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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[May, 
THE AMERICAN FRUIT - DRIER 
Sins taken the STOSS'S' S*S£IiMSlj^IS wherever BixEaibited. 
The apparatus has been thoroughly tested two years, has given entire satisfaction, and its use. is 
rapidly extending wherever it is known. 
WITH THE AMERICAN FRUIT-DRIER 
Surplus fruit of every kind, and also that which from over-ripeness or inferior size or quality is unlit 
for marketing in the unprepared state, can all be converted into a marketable commodity, which from 
its excellence will command the highest price. Such fruit as is prepared by this means is now selling 
in this city at an average of fifty per cent more than ordinary dried fruit. 
HO MORE CANS HEEDED. 
In preserving fruit, the end to be gained is to retain the sweetness and flavor permanently. The 
canning process was a great advance on the old-fashioned “ pouud-for-pound ” way of making preserves, 
but in the necessary steaming process there is loss of valuable constituents of the fruit, much of which 
is avoided by the new method. More than this, experiment proves that by this latter process the fruit 
is increased, in sweetness by the change of its starch into glucose or fruit-sugar. In other words, while 
passing through the Drier it is ripened more fully. Fruit so prepared requires one quarter to one third 
less sugar to prepare it for the table than is needed for canned fruit. Other manifest advantages over 
the canning system are: lLess r JTi*o table a an Operating; CVrtaisatty of Keeping' : No 
JLoss front IBa-olcest fiSoaile.*; Great Sstviasg- of Igoousa in Storing. 
THE AIIEKBCA^i FI&IIIT-ttlfilEBS is so simple in plan and in working, that any 
carpenter can make it, and any ordinary laborer operate it. Its capacity can he adapted to small or large 
operations. The ordinary family size, No. 1, will in favorable weather dry apples as fast as two persons 
can prepare the fruit. Tiie cost is so moderate, that every farmer can profitably buy it to save the 
surplus product of his orchard or fruit-yard. 
Having formed a company under the name and style of the American Drier Company, we are 
prepared to furnish Driers to agents and others in the United States for the season of 1873, in three 
different sizes, viz.: 
No. i, 24 inches wide and 12 feet long, $25.00. 
No. 2, 30 inches wide and !4 feet long, $35.00. 
No. 3, 3S inches wide and 16 feet long, $45.00. 
The above are the factory prices, all complete except stove—delivered at the freight or express 
olfieo, Loudon, Pa. Any common nine or ten-plate or any other kind of wood or coal stove can be used. 
Printed directions for setting up and operating sent with eacli machine. 
No. I is a convenient size for general use, and will dry all the surplus fruit on any ordinary farm, 
drying as last as two hands can liand-pare and cut the fruit. 
No. 3 will give employment to four hands. 
For fruit-growers in the fruit districts we make a series of Driers to do any given amount of 
work, ranging in price from $100 to $500. 
Portable Driers with sheet-iron stoves all ready to operate, and exhibition modols for agents, fur¬ 
nished to order; prices according to size, style, and finish. 
jgp” Furnaces and steam-heaters for large Driers furnished at the lowest rates. 
Samples of fruits and vegetables dried in the American Drier 6 ent by mail or express, prepaid, on 
receipt of 35 cents. 
We also invite the attention of manufacturers of various articles which require drying, to the com¬ 
bination of principles embraced in the American Drier patent claims. By special mechanical arrange¬ 
ments it may be adapted — on a large scale — to various put-poses, such as drying grain, liops, herbs, 
chemicals, paper, straw-boards, lumber, and for drying and curing beef, pork, fish, etc., etc. 
Agents wanted to introduce and sell the Driers, and tlie eights to make and use them. 
For further information, show-bills, circulars, and special terms to agents, send name and post-office 
address, inclosing stamp, to the 
AMERICAN DRIER CO., 
LOUDON, FRANKLIN CO., PA. 
A model of the Drier may be seen at the otfiee of American Agriculturist , 245 Broadway, N. Y. | 
Patent Ttaiii-Pte Sleep-Shears. 
Patent Pruning <& Sheep-Toe Shears, 
MANUFACTURED BY 
HEiftY SEYMOUR & 
29 Sl 3i E3os© St., New York. 
First Premium awarded by Am. Institute Fair and twelve 
diiiercnt. state Fairs. Highest recommendation from Hon. 
H. S. Randall, Pres’t Wool-Growers’Association, and author 
“ Practical Shepherd.” Recommendations from many prac¬ 
tical shearers. 
“ The Sheep-Shears work splendidly, and I would not ask 
for any better. So says Mr. Jepson, who shears our sheep, 
and he has sheared thousands.” 
(Signal) L. A. CHASE, Am . Agriculturist. 
$2,535 $53.50 $2.50 $2.75 
5 5>£ 6-in. blade. 
“ I have tested your Pruniug and Sheep-toe Shears, and 
they tire excellent. I used them to dock the tails of my 
lambs this season, and found them the handiest instrument 
lor that purpose I ever used.” 
(Signed; HENRY S. RANDALL. 
Every pair warranted. Free by mail on receipt of price. 
Pruning or Sheep-too SBlears, $3 per pair. 
Sold everywhere. State where you saw this. 
A SPECIALTY. 
Metropolitan 
Agricultural 
58 AN© GO CORTJLANDT ST.-, NEW YORK. 
I invito Farmers and Dealers in Agricultural Im¬ 
plements to visit my extensive warehouse, where they 
may procure the most approved IMPLEMENTS for 
the FARM and GARDEN, at the- VERY LOWEST 
market prices. Also, 
BONE MEAL— Prepared for Horses, Swine, Cows 
and Poultry—5c. per pound. 
Send for Agricultural Almanac for 1873. 
H. B. GRIFFING, 
Successor to Grilling & Co., 
58 & 00 COETLANDT ST,, NEW YOKE. 
FAKill CIBa'Si A3SE6 WAGONS 
Always on hand and made to order. Also every description 
of Heavy Cart and Wsuron for city and country use and for 
shipping. Illustrated Circulars free hv mail. 
JOHN L,. KIPP, 
163 Eldridgc Street, New York, 
Works. 
WARRANTED, 
