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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[NOYEMBEB,. 
afeout 200,000 lbs. clover Beed ; 4,500 cases of Canned 
Meats ; 1,530 bales of hops ; about half a million pounds 
of fresh beef in quarters ; besides large quantities of 
tobacco, appies, tallow, salted pork and beef, oil cake, 
cotton seed oil, starch, 1,200 bags of ivory nuts, 4';7 slabs 
of rubber, grass seed, etc., etc. The above, a single 
day's shipment, will give a pleasant exercise for the 
yoangster in arithmetic, to figure up the pounds, tons, 
and value in dollars at the fair home price in any locality. 
The following are approximate weights : Bos of Bacon, 
300 lbs. ; Bos of Cheese, 40 lbs. ; Tierce of Lard, oOD lbs. ; 
Package of Butter, 100 lbs. ; Bag of Clover Seed, 120 lbs. ; 
Case of Canned Meats, 48 lbs., (2 dozen 2 lb. cans) ; 
Hogshead of Tobacco, 750 lbs. ; Tierce of Beef, 350 lbs. ; 
Barrel of Pork, 200 lbs. By and by we sliall ^et the official 
Sgnres for these autumn months ; they will show our esti- 
mate last month of $500,000,ODO received from abroad for 
our surplus farm produce this year, to be under the truth. 
P. S.— Export in lO;-^ months, ISTT : Fresh Beef, 86,132,- 
730 lbs., value $8,960,388. Same time, 1876, 19,990,895 lbs., 
Talue $1,755,191. Live Cattle, 1ST7, 19,250 ; value $2,450,- 
350. Presh Mutton, 1,8^3,850 lbs; value $123,900. Live 
Sheep, 12,400, value $81,350. Total value of live and 
dressed beeves and sheep exported Jan. 1 to Oct. 13, 1877, 
$11,460,330, against $1,755,191 in 1876. 
Butter Factory.— " W. L.," Waterloo, P. 
of Q. It would require more space than we have to 
Fpare to give Tull descriptions of a butter factory. Much 
information, ■with illastrations, is given in the American 
AgHcuUurist ioT 'Ha.j, 1874, which would be found useful 
by one proposing to build a factory. In Willard'a 
Dairy Husbandry (price $3.00), there are many plans of 
factories, and the whole business is described in detail. 
Tlie Use of Inciil>ators.— " W. L. M.," 
"Wilmington, N. C. Incubators ai-enow attracting mucli 
Bttention, and the season is coming on when they can be 
most profitably used. It must not be supposed that 
these machines can be used with the same facility as a 
dock which needs winding up once a day, and will then 
run alone. On the contrary, an egg is such ft delicately 
organized embryo tiat th.e utmost care must be exercised 
in regulating the heat of the incubator, else it is 
destroyed by a slight excess one way or the other. A 
difference of two degrees either way if long mnintained 
is sufficient to kill the eggs, or to produce such weakly 
chicks that they die soon after being hatched. To use 
any incubator with success, one needs to exercise tact, 
Jndgment, constant attention, patience under probable 
failure at first, and great care in selecting eggs. Then 
Tfith the right kind of incubator one may generally 
succeed in hatching chicks. An incubator with an 
automatic regulator of the heat, and with a steac^y source 
erf heat would be preferred by some. The cheapest one 
ia that which uses horse manure ; this necessarily re- 
quires an experience as to the behavior of fermenting 
manure under different circumstances. 
Cool Setting of MilU.— "A. D. S.," 
Montgomery Co., Pa. The newly discovered process of 
Betting milk at a very low temperature, ia workinj^ very 
well. The milk is kept in closely covered, deep cans, at 
as low a temperature as possible, so that it will not freeze; 
45 degrees is a very favorable temperature for raising the 
cream in the shortest time. This may easily be procured 
hy using ice. In the Cooley System the cans are sub- 
merged in water, and the water is cooled down to 45 de- 
grees, or as near to it as may be practicable by means of 
ice. The cooler is then closed and this temperature is 
maintained for a considerable time without any further 
attention. With a cool running spring no ice is needed. 
Trial of Agricultural E^ng^iiteM at 
Syracuse, — A most interesting exhibition and trial of 
agricultural steam engines, is to be held at Si'racuse, on 
Nov. 12th, under the management of the N, Y. State 
Agricultural Society. The Society offers a large gold 
medal for the best engine iu each class — under eix-horse, 
and over six-horse-power — and a silver metlal for the 
second best in each class. These trials of engines, 
will be very well worth the attention of those per- 
sons who are using them, or who expect to do so, and it 
is to be hoped that many will be present. 
