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AMERICAN AQRICaiyrURIST. 
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fine colored phites of flowers, and one of the new Early 
Bummer C:il>baj;e. 
HovEY & Co., Boston, Miise., one of the oUlost houses, 
but keep^ p;icc with the novelties. 
A. IIowAUD & Co., Pontoosuc, III., has bulbs and plants 
as wi'll a^ seeds. 
David Landretu & Son, Philadelpliia, Pa., add to 
the catalit^'ue of tlieir well known seeds, a useful Rural 
Ee.L,'ister and Ahnanac. 
G. A. Law. Roslindalc, near Boston, Mass. Also bulbs 
and ve^elaiile p'ants. 
John F. Otwell. St. Mary's, Out., Canada, is a market 
gardener, who now puln out his first catalosnc of seeds. 
A very creditable attempt. 
Plant Seed Company, St. Louif, Mo., send a lar^^e and 
elcijant catalogue, and a smaller one in the form of an 
Almanac. 
PEunr & Robinson, Syracuse, N. Y., offer premiums 
for the best plants raised from their seeds. 
John Saul. Washinirton, B. C, has, aa his catalogue 
Bbows, a seed store, besides his nursery and fiorisis' es- 
tablishment. 
R. H. SnuMWAY. Rockford, II!., sends his Animal Il- 
lustrated Garden Guide. 
Wm, H. Spooner, Boston, Mass., sends a Gardening 
Guide ; full, neat, and instructive. 
J. M. TiiORBURN & Co.. Vi John St., N. Y. Cily, send 
four neat catato^Mies, ve:^elal>le, flower, and tree seeds, 
a wholcsnle trade list, and all full of llie best. 
James Vick, Rochester, N. Y., calls his cataloi^nie a 
Floral Guide; lie says that it is so good that the posl- 
oflice clerks or some one else steal it. that is why people 
complain of not ^retting it— He has aGerman edition. 
Washuxtun & Co., Boston, Mass., in their Cultivator's 
Gn'de nfll*r all the *' Button notions." 
H. Young, Yurk, Pa., Ins flower and vegetable seeds. 
as well as plants of various kinds. 
NITRSERYMEN. 
Some of these are also largely engaged in flower grow- 
ing— where this is tlie case, it is mentioned, as is any 
epecialty. 
S. W. Adams, Springfield, Mass., also j-oung evergreens. 
P. J, Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. Peaches a specially. 
Also flowers. 
Chas. Blaciv, Hightstown, N. J. Peaches in large 
quantities. 
Bronson, IIoPKrNS, & Co., Geneva, N. Y., send their 
wholesale tiiulc list. 
A. Bryant, Jr., Princeton, 111., bas a full assortment 
of fruit a:!d forest trees. 
RoBT. Di UQLAS & Sons, Waukcgan, 111., evergreen and 
other forest tree seedlings are ofi"ered by the million. 
Benj. A. Elliott & Co.. Pittsburgh, Pa., offer fruit 
and ornamental trees. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. The extent 
of this establishment is shown by its catalogues, of which 
we have four, covering fruit, ornamental, green-house and 
cveiy other department. 
A. IIance & Son, Red Bank, N. J., also green-bouse 
plants. 
C. L. HoAG. Lockport, N. Y. Grapevines and straw- 
berries. 
IIooPES Brother & Thomas, Westchester, Pa., include 
ornamental pl.ints, 
T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia, N. Y., specially grapes. 
T. C. Maxwell & Bros., Geneva, N. Y., liavc a very 
full catalogue, including many new and rare ornamental 
trees. They make a specialty of the finer kinds of clematis. 
Thomas Meehan, Germantown, Pa., specially hed*c 
and ornamental plants, tree seeds, greenhouse. 
Otto & Achelis, JVestchoster. Pa. Also large quanti- 
ties of seedling and other email stock. 
S. B. Parsons & Sons. Flushing, N. Y., specialties, 
evergreens, camellias, rhodotlendrons and azaleas. 
Randolph Peters, Wilmington. Del. Peaches a spec- 
ialty. 
Richardson & Vail, Geneva, N Y. A wholesale list 
witli some very low prices. 
John Saul, Washington, D.C. Also greenhouse plants. 
J. II. Simpson, Knox Nurseries, Vincennes, Ind. 
Wholesale list, of fruit and ornamental trees. 
Stours, Harrison & Co.. Painesville, O. Seedling 
cbestnnt trees a specially— also florists' plants. 
E. Ware Sylvester, Lyons, N. Y. Peppcrmlnt-roots 
also. 
N. M. Thompson. St. Francis, Wis. Evergreen and 
dcci '.nous tree seedlings. 
FLORISTS. 
Many of the nurserymen are also florists ; sec the cata- 
logues enumerated above. 
Beli.evue Nursery Co., II. E. Chitty, Sup't., Patcr- 
BOn. N. J. Some fine novelties. 
D. II. Brown & Sons, New Brunswick, N. J. Also 
vegetable plants. 
DiNoEE & Conard Co., West Grove. Pa. Roses a 
Bpccialty. 
