Provisions— 
Beef, Mess, Country,.P bbl. !l — (ffill 
Beef, Mess, City.10 — ®— 
Beef, Mess, extra.16 — ®>— 
Beef, Prime, Country, ..®> 7 
Beef, Prime, City..®— 
Beef, Prime Mess.FIce.23 — (5)24 
Pork, Prime.>..12 25 ®— 
Pork, Clear.14 — ®— 
Pork, Prime Mess..®— 
Lard, Ohio, prime, in barrels.$>' lb.— 10 (®— 
tlams. Pickled. — —<®— 
Shoulders, Pickled.. . (5)— 
Beef Hams, in Pickle. ..P bbl. - ®— 
Beef, Smoked.lb. — — <S >— 
Butter, Orange County.. — 24 (SO — 
Cheese, fair to prime . . — 9}<®— 
Plaster Paris- 
Blue Nova Scotia.P tun.3 25 ® — 
White Nova Scotia.3 — ® 3 
Rice- 
Ordinary to fair..IP 100 lb 4 62 <S> 4 
Good to prime . 5 37|® 5 
Salt— 
Turk's Island. W bush.- <S>— 
St. Martin’s.. (8>— 
Liverpool, Ground..P 1 sack. 1 20 ® 1 
Liverpool, Fine. 1 45 ® 1 
Liverpool, Fine, Ashton’s .1 62 ® 1 
Sugar— 
St. Croix.lb. - (SO— 
New-Orleans. .— 4}<®— 
Cuba Muscovado. — 41®— 
Porto Rico.... .— 5 ®— 
Havana, White. — 7i (SO— 
Havana, Brown and Yellow. - 5 ®— 
Manilla.- 51®— 
Brazil, White. — 6J® — 
Brazil Brown . — 5 ® — 
5i 
51 
6i 
8 
71 
51 
7 
51 
Tallow— 
American,Prune.lb.— 111®— 121 
Lumber— „ „ 
Timber, White Pme.P cubic it.— 18 ®— 24 
Timber, Oak. —25 ®— 30 
Timber, Grand Island, W. O.— 35 ®— 38 
Timber, Geo. Yel. Pine,.(by cargo)— 18 ®— 22 
YARD SELLING PRICES 
Timber, Oak Scantling.p M. ft. 30 — ®40 ■ 
Timber, or Beams, Eastern..17 50 ®19 75 
Plank, Geo. Pine, Worked .— — ®40 — 
Plank, Geo. Pine, Unworked.20 — ®25 — 
Plank and Boards, N. R. Clear..37 50 ®42 50 
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, $150 per barrel, for any 
quantity over six barrels. 1 barrel, $2; 2 barrels, $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 forpofatoes. 
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, 
Your obedient, servant, 
70—121nll52 BENJAMIN DANA. 
Ainwtiscnunts. 
Terms—( invariably cash before-insertion): 
Ten cents per line for each insertion. 
Advertisements standing one month one-fourth less. 
Advertisements standing three months one-third less. 
Ten woids make a line. 
No advertisement counted at less than ten lines. 
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TEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
ANNUAL MEETING, 
SECOND WEDNESDAY (14th) FEBRUARY. 
Premiums are offered on Farms, Draining, Field Crops, Grain 
and Seeds, by sample of five bushels; Fat Cattle and Sheep; 
Dressed Meats, Beef, Mutton, Pork, Poultry, Butter and Cheese. 
Apples, Pears, Grapes, &c. 
A list of Premiums will be seut by the Secretary to those who 
desire to compete. 
B. P. JOHNSON, Secretary. 
January 4th, 1855. 71—72nll53 
D EBURG’S SUPERPHOSPHATE, PE¬ 
RUVIAN GUANO, BONE DUST, POUDRETTE, &c., 
f or sale by R. L. ALLEN, 
70—77 189 and 191 Water-st , N. Y. 
ipERTILIZERS.—Bone Dust, Guano. 
-H- Poudrette Plaster, and Super Phosphate, all warranted o 
the best quality. R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water-st. 
AWTON BLACKBERRY.—Genuine 
Plants may be purchased of 
WM LAWTON, 
No 51 Wall-st., New-York 
GUANO OUTDONE. —THE GAS 
nA works turned to good account. 
