1865.J 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Q69 
buying more freely toward the close Hops have 
been biisk :>n'l much dearer, under the reports of short 
crops H:iy, abundant and in less demand, closing 
with North River bale at 9b(a)l.\Q for old, 60fa)90c for 
new, per 100 lbs Tobacco in fair request and firm. 
Ne^v Yorlt Live Stocl£ Markets. — 
Beef Cattle. — The markets have received more 
than an average supply of beef cattle during the 
four weeks ending August 16th, namely : 5,765, against 
5,146 for the previous month. Prices of good and prime 
cattle are fully as liigh as reported last month, and are 
undoubtedly kept up by an actual scarcity of this grade 
in the country. Other classes of cattle are more abun- 
dant, especially poor and partly fed animals, with which 
llie markets are continually crowded, and in litis class 
(here is a large decline, ranging fiom liic(a>2i4c per lb., 
net weight. From the sales ending Aug. 16th, we take 
the following quotations: good to prime bullocks, 16(a) 
IT'ic per )b., dressed weight; common to fair, 13fa)10c 
per lb., and poor to medium, 9i'®12c. 
Iflileli Co^vs.— The average weekly receipts 
of milch cows are US, compared with 98 last month. 
Prices a little higher, ranging from $40fa)$75 per head for 
poor to good milkers. Better cows sell $80fa)$100 each. 
Veal Calves*. — The average receipts of veals 
for the past four weeks are 1,769, compared with 2,112 
last month. The demantl has continued good, the re- 
ceipts all being required for the regular city trade. Pri- 
ces are higher, as follows: ranging from 1'1(S)12}4 per 
lb., live weight, for good; 10,'a(S)llc for fair, and SfSQc 
for common. 
Sheep. — The average ■weekly arrivals of sheep 
are 17.568. The demand, without exception, has been 
good, and prices are higher. Good sheep, 7(a}7^ic, and 
common. 6"^fS)6Xc. Lambs sell at $4)^(3)6X0 per head. 
I^ive Hog'S. — The receipts of hogs average 
10,109 weekly. The arrivals are light for this season, 
and prices continue high. Good corn-fed selling; at 11% 
I® 12c per lb., live weight. 
Confainin^ a srreat variety of Items, including many 
goad Hints and Suggestions which, we throw into small 
type and condensed Jbrm, for want of space elsewhere. 
Sithscription Terms Uncliang^ed. — 
The present Subsciiption Terms are to be permanent. 
Any future reduction in cost (there is very little as yet) 
will be made up by increased expense upon the journal 
itself.— The Terms are: $1.50 a year; four copies $5 ; 
ten ctJpies $12; twenty or more copies $1 each, with 
extra copy to getter up of club of ten or twenty, where 
no other premiums are called for. Extra Numbers are 
offered to new subscribers received this month, as noted 
on page 296.— /j^The German Edition is now furnished 
at the same terms as the English. 
Preininins for Subscribers. — We 
shall soon offer a good and liberal Premium List of ar- 
ticles desirable to almost every one. Any names gath- 
ered and sent in this month can be counted in the Pre- 
mium List to foilovv. 
Straivberry Plstnts Coming'. — On Mon- 
day, Sept. 4th. we shall commence sending off the " Ag- 
riculturist Strawben y Plants," promised to subscribers, 
and as premiums for Clubs. If the weather prove fair, 
they will all be forwarded during that week. Very rainy 
weather may delay finishing the job for a day or two 
longer. We have provided 20,000 good wooden boxes of 
different sizes, to hold from one to ten large plants 
each, and hupe every plant will go in good condition. 
We have plants now growing well which were put into 
these boxes during tlie warm weather of the latter part 
of May, sent by mail to Grinnell, Central Iowa, and re- 
turned to us unopened. Tliese were sent thus as an ex- 
periment, which proved successful. The plants were 
green and 'wide-awake,' after a ten days' journey of 
2,400 miles in the mail bags. Where many plants go 
to the same person, more than one box wilt be used. As 
soon as the boxes arrive, open them and set the plants in 
good soil, not too rich nor too damp. Let the ground 
be warmed by the sun, but shade for a few days, at mid- 
day, if the weather chance to berery warm. Expose the 
roots as little to air as possible, in opening before plant- 
ing. More plants are killed by chilling In cold, wet soils, 
than by any other cause, especially after being closely 
packed for some lime. The large green leaves being 
useless, and always a detriment in transplanting, they 
will be mostly cut off before packing the plants. 
