California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



"Brother J., buy the ; buy any- 



thiug; get a clam hoe, and go on the top 

 N, of Mt. Diablo and fry to dig clams there, 

 but don't buy a farm with the idea of 

 ever making anything at farming. With 

 me it was not so; when I bought my 

 place I did not expect to make one cent 

 — not a red — and I have succeeded so 

 well that I have no reason to complain — 

 feel very much encouraged." 



San Jose, February, 187G. C. 



NEW AGRICULTURAL PATENTS. 



Issued by tlie United States Patent Of- 

 lice from JTun, Iltli, to Feb. lltb. 



[Reported for tlie California Agricultuiiist by 

 Louie Bagger k Co., Solicitors of Patents, 

 Washington, D. C.l 



Hay loaders — Jno A Bower, Eureka, Kansa.s. 

 (iraiii binders — C G Crease, Sun Prairie, 



Wis. 

 Machines for untying bands on cotton balee — 



S 11 Gilnian, New Orleans, La. 

 Macliines for punching and shearing cotton 



bales— S H Gilman, Xew Orleans, La. 

 Cradle fingers for scvlhes — W Hamilton, 



Fallsburg, N Y. 

 Hand plows — M Y Tlionipson, Arkadel|ihia, 



Ark. 

 ^lacliines for twisting bay or straw — Addi.son 



A Wells. Iowa Falls, Iowa. 

 Bran threshers and separators — C S Hall, 



Rochester, N Y. 

 Beater-reels for threshing machines — C S 



Hall, Rochester, N Y. 

 Horse-rakes — \Vm J Lane, Millbrook, Port 



Chesler, N Y. 

 Corn-planters — A C Burgner, Charleston, 111. 

 Horse-rakes — Orlando Clarke, Isaac Ulter, 



Rock lord. III. ■ 

 Plows— Wui A Estes, Chevia, Mo. 

 Tooth fastenings for liorse hay rakes — T A 



f.alt. Sterling, III. 

 Corn planlera — T A Gait. Sterling, 111. 

 Ajiparatus for manufacturing fertilizers ~H 

 O P Lissagary. Paiitin, near Paris, France. 

 Corn coverers— Thos B McChesney, Hainors- 



ville, Ohio. 

 Hand corn planters — Milton Pollock Koel, 



.St. Cloud. Jlinn. 

 Harrows— J Van Orlheiick, Hillsdale, Mich. 

 Potato diggers— P M Bawtinhiuier, Wood- 

 stock, Canada. 

 Bands for binding grain — Daviii Olmsted, 



Minneapolis. 

 Giain binders — Wm R Baker, Chicago, 111. 

 Harvesters — Peter Kline, Lisbon, Iowa. 

 Grain bags — (' Lazarevitch, Brooklyn, N Y. 

 Plow points — W B Ixcady, Sacramento, Cal. 

 Harvester rakes— T H Bacon, Hannibal, Mo. 

 Machines for making grain conveyer flights — 



II I Chase, Peoria, PI. 

 Harvesters— Jas B. Mohler, Pekiu, 111. 

 Harrows — Jas B Oakey, ludiairapolis, lud. 

 Harvesters — Win F Cochrane, Lafayette, Ind. 

 C(a-n planters — Levi Scotield, Grand Haven, 



Mich. 

 Cutting apparatus for harvesters — Frederick 



H WolKenhane, Beusonville, 111. 

 Churns — I'^li F Beard, Repaid ic, O. 

 Apiiaratus for steaming food for stock — R 



IJalley, Qnincy,Mich. 

 Reaper reels— S Hamilton, Mount Sterling, 111. 

 Cotton seed pl.inters — J C Jenkins, Lebanon, 



'i'enn. 

 Corn Planters— S P Babcock, Adrain, Mich. 

 Cultivator teeth — J C Bannigan,l>uuleith,Ill. 

 Milk coolers — Liingdon Clark, Crary's Mills, 



NY. 