C. B. DeBURG has the pleasure'of announcing to his fonner 
patrons, and to other farmers who may wish to improve their 
lands, that he lias, during the past year, succeeded in manufac¬ 
turing from the gas works, in and around New-York City, a 
Mipenor quality of Sulphate of Ammonia, in large quantities, 
and he is now prepared to furnish 
C. B. BeBURG’S SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME, 
Highly charged with AMMONIA, which is now acknowledged 
to be the most valuable ingredient in Peruvian Guano and other 
concentrated fertilizers. Price $45 per ton. DeBURG’S Su¬ 
perphosphate is warranted to contain 
. SEVENTEEN PER CENT OF AMMONIA. 
Agricultural Societies and distinguished farmers tried many 
experiments during the last season, and with almost universal 
success. Detailed accounts of several oi these will shortly be 
placed before the public for examination. 
'•The Proprietor is working for a future and lasting reputation, 
and will spare no effort to make every bag of Superphosphote 
bearing his name just, what it purports to be. To avoid imposi¬ 
tion or deception, every bag will henceforth be distinctly marked 
C. B. DeBURG, No. 1 SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME. 
(ESP Pamphlets with instructions for its use, &c., will be sent 
mi application. C. B. DeBURG, Williamsburg, N. Y., 
70—82nll51 Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer. 
I MPORTANT TO FARMERS and DAI- 
RYMEN. 
DICKEY’S PATENT CORN DRILL 
and 
BUTTER WORKER. 
This Corn Drill was Patented in 1849, and, after six years’ 
trial, by hundreds of farmers, there has been scarcely an instance 
in which it has not given entire satisfaction. 
The advantages of this DRILL over all others, are : 
1 . Certainty and regularity of operation. 
2. It is so constructed that the dropping part is always under 
the eye of the operator. 
3. The motion and all parts that are likely to wear being made 
of iron, renders them durable, and with care will last a life¬ 
time. 
4. The facility with which it can be altered to drop at differ¬ 
ent distances. 
5. There are two Plates go with every Drill—a drill and a hill 
plate. The drill plate can be made to drop at 9,12, and 14 inches 
distant, and the hill plate will drop 3 or 4 grains in a place, every 
2 feet, 2 1-2 feet, or 3 feet, as desired, and can be cnanged in a 
moment to drop either of the above distancos. It can also be 
regulated to put the corn into the ground any required depth. A 
man and horse can drop and cover, with one of these machines, 
from eight to ten acres per day. 
E. J. DICKEY’S PATENT BUTTER WORKER. 
This is really a great labor-saving Machine, and which is 
warranted to work one hundred pounds of butter perfectly dry 
in fifteen minutes, and with entire ease 1 o the operator; thus 
relieving the dairymaid of the most arduous and difficult part of 
her labor. 
The advantages of this Machine are: 
1. The rapidity with which it operates, and the perfect manner 
in which it leaves the butter, as it takes out every particle of 
buttermilk. 
2. The salt can be effectually incorporated with the butter at 
the same time that the operation is going on. 
3. The butter is worked without ever putting the hands into it. 
There has been nearly one hundred of these machines put in 
operation the past season, and in no instance have they failed to 
give entire satisfaction. From numerous certificates I select 
the following: 
Tliornbury, Del. Co., October 2, 1854. 
I have had E. J. Dickey’s Patent Butter-worker in use about 
four months, and have found it to fully answer the purpose for 
which it was designed. We have never had butter too hard or 
too soft to interfere with its operations in thoroughly working 
in the salt and working out the buttermilk, in a shorter time 
and with less labor than any other machine that we have used 
or seen used. JOHN T. HUDDLESON. 
Willowbrook Farm, Chester Co., Pa. 
E. J. Dickey — I am so well pleased with your Butter-worker, 
after testing it to my satisfaction, that I would not part wit h it 
for five times its cost, if I could not get another of the same 
kind. THOMAS S. YOUNG. 
August 30, 1854. 
^Orders for eitliei: of the above Machines addressed to E. J. 
DICKEY, Hopewell Cotton Works, Chester Co., Pa., will be 
promptly attended to. The Machines will be delivered at the 
Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad, or at the Columbia Rail¬ 
road, free of charge. 
fe-'JO—71nll50 E. J. DICKEY. 
