1875.] 
AMERICAN AaRICULTURIST. 
45 
To be Had -wilUout Money,— There 
will be found upou our Piumiura List (sue page 73) a 
large number of most useful and valuable articles, all of 
which arc new and of the best niannfacture, aud any of 
which can be obtained without 7noney aud with but a lit- 
tle ivdl directed effort. Anioni; thes^j arc ; Beautiful 
Silver-plated Arlicle?* — Fiue Table-Cut- 
lery— Gold Pens Willi Silver Cases— Cliil- 
dreu's Carriages, Swiugs, etc. -^VatcUes— 
PijLUOK — I?Ielodcons — Pocket-Kulves — 
Guus— <'uitivators— Sewlug:, Knittiu":, aud 
AVashlug Maclaincs— Books, etc., etc.— 
Kc;ul all nf i':i;,'e 73, and sue how easy you cau obtain one 
or more of these <joovl and desirable articles. 
contaiiii.-i{f a (/real variefu of If^ms^ incucWtg many 
good Hints and Surfgeslkms u'/uch we throiv into smaller 
tffpe and conden.-<cd form, for ivant of room elsewhere. 
R(Mii3ttiii^' Monoy: — (^SkccIcs ou 
New York City BauUs or Bankers are be^t 
for larLjc sum< ; make i>;iyabl<: to tlie ordi_-r of Orau^c 
Judd ; ompany. Pos(-OSice Mouey Orders 
for $50 or less, are elioapand safe al^'j. When these are not 
obtainable, re«;ister letters, afiixing; stamps for post- 
age and registry ; put in the money aud seal the letter in 
the presenci; of the jiostmaster, and take his receipt for it. 
Money scut in the above three methods is safe against loss. 
1^" j^.B.— Xlae >e^v Postage r.a>v. 
—On account uf ilic new postal law, wlnioU requires 
I»re-i>a>iuen,t of postaj-e by tlic publis-li- 
ers, after January 1st, 1875, each subscriber 
must ri'iiiit, ill iuldilio-.i lu \\^^■■ rcjriiUir nxtr^, teu Ceilts 
for prepayment of postage by tlic Publisli- 
ers, at New Vork, for tlie year 1S75. Every 
subseribi^r, whetlicr coming singly, or in clubs at club 
rales, will be particular to send to this office postage as 
above, with his mbscription. Subscribers in British Am- 
erica will continue to send postage as heretofore, for 
prc-payment here. 
IKoBinil C^opios of Voleiiwc Xlairty- 
tliree are now ready. Prict-, $'2, at our oflicc ; or :$'2.50 
each, if sentby mail. Any of the last eighteen volumes 
(16 lo 33) will also be forwarded at same price. Sets of 
numbers scut to our oflice will bo neatly bound in our 
regular stylo, at 75 cents per vol. (50 cents extra, if return- 
ed by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12 cents each. 
Our Westcrtt Office* — Our friends iu 
the West are reminded that we have an oflice at Luke- 
Bide Building, Chicago, 111., iu charge of Mr. W. II. 
Busbey. Subscriptions to AmeHcan A(/nctiltnrist arc 
taken there, and sample copies of the paper and chromo 
are delivered, and orders received for advertising on the 
same terms as iu New York. AU our books are ou sale 
at the Western Office. Please call aud csauiiuc. buy, 
Bubscribe, and advertise. 
Busy — Ila^iiy — Busj-. — Those in charge of 
the Premium Department in this office have been wonder- 
fully busy, for over a month past, iu sending olT a very 
large stock of the spK'udid articles offi-red in the Pub- 
lisher's Illustrated Premium List. (If any reader has 
failed to getacopy of that < xtra^lieet, send for it without 
delay.) The 15,000 men, women, aud children, who 
have received tlic^c various premium?, have been delight- 
ed with them in almost all cases. February is a capi- 
tal season for a multitude of others to gel, free, their 
choice out of a l;»rgo variety of first rate useful articles. 
You, reader, nuty as well be one of the fortunate rec!]n- 
cnts of tlicso premiums, and do it this month. See 
page 7;J, ami also read ovt the Illustrated Premiuni Sup- 
plement—sending for it if you have not a copyat hand. 
i'lmufz^es aud. Iuipr<»vcmeues,— No 
doubt that to many coubtnut r -udcr^ this issue of the 
paper will woftr a slightly unfamiliar look. If they try 
tofiud why this is. the most that th'-y will discover is 
that the diffrrent di'partmcnts arr not in prcciecly the 
same places iu which they have been accustomed to sec 
them. Chang<; is of but little use unless it brings im- 
provement, and in this case we think the improvement 
very material. Foroicrly each department was within a set 
boundary, but now while each has more reading matter 
than ever before, and the Boys aud Girls columns twice 
as much, they arc so arranged that they can be made 
hirgcr 01 smaller, to meet the need of each month. In 
certain months iu the year we are pressed for room for 
advertisements, but we could not formerly add a single 
leaf to a number without so increasing the weiglit that 
the subscribers would he churg'-d double postage. Now 
that postage is paid here and by the pound, we can add 
as we please, and in arranging so that^ any amount of 
advcrfisiu? can be accommodated, we have been able to 
give more room to reading matter, and thus every one is 
benefitted. The newness of the mechanical anangi-mcnt 
will wear off with a single month, and each reader will 
have very much more than we have ever before given. 
