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ADVERTISEMENTS. 
BOOKS ON AGRICULTURE, &c., &c. 
For sale at the Office of the American Agriculturist. 
AMERICAN Farmer’s Encyclopedia. $3, in leather. 
American Shepherd, by Morrell. $1. 
American Agriculture, by Allen. $1. 
American Poulterer’s Companion, by Bement. $1. 
American Veterinarian, by Cole. 50 cents. 
Buist’s Kitchen Gardener. 75 cents. 
Buel’s Farmer’s Companion. 75 cents. 
Chaptal’s Agricultural Chemistry 50 cents. 
Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. $1.50. 
Domestic Animals, by R. L. Allen. Cloth, 75 cents ; paper, 
50 cents. 
Domestic Economy, by Miss Beecher. 75 cents. 
Farmer’s and Emigrant’s Hand-Book. $1. 
Fruit Culturist, by J. J Thomas. 50 cents. 
Gardener's Farmer’s Dictionary. $1.50—leather, $1.75. 
Farmer’s Manual. 50 cents. 
Horse’s Foot—and how to keep it sound. 25 cents. 
Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistry. $1.25. 
Loudon’s Ladies’ Flower Garden. $1.25. 
Liebig’s Agricultural Chemistry (new edition). $1. Paper, 
75 cent?. 
“ Agricultural and Animal Chemistry (pamphlet edi¬ 
tions). 25 cents each. 
Parsons on the Rose. $1.50. 
Prince on the Rose. $1.50. 
Rural Economy, by Boussingault. $1.50. 
Stable Economy, by Stewart. $1. 
Smith’s Productive Farming 50 cents. 
Treatise on Milch Cows. 33 cents. 
Treatise on Guano. 25 cents. 
Vouatt on the Horse (new edition). $1.75. 
Youatt on the Pig. 75 cents. 
Hovey’s Fruits of America, colored plates. $1 per no. 
Marfit on Manures. 38 cents. 
.Man’s Bird Keeper’s Manual. 50 cents. 
Johnson’s Gardner’s Dictionary. $2. 
Youatt on the Dog. $1.50. 
Porter’s Hawker on Shooting. $2 75. 
The Dog and Sportsman. 75 cents. 
Beattie’s Southern Agriculture. $1. 
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory. $1.25. 
McMahon’s Gardner. $3. 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening. $3. 
u Cottage Residences. $2. 
Mason’s Farriery, (new edition). $1 25. 
Bind’s ■* “ “ $1. 
Bridgman’s Young Gardner’s Assistant. $2. 
Allen’s American Herd Book. $3. 
Browne’s Tour of America. $5. 
Thomas’ Fruit Culturist. 50 cents. 
In press, Minor’s American Bee Keeper’s Manual. 
§5= Orders sent by mail, accompanied by Cash, will receive 
prompt attention, and the books sent by mail, or otherwise. 
Addsess C. M. SAXTON, 205 Broadway, New York. 
4t* Nov. 
AMERICAN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COM¬ 
PANY, 
Office No , 40 Wall Street, N. Y. 
LIFE INSURANCE, upon the plan adopted by this Company, 
is founded upon the principle of contribution in the shape of an¬ 
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insured, out of which the Company pay a stipulated sum on the 
death of the assured to the person for whose benefit the insur¬ 
ance is effected. 
After a thorough investigation of the different systems adopted 
in Europe and America, and of the rates of premium charged, 
this company have reduced the premium 25 per cent, payable 
in cash, annually, semi-annually, or quarterly, as may be pre¬ 
ferred, under a firm conviction that the exigencies of the Com¬ 
pany will never exceed and seldom require one half of the an¬ 
nual premium now charged by the English and American Com¬ 
panies, which reduction will still leave a large margin for seasons 
of unusual sickness and death among its members—preferring to 
reduce the premiums at once to an amount more nearly approxi¬ 
mating the actual necessities of the Company than to adopt the 
system of premium notes which is attended with many disadvan¬ 
tages. 
The leading features of this Company are— 
1. A guarantee capital of $50,000, which together with the ac¬ 
cumulating premiums is deemed adequate to meet every contin. 
gency. 
2. A reduction in the rates of premiums—payable annually 
semi-annually, or quarterly, as may be preferred. 
3. The assured participate annually in the profits. 
4. Insurance may be effected by any married woman upon the 
life of her husband, for her sole use and benefit, free from any 
claims of the representatives of her husband, or any of his credi¬ 
tors. 
