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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TO THE PUBLIC. 
Circumstances have made it advisable to suspend 
the publication of the New- York Agricultor, and 
Farm and Garden. 
In justice to the subscribers to those periodicals, 
we offer to refund the amount due on their sub¬ 
scriptions, or will send them the American Agricul¬ 
turist, for Prospectus Of which see below. 
PROSPECTUS OF VOLUME ELEVENTH OF THE 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
The American Agriculturist will hereafter be 
published weekly, and contain 16 large quarto 
pages, embellished with numerous engravings. 
Mr. A. B. Allen, so long favorably known as 
principal editor of the Monthly Agriculturist, will 
be the superintending Editor, and Mr. O. Judd, A. M., 
distinguished for his scientific and practical attain¬ 
ments, will be his associate. They will be assisted 
by a highly intelligent corps of agricultural writers, 
all of whom are either practical farmers, planters, 
stock-breeders, gardeners, or fruit-growers. 
No pains or expense will be spared to make this 
periodical a Standard Agricultural Work, which 
will convey to its readers weekly a large amount 
of information highly valuable to all interested in 
the culture of the soil. 
This is the only weekly periodical of its kind 
published in the United States; and it wilkpossees 
peculiar facilities for furnishing early reports of the 
produce, cattle, and grain-markets. These reports 
alone will be worth more than the cost of the paper 
to its subscribers. 
The Editors are supplied with all the leading 
Agricultural Publications of this and foreign coun¬ 
tries, and the readers of the Agriculturist may look 
confidently to its pages for all new and established 
improvements in modes of farming, stock-breeding, 
die., <S:c. While adhering to scientific accuracy, our 
aim will be to make science entirely subservient to 
practice. 
Our paper will be furnished to subscribers for 
less thau four cents a number of sixteen quarto 
pages, and to large clubs for less than two and a 
half cents. Every number will contain suggestions 
for the treatment of soils, crops, stock, <fcc\, which 
will often be worth to the reader more than the 
cost of the paper for a year. 
Price of subscriptions— invariably in advance: 
To single Subscribers, 
“ Clubs of 3 do. 
“ do. “ 5 do. 
“ do. “ 10 do. 
“ do. “ 20 do. 
S2.00 a year, $2.00 
1-67 “ 5.00 
1-60 “ 8.00 
1-50 “ 15.00 
1-25 “ 25.00 
Every friend of agriculture is respectfully re¬ 
quested to act as agent in procuring subscriptions, 
which may be forwarded by mail at the risk of the 
publishers, if enclosed in the presence of the Post¬ 
master. ALLEN & CO., 
1S9 Water street, New-York. 
N.B.—Subscriptions, advertisements, and all mat¬ 
ters relative to the business part of the Agricul¬ 
turist, should be addressed to Allen it Co., and all 
communications for the paper addressed to Editor 
of American Agriculturist. 
NOTICE 
Is hereby giveD, that James B. Swain, engaged by 
us about the New- York Agricultor, and Farm, and 
Garden, has no authority or right to make any con¬ 
tract for or on our behalf, or to create any liability 
against us or either of us; or to receive sub-crip- 
tions or c rilect money for advertisements ; and we 
shall not hold ourselves responsible for any act of 
his. Lewis F. Allen, 
Riciiard L. Allen, 
Composing the firm of Allen & Co, 
AGENTS WANTED. 
Newsmen in the different towns in the country 
are requested to act as agents for this paper; re¬ 
sponsible persons also in eveiy district of the United 
States. 
Very liberal commissions will be given to a few 
young men to act as travelling agents. 
For further information address the publishers, or 
call at their office, 1S9 Water street, New-York. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS, 
PAGE 
Agents Wanted,.32 
Agricultural Instruction in Europe,. 19 
Ants, To Clear the House of. .23 
Beeswax, To Try out.23 
Bread-Making.22 
Cattle, Sale of Earl Ducie’s.20 
Cattle Shows and Fairs.1 
Cattle Weighed Alive by Measuring.19 
Cattle, Small and Large.19 
Charley Grabb. . .21 
Corn, Very Tall.21 
Country Pudding.2" 
Crib Biting.20 
Crystal Palace. -.20 
Digging Machine.18 
Draining, No. 10.21 
Dumplings, Egg.23 
Fairs, List of State and County.25 
Food Consumed at one notel.22 
Gardening, The Love of.21 
Giant Wheat, Oats, and Corn.19 
Horse Exhibition, National, at Springfield.21 
Horse, Sagacity of the.22 
House on Fire, How to Escape.20 
Houses to be Painted.21 
Ladies’ Department.22 
Ladies, Hints to.23 
Letter from Prof. Nash, No. 1.17 
Markets, Domestic,. 
Markets, Foreign.25 
Markets, Review of Home... ,2i 
Markets, Review of Foreign...2 
Musical Mouse.25 
Mails, Irregularity of.21 
Notice,.82 
STOCK. 
I MPROVED STOCK OF ALL KINDS. — HAVING HAD 
er.eat experience in breeding and rearing fine stock for 
the past twenty years, 1 offer my services to my friends to 
procure it of the best and most reliable kinds. As much no¬ 
tice as convenient is at all times desirable previous to pur¬ 
chasing, as it takes time to make good selectlono. Early in 
August or September is the best time to purchase Tor the 
South. 
