1848. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
199 
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS. GARDENERS, 
AND FLORISTS. 
A New Manure, Warranted Superior to any Other. 
TUTR. BOMMER has on hand one hundred casks—500 lbs. each— 
of ihe celebrated “ French Guano,” an inodorous chemically 
prepared fertilizing Powder, adapted to every soil and all plants, 
and acknowledged in Europe as the best and most profitable ma¬ 
nure ever known. Price of a cask, $5. 
Families having small gardens or flowers, can be supplied with 
small bags containing 15 lbs. at 25 cents, or 36 lbs. at 50 cents, at 
his office 72 Greenwich-st., New-York city. April 1—If. 
THE EAGLE PLOW. 
P ROBABLY no Plow has been so 
long before the public with so few 
alterations, come into so general use, or 
received so many, and of so high grade 
premiums, as the Eagle Plows, from 
the establishment of Messrs. Ruggles, 
Nourse and Mason. 
Notwithstanding the great diversity of soils, modes of culture, 
and the increasing competition of many distinguished manufactur¬ 
ers, and year after year having been subjected to the most syste¬ 
matic, persevering and thorough trials ever had in this country, it 
still stands at the head of the list for excellence of work, materials, 
workmanship, durability and price. 
By reterring to the advertisement of the manufacturers in this 
and the last number of the Cultivator, will be seen the high estima¬ 
tion put upon them by committees and plowmen, as well as their 
very general use where they have become known. 
It is but just here to state, that in the most important trials in 
New England, the plowmen are required to use the same plows 
and teams which have been used on their farms, not less than sixty 
days previous to the trials. The owners are required to hold their 
own plows, to perform a certain amount of work, usually one- 
eighth of an acre of a given Width and depth of furrows, in a given 
time. All of which rules and regulations are made known months 
before-hand, thus avoiding very many difficulties which oftenarise 
in deciding who really merit the awaids and premiums. 
A full and complete assortment constantly on hand and (or sale 
at manufacturer's home prices at wholesale and retail , at the Albany 
Ag- Warehouse, Nos. 10 & 12Green-st., Albany, by 
April 1. H. L. EMERY. 
183 FRONT-STREET, NEW-YORK. 
TM-IE subscriber, manufacturer and dealer, has constantly on hand 
an extensive assortment of Agricultural Implements of the la¬ 
test and most approved patterns. 
Plows adapted to every description of soil, embracing a greater 
variety of patterns than can be found in any other establishment in 
the United States. 
Moore's highest premium Plows. Two and Three Furrow Plows. 
Freeborn & Hitchcock’s do. Side Hill and Double Mold do. 
Minor, Horton & Co’s do. Cultivators with Steel and Cast 
Ruggles, Nourse & Mason’s do. Teeth. 
Prouty & Mear’s do. Harrows.plain and doitble hinged 
Subsoil do. Garden & Canal Wheelbarrows. 
Single and Double Corn Shelters, price $5 to $10. 
Straw Cutters, Greene’s, Steven’s, Sinclair’s, and other approved 
patterns. 
Mills for grinding Grain. Corn and Cob Crushers. 
Horse Powers and Threshing Machines. 
Fanning-Mills, Revolving flay Rakes, 
Rice do. Hay and Manure Forks, 
Coffee Hulfers, Scythes & Snathes, 
Sugar Mills, Ox Yokes and Bows, 
Grain Cradles, Log and Trace Chains, 
Seed Sowers, Spades and Shovels. 
Plow Castings, Castings for Horse Powers, Mill and Gin Geer, 
&c.., &c. Also on hand and made to order, every description of 
Brass, Copper and Iron Wire, Cloth, Sieves, Screens, Riddles, &c., 
&c , all of which will be sold as low as they can be purchased at 
any establishment in the country. 
JOHN MOORE, 
Ag. Warehouse, 193, old No. 183 Front-st., New-York. 
April 1—3t. 
THE GENUINE MORGAN HORSE, 
/GENERAL GIFFORD, will stand the ensuing season on Mon- 
^ days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, at the stable of George A. 
Mason, two miles northeast of Jordan; Thursdays, Fridays and 
Saturdays at the stable of D. A. Munro, Camillus. 
