1872 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Cheap Farms! Free Homes! 
On tilo line of the UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 
13,00(1.000 acres of the best Farming anti Mineral Lands 
in America. 
a,000,000 Acres in Nebraska, in t;lie Platte Valley, 
now for sale. 
Mil«l Climate, IKei'tile Soil, 
for Grain-growing and Stock-raising unsurpassed ny any 
in the United States. 
CHEAPER IN PRICE, more favorable terms given, and 
more convenient to market than can be found elsewhere. 
Free Homesteads for Actual Settlers. 
The best location for Colonies. ' Soldiers entitled to a 
Homestead of 100 Acres. 
Send for the new Descriptive Pamphlet, with new maps, 
published in English, German, Swedish, and Danish, mailed 
free everywhere. Address 
O. F. DAVIS, 
Land Commissioner, U. P. R.R. Co, 
OMAHA, NEB. 
900,000 ACRES 
OF 
JEXOTCI-.L.lRTNrT IT.ATtMTlVG- 
AND SPLENDID 
Michigan Pine Lands 
FOR SA1.E, 
On which are (WE THOUSAND MILLIONS OF 
PINE TIMBElt, and inexhaustible quantities of Maple, 
Beech, Elm, Ash, Hemlock, Oak, etc. . 
The grant of lands to the Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail¬ 
road Company, to build their Road from Fort Wayne, Inch, 
to Traverse Bay and Mackinaw, Michigan, comprises in its 
farming lands every variety of soil, from the rich clan loam 
to the light sandy, and they are found in that section of 
Michigan, north of the city of Grand Rapids, and contiguous 
to the great fruit licit on the eastern shores ot Lake Michi¬ 
gan, now being rapidly developed by railroad and other en- 
^arming Lands are sold to actual settlers, on cre¬ 
dit, one quarter down, balance in yearly payments, interest 
7 per cent. Persons desirous of locations for farms will, on 
application at the Office in Grand Rapids, be fur¬ 
nished with Tickets over ( lie Road, entitling them to 
Retni-Fi of Funs, in the event of purchasing any of the 
Company’s farming land. For information about the lands, 
prices, location, etc., etc., address 
WM„ A. HOWARD, Land Commissioner, 
Title Perfect. Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
J iw mm IN KANSAS! 
At “SKIDDY,” ill Neosho Valley, on 
MISSOURI, KANSAS, and TEXAS RAILWAY. 
Under the auspices of the 
NATIONAL. BUREAU OF MIGRATION. 
Mr. Wm. P. Tomlinson, Local Agent, is on the ground, 
and will give advice and assistance in locating land. 
THE AMERICAN COLONIST AND HOME¬ 
STEAD JOURNAL, 
Containing maps, with full particulars as to the Organiza¬ 
tion of the Colony, the Lands, Productions, Climate, Wood, 
Water, etc., SENT FREE, on application to 
S. R. WELLS, Sec’y of the National Bureau of Migration, 
389 Broadway, New York. 
LANDS IN IOWA. 
Upon application to the undersigned, there will be sent by 
mail to any address, post-paid, a new RAILROAD MAP OF 
IOWA, corrected to date, and a descriptive pamphlet, con¬ 
taining a Sectional Map of that part of the State in which is 
Bituated the Land Grant ot the Chicago, Rock Island, and 
Pacifio R.R. Co., and giving full and detailed information as 
to the location, quality, products, terms of sale, etc., of more 
than 500,000 acres of land now for sale near the line of the 
railroad. Thelands are the cheapest and best Farming Lands 
now in the market in Iowa, the most productive and pro¬ 
gressive agricultural State in the Union, and are being offered 
at low prices and most favorable terms to actual settlers. 
J. L. DREW, Land Com’r, 
C. R. I. & P. R.R. Co., Davenport, Iowa. 
F 
OR reliable information on North Carolina, her 
agricultural, mineral, industrial, and commercial i 
jes, address J. L. Labiaux, Ridgeway, Warren Co.,N. 
■c 
HEAP HOMES in Shenandoah Valley. For cir¬ 
cular, send stamp to J. II. Bristor, Martinsburg.W.Va. 
SOLDIERS 
$30 
“ REMINGTON’S ” 
Breecb-ioamng Sporting, Hunting, and Target Rifles. Best 
i" 'he Wo.,d. E. REMINGTON <fc SONS, *81 and *83 
Broadway, New York. 
