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Allen's (R. L.) American Farm Book. 1 50 
Allen's Disetises of Domestic Animals.. . . 1 00 
American Bird Fancier. go 
American Rose Culturist. 30 
American Weeds and useful Plants... . 1 75 
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Barry’s Fruit Garden. 1 7.5 
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Blake's Farmer’s Encyclopedia. 1 50 
Boussingault’s Rural Economy. 1 60 
Brldgeihan’s Fruit Cultivator’s Manual..... 75 
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Bridgeman’s Kitchen Garden Instructor. 75 
Bridgeman’s Florist's Guide. 75 
Brandt’s Age of Horses (Englisli and German). 50 
Breck’s Book of Flowers. 1 50 
Browne’s Field Book of Manures. 1 50 
Buist’s Flower garden Directory.. 1 50 
Buist’s Family Kitclien Gardener. 1 00 
Burr’s Vegetables of America. 5 00 
Carpenters and Joiners’ Hand Book.. (Holly). 75 
Chorlton’s Grape-Grower's Guide. 75 
Cobbett's American Gardener. 75 
Cole’s (S. W.) American Fruit Book. 60 
Cole’s Veterinarian. 75 
Colman’s Agriculture. 5 00 
Copeland’s Country Life. 4 50 
Cottage Bee-Keeper. 75 
Cotton Planters’ Manual (Turner). 1 50 
Dadd’s .Modern Horse Doctor. 1 50 
Dadd’s (Geo. H.) American Cattle Doctor. 1 50 
Dana’s Muck Manual. 1 25 
Dog and Gun (Hooper’s). 30 
Downing's Landscape Gardening (now Edition). 6 50 
Dorvning’s Cottage Residences. 2 50 
Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 3 00 
Eastwood on Cranberry. 75 
Elliott’s Western Fruit Grower’s Guide. 1 50 
Employment of Women—By Virginia Penny. 1 .50 
Flax Culture. 50 
French’s Farm Drainage. 1 50 
Field’s (Tliomas W.) Pear Culture. 1 25 
Fish Culture. 125 
Flint (Cliiu'lcs L.) on Grasses. 2 00 
Flint’s Milcli Corvs and Dairy Farming. 2 00 
Fuller’s Grape Culturist. 1 50 
Fuller’s Strawberry Culturist. 20 
Goodale’s Principles of Breeding. 1 25 
Gray’s Manual of Botany and Lessons in one Vol. 4 00 
Gray’s How Plants Grow. 1 25 
Guenon on Milch Cows. 75 
Hall's (Miss) American Cookery. 1 25 
Harasztliy (jrape Culture, &c. 5 Oo 
Harris’ Insects In.iurions to Vegetation, plain. 3 50 
Harris’ Insects Injurious to Vegetation, colored plates. 4 50 
Herbert’s Hints to llorsekeepers... 1 75 
Hints to Riflemen, by Cleveland. 1 50 
Holly’s Country Seats. 4 50 
Hop Culture. 40 
How to Buy a Farm and Where to Find One. 1 75 
Insect Enemies of Fruit Trees, (Trimlile). 8 00 
Jaques’ Fruits and Fruit Trees. 60 
Jennings on Cattle. 2 00 
Jenning's on the Horse and ills Diseases. 2 00 
Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistry. 1 75 
•Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 1 25 
Kemp’s Landscape Gardening. 2 00 
Langsu'oth on the Honey Bee . 2 00 
Loudon’s (_Downing’s) Ladies’Flower Garden. 2 03 
Leuchar's Howto Build Hot-houses. 1 50 
Lieltig's Familiar Letters on Chemistry. 50 
Liebig’s Modern Agriculture. 1 25 
Liebig’s Natural Laws of Husbandry. 1 50 
Linsley’s (D. C.) ^forgan Horses.. i 50 
Manual of Agriculture by G. Emerson and C. L. Flint 1 50 
ilayliew’s Illustrated Horse Doctor . 3 60 
Mavhew’s Illustrated Horse Management.. 3 .50 
McMalion’s American Gardener. 2 50 
Miles on the Horse’s foot. 75 
Morrell’s American Sliepherd. 1 75 
Mv Farm of Edgewood.. 2 00 
National Almanac and Annual Record. 1 50 
Neill’s Practical Gardener_(Pardee). 1 50 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture. 75 
Olcott’s Sorgho and Imphee. 1 25 
Onion Culture . 20 
Our Farm of Four Acres (hound) 60c.(paper) 30 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 75 
Parsons on the Rose. 1 50 
Pltantom Bouquet, or Skeleton Leaves. 2 00 
Pedder’s Land Measurer. 60 
Qninby’s Mysteries of Bee keeping. 1 75 
Rabhit Fancier. 30 
KandalTs Sheep Husbandry. 1 50 
Randall’s Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry. 1 00 
Rand’s Flowers for Parlor and Garden. 3 00 
Richardson on the Dog. 30 
