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At least $10,000 will be expended in procuring 
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American Agriculturist during 1 873. Every subscriber 
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Cint. to those in clubs of twenty or more at $1 each. In 
addition, every subscriber will be presented with a 
perfect copy of Rein hart's beautiful $400 painting, •- .}fis- 
chief Bracing'" which will be a charming ornament in 
any home — a picture so much like the original oil 
painting that none but experienced artists will be able 
to detect the difference. 
flints to ^tlannfactnrers of Mow- 
ers, Rakes, etc.— Do s it never occur to those who 
manufacture the various agricultural machines that a 
farmer's time i of value, and that he can not afford to 
spend it uselessly in trying to tighten a nut on a round 
bolt with a ronnd head which turns in the I ole? Now, 
if we 'an not have c qnarc holea and square bolts, ct least 
we could have bolts with square heads by which they 
could he held while the nut is tightened. Farmers lave 
much to complain of, too, in regard to the quality of the 
timber sometimes put into axle-trees and other import- 
ant parts of nv' chines, and in the use of cast-iron of a 
very brittle character in places where it should be t f the 
very toughest kind or at least malleable iron. 
roiilinned Experience in the use of 
the Ave rill Paint confirms the good opinion of it ex- 
pressed in these columns a year or more since. It wears 
Will— equally well or better— with the ordinary white- 
lead and oil paints. Messrs. Brown Brothers, the well- 
known bankers, who formerly used imported white had 
to make sure of a good article, have, after fair trial, 
substituted *he AVerill paint for all their work. Being 
alrea ly mixed iu all desirable shade*, it is a great conve- 
nience to the many who can do their own painting. 
PI tints Earned. — "Virginian Subscriber," 
Clifton, Va-.— No. 1 is Phalaris arundinacea y or Reed 
Canary Grass; there is a striped variety of this culti- 
vated in gardens, known as Ribbon-Grass. No. 2. Dac- 
tylis glomerata, or Orchard-Grass. No. 3. Festuca elatior, 
var. to'iacea* Meadow Fescue. No. 4. Agroxtis alia. 
White Bent Grass. No. 5. Poa pratensis, Kentucky 
Blue Grass J. H. Key, Leonards town, Md.— The 
plant, very poor specimens of which you inclose, is 
CkondriUa juncea, a recent introduction from Europe ; 
as it is a biennial, there need be but little difficulty in 
eradicating it, if it is not allowed to go to seed 
"A.A.L.," New Hampshire.— No. 1. Geumrivale, Purple 
or Water Aveus, a plant with rather pretty maroon-col- 
ored flowers, inhabiting wet places. No, 2. Sarifraga 
Pennsylvania. Swamp Saxifrage. No. 3. Tiarella cordi- 
folia. False Mitre-wort ; does well when cultivated in the 
garden. No. •%. Polygala pau&foUa* Fringed Poly^ala or 
Milkwort ; a very beautiful plant, with lanre rose-colored 
or. a^ sometimes happens, pure white flowers. No. 5. 
JUyosodH jtaJustrts^var. tarn, Foreet-me-not. No. 6. Mus 
cari racemowm, often cultivated in gardens, where it is 
known as Grape Hyacinth. 
TVew Cacnlins. — Mrs. M. Milburn sends 
us specimens of varieties of Cacalia which she claims 
are distinct in color from the old sorts. One, an orange 
scarlet, she says is valuable for dry bouquets. 
Pijrs for Packing - . — A farmer in Boone 
Co., Mo., writes: "I have just finished reading ' Harris 
on the Pig,* with much pleasure and profit. I am satis- 
fied, front my own experience, that he is right as to the 
advantages of crossing the Essex or Berkshire boar 
with the lanre sow, to get the right pig for the packing 
market."— We think the e can be no doubt on this point. 
Pickling- Peaches. — ""Mrs. A. M. B.," a 
Georgia lady, sends the following: Fur two gallons of 
peaches (when peeled) take 1 pt. vinegar, 3 lbs. white 
Sugar, 2 oz. cinnamon, 2 oz. allspice, % oz. cloves— the 
spices most be whole. Pee! the peaches. Use a porce- 
lain-lined kc tie if possible. Dissolve the sugar in the 
vinegar, add the spices, and bring the syrup to a boil. 