X'abu ISuulcer, Esq. — Those who have read 
the AgricuUurUi these many years, have of late felt the 
loss of the teachings of the Huokertown Squire. Though 
the same pen has given them good articles in another 
form, they have not recognized him, aud have often asked 
for Tim Bunker. The old gentleman has been a great 
traveler of late j'ears, and now that he has ouca more 
quietly settled down, we have reason to hope that his 
letter in the present number is but a renewal of his for- 
mer scries. To our newer readers, those who only novr 
make the acquaintance of Squire Bunker, wo can say 
that he is one of the best farmers in the country, and 
that, under his quaint way of putting things, there is al- 
ways a great deal of sound practical sense. And we may 
add just hero, that the collected '" Tim Bunker Papers," 
published by the Orange Judd Co., (See Book List.) are 
not only entertaining reading, but contain the most solid 
Bugar-coatcd instruction, and every farmer boy, and 
every farmer man too. v, ill be profited as well as amused 
by reading the hook, and ought to do it. 
B. K. S$55ss Sc ^«>a.H'' fi*otato Prizes. 
— Last spring tliese enterprising seedsmen made the 
very liberal ofT^r of $1,503 in prizes for the largest yield 
of potatoes grown from seed purchased of tliom. Of 
this amount $750 was for the largest yield from one 
pound of seed, and §750 for the largest yield from 
one quarter of an acre. A committee of three was 
appointed to decide upon and award the prizes. Thcj* 
made their report iu December last, from which we are 
only able to give the names of the winners of first prizes 
in each class. For the largest quantity of Estra Early 
Vermont, from one pound of seed : 1st prize of $100 to 
A.K.Titus, Wilmington, Vt.. yield, 708 lbs. For'the 
largest quantity of Compton's Surprise from one pound : 
1st prize of $100, to P. C. Wood, Esther. HI., yield, 900 
lbs. For the largest quantity of BruAvnoll's Beauty from 
onepound: 1st prize of §10.:), to 11. C. Pearson. Pitcairn, 
N. Y., yield. I,nis lbs. For the largest quantity of Extra 
Early Vermont, grown on one-quarter acre : Ist prize of 
$103. to D. Steck. Uughcsville, Pa., yield. 0,*:47 lbs. For 
the largest quantity of Compton's Surprise on one- 
quarter acre: Ist prize of $100, to Mrs. M. A. Royce, 
Ilome, East Tenu., yield, 7,350 lbs. For largest quan- 
tity of Brownell's Beauty on one-quarter acre : 1st prize 
of $100, to A. Rose, Peun Van, N. Y., yield, 8,890 lbs. 
A I*ij>eoM Sliow. — Tb§ National Colum- 
barian Society, whose first show last year was such a 
success, will hold its second exhibition in New York 
City, on the 25th iust. The Secretary in L. Burlingame, 
14 Murray street, who will furnish prize lists. 
Aid ibr Kansas, — We are requested to 
state that women aud children's clothing aid money 
will be needed for some months yet iu Kansas. Mem- 
bers of Granges that desire to assist thoir brethren iu 
Kansas, may communicate direct with John G. Otis, 
State Agent of the Patrons of UuHbandry, W. P. Pone- 
noe, or Halstead Johnson, Topeku. Kansas. 
TliaS "Ci3RAilil& IBA2:AAI£.*'— We 
havo before spoken of the assortment of goods, wares, 
seeds, imiilcmcDts, animals, books, etc., etc., etc., arrayed 
in our advertising columns, as a '" Grand Bazaar,"' where 
the reader is introduced directly to a very great variety 
of articles brought together by a multitude of dealers, 
all of whom are believed to bo meu who will do what 
they promise. (Those in special charge of that depart- 
ment arc instructed not only to shut out quacks, medi- 
cal or other nostrums, etc., but to admit no advertiser 
whom they would not be willing themselves to send an 
order to with cash in advance, if nccessarj'.) This de- 
partment is a great convenience to our hundreds of 
thousands of read'^rs scattered all over this country, and 
in many other lands. It will pay them to carefully exam- 
ine all the advertisements, for many business hints and 
suggestions will thus bo gathered. They ^ill also find 
what i.-' for sale, and where. The present Mail fncilitios 
for cheap carriag<' of seeds and many other articles gives 
almost equal advantage to the remotest dweller in the 
distant territories, and those near populous centere. 
