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people dollars for what ensts thorn half-dimes, and they 
can. and do, pay publishers largely for space in which to 
work upon the fears and hopes of the pco,ule. We also 
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and are in a good place, amoug good company, we like 
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containing a great variety of Itefns, including rnavff 
good Bints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
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ISouiid Copies of Volume Tliirty- 
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the West are reminded that we have an office at Lake- 
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Busbey. Subscriptions to American Agriculturist are 
taken there, and sample copies of the paper and chromo 
arc delivered, and orders received for advertising on the 
same terms as in New York. All our books are on sale 
at the Western Office. Please call and examine, buy, 
subscribe, and advertise. 
Sale of Hearth and Home, — During 
four years past, the Publishers of this Journal have a!so 
issued the weekly Hearth and Home. Mr. Judd has 
been absent in Europe for a year; and experienced so 
great benefit in the improvement of his health, that he 
desires to be more at liberty in the future to devote him- 
self to the American Agriculturist. The Publishers have 
therefore deemed it expedient to be relieved of the care 
and labor of a weekly journal, and Hearth .',nd Home 
has been sold to the Publishers of the Graphic Company, 
of 30 and 41 Park Place, who will hereafter issue it with 
illustrations by the new photographic process. And now, 
with the well-known and well-tried corps of Editors at 
their posts, and with the attention of all concent -atcd 
upon this Journal, the Publishers arc confident that their 
old favorite, the American Agriadtuiist, will be more 
than ever worthy a place in every home. 
Otlicr Basket Items on page 273. 
SlTNimir MI, T j»imT«3S.— It seems nec- 
essary to remind onr friends, from time to time, that this 
column is not the place iu which individual grievances 
can be set forth. We take quite as much care to avoid 
doing injustice to innocent parties, as to do justice to 
those fraudulent persons, who deserve the distinction of 
a place among humbugs. Men, on the average, are sns- 
picions, aud if mistakes occur in their dealings with 
persons at a distance, they at once conclude they have 
been defrauded. There is no business In which dissatis- 
faction is more likely to occur, than in that of seedsmen. 
Probably not one person in ten can sow seeds properly, 
yet all failures, from whatever cause, are set down to 
dishonesty on the part of the seedsmen. There is hardly 
one of our seedsmen, even those of the highest reputa- 
tion, of whom we have not had complaints, accompanied 
with a request to put him among the humbugs. Upon 
investigating such cases, we have found that the fault 
was generally on the part of the complainant, and the 
dealer ready to make ample reparation, whenever the 
fault has been bis own. In fact, no dealer in seeds, or 
other matters, in which a good reputation is all impor- 
tant, can afford— to put it upon no higher ground— to be 
dishonest. A seedsman, florist, or nurseryman, who 
gets a reputation for inaccuracy or unfairness, might as 
well shut np shop. The same remark will apply to deal- 
ers in live-stock of all kinds, from bees to Shorthorns. 
That Pennsylvania live-stock concern, of whom we hfrvti 
had so many complaints, would hav? been shut up iong 
