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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
June.] 
TWENTY-ONE years’ experience. 
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ents in the world. 
TWENTY thousand Patents obtained in United 
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CHARGES less than any other reliable agents. 
PATENT LAWS and Pamphlets of Advice to 
Inventors mailed free. A bound volume of 
150 mechanical engravings and the Census of 
the United States by counties, with hints and 
receipts for mechanics, price 25 cents. Com¬ 
munication conlldcntial. Address 
MTJNN - & CO., 
ITo. 37 Park How, Y. 
A VALUABLE HOME LIBRARY. 
BACK VOLUMES 
OF THE 
AMERICAN AGRHfLTURIST. 
The publishers of the American, Agriculturist can supply 
any of the back volumes of that paper from the Sixteenth to 
the Twenty-seventh. These volumes contain more varied 
and interesting information on all matters pertaining to 
the Farm, Garden, and Household, than can be obtained 
in books costing three times as much money. Trice of 
each bound volume, at the Office, $2.00; sent post-paid, 
ENBIiESS AMUSEMENT 
FOXl 
BOYS MI? girls. 
Crandall’s Improved Building Blocks 
furnish a most attractive amusement for children. They are 
very simple in construction, will stand years of children’s 
handling without breaking, and give renewed pleasure daily. 
CSEUiatEMSS, DWELLINGS, 
ISA at NS, MILLS, 
FENCES, FURNITURE, etc., 
in almost endless variety, can be built with them, and when 
finished,' the structure remains firm so that it can be carried 
about without falling to pieces. 
The Blocks are put up in neat boxes, cacli box containing 
a set, and a card giving various designs of buildings. Trice 
per Set: Plain, No. 1, $2.00; No.2, ifl.r>0; No. 3, $1.00. Extra, 
Maple Finish, No. 1, $3.00: No. 2. $2.00; No/Js, $1.50. A liber¬ 
al discount will be made to dealers. Address 
OIRAMGE JUDD & CO,, 
245 Broadway, PJew York. 
THE 
GREAT WESTERN 
MUTUAL 
Life Insurance Company 
OF JYFJV YORK. 
Office, No. SO Nassau Street. 
OFFICERS : 
ROBERT BARE, President. 
FREDERICK W. MACY, Yice-Pres. 
WESLEY E. SHADER, Secretary. 
JOHN H. BIRD, Counsellor. 
D. L. EIGENBRODT, M. D., Med. Ex. 
It is not generally Known 
Elinas tCJemame Waltham Watches 
are sold i tii New If oris at lower prices than 
isi any oilier part off tlie country. We 
send single Watclies Dy Express to any 
place, however remote, at the reduced 
prices, and we give the purchaser the 
privilege off examining’ the Watch be¬ 
fore paying. Silver IE anting Watches, 
S18; Gold Hunting Watches, 870. Every 
Watch warranted !>y a special Certifi¬ 
cate. Our descriptive Price Eist gives 
full information in regard to the differ¬ 
ent kinds and our manner of sending 
them by Express. We send it to any 
one, post paid, on application. When 
yon write, please state in what Taper 
you saw this notice. Address in full, 
HOWARD & CO., Jewelers and S.l- 
versmiths, No. G10 Urondway, New York. 
Gorham Manufacturing Company, 
Providence, JR.. I., 
STEELING SILVER-WARE 
AND FINE ELECTRO-PLATED WARE. 
This Company, having the most extensive and complete 
Silver-Ware Factory in the world, and employing the best 
talent »n designing, modelling, and finishing, are, with the 
aid of ingenious and labor-saving machinery, enabled to 
produce large quantities, and at the lowest prices, goods 
beautiful 1.1 design and unsurpassed in finish, the fineness of 
which they guarantee to he of sterling purity, U. S. Mint 
assay. A certificate is issued with all articles in silver, for 
the purpose of protecting purchasers from imitations of 
their designs. 
They also continue to manufacture their well-known and 
unrivalled Nickel-Silver Electro-Plated Ware, which will 
last twenty-five years with fair everyday usage. 
