AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[Febktjauy. 
for-tbe same grades la=>t month. The following list gives 
the range of prices, average price, and figures at which 
the largest lots were sold : 
Dec.'ilst ranged 9 @-20 c. Av. 15c. Largest bales 14 @16 
do. 2Stli do. H @13V<c. do. lby.c. do. do. 14^@1G# 
.Jan. ith do. 11 @isxc. do. 10J4C. do. do. 15 @l? 
do. lltli do. 10>i@i8 c. do. 15^c. do. do. 14^@16S 
The light supply for the weeks ending December 2Sth 
and January 4th caused an advance in price of 3^c. per 
pound on all grades, and butchers bought sparingly, hop- 
ingthat a few days would give them more stock and bet- 
ter selections. Stock men, as soon as their droves were 
told, hurried to the country for cattle, and fresh arrivals 
every day np to January 11th crowded the markets, and 
caused a decline which more than offset the gain of pre- 
vious weeks, and our report closes with a dull market. 
... JTZilcli Cows.— The supply previous to the week 
ending January 11th was small, and good milkers were in 
fair demand, prices ranging from §90 to $100 each, and 
370 to $30 for ordinary. An Increase in the supply made a 
total of one hundred head in market January 11th. the ma- 
jority of which were good milkers. This caused a decline in 
price, and many good cows sold as low as $S0, while ordi- 
nary ones remained unsold, or brought only $50@$G5 — 
Calves.— Sales are steady, and the supply too small to 
make much change in prices. This is the season of 
small numbers in this department, and such as are fresh, 
just from the cow, young and fat, bring I2^c.@13c. per 
pound, live weight. . -Sheep and Lambs.- There 
is but little change to notice here. With the exception 
of extra Christmas mutton, prices keep about the same. 
The demand may be said to be only fair for good stock, 
whUe poor thing* sell slowly, at from §"2 to $5 a head. 
Prices range at 5c.@7c. per pound for good sheep — 
Sivlne.— Very little can be said for Hogs. The arrivals 
are light, and sell quickly. Prices range from 10c. to 
i _e. per pound; fresh dressed, lla£C.@12&c. ; and 
Western dressed, fat, I3c.@13££c. per pound. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
■ Hints and $ugffestk>n& wlurfi tee throw into smaller 
■"id condensed /or >h, -far want of space els&wlu n . 
Marie Ail Subscriptions sent in, as New or Old. 
flow to Remit : — Checks on New- 
York ESanks or Bankers are best for large bums : 
made payable to the order of Orange Jncid «fc C'o. 
Post-Office Money Orders may be obtain- 
ed at nearly every county seat, in all the cities, and in 
many of the large towns. We consider them perfectly 
safe, and the best means of remitting fifty dollars or less, 
as thousands have been sent to ns without any loss. 
Registered Letters, under the new system, 
which went into effect June 1st, are a very safe 
means of sending small sums of money where P. O. Mon- 
ey Orders cannot be easily obtained. Observe, the Reg- 
istry fee. as well as postage, must be paid in stamps at 
the office where the letter is mailed, or it will be liable 
to be sent to the Dead Letter Office, liny and apix the 
stamps both for postage and registry, put in the man* y and 
I the letter in the presence of the postmaster, and take his 
receipt for it. Letters sent in this way to as are at our risk. 
MAWY THOUSANDS of people have 
received the Premiums offered by the Publishers, and a 
large number of these have written expressing their great 
gratification, while not one in five hundred has indicated 
the least dissatisfaction or disappointment. We hope to 
send out many thousands more of these good articles yet 
this winter. Human nature and human wants are about the 
bame everywhere, and it will be just as easy for others to 
get these premiums as for those who have done so, A few 
cet discouraged because not as successful at the first at- 
tempt as they hoped tube. Hundreds have written us that 
it took several trials to " get their hands in," but that by 
perseverance they were in the end unexpectedly successful. 
One of onr present most successful canvassers, who gets 
a huge salary every year from the sale of premium articles 
received from this office, failed almost entirely the first 
week of trial.— Please look through what is said on page 
■SO, and then see what can be done in your neighborhood. 
About tfae Advertisements. — These 
are doubly advantageous to the reader. Of the income 
they yield, tens of thousands of dollars are every year ex- 
pended in getting up and supplying the paper, in additic I 
to'aUthe receipts for subscriptions. We should have to 
targe about double the present subscription rates, but 
for the advertising income. Then these pages aTC 
useful as a kind of reliable "Business Directory." They 
till what is for sale, by whom, and usually at what 
price, and the more there are of them, the better is the 
opportunity to choose. It is like going to make pur- 
chases in a great city. We shut out a much larger class 
of advertisements than we receive. Humbugs, patent 
medicines, and those generally who "give little for 
much," pay publishers the highest prices. Our aim is to 
live up to one rule, viz : "An advertiser, in order to be ad- 
vertised Afire, if unknown to the editors personally or by 
good repute, must furnish them satisfactory evidence that 
he has both the ability and intention to do what he- 
promises to do in his advertisement. 1 '— By adhering to tins 
rule, we hope to make our business pages doubly valuable 
to both readers and advertisers. In order that the latter 
may know how large a class of intelligent, wide-awake 
people they reach through this paper, we request those 
sending orders to them, or writing for circulars, etc., to 
mention where any advertisement was seen. 
