Volume I of THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, with table of contents

complete, for sale at $1; handsomely bound in cloth, $1 25. It is a neat and tasteful book, and makes a handsome premium for distribution with Agricultural Societies; to which, when several copies are ordered, a liberal discount will be made.

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STOCK FOR SALE.

R. H. Hendrickson & Co., of Middletown, Butler county, Ohio, will promptly attend to orders for Short-Horn Cattle, Bakewell, Merino, South-Down, and Saxon Sheep; also for Berkshire pigs from Windsor Castle, imported from England, and twenty choice Berkshire sows, a part of which were also imported. Windsor Castle stands 3 feet high, and is estimated by competent judges to weigh 1000 lbs. Pigs of crosses with the imported Kenilworth, the large Miami, Byfield, and Grazier stocks, will likewise be furnished.

None but choice specimens of any of the above stock will be supplied, and at prices corresponding with the times. Address, post paid, as above.

Oct. 12th, 1843.

R. H. HENDRICKSON & Co.

AGENTS FOR THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST.

John Halsall, Bookseller, St. Louis, Mo. G. S. Taintor, Bookseller, Natchez, Miss. S. F. Gale & Co., Chicago, Ill. John J. Herrick, Detroit, Mich. J. B. Steele, New Orleans. C. M. Hovey, Boston, Mass. Saxton, Peirce, & Co., Boston. Arthur D. Phelps, Boston. R. H. Hendrickson, Middletown, Ohio Andrew Campbell. E. Cornell, Ithaca, N. Y. H. Kirkland, Northampton, Mass. John Bonner, White Plains, Georgia.

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CONTENTS OF DECEMBER NUMBER.

EDITORIAL.

Page.

Fattening Poultry, 321 Fertility of Sea-Mud, 322 Sketches of the West, No. 2, 323 Breeds of Fowls, } 325 New York Farmers' Club, } Next Annual Show of the State Ag. Society, 327 Tour in England, No. 15, 328 Agricultural Shows, 330 Sale of Rambouillet Merinos, } Price of Sheep Dogs, } Annual Meeting of the New York State Ag. Society, } 332 List of Premiums of the American Institute (continued), } Foreign Agricultural News, 349 Review of the Market, } To Correspondents, } 351 Acknowledgment, } Terms and list of Agents, 352

EXTRACTS.

Making Capons, 334 Grafting and Budding, 335 High Cranberry, 339

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

H. D. Grove, Fine-Wool Sheep, 340 R. B. C, Sea-Mud as a Fertilizer, 341 Henry Meigs, Farm of Hugh Maxwell, Esq., 342 Robert L. Wright, Mediterranean Wheat, } C. McD., Topping Cotton-Marl, } 343 R. L. Allen, Hints on the Cultivation of Wheat, 344 S. A., A Pennsylvania Dairy, 346 Wm. Partridge, Reply to the Gardeners' Chronicle, } 347 Amer. Ag. Almanac, Southern Calendar for December, } do. do. Northern do. do. 348

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