Short Horn or Durham cattle, Devons, Herefords, Alderney 
or Jersey and Ayrshires. Long-wooled Sheep—the Cotswold, 
Oxford, Leicester. Bakewell, and Lincoln. Mutton Sheep— 
the Southdown. Fine-wooled Sheep—such as the Saxon, Span¬ 
ish, and French Merino. 
The public should be on their guard in purchasing improved 
stock, as many animals are palmed off upon the unsuspecting 
and ignorant, which are spurious. 
1-tf A. B. ALLEN, Nos. 180 and 191 Water street. 
Old Grist-Mill. 
Plow, The Doom of.. 
Potato Bread. 
Prices Current. 
Prospectus,. 
.19 
.IP 
.23 
.25 
....32 
Seasons Opposite in Europe and America..’'.21 
Sweet Potatoes, How to Cook.23 
To the Public.82 
To Correspondents. 21 
Tomatoes, Dried.23 
Washing Made Easy.23 
HORSE MARKETS. 
MOS SMITH. SALE AND EXCHANGE STABLE, No. 76 
L East Twenty-fourth street, New-York. 1-27 
iraULL’S HEAD SALE AND EXCHANGE STABLES, TWEN- 
aS> ty-fourth street. West side of Third Avenue. N. Y. 
1-34 A. S. CHAMBERLIN, Proprietor. 
C HARLES GALLAGHER, LIYERY SALE, AND Ex¬ 
change Stables, 91 East Twenty-filth street, N. Y. 1-15 
TOAGAN & GRAHAM, SALE AND EXCHANGE STABLES. 
.EL cor. of Lexington Ave. and Twenty-fourth street, New- 
York.—F. & G. have at all times on hand the most select stock ol 
Messenger and Abdalla horses, together with good draught 
horses. Horses at livery by the day, week, and month. 1-38 
SEEDS, &c. 
1IIOICE GARDEN SEEDS.—GARDENERS AND OTHERS 
who wish to obtain pure, fresh, and reliable Garden 
Seeds in all the choicest varieties, are invited to call at 
BRIDGEMAN’S old stand, corner of Broadway and Eight¬ 
eenth street, where may be found at all times all the best va¬ 
rieties of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, raised from carefully 
selected stock, expressly for this establishment. All import¬ 
ed seeds offered at the counter are previously tested, and 
warranted the best of their several kinds. Bridgeman’s 
Standard Horticultural Works for sale at wholesale and 
retail. Orders by mail will meet with prompt attention, as 
usual. JOSEPH BRIDGEMAN. 
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UPERIOR SEED WHEAT.—A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF 
the best varieties of improved Seed Wheat, among 
which are the Golden Australian, China, or Troye, White 
Flint, Hutchinson’s Improved, Soule, and Mediterranean. 
Seed Rye of the best winter variety. Also, a cheaper kind, 
suitable for late fall and early spring pastures. 
1-tf R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water street. 
f IGIITNING RODS, CONSTRUCTED ON SCIENTIFIC 
A principles, and if properly put up, will render churches 
and other buildings secure from the electric shock. 
1-tf R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water street. 
SOTATO OR SMALL DOUBLE-MOULD PLOUGH. THE 
best implement made for hilling or digging potatoes- 
throwing them perfectly out of the hill. By extra moulds, 
which can be attached, it makes a superior double-mould¬ 
board plow. It. L. ALLEN, 188 and 191 Water street. 
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TARTEST IMPLEMENTS.—MOWING AND REAPING 
IS.fi Machines of different patterns, and of the best kin< s in 
market. Scythes, Snaths, Cradles, and large Hand Rakes, 
made expressly for raking after the cart; also Ilorse Hay 
Rakes. Pitchforks, very superior, of elastic steel. Threshing 
Machines and Fan Mills, combined or single. Horse Powers 
of the most approved kinds, such as the endless chain, or 
Railway, Circular, Cast Iron, &c. Ruta Baga, Turnip, Cb-a 
bage, and all other sorts of Field and Garden seeds. 
1-tf R. L, ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water street. 
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 
a GRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.—THE SUBSCRIBER 
ffa. keeps constantly on hand, and offers for sale the follow¬ 
ing valuable implements: 
Fan Mills of various kinds, for rice ashvell as wheat, rye, &r;. 
Grain Drills, a machine which every large grain planter 
should possess. They are of the best patterns, embracing 
most valuable improvements. 
Smut Machines, Pilkington’s, the most approved for general 
use. 
Hay and Cotton Presses—Bullock’s progressive power- 
presses, combining improvements which make them by far 
the best in use. 
Grain mills, corn and cob crushers, a very large assortment 
of the best and latest improved kinds. 