Postage* — To our published terms fur the 
American Agriculturist, postage must in all cases be add- 
ed when ordered to go out of the United States. For 
Canada, send twelve cents besides the subscription money 
with each subscriber. Everywhere in the United States, 
three cents, each quarter, or twelve cents, yearly^ must be 
prepaid at the Post-office where the paper is received. 
ISoiind Co|>ies of* Volume WVI1 
(ISoS) are now ready. Price, $2, at our office, or $3.50 
each, if sent by mail. Any of the previous eleven vol- 
umes (l(j to 36) will be forwarded at the same price. Sets 
of numbers sent to our office will be neatly bound in our 
regular style for 75 cents per volume, (50 cents exl ra i f re- 
turned by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12c each. 
Kerosene Murders. — So many have died 
victims to the frauds in kerosene, thatat last one man lias 
been aroused to do something. Coroner Keeuan. in hold- 
ing an inquest upon a death from "accident" by kerosene, 
had samples of the oil tested. Finding that the oil was 
nearly pure benzine and would explode at titi degrees, in- 
stead of requiring to be heated to 110 degrees, he had 
both the vender and manufacturer of the oil arrested and 
held to await the action of the grand jury. The coroners 
can take cognizance of the matter only after death has 
occurred Since the foregoing was in type, we find that 
the Board of Health has waked up, after allowing The 
i.KiiT-r to -o uuiioti.-. d Eui si-veral years. It needed a 
chemist to tell them what everyone of the inspectors 
should have known "of his own knowledge," that al- 
inosl all the kerosene sold in New York is unsafe, and 
some of it eminently so. The report of Professor Chand- 
ler is very long and interesting; from seventy-eight sam- 
ples, procured in different parte of the city, not one could 
be called really safe. Ouc sample contained 90 per cent 
of benzine, naphtha, e[c. A large number of the oils 
formed an explosive vapor, at considerably below the or- 
dinary temperature of a sitting-room. The wonder is, 
that so few "accidents" should happen, rather than that 
there should be so many. Let everybody agitate this 
matter in his own neighborhood. Good kerosene is to be 
had, that will not burn below 110 degrees ; demand this 
of the dealers, and it will be supplied. 
Siutftry Humbugs. — The man who offers 
"Music Boxes" for a dollar, William Scott, Franklin 
street, New York, has found one person foolish enough 
to trust his promises, and who, for one dollar forwarded 
by mail, received a child's toy known as Harmonicon, a 
■i in. by 1 in. tin and wooden instrument, which makes a 
noise by blowing through holes in the edge of the wood, 
across the ends of reeds fixed in a plate of zinc— -wholesaled 
at 50c. tn 1.30 per doz Stewart & Smith "offer the 
public greater inducements than ever before." We should 
say so, •" elegant gold watch chains " with patent swivel, 
and all the fixings, Cor $3.00 each, not to speak of other 
things, including brooch and ear-rings with no fewer 
than twenty-three diamonds, each one of them as big as 
fat-peas, at $4.00. Oh ! Messrs. Stewart & Smith, how 
can you! Of course you are the manufacturers, as none 
others could oiler such inducements to purchasers, and 
you must have. learned tho art of advertising and of doing 
business from that "unexplained mystery," Planchctte, 
which you advertise for sale at the low price or $3.00 
each . . The " Rev.," -T. T. Inman i* out with his "noble 
remedy" for troubles which we will not mention here. 
Being a "Rev." J. T. I. has his address at Station D.. 
Bible House. It is well for those out of the city to know 
that the Bible House rents stores for various purposes, 
and the P. O., Station D.. occupies one of them, but has 
no connection whatever with the Bible House.. .Try 
again, Mr. I., that trick is musty Chas. J. C. Kline *fc 
Co. have been long known as venders of vile things, and 
we wonder that people will ask if they are honest or hon- 
orable The " American Butter Powder Co." have an 
agency in Boston. Look out for them. We consider 
their powders worthless. They now propose to sell 
them in packages at 50c.@ $1 each .... Parker. Moore & Co, 
seem to be managers for the "Metropolitan Gift Co ." at 
preben t . This ib the only change from the old plan so loudly 
advertised a few months ago. The whole thing is a swin- 
dle — Hunt, Anthony & Co., still hang out at the old num- 
ber. Let them keep their watches We are tired of 
showing up these old concerns. Do try some new dodge. 
