1874] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
505 
The Orange Judd Company, 
PUBLISHEKS, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
Officers t OEAHGE JUDD, President, 
and Chief •] 0. C. HOKTH, Vice-President, 
Proprietors: ( SAMUEL EUKNHAM:, Secretary, 
*»« Messrs. L. A. Chase and A. P. Miller, being engaged 
in other business pursuits, havfe retired from official connec- 
tion with the Orange Judd Company. 
LAST GALL 
ON THE 
GENERAL LIST OF 
PREMIUMS 
For 1874. 
ONE MONTH MORE. 
One Month — June — yet remains, during 
which any person who wishes to obtain one or more 
of the useful and valuable articles offered in our Pre- 
mium List (of which a copy will be sent free to any 
applicant, see page 239) can easily get them. This has 
already been done by more than 14,000 persons, who dur- 
ing years past have tried with success the raising of 
Clubs of Subscribers for our papers, and availed them- 
selves of the liberal offers of Premiums made by the 
Publishers. 
W« invite all our Subscribers to take hold of this 
work and Becuro a Premium while the offer ia open. 
Specimen copies of our papers will be sent to any wish- 
ing to show them for this purpose. 
containing a great variety of Itetyxs, including many 
r/ood Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
'type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
Remitting; Money : — Cheeks on 
New York City Banks or Bankers arc best 
for large sums ; make payable to the order of Orange 
J' i idcl Company. Post-Office Money Orders 
for $50 or less, are cheap and safe also. When these are not 
obtainable, register letters, affixing stamps for post- 
age and registry ; put in the money and seal the letter in 
the presence of the postmaster, and take his receipt for it. 
Money sent in the above three methods is safe against loss. 
Postage : On American Agriculturist, 13 cents 
a year, and on Hearth and Home, 20 cents a year, in ad- 
vance. Double rates if not paid in advance at the 
office where the papers arc received. For subscribers in 
British America, the postage, as above, must be sent 
to this office, with the subscription, for prepayment here. 
Also 20 cents for delivery of Hearth and Home and 12 
cents for delivery of American Agriculturist in New 
Yo:k City. 
Round Copies of Volume Thirty- 
two are now ready. Price, $2, at our office ; or $2.50 
each, if sent by mail. Any of the last seventeen volumes 
(1G to 32) will also be forwarded at same price. Sets of 
numbers sent to our office will be neatly bound in our 
regular style, at 75 cents per vol. (50 cents extra, if return 
ed by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12 cents each. 
Tick's Premiums. — Our friend Yick is 
one of the irrepressibles. This time he offers liberal 
premiums for the best exhibition made at any state fair 
this fall, of flowers raised from seeds purchased from 
him. Those interested can obtain circular of particulara 
by addressing James Vick, Rochester, N. Y. 
Mr. Orange Judd, whom the papers all 
over the country have had as likely not to live to get 
home, or as the last account had it, was dying at Geneva, 
quietly walked into the office on April 25th, looking very 
much unlike one in the condition these papers had repre- 
sented him. Mr. Judd had not been in a satisfactory 
state of health since the severe illness which overtook 
him while on the United States Sanitary Commission in 
1864, and last summer he quietly slipped off to Europe in 
search of complete rest. His many friends will be glad 
to learn that he returns looking as if he had taken a new 
lease of health and had no present idea of going on the 
retired list.— Ed. 
The Centennial <*azetteez' of the 
United States.— A gazetteer for this country only is 
a thing that has long been wanted, and in one by Gen. 
A. von Steinwehr, and just published by Ziegler & Mc 
Curdy, Philadelphia, we have a compact and comprehen- 
sive one. A work of this kind can only be properly 
judged after an extended acquaintance, and we base our 
good opinion of this from a long acquaintance with the 
author, whom we have known in the field as a most ex- 
cellent topographer, and out of It as an enthusiastic ge- 
ographer. During the few weeks that we have had the 
volume it has been in frequent use, and in no case has it 
failed us for even the most obscure places. It is based 
upon the last census, the post-office department records, 
and all the official sources of statistical information. 