Xlie Colorado Moiintainoer, pub- 
HBhed at Colorado Springs. Col., by Marsh & Adams, is 
a wide-awake, well edited, and beautifully printed paper, 
giving a good deal of information in reference to that 
enterprising new State. 
Alpine Flowei-s tov En^^lisli Crnr- 
dens, by William Robinson, Editor of •' The Garden." 
This is anew edition, enlarged ty new matter and illus- 
toations, of that which was before the most thorough 
work on its aubject. It treats very fully of rock-work, 
showing by both example and warning, the proper and 
improper construction of the rock-garden, and is indis- 
pensable to one who would undertake the culture of 
Alpine plants here or elsewhere. 
Xlic Sportsiiiau'^ 4jiazetteer« oy 
Charles Hallock, Editor of "Forest & Stream, "and pub- 
lished by the Forest & Stream Company. A thick 12 
mo. of about 9i;0 pages. It gives descrip.ions of all the 
North American quadrupeds, birds, and fishes, regarded 
as "game," U'eats upon dogs, boats, wood-craft, and 
other matters useful to the sportsman, and has a very 
complete directory, accompanied by maps, of the princi- 
pal game resorts in all parts if the country. Sent by 
Orange Judd Company by mail for $3. 
Xreatnient for Riag^l>oiie. — " B. A.," 
Linn Co., Iowa. This disease, which consists of in- 
flammation of the membrane covering the bonL-s of the 
pastern joint, followed by a deposit of bony matter, 
which in time causes the bones to unite and make a stiff 
joint, requires different treatment iu young horses 
from that necessary with old ones. Touug horses fre- 
quently recover quickly, while old ones are sometimes 
treated without effect. The proper course consists of 
rest and cooling applications until the inflammation is 
subdued; then apply a blister, such as 20 grains each 
corrosive sublimate and camphor, 10 drops of hydro- 
chloric acid, aud one ounce of turpentine. Watch the 
blister, and wash off wlicu the effect is sufficient. 
Cleanliness iu tUe Poailtry Slouse. 
— " H. B.," Xew London, Conn. When ck-auing the 
perches iu the poultry house, it is necessary to apply the 
mixture of kerosene oil and grease to the underside as 
well as the top. This is often neglected, and the lice 
gather there. Everything about poultry management 
should be thoroughly done, to avoid failure. 
Oame La^ws oV PeMMsylvania. — 
We have a copy of the digest of the game laws uf Penn- 
B3'lvania, compiled by Chas. E. Scott, of Bristol, Pa., 
which should be read by all persons disposed to preserve 
valuable wild animals from extermination, as well as by 
those who are nnlawfiil!^' engaged iu snch destruction, 
that they may be warned of what the laws require. 
Concrete Houses*.— ''A. E. W.," Char- 
lotte Co., Ya. In the A77ie?ican Agriculturist for Decem- 
ber, 1S74, there was given an illustrated article, Inliy 
describing the mode of constructing concrete houses. 
This kind of house is cheaper, more durable, dryer, and 
warmer than one of cither wood or brick. 
A SicU Hog.— "E. B.," Adams Co., Ohio. 
Vomiting is a symptom of the disease generally called 
•' hog cholera," but properly typhoid or bilious fever. It 
is useless to treat a hog for this disease, as medicines 
very rarely have any effect. Every one who owns even 
one hog, would receive more than the money worth by 
the investmentof $1.75in Coburn's "'Swine Ilusbandn.-," 
if he would read it and follow the plain advice there given 
for the healthful treatmeut of his animal. 
15orroi;>'iaag to IBiiy a f'arm. — *'P.," 
La Porte, Ind. We advise no one to borrow money to 
buy a farm. The efforts to repay borrowed money are 
now overwhelming thousands of farmers in trouble and 
anxiety, and hundreds are losing all they have in vain at- 
tempts to pay exorbitant interest. Keep out of debt. A 
man in debt is poorer than one who has nothing. 
Xlie llicroscope. — Practical Hints on its 
Selection and ITse, by John Phin. The second edition 
of Prof. Phin's work is enlarged and much improved 
over the first by abundant illustrations. This is much 
better adapted to the use of beginners than the more 
elaborate English works, as it describes American in- 
struments and appliances. Its elementary style and 
full and plain descriptions make it the best hand-book 
on the microscope for the novice that we have seen. 
Sent from this office post paid for 75 cents. 
Sending; Postage Stamps. — It is in- 
teresting, and also gratifying, to see one's suggestions 
adopted, and in practice over a wide extent of country. 
