1875 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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MAPES’ 
DISSOLVED HOME. 
COMPOSES OF ONLY 
Pure Bone Black, Dissolved in Sulphuric Acid, 
forming the highest grade Superphosphate 
that can be made from Bone. 
Analysis made October, 1874, by DR. I WALZ. 
.... ,14.14 
Soluble Phosphoric Acid.•••••• 
= Decomposed Phosphate.81.Id 
Insoluble Phosphoric Acid. •• • • 
=Undeeomposed Phosphate. 1.92 
Guaranteed Standard, on Dry Basis, Soluble Phosphoric 
Acid 15 per cent. 
This preparation is recommended fornse in “ Composts” 
and for mixing with Peruvian Guano, Stable Manure, I' ish 
Guano, and other ammoniacal material. Price per ton 
packed in barrels (no charge for packages) delivered at New 
York, $45 per ton. 
14.26 
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PLAIN SUPER PHOSPHATE 
(or ‘‘Acid Phosphate,”) 
A Cheap Substitute for Dissolved Bone. 
The base of this Super Phosphate being South Carolina 
Eock, instead of Bone, it can be afforded at a price suih- 
ciently low to successfully compete with the cost of import- 
big a similar article from England. (12>(c, currency per 
fb. for Soluble Phosphoric Acid. See Eeport of the Bussey 
institution,” 1874, page 170) 
Analysis by DR. I. WALZ, New York, Oct. 1874. 
Moisture. 4.26 
Soluble and Precipitated Phos. Acid...11-do 
■^Decomposed Phosphate.*4.84 
Insoluble Phos. Acid.••••.6.69 
=»Undecomposed Phosphate.14.61 
Price on the basis of ten per cent. 
SOLUBLE AND PRECIPITATED PHOSPHORIC ACID, 
S er ton in barrels (no charge for packages) delivered at 
ew York, $30. Liberal discount on purchases of ten tons 
and over. Send for pamphlet to 
CHARLES V. MAPES, 
160 Front St., N. Y. 
D. w. kolbeJ" 
Surgical Instrument 
Maker to the University 
of Pennsylvania, 
15 Soautfift ©till St., 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
Has always on Hand 
0r. McClure’s Ecra- 
seur for Castrating 
Horses without loss of 
blood. 
Directions how to use 
it will he furnished with 
each Instrument. 
See Dr. McClure’s work 
on Horses and Cattle. 
MAPES 
Chapman’s. Best Fork and Conveyor in 
use. Unloads and carries Hav, Grains, &c., over deep 
mows, into sheds, barns, <fec. Saves labor, time,money. 
Sentontrial. <’ireularssent. Agents wanted. 
G, B. Weeks & Co., Syracuse, N. Y. 
RUSTIC WORK: 
Hanging Baskets—Stands—Brackets— 
Crosses—Settees—Chairs. 
Pot Stands, our new design, 
for % gallon and 1, 2, and 4 gallon 
pots. Just the thing for 
Porticos, Lawns, and Cem¬ 
eteries. 
ILLUSTRATED CATA¬ 
LOGUE FREE. 
PECK & SKXLTOK, 
Westville, Conn. 
N.B. Red Cedar Labels. 
See February Agriculturist,page 43. 
NITROGENIZED SUPER-PHOSPHATE. 
A Complete Fertilizer for all Crops. 
Manufactured from 
ANIMAL MATTER (Bone, Flesh), Sulphuric 
Acid, and Potash Salts. 
Analysis of Samples taken by the State Inspector, from 
cargoes sch. Albert Mason and sch. S. V. U. Simmons, made 
at Charleston. S. G\, Jan., 1873. 
Bone Phosphate, dissolved .16.96 per cent. 
“ “ reduced. 3.47 “ 
Ammonia. 
available .30.43 “ 
. .3.0G. 
Dr. 0. U. Suepard, Jr. 
Signed, 
Analysis of Samples taken by the State Inspector ( Georgia ) 
from sch. May Morn, (3060 bags), Dec. 22,1814. 
Bone Phosphate, available .19.040 
Ammonia. 3.199 
Signed, S. A. Goldschmidt. 