— Reed & Co., Bankers, well known to our re) 
as successors to Geo. A. Cook & Co., of "Soldier's Or- 
phan's Lottery" notoriety (see July No., p. 245, 186! 
now acting as managers and bankers for Wells, Janes & 
Co. Strange, so many men need managing, and all by 
Reed & Co. A few weeks ago Reed & Co. notified one of 
our readers, Mr. D., that his number had drawn a prize, 
in this case a watch, and that by forwarding to them the 
sum of $0.00, by mail, they would tend him the watch, or, 
if preferred, they would scud the same by express, marked 
C. O. D. The stranger preferred the latter course and 
left the amount with a friend to pay express charge-, 
should the package ever come. In due time it came and 
was paid for. Upon opening it no watch at all was 
found, but a nice parcel of broken brick, whereupou Mr. 
D. a&ks us to seek some redress for him. Pretty well 
done, Mr. Reed; we should say that you are making a 
good thing of this manager's business. Mr. D. will see 
no more of his $9.00 or of Reed & Co., in all probability. 
We ure unable to say where they hold forth at present 
Among the lotteries proper which still flourish are L. D. 
Sine's Gift Lottery. Cincinnati, and the New York Jewel 
er's Co-operative Union, Servies& Co., — both grand hum- 
bugs. Derby Athenaeum is a bookstore with a lottery 
attachment. A person buying a certain amount of books 
receives a ticket in a drawing of pictures. The selling 
of tickets is got around in this way, but nevertheless it 
is a game of chance, and as such is illegal. The tickets 
are many and the prizes few. Those who do not believe 
in lotteries at all will have nothing to do with one 
masked in the manner that this is Oroide Watches 
are watches in composition cases, like a nice brass* 
when well made ; and we suppose the works will 
run just as well as if cased in gold and precious 
stones, provided the works themselves are good. But 
there's the rub. A subscriber in Indiana write- that he 
worked hard to get up a club of 50 subscribers for a jour- 
nal, with the promise of an Oroide watch as good " for 
all practical uses as watches worth $100." But when it 
came it was "a worthless, cylinder escapement. brass 
cased watch, not worth $5.00." Giving premiums 
is a good and proper thing, if the premiums are 
themselves good, and most newspapers, even the old 
e tatd i cHgiowa papere thafcneod to be so dignified i 
premiums now ; but any publisher who does this ought 
to be careful not to humbug those who work for him— n-t 
even by letting himself be humbugged into the belief that 
a brass watch is as desirable ns a gold one. 
Wide-awake Nurserymen. — A list 
of these will be found iu the Horticultural Annual. 
The American Pomologicul So-> 
ciety.— The President. Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, has 
addressed the following circular to the members of the 
various committees of the Society : — It having, upon con- 
sultation with some of the Fruit Committees, been 
deemed advisable to hold a special meeting of the officers 
and committee men of the American Pomological Society, 
for the purpose of a careful revision of the Catalogue, the 
undersigned hereby give notice that such meeting will 
be held on the 10th day of February, 1SG9, at ten o'clock, 
A.M., at the rooms of the Agriculturist^ in the city of New 
York. It is hoped that every one will recognize the import- 
ance of our Fruit Catalogue, and also see the necessity of 
a special meeting tor its revision, and be present thereat. 
to aid and assist, preparatory to the next Bession-of tin 
Society, to be held in Philadelphia, Sept. 15, 1869. Should 
it be impossible for any one to attend in person, he is ur- 
gently requested to write out his views and opinions, and 
forward the same to F. K. Elliott, care of Charles Down- 
ing, Newburgh. N. Y. Contributions of fruits are alto 
specially invited in aid of the work to be performed. 
These may be directed to " American Pom iloglcal I 
ty, care of Orange Jvdd & Co.. Broadway, New York." 
<'lnl>s can at any time be increased, by remitting 
for each addition the price paid by the original member--, 
if the subscriptions all date at the same starting point. 
The back numbers will, of course, be sent to added names. 
What Evergreens are Hardy ?— The 
e:speriencc of Messrs. Samuel B. Parsons and Josiah 
Iloopes with evergreens In the winter of 1SG7 and 'Gs i -. 
of great value to tree planters. Sec Horticultural Annual. 
¥>entfli of* Mr. Affleck.— Mr. Thorns 
Affleck, formerly of Mississippi and more recently of 
Bronham, Texas, died early in January last at his resi- 
dence at the last named place. Mr. Affleck was well 
known as a writer to various agricultural journals, and 
iu bla death Texas loses one of her leudimr agriculturist.-. 
