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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hint? and mtg^mtwns vliich ice throw intosmailtr 
type and condensed form, for want of space elscU'/c re. 
Remitting 1 Homv : — Cltecks on 
New York City Banks or Bankers are best 
for large sums ; make payable to tbe order of Orange 
Judd <fc Co. Post-Offlce Money Orders, 
for $50 or less, are cheap and safe also. When these arc not 
obtainable, register letters, affixing stamps for post- 
age and registry ; put in the money and seal the letter in 
the presence of the postmaster, and take his receipt for it. 
Money sent in the above three methods is safe against loss. 
Postage : On American Agriculturist, 3 cents 
a quarter, in advance ; on Hearth and Home, 5 cents per 
quarter. Double rates if not paid in advance at tbe 
office where the papers are received. For subscribers in 
British America, the postage must be sent to this office 
for prepayment here. 
Bound Copies of" Volume Thirty 
arc now ready. Price, $2, at our office ; or $3.50 
each, if sent by mail. Any of the last fifteen volumes 
(1G tOj30) 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. 
Clult.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 sent 10 subscribers and $12, may after- 
ward send 10 more subscribers with only $8 ; making a 
club of 20 at $1 each ; and so of the other club rates. 
Newspaper Recommendations* — 
Many parties advertise that such and such a newspaper 
■ays so and so of their wares or business enterprises, 
etc. Actual editorial commendations from papers 
which are honestly and ably edited, and which never sell 
editorial notices, are frequently valuable — when received 
by rellttUiu purties,who give exact; imgarbicU quotations, 
with the date of their publication. But it is always to 
be remembered that very many of these notices are taken 
from the parties 1 own advertisements in tbe papers re- 
ferred to. Thus, a party inserts in the Tribune, Times, 
or other paper an advertisement praising himself and 
his wares in tbe strongest terms; and then in other 
newspapers or circulars he quotes from bis own ad- 
vertisement, and says the Tribune or other paper says so 
and so, when the editor of tbe quoted paper probably 
never even read the advertisement, and knows nothing 
of the matter. 
Cheap Watche».-To several inquirers 
we answer, as often before, put no faith in the advertise- 
ments in newspapers or circulars, of very cheap watches. 
Good watches are, like gold and silver coin, standard ar- 
ticles which are sold at their cost and worth. It is non- 
sense to expect to buy " solid-gold hunting-case, full-jew- 
eled watches, accurate time-keepers," etc., for $20 or 
$30, no matter how many respectable newspapers are 
said to commend them. The cases would cost all 
the price and more, and the running gear must be poor 
indeed. As a rule, tbe safe way to get a watch is through 
a known, responsible party, to whom you can look for re- 
dresB if a watch prove poor. It is impossible for us to 
personally investigate every advertiser inquired after by 
our numerous readers. Advertisements in our own pa- 
pers are believed to bo trustworthy, or they would not be 
Inserted. 
The Hoosicr SeUool-IUCaster. — This 
intensely interesting story, which has appeared as a 
serial in the columns of Hearth and Home, is now 
issued in elegant book form, printed on fine paper, with 
twelve full-page engravings on tinted paper, aud seven- 
teen other illustrations, and bound in extra cloth. It is 
a truly American Story, and will be read with delight 
by all. Price, post-paid, $1.25. 
Will it Pay to Borrow Money to 
Drain Land?— A young farmer, Wilmington, asks if 
it would be advisable to borrow $500 to remove stone 
from, and drain 8 acres of land which he wishes to im- 
prove. If the productive capacity of that land will be 
increased to the value of $10 per acre per year, the cost 
will be repaid, with interest, in eight years. The con- 
templated improvement ought to be of even greater bene- 
r3 
fit to the field, so that we can not but advise a young 
farmer to go ahead. Debt is to be avoided, but where 
the land is improved in value, no real debt ia incurred. 
Please Spealt of our German Edi- 
tion.— This has all the principal articles and engravings 
of the English edition, besides a Special German Depart- 
ment, by Hon. Frederick Munch, a practical cultivator in 
Missouri. This paper is useful to the great number of 
German-speaking cultivators of the country, and espe- 
cially so to the scores of thousands of new-comers from 
Faderland. Terms the same as for the English edition. 
