1877.] 
AMERICAN AGRTGQLTURIST. 
233 
Happy Hours 
AT HOME. 
FUN FOR 
Little Folks 
AND 
reat Folks, 
Nothing has ever been invented 
that more fully combined amuse- 
ment and instruction, and proved 
more truly an almost endless 
means of making the little ones 
(and the great ones) happy, than 
CrandalFs Blocks 
For Children. 
Head about them belotc. 
CRANDALL'S IIEATV ARTILLERY. 
The greatest amusement of the age ! Kecreatiou 
at home for all ages and for all seasons ! Crandall's 
Heavy Artillery is made up of a large Cannon, 
complete, which throws a 14-inch Rubber Ball to 
the distance of 25 feet or more, and Sixty Blocks 
(Red, White and Blue), to bnbd up Fortifications, 
also a Company of Soldiers, with Officer and Flag, 
to Garrison the Fort. The Game is to beat down 
the Fort by the use of the Big Gun. Rules, Illus- 
trations of a variety of Forts, etc., accompany each 
box containing the set, and the box is 18 inches 
long, 6 inches high, and 8 inches wide. 
Price per Set, $3.00. Expressage to be paid by 
the redpient. 
CRANDALL'S 
WIDE-AWAKE ALPHABET. 
No more long faces and no more tears over 
A B C 1 Here we hare amusement and instruc- 
tion combined. Each box contains twenty-seven 
little men, each representing a letter, with arms, 
legs, and jolly faces. This set of Blocks is suscepti- 
ble of more changes, and a greaier variety of forms 
and combinations than any Spelling Block over 
offered to the public. The Pieces are durable, the 
Letters plain, the Faces mirthful, and the Amuse- 
ment afforded by them unlimited. They please 
while they instruct, and are a source of enjoyment 
to young and old. 
Price per Box $1,00; by mail, prepaid, $1.50. 
CRAKDALL'S JOHN GILPIIV. 
This beautiful and interesting toy is regarded by 
Mr. Crandall as one of the best of his inventions 
for tlie little folks. It is made up of two figures, 
John Gilpin — -whose higlily colored dress is speci- 
ally attractive to Boys and GirLs— and his ITorse, 
wliicli intelligent animal performs a very important 
part in the illustration of Gilpin's famous ride. 
Price per Box ?il.OO; by mail, pirpaiil, $1.35. 
CRAiVDALL'S TOY HORSE. 
Here is something that will make glad every little 
boy that gets it. The Toy Horse is about fi inches 
in bight to the tops of his ears. He stands upon a 
four-wheeled base, all ready to be set in motion by 
his owner. He is made up in pieces and can be 
taken apart and laid snugly away in his box. 
Price 25 Cts.; by mai!. prepaid, 35 Cts. 
CRAXDALL'S LITTLE ALL-RIGHT. 
One of the funniest and most amusing of the 
low-priced toys. The lively little All-Right throws 
himself into a great variety of positions as he 
whirls around the " wheel." Can not be sent by 
mail. For sale by Toy Dealers generally. 
«Ye HERO OF '76." 
The great "Centennial Toy." A fine old soldier 
in a brilliantly colored uniform, with cocked hat, 
staff, and flag, all put up in a neat box. The Hero 
is so constructed that he can he placed in almost 
numberless and amusing positions, and will de- 
light the children everywhere. 
Price 35 €ts. ; by mail, prepaid, 4:5 Cts. 
t'RAXDALL'S ACROBATS. 
Full of fun and frolic, and most brilliant in costume. 
These are among the most fascinating and ingeni- 
ous toys ever invented. The number of figures 
which can be made with the pieces in a single box 
is Umited only by the ingenuity of the operator. 
Price $1.00; by mail, prepaid, $1.25. 
CRANDALL'S MENAGERIE. 
One of the most wonderful and amusing things 
ever brought out tor the entertainment of children. 
The six animals composing the menagerie are beau- 
tifully painted, and so arranged into 56 pieces in 
each box, that tens of thousands of most laughter- 
provoking figures can be made up with tliem. 
Price '$2.00. [Purchaser will pay express charges. 
Box (00 targe to go safety by mail.'] 
CRANDALL'S BUILUlNG-BLOCIiS. 
Can be made into forms of almost endless variety. 
The blocks are put up in neat, strong boxes, and 
a large sheet giving various designs of buildings, 
etc., accompanies each box. 
Price— IVo. 1, $2.00; by mail, iirepaid, $2.50. 
No. 3, $1.00; by nutil, prepaid, $1.25. 
No. 4, $1.00; by mail, prepaid, $1.15. 
CRANDALL'S ILLUMINATED PIC- 
TORIAL ALPHABET CUBES. 
These Cubes are gorgeously colored, and ■will 
make over 500 beautiful combinations or figure.^. 
They are water-proof, odorless, and durable ; put 
up in handsome black walnut boxes ; and are most 
attractive to both young and old — an elegant pres- 
ent for the little ones. 
Price $2.50; by viail, prepaid, $3.00. 
CRANDALL'S MASQUERADE-BLOCKS. 
Making 300 different and beautiful Combinations 
of Pictures, which arc in very brilliant colors. 
They are not injured by washing, do not wear out, 
and alford endless amusement. 
Price ?1.00; by mail, prepaid, $1.20. 
CRANDALL'S EXPRESSION-BLOCKS. 
With Letters on one side. Picture on the other. 
