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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[January, 1882. 



Publication Board, 907 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 

 Pa., at the very low price of $1.25 per year in ad- 

 vance. 



We conffratuiate the hoard in securins an editor so 

 worthy of bein>f the successor of such distinguished 

 predecessors as Doctors Harbau2;h and Bausman. 

 We feel confident that the Ouardian will lose none 

 of lis "Life, Light, Love," under the editorial man- 

 agement of Dr. Dubbs ; and therefore we heartily 

 commend it to the favorable consideration of our 

 readers, whatever their religious faith may be. 



Faithful to its motto, it can inculcate nothing that 

 will be detrimental to that spiritual rest for which 

 our frail humanity is yearning, in the eternal world. 



Address of Hon. Geo. B. Lobing, Commissioner 

 of Agriculture, and other proceedings of the Cotton 

 Convention held at Atlanta, Georgia, November 

 3, 1881. Uniform in size and mechanical execution 

 with the Serial Bulletins of the Department of Agri- 

 culture — pp. 36. 



We are under obligations to Prof. C. V. P.iley, for 

 a copy of this valuable contribution to the Agricul- 

 tural and Entomolgical Literature of the Country, 

 as developed through cotton culture and its protec- 

 tion from the ravages of noxious insects. 



Practical or applied entomology certainly means 

 lomething in its relations to the general crops of our 

 diversified country, however insignificant it may 

 seem in favored localities. Prof. Riley says — 

 " Whenever we begin to carefully estimate the losses 

 which, as a nation, we sustain from insect ravages, 

 the figures always startle, and you will doubtless be 

 surprised to learn that they reached in a single year 

 nearly $400,000,000." This estimate is just as likely 

 to fall far below the real amount of damage, as it is 

 to reach beyond it, but under any circumstances, 

 who among our readers can practically comprehend 

 this amount in detail. Ten hundred t?iousaud dol- 

 lars—or one million — seems to be a vast amount, dis- 

 sipated annually through the instrumentality of in- 

 sects, and even this amount, to a man accustomed to 

 labor at 75 cents a day, cannot be fully comprehend- 

 ed. Prof. Riley's remarks before the convention 

 aforesaid includes among other things— methods of 

 counteracting injurious insects — the cotton worm — 

 natural history of the cotton worm — improved appli- 

 ances — poisoning from below, ifcc, exemplified by a 

 detailed context, and only requires a vigilant and 

 intelligent co-operation to produce the desired effect. 

 It is not sufficient that we know what to do, but that 

 we do it. All success lies in that. 



1. i POET OP THE Commissioner of AuuicnLTURE, 

 for the year 1881, 58 pp. — uniform with the above. 

 This report contains concise statements of work in 

 the various divisions of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, including — Division of Garden and Ground — 

 Botanical Division — Microscopical Division — Chemi- 

 cal Division — Entomological Division— Seed Distri- 

 bution— (1,325,922 papers of Vegetable Seed were 

 distributed from July 1, 1880 to June 30, 1881). 

 Statistical Division — Forestry — Artesian Wells — 

 Agriculture on the Pacific Slope — Examination of 

 Wools and Animal Fibers— Grape Cultui'e and Wine- 

 Making — Manufacture of Sugar from .Sorghum — Tea 

 Culture — Contagious Diseases of Domesticated Ani- 

 mals — Sugar from Beets, and the Operations of the 

 Disbursing Office. It appears that Congress has 

 only appropriated ?195,300, for all the divisions of 

 the department for the year ending June 30, 1881, 

 which seems small, compared with the subject of 

 Agriculture — the basis of all the other int*ests in 

 the country. A copious appendix is attached to this 

 report, containing communications from competent 

 authorities, on contagious Pleuropneumonia, and 

 Foot-and-mouth disease, and matters relating thereto. 

 TuE American Farmer, No. 1, Vol.1, series 9, 

 comes to us a four-columned royal tjuarto of 16 

 pages, and henceforth is to be published semi- 

 monthly, at $1.50 a year, by Samuel Sands & Son, 

 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, -Md. The American 

 Farmer — heretofore published in octavo form — never 

 occupied au inferior position in the world of agricul 

 tural literature, and its patrons and the public may 

 rest fully assured that it takes no retrogressive step 



in its " new departure ;" but, on the contrary, if we 

 are at all competent to judge from the clean, neat, 

 and mechanically executed journal before us, a very 

 perceptible step forward. The i'ai-mer is a veteran 

 in the journalistic enterprises of the country, and 

 its senior editor is one of that distinguished band of 

 patriarchs who have devoted their energies to the 

 dissemination of useful knowledge. The Farmer is 

 one of the oldest— if not the very oldest — agricul- 

 tural journals published iu the country, and, there- 

 fore, as a guarantee of the future, it can refer with 

 confidence to the past, for no journal could have 

 sustained itself so long without possessing unques- 

 tionable merit. We tender our holiday greetings, 

 and wish it a ?iappy Xew Year, commending it to its 

 patrons and an appreciative public. 