R. G. Hanford, Columbus, O. A very full list. 
Peter Henderson, 35 Cortlandt St., N. Y., and Jersey 
Cily Ilighis, N. J. Amply ilhisiraled— unusually flue 
colored plate of roses. 
Long Brothers, Buflalo, N. Y., have a plant catalogue, 
besides a useful little work, the Home Florist. 
W. F. Massey & Co., Cliestertown, Md. Their dollar 
collections afford plants veiy cheap. 
Tyra Montgomery, Mattoou. III. A special rose list 
and very full. 
Henry S. Ripp, Shiremanstowu, Cumberland Co., Pa. 
A special catalogue of plants sent by mail. 
George Such, South Amlioy, N. J. The wonderful 
rare plant catalogue of Mr. S. was noticed some months 
ago. This contains mainly bedding plautsand gladinlns. 
E. Y. Teas & Co.. Richmond, Ind. A fine rose-list 
with many novelties. 
IMPLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS. 
The seed dealers generally keej) garden implements of 
all kinds, and some have those for farm woik. 
BuAMUALL & Co., 138 Chambers st., N. Y., manufacture 
children's carriages, wagons, and sleds, of all kinds in 
great variety. 
A. E. Cooper, Cooper's Plains, N. Y. Balcony and 
other strong and elegant chairs. 
Wm. Clift, Mystic Bridge, Conn. Stock of various 
kinds. Pckin Ducks and Bronze Turkeys a specialty. 
Joseph Harris. Morelon Farm, Rochester, N. Y., 
oflers, among otlier things, the much talked of Essex 
pigs, and the productive and popular Late Rose potatoes. 
HiGO.vNUM Manufacturing Co., at Higganum, 
Conn., publish a New England Almanac, from which 
their own manufactures are not omitied. 
N. Y. Knitting Machine Co., 080 Broadway. Various 
styles of Bickford kiiitliug nrtchines. 
Schenectady Agricultural Works, at Schenectady, 
N. Y., are carried ow by G. Westingbonse & Co., for the 
manufacture of various farm machines and implements, 
EUROPEAN CATALOGUES. 
William Bull, London, S. W., (Eng.). Bulbs and 
tuberous-rooted plants — an immense list. ^ 
Waite, Burnell, IUtgoins & Co., London, Eng., 
have also a house in llavn', France. They are among 
the heaviest wholesale seed dealers abroad. 
J. B. GuiLLOT. FiLS. Lyons, France. This is one of tbc 
great rose houses of the world, and their stock immense, 
Louis Leroy, Angers, France. Pabst & Esch, N. Y.. 
agents. Wholesale catalogue. 
Joseph Schwartz. Lyons, Fiance. New roses. 
ViLMORiN, Andrieux & Co., Paris, France, Pabst & 
Eticb, No. 11 Murray St., N. Y., agents, send their whole- 
sale list of seeds of all kinds, and a wonderfully com- 
prehensive document it is. 
J. C. Schmidt, Erfurt, Germany. Dried and preserved, 
as well as living greenhouse plants. 
Aanoi-iosiii Waii-ymoii'jw Conven- 
tlon,- The tenth annual meeting of this Association 
began at Utica on January 12th. Delegates from New 
England, Ohio, Pennsylvania, several of the Western 
States, and Canada, were present. Several papers were 
read, and discussions held upon the subjects treated in 
them. The most noticable points brought out were that 
poor milk is caused by poor feed ; corn-meal is not, on 
tlie whole, a satisfactory feed for milcb cows, and must 
be fed with great caution; bad milk makes bad butter 
and cheese; too much acid in the curd makes poor and 
crumbly cheese ; it is not tlie most cream that makes the 
most butter, some creams yield three times as much but- 
ter as others ; dairy practice can not be regulated by 
guess-work ; the coming butter-package is a tin (uie that 
shall cost very little, and will not be returned; the lower 
qualities of butter are the most diflinilt of sale, and drag 
down the whole market with them ; the best qualities of 
butter never stay in the market imsold ; the steadily im- 
proving quality of American cheese is extending the de- 
mand for it in European markets, no i)oor dairy products 
are wanted anywhere. Generally the proceedings were 
interesting and instructive. That portion relating to the 
manufacture of cheese out of skim-milk, and a prepara- 
tion of tallow known as oleo-margarine. can hardly be 
called instructive, unless it be to the unhappy consumers 
of the cheese and so-called butter, who m.ay thereby be 
warned airainst usiiifr any abominable adulteration of this 
kind. It, is very strange thai a djurymen's association 
should quietly listen to an endorsement by any of its 
oflicers and leaders of a method of adulteration, wbieb 
can only have the effi'ct of casting donbt upon the char- 
acter of their products, and of tending to diminish tbc 
popular demand for one of the most valuable articles of 
food. Tallow, by whatever name it be called, can never 
become a dairy product. 
A B'loM'oi'CiJaiMlcii, and no !?IsBniii-o. 