 Straw cullers — Levi Cossit, Guelph, Canada. 

 Plow handles — Wm A Crouch, Hannibal. Mo. 

 (iang plows — lilnoch C Eatou,Pinckiieyville, 



III. 

 Churns- D L Epperson, Mill Sho.ils, III. 

 Itand cutters and fccdias for thieshlng lua- 



(diiiies— G LGearliait, Ijcbauon, Neb. 

 Bee hives— Wm 1j Haniilton, (Uaagow, Ky. 

 Hay rakea and loaders- Geo Lambert, Hill 



(irove, 0. 

 Fence posts — Luke Ijightfoot, Walnut, Iowa. 

 Fence posts — Archibald Taylor, Keezleton, 



Va. 

 Combined land rollers and grass seeders — F 



M Howling, Ida, Mich. 

 Ccu'n planters— Sol F Holly, Rockford, III. 

 Processes of niantifaeturing fertilizers — L 



Stoekbridge, Amherst, Mass. 

 Torsion springe lor harvesters — R Du'llcy, 



Erie, Pa. 

 Grain Separators— Henry B Stevenr, BulTalo, 

 N Y. } ' • 



Compositions for preserving eggs — Abigail S 



White, Chunchila, Ala. 

 Hay stackers- Mosea Amidon, Lathrop, Mo. 



Churns — Henry T Davis, Sherman, Tex. 



Cutter bars for reapers and mowers — Thomas 

 Henderson, Baltimore, Md. 



Cotton seed Plauters---Win Jarrell, Humboldt 

 Tenn. 



Wheel cultivators -Benj W Reney, Brook- 

 ville. Ind. 



Harrows— Bardun W Taylor, Roseville, Cal. 



HarvesterS'-Wm N Whitely, Springfield, O. 



Ilarvester rakes— Wm N Whitely, Spring- 

 field, O. 



Combined stack and feed cutters -Isaac S 

 Wilson, AValdo, Mo. 



A STUPENDOUS FRAUD. 



Before our present Legislature put 

 their hands into the people's pockets for 

 twenty thousand dollars, or any other 

 sum, wherewith to pay the debts of that 

 gambling institution known as the State 

 Agricultural Society, they ought to weigh 

 well a few facts. 



It has long been apparent to all who 

 have given the subject a thought, that 

 the State Agricultural Society, although 

 a perpetual stipendiary upon the people's 

 bounty, has been so conducted as to 

 make every legitimate interest for the 

 promotion of which such societies are 

 supposed to be organized, tributary to 

 and productive of that most seductive of 

 all gambling games — pool-selling. As 

 conclusive evidence of this fact we need 

 but refer to the report of the Society for 

 1874. That year the Directors awarded 

 to the horse-racing department, as pre- 

 miums for speed, the sum of f Hi, 330. 

 Deduct ten per cent, entrance — $G,750 — 

 and the amount given outright for the 

 encouragement of this species of agri- 

 culture(?) was $11,850. For other than 

 racing money there was given that year 

 to the horse department the additional 

 sum of $2,315, making a net total for 

 the horse of 11,895. 'We now consult 

 the same report to see what was done to 

 encourage the breeding of fine cattle, and 

 find that the total amouul of premiums 

 awarded that year for all classes was the 

 meager sum of $1,83'.)! 



