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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
277 
jpAKBIEKS, I5UY THE BEST l 
Excelsior Cultivator and Hilling' Plow, 
Price, combined, $16 ; or $10 as a Cultivator. 
Palmer’s Hors® Hay Pork. 
Price, with three pulleys, $10. 
Steel Tooth. Horse Rakes. 
$35 and $43. 
Tiffin Revolving Horse Rake. 
Price $9. 
The American Hay Tedder 
Price $90. 
Send for Circulars to J. R. DECATUR & CO„ 
197 Water St., New York. 
Look at This! 
A patent PROPELLING SWING for only S3.00. Can 
awing yourself without assistance. The best and cheapest. 
'Will dispose of the right to manufacture iu a few of the 
principal cities. Send stamp for particulars. 
A. H. SEAVER, P. O. Box 6182 New York City. 
NEW HAVEN FAMILY KNITTEIL 
Latest, cheapest, aud best in the world for family use.— 
Patented ill nine countries. Company invite any test or 
comparison. Machine knits everything. Price only $25 for 
plain, $30 for silver-plated, $35 for gold-plated. Price in¬ 
cludes Keel, Winder, Bobbins, Oiler, etc. Rights sold. 
Agents wanted. Address NEW HAVEN KNITTING CO. 
SELF-ACTING GATEST 
Nicholson’s Patent Self-Acting Carriage Gates and Self- 
Shutting Hand Gates are the latest improved and best in the 
world. 
For illustrated Circulars and Price-List send to the 
AMERICAN GATE COMPANY, 
CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
Rifles, Shot-Guns, Revolvers, etc., 
of all kinds at reduced prices, warranted and sent by Ex¬ 
press (c.o.d.) to be examined before paid for. Liberal terms 
to the trade, agents, or clubs. Write for a Catalogue. Ad¬ 
dress, GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. Army Guns, Revolvers, etc., 
bought or traded for. 
Titus Oaks’ ^Lactometers. 
See page 252, this number. 
Sold (boxed to go by Express) 3 for $1, by 
DAVIS COLOMORE, 
No. 747 Broadway, New York. 
SELPHO’S PATENT LEGS and ARMS. 
These celebrated Artificial Limbs, combining simplicity 
with great durability and comfort, and which contain all.the 
latest improvements, can be had only of WM. SELPHO & 
SON, 516 Broadway, N. Y. Government orders attended to. 
r BiHRASHERMEN.—If you want to get paid for 
-*- every bushel of grain you thrash, send for The Thrash¬ 
er’s Circular, which gives information free. Address 
BUKSON, HAETZELL & CO., Alliance, Ohio. 
MACY HAS IT. 
Every new thing, _ 
If you order anything, 
Any advantage in price, 
We buy and sell for cash— 
Every new book, 
Everything in Lace Goods, 
Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, 
Small Wares, Trimmings, &c. 
All at popular prices— 
Cash orders, by Mail, or Express. 
R. H. MACY, 14th St. & 
Maty has 
Macy lias 
Macy has 
Macy has 
Macy has 
Macy has 
Macy lias 
Macy has 
Macy always lias 
6th Ave., New York. 
A LL WANTING FARMS.—9,000 acres, good 
soil, mild climate, 34 miles south of Philadelphia. Price 
only $25 per acre. Also improved farms. The place is grow¬ 
ing more rapidly than almost any other place in the United 
States. Thousands are settling. Address 
C. K. LANDIS, Vineland, N. J. 
1,000 
FARMS in Maryland and Virginia. 
Edgewood, Md. 
Send stamp for Catalogue. 
" ■ :. MAYNADIEE, E 
J. M. 
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RANVILLE, OHIO, FEMALE COLLEGE— 
37th year—opens Sept. 8tli. $200 a year. Address 
W. P. KERR, Granville, Licking Co., O. 
I NSTITUTE OF PRACTICAL CIVIL Engi¬ 
neering, Surveying and Drawing.— Courses of three, 
six and twelve months. For circular, address 
A. VANDER-NAILLEN, Room C, Reynolds Block, Chicago. 
“GRAY'S" UNION CHARTS. 
SIMPLE AND DURABLE GUIDE FOR CUT- 
ting Men’s and Boys’ Clothing and Ladies’ Dresses. 
Will last a lifetime, subject to all the changes of Fashion. 
Warranted to cut all sizes perfectly accurate. Any person 
can use them. They are printed upon a paper that will 
neither break nor tear. Full directions are printed on each 
Chart. Single Chart or full sets sent by mail, post-paid, on 
receipt of the following retail prices: Ladies’Dress, Boys’ 
Sack Coat and Vest Charts, $1 each. Pants and Men’s Sack 
Coat Charts, $1.50. each, or full set (5 Charts), $5. Agents 
wanted Address UNION CHART CO., Orangeville, Ohio, 
or K. R. ROGERS & CO., Chicago, Ill. 
