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ADVERTISEMENTS. — CONTENTS. 
SEASONABLE AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 
'HORSE POWERS—Wheeler’s and Whitman’s Endless chain 
power for one or two horses. 
Warren’s, Child’s, and Trimble’s Cast-Iron Power, with sweeps 
for one to four horses. 
' Taplin’s Circular Power for one to five horses. 
Threshers. —Wheeler’s, and Whitman’s, Threshers with 
or without separators. 
Warren’s, Taplin’s, and Eddy’s Threshers. 
Fan Mills.— A1B of the approved kinds suitable for cleaning 
wheat, rye, barley, oats, rice, &c. 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 189 arid 191 Water street, N. Y. 
ROCK SALT. 
THIS Salt is as hard as alum, and is the best known. It comes 
in large lumps, and is the most suitable and economical kind for 
stock. It may be placed on the ground in the open field where it 
will be exposed for years to the weather with but little waste. 
It is the best kind to put in a rack, manger or trough, to be licked 
by horses, cattle, and sheep, as they may desire. By this means 
stock never get an excess, or sutler injury from its use. Price $1 
per hundred pounds, for a single barrel, or 75 cents per hundred 
pounds for larger quantities. 
jan. A. B. ALLEN & CO.. 189 and 191 Water street, N. Y. 
PERIODICAL AGENCY. 
C. M. SAXTON, 205 Brood way, receives subscriptions for the 
following periodicals at the prices annexed, viz :— 
The New England Geneological and Historical Register 
Quarterly, per annum. $2 
The American Quarterly Register and Magazine, per annum.. 5 
Blackwood’s Magazine, Monthly.do.3 
The Parlor Magazine,_do.do. 2 
Mother’s do.do.do..... 1 
Youth’s Cabinet.do.do. 1 
Graham’s Magazine ......do.do.3 
Godey’s Lady’s Book.. ..do.do.3 
Union Magazine.do.do. 3 
Columbian do-••••...do.do.3 
The American Farmer, do .do. 1 
Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulture.do. 3 
The New Englander, Quarterly.do.3 
CHALLENGE. 
I WILL show my Durham Bull, Marius, at the State Fair to 
be held at Buffalo, on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of September, against 
any Durham bull that has been previously awarded the first pre¬ 
mium by the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, for $50 to $100 a 
side. The judges to be named on the ground and not less than 
three in number. Any gentleman wishing to become a competi¬ 
tor, will please to state the same in writing, on or before the 20th 
of August. 
This celebrated bull, which was imported from the stock of the 
late Earl Spencer, and now five years old, will be offered for sale 
under the direction of the officers of the N. Y. Agricultural Society 
at their next Fair. The character of this bull is too well known 
to require any comment. THOS. BELL. 
Morrisania, West Chester Co., jV. Y, July 17th , 1848. It 
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To be paid invariably in advance. 
N. B. This number, without covers, Is subject 
to newspaper postage only; that is, one cent to 
any distance within the state of New Yorlt, and 
one cent and a half for all distances beyond. 
ARTIFICIAL MANURES, &c. 
ATWATER’S AMERICAN COMPOUND OF MANURES, 
composed of fertilizing materials, and is designed for growing gar 
den vegetables, fruit trees, vines, and ornamental flowers or 
plants of every description, as well as for general crops. The 
quantity required per acre, will vary from 30 to 50 bushels, ac¬ 
cording to the condition of the land to which it is applied. Price, 
40 cents per bushel. 
BOMMER’S FERTILIZING POWDER, long been celebrated 
in France for cultivating garden vegetables of all kinds, green¬ 
house plants, flowers, wall fruit, field.crops. &c., &c. Quantity 
requisite per acre, from 12 to 18 bushels, to be sown broadcast on 
the surface and hoed or harrowed in. Price §5 per cask of 425 lbs. 
LE DOYEN’S PATENT DEODORIZING, OR DISINFECT¬ 
ING FLUID, designed for destroying putrid smells arising either 
from animal or vegetable decomposition ; also, for immediately 
purifying sick rooms, water closets, sesspools, steerages of passen¬ 
ger ships, bilge water, &c., &c. but mainly for destroying the 
odor of night soil and converting it into a fertilizing compound ap¬ 
plicable as manure. Quantity required to deodorize a common 
privy, for three or four months, from two to five gallons. Price, 
50 cents per gallon. For sale by 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 189 and 191 Water street. 
SALE OF SHORT-HORNED CATTLE AND 
MERINO SHEEP. 
1 WILL sell at Buffalo, during the days of the State Fair. 5th, 
6th, 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 Sliort-Hnrned 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. Allen, 
Black Rock. J. M. SHERWOOD. 
JLuburn, May I6hh, 1848. 3t 
SHORT-HORN AND DEVON CATTLE, COTS- 
WOLD AND SOUTHDOWN SHEEP. 
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 
showgrounds where the cattle will be exhibited. 
' LEWIS F. ALLEN 
Black Rock, W. Y., July, 1848. 3 t 
TrTtm • , SUANO FOR SALE, 
JUST received and tor sale, a cargo of Guano, of sunerior 
quality. 1 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 189 and 191 Water St., N. Y. 
CONTENTS OF AUGUST NUMBER. 
Topping Corn ; Improvement of East-Jersey Lands by ) 
Green-Sand Marl ) * * 
Adulteration of Food.—No. 2. 
Visit to Mr. Cuming’s Garden ; Remarkable Cows. 
Instruments for Ascertaining the Fineness of Wool ; The \ 
Cow—Her Diseases and Management.—No. 4 j 
Howto Make Ginger Beer... 
Agriculture oflhe Chinese.—No. 8... 
Gutta Percha ; Utility of the Bloom on the Surface of j 
Fruit and Leaves; Benefit of adding Clay or Marl { 
to Sandy Land; Permanent Cutting Teeth inf*”* 
Colts j 
Cost and Profits of Raising Wheat, Indian Corn, Stc., in > 
Different parts of the Union £ 
Slaking Lime for Agricultural Purposes. . 
Utility of Herbivorous Insects ; Differences in the Quality 1 
of Barnyard Manure: Temperature of Plants ; Review > 
of April Number of the Agriculturist, Reviewer ) 
ColdWVater Bathing. 
Ash of the Common Potato. 
Sheep Yard and Stables. 
The Use of Unburn* Limestone as a Manure,-S. R. Gray ; ) 
Economy in Building Materials, H. /Moke \ 
Mode of Manufacturing Poudrette at Paris : Importation of? 
Pure-Bred Sheep.c 
A Few Simple Facts, * M * ... 
Another Fact relative to the Potato Disease ; Killing the ) 
Buffalo ; American Ilclly Hedges ^ 
Cultivation of the Peanut in East Jersey, J. M. B. ; Facts ) 
in Regard to Cutting Unripe Corn ; ‘Yankee Farming > 
No. 7, Sergeant Teltrue " ) 
Venetian or, Tanners’ Sumach, Wm. R. Prince. 
Ladies’ Department: Directions for Gathering Garden) 
Seeds, E. S ; Caution in the Choice of Culinary Trier.- > 
sils, No. 2, C. ; Farmers’Wives in Olden Times ) 
Boys’ Department.—A gricultural Chemistry —No. 4, J. ) 
McKinstry £ 
Foreign Agricultural News. 
Editor’s Table... 
Review of the Market. . 
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