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ADVERTISEMENTS.-CONTENTS. 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
C. M. SAXTON, 205 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
TERMS. 
For Single Copies. $1 per annum. 
Three Copies. 3 £ ‘ 
Eight Copies .. 5 “ 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST is now in the seventh 
year of its publication. From its commencement it took a high 
stand ; and has ever since been considered by the press and all 
unbiased judges, as the LEADING PERIODICAL of its class in 
America. It has a large and rapidly increasing circulation 
throughout the United States, the Canadas, and other British 
possessions, the West Indies, and South America ; and we may 
fearlessly assert, that it has given more reliable information on 
lural subjects, and been perused with greater general satisfaction, 
than any paper of the kind yet published. 
The Agriculturist treats of every description of domestic ani¬ 
mals and poultry ; their characteristics, breeds, the best and the 
worst; their advantages and disadvantages ; their mode of breed¬ 
ing, feeding, and rearing; their uses, profits, and management. 
It treats of all cultivated crops, including fruits, shrubbery, and 
flowers ; the best seeds, mode of planting, cultivating, gathering, 
and preparing for markets ; the general principles of vegetation 
and the laws of vegetable life. It describes the principles of me¬ 
chanics as applied to machinery used by farmers and planters ; 
the best machinery and implements for agriculture, their uses and 
the particular superiority of some over others, and their adapted¬ 
ness for particular purposes. It gives the latest improvements in 
those implements which may have been made, and suggests oth¬ 
ers ; tells where they are to be found and the benefits that will 
follow from their use. It specifies new objects of cultivation, and 
how they may be better prepared for a profitable market and more 
general use. 
This is the great design and scope of the Agriculturist; and 
these are the paramount objects of interests throughout America. 
No country can ever enjoy solid prosperity unless an enlightened 
system of agriculture is practised among its people, and this can¬ 
not be done except by the aid of those works which are written 
to teach it. Let all aid, then, to spread them broadcast throughout 
land. It is the duty of every good citizen to do this—nothing 
equal to it can be done to benefit the country. 
All editors inserting the above, and for .varding the paper con¬ 
taining it to the publisher, will be entitled to the Agriculturist, 
the current year, without further charge. 
TREATISE ON DOMESTIC AM1MALS- 
BEING a history and description of the Horse, Mule, Cattle 
Sheep, Swine, Poultry ar.d Farm Dogs ; with directions for their 
management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation 
for a profitable market. Also, their diseases and remedies ; to¬ 
gether with full directions for the management of the dairy, and 
the comparative economy and advantages of working animals, 
the horse, mule, oxen, &c. By R. L. Allen, author of “ Com- 
pend of American Agriculture,” etc. 
The above work contains more than 40 engravings and por¬ 
traits of improved animals, illustrative of the different breeds and 
various subjects treated in it. 
The most minute as well as general principles for breeding, 
crossing, rearing, feeding, and management of all domestic ani¬ 
mals, are herein given, to produce the utmost marketable value 
for the food and attention bestowed on them ; as well as to pre¬ 
vent disease, and save the immense losses which annually occur 
from this source. 
The diseases of animals are also fully treated with their reme¬ 
dies, management, &c. 
Price 75 cents in muslin. Mail edition with paper covers 50 cts. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 
C. M. SAXTON, 
H. LONG & BROTHERS, 
WM. H. GRAHAM, 
BURGESS, STRINGER & CO. 
SPRING WHEAT AND RYE. 
SUPERIOR Spring Wheat for sale at $2 per bushel. Spring 
Rye at $1.75 per bushel. Also a complete assortment of Field 
and Garden Seeds of all kinds principally grown, and put up ex¬ 
pressly for us. A. B. ALLEN & CO., 187 Water st., N. Y. 
ENGLISH AND FRENCH GRASS SEEDS. 
THE Subscribers have just received from England and France 
a superior lot of fresh Grass Seeds of various kinds. Among 
these are the Perrennial and Italian Ray Grass, Sweet Vernal and 
Oat Grass, fine mixed Lawn Grass, White Clover and Lucerne. 
Also English Beans, Vetches. Ruta Baga Seed, &c. &c. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO„ 187 Water street. 
February 1st, 1848. 
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS FOR SALE. 
Horse-Powers.- Taplin’s &. Eddy’s Circular Horse-Powers. 
Price $60 to $75 ; Wheeler’s & Whiunan’s Endless Chain ditto, 
single-horse, $75, Double-Horse, $100; Trimbles, Warren’s & 
Child’s Cast-Iron, ditto, $50 to $75. 
