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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 Implements 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, 185 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, &e. 
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, &c. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 189 and 191 Water street, N. Y. 
SALE OF SHORT-HORNED CATTLE. 
I WILL sell at Buffalo, during the days of the State Fair, 5th, 
6 th, and 7th of September next, under the directions of the Offi¬ 
cers of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, twenty to twenty- 
five thorough-bred Short-Horned cattle, consisting of cows, heif¬ 
ers, and young bulls. A catalogue with their pedigrees will be 
ready at the time of the Fair. 
Also, I will sell at the same time, fifty Merino rams, bred from 
the Blakesly flock. 
References, A. B. Allen, N. Y.; Sanford Howard, and B. P. 
Johnson, Albany; Francis Rotch, Butternuts ; and L. F Alien, 
Black Rock. ' J. M. SHERWOOD. 
•Auburn, May 16/.A, 1848. 3t 
DURHAM CATTLE FOR SALE AT AUCTION. 
THE Subscriber having purchased of Mr. James Gowen, his 
numerous herd of Short-Horn cattle, the character of which is 
too well known to require comment here, and being desirous of 
adopting for the benefit of his pupils, a more general system of 
culture than is practicable with the keeping of so large and in¬ 
creasing a stock of cattle, will sell some twelve or fourteen 
head, at public auction, on Wednesday, the 12th of July next, at 
the Rising Sun Hotel, on the Germantown road, near Philadel¬ 
phia. 
The stock to be sold will consist of cows with calves by their 
side, cows in calf, all good ages (principally young), one very 
fine bull four years old, yearling and two years’ heifers, and bull 
and heifer calves from five to eight months old. 
Descriptive catalogues, given at the sale whicti will be positive 
and without reserve. JOHN WILKINSON. 
Mt. Airy Agricultural Institute, ) 
Germantown, Pa., May 28th, 1848. S It 
SEABURY 9 S OLEAGINOUS OPODELDOC. 
NO family should be without this excellent liniment. As a 
remedy for Burns, Fresh Wounds, Sprains, Bruises, Rheumatism, 
Pain in the Side, &c. it has no equal. Every man who keeps 
horses should have a bottle of it about his stable, as it exceeds 
every other remedy for the speedy cure of Harness Galls, 
Wounds, Strains, and Diseases of the Limbs of this useful animal. 
All orders addressed to the proprietor, at Jamaica L. I. or to 
Israel Minor, 214 Fulton St., N. Y., will meet with prompt atten¬ 
tion. The above liniment may be had at retail by merchants 
and druggisir, generally throughout the United States. 
T. S. SEABURY, Proprietor, Jamaica, L. I. 
May be had of C. M. Saxton, at the office of this Paper. jy3t* 
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 lie 
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, Lone Island 
A. B. Allen & Co., New York, ) 
Wm. T. Terry, Southold, > Agents. 
Samuel W. Young, Orient, ) my6t* 
GUANO FOR SALE. 
JUST received and for sale, a cargo of Guano, of superior 
quality. Price $35 per ton, for half a ton or more ; less than half 
a ton, two cents per pound. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 189 and 191 Water St., N. Y. 
LIGHTNING RODS, 
FORMED of copper, or covered iron, with minute directions 
for putting them up. Prices, from 50 to 75 cents per rnnnin" 
yard. A, B. ALLEN & CO , 189 and 191 Water st., N Y. 
THE 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
IS PUBLISHED THE FIRST OF EVERY MONTH 
BY C. M. SAXTON, 205 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
TERMS. 
For Single Copies. $1 per annum. 
Three Copies. 2 “ 
Eight Copies. 5 
ftCp To be paid invariably in advance. 
IV. 13. This numiber, without covers, is subject 
to newspaper postage only; that is, one cent to 
any distance within the state of New York, and 
one cent and a half for all distances beyond. 
SHORT-HORN AND DEVON CATTLE? COTS- 
WOLD AND SOUTHDOWN SHEEF. 
I WILL sell at the New York State Cattle Show, to be held on 
the 5th, 6th, and 7th of September next, at Buffalo, about 30 thor¬ 
ough-bred Short-Horn cattle, consisting of cows, heifers, bulls, and 
calves. 
Also, 20 to 25 thorough-bred Devons, of like description. 
Likewise, 30 Cotswold sheep, ewes and rams of select, 
recently-imported stock ; and about the same number of South- 
downs. 
The above stock I have been breeding for many years past, and 
its reputation in all their varieties is generally known. 
Catalogues, with pedigrees of the stock, will be furnished at the 
show grounds where the cattle will be exhibited. 
LEWIS F. ALLEN. 
Black Rock, N. V, July, 1848. 3t. 
CONTENTS OF JULY NUMBER. 
Uniting of the Farmers’Cabinet with our Journal; Time I 
for Cutting Wheat; Management of Cheese Dairies, > 201 
and Manufacture of Cheese, A. L. Fish ) 
Adulteration of Food.—No. 1.. 205 
Scales for Weighing ; The Cow—Her Diseases and Man- ) 
agement.—No. 3 } 
A Curious Fact in Butter Making ; Dimensions Necessary ) 
for Health in Living or Sleeping Apartments; Agricui- > 207 
ture of the Chinese.—No. 7 _ ^ ) 
Value of Peat Ashes as a Manure; Utility of "Wasps and) - 
Hornets ; A New Fertilizing Compound for Grass Lands ) 209 
Letters of R.L. Allen, No. 5.... 210 
Cheese Making ; Solon Robinson ; Improvement of Guano ) 
Hot Water for Trees. Win. Bacon. * S 
How to Break a Colt—A True Story, A Traveller ; Re- ) 012 
view of March No. < i the Agriculturist, Reviewer ) 
Cisterns, M. W. Philips. 213 
Manufacture of Navy Patter for Foreign Stations. 214 
Spent Tan Bank may be Employed as a Manure ; Does 1 
Water in Running through Leaden Pipes Become > 215 
Poisonous and Unfit for Use 1 R ) 
Wire Fences ; An Egg Fact; Superiority of Wool Mat-^ gift 
tresses, Cato; Treatment of Horse Manure S 
Mount-Airy Agricultural Institute. 217 
Yankee Farming.—No 6, Sergeant Tel true. 218 
Various Uses to which Glass maybe Applied; Letters ) o IQ 
from Abroad, No. 3, F. R. S. ) 
Value of Guano ; A Poser for Liebig. 220 
Amount of Agricultural Products grown in the United) 
States, in 1847; Superior Saddlery and Harnesses ; f 
Mr. Wilkinson’s Sale ; Comparative Value of Indian 901 
Corn and Buckwheat, as Food for Hens ; Meeting of the j 
Royal Agricultural Society of England J 
Great Sale of Thorough-bred Stock. 222 
Dorking Fowls... 223 
Douglas’ Improved Hydraulic Ram ; Sale of Mr. Prentice’s ) 
Herds ■ What is a Model Farm 1 S 
Death of Turpentine Trees ; Effect of Temperance Societies ) 02 g 
on Distilleries ; A Cheap Paint ; Color of Eggs ) ~ 
Ladies’ Detartment.—C aution in the Choice of Culi- 4 
nary Utensils.— No. 1, C, ; Flow to Make Ginger > 226 
Syrup, E. S.; Butter Making.E. S. ; Household Drudges ) 
Boys’ Department.—A gricultural Chemistry—No. 4, J.) 007 
McKinstry ; Experiment for the Boys ) 
Foreign Agricultural News. 228 
Editor’s Table . 229 
Review of the Market. 230 