Horse Powers of all kinds, guaranteed the best in the Uni¬ 
ted States. These embrace—1st. The Chain Power, of my ow T n 
manufacture, both single and double-geared, for one and two 
horses, which has never been equalled for lightness in run¬ 
ning, strength, and economy. They are universally approved 
wherever they have been tried. 2d. The Bogardus power, for 
one to four horses. These are compact, and wholly of iron, 
and adapted to all kinds of work. 3d. Eddy’s Circular Wrought 
Iron Power, large cog-wheels, one to six horses, a new and 
favorite power. 4th. Trimble’s Iron-Sweep Power, for one to 
four horses. 5th. Warren’s Iron-Sweep Power, for one or two 
horses. R. L. ALLEN, 
1-tf 189 and 191 Water street.. 
4 TKINS’ SELF-RAKING REAPER.—THIS MACHINE IS 
now offered to the public, and warranted to be a good 
self-raking reaper. It is also believed to be a good mower, but 
not yet having been sufficiently tested in grass, (though it soon 
will be,) it is not warranted to be equal to a machine made 
mainly or wholly to mow. The raking apparatus is of novel 
and very simple construction, and not liable to derangement, 
and every farmer who has seen it in the harvest-field, says it 
performs the raking better than a man can possibly do it. 
Price of machines at Chicago, $175, of which $75 must be paid 
on giving the order, $50 upon successful trial, and $50 in note, 
payable 1st Dec. The machines are most thoroughly built and 
warranted. Descriptive circulars, with cuts, sent to post-paid 
applications. J. S. WRIGHT, “Prairie Farmer” Warehouse, 
Chicago. June, 1853. 1-2 
E W. PHELPS’ OHIO PREMIUM COMBINATION BEE- 
® HIVE.—A large number of these Hives have now been 
in use for three or four years past, and have given universal 
satisfaction, and are acknowledged by those who have used 
them to combine more conveniences and good qualities, and 
better adapted to the natural habits and wants of the Bee and 
tlie convenience of the epicure, than any tiling of the kind 
heretofore known. 
The advantages of this Hive are, 
1st. It is adapted to the size of any colony of Bees, large 
or small. 
2d. The surplus honey, or old combs, may be removed at 
pleasure without injury to the colony. 
3d. It may be used either as a swarming or non-swarming 
Hive. 
4th. It affords the Bees better protection against the rav¬ 
ages of the moths than any other Hive. 
5th. The arrangement of the interior of the Hive is with a 
pane of glass in each section, which affords an opportunity to 
observe the operations of the Bees, the amount of honey in 
the Hive, and the strength and condition of the colony at the 
time, without disturbing the Bees. 
6th. It is decidedly the best Hive for feeding in existence, 
as the colony may be fed from the inside of the Hive with as 
little trouble as a brood of chickens, and that without danger 
of other Bees’ robbing. 
This Hive was awarded the First Premium and a Diploma 
at the Ohio State Fair in 1851. also a Dip’oma at the Indiana 
State Fair, and a Premium at the New-York State Fair, and 
a large number of County Fairs, in 1852. Also, the First Pre¬ 
mium by tlie Licking Company Ohio Fair, where it has been 
used for three years in succession. 
Price of individual right, with a recipe for the feed, $5. Hive 
and right, $9. 
For State, County, and individual rights, or Hives, apply, 
post-paid, to E W. PHELPS, Westfield, Mass. 
Hives for sale by R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water street, 
New-York. 1-tf 
FERTILIZERS. 
J O. 1 SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME.-THIS VALUABLE 
fertilizer lias been used for several years in England 
and other parts of Europe, and, next to Guano, holds the 
highest rank in popularity, and the extent to which it is used 
among farmers. Its introduction in this country has been 
more recent; but the progress it has made in the estimation 
of the public has not been less marked or successful than 
abroad. It is now extensively used throughout the Northern 
States, after a full trial and investigation of its merits; and 
it is rapidly becoming, like its predecessor, Guano, a favorite 
manure at the South and West. 
It is composed of crushed or ground bones, decomposed by 
tlie addition of about one fifth their weight of sulphuric 
acid, diluted with water, to which is added a due proportion 
of guano and sulphate of ammonia. The latter is the active 
and one of the most efficient agents in the best Peruvian 
Guano. 
It is suited to any soil in which there is not already a full 
supply of the phosphates, which is seldom the case. All crops 
are benefited by its application. 
For sale in large or small quantities, in bags of 150 lbs. each. 
No charge for packages. All bags will be branded “ C. B. De 
Burg. No. 1 Superphosphate of Lime.” 
Also, Agricultural and Horticultural Implements of all 
kinds; Field and Garden Seeds, in great variety; No. 1 Peru¬ 
vian Guano, Bone-dust. Plaster of Paris, Poudrette, &c. 
R. L. ALLEN. Cate A. B. Allen & Co.,) 
1-tf 189 and 191 Water street, New-York. 
T O FARMERS.—HUGUINS’ CELEBUATED NITROGE- 
nous, Ammoniacal and Mineral Manure, approved and 
recommended bv the principal agriculturists in Europe, and 
readily admitted by those who have used it to he the most 
effective fertilizer now in use. For sale by L. >\. PINLLLT 
CO., No. 87 Greenwich street, New-York, sole agents for the 
sale of the article. 1-13 
J. A. GRAY, Printer, 95 and 97 Cliff street, N. Y. 