Landreth's Rural Register and Almanac, 

 published annually for gratuitous distribution, 1882. 

 This is a royal octavo of 82 jjages, in colored paper 

 covers, and amply illustrated with accurate figures 

 of the vegetable productions, the raising the seeds 

 of which the publishers make a specialty. The 

 bird's eye view of the central portion of Bloomsdale 

 farm will give a tolerable idea of the magnitude of 

 the concern, from which it will be perceived that 

 twenty fine buildings are required for its successful 

 operation, and additional ones are projected. Send 

 for the Register by all means. 



The Pennsylvania Farmer, a demi-folio of 16 

 pages, good paper and fair print. Published monthly 

 at Mercer, Pa., at $1 a year in advance by F. H. 

 UmhoUz, editor and proprietor. No. 1, Vol. 1 of 

 this excellent journal is now before us, and is an 



able representative of the interests it specializes 



" Farm, Field, Garden and Home." 



The Scientific Times, a weekly record of 

 American progress iu science, art, finance, com- 

 merce and manufactures. This is an old caterer for 

 the farmers and artizans of the country. It is finely 

 illustrated, and no doubt it is crowned with merited 

 success. 



St. Louis Miller, a semi-monthly journal, de- 

 voted to the interests of the milling trade. In the 

 absence of any other evidence, this journal alone im- 

 plies that St. Louis is a very large village, and has a 

 very large grain and flour trade. A copy of No. 3, 

 Vol. 7, (January 6, 1882; has found the desk of our 

 sanctum, and remembering that just forty-seven 

 years ago we sojourned a month in the city of St. 

 Louis, the presence, the magnitude and the general 

 make up of the journal before us, impresses us with 

 the immense progress the city must qave made since 

 1836 when her population was ten thousand less 

 than Lancaster is to-day. But the Miller — it may be 

 called a demi-folio (17 by 13) of 16 pages and has 

 five closely printed columns to the page — printed on 

 calendered paper, and profusely illustrated with all 

 kinds of new and improved machinery pertaining to 

 mills and milling. Its pictorial advertisements alone 

 cannot but be interesting to any one having "half an 

 eye," or half an idea, on the subject of mechanics. 



Its 80 columns of reading and advertising matter 

 relate almost exclusively to the grain and flour 

 trade, and collaterals appertaining to that trade, 

 (only in one little corner do we find the "humbug" 

 artificial ear-drums advertised, which had better 

 been filled with "beans.") Nobody, certainly, 

 ought to starve in St. Louis for the want of bread, 

 at least. 

 The receipts of flour for the j'ear 1881 



bbis 1,. 5.59,691 



Shipments of flour for the same time . 2,619, .529 

 Keceipts of wheat in bushels was . 11, 619, 741 

 Shipments of wheat for the same time . 6,891,090 

 Keceipts of corn for the same time . 20,249,310 

 Shipments of corn for the same time . 14,451,990 

 Receipts of oats for the same time ^. 5,950,900 

 Shipments of oats for the same time . 3,108,3h6 

 Receipts of rye for the same time . 419,914 



Shipments of rye for the same time . 303,499 



Receipts of barley for the same time . 2,3^7,633 

 Shipments of barley for the same time . 182,219 



The last two items may illustrate alarge consump- 

 tion of JSar^ej/ in St. Louis. If that is a/arf, it has 

 its redeeming quality in the significant other fact, 

 that the quantum of Sye was comparatively small. 



The St.Louit Miller is published by Thomas & Stone, 

 and as above indicated, is b semi-monthly, at $2.00 a 

 year, or fl.25 for six months ; and every intelligent 

 and progressive miller ought to be a subscriber. 