Iu July last we showed tlie inconveniences attending the 
usual method of sticking the stamp to a letter, when sent 
for return postage, and showed how it could be readily 
secured by passing it under a band made by cutting two 
slits in the paper. Since then a large share of the stamps 
received by us are thus treated, much to the gratification 
of those who open the letters. Formerly it o^ten took 
more time than a stamp was worth, to detach it without 
so defacing it tliat it would be useless, but the method of 
hohlingitinaslit. saves trouble and vexation of spirit, and 
what is often of great consequence with us— saves time. 
Sundry Humbugs. 
__ Our correspondence — 
^^^fi^^^H which in the Humbug line 
^ I^j^i^T W ^^ ^^ something immense — is 
^^^ as correct an indication of 
§^ the state of the Humbug 
atmosphere, as is the ba- 
rometer of the terrestrial 
atmosphere. Whes circu- 
lars of a particular scheme 
come in daily and regularly, 
we feel sure that those 
" running the machine" are 
making money. If they 
come in slowly, we know 
that their business is dull, 
but when their circulars 
show a ''change of base,'' 
and tl at the projectors are 
trying some new dodge — 
then we know ''the jig is 
up." These remarks have 
reference to that little game 
which has been played by persons calling themBelves 
the "Finance Committee of the Louisville Lottery 
Co ," and whose circulars, informing thousands of peo- 
ple that each has drawn " a gold watch and chain, valued 
at §150," which can be had by applying to Russell & 
Co., of Bond street. N. Y.. have been scattered far and 
wide— indeed we have so many of them that even at the 
present low price per pound for waste paper, they will 
add not a little to our "profit and loss" account. 
RuBscU & Co. claim to be only concerned in the matter 
so far as to deliver certain watches when certain terms 
are complied with, and our sympathies— such as they 
are— are with Russell & Co., for they must have been 
greatly astonished to find there was a total change of 
base, and been surprised to find that the circulars, mak- 
ing demands upon them, were no longer in behalf of 
THE FIXANCE COMMITTEE OF THE LOUISVXLLE LOTTEET 
ASSOCIATIOX 
— That name we had come to know, if not love, so well, 
but a kind of joint stock affair, a sort of general lump- 
ing of " all the Unclaimed and Forfeited Prizes in the 
various Legal Lotteries which have been dra\\-n in the 
'United States' for the past 10 years." The unclaimed 
doings of the Louisville thing, amounted to $94,000, 
while this new circular claims the amount for 23 Lotter- 
ies, to be only §122.944.00. Then {can the watches 
"valued" at §150 have "gi'n out"?), the"prizes" which 
Russell & Co. are to deliver, according to the new 
circulars, are generally, "A Lot of Gold Jewelry, (about 
SO different patterns) valued at $ — "—but the blank 
before us is not filled, and we shall never know what 
they are valued at, but the important blank after " the 
percentage due" is filled with $14.00, which we^have no 
doubt Messrs. Russell &Co. will gladly receive.^ 
80 JEWELRY THINGS FOR $14,001 
just ITJ cents a piece— who would not adorn themselves 
at this low rate ? In the old flush times, it was said of 
the Attleborough jewellers, that they did not stop to 
count their wares, but turned them out by the peck. 
This lottery concern hasn't got to that, but " 80 different 
patterns," oh 1 We are not yet informed how " Heth- 
erington & Co" are mixed in this matter. Circulars are 
still issued using the name of Russell & Co., hut the cor- 
respondence in reference to these same circulars, 
appears to be carried on byH. & Co., but those who 
let all such things severely alone, will not be bothered, 
as to who is who in the matter. The operators 
CAME TO GEEEF IS POLK, TOWNSHIP, OHIO. 
Mr. J. "W. Coulter being informed that he had drawn 
"a gold watch and chain valued at $150"— which ho could 
have by paying $15 — wrote to the parties to send the 
watch, C. 0. D. subject to inspection. In a few days he 
was notified by Hetherington & Co. that the watch had 
been sent according to his order. Mr. 0. went to the ex- 
press office to examine the watch but was not allowed to 
do so. This would have baffled most persons, but Mr. 
Coulter went before a Justice of the Peace, put in a bill 
for attorney's lees, and got a writ of attachment on the 
package. The estimated value of the watch when ex- 
amined was $4. At last accounts Mr. Coulter had a 
"gold watch and chain valued at $150," which he would 
sell somewhat under valnatiou The 
''eotal dominion" lottert, 
called a *■ Gift Concert." wao getting to b?a nuisance 
such was the number of circulars, and all alike, hut since 
the notice iu our last, the matter has been taken up by 
our vigilant Postal authorities, with already perceptible 
effect. It appears that a number of the lottery swind- 
lers, finding their business too much interfered with to be 
profitable, have left the States in disgust, and selected 
the ''Dominion" as a safe point from which to load our 
mails with their illegal matter— a little game which our 