Each state and territory has a very exact description of 
its physical features (brawn from the most recent surveys, 
and the work can not fail of being of great assistance to 
those who are looking westward. The statistics of 
counties are also very useful. We congratulate the au- 
thor on having made a valuable addition to our handy 
books of reference. 
The Cable Screw Wire Shoes.— 
"J. W.," Lancaster Co., Pa. Fordurability and comfort 
In wear the shoes and boots made with the cable screw 
wire will be found superior to those made with wooden 
pegs, as the wire is forced through the leather and riv- 
eted by machine in such a way that they can not shrink 
and work loose. No water can enter these shoes, and 
they will not come apart. For the rough work necessary 
upon the farm this is a great advantage. The address cf 
the makers is the Cable Screw Wire Company, Boston. 
I\o More Advice. — Mr. Fred. Mather, of 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y., whose communications on fish 
culture we have sometimes published, is quite tired of 
answering letters asking advice, and wishes us to say so 
to our readers. He says : " Circumstances vary so much 
— soil, flow, temperature, material, and objects of the 
owner— that justice to myself demands that I should not 
risk my reputation in giving advice by mail. As I am 
engaged to the U. S. Fish Commission for the shad season, 
I can recommend parties to employ an expert, and thus 
avoid expensive mistakes." 
The Japan Pea. — "Jap" writes: "When 
properly cooked, they are very palatable to persons who 
are fond of beans or peas, for the taste resembles a mix- 
ture of navy beans and lady peas cooked together. To 
cook them: Put in soak over-night in warm water; then 
boil them, taking care not to add cold water, grease, or 
salt. When done, mash, season to suit taste, and bake.*' 
Sawdust as a Mulch.— "J. C. C " 
Washington, Ind. If your sawdust is, as you say, 
" thoroughly rotted," it will be an excellent mulch around 
your trees. Fresh sawdust is objectionable around young 
trees, as it forms a bed for the growth of fungi, which 
are said upon good authority to injure the tree. If the 
sawdust is considerably decomposed, it might be a better 
use of it to compost it with lime and use it as a fertil- 
izer rather than as a mulch. 
A Remedy for Looseness.- (t J.W. B.," 
Bay River, S. C. In a case of looseness of the bowels in 
a horse we would give half an ounce of prepared chalk 
and half an ounce of ground ginger in the feed once a 
day. As indigestion is probably the cause, the feed 
should he carefully selected, and what grain is given 
ehould be ground. An ounce of salt should also be given 
in the feed daily. 
Cabbage Worms.— "W. N. B.," Pa. We 
cannot recommend any "certain" remedy for the cab- 
bage caterpillar, by that meaning the now troublesome lar- 
va? of Pieris rapa>. The butterflies, white with black 
Epots on their wings, appear with the first warm day, and 
in early morning are easily caught with a sweep-net. 
Every female killed will prevent the birth of many 
"worms." Any application to the caterpillars must be 
made while they are very young, as they soon hide them- 
selves and are sheltered by the central leaves. Salt, gua- 
no, etc., must touch the caterpillar to be of any service. 
When the butterflies are seen about, the eggs and young 
caterpillars should be searched for. It is very fortunate 
that this pest disappears as suddenly as it comes; it 
probably has several natural enemies; at all events a lo- 
cality will be devastated by them oue year and quite free 
from them the next. 