Orders received from the trade only, but these goods may 
be c btained from responsible dealers everywhere. „ 
STERLING. 
Trade Mark 
for 
Silver. 
Trade Mark 
for 
Electro- 
Plate. 
ID 
Issues all the approved form of Policies. 
Thirty days’ grace in payment of Pre¬ 
miums. 
We send our Illustrated Price List of 
Gorham Sterling Silver-ware, 
to any address on application. 
HOWARD & CO., Jewelers and Silversmiths, 
No. 619 Broadway, New York. 
No restriction on travel or residence. 
All Policies non-forfeitable and are kept 
in force for the full amount after 
one annual payment, as long as 
there is any surrender value. 
Circulars containing full information 
sent on application. 
AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN 
Manufactured by 
The National Watch 
(Co., 
OF ELGIN, FILE. 
Pronounced by Watch ma¬ 
kers, Railroad and Express 
men, East and West., to he the 
most correct Time Keepers 
made. 
Avoid Imitations, and all par¬ 
ties wlio advertise to send our 
Goods C. O. D. Call on your 
Jeweler and ask to see them. 
Business Office and Sales¬ 
room, 159 & 161 Lake-street, Chicago, Ill. 
IN THE UNITED STATES. 
njPBBE DEXTEIS, CS0SCIJI.A1S,, explain- 
ihg a newly discovered way to make all kinds ot horses 
and colts trot fast. Its wonderful sale throughout the 
United States. By this new method a man makes $1,200 on a 
single horse, and a hoy makes $950 on two common colts. A 
common farm librse is made to trot in 2:48, and he is sold 
for $800. All pacers made to trot; only thirty minutes re¬ 
quired to increase the speed of any horse or colt, or the 
money returned. Brice only$l. Postage free. Address, 
enclosing $1, P1EKUE I). VAN HOKSEN, 
P. O. Box 6,033. No. 67 Soutli-st., New York. 
CAlEIiMAS. 
PARSONS & CO. offer a large stock ol very fine plants. 
They arc unusually healthy, vigorous, and well formed. For 
Catalogues, address at FLUSHING, JS T . Y. 
and sureslSent by mail, post-paid, with 
, Ink and Brush, old English letters, $1; 
Writing, 75c.; Italic. 05c. s Roman. 50c. 
a j Agents wanted. II. Osborn, Peabody,Mass. 
P URE ITALIAN QUEEN BEES ARE GIVEN 
AAV AY as Premiums to small clubs for Tiie Phreno¬ 
logical Journal. Enclose stamp at once for circular. 
Address S. R. AVELLS, Box 739. New York. 
DR AIN AGAR.—See advertisement of C. AA r . BOYNTON 
& CO., AA’oodbridge, N. J., on another page. 
Recommended as “Best,” by American Agriculturist . 
(See Premium List and hack numbers.) Sold by- dealers, 
generally. R. C. BROAVNING, Gen. Agent, 
32 Cortlandt-st., New York. 
CeiE’lxrdil© aiad UB’esylic* Nosapsi., 
Patented. 
Wc ask attention to the following commendations: 
“ I have tested your Plant Protector. Carbolic Disinfectin g 
Soap, and Cresylic Soap, at my own farm, willi the greatest 
satisfaction, and believe they will perform all that is claimed, 
and are worthy the entire confidence of the public.” 
Pasohall Morris, Esq., Ed. “Practical Farmer." 
Philadelphia. 
“ I purchased of you lastspringsomc Carbolic Disinfecting 
Soap for the mange, on a valuable dog, and I am happy to 
sav that it cured him in a very short time.” 
' Col. AVkight Rives, Globe Office, Washington, D. C. 
These Compounds manufactured solely by 
JAMES BUCHAN & CO., 
198 Elizahcth-st., New York. 
FHUiae AiVoosIrsafr BnronicltM'.—Best, 
JL clieanest, prettiest, and only perfectly Portable Ba¬ 
rometer ever made. Also over three hundred styles Ther¬ 
mometers, matte by 
CHARLES WILDER, Peterboro, N. II. 
Agents wanted in every County. 
