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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
The most economical Crate and Basket in use. Neat, 
strong, compact, and well ventilated. 
Agents wanted in all the fruitgrowing districts. 
Orders for Western New-York direct to S. D. REDMAN, 
Box and Basket Co., Newfane, N. Y. Circulars sent free. 
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& L MANY & MARSHALL, 
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF 
BS;iS,nMEfS!8>’ HARDWARE, 
Special attention given to orders from Architects, Owners, 
and Builders. 
No. '18 Warren Street, New York. 
AGENCY OF 
THE TRENTON LOCK COMPANY. 
Winchester Repeating Rifles. 
Firing Two Shots a Second as a Repeater, and 
TWENTY SHOTS A MINUTE 
as a Single Breech Loader. 
These powerful, accurate, and wonderfully effective 
weapons, carrying eighteen charges, which can he fired in 
nine seconds, are now ready for the market, and are for sale 
by all the responsible Gun Dealers throughout the country. 
For full information send for Circulars and Pamphlets to the 
WINCHESTER REPEATING. ARMS CO., 
New Haven, Conn. 
G ALE’S COPPER STRIP FEED CUTTER cuts 
faster, and is more easily kept ill order than any other. 
Not to be paid for till tried. Send for Illustrated Circular. 
PEEKSKILL BLOW WORKS, Peekskill, N. Y„ 
or Cleveland, O. 
For Marking Clotliing, &c.. 
Single, 50 cts.; 3 for SI; per doz., $£.75; per gross, $£8. 
Sent, freight prepaid, on receipt of price. 
“ More convenient than ink ."—American Agriculturist. 
“Invaluable for marking linen.”— Chicago Tribune. 
“ Invaluable to the housekeeper.”— Godey's Lady's Booh. 
“Desirable, convenient, and useful.”— Springfield Rep. 
Manufactured and sold by the Indelible Pencil 
Co., Northampton, Mass. 
1521” Sold by Stationers and Dealers everywhere. 
MAPLE SUGAR ! MAPLE SUGAR ! 
Cook’s Evaporator, the best Sugar Pan in the world. Send 
for Circular. BLYMYEIi, DAY & CO., Mansfield, O. 
THE &LVER MEDAL 
Has been awarded Blake’s Endless Plank Horse-Power, by 
Michigan and Ohio. The apron runs on large drums, with 
even surface for horse to travel on. Circular and Drag Saw 
attachments. Patent Wood Splitters, Threshers, Sulky Hay 
Rakes, Feed; Cutters, Seed Drills, Cider Mills, Farm Grist 
Mills. Also, Horton’s Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press; will 
bale one ton ol bay per hour. Send for Circular, and apply 
for agency to 
SHAW & WELLS, Buffalo, N. Y. 
“GET THE BEST.” 
1TIE Aovelty Job Printing Press, for Amateurs, Druggists, 
Merchants. Descriptive Circulars and specimens of work 
m ailed free. C. C. THURSTON & CO- Brookly n, N. Y. 
F AINTS for FARMERS and others.—The Grafton 
Mineral Paint Co. are. now manufacturing tlie I’.est. 
Cheapest, and most Durable Paint in use ; two coats well put 
on, mixed with pure Linseed Oil, will last 10 or 13 years ; H 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’ ami Ships’ 
Bottoms, Canvas, Metal and Shingle lloofs, (it being Fire and 
Water-proof,) Floor Oil Cloths, (one Manufacturer having 
used 5,000 bids, the past year,) and as a paint for anv purpose 
is-unsurpassed lor body, durability, elasticity, and 'adhesive¬ 
ness. Price $6 per bbl. of 300 lbs., which will supple a farm¬ 
er for years to come. Warranted in all cases as above. Send 
fora 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 tlie goods. Address 
DANIEL B1DWELL, 254 Pearl Street, New York. 
4SK Y0!JR GROCER 
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TIEMAN’S LAUNDRY BLUE. 
|TkON’T use Dull Scissors.—J acob’s Patent, the 
B-V staple sharpener for family use. Samples prepaid, 25 ets. 
Circulars free. Great inducements to Agents. 
SOUTH WICK & HASTINGS, Worcester, Mass. 
NEW, CHEAP AND VERY USEFUL! 
4jui;6C NEW STYLE l*A r ri3?NT <CAI,- 
endar for 1809 is now ready, and will bo sent post¬ 
paid. to any address, on receipt of fifteen cents. Every 
Connting-IIouse and Office should have one. 
SAMUEL BOWLES & CO., Springfield, Mass. 
TO FARMERS AND PLANTERS. 
THE LODI MANUFACTURING COM¬ 
PANY, the oldest and largest concern of 
the.kind in tlie United States, possessing ex¬ 
traordinary facilities for the manufacture 
ol Fertilizers, controlling exclusively the 
night soil, offal, bones anil dead animals of 
New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey Cities, as 
also the great' Communipaw abattoirs, offer 
for sale, in lots to suit customers, 
8,0©0 TONS 4>F 
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 
Hie best brands of Superphosphate for lYesent Crop, 
although sold for only Twenty-five Dollars per ton. Packed 
in bbls. of 250 lbs. each. 
BONE DUST. 
1—COARSE and FINE MIXED. 2—FINE, suitable for 
Drilling. And 3—FLOURED BONE. 
Warrant our. Bone to Analyze Pure. Packed 
in bbls. of 250 lbs. each. For Winter grain, Double-Reffued 
Poudrette and Fine Bone, mixed in equal proportions and 
drilled in. with tlie seed, have produced most remarkable 
effects. Sold as low as any article of same purity and fine¬ 
ness in tlie market. 
N1TR0-FH0SPHATE OF 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 aud Ammonia 
than usual in Superphosphates. For Permanent, as well as 
for immediate powerful effect upon land, it has no equal. 
Price in New York, $55.00 pci" Ton of 2,000 lbs. For 
Price Lists, Circulars, &c., apply to 
THE LODI MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 
00 Cortlandt-st., New York. P. O. Box. 3139. 
Send your Name and Address 
To O. A. Roorback, 102 Nassau street, New York, and re¬ 
ceive in return a specimen copy of 
MAPLE LEAVES. 
It is the Cheapest Paper Published. 
Each number contains SIXTEEN QUARTO PAGES 
nearly as large as the American Agriculturist, and its mat¬ 
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taste in its,entertaining columns, which are a melange of 
Stories. Poetry, Puzzles, Agricultural ami Scientific Arti¬ 
cles, Useful IJeetpes, Ornamental Art, etc., etc., and every 
number is finely illustrated. It is issued about the first of 
each month, and is sent regularly to subscribers for 
ONLY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A YEAR, 
All persons who send in their subscriptions for 1869 on or 
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Contents of the December Number, 
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The Foundations of History. 
By SAMUEL B. SCIIIEFFELIN. 
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Sent by mail, prepaid, on receipt of price. 
THE JOURNAL OF THE FARM 
for November contains an illustrated description of E. P. 
Baugh’s Sectional Mills, for grinding Bones, hard guanos, 
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T ile art of hunting and trapping 
Illustrated, with recipes for scent and bait, and instruc¬ 
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mals. For circular aud price, address. 
S. B. EMERY, Trivoli, Ill. 
ta^Agents Wnnted.jga 