IBound Toliimes or tite Agricul- 
turist, from Vol. XVI to XXIII, inclusive, always on 
hand. Price $2.00— or $2.50 if forwarded by the mail. 
Oood Book Premiums. — Any person 
forwarding 25 or more names of subscribers may clioose 
from our book list (page 295) any desired books to the 
amount of 10 cents for each name at the lowest club 
price ($1), and to the amount of 60 cents for each name 
at the regular rate of $1.50 a year. The premium books 
will be forwarded paid through, by mail or express. The 
extra copies offered to the subscribers will be a special 
inducement to them to subscribe now. An energetic 
peison can get up quite a library by his effort on a single 
day at any of the County Fairs, 
"^Vlio rea<ls tHe Advertisements ? — 
N. P. Boyer & Co., Gum-Tree, Chester Co., Pa., think 
that a great many do. This firm advertised Chester 
White Pigs and offered to send a copy of their Hog 
Breeder's Manual free of charge. The consequence has 
been, that they have sold a great number of animals, and 
by the middle of last month, they had sent 13,000 copies of 
their manual to subscribers to the Agriculturist alone. 
As this work costs them 10 cents a copy, exclusive of 
postage, it has been no slight tax. Messrs. B. & Co. 
state thai if, in meeting this unlooked for demand upon 
tliem, tliere have been any mistakes, or omissions, they 
stand ready to rectify them, if promptly informed. 
Domestic Intelligence. — Under tlie head 
of "Foreign Intelligence," in last month's "Basket,'* 
we showed how an article of ours had been appropriated 
by an English paper, and copied by some of our journals 
as a foreign item. In tlte Country Gentleman for August 
3d, we find an article upon " Soils for Potting," accredit- 
ed to the Utica Herald, This article originally appeared 
in the Agriculturist for January, 1864. We, of course, 
do not suppose that the Country Gentleman would have 
taken it, had it known it belonged to the Agriculturist, 
and as we have not a file of the Utica Herald, we do not 
accuse that paper of producing the article as original. 
We merely allude to the case to repeat that any papers 
are welcome to copy from ours by giving proper credit, 
and to remind those who have the habit of taking articles 
without doing this, that our paper is copyrighted. We 
have allowed a great deal of appropriation to go w ithout 
noticing it, and think it about time to remind those who 
use the scissors so freely, of the rules of etiquette which 
obtain among journals, and then, if grass and sticks will 
not do, we shall try what virtue there is in stones. For 
ourselves, we generally have more original matter than 
we know what to do with, and seldom copy from others. 
When we do, the matter is always fully acknowledged, 
Onr List of Fairs.— The long list of 
Fairs which we present on page 268, has been diligently 
compared with other published lists, revised and currect- 
ed from the most reliable information we can procure. 
We regret that we have not been able to obtain all our 
data directly from the Fair managers. It is by far the 
largest and most accurate list published, and will be of 
great value to persons who desire to be represented at 
as many Fairs as possible with articles for Exhibition, 
]\e-*v Ponltry Boole.— Entitled "Domes- 
tic PouLTRV, being a Practical Treatise on the prefer- 
able Breeds," etc.. by S. M. Saunders. This little work 
of 104 pages has been recently issued by us— and we be- 
lieve It will be found to be one of the most common- 
sense, practical, and useful works which the poultry- 
raiser can have. Its low price puts it within the reach of 
all. The author freely expresses his personal prefer- 
ences for certain breeds, as indeed he should, but quotes 
as freely the laudations of other varieties by their fan- 
ciers.— See our Book List on page 295. 
$300 Tor a Barn Man.- The Plans in re- 
sponse to the offer of prizes for best farm buildings, made 
on page 239, must be sent in on or before Monday, Oct. 2d, 
A few days grace will be allowed, provided the Editor of 
the Agriculturist is previously notified of unexpected 
delay in sending in any plan. The following named 
gentlemen have been invited to act as a Committee in 
making the awards : Donald G. Mitchell, New Haven ; 
Samuel Thorne, Washington Hollow, N. Y, ; Samuel J. 
Sharpless, Phil'a. ; Lewis G. Morris, Fordham, N. Y. ; 
R. L. Allen, New York; Dr. F. M. Hexamer, New Cas- 
tle, N, Y ; nearly all of whom have favorably responded. 