— " ?\I. N. K.." writes from "N'ermont : "I want a flower 
garden. No manure of any kind to be bad. Can I use 
the commercial fertilizers? If so, what kind is the 
best ? " — In such a Ciisc we should use fine bone, or some 
of the manures made with dried blood, several of which 
are advertised. If the garden is not a large one, Iheue 
should be no ditliculty in making during the ct^ning 
season, all the manure tliat will be needed for another 
year, in some place out of sight, make a pit 2 or 3 feet 
deep, and of convenient size. Begin in spring, and 
gather all the leaves you can find after the snow isofl"; put 
these into the pit, add every bit of sod from Irimmiiigs 
of paths, or what can Ite bad from the road-side; throw 
in all weeds that have not gone to teed, and all the refuse 
vegetable matter of the place, and if you have a vegetable 
garden too, there will be a plenty. Keep all this moist 
with chamber-slops; if it gives off" a l)ad smell, throw 
on a coating of dry earth. Put here all waste vegetable 
and animal stuff that will decay ; let some one look out 
for tbc manure dropped in the road by passing animals, 
or, if you live on a paved street, sweep the portion in 
front of yonr place once a week, and take the sweepings 
as pay. If there are woods near by. hire some one to 
bring a load or two of the earth, provided it looks rich. 
Save all twigs, brush, and whatever will not readily 
decay, burn, and preserve the ashes. See if anyne'rghbor 
throws away the sweepings of his hen-hou^e or pigeon 
loft, and g<'t that or buy it if for sale. It must be a 
strange i>lace. if, with a little attention to the matter, 
you can not get together all the manure you will need. 
iVlanOarin I>iicl£S. — Upon the Annual 
" Show Bill,'" which is sent to canvassers for tbc Agri- 
culturist, there, is among the engravings a pair of Manda- 
rin Ducks, which have attracted much attention, and we 
are daily in receipt of letters asking where the birds or 
their eggs may be had. The engraving was made two or 
three years ago, of a pair of ducks in the possession of a 
private gentleman, who kept them f<T the great beauty 
of their plumage. The birds are very small, and they 
can only be regarded as ornamental water fowls. If any 
have eggs for sale, they will do well to advertise, as the 
enquiries are very numerous. 
]£nl>1»cr ?<Ibocs ior Iforses. — "J. J. 
A.," Cumberland Co., N. J. The rubber shoes for horses 
you wish for working upon salt meadows, may be pro- 
cured of C. M. Moseman & Bro., 114 Chambers St., New 
York. These shoes are valuable for many purposes ; for 
tender feet; for corns ; in mowing lawns, the surfaces 
of which should not be marked by the horse shoes ; for 
quarter crack ; contracted lioof-j ; interfering ; and in 
breaking colts. 
"Walks and Talks" Correspondence. 
Feeding Wheat to Stock.— " G. B.," Nebraska, 
writes that in bis section "all the farmers are feeding 
wlieat, and generally with very indifTerent results. I have 
done better than some others, as I made a cutting-boX; 
and feed chopped food entirely." 
Wheat vs. Bran. — The same correspondent asks, 
"which would be the better economy, to exchange a 
bushel of wheat for 20 lbs. of bran and 40 lbs. of shorts, 
or to have it chopped, and give one-eigblb toll. I can do 
either, but do not know bow to decide." — I feel sure 
that 60 lbs. of wheat are worth more than 60 lbs. of bran 
and shorts. As to paying one-eigbt for grinding the 
wheat, I am not so certain. If I had the wheat in the 
sheaves, I would neither thrash it or grind it. I would 
run the sheaves tliiough a fecd-cuttcr, and feed the wkolo 
together. We frequently do this with oats. The wheat, 
straw, and cbafl' would then be all mixed np together, 
and the cows, horses, and sheep, if fed judiciously, would 
digest the wheat. 
Feecino JuDiciorsLT.— The Deacon, who happened 
in while I was answering this letter, asked, "what 
do you mean by feeding judiciously V— That depends. 
In this case 1 meant giving the horses and cows no 
more at a time than they would eat up clean, without 
stopping to " mouth it over," and pick out the grain. 
The point is to make them cat grain and straw together. 
I would far rather feed horses and cows ivhoie grain 
mixed with straw or hay, than to feed them meal alone. 
The chief advantage in feeding meal, is that it can be so 
mixed with cut feed, that the animals can not sep.Tiatc 
the meal from the straw and bay. 
Feeding Pigs.— " Would yon," asks n correspoiub nt 
at IIunliuL'tnn, Ind., "feed spring ])igs that are to be 
slaughtered in November, all the food they will eat all 
the time, or would you just fe. d them enough to keep 
them in good growing order?"— I would give them all 
they would eat and digest. If they are getting too fat, 
reduce the quality of their food, but let them have all 
they want of sojnathing. In other words. I would let 
thern have the run of a good pasture, and give them corn 
and slopn enough to keep them irrowing a-; rapidly as 
possible. If they seem to l)e getting too fat, case up ft 
little on the corn, but let them have all the slops or grass 
or clover they will cat. 
