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CAPITAL $50,000! 
For the Insurance of Horses, Mules, Prize Bulls, Sheep, and Cattle, 
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Losses paid in 30 days after proof of death. 
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Isaac Mass, 
George D. Hay, 
John Wise, 
Alvin W. Tracy, 
I Abner T. Ellis, 
I Abm. Smith, 
Thomas Bishop. 
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C OMMERCIAL GARDEN AN© NURSERY 
of Parsons & Co., Flushing, near New York. The proprie¬ 
tors of this establishment offer for sale their usual assortment of 
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Roses, &c. Their 
stock of Apples and Pears is finer than any they have before 
offered. Also, Pears on Quince, of their own growing. The 
Ornamental Department contains the usual well-known varieties 
and all the best new Trees and Shrubs for Lawns and Arbore- 
tums, including the new Pines, Araucaria imbricata, and Cryp- 
tomeria japonica, with Cedar of Lebanon, at one to two dollars 
each, and Cedrus deodara of various sizes, at one dollar per 
foot. Catalogues furnished gratis on application by mail, 
otf PARSONS & CO. 
C 'i REENHOiTSE PLANTS, VINES AN© 
W Roses. Parsons & Co. offer for sale every desirable variety 
of Greenhouse Plants, and many valuable novelties recently intro¬ 
duced from Europe. Attention is particularly directed to their 
fine stock of Camellia wilderii, the perfection of whose form is 
not attained by any other variety. The original stock, both of 
this and C. Abbey Wilder, is in their possession. 
Growers of Grapes are invited to examine their Vineries, now 
in full fruit, and from which they can furnish good vines of 
about forty varieties, at 
50 cents for those one year old. 
75 “ “ two years old. 
$1.00 “ “ of extra size. 
Their stock of saleable roses includes some thousands on their 
own roots of the Remoutant, Bourbon, China and Garden Roses, 
in their various sub-classes. Catalogues furnished gratis on ap¬ 
plication to Flushing, near N. Y. “ PARSONS & Co. 
o 
F RUIT TREES for SAFE.—50,000 Peach Trees, 
all of the best market varieties, at the following prices:—By 
the single hundred $5. One thousand, $45. And ten thousand 
for $400. Also, 40,000 Apple Trees of the best market varieties, 
and of large size. By the single hundred, $12.50, or one thousand 
for $110. Matts and packing, $1 per hundred for Peach, and $2 
for Apple Trees. Catalogues will be forwarded to all applicants. 
ISAAC PULLEN, 
jan 4t Hightstown, Mercer Co., New Jersey. 
C A HEAT SALE OF ©AIRY STOCK.—The sub- 
W scriber will offer for sale, without reserve, at Public Auc¬ 
tion, on Tuesday the 25th day of March, 1851, at 12 o’clock, on 
the farm on which he resides at Morrisania, Westchester county, 
N. Y., upwards of 100 head of Cows and Heifers. About 50 
head are Native and Amsterdam Dutch Cows, selected by the 
subscriber with reference to milking qualities. The remainder, 
about 50 head, are grades, one half, three quarters, and seven 
eighths blooded. Heifers from one to five years old, bred by the 
subscriber out of the very best of cows, and got by the cele¬ 
brated imported shorthorned bull Marcus, and so far as they 
have come to maturity, they appear to combine with most 
faultless symmetry, nearly every point indicative of perfection in 
a dairy cow. Tatting the whole dairy together, it is, perhaps, 
the best selected in the United States. The cows, with a tew 
exceptions, are all young and in calf by the fine bull Amsterdam. 
The many premiums that I have been awarded by the State Ag¬ 
ricultural Society and the American Institute give evidence of 
my success as a breeder. I will also sell my shorthorned cow 
that took the first Premium at the American Institute Fair in 
October last, two two-year-old heifers, and one yearling, all 
thorough bred. Two yoke of very superior working cattle, with 
several fine horses, one boar of the Russian grass breed, one 
imported, improved Berkshire sow and pigs, one Suffolk sow 
and Pigs. The number of hogs, in all, will be from 50 to 60, and 
some of them as fine as can be produced. All the farming uten¬ 
sils, also those of the dairy, which are numerous. A catalogue 
and description of each animal will be given on the day of sale. 
Stock purchased to be sent to a distance will be delivered by 
the subscriber, on ship, canal, or railroad cars, in the city of 
New York, free of risk and expense to the purchaser. 
Morrisania is nine miles from New York by Harlem Railroad, 
f2t* THOMAS BELL. 
SITUATION AS A FARM MANAGER 
►3 Wanted. A middle-aged man who has devoted many years 
to agricultural pursuits, and who perfectly understands the breed¬ 
ing and diseases of cattle, the cultivation of green crops, &c., is 
desirous of obtaining an agency or the management of a farm. 
Respectable references can be given. Address 
fit* _ “ AGRICULTURIST,” Office of this paper. 
’M3©R SALE.—The Dwelling House and about seven acres 
Mj of ground adjoining, situated in the centre of Northampton, 
Mass., formerly occupied by Thomas Napier, Esq. The house is 
in complete repair, with all the modern improvements. It com¬ 
mands a beautiful view of the Connecticut Valley, and is within 
half a mile of the railroad. For particulars, inquire of 
R. L. ALLEN, 189 Water st. N. Y., or 
f_ S. S. HINCKLEY, Albion Motel, Boston . 
E ndless-chain pumps, ©m water 
Elevators. These highly approved machines operate upon 
the same principle as those used for grain. The elevator is made 
a paid of an endless chain, that works over an iron wheel, and 
down into the water, around a pulley into the tube, through 
which a constant stream is made to flow into the pail, by simply 
turning the crank, attached to the wheel at the top, which any 
light hand can do with great ease. They are made of several 
sizes, and can be fitted up for any depth well, or cistern required. 
A Mew Use for--Chain Pumps. —One of these of large bore, is 
the most efficient machine ever used for emptying the vaults of 
privies, where the contents are in a semi-liquid state. 
TjLNAGLE PLOW.—No. 28.—The following extract 
EU-d from the letter of a gentleman who purchased one of these 
plows, fully explains its character. “ In answer to your inquiry 
how I like the great breaking plow, I have to say it entirely ex¬ 
ceeds my expectations, and even your own recommendation, 
which I then thought quite extravagant. I put on four stout 
yoke of oxen, and drove into the thickest patch of scrub oak 
roots upon my farm ; not without some misgivings, that I should 
break the plow instead of the roots ; but I have now turned over 
twenty acres as completely as though it had been nothing but 
stubble, and the plow is this day better than it was when it 
came from your store. I think it the cheapest and best plow for 
such heavy work ever invented.” 
These plows are for sale at our Agricultural Warehouse, No’s. 
189 and 191 Water st., New York. Price, plain, $18—full rigged, 
v/ith wheel, draft rod, and cutter, $20. A. B. ALLEN & Co. 
ARDEN AN© FIELD SEEDS FOR 1851. 
We are getting in, not only our usual supply, but a larger 
stock than ever, of all kinds of seeds required, either for field or 
garden culture, fresh and free from noxious weeds, &c., which 
are offered at wholesale or retail. Orders for trees and shrubbery 
executed as usual. 
f A. B. ALLEN & Co. 189 and 191 Water st. N. Y. 
M IRER’S ISEE HIVE.—This beautiful and valua¬ 
ble Hive, may be had of the subscribers, and sent to any 
distance, for $5, including a Right to make the same; with full 
directions, so simple that any joiner can make it for only $2. 
This hive is positively the best that has ever been sold in the 
United States. 
dtf A. B. ALLEN &. Co , 191 Water st., N. Y. 
