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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Packer’s Patent Stump Extractor and Wall 
Builder. 
Wo believe this machine to be nnequaled for power, ease 
of working:, convenience, and durability. Send for Descrip¬ 
tive Circular. Address 
PACKER & FISH, Mystic River, Conn. 
P AINTS for FARMERS and others.—The Grafton 
Mineral Paint Co. are now manufacturing: the Best. 
Cheapest, and most Durable Paint in use ; two coats well put 
on, mixed with pure Linseed Oil, will last 10 or 15 years ; it is 
of a light brown or beautiful chocolate color, and can be 
changed to green, lead, stone, drab, olive or cream, to suit 
the taste of the consumer. It is valuable for Houses, Barns, 
Fences, Carriage and Car-makers, Pails and Wooden-ware, 
Agricultural Implements, Canal Boats, Vessels’and Ships’ 
Bottoms, Canvas, Metal and Shingle Roofs, (it being Fire and 
Water-proof,) Floor Oil Cloths, (one Manufacturer having 
used 5,000 bbls. the past year,) and as a paint l'or any purpose 
is unsurpassed for body, durability, elasticity, and adhesive¬ 
ness. Price $6 per bbl. of 300 lbs., which will supply a farm¬ 
er for years to come. Warranted in all cases as above. Send 
for a circular which gives full particulars. None genuine 
unless branded in a trade mark, Grafton Mineral Paint. 
Persons can order the Paint and remit the money on receipt 
of the goods. Address 
DANIEL BIDWELL, 251 Pearl Street, New York. 
This indestructible mineral differs from all others in pos¬ 
sessing soft flexible fibers, resembling silk. 
Asbestos Roof Coating 
Prepared ready for use, and forms, when applied with a 
brush, a strong, elastic, waterproof, and fibrous covering, 
resembling felt. Is particularly valuable for Shingle Roofs. 
Asbestos Cement 
Is a material of similar nature, of proper consistency to be 
applied with a trowed for cementing'joints and fissures in 
wood, stone, and metals. We guarantee it to stop all leaks 
on roofs of all kinds. 10-Ib. pails, $1. 
Descriptive circulars by mail. 
H. W. JOHNS, No. 78 William-street, New York. 
Patentee, and for ten years Manufacturer of Roofing 
Materials. 
FAMILY 
CIDER AM) WINE MILL. 
HUTCHINSON’S PATENT. Grinds 
fine, fast, and easy. Makes pure wine 
and sweet cider. More than 15,000 in use. 
Larger sizes witli two curbs, also with 
large square curb. Ciller Press Screws, 
line thread, very powerful. Copper Strip 
Peeil Cutters, the best and cheapest sell- 
feeding Cutter for Hay, Straw, and Corn 
Stalks. Send for Illustrated Circular. 
PEEKSIIILL PLOW WORKS, 
Peekskill, N. Y., or, 
S3 Merwin-st., Cleveland, Ohio. 
Hill’s Pat. Hand Lawn Mowing Machine. 
Tills is a small, light machine for mowing lawns, grass 
plots, and borders. It is pushed forward by a handle with 
a cross-head, and moves on a roller. The spiral cutter is rap¬ 
idly revolved by the means of the gears, cutting the grass 
evenly and rapidly, and leaves a smooth, close-shaved turf, 
with less labor and time, and much more perfectly than it 
can be done by a lawn scythe. It is equal to the best Eng¬ 
lish lawn mowers, and is ottered at half the price. Circulars 
mailed to all applicants. Price $40. 
B. K. BUSS & SON, 41 Park Row, 
Sole Agents for New York. 
INGERSOLL’S COTTON AMD 
WOOL PRESSES 
INGERSOLL'S ITAY AND STRAW PRESSES. 
INGERSOLL'S RAG AND PAPER PRESSES. 
INGERSOLL'S HIDE AND HAIR PRESSES. 
BOTH HAND AND HORSE-POWER PRESSES , 
for baling all kinds of material, on hand and made to order. 
Also, a practical machine for sawing down timber. Price 
$25. For price-list and full information.call on.or address 
the manufacturers, INGERSOLL ifc DOUGHERTY, Gieen- 
point, (Br ooklyn), N. Y, _ 
NIVERSAL FILTER WELL, Patented in 
December 1807. Drives and works well In all kinds of 
soil, Specialty, sand and clay. $20 to $30 profit per well of 
25 feet. State and County rights for sale. Address 
OSCAR C. FOX, Georgetown, D. C. 
