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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
45 
Below we give the range of prices, average price, and 
figures at which large lots were sold : 
Dec. 19th, ranged 10 @21 c. Av. 14 c. Large sales 13 @18 
do. 26th, do 10 @17 c. do. 13!^c. do. do. 12^@15 
Jan. 2d, do. 8^@16Hc. do. 13&C. do. do. 12H@'5 
do 9th, do. 8X@16 c. do 13Kc. do. do. 11 @14 
do. 16th, do. 8 @15 c do. 13 C. do. do. 11 @14 
Iflilcli Cows,— The fresh cow trade seldom amounts 
to much during the winter. Milkmen supply themselves 
in the fall, and towards spring begin to purchase again. 
Trade has been very dull for a month past, poor cows 
eelling low. Some sent in to be palmed off as fresh 
cows, when they were reapy "stepmothers," were sold 
at $25@$30 each. Very poor, but fresh cows are selling 
at $45@$55, fair to good at $70@$S5, and prime to extras 
$90@$100. . Calves.— These have fallen off in num- 
bers, but remain steady, so far as prices are concerned. 
During the winter season, large quantities are sent in 
ready dressed, with skins on, which do not appear in the 
receipts. Such calves sell at 12c.@lfic. for thin to prime 
milk veals, and 6c.@10c. for fed calves. Live are worth 
10c.@12c. per Tb., if fair to fat, and 4c.@8c. for grass or 
hay fed up to thin, milk veals Sheep.— There was 
a good supply of extra fat sheep sent in for the holidays, 
weighing from 120 to 200 lbs. alive. Such animals sold 
at 8c.@10c, with an occasional sheep still higher. Since 
then the markets have been tame, with a surplus of 
stock usually on hand. Butchers now complain of the 
many ewes sent to market heavy with Iamb. Wethers 
sell much the quickest. Prices range from 4 l / 2 c.fa>5 l / s c. 
per lb., live weight, for thin to fair sheep, and 6c.@7c. 
for good to extra Swine. — In addition to the 
102,450 live hogs during the last five weeks, we have had 
36,779 Western dressed, most of them during the past 
fortnight. Arrivals of dressed, at the present time, 
equal those sent in alive. Dealers in hogs have had a 
rough season so far, prices declining between the time 
the hogs were bought West and sold here. They are now 
about y^c. lower than one month ago, and nearly 2c. be- 
low the prices of this time last year. We quote live at 
Ilic.Q.tfyc, with city dressed at 8%c.fS;9^c., and Wes- 
tern dressed at 8^c.@8%c. Light pigs, when selected 
put, sell for more money. 
Special Premiums. 
For a renewal and one new subscriber to 
American Agriculturist, or one subscriber to 
Hearth and Hobie. 
Trophy Tomato has proved so far superior to 
others that we desire to have it widely distributed, and 
we have made such arrangements with Col. Waring as to 
enable us to offer pure seed from headquarters, with his 
trade, mark guaranty of genuineness. 
Japan Lilies. —We offer from the gardens of A. S. 
Fuller, Esq., several of the beautiful Japan Lilies, some 
of which have been sold by seedsmen within the last two 
years as high as $5 each. Any one of these is an orna- 
ment to any garden, and they can be had free as premiums. 
Eumelan Grape-Tines.- Hasbrouck&Bushnell, 
proprietors of the original stock, will supply us with 
vines of this most excellent variety, and we wish all of 
our subscribers would try at least one. 
I.— To every old subscriber to American Agriculturist 
who after this date renews, and sends one new subscrib- 
er, with $1.50 for each, and 5 cents for postage on the 
premium ; we will send any one of the following eight 
articles that may be chosen: 
1 Package (200 Seeds) of Trophy Tomato Seeds. 
Or :— 1 Bulb Red Japan Lily, LUium speciosum rubrum. 
Or :— 1 Bulb White Japan Lily, Liliitm speciosum album. 
Or :— 1 Bulb Golden-banded Lily, LUium anratum. 
Or:— 1 Bulb Long-flowered Lily, LUium longijlorum. 
Or:— 1 Bulb Gladiolus, or Sword Lily, named varieties. 
Or :— 2 Bulbs Tigridia,or Mexican Tiger Lily^iffcr't kinds. 
Or: — 1 Eumelan Grape- Vine No. 1. 
II.— For one subscriber, received after this date to 
HEARTH AND HOME, for one year, at $3, with 5 cents 
for postage on the article, we will send any desired one 
of the above premiums. Subscriptions taking these spe- 
cial premiums will not be counted in other premium lists. 
