1866.1 
AMERICAN 'AGRICULTURIST. 
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Xlie Olaio l»oino logical Society ^vill 
liold its annual meeting at Zanesville. O.. on the 4th, 5th, 
and tilh i)f the piesent nioniii, (Dei;.) Tlie fruit gmwers 
of the Muskingum Valley pinptise to show tliose who 
coine, some fine collections. Tlicre will be various re- 
ports, discussions, and a good time generally ; besides a 
'■ visitation of orchards,"' which may be a very good 
tiling to have for ought we kuo^r. We advise those of 
our eastern fruit growers wlio have never been to a 
western "fruit figlit," to go and see the vim that these 
Buckeyes and Hoosiers put into their meetings, and wiien 
Ihey come home not to forgot to brinj a little of the 
leaven with tliein. 
An Abridged Illauual of Cirrape 
CiiUiire and Annual Catalogue, by J. H. Foster, Jr., 
Pomona's Ilornc Nurseries, West Newton, Pa. — Former- 
ly, n nurseryman's catalogue was simply an enumeration 
of the stock on hand, but within a few years they have 
taken the form of a manual or handbnoU. The one of 
which we have given the title, contains quite full and 
well considered directions for the callivalion of grapes 
and other small fruits. U modestly enough does not 
pretend to exhaust the subject, but refers those who wish 
to know more, to larger treatises. 
Fritit Oro-wring Tor StocU Feeding. 
—George Netf. Monroe Co., Ohio.— If apples are almn- 
dant, and you liave mit help sufficient to gather them fur 
market, or to make them into cider, it will of course pay 
to feed them to hogs, especially if Ihey arc sweet ones. 
Good, rich, early winter or late fall apples of high-toned 
yet subacid flavor, make tiie best cider, liiough a large 
.admixture of sweet apples is nodisadvantage, as it ailds 
strength. So mucli for the general policy of raising ap- 
ples to feed hogs— the least profitable way of disposing 
of them, provided you can do anything else w ith them. 
Perhaps some of our readers will give Mr. Nefi", through 
\he Agriculturist, Iheiv notions of the best way to feeil 
apples to horses, caltie. sheep, or hogs, cookel or un- 
cooked, with corn meal or other grain.- 
Osage Orange, — "Subscriber.'' — Tbiswill, 1 
no doubt, succeed in southern Pennsylvania. Seed is 
sown in spring. We cannot specify any particular secils- j 
man. All the principal dealers liave il. j 
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ijiood Rooks Pay.— Take auy good book 
you please, for illustration. Let it be the "American Farm 
BooU," for example. This contains a large amount of 
information, the best the intelligent author could collect, 
at the time it was written, by many months of careful 
ihought and work. It discusses soils, their kinds, pecuU- 
ariiies. treatment, the various crops, describing eacli 
wi;h engravings showing the plants themselves, the kinds 
of soil and manures best adapted to tliem, harvesting, 
etc There are 325 pages of these thoughts and hints. 
Any one can, for $1.50, have this book delivered to him 
at his ow n Post Office. Now we say, iinhesitalingly, tliat 
there is not a cultivator on tiieface of the earth, no mat- 
ter how experienced or skillful, or how ignorant, if 
he can read at all, who could take this book, and ve^id it 
through, without getting hints, and iiaving trains of 
thought started, tliat would, in the end, bring many times 
$1.50 profit on tlie same amount of hard worU. Take 
•■Herbert's Hints to Horsekeepers," costing $1.75. Ko 
man owning a single horse can read that book, without 
getting hints that will make the use of that horse worth 
$5 to $50 more to him in the long run. The same reason- 
ing applies to almost every book in our whole list (p. 426.") 
Tile truth is, one man's success beyond another's depend; 
largely upon his inltllect, his better understanuing of his 
business, his better planning of his work, etc., and every- 
thing a man reads about his business, is disciplining and 
slrengtfiening his mind, and furnishing material for 
ihouqht. The more he reads and thinks, the better wiil 
he practice, and the bettc?r will he make his work piy. 
The above is a money view of the subject. There is a 
iiigher one. The more a man understands of the objects 
of his toil, liie soil, its nature, the crops, llicir varieties, 
peculiarities, etc., the niore he lias to think about while 
at worU, tite happier he is. and the more elevated in tliu 
intellectual scale he feels himself. Tiu; influence Ujion 
ihe minds of his f;iniily. of his sous, and his daughters 
ton, of having books to read that give ehnracter and dig- 
nity to their occupation, and awaken interest In it, is of 
j^real importance. So. we say, let cultivators and me* 
rhaidcs get and read all the books they can treating about 
iheir business. One acre less of lau'i, put in good books, 
will make the rest of the farm pay nnieh nioic profit. 
Ciaood Papers also Pay, — The .above 
reasoning in regard to books, applies still more forcibly 
logoml periodicals, that come lo ns fiesh from month 
to n»onlh, and bring information up to the latest dates. 
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Someljody sends us $^.0, with names uf subscribers t-i 
correspond, Imt there is no signature, and nothing to te!i 
us from which of 20,000 Post Offices it came. We will 
Ueep it until somebody scolds ns for not sending on the 
papers. Or:o man sent us a subscription letter and has 
complained three times, tlie last time bitterly, because 
wc did not even respond ; but nut one of the four letters 
gi\es us any clue lo his Slate. Will he please tell U'- 
bolh ills State and Post Office, dtlinitely. Here are 
envelopes directed to us, each containing money, but not 
a ^B|p of paper or writing. They are Post-marked: 
Pil^wirg. Bath, Marlboro, etc... These are samples of 
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the gelling up of large lists, and partly because it cost < 
much less to mail a large number iu one package. But we 
do notobject to names added from other Post Offices, ik 
such names usually soon become centers of oilier clubs. 
Names for Premium lists may also be gathered at any 
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Save tiie Index SSieet.— To stive cuttinc: 
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Though more liable to be lost, it is iu this form all ready 
to plane in front of the January number, in stitching or 
binding the numbers of the volume. Some simple methiods 
of doing ti;is are cxj'laine-', and iilustra^'l on puge 439. 