We Introduce our Readers to these Dealers ; they invite 
you to examine their offerings, to send for their circu- 
lars, etc. When writing to them, please let them know 
you belong to the great American Agriculturist family^ 
and yon may expect and will receive good treatment. 
SaJI^a>KV MtJillBaJCiS.-Laet month 
wc gave, especially for the benefit of the many new 
friends who make our acquaintance with the new year, 
an outline sketch of the Humbug family, with indica- 
tions of some of the more prominent g' nera and species. 
We might in that article have discussed the geograph- 
ical distribution of humbugs, for they spread from the 
point where they originate -usually from east to west, 
but not always, at a rate of progression which ie inter- 
esting to those who are obliged to observe them. Ae 
one who goes from a city to some distant and fiecluded 
village finds that the fashions in the village are just 
what were in vogue in the city two or three years ago, 
so our humbug files of to-day show that Salt Lake City 
aud the mining towns of Colorado and Nevada arc being 
infested by the same humbugs which but a few years 
before were making New York and Chicago the scene of 
their operations. Requests come, as heretofore, to ex- 
pose this or that person who the writer thinks ia engag- 
ing in some swindle. It is very easy to write to ne 
"show him up,*' 
and it would he equally easy for us to act upon this re- 
quest, but that is not the way in which these cohimns 
are conducted. While we take much respousihiUty in 
protecting the pnblio-from loss by exposing frauds, we 
take also the greatest care that no innocent person shall 
be injured. It is only those who pursue a systematic 
and persistent course of fraud whose portraits arc re- 
garded as worthy a place here Some of our corre- 
spondents think wc are too lenient with the 
REAL ESTATE AGENTS 
of whom they have complained. This is one of those 
cases ia which, while we have no doubt that deceit ie 
practiced by the h'dding out of extravagant promises, 
we have no actual proof that fraud has been committed. 
Wc have, some months ago, given extracts from the let- 
ters of these real estate chaps, aud left our readers to 
draw their own conclusions. The plan of operations is 
this. You, the reader, advertise a farm or other prop- 
erty for sale : in all probaI)ility you will receive a letter 
from one of these New York concerns guaranteeing to sell 
your property before a given date, for a commission of 
2i per cent, but for preliminary advertising and other 
expenses, they wish you to remit $10 or $5, as the case 
may be. The complaints made arc that the agents got 
the $r) or $10 and do not sell the property. The strange 
part in all this is, that anybody can be so innocent as to 
believe that they would. An agent can no more guar- 
antee the sale of real estate than he can the drawing of a 
lottery ticket, and the very fact that one promises the 
impossible should deter all sensible people from trusting 
him... A cold climate docs not seem very favorable to 
the growth of humbugs, but wc now and then get one 
fromiu Canada. This time it is a remarkable sale of 
FLASH JEWELUT AND OTHEU GOODS, 
on the old plane of "anything on this board for a shil- 
ling," owing to "financial emhaiTassmcnts," *'great 
depression of business." and all that, "an immense 
quantity of the choicest articles of European manufac- 
ture," have been seut to Durand, James £ Co., Montreal, 
for sale at the uniform price of §2.75 currency, aud 25 
cents for postage and packing. " Coupons " or tickets, 
each enumerating some article arc indiscriminately 
mixed, aud one by paying 2"i cents (or ."j for $1) can get a 
coupon telling him what he can buy "for hia $3." 
Lovely little bit of machinery. Cliaruiing Durand, James 
& Co. Silly, stupid fools that get caught in such a net- 
work.... The area of somi-official lottery gambling has 
extended, and now we have the 
TEXAS GIFT CONCERT, 
which has all the wonderful inducements to invest iu 
this form of gambling that wc have become wearied of 
reading in the circulars of that lovely perennial thing, 
the Kentucky Library concern. Texas has made such 
wonderful strides in imnrovemcut within a few years, 
that we regret to see her follow the example of the older 
States for evil as well as for good. 
UNUSUAL WAYS OP CELLING TUTNGS 
are always to be 1 jokcd upon with distrust. If one has 
a good article to sell, he requires no machinery to help 
got rid of it. Paper is one of the commonest articles of 
commerce, and that of a given quality has a rcgnlaff 
price as much as coal, flour, or iron, and any unnsnal 
methods of disposing of it are to be regarded with 
caution : If one advertises a staple like paper in an ex- 
pensive manner and sends out circulars, the cost of doing 
this will be paid by the purchaser in the increased price 
provided he ever gets hie paper. Wc eay, " provided h« 