The recent resignation of Col. Younger 

 as a member of the Board of Directors 

 of the Society leaves the entire southern 

 portion of the State, south of San Fran- 

 cisco, without a representative in the 

 Board. For the five years he had occu- 

 pied a seat there he had earnestly endea- 

 vored to jireveut the encroachments of 

 the pool-selling interests upon the legiti- 

 mate purposes of the Society. An ex- 

 tensive Short-horn breeder himself, he 

 rejiresented the great cattle interests of 

 the State. He was one one of the larg- 

 est exhibitors at the Fairs, and without 

 his stock, together with that of such men 

 as Ashburner, Emerson, Quinn, Clark, 

 Jones, Carr, Boots, Hamilton and many 

 others, all from this section of the State, 

 our State Fairs would have have been 

 very slim aft'airs indeed. The people 

 had a right to expect, in view of the im- 

 portant industry he represented, some 

 little consideration from the Society — 

 the right to insist that horse-racing and 

 pool-selling should not swallow up every 

 other end and aim of the Society. But 

 they found their representative in a hope- 

 less minority of the Board, out-voted at 

 every point. Hence, when the Society 

 elected, a few weeks since, the editor of 

 a horse-racing journal, whose business 

 partner is at the head of the pool-selling 

 evil of the State, to a Directorship, 

 against his wishes and the wishes of all 

 who had the best good of the Society at 

 heart. Col. Younger thought ho might 

 as well quit. And so may the cattle men 

 of this section of the country as well 

 (piit, and henceforth let the ring of black- 

 legs, into whose hands the Society has 

 fallen, run it to their hearts' content. 

 Those who have never visited our 



State Fairs can have but a poor concep- 

 tion of the extent to which gambling is 

 carried on in connection therewith. 

 Thousands of the young men of the 

 State are there brought face to face with 

 a form of gambling more dangerous, be- 

 cause more enticing, than faro, roulette, 

 or cut-throat monte. Respectable far- 

 mers, who never wagered a dollar in 

 their lives at S horse-race, are found bid- 

 ding at the pools. Under the guise of 

 aa agi-icultural or stock exhibition, the 

 State becomes a '• capper" for a stupen- 

 dous system of gambling, "roping in" 

 thousands to their ruin. 



Isn't it about time that this condition 

 of things ceased? Or, if it must continue, 

 that the State withhold its countenance, 

 and the Society be compelled to sail un- 

 der its true colors and be known by its 

 true name — "Society for the Promotion 

 of Pool-selling." 



We are aware that certain journals 

 have intimated that Col. Younger's res- 

 ignation is in keeping with the supposi- 

 tion that the southern stock breeders are 

 moving to take the State Society away 

 from Sacramento. We know that this 

 is not true. Surely San Jose does not 

 want it. We have a better society and 

 more valuable property of our own. W'e 

 would see the State Society remain 

 where it is, but divested of the excres- 

 cences which have fastened themselves 

 to it. 



The foregoing from the San Jose 3Ier- 

 cury is just about what we wanted to say 

 upon this subject; only our own local 

 Society needs as radical reforming as the 

 State Society does. We are glad to see 

 that a sentiment is growing in favor as 

 to the right use of agricultural societies. 

 Probably no paper in existence has la- 

 bored for it more earnestly than the Cal- 

 ifornia Agricultukist, or been worse 

 abused for such work. We believe in 

 commencing this reform right at home. 



SAN JOSE 



INSTITUTE 



BUSI1TESS_C0LLEGE ! 



A Day and Boarding School for 

 Both Sezes. 



rr-(HE SECOND SESSION OF THE CUEKENT 

 School Year will commence January 3d, 1876. 



In acknowledging the kindness of the patrons 

 of this School, the Proprietors desire to assure 

 them that with the increased patronage will be 

 added increased facilities for imparting Instruc- 

 tion. They intend that the School shall offer 

 the very best opportunities for acquiring thor- 

 ough education, both theoretical and practical. 



The course of study in the Academic grade is 

 extensive and thorough. 



The Business College has no vactions. 



Students #om a distance will find pleasant 

 rooms and board at reasonable prices at the 

 boarding-house. 



The Faculty accept to its fullest extent the 

 growing demand of the industrial classes for 

 recognition in the public educational system 

 hailing it as the harbinger of a higher and better 

 civilization. 



ISAAC KINLEV, 

 Superintendent of the Institute. 

 JASIES VIX'SONHALER. 