Terms —$10 the season. Insurance to be agreed upon. Pastur¬ 
age furnished bv either of the subscribers at reasonable prices. 
Escapes and accidents at the risk of owners. General Gifford was 
sired by Gifford Morgan. His dam a pure Morgan. Breeders of 
good horses are invited to call and see him. 
April 1,1848—3t. MUNRO & MASON. 
JOHN MAYHER & Go’s. 
Highest Premium Improved Eagle Plow, 
Manufactured and sold at the United States Agricul¬ 
tural Warehouse, 195 Front-St., N. Y. 
T HESE Plows combine new and important improvements, 
adapted to the different qualities of soil, and the various modes 
and systems of culture. Tneir Eagle Plows, as improved, are 
much longer; the mould board, landside, and share, are extended 
without any addition to the draught of the plow, thus adapting this 
plow to the more perfect turning and running under the green 
sward, and inverting the furrow slice, so desirable in green sward 
plowing—the principle of these plows is such, from where the fur¬ 
row is received upon the mouldboard to where it leaves it, that it 
enables the plow to take up the furrow slice with the greatest pos¬ 
sible ease, bearing equally and lightly upon the whole surface of 
the mouldboard, turning it over with the least possible bending or 
twisting, and preserving it flat, smooth and unbroken; laying the 
furrow slice closely and compactly side by side, and creating but 
Blight friction upon the face of fhe mouldboard. Passing through 
the soil thus, the plow requires very little power of draught be¬ 
yond ^hat i 3 required to cut out the furrow slice. In testing the 
qualitf of these plows, the power by which they are moved—the 
ease with which they are handled, and the manner in which they 
•omplete the work, are three important points, all of which are 
wisely, accurately and judiciously preserved. The character of 
these plows for ease and draught and management, and the excel¬ 
lence of their work, though well established in the minds of the 
•ommunity, was most fully exhibited to the public at the grand 
trial of plows by the American Institute at Harlem and Long Is¬ 
land. October, 1847, whose able and impartial committee awarded 
i-he highest premium to J. Mayher & Co., for the best plow for do¬ 
ng the best work with the least draught, (in a trial open to the 
whole Union,) running in its natural course, and keeping in itstru 
position without any effort of the plowman, and turning a furrow 
12 inches wide and 6 inches deep, with a much less draught than 
any other plow on the ground, among which were the Bergen 
Plow, Minor and Horton Plow, John Moore’s Plow, and B. Myers* 
Plow, of Newark. The Eagle Improved Plow of J. Mayher & 
Co., was at the late trial pronounced by the committee and experi¬ 
enced farmers to be the nearest perfection of any implement of the 
kind in this country, in respect to materials, workmanship, and in 
form of construction. The castings are of superior kind, they are 
made out of the strongest kind of cast iron, the point and edge of 
the share and base of the landside, are steel chilled hardened, and 
will wear out six shares and landsides of the common plows; the 
workmanship of th>s plow is nothing inferior to any in the country; 
the timber of which it is made is the best of white oak; every far¬ 
mer knows that timber in his plow is of the utmost importance—all 
of which in fact renders the Eagle Plow the very article every far¬ 
mer wants. The high character of these plows is abundantly sus¬ 
tained by a continued and extended patronage, which ihe manufac¬ 
turers hope by their efforts and exertions to retain. Being experi¬ 
enced Plow Makers, they will not spare any exertions to render 
their plows superior to all others. 
They have also for sale over one hundred different kinds of plows, 
all of the latest and most improved kinds, together with the most 
extensive assortment of Agricultural Implements ever offered in the 
city or New-York, among which maybe found a large assortment 
of Harrows, Cultivators, Wheelbarrows, Ox Yokes and Bows, 
Shovels, Spades, Hay and Manure Forks, Rakes, Hoes, Scythes, 
Sneaths, Cradles, &c., &c., all of which they will sell cheaper thaa 
they can be purchased in any other store in the Unitad States. 
JOHN MAYHER & Ce., 
United States Ag. Warehouse, No. 195 Front-st., N. Y. 
March 1, 1848—3t. 
