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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[June, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTTU I ST. 
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DID YOU 
SEE IT? 
Did you see the offer made by us last month, to send 
without charge (and post-paid at that) one of our beauti- 
ful and valuable Annuals, for every subscriber to the 
Agriculturist you would send us during May ? (We now 
renew and continue the offer for the month of June.) 
Those Annuals are not only very beautiful books, but 
they are very valuable— they are full of good information, 
are splendidly illustrated* and ought to be in every fam- 
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lars 1 worth of information, and were prepared at large 
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included.) They are : 
No. 1 Agricultural Annual, for 1567* 
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No. 1 Horticultural Annual, for 1867. 
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These are universally admitted to be the cheapest vol- 
umes issued. They are original, the matter and engrav- 
ings being all prepared exclusively for these volumes 
by a large number of first class, practical writers. As 
these books are a permanent Annual Institution, we 
want everybody to have a copy, for all who get them 
this year will be sure to want the numbers for 1SG9 
and thereafter. We therefore invite everybody who has 
not done so already, to send only 50 cents, and secure a 
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or the Horticultural Annual No. 2, or send $1 and 
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will secure an equal number of Annuals, of any issue de- 
sired N. B.— These premium Annuals are special, 
and are not included in the general premiums which 
are separate, but are continued— for this month only. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Sugg^tions irhich u-e throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
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many of the large towns. We consider them perfectly 
safe, aud the best means of remitting fifty dollars or less, 
as thousands have been sent to us xoitltout any loss. 
Registered Letters, under tlie new system, 
which went into effect June 1st, are a very safe 
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the office where the letter is mailed, or it will be liable 
to be sent to the Dead Letter Office. Buy and affix the 
stamps both for postage and registry, put in Vie money and 
seal the letter in the presence of the 2)0St?nasler, and take his 
receipt for it. Letters sent in this way to us are at our risk. 
Postage. — To our published terms for the 
American Agriculturist, postage must in all cases be ad- 
ded when ordered to go out of the United States. For 
Canada, send twelve cents besides the subscription money 
with each subscriber. Everywhere in the United States, 
three cents, each quarter, or twelve cents, yearly, must be 
pre-paid at the Post-office where the paper is received. 
PIom Trial of tlie r¥. E- Ag'I So- 
ciety.— An important trial of plows was conducted at 
Amherst, on the grounds of the Agricultural College dur- 
ing four days last month, by the New England Agricul- 
tural Society. There were but few entries, considering 
the importance of the trial. However, several of the 
most popular plows of the East were tried and passed 
upon. The judges gratified the public by reporting the 
awards at once. It is hardly fair for us to give them 
without the accompanying remarks of the committee, but 
want of space prevents our giving them in full. In Class 
I— Stiff Soil Sod Plows— there were 7 entries, and while 
the Ames'' Plow Co. and the Collins' Plows were highly 
commended, the Morse Iron-beam Plow took the medal 
and C. W. Sykes' Victory 1 the diploma. In Class II— 
Stiff Soil Stubble Plows— there were 5 entries. Collins' 
Co.'s C, 3, took the medal, Belcher & Taylor's No. 5J£ 
the diploma, and Ames' Co.'s 34, a diploma. In Class 
III— Light Soil Sod Plows— medal to Ames* Co.'s Tele- 
graph 3 ; diploma to Collins' Co.'s E. 12 ; and a diploma to 
Meade's Conical. In Class IV— Deep Tillers— 5 entries, 
Ames 1 Co.'s 77, medal; Collins' Deep Tiller, diploma. 
Class V— 1 entry— medal to the Ames' Co.'s Double Plow. 
In Class VII— 3 entries— Ames' Plow Co.'s S l « Improved 
took the medal, and Collins' Co.'s B, 12, received the 
diploma. In Class VTII— 3 entries— the Ames' Co.'s 
Steel, Side-hill Single Swivel Plow, A, 2, received the 
medal, C. W. Sykes' Victory Plow, the diploma. 
The Death ofl)r. I>ana.— Dr. Samuel 
L. Dana died at Lowell, Mass., in March last, at the age 
of 73. Doctor D. was a practical chemist, but long an 
honored friend of agriculture, and is best known to agri- 
culturists by his Muck Manual and Essay on Manures. 
An Omission. — It should have been stated 
under the spirited .engraving on page 230, that it was 
drawn and engraved from a painting by Henriette Bonner. 
A Large Price Tor Plants. — At a re- 
cent sale in Loudon, twelve new seedling Coleuses, plants 
so much admired for their ornamental foliage, brought 
the sum of £393, 3«, or over $1,700 in gold. They were 
Jaken up by the London florists, and as they prop- 
agate rapidly, we shall soou see them over here. 
Bees in Jfune. — By liVni. W. Cary. 
The profits of the Apiary depend much upon manage- 
ment this month. Put on surplus boxes eai'ly. Stick 
guide comb in them ; this will induce the bees to begin 
work sooner. If but two Bides are of glass, put the guides 
parallel with the glass — it looks better when finished. 