 Principle of tlie Business CoUeSe. 



SEEDS. SEEDS. 



New Crop Just Arrived and New 



Shipments Continually 



Arriving. 



VEC^ET.^BLE, GRASS, -AND CLOVER SEEDS: 

 KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS, HUNGARIAN, 

 ITALIAN, ORCHARD, RED TOP. TIMOTHY. 

 MESQUIT, SWEET VERNAL, RED CLOVER, 

 "WHITE CLOVER, ETC. 



Also, choice CALIFORNIA ALFALFA, in 

 large or small quantities; AUSTRALIAN BLUE 

 GUM SEED, and feeds of every variety and ile- 

 Bcription. Fresh and Reliable. For sale. 

 Wholesale or Retail, at the OLD STAND, by 



B. F. Wi:LLINaTON, 



IMPORTER AND DEALER IN SEEDS, 

 4a5 ■Washington Street, 



SAN FHANCISCO. 



Zioclse (& Montague, 



IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 



Stoves, 



Pumps, 



Iron Pipe, 



Tm'ware s,z. 



112 and 114 Battery St., 



SAN FUANCI«CO. 



1865. 



HANxNAY 



1876. 

 BRO.'S 



THOROUGHBRED 



Fori sale;. 



OIXTY ONK AND TWO YEARS OM> 



Q — Thoruughliri'il Spanish Merino Rams. Cali. 

 fornia bred, from Ewes imported from Vermont, 

 mid sired by Severance & Pei-fs eelebrat<-d ram 

 FREMONT, and by their ram GHEEN MOUN- 

 TAIN, which took the Urst premiums at the Day 

 Ilistriit and State Fairs, Last shearing, :15,S1 

 lbs year's growth. Also, about 100 Ewes and 

 Lambs, all of GREEN MOUNTAIN stock, bred 

 last year. 



B. F. WATKINS, Santa Clara, Cal. 



Hurler i©s. 



WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVE BEEN 

 engaged in the Nursery Business for the 

 last ten years in San Jose, and our chief aim has 

 been to grow and produce only the very best va- 

 rieties of Fruit Trees, and those of a healthy 

 growth, and such trees as will give satisfaction 

 to our patrons. In order that purchasers may 

 know our varieties, and also cur prices at whole- 

 sale or small lots, we give the following; 



• 



ONE YF.1R OLD TREES. I TWO TE.vn OLD TREES. 



Per mil. Per 1000. | Per llJO. Per liHKJ. 



Apple $12 $100. $20 l\^) 



Pear 20 1«0 • -28 '250 



Prime 22 200 30 — 



Plum . . , , . 211 I«0 28 250 



Cherry .... 22 180 30 200 



Peach 22 180 — 



Nectarine.. 2r) — — — 



Quince... 20 — — 



Almond. . . 20 — 



Apricot 25 200 — 



Fig _ _ 20 — 



Currants... 5 — — 



■\Ve also offer a large assortment of the leading 

 kinds of Ornamental and Evergreen Trees. Pur- 

 chasers who wish choice grown trees are invited 

 to visit our Nurseries and examine our stock, as 

 we know their character and healthy growth wdll 

 please them. Persons unknown to us, that order 

 trees, should send the cash or good reference. In 

 order to secure their trees. 



Our Nursery is situated upon Julian street, 

 one mile east of the Court lUuise. 



HANNAY BROS. 



The American Bee Journal, 



Estiiblislied in ISiU liy tlie late Samuel Wagner, 



at Wasliington. D, C. is now published 



Monthly at CHICACIO, 111. 



Every Beekeeper should Subscribe 

 for It. 



IT IS THE BEST SCIENTIFIC AND PR.ACTI- 

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 most BUCiessful and experienced .\piarialis in 

 Eurttpe, nfi well as Anierica. contribute to H» 

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 one of the most relialile llee Piipers in the 

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 I'.in & 108 South CInrk St., Chicnso, 