Awarded Silver Medal (only three given in several hun¬ 
dred prizes), by New Jersey State Agricultural Society, Oc¬ 
tober, 1874, Professor Geo. H. Cook (New Jersey State 
Chemist and Geologist, and State Inspector of Fertilizers) 
Chairman of Committee on Fertilizers. 
Price reduced to 850 per j in bags (24)0 lbs.) 
Ton (2000 lbs.) packed i in barrels (2t»0 lbs.) 
Send tor pamphlet, containing letters from fruit and truck 
growers, fanners, etc. _ , 
CHARLES V. MAPES, 100 Front st., N. A . 
Or. ALFRED BRIDGEMAN, 876 Broadway, 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 31 Barclay St., 
R. C. REEVES, 185 & 187 Water st. 
Garr & Hobson 
Offer the best and most comprehensive line of thor¬ 
oughly-built modern Agricultural Implements in the mar¬ 
ket. Our GANG PLOW, “ The Volcano,” is a machine 
for every large farmer, while our combined Level-Land and 
Side-Hill Swivel Plow, The Turtle Harrow, Subsoil Plow. 
Horse-Hoes, Seed-Drills, etc., are famous everywhere. Call 
and examine our goods, befor buying your Spring Supplies, 
or write us what you need. 56 Beekman-st., New York. 
“ESTABLISHED 1821.” 
Thomas T. Tasker, Jr., Stephen P. M. Tasker. 
MORRIS, TASKER & CO. 
PASCAL IRON WORKS, Philadelphia. 
TASKER IRON WORKS, New Castle, Delaware. 
Offices & Warehouses, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. 
Manufacturers of Wrought Iron Tubes, plain, galvanized 
and rubber coated. Boiler Tubes. Oil Well Tubing and 
Casing. Gas and Steam Fittings, Valves and Cocks. Gas 
and Steam Fitters' Tools. Cast Iron Pipe. Lump Posts 
and Lanterns. Improved Coal Gas Apparatus, Improved 
Sugar Machinery, &c. 
Wc would call special attention to our Patent 
Vulcanized Rubber-coated Tube. 
Self-Propel- 
For Cripples 
Can be easily 
in or out doors, 
ing the use of 
State your weight 
for illustrated 
lerent styles and 
Please mention 
this paper. 
lime Chairs 
and Invalids 
propelled, either 
by any one hav- 
hands. 
and send stamp 
catalogue of dir- 
prices. 
S. A. SMITH, 
No. 32 Platt St., 
N. Y. City. 
•W. ZE3T, IBJLZSUKS & CO., 
SSKI3S. 
A large supply of Field, Garden and Flower Seeds, War* 
ranted Fresh. Send for Price List. 
Comstock’s Seeder, Hand Cultivator, 
Weeder, Strawberry Vine Cutter, Shovel and Mole Plows, 
W. H. BANKS & CO., Wholesale and Retail Seedsmen, 
34*36 S. Canal St., cor. Washington, CHICAGO. 
GALE’S HAY, STRAW & STALK CUTTERS, 
for hand or horse-power—are much lower in price, cut 
faster, easier, and are more durable than any other. Also 
the best and cheapest Turnip and Carrot Cutter. Don’t pay 
till vou have tried them on vonr farm and like them. Cir¬ 
culars free. WARREN GALE, 
Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
cows 
of the Black and White Spotted Breed of North Holland, 
celebrated for their abundant milk, and now frequently im¬ 
ported into the U. S., may be ordered by L. W. MORRIS, 
Morris’ European Express, 50 Broadway, N. Y., Estab'd 1858. 
AMSDF.N JUNE PEACH, “ Unequaled for Earli- 
ness.” $1 each, $50 per 100. Circular Free. 
L. C. AMSDEN, Carthage, Mo. 
BUYJ.&P. COATS’ BLACK 
THREAD for your MACHINE. 
containing a great variety of Items , including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
'type and condensed foim, for leant of space elsewhere. 
