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Fifteenth Session of the American Po- 
mological Society. 
We learn from Col. Marshall P. Wilder, the President 
of the Society, that the next meeting will be held at 
Boston on Wednesday, September 10th, and continue for 
three days. It is very desirable that there should be a 
full attendance, not only because this will be the Quarter- 
Centennial Gathering, but for the reason that several im- 
portant matters will come before the meeting. Liberal 
premiums will be given upon the fruit exhibited, and 
various excursions are proposed, and there is everypros- 
pect of a pleasant and successful session. Farther par- 
ticulars will be given later. 
Condition Povruer.- "Lankford." Prob- 
ably the most trustworthy condition-powder is Taylor's 
medicated cattle-food. 
Bruised Shoulder.-" Lankford." The in- 
flammation and swelling on a horse's shoulder caused by 
uneven bearing of the collar may probably be reduced 
by cold water dressings. If the swelling suppurates and 
breaks, the wound should be washed with warm water, 
and a little componnd tincture of benzoin be injected 
into it, after which it will rapidly heal if protected from 
the air by simple ointment and a covering of cotton 
cloth. Of course, no collar can he worn until the wound 
is healed, but if a breast-strap does not interfere with it 
the horse may do moderate work. 
Time to Break a Colt.— "S. F. 9," 
Neoga, BI. A young colt should be trained from the time 
he is a few months old. By two years of age he should 
be used to the harness or the saddle but not be driven or 
ridden. Then in his third year he may he mounted or 
driven without any breaking, and will come naturally 
and gradually to work. But the training should be con- 
stant, regular, and of the gentlest character. Tie should 
never be frightened or teased or ill-used. 
Ufavy Beans.— "S. F. 8.," Neoga, 111. The 
soil best adapted for beans is a light, loamy one, not too 
rich, but clean and free from weeds. They should be 
planted in hills 24 inches apart or in drills 27 or 30 inches 
apart, and IS inches apart in the drill ; five or six beans 
may be dropped in a hill. The crop needs sufficiei.t cul- 
tivation to keep the ground clean, but tJiey should not be 
hoed or cultivated while wet with rain. Tiiey are har- 
vested l»y pulling the plants when the beans are ripe, and 
stacking them up around a pole five feet long, laying the 
bundles of beans across cacli other, the roots being kept 
on one side of the pole. Do not expose to rain, which 
injures the color of the beans. Thrash with the 
flail, or with the machine with the concave raised. 
Snbsniliisp; and Deep Plo-rringr* — 
(Toung Farmer.) These terms are riot synonymous. 
Deep plowing is turning over a deep furrow and ihus 
bringing the subsoil to the surface. Subsoiling is break- 
ing and stirring the subsoil without bringing it to the 
surface. The usual plan until within a few years was to 
plow an ordinary furrow with one team ; and then to fol- 
low with another team and subsoil-plow. The latter had 
no mold-board. It simply ran in the furrow left by the 
first plow, and broke up the subsoil. We have seen plow- 
ing of this kind done in England with three horses on the 
first plow, and six horses on the second or subsoil-plow. 
As a rule it was too costly to be profitable. In this coun- 
try we rarely put more than two or three horses on to 
either the first or second plow. And within a few years 
several contrivances have been patented and more or less 
used whereby the subsoiling and plowing are done with 
the same plow and at one operation. 
Rheumatism in Horses. — "3. K. It.," 
Adams Co., Wis. A common remedy for acute rheuma- 
tism in horses is to give 25 drops of tincture of aconite 
root every four hours until six doses have been given. 
The horse should be placed in a clean stable with plenty 
of bedding under him, and the lags and body should be 
covered with blankets kept wet with cold water (in 
summer.) Often rheumatism accompanies epizootic 
catarrh in which cases it disappears with the catarrh. 
I\cw England Poultry Club.— At the 
annual meeting of this association held at Worcester, 
Mass., on April 11th, it was decided to hold the next an- 
nual exhibition at Worcester on January 20-22, 1ST4. A. 
D. Warren was elected President, Philander Williams, 
First Vice-President, and G. H. Estabrook, Worcester, 
Mass., Secretary. 
Itlulcliing Fruit-Trees.—" J. A. McGL" 
asks : " What is the best way to make fruit-trees live and 
grow the first year? Would you mulch or hoe?" — We 
would do both. Plant in well-prepared soil. It can not 
be made too fine and mellow. Spread out the roots care- 
fully, cover with fine, rich earth. PreBS the earth as firm 
as possible round the roots. Then cultivate and hoe to 
keep down weeds. Keep doing this until dry weather 
sets in, and then mulch with manure, straw, or any- 
thing that will check evaporation and stop the growth 
of weuds. The mulch should extend for at least three 
feet on all sides of the tree. 
Raising; Potatoes without Moe. 
Ing.— "J. A. McC," of Niagara Co., N. Y., favors us 
with his plan of planting and cultivating potatoes. He 
cuts peachblow potatoes two eyes in a piece. Marks out 
the land with small plow 3 or 4 inches wide, and furrows 
3 feet apart. Then crosses the furrows with a common 
corn-marker with teeth 2 feet apart. Drops one piece in 
a hill. Covers with a large plow. Just before the pota- 
toes are up barrows thoroughly crosswise of covering fur- 
row. In a dry season, when the plants are one or two 
inches high, he throws a light furrow on the row. This 
acts as a mulch, and the potatoes grow rapidly for a few 
days. Then if the drag docs not hurt the vines, harrow 
again. If it does, cultivate across the hack furrows. 