F ANCY FOWLS FOR SALE.—a variety 
of pure bred Fowls, Asiatic, Spanish and Game Fowls, Se¬ 
bright, Black African, Antwerp, and other Bantams. 
B. & C. S. HAINES, 
70-74 Elizabethtown, New-Jersey. 
O SIER WILLOW, &C.—The subscriber 
will furnish cuttings of the SAL1X VIMINALIS, the best 
OSIER WILLOW, at $3 per 1,000. They can be sent during 
the winter and early spring to all parts of the continent. 
Orders addressed to the subscriber, care of C. P. Williams, 
Albany, N. Y., will meet with prompt attention. 
Also all varieties of Fruit Trees, Foreign and Native Grapes, 
&c. Catalogues sent on application. 
S. P. HOUGH 
70-87nll49 Hillside Nurseries, Albany, N. Y. 
T he most valuable of all fer- 
tilizers.—It is well known and now universally con¬ 
ceded, that for the greater number of crops the most valu¬ 
able element in all kinds of organic and artificial fertilizers 
is the ammonia contained in them. The subscriber has, 
on this account, |undertalten extensive arrangements for 
manufacturing subjects of amonia from the gas works in 
and about New-York city. The greater part of this is 
used in preparing his Sum it Phosphate of Lime, but he 
can also supply to such as require It, a few tons weight 
of the pure crystalized sulphate of amonia which will he 
furnished packed in quantities to suit purchasers at $6 50 
per hundred lbs. All orders promptly filled, 
66—78n 1142. C. B. DE BURG, Williamsburg,N. Y. 
AMERICAN HERD BOOK. 
CIRCULAR. 
B EAR SIR: During the past year I have been in¬ 
quired of, by several Short Horn cattle breedeis, 
when I intended to issue a second volume of the American 
Herd Book. My reply has been, “Not until the Short 
Horn breeders would come forward in sufficient number 
to patronize the work, by furnishing the pedigrees of their 
stock, and to buy the book to an extent sufficient to war¬ 
rant the expense of its publication.” The first volume of 
the American Herd Book, which I published in 1846, is 
still indebted to me in the cost of the book itself, throwing 
in the time and labor I spent upon it. 
At the late “ National Cattle Show,” held at Springfield. Ohio, 
a large number of Short Horn breeders were assembled, from 
ten or twelve States and the Canadas. The subject of a contin¬ 
uance of the publication of an American Herd Book was fully 
discussed by them. It was agreed that, with so large a number 
of Short Horn cattle as are now owned and bred in the United 
States, and the Canadas, a Herd Book, devoted to the registry of 
American Cattle, was imperatively demanded. The expense 
Lnd trouble of transmitting their pedigrees to England, and the 
purchase of the voluminous English Herd Book, now costing at 
least one hundred dollars, is no longer necessary i and that as 
the breeding of pure Short Horn Blood must depend much upon 
having a domestic record at hand, when the requisite informa¬ 
tion can be obtained, and that of a reliable character, a Herd 
Book is indispensable. 
In pursuance of'the unanimous request of the gentlemen en¬ 
gaged in breeding Short Homs, above alluded to, together with 
many individual solicitations, which I have received from other 
breeders during the past year, I have concluded to issue this, my 
Prospectus, for a second volume of “The American Herd Book, 
and to request you, if you feel an interest in the work, to inform 
me at your earliest convenience, whether you will aid in its pub¬ 
lication by sending a record of your animals for registry, and to 
designate the number of volumes of the book you will take. The 
size of the work will, of course, depend upon the number of ani- 
mals registered, which, if this oppurtunity is embraced by the 
breeders generally, will be several hundred pages octavo, and 
illustrated with portraits of such animals, properly engraved, as 
the owners may be desirous to have inserted, they furnishing the 
cuts for the purpose. 
I shall also give an account of all the recent importations into 
the United States. A copy of the Catalogue of each separate 
herd will be given, whenever they can be obtained, together 
with the account of their sales, the prices at which they were 
sold, purchaser’s names, &c. In short, every matter of interest 
in relation to them, so lar as it can be obtained, will be given. 
All papers relative to such information will be thankfully re¬ 
ceived, sent to my Post-Office address at Black Rock, N. Y. 