Rivers’ Orcliard Houses. -50 
Rural Afl'airs_(hound)_3Vols_each. 1 50 
Saunder’s Domestic Poultry_paper, 30 cts. ..bound.. 60 
Saxton’s Farmers’ Library, .set of 3 Vols. .morocco. 9 50 
Saxton's Farmers’ Library..set of SVols..cloth. 8 50 
Schenck’s Gardener’s Te.xt Book. 75 
Sheplierd’s own Book. 2 25 
Skillful Housewife . 75 
Smitli’s Landscape Gardening. 1 50 
Spencer's Education of Children. 1 50 
Stewart's (Jolin) Sial)le Book. . 1 30 
'Templeton’s Meclianic’s Pocket Companion. 1 50 
Ten Acres Enougli. 1 50 
Thaer’s (A. D.) Principles of Agriculture. 2 .50 
Thomas' Fruit Culturist. 1 60 
Thompson's F'ood of Animals. 1 00 
Tobacco Culture . ^ 
Todd’s (S. E.) Young Farmer’s Manual. 1 30 
Tuclcer's Register Rural Affairs. 30 
Vaux’s Villas and Cotta,ges. 3 00 
Villas and Farm Cottages, (Cleavcland and Backus)... S 00 
Walden’s Complete Soil Culture. 1 jO 
W'arder's Hedges and Evergreens. . J ;>0 
Waring’s Elenients of Agriculture. 1 00 
Watson’s American Hon'ie Garden. .. . 2 00 
Wax Flowers (Art of Making). . 2 00 
Wetherill on the Manufacture of Vinegar. 1 50 
Wheat Plant (Joim Klinpart’s).. 1 50 
Woodward’s Country Homes. 1 50 
Woodward’s Graperies.... 1 50 
Youatt and Spooner on tlie Horse. 1 50 
Youatt and Afartin on Cattle. 1 50 
Youatt on the Hog. 1 00 
Youatt on Sheep. J 00 
Toumans’ Household Science.. 2 00 
Youmans’ New Chemistry. » 00 
1. TRANSACTIONS AT TUK NEW-YORK MARKETS. 
Receipts. Flour. V7ieat. Corn. Bye. Barley. Oats. 
24days(/a'.9m'th.357,000 411,000 2,770,000 64,000 636,000 957,000 
24 days last m’tli.206,000 1,275,000 2,373,000 109,000 167,000 764,000 
Sales. Four. Wheat. Corn. Bye. Barley. 
24 days ffiis month, 367,000 1.789,000 1,981,000 63,000 383,000 
24 days last montli, 351,000 2,052,000 2,318,000 97,000 5,500 
3. Comparison with same period at this time last year. 
Receipts. Four. Wheat. Corn. Bye. Barley. Oats. 
2-1 days 1865.337.000 441,000 2,779,000 64,000636,000 957,000 
26 days 1864.339.000 1,313,000 1,190,000 187,000 321,000 1,9'23,000 
Sales. Four. Wheat. Corn. Bye. Barley. 
24 days 1865 . 367,000 1,789,000 1,981,000 63,000 383,000 
26 days 1864 . 278,000 1,365,000 1,437,500 94,000 '118,000 
3. Exports from New- York, January 1 to Oct. 14 : 
Flour, Wheat, Corn, Rye, Oats. 
1865. 1,085,399 1,778,863 2,209,900 170,694 &"..7S4 
1864 .1,638,945 11,552,792 799,597 453 37,795 
1863. 2,876,765 12.982,582 7,414,704 415,249 117,599 
1862. 2,440,328 19,097,373 9,228,402 1,016,017 133,631 
4. Receipts of Breadstuff's at the head of tide water at 
Albany, from the. Commencement of Navigation to Oct. 7. 
Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barley. Oats. 
1865.. ..519.000 5-945,000 10.276,200 548,1001,049,700 6,714,900 
1864.. ..713.600 12,038,200 7,866,400 271,700 589,000 6,493,900 
1863.. ..891.900 13,017,900 18,985,500 801,000 686,700 5,908,500 
Owing partly to speculation, and partly to a heavy 
demand for duties on imported goods, gold has been 
higher the past month, at one time touching 149. To-day 
it is liiX against 142X a month ago. As noted in the 
table below, the prices of breadstuffs are higher, affected 
somewliat by the gold market, but more by an active 
speculation at Chicago, amounting to gambling. Dealers 
lliere liave even purchased largely in this market, and 
prices have been carried up beyond the reach of buyers 
for foreign markets, so much so as lo almost stop export, 
while the Western speculation has prevented the usual 
supplies from coming forward. It can hardly be olher- 
vtise than that there will be trouble resulting from these 
gambling operations, and we shall not be surprised to see 
an early breakdown in prices.Corn, Rye, Barley, 
and Oats are quiet and prices weaker.Cotton has 
been in brisk demand, at rapidly advancing prices, under 
the foreign news. The receipts continue large_Provi¬ 
sions have been in more demand at very irregular prices. 
