1875. 
AMEllICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
369 
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pages in all, this month). In this they give their 
Premium announcements for the " Centennial 
Tear," which year, by the way, has already beffuit, 
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will be interested in much that is said and pictured 
in the Supplement Sheet. No doubt u-auy will, as 
hitherto, embrace the opportunity to supply them- 
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offered. It is comparatively an easy matter to do, 
as many thousands have proved. . . . As Editors, we 
promise to spare no effort to meet the wishes of the 
Publishers, to have the American Agriculturist for 
the Centennial Year exceedingly valuable to all its 
readers. VVe trust our readers will agree with us, 
that a Journal, like this, going into a family for a 
year, will not only exert a healthful influence in 
stimulating thought and improvement, and thus el- 
evate the miud standard of all cultivators of the soil, 
and of others too; but that it will also help guard 
against errors, against imposition, and assist all to 
make their labor more profitable. With this view, 
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containing a qreat varie/y of Ifcrns, inc'nciing many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we l/irow into smaller 
tjfpe and cjjndensed form, for want of room elsewhere. 
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Tlie :VeM- l»o««.0«Hoo.— The office of the 
Agriciilliiri.^t h.ns a roin.irkably coiilial position. Tnclc 
Sam thon^hl lie woiiM ;..ot into a !;oo(I neiffbborliood 
wben he sc'lectcil a site for a now post-office for the City 
of New York, as bo put it rliaion.ally oppofilc and within 
a stone's tlirow of onr office. The biiiklins is the largest 
post-offiro in the conntry, and it is arrantrcd in a most 
convonieiil manner. Wo are nincli nliliu-ed to the Uncle, 
as it makes tlio scndin/and roceiviii:; of onr immense 
m.aila a comparalivoly easy m.ittor. S'raiijors who visit 
New York sbonld not fail to take a look lliron'.-h this 
spacious anil ma^niflccnl sinioturo, wliich, t.akim,' into 
account its architecture, its finely but not fantastically 
cut ^rranite, etc, is one of the noblest buildings in this 
couiiti-y, and is excelled by few other public edifices in 
Ibe world. 
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like Mr. Reed, the difl'erence in cost of the lumber, tim- 
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for 100,000 ! which would pay for several full columns of 
advertising. Further, the select character of the adver- 
tisements in this paper is a sort of guarantee to the 
! reader that he will not be swindled, which is not pos- 
I sessed by loose circulars and cards that anybody may 
have put into papers on their journey to you. In respect 
to choice company, few other journals in the world are 
so careful to extract all unreliable men and things. The 
readers of the American Agriculturist know this fact, 
and they are more ready to patronize the advertisers in 
this paper. Its columns are, therefore, many more times 
valuable than ordinary mediums, aside from the great 
circulation here enjoyed, 
Adoru Your Homes. — Read the adver- 
tisement on third cover page of this number, and tell 
your friends and neighbors how easily they can make 
their homes attractive, 
A iie-w- Eiiemj- to tUe RitMX>1>erry. 
—Mr. W. II. Coo, Florist, Lock Haven, Pa., sent us a 
specimen of raspberry cane upon which a Dodder t Cusciita 
compacta) was perfectly established ; Mr. Coe states that 
the patch w here it was found is upon ground wliich was 
formerly a swamp. We- have known this dodilcr to in- 
jure young apple trees in the nursery. Anolhor species, 
figured in Dooemher last, attacks Lncern or Alfalfa in 
California. Being an annual, it is nofdifficult to get rid 
of; the aff'ected stems should he cut out, and burned, to 
prevent the ripening of any seed. 
Tlie American Poniolo^iciil Soci- 
ety closed its 15tb biennial sesssion at Chicago on Sept. 
10th. The meeting was one of the largest and most in- 
teresting ever held by the Society : the western pomolo- 
gists being out in full force, and the number of members 
from the oastorii and other states iinespertedly large. 
For details of the proceedings, reference must be made to 
the published transactions. The meetings were presided 
over by Col. Wilder, who, though verging upon 80 years, 
fills the presidential chair witii all the vigor oi fonuer 
years. The officers of previous years were for the moat 
part re-elected, the principal ones being Marehall P. 