Au inviting appearance in any market article which may 
be classed among luxuries greatly helps the sale. All 
swarms are aided by feeding them for a few days after 
hiving, especially if the weather proves unfavorable. By 
a little well-timed attention, either by feeding, supplying 
with empty worker comb, or giving maturing brood, ac- 
cording to circumstances, swarms may be equalized so 
that the autumn will find them almost on a par for passing 
the winter ; and this maybe done in much less time than 
the novice woidd suppose. The frame honey-box, or 
" super," is growing in favor with those who use movable 
comb hives. The frames should be % or J£ the size of the 
hive frames so that they may be conveniently used in 
case of necessity for winter or spring feeding. All par- 
tially filled frames, should be kept for next season's use, 
and given to the strongest stocks— they will be filled and 
sealed over before the bees, under other circumstances, 
would have got fairly at work in the boxes. Such frames 
should be put further apart than those in the body of the 
hive, as store combs are built thicker than brood combs, 
and each frame should have a guide comb for starting. 
These frame boxes have no bottoms, but movable tops. 
Humbugs, 2m" RUlitiou. — After the fol- 
lowing page was u made up," we learn that A, A. Kelly 
has gone to Buffalo. Some people at Buffalo having been 
swindled by Clark, Webster & Co., sent on a detective 
here to look into the matter. The result was, the head 
of the concern was indicted by the Grand Jury of Erie 
Co., arrested in New York, and taken to Buffalo to an- 
swer. The head of Clark, Webster & Co. turned out 
to be no other than A. A. Kelly, of Kelly's Weekly. 
Beautil ul Pictures. — We have frequent- 
ly said that the illustrations alone in the American Agri- 
culturist are worth far more than the price of the paper. 
This is literally so, because they are truthful representa- 
tions of real subjects iu a high style of art, and are both 
pleasing and instructive. People generally ought to be 
more cheerful aud happy than they are, aud pictures help 
to make them so. Have pictures in your houses — the best 
that can be afforded— and enjoy them. Our attention was 
called to this subject by some beautiful chromos from L. 
Prang & Co., Boston. We wish every house in the laud 
could have some of these beautiful gems of art in it. 
I\. J. State Agricultural Society. 
—We go to press too early to report the Sales Fair held 
on the 20th to 23d of May. There will be a Strawberry and 
Floral Exhibition some time during the present month, 
to be announced ; a trial of Mowers aud Reapers in July, 
and the regular Annual Fair in September. The exhibi- 
tion grounds and buildings of the society are midway be- 
tween the cities of Newark and Elizabeth, and are 
very convenient and beautiful. 
Sundry Humbugs- S. G. Sheaffer & Co., 
Hanover, Pa., do not like our notice of their proceedings, 
and are foolish enough to tell people on their envelopes 
that we have u seen proper to denounce" them. We 
class them as humbugs, because they have what is to 
all intents aud purposes a lottery, or game of chance. 
They say in their circular as follows : " We take a thous- 
and photographs and one hundred and seventy dollars, 
which we put into one thousand envelopes ; the money i3 
divided into 250 parts: The largest single amount in one 
envelope, $75.00 ; 2 envelopes of $5 ; 10 of $2.50 ; 20 of 
50 cts. ; 40 of 25 cts. ; and 200 of 10 cts. Every thousand 
must be sold before a fresh one is touched, and persona 
are certain of getting just so much money in every thous- 
and, and as likely to get the best package last as first.'* 
Here is proof that would hold in any decent court, that 
these people are disposing of money by "lot," and we 
place their project in the same list with other ''gift 
distributions." Will everybody please stop send- 
ing us Hallett, Moore & Co.'s lottery tickets. "Sandy 
River Petroleum Stock'" won't pay the postage. The 
" Geo. Washington Toilet Watch Manufacturing Co." are 
not to be found at the number given, and we hope nobody 
will be foolish enough to invest money in such stock. The 
scheme proposes 200.000 shares of stock at $2.50 each ; 
these are offered for sale, and when the stock is all sold 
they will send to the holder of each share a "gold watch," 
and give him the chance of drawing $20,000 in green- 
backs. These fellows have the impudence to say, " this 
is no lottery ! " We speak of this more in detail to show 
one prominent point in all "lottery" schemes. They in- 
duce people to send $1, $2 or $3, as the case may he, as 
an investment, for which they are sure to get the value, 
aud more, in "Gold Jewelry," and besides this have a 
chance of getting still more in money or valuable goods 
when the " drawing comes off." The " gilded trash," for 
it is not gold, may possibly in half the instances be ob- 
tained, but the " drawing " on which so many hopes are 
placed never comes. After a few weeks of waiting, the 
expectant victim writes us to know if we can help him 
out. If any of these persons had considered more care- 
fully the papers sent, their own judgment or that of their 
neighbors would have shown that it was impossible for 
the senders of the circulars to do as they propose ; the 
whole thing bears the stamp of a "swindle," on its 
very face. Beware of all lottery Mining schemes. The 
Mount Vesta Gold & Silver Mining Co., J. P. M. Kennedy, 
President, is not to be found at the number given Af- 