Clubs may consist of either edition, or partly of both. 
A Pump for a I>eep Well.— A " Cen- 
tral Pennsylvania^' wants a pump for a well 40 feet 
deep, that will supply both the house and barn. Just the 
pump wanted is the Submerged Pump advertised in our 
columns, and offered as a premiumfor clubs for American 
Agriculturist. 
Golden Kod.-"H.," Naugatuck, Ct., has 
known this weed to be destroyed by two years' pasturing 
with sheep on ground that could not be plowed. 
Club- Root in Cabhage.-E. G. How- 
land, Erie Co.,N. Y.— It Is supposed that club-root is duo 
to some insect, but we believe it is not yet proven what 
insect it is. 
I>o Brahmas Mature Early ?— It 
is said over and over again in books and periodicals 
that the Brahmas, light and dark, excel in the valuable 
quality of early maturity. We have asserted the same 
ourselves, but there should be some qualification. If by 
early maturity precocious laying is meant, then Brahma 
pullets are certainly entitled to that distinction. We 
have raised broods of which every pullet has laid within 
a week after attaining the age of sis months. Mr. 
Wright, in his " Monograph on tbe Brahma Fowl," says 
that they lay with great regularity when from eix to 
seven months, and when hatched early and highly fed 
from the shell, will sometimes begin at five. But if we 
turn from laying to increase in size, we find that the 
Brahma, like all other Asiatic breeds, arrives at maturity 
very late. Growth is not completed until the age of from 
fifteen to eighteen months. Though the Brahmas are so 
large when fully developed, the White Leghorns, a me- 
(Hum ur small race, win, if batched at the same time, 
and fed and managed in the same way, attain a good 
" broiler " size, say three pounds, live weight, at an ear- 
lier age. The Brahma cocks go stalking about, looking 
as stilty and awkward as so many young ostriches, for 
months after the cockerels of most other breeds appear 
nearly mature. 
The Rural Alaoainian. — Our South- 
ern friends make the mistake of having an agricultural 
paper— and sometimes two— in each State. One good 
paper devoted to the Agriculture proper to the Gulf 
States, would be better than one in each State ; however, 
that is a matter that will regulate itself. Our present 
business is to welcome the Rural Alabamian, a monthly 
of 40 pages, published at Mobile, Ala., at $2 a year. Mr. 
C. C. Langdou, the editor, is no novice in agricultural 
and horticultural matters, and his first number is very 
creditable in both matter and manner. 
Peach Grubs. — "O. W.," Newfane, N. 
Y. We suppose you mean the peach-borer. Borers al- 
ready in the trees must be killed, by the use of a sharp 
knife and flexible wire for a probe. The parent insect 
begins to lay its eggs in June, and continues until Sep- 
tember and sometimes October. 
Cancer — The Latest £C«re.— Cancer 
is such a terrible affliction that many sensitive persons 
imagine that they are visited by it, and assume that any 
obstinate tumor is tbe dreaded cancer. It is from this 
class of persons that the canccr-curers derive their 
patients and their pay. The latest dodge of these cancer 
chaps is now being practiced by a man in Pennsylvania. 
He writes to tbe various papers that he was cured by 
drinking ll wild tea," and applying the grounds thereof 
to the cancer. Many papers have given this man the 
benefit of an advertisement by publishing his notice. If 
the editors of these papers are applied to to know what 
11 wild tea " is, inquirers will be referred to the writer of 
the article.— Somebody has a " cancer cure " to sell, and 
takes this method of getting his advertising done, which 
some editors are green enough to do gratuitously. Those 
fearing they have or may have cancers will do well to read 
an article on the subject in Hearth and Home for Feb. 3d. 
us" See Page 73. 
Bermuda Grass. — C. L. Huffman, Cham* 
bcrs Co., Texas. This grass rarely or never seeds. It is 
propagated by cutting the turf in small squares, scatter- 
ing them over the field, and rolling. It should be put 
only where the pasture is intended to be permanent, as it 
is claimed to be impossible io eradicate it In many 
parts of the South the problem is to get the grass out 
rather than to get it in. 