SIT^fDRT HUMBUttS have been like the 
season, "very backward in coming forward," yet still they 
are not by any means dead. When one is killed we never 
know that it is dead. A well-known American quadruped 
which is fond of prowling around poultry yards is easily 
shot, but that is by no means the last of him— he leaves a 
fragrant memory for weeks and weeks. It is so with 
these humbugs, even after the law has put its quietus 
upon them, their scented trail extends far and wide. The 
law effectively squelched a most barefaced project of a 
" Library Concert," which so misappropriated the pleas- 
ant name of Maguolia, yet its all-pervading scent comes 
to us in the form of letters from far-off places. The in- 
dustry with which the managers of this swindle worked 
is something remarkable, and they seem to have aimed 
atthc most distant territories. Onegentlcmau in Dakotah 
writes that they were especially busy there. The latest 
of these gift conceits comes, of all places in the world, 
from Utah, and is the 
FIRST GREAT SALT LAKE GIFT CONCERT, 
which is to be drawn on the 4th of July next, all for the 
benefit of the " Public Free School, the only free school 
in Utah." Then such a flashy programme, and the big 
figures, $226,500.00 to be distributed, has a look quite as 
large and lively as that Kentucky scheme. Now this 
town of Corlnne had at the last census, 1S10, just 7S3 pop- 
ulation. Corinne, for a small town, you make a great 
blow. Asking the people to buy 500,000 of your tickets 
at $1 each in order that you may have "the only Free 
School in Utah " is equal to anything in the way of bom- 
bast we have seen Chicago claims to be the me- 
tropolis of the West, and has of course her metropolitan 
luxuries; one of her chief ornaments just now is the 
firm of 
HOWARD & CO., 
who profess to import and manufacture watches, jewelry, 
and silverware. Whether this is the same Howard & Co. 
who a few months ago flourished in Philadelphia on the 
$4 Geneva watch dodge, we are not aware, but they 
must be mighty nice people to send a school-boy a bill 
of $20.25 for repairing a hunting, stem-winding, gold 
chronometer, with the following letter : 
"Bear Sir: The watch received from you January 15th 
is now ready fur delivery. You were correct when you 
stated it could not be repaired outside of our house. We 
have had great difficulty with it, but it is now in thor- 
ough order, and we will warrant it to keep correct time 
for five years. You wrote that the watch was found, and 
desire to know its worth. It is a very valuable time- 
piece, and must have cost at least $500 in gold. It is now 
worth $400, in gold, and for any one desiring a reliable 
time-keeper is really cheap at first cost. Please remit 
amount of bill by express, and the watch will be imme- 
diately forwarded. Respectfully, 
Howard & Co." 
That is a very pretty trick, Messrs. Howard & Co., but, 
unfortunately it is an old oue. The Minnesota boy, to 
whom you sent it, is one of the kind who reads the 
Agriculturist, and no doubt had a good laugh at your ex- 
pense. But doesn't it look mean, though, when you see 
it in print. You will probably catch many boys and 
men who (think they) can notafford to take this journal, 
and in their simplicity will forward the "$20.25," hop- 
ing to get somebody's $400 watch. The $20 would pay for 
the Agriculturist 20 years, or for 20 copies a whole year. 
The " Howard & Co." here referred to must not be con- 
founded with the worthy and reputable house of Howard 
& Co., New York City. 
THE $5 SEWING MACHINE 
offered last month on favorable terms still remains on 
hand. Now that Barnuui has returned we may get rid of 
it, for we are quite sure that he saw not its equal in 
Europe. We advise all persons to be exceedingly cautious 
of any cheap sewing machines advertised from Green- 
wich or Canal streets. These places, though carried on 
under different and changeable names, are equally ob- 
scure, and from the numerous complaints we have of 
persons who have sent money and received no return are 
equally suspicious. We can not conceive how any per- 
son can be so inconsiderate as to send money to a person 
for whose honesty they have no assurance, for a machine 
not advertised through the regular channels. Moral: 
Let all doubtful sewing machines severely alone. One 
lately advertises from Greenwich st., and one Mulligan 
from Greenwich or Canal, just as it pleases. This Canal 
st. circular has a flaming headingof " Steam Iron Works " 
and all that ; but upon going to look him up at his num- 
ber, we found no exterior sign, and only found where his 
room was by inquiring in a hair-dresser's shop on the 
lower floor. Whatever else may be done by M., he does 
not waste money on signs. 
VILE LITERATURE 
secm6 to have taken a fresh start. We include under 
this head not only offers of books that aro actually ob- 
