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BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS, AND STATIONERS,

No. 205 Broadway, New York,
Would particularly call attention to their assortment of works
pertaining to Agriculture and Rural Economy, a few of which
are enumerated, with the retail prices, from which a liberal dis-
count will be made when a number of works are ordered at one
time, viz.:-

Townley on the Honey Bee. 50 cents.

The American Flower Garden Directory. Price $1.25.
The American Shepherd. Price $1.
Vols. 1, 2, 3, and 4, American Agriculturist. Price $1.25.
Johnson's Agricultural Chemistry. Frice $1.25.
Ruschenberger's Horsemanship, Price $1.
Stock Raiser's Manual. Price $3.

American Farmer's Encyclopædia. Price $4.
Treatise on Cattle. Price $3.

Prince's Pomological Manual. Price $1.50.

McMahon's American Gardener. Price $3.50.
Hoare on the Vine. Price 63 cents.

The American Florist. Price 38 cents.

Parnell's Applied Chemistry. Price $1.

Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, &c. Price $6.
Dana's Prize Essay on Manures. Price 12 cents.
Fessenden's American Gardener. Price 80 cents.
Knowlson's Cattle Doctor or Cow Doctor. Price 25 cents.
Complete Gardener and Florist. Price 37 cents.
Buist on the Rose. Price 75 cents.

Prince on the Rose, in press.

Downing's Fruit and Forest Trees. Price $1.50.
Landscape Gardening. Price $3.50.

Cottage Residences. Price $2.

Lang's Highland Cottages. Price $1.50.

Every Lady her own Flower Gardener. Price 38 cents.
Mason's Farriery. Price $1.

Hind's Ditto. Price 75 cents.

Every Man his own Gardener. Price 12 cents.

The Horse, its Habits and Management. "Price 12 cents.
Boussingault's Organic Nature. Price 50 cents.
Draper's Treatise on Plants. Price $2.50.
Agricultural Almanac. Price 6 cents.

The American Poulterer's Companion; a practical Treatise on
the Breeding, Rearing, Fattening, and General Management of
the Various Species of Domestic Poultry, with Illustrations
By C.
(fifty or sixty) and Portraits of Fowls taken from Life.
N. Bement. Price $1.25.
Clater and Youatt's Cattle Doctor, containing the Causes,
Symptoms, and Treatment of all the Diseases incident to Oxen,
Sheep, and Swine. Price 50 cents.

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The water is excellent both for drinking
and washing. For particulars inquire of Henry Strong, Esq., or
A. B. ALLEN, 187 Water Street, New York.
George D. Fuller, of Norwich, Conn., or
FASTOLFF RASPBERRY.

The Subscriber has just received a fresh supply of the above
valuable Raspberry, esteemed in England superior to all other
varieties. The fruit is very large, of rich flavor, and bears abun
Package containing 25 canes, $5. Containing 12 canes, $3.
dantly. They are ready for delivery as follows:
Single canes, 30 cents. These are warranted true to name.
Also for sale, a choice collection of green-house and stove plants.
Orders addressed to the undersigned will receive attention, and
from unknown applicants a remittance or satisfactory reference
JACOB R. VALK,
is required.

Horticultural Gardens, Flushing, L. I., N.Y., January 1, 1846.
IMPROVED STOCK FOR SALE.
The subscriber breeds on his farm for sale, the following ani-
Durham Cattle,
mals of the choicest kind, viz.:-
Devon do.
Cotswold Sheep,
Southdown do.

He is paying particular
His farm is large, and his herd and flocks numerous, which en-
ables him to give an excellent choice.
attention to the milking qualities of his cattle, both among Dur
hams and Devons. His sheep also are not only bred for fine
forms and strong constitution, but heavy, thick fleeces of a good
Buffalo, and is reached in ten minutes by railroad.
quality of wool. His residence is two-and-a-half miles from
Black Rock, Erie County, NY.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. 1 offer for sale my farm of 300 acres and upwards, near the village of Salem. It produces well either grain or grass. The buildings are all that are necessary, and together with the land itself and fences, are all in good order. The garden is well stocked with small fruits and flowers. The situation is pleasant, the country healthy and beautiful. Price $10,000. This property would be exchanged for real estate in any of the JOHN SAVAGE. Orders promptly attended to, for all kinds of Books in every de- Southern States, change of climate being desirable. Salem, Washington County, New York. partment of Literature.

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THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. Published Monthly, by SAXTON & MILES, 205 Broadway, New York, containing 32 pages, royal octavo.

TERMS-One Dollar per year in advance; three copies for Two Dollars, eight copies for Five Dollars.

When Agricultural Societies order the work for distribution," among the members, the price will be only FIFTY CENTS a year, for the Monthly Numbers, and SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS per copy for bound volumes. It will be expected that these orders come officially, and be signed by the President or Secretary of the Society. The object in putting our periodical at this very low rate is, to benefit the farming community more extensively than it could otherwise be done. We hope, henceforth, to see the Agriculturist in the hands of every Farmer and Planter in the country.

Each number of the Agriculturist contains but One sheet, and is transported by mail under the same regulations as newspapers, viz.: free any distance not over 30 miles from its place of publication; over this and within 100 miles, or to any town in the State of New York, one cent postage on each number, and one and a half cents if over 100 miles, without the State.

