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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
right, and the sooner they come to a cash basis, the bet- 
ter. Prices for sheep are nearly unchanged from figures 
given last month. They range from 4%@6^£c. for ordi- 
nary to prime, with some extra fat at 7c. Lambs are 
abundant and low. They are also rather poor, aud sell 
even less readily than Bheep. Prices range from '• ■ 9c. 
per pound, with very extra at 1 jc Swine sell stead- 
ily, aud every week the yards are about cleaned out. 
Prices are looking up a little. Most of the hogs still go 
at once to the slaughterer's, and are offered for sale 
dressed. Alive, they are really worth 10@10}£c. per 
pound, as they sell readily at l~ l 2 c. when dressed. For 
the week ending Aug. 9th, a few very extra dressed hugs 
brought 123£®12S;c. per pound. One car load of " Ohio 
ttillars," fat, sold on foot for 10c. per pound. The mar- 
ket is not very active just now. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hint* and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for tvant of spue-: elsewhere. 
Postage. — To our published terms for the 
American Agriculturist^ postage must in all cases be add- 
ed when ordered to go out of the United Stales. For 
Canada, send twelve cents besides the subscription money 
with each subscriber. Everywhere in the United States, 
three cents, *cach_quarter, or twelve cents,, yearly* tdmsX be 
prepaid at the Post-office where the paper is received. 
SHovr flo E£<'nait :— S'SaeolvS on W«w- 
York Oanks or Bankers are best for large sums ; 
made payable to the order of Orange Judd 6c < o. 
Post-Office Ifloney 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 beeu sent to us without any loss 
Rc-^iwSereclILeillf.'r'*, ueider fJao new 
system, which went into effect Oct. 1, IStiS. are a very 
safe means of sending small sums of money where P. O. 
Money Orders cannot be easily obtained. Observe, the 
Registry fee, as well as postage, must ba jxiid in stamps nt 
the office where the letter is mailed, or it will be liable 
to bo sent to the Dead Letter Office. Buy and qfflx the 
stamps both for postage and registry, put in (he money, and 
si al the letter in the presence of the postmaster, and take his 
receipt for it. Letters thus sent to us are at our risk. 
CSociiii] Copies oi* Volume XXVII 
(1868) are now ready. Price, $2, at our office, or $2.50 
each, if sent by mail. Any of the previous eleven vol- 
umes (16 to 36) will b.' forwarded at the same price. Sets 
of numbers sent to our offiffi will be neatly bound in our 
regular style for 75 cents per volume, (50 cents extra if re- 
turned by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12c. each. 
An Important Work. — Orange Judd & 
Co. have in press a work on Agricultural Analysis, edited 
by Prof. G. C. Caldwell of the Cornell University. Teach- 
ers of Agricultural Chemistry have long fell the need of 
a test book which should serve as n guide to the analysis 
of polls, manures, and the products of the farm. The 
present work is very thorough, beginning with the 
preparation of reagents and giving the most approved 
methods of manipulation. To teachers <>r agricultural 
chemistry in the many agricultural colleges now spring- 
ing up, this will be a most welcome aid, while it will 
prove a great help to those who are advanced in analysis, 
as it presents at one view i special class of operations, 
which must, had this nol been prepared, have ben 
Bought for through &■■ vera! works. Professor Caldwell 
modestly calls himself the editor, but his manuscript 
Bhowe that he has not contented himself with editing 
the works of others, but has given much of hisown 
experience. The work will be ready fur the fall classes 
of the agricultural colleges. 
E*iot6is m es in tSae Household. — A bare 
wall ia very cheerless. Even the coarse colored litho- 
graphs that are hawked about are better than nothing, to 
put upon the walls for the eye to rest upon, but a well- 
executed engraving is much better. The introduction of 
Chromo Lithographs, or Chromos, as they are now pop- 
ularly called, has placed it within the power of persons 
of moderate means to adorn their dwellings with beauti- 
ful pictures. In these chromos the picture is reproduced 
in colors with such fidelity that only good judges can 
distinguish the original from the copy. Only the wealthy 
can afford to have original pictures, but almost every 
oue can have the next best tiring to them,— a good copy 
in chromo. We announced m August last that Mrs. Lilly 
SI. Spencer had painted a charming picture, called 
"■Dandelion Time,'" which the publishers of this paper 
were preparing to produce as a chromo. It will be seen, 
by reference to the advertising columns, that the picture 
is now ready. Three children are out upon the grass 
with the old family dog, who has been decked with a 
dandelion wreath, but feels too much the responsibilities 
of his position to join in the gayetics of the children, 
who arc having a good time among the dandelions. The 
picture is full of innocent child life, and will bring back 
memories of happy days to all who possess it . 