Tlie Alphabet is the key to the picture which, when 
complete, represents the inventor in Dream Land. 
Those Blocks are water-proof, and can be washed 
if soiled. 
Price 50 Cts. ; by mail, prepaid, TO CtB. 
CRANDALL'S ALPHABET-BLOCKS. 
Red, "White, and Blue. 
Tasteless, odorless, and water-proof. The letters 
arc on rod. while, and blue ground. All children 
are pleased with them. 
Price 75 Cts.; by mail, i>r(i>aid, $1.00. 
fi.'B.—If j)0.''tage i.'t 7iot remitted uith the prices, as above, 
the btock.'i will 6d seal by express at purchaser's e.rjteiise. 
Orders from the trade will bo piipplicd on liberal terms, 
ORANGF, JUDD COMPANY, 
24.1 BuoiDWAT, Nbw Tork. 
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containing a great rtiri^t:/ of lUm.'. including many 
good Hints and .Suggestions nhich ue Ihron- into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of spaie elsenhere. 
Continued from p. 209. 
TreatBueEit floa- I..aiiix>*i>*-— "R. 0. M.,"" 
Pope Co., Ark. For a horse tliat, is inuibled witii lam- 
pass^ Ukc a sharp Unify iiiid cm the swollen pans iu short 
sliq^hc jrashes, one inch apart, ana aboni one inch Ion?. 
Then make a sirong decoction of white oak hark, and swab 
the mouth uell two or three times a day. It is a si«m of 
indigestion, and it would be well to give a pint of lin- 
seed oil daily for two or three days. 
TUc Aii»oi-u (lloliair) Ooai.— "M.," 
Eusselville, Ark. The An^'ora *:oat will do very wlU iu 
Arkansas, Ic succeeds well in Georgia. You can pro- 
cm-e them of Mr. Richard Peters, Allanta, Georgia, who- 
will give you any needed information about them. 
Use of 1fi4Macs fbi- a, rortilizer. — 
"C. D. E.," Ilealtlisville, Va. Il is not advisable lo re- 
duce bones with oil of vitriol, unless one has experience 
and every facility for doing this dangerous work. Bone& 
may be ground in any steel mill. The Bogardns Eccen- 
tric Mill is extensively used forthis pnipose. The bones 
should be ground finely to be of greatest service. 
G.,''' Blair Co., Pa. When a cut or a bruise in a horse's 
leg is healed too quickly, and before the inflamniaiion 
has disappeared from the wounded parts, the limb will 
often swell and become hard. This may l)e caused by 
absorption of the suppurated matter which ought to Imve 
been discharged from the wound. The remedy is to give 
purgatives, the best, prohaltly, being one ounce doses of 
hyposulphite of soda, with alternate doses of half an 
ounce of nitrate of potash. Cold astringent lotions and 
bandages on the limb may be useful, or blistering may 
be needed. If the horse is valuable, it would have been 
wise in the first place to have employed a veterinary sur- 
geon. Hot tar should not have beeu used on it. 
'Vrarl>Ies.—" A Farmer." The lumps found 
on the backs of cattle at this season, each contain a grub^ 
or larva, of the os gad fly, {(Esfriis 6om). The lump* 
should be squeezed to force out the y:rnb, which is to bo 
destroyed. Ifadropof sweet oil is placed in the open- 
ing, the grub may be removed much easier. To prevent 
them, mix a pound of lard with a teacni^ful of kerosene 
oil, or one dram of carbolic acid, and rub the mixture on 
the backs of the cattle, iu July and August, when theJlics 
are layinc their eggs. 
(lias Xai" as a I*rcsorvaiive of 
Wootl,— " S. S. B.," Blair Co., Pa. It is slated by per- 
sons who use gas ttir extensively that, u hen fresh, it con- 
tains nu acid which is destructive to wood. When this 
acid is neutralized by the mixture of half a bushel of 
freshly dry-slacked lime with a barrel of the tar, the neu- 
tral tar is then considered as an excellent preservative of 
wood that is coated with it. 
Mauiiractiire of Potato Staroli. — 
"J. F. C," La Crosse, Wis. An illustrated article, de- 
scribing the manufacture of potato starch, was given in 
the American AgricuUuvist for September, 1S70. There 
is I o work specially devoted to this mannfiictnre. and 
no work that we know of gives so full an nccotiiitof thia 
business as the article referred to. 
^Viro-^Vorms.— "G. S. W.," Selina, Ohio. 
Those yon send are undoubtedly the larva of some Click 
Beetle. Yon ask why you And in a field " a bushel of wire- 
worms, (childreni, and not one Click-Beetle, (parent)." 
The habits of these insects have not been sulliciently 
studied. Writers on insects say Ihey pass, " t^evcral 
yeai"s"in the larva or wire-worm state, but how many 
docs not seem to bo known. If they are three or five 
yeartt in this form, yon will not see the perfect insect 
every year. .Ml the Click-Beetle? are not the lar»e firay 
ones, with black "eyes'* or spots, bur some are small, 
and noi at all conspicuous, slender, and dark-brown, and 
would not he su^^pected of " click " until tried. The wire- 
worms are very fond of potatoes, and in England, (where 
they have similar insects), these arc used to trap l hem. 
A potnto throucli which is snick a long stick, is buried 
where the worms abound; the stick shows where the 
potato is buried, and allows it to be taken up at intervale, 
when the wire-worms that have collected can be destroyed. 