5. No personal liability of the members beyond the amount of 
their annual premium of insurance. 
6 . Creditors may insure the lives of their debtors, or debtors 
themselves may insure for the protection of their creditors. 
A prospectus has been issued (which can be had at the office 
of the Company, or any of its agents), explanatory of the terms 
and condit ions of insurance. 
TRUSTEES. 
Ambrose L. Jordan, Samuel Leeds, Norris Wilcox, 
Cyrus P. Smith, Frederick T. Peet, John W. Fitch, 
George Hall, Caleb Mix, John Durrie, 
David Banks, Sherman W. Knevals, Lewis B. Judson, 
G. S. Silliman, Henry Peck, James Punderford, 
George D. Phelps, Eli W. Blake, James E. English 
Willis Bristol, Lucius R. Finch, 
BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, President. 
NORRIS WILCOX, Vice President. 
CALEB MIX, Treasurer. 
BENJAMIN NOYES, Secretary. 
AMBROSE L. JORDAN, Chairman of Local Boa»d, 
Medical Examiners. 
WILLIAM N. BLAKEMAN. M. D., 193 Bleecker street. 
ALEXANDER B. WHITING. M. D., 848 Broadway, jft 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW YORK STATE 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THE Annual Meeting of this Society will be held at Albany, 
on tiie third Wednesday (17th) of January, 1849. Premiums will 
he awarded on Grain and Root Crops, Butter, Cheese, Fruits, 
&c. Statements should be furnished the Secretary early in 
January. 
It is desired that there should be a full representation from 
County Societies, as well as of the friends of agriculture gen¬ 
erally. 
A Pomological Exhibition will be held at the rooms of the 
Society, and growers of fruit are respectfully requested to for¬ 
ward specimens to the secretary as early, if practicable, as the 
35th of January. B. P. JOHNSON, Secretary. 
Nov. 1st, 1843. n3S 
PARSONS & CO. 
INVITE the attention of dealers and amateurs to the large and 
excellent stock of trees at their Commercial Garden and Nur¬ 
sery at Flushing, near New York. The personal attention of the 
proprietors to the propagating department, and their possession 
of well arranged specimen grounds, enable them to ensure the 
correctness of the varieties which they cultivate. 
Their Fruit Department contains 210 varieties of apples, 180 of 
pears, 70 of cherries, 75 of plums. 80 of peaches, with nectarines, 
apricots, quinces, grapes, figs, almonds, walnuts, raspberries, cur 
rants, strawberries, esculent roots, &c. 
The Ornamental Department comprises all the most desirable 
deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, vines, creepers, 
See., in some 800 varieties, many of which are new and 
rare, and valuable for arboretums. Also, a-fine stock: of roses, 
hedge plants, &c. 
Catalogues furnished gratis, on application, by mail, at Fhash- 
.ng, or personally at 10 Pine street, New York. c 2t 
STATIONERY, BLANK-BOOKS, AND WRITING 
PAPER. 
Francis & LoutreVNo. 77 Maiden Lane, N. Y. 
MANUFACTURE all kinds of Blank-Books and Stationery 
articles—Diamond-Point Gold Peas—Letter Copying-Presses- 
Manifold Letter-Writers—superior Croton-Ink, warranted to re 
tain its jet-black color, which they sell at the very lowest prices. 
We have also on hand every description of Foreign PAPER 
and STATIONERY—Cap, Letter, and Note Papers, Envelopes, 
Perforated Board, Bristol Board, Drawing-Papers—Copy-Books, 
Pocket-Books, Card-Cases, Port-Folios, Scrap-Books—Gold-Paper, 
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Work Boxes—Quills—Tin Cash and Deed Boxes—and all arti¬ 
cles kept by Stationers, at remarkably low prices. 
Books suitable for County Clerks and Public Offices supplied 
Printing, Ruling, and Binding executed at the lowest rates. 
We should be pleased to have a call from those requiring 
articles in our line. Orders by mail will receive attention. 
l£wis FRANCIS, > FRANCIS & LOUTREL 
CYRUS H. loutrel, ) Stationers, 77 Maiden Lane, N. Y. 
Sept.lyr*. 
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, 
[t 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 suffer injury from its use. Pries SI 
per hundred pounds, for a single barrel, or 75 cents per hummed 
nounds for larger quantities. 
A. B. /*LLEN & CO., 189 and 191 Water street, N. Y 
