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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
Stevens &, Co.,'* who, to dodge the surveillauer 
New York Post-Office and the new laws of X. Y. Stair, 
ptits his P. O. address at Jersey City (N. J.) P. 0. Thi ir 
(his) medicines, instruments, etc., if ever sent at all, arc 
nons, and of no effect except to deceive people into 
trouble, and put money into his pocket. He 
fg Bafely because no one of his patrons would dare 
to publicly appear as a witness Why will the pri 
continue to advertise J. H. Reel in St., X. Y. .- 
lias he not sent cautharides "Jove-powders" enough, 
and cheated enough " victims of early indiscretions,' 1 to 
at out of all decent journals? Bobt. E. Bell, 
147 E. 15th =t.. X. Y., and what/w calls "the Clinton 
Medical and Surgical Institute," arc not found iu the 
New York City Directory "W. II. Chichester has ap- 
peared too often in these columns to need further atten- 
tion from us at present Hugh Lassing, 170 Broadway, 
pretends to be Supt. of a Safe Deposit Company, and 
writes to parties to send him the storage dues on valu- 
able parcels left for them — an out-and-out swindle 
Severa? parties advertise to secure loans, etc.. on South- 
ern real estate— always asking from $5 to {SO in advance. 
Wc have inquired after several of these, and in every case 
found them swindlers. We advise all who receive such 
circulars and blank forms of application to give them no 
heed whatever, and especially to send no money to them. 
unless through a trustworthy friend in the city, who will 
go hi person and see the parties — if they can find them, 
which is seldom if evei'the case. As a rule, they bother 
you for particulars, report against your application, and 
pocket the money you have sent, which is what, aud all, 
they arc after The "N. W. Fire Relief Conceit." 
"National Benefit for Needy Families of Soldiers 
and Sailors,' exploded concern, if 
ever anything ibng An adventurer in Lin- 
coln, Neb., is , *al drawing, < 
siblyforthe benefit of a i i. Prudent 
people will ; 1 y keeping it 
out of thi a concern. If di rrite to 
the Mayor of Lincoln. N 
dorses it Pardee & Co., Binghamton, ". Y.. still 
operate upon "at fif- 
teen to twenty-five cents each, which tickets arc so many 
falsehoods, as they promise, for example, that for $2.34 
said F S Co. ive a $30 
li. Will hot the authorities of Binghamton conserve 
redit of their beautiful city, and benefit the public 
•dily c qne;cV swindling concern? 
Wc are tired of receiving from all over the State the cir- 
-' :kets aent out by Pardee & Co., so called. 
...... R. II. Foster, Fourth street, Williamsburgh, X. Y., 
is like Pardee, or worse if possible. We thought this 
swindle dead last year, but we have new circulars dated 
1873. lie orders money sent to u Pi. n. Foster, care of 
Wcstcott's Express, Brooklyn, X. Y." Wc hope no de- 
cent express company favors this swindle The 
M Spanish Policy" swindler, at lfi S. 5th ave.. X.Y.. works 
under such new names as C. W. Alter. D. B. White, C. 
M. Payne, etc. Would it not be well for the N. Y. P. O. 
to deliver no letters, except for well-known, responsible 
parties, at Xo. 1G S. 5th ave., or Xo. 22 W. 4th st., or No. 
34 Amity st.. or Xo. SO Fourth ave.. etc.? Among the 
names assumed by the " Queer" operators we find for 
22 W. 4th st., .James TJippel, alias B. S. Carey, alias F. 
Benton ; at 34 Amity St., Geo. W. Beach, alias D. M. 
Palmer, alias James P. Sargent ; at SO Fourth ave., J. E. 
Morrell: at 2S Woo=terst..W. B. Messier ; atl05Bleeckcr 
St., Levi P. Rose, alias Warner Ely : at 202 Chestnut st., 
Philadelphia, Brown & Billings In reference to 
14 Lock-box 26, Lincoln, 111.," spoken of last month, the 
Postmaster, H. D. Cadwallader, Esq., writes us that one 
James F. Freeman edited a little sheet, there called the 
" Silver Leaf," and took the above box, and that letters 
were delivered to him on the supposition that they were 
upon business connected with the paper ; but that they 
are now Bent to the Dead-Letter office. All right ; we 
are glad for the credit of both the people and the Post- 
master that they arc rid of that discreditable nuisance. 
Of the political operations of Freeman we have nothing 
to say in this journal, because wc admit no political mat- 
ters or allusions whatever John M. Tnllman, 3 Dutch 
St., N. Y., is on a stealing raid. Xo one offering such 
vib books as are named in his circular would hesitate a 
moment to steal aud appropriate every penny sent to him. 
Wesley Smith, of Palatine, Cooke Co., El., is no better. 