Continued from p, 87* 
46 Astonished.” —One of our good adver¬ 
tisers wrote February 9, expressing surprise (gratifying 
of course) at the number of intelligent letters already re¬ 
ceived at that date, from a brief advertisement in the 
February American, Agriculturist, these letters coming 
from an area with a constant widening diameter, which 
had up to that date extended away to Kansas. We sus¬ 
pect they are still more surprised by this time, especially 
if their experience is like that of another of our advertis¬ 
ers who offered a pamphlet to sueli as desired to send for 
it. Ilis advertisement was ordered for two months, and an 
edition of 500 of the pamphlets were printed at a cost in- 
cludingpostageoflO cents each. Before the second inser¬ 
tion, he wrote, post-haste, to “ stop that advertisement; it 
will break me; over 13,000 pamphlets have already been 
called for, and ‘ still they come.’ ” ITc was “ astonished,” 
but we were not. The fact is, this journal reaches the 
great mass, tens of thousands upon tens of thousands, of 
the wide-awake intelligent people, farmers, and almost 
all other classes throughout our own country, and in 
other lands. And as they learn of our rules shutting out 
humbugs, medicines, unreliable dealers, etc., they pat¬ 
ronize our advertisers freely and with confidence. We 
know there is no other advertising medium in the world 
more valuable. Our old and large advertisers who have 
used this journal for many years all say so, and it stands 
to reason that it should be so. The select and reliable 
character of the advertisements, their neat printing on 
small pages where they arc readily seen, and the long 
time each paper is before the readers for study and refer¬ 
ence, are all useful to the advertiser. 
Metallic Blaster Pail. —“L. W. P.’% 
Marshfield, Vt. Butter for shipment to foreign coun¬ 
tries should be packed in tin-pails, with water tight cov¬ 
ers. The brine does not corrode the tin, and the expe¬ 
rience so far with these packages is favorable. There 
are many important points in favor of metallic packages, 
such as cheapness, cleanliness, freedom from loss of 
weight, and loss of quality in transit and storage. The 
Metallic Butter Package Co., 150 Chambers St., Now 
York, are now making a tin-pail with close fitting wood¬ 
en cover, and weighing only 5 lbs., which seems to he 
what is wanted by dairymen. 
Catalogues Received. 
The following are the catalogues received up to Feb. 
15th. Others will he found noticed in January. The 
enumeration is in alphabetical order, and it is not in¬ 
tended to give one undue prominence over others: 
SEEDSMEN. 
Unless specially mentioned, the catalogues offer both 
vegetable and flower seeds. 
R. H. Allen & Co., 189 and 191 Water st., N. Y. Gen¬ 
eral stock, with special attention to grass and grain seeds. 
B. K. Bliss & Sons, 34 Barclay st., N. Y. An illus¬ 
trated treatise of nearly 200 pages, rather than a catalogue. 
Baoo & Batchelder, at Springfield, Mass., offer vege¬ 
table and flower seeds. 
Alfred Bridgeman, 87G Broadway, N.Y., has two neat 
catalogues, giving vegetables and flowers separately. 
Briggs & Bros., Rochester, N. Y. Whether we con¬ 
sider its size or elaborate character, this is certainly a 
wonderful catalogue. It offers many novelties. 
Chase Bros. & Woodward, Rochester, N. Y., a beau¬ 
tiful and highly illustrated catalogue of seeds, fruits, etc., 
many of which are of their own raising. 
Cole & Brother, Pella, Iowa, raise seeds and offer 
chromos to purchasers. 
D. T. Curtis & Co., Boston, Mass., have three cata¬ 
logues, vegetables, flowers, and novelties. 
Henry A. Dreer’s catalogue is in the form of Dreer’s 
Garden Calendar, and very full. 
James Fleming, 67 Nassau st., N. Y., offers, besides 
seeds, various implements and garden appliances. 
J. A. Foote, Terre Haute, Ind. A well selected as¬ 
sortment. 
Jas. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass., is best known 
for liis vegetables, but he has flowers also—and squashes. 
James R. V. Hawkins, Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y., has 
also several new potatoes not generally known. 
R. D. nAWLEY, Hartford, Conn., besides engravings of 
vegetables and implements, gives one of the new State 
House. 
Peter Henderson & Co., 35 Cortlandtst., N. Y., give 