As it is necessary that I get to work by the first of March next, 
you will oblige me by replying immediately, and informing me 
whether you will have your cattle recorded, and if so, what the 
probable number will be, and the number of volumes you will 
take. The i ecording-fee for each animal will be fifty cents; 
the price of the book five dollars. The recording fees will be 
expected to be remitted in advance, when the pedigrees of the 
cattle are forwarded, and the book paid for on delivery. 
If, by any casualty, the book should not he issued, the ad¬ 
vance money will be promptly refunded. 
That there may be as little uncertainty as possible, I wish that 
the reply to this may be as prompt as convenient, that I may 
know whether I shall be justified in undertaking the work; if so, 
I will give you notice of the fact as early as the first of Februa¬ 
ry, 1855, on receiving which, your pedigrees and insertion-fees 
will bo required to be sent immediately. 
Very Respectfully yburs, 
LEWIS F. ALLEN. 
Buffalo, Black Rock Post-Office, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1854. 
P. S.—As I can not be presumed to know tho name and address 
of every Short Horn breeder in the country, you will oblige me 
by sending one of these Circulars to every breeder with whom 
you are acquainted, or to whom you have sold “ Herd Book” 
animals, and give me a list of others, that I may send them a 
circular, so as to give as extensive information as possible on 
the subject. L. F. A. 
^'’Agricultural papers throughout, the United States giving 
the above Circular one or more conspicuous insertions, shall be 
entitled to receive a copy of the Hera Book when issued. Aside 
from this, they will confer a favor on their several subscribers in 
thus giving them notice. 69—71nll40 
q^HE AMERICAN PICK. 
-a- (IVth VOLUME, 1855.) 
This Illustrated Comic Weekly, published in the City of New- 
York, every Saturday, is about to commence its fourth year. It 
has become a favorite paper throughout the United States. Be¬ 
sides its Designs by the first artists, it contains witty Editorials 
of character, and will carry cheerfulness to the gloomiest fire¬ 
side. Its variety renders it a favorite in every family. 
g&It contains, each week, a large quantity of Tales, Stories, An ¬ 
ecdotes, Scenes and witticisms. The “ Recollections of John C. 
Calhoun, bv his Private Secretary,” will be continued in the 
PICK until finished, and then a copy will be sent free to even' 
subscriber whose name shall be upon our mail book. Each 
yearly subscriber to the PICK will receive the double-sized Pic¬ 
torial sheets for the Fourth of July and Christmas, without 
charge. Each of these Pictorial sheets contains over 
200 SPENDID DESIGNS. 
The subscription price to the PICK is $1, cash in advance 
Six copies for $5. Thirteen copies for $10. 
Letters must be addressed to 
JOSEPH A. SCOVILLE, Proprietor, 
-63nll47 No. 26 Ann-st., New-York. 
A gricultural chemisty.-a 
- Course of Lectures for young farmers and others, com¬ 
mencing JANUARY 22,1855, and continuing one month. 
’ Practical instruction in analysis will occupy the remainder of 
each day. Analyses of all kinds made ana processes taught 
throughout the year. Address Prof. JOHN A. PORTER, 
68-71nll45 Yale College, New-Haven, Conn. 
D R. CLOUGH’S COLUMBIAN PILLS, 
A safe, sure and cheap cathartic medicine, prepared from 
the freshest and purest Gums, Balsams, and vegetable extracts; 
and for all the purposes of a purgative and a reliable family Pill, 
its equal can not be found. Its use is warranted to give entire 
satisfaction in all cases, and should be kept by every family. 
Observe a note for five mills on each Box, signed by WM. 
RENNE, Pittsfield, Mass. Sold by all Druggists.—C. H. Ring, 
A. B. &D. Sands, and C.V. Clickenor & Co., Agents, New York: 
T. W. Dyott & Sons, Philadelphia,; J. Wright & Co., New Or¬ 
leans; Weeks & Potter, Boston; Little & Cole, San Francisco, 
California. 68-71nll48 
R aspberry plants, of the pure 
RED ANTWERP slock, for sale in quantities to suit 
purchasers. The Plants are all warranted, and in a thrifty con¬ 
dition, and will be delivered in New-York for $50 per thousand. 
VALENTINE H. HALLOCK, 
Poughkeepsie, N. N. 
P. S.—Orders by mail will he promptly attended to, and no 
charge made for package. Orders to R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 
Water-st., N. Y-, will receive prompt attention. 60—tf 