Cut this out and send for Illustrated Price-List. 
Desiring to secure the benefits 
of the late Homestead Law, will 
learn something of advantage by 
addressing M. D. FLOWER, Adjutant-General of Minne¬ 
sota, St. Paul, Minn. 
§lOO to 250 KT!! 
where selling our new seven-strand White Platina 
Clothes-Lines. Sells readily at every house. Samples 
free. Address tile Girard Wire Mills, Philadelphia, Pa. 
PER WEEK and expenses paid. We 
want a reliable agent in every County in 
rhe U. S. Address I-Iitdson R. Wire Co., 
130 Maiden Lane, N. Y., or Chicago. Ill. 
TARGET MADE WITH A “ REMINGTON ’ 
BREECH-LOADING SPORTING RIFLE. 
GREAT WESTERN 
P.O.BOX 1311 PiTTSCURGH PA. 
Breenh-ioadiiijr Siioi-Guns. $10 to $'00. DouMe Shot-Guns, 
$Sto$l50. Single Guns, $; to $:0. Rifles, to $75. Re¬ 
volvers. $6 to $ 5. Send Stamp for Piiic’e-List. Army 
Guns, Revolvers, etc., bought or traded for. 
HOESE-POWEH GOVERNOR. 
This Governor can be attached to any power in a few 
minutes, and it will control the power at any desired speed 
without taking: power from the machinery. 
With it all danger to the horses is avoided, as it is a con¬ 
stant safeguard at the brake. Price $10. Send for circulars. 
THOS. B. McCOMUGHEY, Newark, Delaware. 
For full particulars, address 
EIVOL.E, KEIBIjEK, & CO., Lancaster, Pa. 
A LIVE FARMER WANTED 
In each county as Wholesale Agent for O’Hara’s Dol¬ 
lar Champion Covn-Slx-ller. patented July 18,1871, 
indorsed by leading Agricultural Papers: and O’Hara’s 
Practical Corn-Hnsker. patented Aug. 1,1871. Sure 
sale. Very large profits. Samples of both, delivered, $1.75. 
C. M. O’HARA, Hillsboro, O. 
FLAX BRAKES 
Mallory & Sanford Flax Machine Co.’s new and improved 
Flax Brakes are the best in any market. Easily worked, 
strong, and very desirable. Send for circular to 
JOHN W. QUINCY, Treas., 
98 William St., Nctv York. 
(0i(N MJ) MILLg 
Mill and Bolt 
complete In same 
case. Sendc- 
for Circular.' 
Edward Harrison, 
New Haven, Conn. 
The Celebrated Bone Fertilizers, 
GROUND BOME, 
BONE P/3EAL, 
BONE FLOUR. 
Fresh Bone Superphosphate of Lime, or 
Dissolved Bone. Send for Circulars. 
LESTER BROS., Newark, N. J. 
SCRIBNER’S LUMBER & LOR BOOK. 
New, enlarged, and improved edition of this valuable 
book just published, giving correct measurements for 
scantling, hoards, plank, saw-logs, by Doyle’s rule. Cubical 
contents of square and round timber, staves, and heading 
holts. Capacity of cisterns, wood tables, tables of wages, 
hoard, interest tallies, etc. This is the most valuable and 
popular book ever published of its kind. Half a million 
copies have been sold. Ask yonr bookseller for the new 
edition of 1872, or I will send one for 35 cents, post-paid. 
GEO. W. FISHER, 
P. O. Box *33, Rochester, N. Y. 
GOOD CIDER ALL THE YEAR ROUND. 
The neutral sulphite of lime, as prepared by James R. 
Nichols & Co.. Boston, keeps cider sweet all the year 
round. Full directions. Call for Nichols & Co.’s Sul¬ 
phite of Lime. Sold by druggists and grocers generally, 
and at wholesale by JOHN K. HENRY, 8 and 9 College 
Place, New York. Send stamp for circular. 
A GENTS Wanted.—Agonls make more money at 
AY work for ns than at anything else. Particulars free. 
G. STINSON & CO., Fine Art Publishers, Portland, Maine. 
ATTENTION, CHOIRS ! 
THEAfeTHEM OFFERINB 
By D. F. Hodges, Geo. W. Foster, and J. H. Tenney. 
250 Pages of ENTIRELY NEW Anthems, 
Sentences, Motets, Chants, etc. 