Let no one be deceived by his "Private Instructions/'' 
He will pocket your money, or at most send you a small, 
villainous sheet, unreliable, deceptive, and dangerous. 
The Old Trouble.- U J. M.," Camp Hill, 
Pa., has the same trouble we all have— want of manure — 
and wants to know how he can got over it. His rotation 
is that usual in the East— corn, oats, wheat, grass, with 
manure on the oat-stubbie ; and he asks would 300 pounds 
of superphosphate, at three cents per ponnd, pay to use. 
— tr J.M." should read the article in this present number 
of the Agriculturist, "Hints about Wheat," which will 
convey the information wanted. It will be useful for him 
to consider whether it would not pay to put all bis 
manure on half his laud, and raise larger crops, and so 
gradually increase his supply of manure. 
Hay-i*ress.-J. Newton, Albtcad, N. H., 
writes us that there is a hay-press made in All 
N. T., which will pack 570 pounds m a bale. This is 
intended for the benefit of G. L. 
Salt. — "A young Farmer," Chester Co., Pa., 
hat is the effect of salt on land. — Practically 
is found to stiffen the straw of grain crops, and to im 
the amount of the clover and grass crops. This is 
doubtless due to the fact that water iu which salt is dis- 
solved is able to dissolve more silica than pure water, and 
this helps to improve the straw, the ash of which consists 
almost wholly of- silica \ also, salt enables water to dis- 
solve more gypsum, or other forms of lime which improve 
the crops of grass and clover. Thus far wc can speak 
understanding^, but little further, as salt itself, or its com- 
ponent substances, chlorine and soda, are but very spar- 
ingly found in the substance of plants grown on farms. 
Fair Lists. — For very full list of Fairs see 
pages 353 and 354. 
About Beans* — A. Chavaunes, Enoxville, 
Tenn., wants to know all about gathering beans and 
keeping them from the weevils. Beans should be gath- 
ered by pulling them up by the roots when they are ripe. 
leaving them on the ground until dry, or, if there is dan- 
ger of rain, stacking them around a pole five feet long 
stuck in the ground, lu tall narrow stacks, and capping 
them with straw, until they arc ready to thrash. They 
should be well preserved from rain, as their color is much 
injured by damp or mildew. The weevil gets into the 
bean during its early growth, when the pod is soft, at 
which time the parent, beetle deposits its egg in the pod, 
' 3 grub eats it- way into the bean, where it re 
until th Therefore no management after 
feet it. 
FisSa - ?*fets and. Sheep - I\ets. — The 
various inquiries about fishnets and nets for folding 
sheep on pasture need illustrations for satisfactory I 
; and these require time to prepare. We shah i 
endeavor to have these iu season. 
Size of a Quart Measure. — " J. C. C ," 
Enu Claire, Wis., asks what is the size of the quart used 
by milk dealers.— Thu quart is the fourth pari, of a gallon. 
A gallon, by United States law, iu force where no con- 
flicting State law fixes any other standard, is 231 cubic 
inches, and contains S.355 (eight and three hundred and 
fifty-five thousandths) pounds of distilled water at a tem- 
perature of G2°. This measure is, or ought to be, used 
by milk dealers and all sellers of liquids. 
A Leaky Cistern. — K. Ripley, Brown 
Co., O., has a cistern, in the bottom of which a vein of 
water has forced its way through the cement, and now 
the soakage from the barn-yard finds its way into it; 
how shall he remedy it? — There is no remedy but to dig a 
new cistern. "Where a stream of water is cut it is nselese 
to try to keep it out ; it will work through sooner or 
later, unless means are taken which will be more trou- 
blesome than making a new cistern. 
Pumping oy Clock -Work.— Geo. E. 
Johnstone, Louisville, asks if it would be practicable 
for a machine run by weights to pump water from a well, 
and to raise in twenty-four hours 100 gallons to a bight 
of 35 feet. — This is perfectly practicable and easy, and a 
machine on the principle of that figured in the Agricul- 
tit?is( of March, 1S72, page 97, to be wound up by a horse, 
might be constructed at a slight cost, that would rnn 
twenty-four hours, and do the work required. 
Weatlier Indicator. — "A-Reader" wants 
a cheap weather indicator that will foretell rain and 
storms. A barometer is the most reliable. The cheap 
weather indicators soon become useless, and are not to 
be depended on at the best. 