JESos-mnua. — A large steamer now runs regu- 
larly between New York aud the Bermuda Islands, bring- 
ing to our market the earliest onions and potatoes, and 
thousands of bunches of the finest bananas, etc.. etc., and 
carrying back such merchandise as is needed at the 
islands, including one hundred and fifteen copies month- 
ly of the American Agriculturist. Ah! that's what did 
it ! It improves the state of agriculture wherever its in- 
fluence is felt. We advise everybody, and their friends, 
to subscribe now and get three months for nothing. See 
page 324. The engravings alone, arc worth more than 
the price of the paper. 
Scripture <£not;at moea>. — l( A Friend," 
at Keyport, M. J., finds an anecdote iu regard to a juve- 
nile misreading of scripture which we gave iu the Boys 1 
aud Girls' columns last month, irreverent. We would 
not in any way offend the religious feeling of any pers< >n. 
We did not see anything improper in the item, or it 
would not have been printed. To show that we arc not 
alone in our view of the matter we will say that the 
anecdote referred to was given us by a clergyman who is 
a Doctor of Divinity, and an author whose writings 
we have no doubt our friend has read with pleasure. 
Wew Yorii Ktntc Poultry Society. 
Cuming Exhibition. — This Society, which won 
gulden opinions last spring, is now distributing its golden 
and silver tokens to successful exhibitors. These medals 
are beautifully designed and executed. The silver medal 
contains over £3 worth of silver and has cost the Society 
not less than $6. The design represents a group of farm- 
yard poultry of all kinds, and a chick breaking the egg 
in the foreground. On the reverse is the inscription, 
enclosed in a wreath of bay, with a bird's nest where the 
wreath is tied. The Society encourages every thing useful 
or ornamental produced from the egg (including insects, 
we presume) and certainly fish ; hence the prominence 
given to the egg in their design. The great gold medal 
is struck in the same dies with the silver medal, and is 
worth not far from $80. The small gold medal is consider- 
ably smaller, but very chaste and beautiful. The Society 
proposes to hold an exhibition beginning ou the first 
Tuesday in December and continuing until the last of the 
subsequent week. The distinguished writer on poultry, 
Mr. Tegetmeier, of London, had accepted the invitation of 
the Society to deliver a course of lectures at tlie time of 
the exhibition. The officers of this Society arc, we believe, 
exerting themselves to the utmost to give the Society a 
high stand and make its decisions the highest authority 
in the land, on its specialties Mr. < .1. II. Warner, of New- 
York Mills, N. Y., is President, and Mr. Daniel E. Gavitt, 
of New York City, is Secretary. The Society has our 
confidence, best wishes, and hearty co-operation. 
Sundry llnau9»iig's. — There is one "Doc- 
tor" E. Andrews, the "Good Samaritan " of Albany, 
who is a great man. He offers " the public a treasure " 
in the way ®f medical and religious books, etc., — at least 
he says so, and we should say so too, judging from the 
paper before us. Of course, Mr. Dr. A., you are a "rc- 
formcr in medicine;" 1 "Good Samaritans " always are, 
and when you get through with reforming medicine if \ on 
will only reform yourself,— leave off quackery and take 
up some honest business. — we shall think better of yon. 
There is no need to tell us " there is balm in Gilead." We 
know that already; but Oh! Doctor, is there balm in 
Albany! We doubt it, for as we read on to the end of 
this precious little pamphlet of yours, we find the "Doc- 
tor" has fallen from grace and wants two three-cent 
stamps for every letter he answers, and from $1.00 to 
$12.00 for every bottle of medicine be sends out... 
Gnmbridge & Co. seem to have had such good luck with 
their photographed " green bax 1 ' that we find others arc 
taking up the trade. Two of the more prominent just 
now are Henry B. Chatman, Bridgeport, Conn., and 
Noyes & Co., New York. This last-named firm are old 
offenders in many ways. A few months ago they were in 
the bogus lottery business ; now they want to sell spuri- 
ous money. Tliey all have the same confidential letter, 
and manifest the same great haste to strike a bargain 
with some one. Beware of all such men. "We are often 
asked. How can such things be done day after day in open 
defiance of law ? We answer, by finding young men and 
old ones who are foolish enough to trust them and risk 
$5.00 or $10.00 in the ** stuff," as it is aptiy called. Wo 
have no doubt that many persons send money to these 
advertisers out of mere sport, and without thought 
that their action is criminal and punishable Wa 
know nothing about the "Apex Sewing Machine ;" and 
repeat here what we have often said — Don't buy cheap 
sewing machines. If any one wants a sewing machine 
he should buy a good oue, aud none of the cheap ones 
that we have seen are good for any thing Messrs. S. W. 