N TRIAL.— TEN COPIES OF A FIRST-CLASS 
$3 Magazine, six months, for $10. The Pictorial 
Phkenolooical Journal sent in clubs of 10, from July to 
January, at $1 a copy. A new volume (48th) begins with the 
July No. The Trenton Monitor says of it: “A periodical 
which, more perhaps than any other publication in the 
world, is calculated to do good to its readers. 
Address S. R. WELLS, 389 Broadway, New York. 
BUY TIIB BEST. 
“ Honor to whom Honor is Due.” 
i ' A ~ m m 
Two Gold Medals 
AWARDED one machine 
HARDER’S PREMIUM RAILWAY HORSE POWER AND 
COMBINED THRESHER AND CLEANER. 
At the Great National Trial, Auburn, July, 1SG6, for “ Slow 
and easy movement of horses, 15 rods less than l '•< miles per 
hour, Mechanical Construction of the very best kind, de¬ 
serving of high commendation, thorough and conscientious 
workmanship and material in every place, nothing slighted, 
excellent work, etc.," as shown by Official Report of Judges. 
Threshers,Separators, FanningMills, Wood Saws, Seed Sow¬ 
ers and Planters, all of the best in Market. Circulars with 
price, full information, and Judges’ Report of Auburn trial 
sent free. Address 11, & M. HARDER, 
Cobleskill, Schoharie Co., N. Y. 
New York State Agricultural Works, 
Established (830. 
Manufacturers of Wheeler’s Patent Railway Horse Pow¬ 
ers and Threshers and Cleaners, Lever Powers of the most 
approved kinds. Clover Hollers, Feed Cutters. Wood Saw¬ 
ing Machines, Shingle and Heading Machines, Horse Pitch- 
forks. The Atlantic Cotton Gin and Condenser, (Saw made 
without filing,) etc., etc. Also dealers in the most approved 
Agricultural Implements. Our machines cannot be excel¬ 
led if equalled by any in the market, and we guarantee them 
fully as represented. Address, 
WHEELER, MELICK & CO., Albany, Iff. Y. 
Illustrated Circulars and Price Lists sent on application. 
’ITUSE FABLOTEiS,§’ FAVOISS'fl'E ! 
GREATLY IMPROVED. 
BICKFORD & HUFFMAN’S 
WORLD-RENOWNED PREMIUM 
M DKILL, 
With the Improved Guano Attachment it Grass Seed Sower. 
yf. /lilCh A CO. , 
A CONTIGUOUS GRAIN DISTRIBUTOR ! 
The Desideratum of Seeders! Perfect in Mechanical 
Construction ! Perfect in its Performance of Work. 1 
Sowing all grains, from the coarsest Marrowfat Peas to the 
finest kerneled, with accuracy. Thistle ballsand dirt do not 
clog it. Sending an even continuous stream through each 
tube; performing equally well ,up hill or down, side bill or 
level. No Bunching of Grain 1 No Liability to Get Out 
of Order or Broken I Built as a plain Grain Drill or with 
Compost or Seed Attachment. For oue of these incompati¬ 
ble Machines, address 
W. L. BUCKINGHAM, General Agent, 
59X South Charles-st., Baltimore, Md. 
$10 
a Day for A1I.-Stencil Tool Samples 
free. Address A. J. FULLAM, Springfield, Vt. 
Watclies, and Rosfcopf's Patented People’s 
Watch Cased in Swedish Silver. 
The Improved Aluminium Bronze is a metal differing en¬ 
tirely from any ever ottered to the public. Its qualities and 
resemblance to Gold are such that even judges have been 
deceived. It lias seriously occupied the attention of scien¬ 
tific men, and lias not only called forth the eulogiumsof the 
press in consequence of its peculiar properties, but has 
also obtained a Gold medal at the Paris Exposition. 
The movements are well finished, perfectly regulated, and 
as all these goods are manufactured in my own factory, I 
am enabled to warrant them as excellent time-keepers. 
Price from $16 to $22. 
Further details will he found in my pamphlet, which will 
he sent post-paid, on demand. 
A full assortment of Chains, also Aluminium Bronze Cases 
for Waltham Watclies. 
Goods sent by Express C. O. D„ with charges. 
Address JULES I). HUGUENIN VUILLF.MIN, 
No. 44 Nassau Street, New York. 
SORGO HAND-BOOK. 
Our Ninth Annual Sorgo Ilaml-Book, 
Giving the most reliable information on Manufacturing 
Sorghum Syrup, the result of 11 years’ personal experience, 
with full description of the celebrated 
COOK EVAPORATOR 
and 
VIC TOM CASTE MILK 
sent free to all applicants. 
See June number of Agriculturist. 