Annual Review of The Appleton Post— .4p- 

 pleton, Wisconsin, Thursday, December 29ih, 18S1. — 

 This is a folio (15 by 31) of 24 pages, and 6 columns 

 to the page, abounding in interesting historical, sta- 

 tistical, geographical, and local matter. The quality 

 and make-up of the paper are excellent, and the 

 numerous illustrations up to the modern standard. 

 Accompanying the whole is an extra sheet 25 inches 

 square, containing on one side a map of Ledyard, 

 Wisconsin, scale 200 ft. to 1 inch, and on the other 

 side, a map of Outagamie county. Wis. The illus- 

 trations mainly relate to the city of Appleton, and 

 are. Second Ward High School ; St. Joseph's Church 

 and School Buildings; Lawrence University; the 

 Ravine looking west from foot of Prospect street ; 

 Fourth Ward Ravine, near the upper dam ; a double 

 page map of the city of Appleton ; Memorial Presby- 

 terian Church; College Avenue, looking east; College 

 Avenue, looking west from Duvkee street; First Na- 

 tional Bank Building; full page bird's-eye view of 

 the city of Appleton; Appleton Water Powers, Nos. 

 1, 2 and 3 : Upper Dam; New CourtHouse; a viewof 

 the city from University Dome; Marston & Beve- 

 ridge's Hub and Spoke Factory; the new Brewery; 

 besides sundry smaller and personal illustrations. 

 Of course, we kno/v this is all to give the city of Ap- 

 pleton "a lift" in her competitive progress with 

 other progre.'isive towns in the "great west," and no 

 one can find fault with this; for, if people who o\vn a 

 town and live iu it, do not put their hands to the 

 wheel and help it forward, they can hardly deserve 

 success, as things now go in this nether world. The 

 water power of Appleton from this showing must be 

 immense, for it seems to beliterallv a dammed — oil, a 

 city of dams; which, in these days of fire and explo- 

 sion, is a matter of vast importance. We are in- 

 debted to Mr. Mike K. Gochenaur, formerly of this 

 county, for a complimentary copy of this annual 

 number of the Post, ami we commend the enterpris- 

 ing manifestations of that far off town to the favor- 

 able consideration of our patrons and readers. In 

 looking over the 144 columns of the choice reading 

 matter of this lively journal, we feel our local Old- 

 foiryism the more impressive, notwithstanding our 

 eflorts, iu later years, to move onward. 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. I 



The annual meeting of the State Board of I 

 Agriculture will be held in Harrisbnrg, com- 

 mencing Wednesday, January 25, at 2 p.m. The 

 following is a full list of subjects of essays and dis- 

 cussions, furnished by Secretary Thomas J. Edge, 

 from whom all inform.ation may be had : 



Treatment and management of Dairy Cows, Hon. i 

 C. C. Mnsselman, of Somerset. 



Agriculture of the Old and New World, F. Jacket, 

 of Blair. 



The Common Law and Statutes of Pennsylvania 

 Regulating Surface and Underground Water Courses 

 between Land Owners, Hon. M. C. Beebe, of Ve- 

 nango. 



Lessons of 1881, .and the Outlook for 1882, E. Reed- 

 cr, Bucks. 



Associated Dairying, John I. Carter, of Chester co. 



Farmers' Gardens and Truck Patches, Rev. J. Cal- 

 der, Harrisburg. 



Preparation of the Ground for Wheat, J D. Lyte, 

 Butler. 



Is the importation of Foreign Live Stock an Ad- 

 vantage to the Pennsylvania Farmer? A. D. Shimer 

 of Nortnampion. 



S enography in .Agriculture, H. C. Demming, of 

 Harrisburg. 



The Best method of Fire Insurance for Farm Build- 

 ings and their Contents, Henry C. Tyler, of Susque- 

 hanna. 



Weeds and their Eradication, Col. D. H. Wallace, 

 of Lawrence. 



Production and Preservationof Apples, J. Miles, of 

 Erie. 



During the evening sessions or at other times, at 

 the option of the Board, addresses will be delivered 

 on the following topics: 



The Relation of the Soil and Crops to Heat and 

 Moisture, Prof. W. H.' Jordan, Pennsylvania Stale 

 College. 



Agricultural Education, Prof. S. B. Heiges, of 

 York. 



On a subject not assigned, by Col. Frank Mantor, 

 of Crawford. 



The rbove proiramme will not be strictly adhered 

 to, as other topics will probably be introduced by 

 members of the Board. Any question of a proper 

 nature, if handed to the secretary, will be referred 

 to a suitable person for answer. 