Waters & Co. still keep at the preliminary drawing of tho 
" N. Y. Jewelers 1 Cooperative Union," and we continue 
our warning against them Calvin "Willis & Co. claim 
to be u Purchasing and Forwarding Agents." and they 
may be such ; but who would want any of the trash they 
advertise to send, forwarded anywhere at any price? 
Their advertising circular is simply nasty, to put it 
mildly, and we need only mention the fart to our readers. 
Flashy advertisers of cheap burning fluid are again 
coming around. Here is one that assumes the dignity of 
a paper. " The light for the world, Soc! a year,"— dear at 
half the price. We warn all persons not to trust them 
or their burning fluid ; all low-priced fluids are dangerous 
to use . . Bailey & Co., New York, arc also in the coun- 
terfeiting business. Their plan is little better calculated 
to deceive than those mentioned above. Messrs. D. & Co. 
claim to have stolen from the treasury vault the plate 
upon which original copies were taken, aud that the 
"greenbrsx" they send arc "sure go every time," and 
just, like the genuine one, only a little shorter, etc. How 
fortunate it was for the treusury vault to be open just at 
the right time with nobody to watch it ! Messrs. D. «fc 
Co., wc have an eye on your operations. 
Abortion iifi Cow>. — Dr. Wm. II. Car- 
malt. Commissioner of the N. Y. State Ag'l Society for 
the investigation of the cause of abortion in cows, whii h 
has caused such great losses to the farmers of the State 
of New York, reported at the annual meeting in Feb- 
ruary. This report is now printed and circulate'], aud 
is, in u measure, a continuation of the report made by 
Dr. Daltcn last year. It shows extended and minute 
research, and is illustrated by maps and numerous tabic . 
prepared apparently with great care. No absolute con- 
elusion is arrived nt. but it seems to be the Doctor's de- 
cided opinion that the great demand made upon the 
cows for milk during pregnancy is a probable caus 
t'ubn. — The war is btill raging in the "ever 
faithful Isle," each of the contending parties weekly 
claiming decided advantages over the other and as often 
charging its opponents with gross excesses aud in- 
humanity. It is a pity that this beautiful land should be 
thus desolated, and millions of dollars' worth of property 
be burned up, and more a pity that human life should be 
thus sacrificed. Cur sympathies, of course, are with the 
free, and we suggest to all parties in Cuba, and every- 
where else, to turn their attention to agriculture, sub- 
scribe for the American Agriculturist now, and get three 
months for nothing. Sec page 324. The engravings 
alone are worth more thau the price of the paper. 
Sewage System. — We nave received from 
Dr. F. Coar, of Philadelphia, a pamphlet by Dr. G. Zchfnse, 
of Frankfort-on-the-Main, translated by Dr. Coar, on the 
Pneumatic Sewage System of ('apt. Liernur. This sys- 
tem removes all the contents of the privies of cities, daily, 
and delivers them to the farmers at a reasonable cost. 
It is done by a steam locomotive, air-pump, aud a suita- 
ble arrangement of reservoirs and of pipes connected 
with each bouse. It is being put into practical operation 
in Prague (Bohemia), and Briinn (Moravia), by capitalists 
depending solely upon the sales of manure for profit. 
Wc shall look with interest for the results. Meanwhile 
the carth-alosct system of disposing of and utilizing the 
same offensive matter is daily gaining favor. The two 
systems seem each to offer a solution to the vexed ques- 
tion — How shall we stop the present great waste of 
fertilizing matter? 
Tho water drawn from the hydrants in Cen- 
tral Park, New York, is conveyed through Icad-encii I 
block-tin pipe. 
Blenry fiff. Crapo. —Ex-Governor Crapo, 
of Michigan, a man widely known and respected in tho 
political world, and endeared to the people of his adopt- 
ed State by faithful services and zeal for her welfare, 
died at his home in Flint. Mich., July 23d, lie was born 
in Dartmouth. Ma?* . and was for many years largely 
interested in the lumber trade of Michigan, where he 
took up his residence. He was a large farmer, and thor- 
oughly aud actively identified with agricultural progress. 