Hard on Xree Peddlers.— A Washing- 
ton telegram reports a decision of the Commissioner of 
Internal Revenue, that " where a person purchases trees 
of nurserymen to fill orders previously obtained, and 
delivers the same at different stations on the railroad 
either by himself or his agent, he is required to take out 
a dealer's license for each and every station at which he 
delivers the trees. The same decision will apply to liis 
agents." We do not see the propriety or justice of this 
decision. There might just as well be.a separate li- 
cense required of common peddlers for every town in 
which they offer their trinkets. The result may be 
good, however, as it will be likely to cause the delivery 
to purchasers direct from responsible nurserymen, even 
of trees purchased through traveling agents, and thus 
diminish the swindling so largely practiced by some irre- 
sponsible tree-peddlers who take orders on the credit of 
a good nurseryman, and then fill them with trash gather- 
ed here and there and everywhere over the country, 
Boty's M^asliing- JViactune, of which 
we have spoken favorably, is hereafter to be manufac- 
tured by the Universal Clothes Wringer Company, for 
Stales east and south of Wisconsin and Illinois, as noted 
in the advertising columns. 
Resnit of tlic Canandaig;na ISheep 
SUearing.— His Honor, the Mayor of Rochester, real- 
ly, did the farmers a very important service in offering 
the $50 prize for the heaviest cleansed fleece, in propor- 
tion to the weight of the animal and the time of growth 
of the wool. The report of the committee under whose 
supervision the fleeces were shorn and cleansed. Is 
now before the public. We have not space this month 
for comments upon the lessons it teaclies. Suffice it to 
say now, that the prize is awarded to a 2-year old ewe 
in "fair" condition, which weighed 49 pounds. The 
fleece (367 days old) weighed 9.85 pounds, uncleansed, 
and 4.75 pounds after scouring. The largest amount of 
cleansed wool produced in one year was yielded by a 
Cotswold sheep, viz: 7.06 pounds. We must add that 
this report of the committee on only 15 sheep, does not 
conform to what was published at the time of the shear- 
ing, when 38 sheep were shorn before the committee, and 
the weights, both of the animals and the fleeces, given. 
This leads us to infer that sheep owners who saw that 
this report was going to damage their flocks, were 
allowed to withdraw their fleeces, after the shearing. 
OLANBERS I— Too I.ate. — We have 
heretofore repeatedly warned our readers and the public 
against the danger of getting glandered horses irom the 
Government. Now we must reiterate this, and state the 
fact, that among the horse? sold in this city at the Govern- 
ment sales, those well known to have this most malig- 
nant and terrible disease, (affecting men as well as hor- 
ses) have been repeatedly, and we presume constantly, 
sold. There is not a respectable horse-dealer on 24th 
street, who will allow a government horse to come near 
his stable. This statement rests on the assurance of a 
physician and thorough veterinarian, who also stales to 
us that, within a few days lie has seen a badly glandered 
horse eating his oats out of his master's butcher-cart, 
which was subsequently fiHed with meat for distribution 
to families. Ought these things to be ? The Gnvernrnent 
might belter have shot every horse, than to have them 
spread contagion and death (for the disease is utterly in- 
curable) among the stables of the country, far and near. 
Besides, we shall very likely hear of men dying in un- 
utterable agonies from this malady, 
Xlie Harvests, etc.— Tlie season has been 
remarkably favorable to growing crops. Hay in all parts 
of the country has been very heavy, and usually well se- 
cured. The yield of small grains, large at the East, 
never better in the State of New York, good in Pennsyl- 
vania, and at the West, though accounts are conflicting, 
we believe as good as usual, in fact there is at tliis sea- 
son, even less than usual " growling. " Tliere is a great 
deal of wheat on hand, even two years old. still in fijst 
hands at the West. The farmers have held on foi- bigger 
prices, and may now see how mistaken was that pniicy. 
If the prices that have lately ruled, are maintiiined. it 
will only be by speculation and gambling, and the profits 
of Ihis busines, taken from the mouths of orphans, and 
the hard toil of the laborer, are not sliared by the farmers. 
Corn looks very well ; apples are reported a short crop 
in most localities, and it is probable they will be scarce 
and high. Grapes are poor so far as we can learn. 
Osier "Willoi-vs,- We have inquiries abotit 
the culture of these. Procure cuttings 8 to 12 inches 
long, after the leaves have fallen. Set them in spring in 
rows 3 feet apart. 10 inches distnnt in the rows, leaving 
the top of the cutting level with the suiface of the ground. 
For the first year, at least, the plnntation should be kept 
as thoroughly tilled as a corn field. A deep, rich, moist 
soil is best ; bottom lands thiit are occasionally overflowed 
are suitable, but they must be free from standing water. 