Tanning.— U T. S. S." sends the following 
directions for preparing skins when, as it often happens, 
'• brains " can not be procured for dressing them : If the 
skins are dry, soak them two or three days ; then break 
them— that is, rub them on the flesh side with the back 
of a fleshing-knife until they are perfectly soft. Remove 
the hair by immersing them in lime-water. Then steep 
them a week or ten days in a fermenting mixture of 
bran, say two pounds of wheat-bran to every gallon of 
water. Tbcn scrape and clean them, and put them into 
what is called the u white bath," composed, for one hun- 
dred deer or sheep ekins, of a boiling solution of twelve 
to eighteen pounds of alum in twelve gallons of water, 
to which add two and a half pounds salt. Pass the skins 
separately through the bath, and them immerse the 
whole together for ten minutes. A paste is then made, 
by gradually adding, during careful stirring, first fifteen 
pounds of wheat-flour to the above alum bath, gently 
heated, and subsequently the yolks of firty eggs, and thcii 
incorporating the whole thoroughly. The skin^. after 
being passed through {his paste singly, are then trans- 
ferred to it in bulk and left for twenty-four hours. Thi 
are then stretched on poles 1o dry, when they are wc 
on the " softening iron ""—that. is. rub them over a shovel 
or any kind of round iron to stretch them and develop 
whiteness. They will be white as snow and soft ns 
velvet. Color can be imparted with dye stuffs. 
ToKemore a Cow , sHoiti.-''R.M.H." 
wants to cut off a cow's horn which grows too close to 
her face, and wants directions.— If the end of the horn 
only requires removal, merely sawing it ofl' with a fine 
sharp saw will be sufficient. But the lower part of the 
bora is filled with a sensitive cellular substance, and if 
the horn needs cutting there the animal must be secured, 
and when the horn is removed by means of the saw the 
stump must be bound up with a cloth saturated with tar 
to exclude the air, when the wound will gradually heal 
over. The same treatment should be applied to a horn 
broken off at the lower part. 
YfTintriloqiiisni. — " Sailor-boy." This is 
something so far out of our line, that we are unable to 
yon any advice about it. 
Colorado Wheat. — Spring wheat raised 
by irrigation in Colorado the past season, stood five feet 
five inches in bight. 
New York State Poultry Society. 
— The Semi-Annnal Meeting of the New York State 
Poultry Society was held at their rooms, No. 27 Chatham 
street, New York, on Tuesday, July 0th. After some 
preliminary business, it was ** Resolved, That the busi- 
ness of the Poultry Bulletin having become a burden on 
the Executive Committee, arid personally upon the 
Treasurer, if. in the judgment of said Committee, any 
arrangement can be made for the conducting of the 
.Tonrnal by another publisher, they ;.re empowered to 
take any action they deem be st in the premises, consider- 
ing the interests of all concerned.'" The time and place 
for the nest Exhibition were then considered, aud it was 
finally " Resolved* That this Society do not now decide 
upon holding an Exhibition, but that the whole subject 
be rcfeiTed to a special meeting of the Society, to be 
called by the President, and held at Elmira, N. Y., on 
Wednesday, October 2d, at 2 o'clock p.m.. during the 
Annual Fair of the New York State Agricultural Society." 
Piekles. — G. W. Drew, Menomonee Go. f 
Mich., and several others. All that we know about the 
pickles " such as you see in the stores, !n is that they are 
put up in perfectly white vinegar made from whiskey. 
Pickle-making is a trade that has to be learned the same 
as the confectioner's, baker's, or similar trades. If you 
wish to go into the business, it would be best to emploj 
a workman who understands it. 
The Best Breed of Bogs.— "A Sailor- 
boy,'' of Canada, wants a dog of the be6t breed for a 
watch-dog, one that is faithful and kind.— Old Dog Tray 
would just suit him, " 4 for he was faithful, he was kind,** 
but we believe he is dead, unfortunately, and there is no 
help for the sailor-boy but to get a Newfoundland dog. 
But, like all other dogs, they like mutton " ower week" 
Plowing Inder Weeds.-"H.H.E," 
Fennville, Mich., sends us a plan of plowing under weeds 
and long grass, which we supposed everybody knew of^. 
but as he thinks it new perhaps it may be worth repeat- 
ing. It is to hang a chain from the plow-beam near the 
coulter to the right-hand end of the evener, and allowing 
it. to drag in a loop in the furrow, so as just to clear the 
falling earth and drag the weeds under it. 
Level for Irrigation.— "R. Q. T., M 
Fort Collins, C. T., asks if there is any simple instru- 
ment that can be used for taking levels for irrigation, 
which would serve the purpose of the costly surveyor's 
level. A very good substitute for the surveyor's instru- 
ment may be made with a common mason's spirit-level, 
to the ends of which sights, with cross-hairs, may be 
attached. The level maybe rested on a "Jacob-staff," 
or a tripod furnished with a small table at the top. Any 
carpenter cr mechanic can get it up at the expense of 
two or three dollars in addition to the cost of the level. 
Exhibitors at Fairs will find our list of 
coming Fairs on pages 353 and 354. 