The Poultry World.— This is a new 
poultry monthly of 12 pages, published at Hartford, Ct., 
at $1 per annum. One of its editors is Mr. Stoddard, 
whose articles, including those upon "The Egg Farm," 
have frequently appeared in our columns. The 1 rat num- 
ber is very neat in appearance, and gives promise of use- 
fulness in its particular line. 
IT WILL PAY to supply yourself, your 
sons, and your workmen with good papers and books. $5 
to $20, or more, expended in this way, will come back 
every year. Your sons will be kept from idleness and mis- 
chievous company ; they will understand and respect 
their work more ; they will gain new ideas and learn to 
think and reason better ; they will learn to make their 
heads help their hands; they will labor more intelligently 
and be happier because their minds will be developed, 
and they will have something to think about while at 
work. Better sell an acre of laud than not to have these 
mind-cultivators. Any intelligent man will make more 
off from 9 acres than the unintelligent one will from 10 
acres. Think of this in planning and providing for your 
sons in the future. Store their growing minds with use- 
ful ideas, or the devil will fill the vacancies with very un- 
desirable tenants (ideas). (The premium list on page 73 
will afford to many an opportunity to get some books free 
of expense ; and plenty of good books, to be delivered \ij 
mail or otherwise, will be found in the advertising pages.) 
Labels. — Sewall Fisher writes that he finds 
that chrome yellow, mixed with linseed oil, and rubbed 
upon wooden labels, is preferable to white lead. 
Beans.-A, Walker, Randolph, Wis. The 
specimens sent arrived in fragments. Likely the Mot- 
tled Lima, but we arc not sure. 
Mr. Sargent's Butter.— It was stated 
intheOgden Farm Papers for Jannarw that Mr. Sargent's 
r.nvaa "had yielded notxrly $000 each, (luring the year, in 
butter alone. He has since sent a definite statement on 
tbe subject. " Our total yield of butter for the year was 
1,812 lbs. ; number of cows, 10. Of these 'Anna 1 has 
not yielded one cent during tbe year, and supposing that 
the yield of two others has beeu consumed at the house, 
in milk and cream, it leaves seven butter-makers, or25S 
lbs. per cow. This, at $1.15 perlb., makes $290.70. So, 
you see, my statement was not so very far out of the way. i 
I do not consider this as good as it should be, and prob- 
ably would be another year, for I have had hard luck 
in getting cows with calf. It has been a year of unusual 
drouth, to say nothing of the preceding year of drouth, 
and heat, from which the cows have never recovered. 11 
SUNDRY HLMIILGS. — There is a 
large class of swindlers, pretty widely scattered, who 
deal, or profess to deal, in vile books, pictures, instru- 
ments, stimulants, and the like. They now mainly lo- 
cate in small country towns, where they are in less dan- 
ger from the sharp city detectives. Mr. Gayler's stern 
course in withholding letters addressed to this class, has 
driven most of them from this city. (Pity he could not 
have an eye and band in every P. O.) These operators 
secure mainly tbe names of young persons, though they 
do not all confine themselves to such customers, and tend 
out alluring circulars describing their books, pictures, 
and articles. Most States have severe laws against the 
venders of such literature, but they evade detection by 
withholding their names from the circulars, and slip- 
ping in a loose card with the address; or they carefully 
exclude all samples of their articles from their offices, 
and deal only through the mails or express, having the 
articles forwarded (if sent at all) from some other local- 
ity. These precautions, however, are only needed to 
avoid detectives, for, as a rule, those dealing with them 
are not likely to expose themselves by publicly prosecut- 
ing them for any swindling practiced. A majority of 
them pocket all the money received, and send nothing in 
return. We have complaints of loss of money sent by P.O. 
Order, and received by one calling himself M.Dcpau & Co., 
Hoboken, N. J., who advertises Buch things as no decent 
persons ought to have ordered or thought of ordering, 
and they deserve little sympathy in their Uescs. Others 
complain of a " Tailor & Co., 1 ' who is flooding Maryland 
and other States with offers of similar articles and 
pocketing the money sent to him. Another villainous 
circular, offering obscene books, prints, and articles, in- 
closes a card of "Scott & Co., 22 Ann St., N. Y, M To 