Ill AGIO PHOTOGRAPHS—The Greatest Wonder 
If-*- of the Age—Curious and amusing. 25 cts. a package. 
The Library of Love. Etiquette, Courtship, and Marriage. 4 
Books for 50 cts. Send to W. C. Wemyss, 3 Astor Place, N. Y. 
P® 1, Year In Advance. Three Months on Trial 
for FIFaJ CBNIS. ^Magnificent Inducements to CtaSj Agents. Sample Copies, 
Rosters, Premium Lists and Canvassing Documents SENT FSEE on applica¬ 
tion. Address SHE PBA1BUEI FAMINES, COMPANY, Chicago. ~ 
Remit at our Risk by Registered Letter or P. O. Money Order. 
FEIZE POULTRY.” 
'Twelve First Prizes and Two Sec¬ 
ond, Royal Dublin Society’s Show, 
April, 1870. 
1st Dark Brahmas, 
1st White Cochins, 
1st La Fleches, 
1st Crevecoeurs, 
1st Aylesbury Ducks, 
1st Turkeys, 
2d La Fleches, and 
1st Buff Cochins, 
1st Spanish, 
1st Houdans, 
1st Sultans, 
1st Toulouse Geese, 
1st Single Turkey Cock, 
2d Dorking Cock. 
HP I S I 
-H- C’ti 
JAMES C. COOPER, Cooper Hill, Limerick, 
Ireland, Winner of the above, with Gold Medals, Paris 
and New York Shows ; besides several hundred prizes dur¬ 
ing the last Five years. Can supply “ Birds ” of the several 
species, as well as any other variety desired. 
Prices from 6 to 10 pounds sterling for Trio, with 2 pounds 
expenses on a single Trio, 3 pounds on two Trios to New 
York, Boston, or Montreal. 
Prices quoted are those only for really good Birds up to 
the very best specimens for Exhibition. 
No inferior Birds supplied. 
Large Shipment of Improved Stock. 
L. B. SILVER, of Salem, Ohio, shipped into the 
various States, Territories, and Canada, in the week ending 
June 4tli, 1870, One Hundred and Ninety-seven (197) head of 
his famous Ohio Improved Chester Swine. 
See his advertisement below. 
HE ©ME© UflB»3S©TBifl> 
CHESTER HOGS produce the great¬ 
est amount of Pork, for food consumed, of am- 
known breed. Send stamp for description, and 
a great variety of other Thorough-bred and Im¬ 
ported Animals and Fowls. 
Address L. B. SILVER, Salem, Ohio. 
TIHPROVED CMESSSIRE Iff©«S. 
-B—We have the entire stock of breeding swine of this cele¬ 
brated breed, formerly owned by A. C. Clark of Henderson, 
N.Y., and subsequently by Clark & McLean. Our references 
are the Transactions of the New York State Agricultural 
Society for the last ten years. 
Send for Circulars. Address 
CLARK & GREEN, at Belleville, Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
Premium Chester White Pigs. 
Warranted as pure bred stock as can be obtained in Ches¬ 
ter Co., Pa. Bred and for sale by 
JAMES YOUNG, Jr. & CO., Marshallton, Pa. 
Send for Circular and Price List. 
URE-BRED CHESTER WHITE 
Pigs,Sheep, Poultry, Pigeons, Rabbits, &e., 
bred and shipped by J. W. & M. IRWIN. Penningtonviiie, 
Chester Co., Pa. Send for Illustrated Circular. 
J ERSEY CATTLE.— Choice in color, rich in 
quality, and of deep milking strains. For sale by 
G. W. FARLEE, Cresskill, N. J., 1 hour from New York. 
HOW TO MAKE 
THE FARM PAY! ! ! 
SEND (T% CENT STAMP 
FOR BOOK 'C CONTAINING 68 
pages of valuable Reading:v^Pbest Seed Wheat; Early 
Mammoth Orange Dent Corn; Excelsior Oats: Cattle, Hogs, 
Sheep, Fowls, and How to Make the Farm Pay, for one 3 
cent stamp. Send to 
GEO. A. DEITZ, Cliambersburg, Pa. 
SCRIBNER’S 
LUMBER AND LOCI ROOK. 
This book has had a sale of over 400,000 copies, with a 
greater demand than ever before. 
It gives correct measurement for all kinds of Logs, Lum¬ 
ber, Plank, Boards, Wood, etc., and has now become the 
Standard Book throughout the United States. 
Every farmer, lumberman, and mechanic, should have a 
copy. Ask your bookseller for it, or send 30 cents to me and 
I will forward one post-paid. GEO. W. FISHER, 
Publisher, Rochester, N. Y. 
gents Wanted for Geo. E. Waring’s New Illus- 
-t"*-trated “Handy Book of Husbandry.” A guide for farm¬ 
ers, young and old. E.B.Treat & Co.,Pub.,654 Broadway,N.Y. 
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