Serviceable Pump ibr Deep Wells. 
— "T. B. R.,' Broad Run, Va., writes: "I have found 
difficulty in obtaining a good, durable pump for a deep 
well. Do you know a pump which is desirable for wells 
70 to 75 feet deep, m localities not convenient to cities? 
Durability, and /wi-Habftiry to get out of order are prime 
necessities with us."— We do know, just such a pump, 
and helieving 11 to he one of the best if not the very best 
pump in the world, we offer it as a prize for subscribers 
to the Agriculturist See oor Preminm List on page 73. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elseivkere. 
Postage 19 Cents a, Year in Ad- 
vance. —The postage on the American, Agriculturist 
anywhere in the United States and Territories, paid in 
advance, is 3 cents a quarter, 12 cents a year. If not paid 
in advance, twice these rates may be charged. 
How to Remit s — Checks on New- 
York Banks or Bankers are best for large sums ; 
made payable to the order of Orange Judd & Co, 
Post-Office ITIoiiey 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 us without any loss. 
Registered Letters, under 1 lie new 
system, which went into effect Oct. 1, 186S, 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 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. Buy and affix the 
stamps both for postage and registry, put in. the money, and 
seal the letter in the prese/we of the postmaster, and take his 
receipt for it. Letters thus sent to us are at our risk. 
Hound Copies of Volume 99 are 
now ready. Price, $2, at our office ; or $2.50 each, if 
sent by mail. Any of the previous thirteen volumes 
(16 to 28) 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. 
Cl*i1>s can at any time be increased by remitting 
for each addition the price paid by the original members ; 
or a small club may be increased to a larger one ; thus : 
a person having Bent 10 subscribers and $12, may after- 
wards send 10 more subscribers with only $S ; making a 
club at $20 ; and so of the other club rates. 
There is ^fo Ulistalte iu the assertion 
that Many Thousands of our readers may this month se- 
cuyc, free of cost, one or more of the valuable articles de- 
scribed on pages 73, 74, and 75, (see also page 44,) and 
that, too, without interfering with their regular business. 
A subscriber or two a day for either journal, will soon 
count up enough for a large and valuable premium. Few 
persons, if properly enlightened as to the practical value 
of such journals, will fail to subscribe. They will decide 
to save, if necessary, a few cents per week from some 
needless luxury, to secure so large an amount of useful 
reading, and so many hundreds of fine engravings. They 
only need an invitation with a few explanations from 
some one who knows the journals. 
Spring -will Soon 1>e Along, and 
those who contemplated setting out fruit trees, shrubs, 
etc., will do well to look out early for their supplies. It 
is best to begin in time, and send now for catalogues of 
seeds, trees, and plants, and make up orders. If deal- 
ers have their orders early, they can be all ready to sup- 
ply them at the proper time, far better than if they 
11 come all in a heap" just at the digging season, 
and the earliest orders generally fare the best. Our 
own advertising columns furnish a fair directory to good 
dealers — we aim to admit none others — none that we 
would not buy of ourselves if occasion required. As 
our advertisers know our strict rales, and their danger of 
exclusion, if nothing worse, if any member of our family 
of readers is not well dealt by, it is always best in writ- 
ing, on sending for circular, etc., to note the fact when 
advertisements responded to were seen in this journal. 
That Little Steam-Engine, which was 
described in December, is worthy of all we said of it. 
Our own boys find it a perpetual source of interest ; 
and the first one obtained, which has been very frequently 
ran during more than two months, seems rather to im- 
prove with age and use. Fifty-five of our Sunday school- 
boys each received one of these as a Christmas token from 
their teachers, and we know of nothing else that could 
have given a hundredth part so much pleasure as these 
have. Several have added various toy attachments, which 
are worked by steam, and are quite interesting. It is not 
only a pleasing but a rational toy for boys, and there are 
a good many grown-up boys that enjoy them. They are 
perfect, reciprocating engines that go. Our first 2,000, 
bought for premiums, are fastgoing to those who have se- 
cured them, but we have made arrangements for a sup- 
ply, for a month more at least, and will continue to fur- 
nish one of these for three subscribers to American Agri- 
culturist at $1.50 each, or for two subscribers for Hearth 
and Home at $3 each a year. They will be mailed safely 
to any part of the United States or Territories, if 36 cents 
be supplied for prepaying posting on the engine and box. 
For two subscribers to each paper at the above prices, 
we will send an engine post-paid. 