This loosens the soil and works it down level. After a 
few days shovel-plow one way and cross with cultivator, 
which levels the earth (Town again. Finally, hill them 
up with shovel-plow, working thoroughly early and late. 
Value or Roots.— "H. H. M.," Camden, 
Me. On the whole, stockfeeders agree that the best roots 
for stock arc mangels. They yield a far heavier crop than 
any other, and their feeding value is equally as good, if 
not better. The yellow globe is preferred generally, al- 
though the long red yields a heavy crop. Potatoes con- 
tain more nutriment weight for weight than mangels. 
SlI^uKV HUMBUGS.— In this season 
of backward crops the usually bountiful crop of humbugs 
seems to hate been retarded; we look at this time for a 
new set, just as we look for spring stylos in bonnets aud 
hats. Our agricultural readers arc no doubt too busy 
with Bpring work to send us the usual swarm of letters 
and circulars, but we do not flatter ourselves that the 
supply has given out. Here we have a lot of 
LOTTERY SWINDLES OR GIFT ENTERPRISES 
for various objects that are, in themselves, worthy enough. 
It is a great pity that every State will not do as Ohio has 
done, and put a stopper upon Lotteries, Distributions, 
Gift Concerts, and every form of this kind of gambling 
by abundant penalties in the way of fines nnd imprison- 
ment for all concerned; If any of our readers wish to 
invest in the Gift Enterprise for the Library of Leaven- 
worth, Kansas, the Omaha Orphan Asylum, the Milwau- 
kee Light Artillery Gift Enterprise, or any other chance 
game of that sort, let them refer 1o our Humbug article 
for April, and see what people right on the spot pay as 
to what proportion of the money paid in goes to the 
ostensible object of the scheme. The management of 
the Louisville Lottery, as there exposed by Louisville 
papers, is a bad enough showing, but It is probably 
better than can be made by the majority of such schemes. 
MORE ABOUT PROCURING NAMES. 
We have already shown bow the various swindlers 
procure the names of parties to which they can send their 
(often infamous) circulars. A gentleman in Wisconsin 
sends us a new circular, with a letter expressing his in- 
dignation that such a thing should have been sent to his 
daughters— the good man not knowing that no home 
can be an Eden so sacred that these slimy serpents will 
not crawl into them. At the risk of giving the Chailes- 
ton Medical Infirmary a first-rate advertisement, we will 
give the circular in full, rcma king that, the matter 
quoted is at the head of a ruled sheet, properly laid off 
fur the convenient insertion of name, post-office, county, 
aud state : 
"Office CHARLESTON" MEDICAL INFIRMARY, 
"Charleston, III., May, 1873. 
'"■Dear Sir or Madam; 
"Thanking you for past kindness, wc again solicit a 
small favor .it your hands, for which we propose to 
recompense you. If yon will fill oat Tlis nlrmk to the 
number of 50 names and post-office address— first of it 11 
with the afflicted of every form, whether cripples, de- 
formed, or chronic diseases, such as Consumption, Fe- 
male Diseases, Catarrh, Deafness, Son; Eies, etc.. etc., 
in your vicinity and county ; if not a sufficient number of 
these, add the names of your best fanners to make the 
number up to 50 (in all cases give afflicted first). If yon 
do not always kn w the address of those afflicted, j-ive 
the names and address of some of their friends, so we 
may reach them through this channel. On receipt of the 
list returned, we will send yon (postage prepaid) by mail 
a fine colored engraving, 13x1* inches in Bize. ol the late 
Washington Irvin-'- home. * Sonny side, on the Hudson,' 
a beautiful picture, handsome enough to adorn the walls 
of cottage or palace. These names are intended as a 
channel throng!) which to distribute our Beat fh Journal, 
free. In doing this you arc not only doing us a service, 
but a deed of philanthropy, as he that directs the sufferer 
to relief is a philanthropist. 
" Trusting that we shall receive a speedy response, 
"We are, very truly yours. 
"Dr. s. van METER & CO. 
" P. S. — On receipt of 10 cents our ' Lecture on Mar- 
riage and Guide for the Toung' will be suit, postage 
prepaid ; a magazine of 4S pages, illustrated. 
"Continue list of names on opposite page in same 
order as on this, and be sure and sign your own Name, 
Post-office. County, and State separate nnd apart from 
the rest, so we may know where to send the Engraving," 
In every village or count 17 place there is likely to be 
some one thoughtless enough to, for the sake of the prof- 
fered reward, fill up such a list with the names of the 
neighbors. If one of these "infirmaries" can get the 
nama of a person afflicted in any manner, whether a 
hopeless cripple or one with an in-growing toe-nail, they 
will "go for him." But Van Meter aud Co. did not catch 
our friend, N. B., of Beloit. 
MEDICAL HUMBUGS 
are mmsnally dull this month. One subscriber writes 
that he tried the " Ear- Vibrator " advertised in New 
York, and that it proved utterly useless. We suppose 
onr friend to be a farmer, as he dates from a farming 
community. If one of '-J. F.'s" men should come in 
and report that the reaper was out of t rdcr and would 
not work, would he look over the advertisements and 
order sonic hardware ? This would be about as sensible 
as to order an " Ear- Vibrator" without knowing what is 
the matter with the ear. Would be not f. r-t examine the 
reaper and fi*d out what was the matter, and then ar- 
range for his repairs accordingly? The ear is one of the 
most delicate organs of our bodies, and of more value 
than many reapers ; yet it is treated as if it were so much 
old iron, rather than, as it is, one of the most exqui- 
sitely-fashioned channels with which we communicate 
with the outer world. Wby will people be sensible, and 
even economical, with regard to everything except their 