Grain-Threshers. —Wheeler’s Thresher at $25, ditto with 
Separator, $35 ; Taplin’s & Eddy’s Thresher, $40 ; Trimble’s Sc 
Warren’s ditto, $25; Whitman & Pic’s Thresher with Separator 
and Cleaner, for one or two horses, $100. Pitt’s Thresher, Sepa 
rator, Cleaner, and Horse-Power complete, $200. 
Corn Shelters. —Corn-Shellers to work by hand or other power. 
Price $3 to $50. 
Stravj-Cutters. —Straw-Cutters of various kinds to work by 
hand or other power. Price from $3 to $40 
Grain-Mills. —Grain-Mills to work by hand or other power. 
Price from $5 to $30. Ditto ot Burr Stone, from $50 to $125. 
Corn and Cob-Crushers. —These grind corn and cobs together. 
Price $35 to $50. 
Spice and Coffee-Mills. —Several of these are of a new and su¬ 
perior kind. Price from $2 to $10. 
Plows for the South and North —Superior Plows of various 
kind& for sod and stubble-land, from one-horse to six-horse draft. 
Also, the Scotch Iron, Centre-Draft, Self-Sharpening, Side-HiR, 
Wet-Meadow, Double-Mould-Board, Paring, and Subsoil Plows, 
with common or patent dial-clevis. Price from $2 to $20. The 
woods of the above plows are of choice white oak, and got out by 
patent machinery; the castings are of the best kind. 
Also, a complete assortment of all kinds of Agricultural and 
Horticultural Implements, Field and Garden Seeds. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 187 Water st., N Y. 
ORDERS FOR BROWN CORN. 
FARMERS wishing to obtain this, superior variety of com di¬ 
rectly from New Hampshire, for seed, are requested to make 
their orders soon, as we shall send for but little on our own ac¬ 
count, The price, delivered at our Warehouse, in New York^ 
will be $7 per barrel closely packed with ears. We have on 
hand the same variety of corn, grown last season on the Hudson 
River, $3 per barrel, the difference in the prices depending mainly 
in the expense of transportation. 
f3t A. B. ALLEN & Co., 187 Water street. 
WATER RAMS. 
A SUPERIOR article of Water Rams for Sale. Price $15 to 
$18. A. B. ALLEN & CO., 187 Water street, N. Y. 
SHOVEL HANDLES. 
SIX HUNDRED DOZEN Superior Long Shovel Handles, for 
sale by A. B. ALLEN & CO., 187 Water st. 
CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY NUMBER. 
Cultivation of the Sweet Potato; Notes on Long Is-) 
land, No. 1 (•*** 
Apple Orchards, No. 6... 
Corn Shellers ; Culture of Asparagus. 
Growing Figs at the South; Cultivation of the Osier, No. 1.. 
List of Agents. 
Choice Varieties of Apples ; Agriculture of the Chi- ) 
nese, No. 2 $ 
Live Apple Tree Posts. 
Improved Varieties of Indian Corn, John Brown, 2nd ; Pro- > 
ductiveness of the Catawba Grape Vine J 
Mode of Improving Sand Wastes in the Vicinity of the! 
Sea, Augustus Wackerhagen; Hydraulics for Far-J 
mers, W. Bacon 
Letters from Virginia. No. 3, A New-Yorker. 
Protection of Crows, Blackbirds, Foxes, Toads, See., David ) 
?4 
Tomlinson ; Hereford Cattle, Wm. H. Sotham 
How to Check the Bleeding of an Artery ; Lobsters 
Clearing of Woodlands; Steep for Indian Corn 
Productive Apple Tree 
Long Island Peaches ; Proper Repose for Conservatory ) 
or Window Plants S 
Burr Stone Mills ; Consumption of Wood in the United I 
States ; Season for Cutting Timber ; To Promote > 
the Vegetation of Old Seeds ) 
Swine, No. 2. 
Grape Culture and Wine Making in North Carolina. 
Education of Farmers ; How to make Fruit Trees Bear ; ) 
On Rearing Calves, G. W. B. ( 
Preserving Eggs and Fruit—Egg Nog, &c., C. I. ; 1 
Old Pear Trees in Boston; Management of>. 
Honey Bees, No. 16, T. B. Miner ) 
On the General Management of the Peach Tree, Wm. ) 
Whedden ; Hauling Fuel J * * 
Yankee Farming, No. 2, Sergeant Teltrue. 
Prospective Premiums ; Uric Acid ; Lime ; Letters from ) 
Abroad, No. 1, F. R. S. 
Prices of Produce ; A Legal Fraud in Making Bread 
Ladies’ Department : How m make Good Coffee,' 
A. J. C. ; Philosophy of Bread Making," 
Starching Linen 
Foreign Agricultural News 
Editor’s Table.. 
Review of the Market. 
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offee,) 
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