A complete collection for opening and closing Puht.ic 
Worship. The Music is of that practical character and 
pleasing Simplicity so popular in our Protestant Churches. 
We believe evemj page ol the Anthem Offering cun be 
sung and will be admired by nine tenths of our Choirs 
throughout the country. 
The Anthem Offering will be found a first-class book 
for Schools and Societies. 
Any chorister or teacher who will send his address to the 
publishers before Nov. 15th, 1872, shall lie entitled to a single 
copy for examination, on such terms as can not fail to give 
satisfaction. 
Price, $10 per doz. Single copies, $1. 
LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, 
Boston, Mass. 
Endless Amusement for Spring, Summer, 
Autumn, and Winter. The 
BOYS’ PHOTOGRAPHIC CABINET. 
Ytitli this Cabinet every boy is enabled to make a photo- 
g raphie copy, without extra expense, of his own or friends’ 
arte-de-Visite, every description of Pictures. Engravings. 
Stereoscopic Slides, Designs, Ferns, Leaves, Flowers, etc.. 
etc., and affords endless, harmless, and instructive amuse¬ 
ment to every purchaser. 
This Cabinet contains Printing Frame, Negatives. Gold, 
Silver, Toning, and Fixing Baths, Albumen Paper, Filters, 
Stirring Rod, etc. Also full instructions. Price $2. 
Sent post-paid on receipt of price by tire HAPPY' HOURS 
COMPANY, 22 Ann Street, New York. 
You ask WHY we can sell First 
Class 7 Octave Pianos for §220 ? 
We answer—It costs less than 
$3G0 to make any $G00 Piano 
i sold tin ougli Agents, all of whom 
•make IUU per ct. profit. We 
have no Agents, but ship direct to 
families at Factory price, and war¬ 
rant 5 Years. Send for illustrated circular, in which we 
refer to over 500 Bankers, Merchants, &c. (some of 
whom you may know), using our Pianos, in 44 States and 
Territories. u„ s. Piano Co., SG5 Broadway, N.Y. 
A GREAT OFFER » 481 Broadway, ’ 
will dispose of ONE HUNDRED PIANOS, MKLODEONS, 
and ORGANS of six first-ciass makers, including Waters’s, 
at extremely low prices for CASn, or will take from $4 
to $15 monthly until paid; the same to let, and rent applied 
if purchased. New 7 octave PIANOS, modern improve¬ 
ments, for $275, cash. A new kind of PARLOR ORGAN, 
the most beautiful style and perfect tone ever made, now on 
exhibition at 481 Broadway, New Y'ork. 
Steinway, 
W eber, 
Chickerin 
Knabe, 
and other first-class Pianos sold on monthly installments at 
factory prices. New and elegant 7-octave Pianos for $275 
cash. Superb fi-stop Organs for $125 cash. Pianos and 
Organs to rent. Teachers and Seminaries supplied with 
sheet-music, etc. Catalogue free. Address 
WM. A. POND Si CO., No. 547 Broadway, N. Y. 
A GENTS WANTED .—Wo guarantee employment 
for all, either sex , at $5 a day, or $2,000 or more a year. 
New works by Mrs. 11. 11. Stoice, and others. Superb pre¬ 
miums given army. Money made rapidly and easily at 
work for ns. YVrite and see. Particulars free. 
WORTHINGTON, DUSTIN & CO., Hartford, Ct. 
TBSAIPJPS^G, Fishing. 
H SL —Making traps, preserving, dressing, and tannine 
skins and furs, bails, etc. 7(3 pages, :0 engiavings. Only 20 
cts. Mailedby C. S. RILEY, Holland, N. Y. 
BEAUTIFYING COUNTRY HOMES. 
AN ELEGANT QUARTO VOLUME. 
By J. WEIDEIOIANN. 
This magnificent work is illustrated not only with numer¬ 
ous fine wood-engravings, but also witli seventeen full-page 
aud seven double-page colored lithographs of places already 
improved. It embodies the results of a long practice in 
landscape architecture and rural adornment, and while its 
teachings are in accordance with the received rules of art. 
they are thoroughly practical In their character. It Is ©ne 
of the most elegant, and ought to prove one of the most 
useful works ever issued in the country. The work, both m 
Its letter-press and colored lithographs, is beautifully printed, 
and it is elegantly bound in beveled boards. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $16.00. 
ORANGE JUDD & COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