Editors of newspapers noticing the numbers of this work monthly, or advertising it, will be furnished a copy gratis, upon sending such notice to this office.

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VALUE OF ANTHRACITE COAL ASHES.-INDIAN CORN FOR SOILING, ETC.

other holiday and juggling terms, with which they are smothered; adding that "they do not require any assistance from art, they have only to plow and delve, and cast in their seed, and nature will do the rest-they need but pay their taxes for the support of the State, and others will take care that government and the professions are well looked

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these ashes, after spreading them on grass lands, it would be well to pass a roller over the meadow in order to sink the cinders in the ground, out of the way of the edge of the scythe. Anthracite ashes can be had in the city for the mere cost of gathering, and in some instances the corporation carts will deliver them on the dock, gratis. We hope to see them no longer wasted in the streets of New York. Were our own views carried out, we would appropriate at once, half a million of dollars for the INDIAN CORN FOR SOILING AND FODDER. founding of an Agricultural College and experi- WE doubt whether the value of Indian corn is mental farm, the interest of which should for ever more than half known yet among the generality of be devoted to the employment of the ablest profes-farmers; and if the unparallaled drought throughsors the world affords, whose whole genius and at-out the country last summer should have a tendency tainments should be devoted to discoveries in this to teach it to them, the terrible lesson may be art, and in teaching them to our most intelligent looked upon as a mercy rather than a scourge, from youth. We would invite the Liebigs, and Bous-a beneficent Providence. During the past eight singaults, and Johnstons, and Bakewells, to occupy months, thousands of animals have perished or been chairs in the institution, at salaries which would com- sacrificed for want of grass or fodder to sustain mand their acceptance; and as soon as others could them, all of which might have been saved and kept be appropriately filled by American genius, who in good condition, had each farmer sown a few should be pressed into service to the full extent of acres of corn for soiling and fodder. We saw last the demand. Minor establishments should receive summer, on a light sandy soil, a crop of corn growencouragement and support, and every pecuniary ing, which turned out six tons of excellent dry fodaid which could facilitate the discovery and disse-der per acre. It was sown on the first day of July, mination of agricultural science and art, should be in drills three feet apart. The land was plowed freely and liberally granted. We should then see deep, and highly manured. This crop was the the beginning of the end of the shameful neglect of the agricultural class; we should be able to console ourselves with the reflection, that we had at least made whatever effort was in our power, to accomplish the greatest good to the greatest number.

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means of saving a superior herd of cows from starvation. Henceforth, however promising the grass and hay crop may be, let no farmer depend entirely upon it, but let him sow a few acres of corn for summer soiling, or to be cured for winter's use. What say you, farmers, to this proposition? He will then be tolerably independent of a capriShall anything be done or not? If anything is to cious season. If the land be rich and properly prebe accomplished, you will have to make the first pared for corn, it will be sure to come up and grow, You must command your delegates to give however dry it may be, provided the seed be preyou from their loaded coffers, some small part of the pared by steeping it in guano or saltpetre water, or means you have so liberally provided for them, that some other cheap solution. When corn is tolerably you may be able, from its judicious expenditure, to advanced in its growth, it completely shades the supply still more. You have only to set about this ground, and the drought will have little effect upon in earnest, and the object is already accomplished. it. A larger crop may usually be grown in drills The above was written for our March number, than when sown broad-cast; and if these drills be but unfortunately crowded out. By reference to two or two and a half feet apart, we believe it will the proceedings of the American Agricultural Asso-be found better than nearer, especially in a very dry ciation, page 109, it will be seen that one of our season, as the cultivator can be often run between citizens has generously offered the free use of his the rows, stirring the ground effectually, and neufarm for five years, for the benefit of an Agricultural tralizing, in a measure, the effects of dry weather. School. This farm is in the finest possible order, We recommend sowing at least one acre of corn and one of the best in this vicinity. Its buildings for fodder, for every five head of cattle kept on also are very complete, and nearly new. We hope the farm. If there be an overplus of hay it is very others will be stimulated to follow this munificent easily disposed of. example. If public bodies will not move, let private bodies do so, and the former will soon emulate their example. It is painful to think of the wealth which is annually lavished on vanity and folly in this country, which might, if the owners would but will it, be devoted to the glorious cause of the advancement of the science and practice of agriculture.

FISH.-These are used in large quantities as manure. They are ordinarily applied directly to the land by being plowed in; or corn and other crops are manured in the hill with them. This is a great waste, however, in their application, and a shocking nuisance to the country around; for the moment decomposition begins, the air is poisoned VALUE OF ANTHRACITE COAL ASHES.-In the with their noxious smell. To prevent this, they February No. of the Agriculturist, page 55, one of should be mixed with peat, in layers of 3 inches of our correspondents gave an excellent article on the fish to 9 inches of the latter. After lying three value of anthracite ashes for corn. Since this, we months or so, toss over the compost, and it is ready understand they were applied on the grass lands in for use. Fish may be composted with muck or New Jersey, last spring, at the rate of 50 bushels soil of any description, in the same way as pcat; per acre, and notwithstanding the unprecedented but in this case sufficient charcoal dust or plaster of drouth, they were the means of doubling the crop Paris must be added to absorb the unpleasant of grass. As there are more or less hard cinders in smell.

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