Wilder, President ; Thomas P. James, Cambridge. Mass., 
Treasurer ; and W. C. Fiagg, Moro, III., Secretary. The 
next biennial session will be hold at Baltimore, Md. The 
Society accepted the nivitation of the Penna. Ilorticaltn- 
ral Society to meet at Philadelphia in Sept. of next year, 
as their guests ; this is not to be a business meeting, but 
rather a social re-nnion in honor of the CentenuinL A 
large and very fine exhibition of fruit was made by Ihe 
members, hut it was unfortiinatoly placed in the building 
of the Chicago Iiitei-SUito Industrial Exposition, whore 
the collections were so much scattered and in places so 
unfitted for the purpose that the fruit could not he seen 
to good advantage. The exhibitinn of seedling pears, by 
B. S. Fox, of California, and Clajip Brothers, Dorchester, 
Mass., and of new grapes, by J. H. Ricketts, Newbnrgh, 
N. Y., attracted special attention .\mong the courte- 
sies accepted by the Society, was a drive lo South Park, 
offered by the Commissioners, and a banquet given by tbe 
Illinois Horticultural Society. 
Sundry HxunbugSL 
A correspondent si^gesla 
that a burning candle by 
which moths are attracted, 
with some of the insects 
singed and helpless, while 
^v^ others, regardless of the 
;;g^ fate of their compauioae, 
^l^g stiJl fly towards the danger, 
l^^^B would make a good head- 
piece to our humbug col- 
umn. He thinks that hum- 
bugs would not be snccesa- 
ful were it not for the folly 
of the people, who ran after 
thera— avievv of the case we 
have presented in former 
numbers. We gratify our 
friend by adopting hie idea, 
aud regret that there is one 
thing which can nol lie 
shown in an eugraviug. 
To make the picture trutlv- 
fnl, we should represent the moths, after they had 
recovered from the effects of one singeing, at length 
regaining the use of their wings, and going as last 
as before, directly to another and similar candle. 
Some persons are teachable, and do not need to ran their 
heads against a stonewall more than once, to find oat 
that they get the worst of it; such persons, if they have 
been foolish enough to be c lUgbt by some hnmbngging 
scheme, do not rejioat the folly— one dose is a cure. 
Others are not so tractable, but go on investing in one 
thing after another, in the vain hope that luck will turn 
in their favor. Where such pi;rsistence in folly is accom- 
panied by loss of money only, it is bad enough, but where 
MONET AND HEALTH 
are both squandoieil, the case is deplorable. Some let- 
ters that come to us from these victims, are truly pa- 
thetic, and it is difficult to read them unmoved. Such 
letters are mostly from young men who, frightened by 
the circulars of the private disease quacks, have sent 
every dollar they could raise in the hope of a cure, to 
one and then another, until, having made tbemeelvea 
poor, and broken down in bodily health, and in a mental 
condition bordering on insanity, they write to us in de- 
spair to know what they shall do. They know that they 
are "going to a premature grave," and it is singular how 
generally they talk of going away from home, where the 
cause of their death may not be known to their families 
and friends. Such lettens we have nsnally answered per- 
sonally, bnt some remarks in a recent article have called 
out an unusual number, more than we can afford time to 
reply to by mail, and we briefly answer ihem here. Such 
young men need to do two things : (1) stop takin'j quark 
medicine, and (2) cure your mental disease. The second 
is perhaps the first step towards a bodily cure. We can 
see plainly by the tone of those loiters, that each writer 
has brooded in secret over his trouble, whatever it may 
be, has fed his imagination by reading all the cirenlars of 
quacks, which are issued for the sob- purpose of friehten- 
ingsuch as he into paying hi^li prices for (heir ptnff, and 
have magnified every ache or slight disturbance, into a 
s,vmptom of dreadful import. It is of the greatest im- 
portance that such a person should get out of this state 
of mind, and he can best do it by cnnlidiTig his troubles 
to some one else. He must he badly off who has not 
some bright, hopeful friend who will cheer him in his 
despondency, and lalk him out of the notion of dying just 
at present. Then find some goo ' pliysirian at home, and in 
this case we should prefer a young to an old one, and fol- 