-Hog products closed heavily ; Beef, Butter, and 
Cheese, quite firmly — Wool has been in good reque.st 
at steady prices, but closed tamely ...Hay, Hops, and 
Tobacco in fair request at uniform quotations. 
Current Wholesale Prices. 
Sept. 16. 
Oct. 16. 
Flour—S uper to Extra State 
90 
@ 8 10 
$7 90 
® 8 90 
Super to Extra Southern. 
9 25 
@14 00 
9 60 
@16 00 
Extra AVestern. 
7 70 
@14 00 
8 50 
@10 00 
Extra Genesee. 
8 20 
@10 90 
9 00 
@12 75 
Superfine AVestern. 
6 90 
® 7 40 
7 90 
@ 8 40 
Rye Flour. 
5 GO 
@ G 25 
6 25 
@ 7 25 
Cor.N Meal.... . 
4 75 
® 5 35 
4 75 
@ 5 25 
■\VnEAT—AU kinds ofWIiitc. 
2 10 - 
@ 2 40 
2 411 
@ 2 65 
All kinds of Red and Amber. 
1 55 
@ 2 10 
1 72 
® 2 42 
Corn—Y' ellow. 
89 
® 90 
92 
@ 95 
Mixed.. 
72 
@ 89 
'(8 
® 92 
Oats—W estern. 
53 
@ 54 
58 
® 62 
State. 
53 
@ - 
@ 63 
Rye. 
100 
@ 1 05 
1 13 
® 1 18 
Barley.. 
110 
® 1 25 
1 09 
@ 1 25 
Cotton—M iddlings,^ ft.... 
44 
@ 45K 
58 
@ 60 
Hops—C rop of 1864, Ib. 
15 
@ 45 
10 
® 45 
Feathers—L ive Geese, lb. 
so 
@ - 
88 
(3 1 00 
Seed—C lover, ?) B . 
28 
@ 30 
13 
@ 15 
Timothy. ^ bushel. 
5 00 
® 5 50 
8 75 
® 4 25 
Flax, busliel. 
2 85 
@ 3 00 
2 80 
@ 3 00 
Sugar—B rown, lb. 
HK@ 16K 
12 
@ 17K 
Molasses, Cuba, ffgl. 
88 
® 62X 
50 
® 85 
Coffee-R io, ft B. 
18 
@ 22K 
18 
@ 22 
. Tobacco. Kentucky, &c., f) B. 
G 
@ 20 
6 
@ .20 
Seed Leaf, ^ ft. 
7 
@ SO 
7 
@ SO 
AVool—D omestic Fleece,?) lb. 
57M® -80 
56 
@ 80 
Domestic, pulled, f) B. 
60 
@ 72M 
50 
@ <67 
California, unwashed. 
20 
@ 45 
18 
® 46 
Tallow, f) b . 
155f@ 16K 
14 
@ 14H 
Oil Cake— f) ton. 
48 50 
@55 00 
50 00 
@55 00 
Fork—M ess, f) barrel. 
30 50 
@32 50 
34 75 
@35 87K 
Prime, f) barrel. 
24 50 
@25 00 
30 00 
@30 50 
Beef—P lain mess. 
8 50 
®12 50 
10 50 
@13 50 
Lard, in barrels, f) B . 
22X@ 27Ji 
24 
@ 28X 
Butteu—AA' eslern, ft B . 
25 
@ 38 
38 
@ 42 
State, B . 
33 
@ 50 
40 
@ 55 
Cheese. 
HK® 16H 
14 
@ 18>^ 
Beans—?) bushel. 
1 50 
® 2 00 
1 50 
® 2 25 
Peas-C anada. bushel. 
1 85 
@ 1 40 
1 35 
® 1 40 
Eggs— Fresh. ^ dozen. 
25 
@ 27 
83 
® 36 
Poultuy—F owls, ?) B . 
24 
@ 25 
18 
@ 21 
TnrkeVvS, ft. 
26 
@ 28 
19 
@ 20 
Potatoes— Mercers, bbl... 
2 00 
® 2 50 
2 25 
@ 2 50 
Peach Blows, ?) barrel. 
— 
®- 
2 00 
® 2 2) 
Buckeyes—New, ^barrel,... 
1 25 
® 1 50 
1 50 
@ 1 75 
Apple's—?) barrel. 
3 00 
@ 5 00 
3 00 
@ 0 50 
New Yorli B-iivc Stock Itlarkcts.— 
Beef Cattle.— The supply ior Ihe past month has 
averaged 6427 head per week ; previous month 5905 per 
week ; same period last year, 6289 per week. Quality 
belter than previous month ; demand generally good, and 
prices ranging j^cOle per lb. net. liigher. Latest prices 
for Prime to Extra 17Xc(®18]<fc per lb, estimated dressed 
weight; Medium to Good 14*'4e(S)16Hc ; Common to 
Poor, 14c®10c_ Milch Cows. Average weekly receipts 
121. Demand good and prices well up. First grade nnd 
Extra, $90(®$120 each ; Ordinary to Fair, $55(o)$85 ; In- 
