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ADVERTISEMENTS.—CONTENTS. 
REMOVAL. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., have removed from No. 187 Water 
street, to the large and commodious stores next above. No. 189 
and 191, where will be found a large and very complete assort¬ 
ment of Agricultural Implenfients and Seeds of all kinds, for the 
Southern and Western, as well as the Northern and Eastern mar 
kets. 
A Catalogue of the above, of 100 pages, with numerous illus¬ 
trations, will be sent gratis to all who apply for it, post paid. 
New York Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store, 189 and 
191 Water street, New York. A. B. ALLEN & CO, 
SEASONABLE AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 
WHEEL BARROWS, seed planters, weeding plows, cultiva¬ 
tors, hoes, shovels, spades, scythes, snaths, cradles, grass hooks, 
sickles, horse and hand rakes, hay forks, horse powers, fanning- 
mills, grain mills, &c. 
Garden chairs, engines, pumps, syringes, grass shears, border 
shears, edging knives, budding do. pruning do. also with saw and 
chisel, transplanting trowels, weeding do , weeding forks, &e. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 189 and 191 Water street, N. Y. 
FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS. 
THE different varieties of wheat, rye, buckwheat, and other 
grain. Turnip, beet, carrot and cabbage seed of the kind suita¬ 
ble for stock feeding. Lucern, clover, Timothy, orchard gras? v 
red top, ray grass, oat do. together with a select stock of Field 
and Garden Seeds, wholesale and retail, at the New York Agri¬ 
cultural Warehouse and Seed Store, 189 and 191 Water street. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO. 
AFRICAN GUANO. 
A SUPPLY of the above valuable manure just received and 
for sale at 2 cents per lb. for one ton or more. Less than one ton 
2K cts. per lb. A cargo of Peruvian Guano is soon expected to 
arrive fresh from the Cldnche Islands. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 189 and 191 Water street, N. Y. 
LIGHTNING RODS, 
FORMED of copper, or covered iron, with minute directions 
for putting them up. Prices, from 50 to 75 cents per running 
yard. A. B. ALLEN & CO., 189 and 191 Water st. N. Y. 
LEAD PIPES FOR HYDRANTS, PUMPS, &c. 
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A. B. ALLEN & CO., 189 and 191 Water st., N. Y. 
WATER RAMS- 
FOR SALE, Superior Water Rams, which, if applied to a large 
or small stream of water where there is one or more feet fall, a 
portion of said stream may be forced up, by its own power, to a 
height of 50 or 100 feet. The quantity of water raised will vary 
according to the height of the fall, the size of the stream, and 
the capacity of the ram. For instance, any one possessing a 
spring, or stream of water, that will discharge 8 or 10 gallons per 
minute, and can stop up the stream by a dam, so as to make a fall 
of 8 or 10 feet, by means of one of these machines, a constant 
stream, from a half-inch pipe, can be delivered at an elevation of 
85 feet. Prices from $12 to $16—pipe extra. For prices of lead 
pipe, see advertisement above. 
Take Particular Notice .—Persons making application for 
these rams, by mail, or otherwise, are requested to name the size 
of the stream, or quantity of water running in it per minute, the 
amount of the fall they are able to produce, the height the water 
is desired to be raised, and the distance it is wished to be con* 
veyed. 
my_A. B. ALLEN & CO., 191 Water street, N. Y. 
FANNING MILLS. 
AGRICULTURAL Merchants, and Farmers, are respectfully 
informed that the subscriber keeps constantly on hand a supply 
of five different sizes of his celebrated Fanning Mills, which be 
offers for sale on the most accommodating terms. These Mills 
are made of the best materials, and finished in good style, and 
warranted to clean grain as well and as fast as any others now in 
use. TUNIS E. HENDRICKSON, 
Jamaica, Long Island. 
A. B. Allen it Co., New York, ) 
Wm. T. Terry, Southold, > Agents. 
Samuel W. Young, Orient, ) my6t* 
PROSPECTUS 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST is cow 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 
jural subjects, and been perused with greater general satisfaction, 
than any paper of the kind yet published. 
The Agriculturist treats o^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 fora profitable market and more 
general use. 
This is the great design and scope of the Agricultxirist • 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 
the 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 forwarding the paper con 
taining it to the publisher, will be entitled to the Agriculturist 
the current year, without further charge. 
CONTENTS OF JUNE NUMBER. 
Precaution against the Turnip and Cabbage Fly; Notes on ) 
Long Island, No. 3 \ 
Philosophy of the Rotation of Crops; Apple Orchards, / 
No. 9 f 
Protection of Buildings from Lightning. 
Preservation of Cucumbers ; Butter Making.. 
Cast-Iron Garden Chairs; Agriculture of the Chinese, ) 
No. 6 j 
Garden Implements. 
The Cow—Her Diseases and Management, No. 2. 
Farmers in the Ascendant; Letters from Virginia,) 
No. 7, A New-Yorker j 
To Stop the Progress of Decay in Old Trees, E. S.; Letters ) 
ofR. L. Allen, No. 4 > 
The Duchess Tribe of Short-Horns. 
Review of February Number of the Agriculturist, l 
Reviewer ) ' * * * 
Plantation Tools, M. W. Philips. 
Modes of Destroying Rats ; Artificial Swarming of Bees, ) 
Edward Townley ( ’' 
Construction of Farm Cottages...... ... 
Yankee Farming, No. 5, Sergeant Tel true. 
Raising of Cabbage and Turnip Seed ; Improved Method 1 
of Making Charcoal; How to Manage a Kicking > 
Cow; How to Preserve Eggs ) 
The Norman Horse ; Rotation of Crops in Italy. 
Ladies’ Department : How to Clean Silver Plate, E. S.;") 
How to Make Dough Nuts, E. S.; Early Rising, E. j 
S. ; How to Remove Rust from Finely-Polished J- 
Steel; To Make a Pleasant Cosmetic Soap; To Make j 
Cold Cream ; To Destroy Flies, E. S. j 
Boys’ Department: Agricultural Chemistry, No. 3,'1 
J. McKinstry; Anecdotes of Animals, No. 3, E. J 
S.; Comparison of Speed; Influence of Climate f 
on the Longevity of Plants J 
Foreign Agricultural News. 
Editor’s Table... 
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