BLYMYER, NORTON & CO., Cincinnati, O. 
rfp RAY’S IMPROVED PATENT HORSE-POW- 
'W ER, and machines for Threshing and cleaning grain. 
Also machines for sawing wood with Circular and Cross-Cut 
Drag Saws. Manufactured and sold by A. W. CRAY & 
SONS, Middletown, Vt. Circulars and Prices on application. 
M ill-Stone Dressing ancl Glaziers’ Diamonds; also 
for all Mechanical purposes. Send Stamp for Circular. 
JOHN DICKINSON, 64 Nassau-st., New-York. 
CABBAGE PLANTS.—Cheaper to buy them than to grow 
them. See E. Burgess’s advertisement in June No., p.238. 
f " MPROVED FOOT LATHES.—Elegant, durable, 
cheap and portable. Just the tiling for the Artisan or 
Amateur. Send for descriptive circular. 
S. K. BALDWIN, Laconia, N. II. 
TO FARMERS AND PLANTERS. 
THE LODI MANUFACTURING COMPANY, the oldest 
and largest concern of the kind in the United States, possess¬ 
ing extraordinary facilities for the manufacture of Fertil¬ 
izers, controlling exclusively the night-soil, offal, hones and 
dead animals of New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey Cities, as 
also tlie great Communipaw abbatoirs, otter for sale, in lots 
to suit customers, 
TOSS OF 
DOUBLE-REFINED POUDRETTE 
Made from night-soil, blood, bones, and offal, 
ground to a powder. 
Its effects have been most astonishing, doubling the crops 
and maturing them ten days or two weeks earlier. Equal to 
the best brands of Superphosphate for Pi'esent Crop , 
although sold only lor Twentjufive Dollars per ton. Packed 
in bbls. of 250 lbs. each. 
BONE BUST. 
1—COARSE and FINE MIXED. 2—FINE, suitable for 
Drilling. And 3—FLOURED BONE. 
C^We Warrant our Bone to Analyze Pure. Packed 
in bbls. of 250 lbs. each. For Winter grain, Double-Refined 
Poudrette and Fine Bone, mixed in equal proportions and 
drilled wiwitli the seed, have produced most remarkable 
effects. Sold as low as any article of same purity and fine¬ 
ness in tlie market. 
NITR0-PH0SPHATE 0F LIME. 
We offer this Phosphate confidently as being as good, if 
not superior, to any ever made or sold in this market, con¬ 
taining a larger amount of soluble Phosphate and Ammonia 
than usual in Superphospliat.es. For Permanent, as well ns 
for immediate powerful elfect upon land, it iias no equal. 
Price in New York, $55.00 per Ton of 2,000 lbs. For 
Price Lists, Circulars, &e., apply to 
THE LODI MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 
66 Cortlandt-st., New York. 
LISTER BROTHERS 
Complete Manure, as per Prof. Ville’s formula [of France]. 
Also, Fresh Bone Superphosphate of Lime, and Pure Bone 
Meal. Address 
LISTER BROTHERS, 159 Front-st., New York 
X>X£X^XX ESSAY 
MARL. 
Tlie railroad of tlie Squanknm and Freehold Marl Com¬ 
pany will he completed by about tlie middle of October next. 
It will then he possible for that Company to deliver their 
green sand marl at points along the line ot the Camden and 
Amboy railroad, and branches; the New Jersey Central, and 
the Morris and Essex railroad: and at all accessible points 
on New York Bay, the Hudson River, and Long Island Sound, 
at such rates as must ensure a large demand. 
The Company desiring to place in the hands of purchasers 
concise directions for iIs use. offer a prize of two hundred 
dollars for tlie best essay on Marl, its origin, use, and appli¬ 
cation. 
Decision to be left to Professor Cook, of the New Jersey 
State Agricultural College; General N. Norris Halstead. 
President of tlie New Jersey State Agricultural Society, and 
Judge Campbell, President of tlie New Jersey Central Agri¬ 
cultural Society. Communications to be addressed to 
JOHN D. BUCKELEW, Secretary of the Company, at 
Jamesburg, N. J„ on or before tlie first day of July next. 
jpURE SQUANKUM MARL. — Tlie best and 
a. cheapest Fertilizer. For circulars containing prices, 
directions for application, and testimonials as to value. 
Address BENJ. HAINES, Elizabeth, N. J. 
PYLE’S SAILER ATU§, 
CREAM TARTAR, 
MAKING SOIDA, 
A O. K. SOAP, 
rAre acknowledged tlie best in America. Sold by Grocers 
generally. JAMES PYLE, Manufacturer, 
350 Washiugton-st., New York. 