Sundry Humbugs.— It is lamentable 
that Journals, otherwise respectable, continue to adver- 
tise almost any swindler that will pay them for the space. 
To issue good papers, with such advertisements where 
they will meet the eyes of the unwary, ib equivalent to 
selling sugar-coated poiso- under a false name. Many of 
the things advertised ?cut.ain pcison. to mind and morals 
ten times worse ia the end than stryihnine itself, which 
indeed kills the body, but not the soul also. A letter be- 
fore us from a gentleman who writes like one of fair in- 
telligence, tells us how he was swindled by responding 
to an advertisement which was so constantly before 
him in Harjv^s Weekly, and in other leading journals, 
(including several u Religious" papers,) that he sup- 
posed it must be all right. This is only one case in hun- 
dreds that are constantly coming to our knowledge. 
Covert advertisements of vicious books and appliances, 
are continually placed before the young. Every pub- 
lisher should promote the pecuniary and moral interests of 
his readers; he has no right to print any advertisement 
that he has not good reason to believe is of a useful 
character, and from an upright, reliable, and responsible 
advertiser. If his Editors — who are supposed from their 
very position to have facilities for information superior 
to those enjoyed by the readers — cannot determine as to 
the character of advertisements, they should be dismiss- 
ed, and better men put in their places. Unfortunately, 
they are not usually consulted, but office boys or clerks, 
who are expected to get in all the money they can, are 
left to judge of advertisements, or left without discre- 
tion; and so we often find in one column "Sunday 
reading," moral precepts, warnings against vice, exhor- 
tations to honesty, etc., and in the next column or two, 
on the same page, advertisements of a directly opposite 
tendency, and of the meanest swindlers. *' brethren. 
these things ought not so to be.' 1 We have another 
large batch of letters and circulars concerning the in- 
tended counterfeit money operators, mostly from parties 
already reported. We will simply give a list of their as- 
sumed names, old and new, as a sort of guide or direc- 
tory to this class of swindlers : Jas. P. Baker & Co. ; II. 
Colter & Co. ; Bell & Son ; King & Co. ; Owen Brothers ; 
Jas. Fisher & Co. ; Williams & Co. (the above 7 names 
all used by one man); Wm. J. Ferguson; H. Hicks & 
Co. ; Rufus Stockton ; Thos. W. Pierce ; Wm. B. Logan ; 
Robt. H. Holland ; Jos. R. Lee ; B. B. Walker & Co. ; 
Jno. F. Hamilton ; Jas. B. Sherman, etc. And as new 
names, assumed by this class of swindlers, we have C. E. 
Benson & Co., 176 Broadway ; W. H. Wood & Co., 203 
Broadway ; J. C. Walter and Batey & Co. (alias Thos. 
Pierce), 599 Broadway; E. Conway & Co.,102Nassau-st., 
etc. A double thief, calling himself H. Colter & Co., 
195 Broadway, but who will not receive any letters there, 
wants money by express, and not only seeks to steal other 
people's money, but he either has stolen or counterfeited 
the printed envelopes of Messrs. R. H. Allen & Co., pro- 
prietors of the well-known Agricultural Warehouse, and 
uses these to give character to his swindling circulars 
enclosed in them. Several other reputable firms have 
been similarly imposed upon A letter from Lock- 
port, Ohio, says the writer's boy was so worked upon by 
a circular sent out from Canton, O., that he stole $10 and 
forwarded it, and received about $100 in counterfeit 50c. t 
25c, and 10c. currency. The name given we withhold, 
as we have no such name on our list of pretended coun- 
terfeit dealers, and furthermore none of these men actually 
send any counterfeit money; they only pretend to, and 
then pocket the money of their dishonest dupes. If any 
one has received such circulars from Canton, Ohio, please 
send us a copy "Jeffries 1 Grand Gift and Musical 
Jubilee " of Council Bluffs, Iowa, though variously sugar- 
coated, is in principle and in fact, nothing more nor bet- 
ter than a " Havana Lottery." We should prefer the 
latter, if disposed to invest at all in any such thing, for 
all the prizes awarded in the Havana Lotteries, where 
any are received, are in gold, good anywhere, and not 
what-will-you-lo-with-them city lots, which would be 
sold regularly for cash, if they could be readily sold for 
any thing like what they are put down at as "prizes." 
We suppose some people will be foolish enough to invest 
in this and similar "Gift Enterprises," alias lotteries, 
but we hope not one of our readers will do so A 
gentleman in Maryland, who chanced to receive a copy 
of our paper from Washington, as a wrapper, gives as 