Put in as many peaches a~ the liquid will cover, and let 
them cook until clear and tender. Take them out with a 
skimmer and pnt them into your jar. Repeat the opera- 
tion with f r sh peaches until all are done. Lastly, poor 
the hot syrup over them, and keep in a cool place. 
P aches pic':led without peeling are generally tough, 
while these will be found as tender as canned fruit. 
Potatoes in England. — In addition to 
the almost total failure of the fruit crop, noted in another 
item, the English papers bring most unfavorable accounts 
of the potato crop. In almost every qnarter rot is show- 
ing itself and spreading rapidly. The reports say that 
the mining localities where smeltine is going on, and sul- 
phurous and arsenical fumes are abundant, are nearly free 
from disease. 
Alfalfa. — "Subscriber," New Jersey, asks if 
he can sow " Alfalfa grass" seed with onts in the spring, 
instead of timothy, with success. — Such a plan would 
certainly fail. Alfalfa is not a grasp, but is related to 
c'over. It is simply lucern, and need- t > be sown as a 
crop by itself, with the bent of care during its early 
growth until well established. It can not bear crowding 
with other erops or weeds. It is a question whether or 
not it would be best to prepare the ground for the lucern 
alone, in which case the rat crop would have to be aban- 
doned, or sow the oats and timothy as proposed. 
Yonng Rants. — Jas. Moore, Labette Co., 
Kansas, is buying rams for stock purposes, and asks if 
spring lambs, well crown, would do as well as yearlings. 
It would be more profitable to purchase yearlings, one of 
which would be eqnal to three spring lambs, and there 
would be more certainty in their use besides. 
Practical Trout Culture, by J. LT. 
Slack, M.D., Commissioner of Fisheries, N. J., etc. 
New York: Orange Judd &, Co.— We were about to write 
a notice of this work, when a note from the father of fish 
culture in this country, Setli Green, Time to hand. Mr. 
Green writes : " Tour book on Trout Culture is received. 
I have read nearly all of it As far as I have gone, 
it is the best hook on Trout Culture I have seen." The 
work can have no higher commendation than this, and 
wo have only to add that it is abundantly illustrated, and 
sent by mail for $1.50. 
Protection to Native Indnstry. — 
New Hampshire has adopted a law for the protection of 
fanners- agateat rapacious and dishonest manufacturer^of 
artificial manures. Each manufacturer must file a bond 
for ten thousand dollars, payable to the State, to secure 
compliance with the law. which requires that all fertilizers 
offered for sale shall be accompanied by a statement of 
the date of manufacture and the percentage of its valuable 
component parts, and that the article sold shall be iden- 
tical in quality with this published statement'. Besides, 
all dealers in fertilizers shall be licensed. A similar law 
should be made in each and every State. 
The Maaic Sifter. — We have nn inquiry 
for the address of the patentee or manufacturer of the 
" Magic Sifter." If parties who make these things want 
them to becomo popular, why do they not make them, 
known in a proper manner? We can not give the in- 
formation needed. 
Heavy Fleeces.— E. H. Worral, Chester 
Hill, Ohio, sends us a statement of the shearing of a fiock 
of Merinos, consisting of 20 bueks and 60 ewes. The 
wool, mostly unwashed, weighed 10SO pounds, and sold 
for $536. SO, averaging 135$ ponnds in weight and $f..71 in 
money per fleece. The heaviest fleece was that of a two- 
year-old buck, viz., 34W pounds; the heaviest ewe's- 
fleece was from a two-year-old, and weighed 21 >£ pounds. 
One yearling buck sheared 19}£ pounds. 
Carrots and Parsnips. — "W*. S.,"0., 
who has been vanquished as a potato-grower by the bogs, 
asks if carrots and parsnips pay to raise for market.— 
With the simile exception of not being in such regular 
demand, we have found them a far more profitable and 
advantageous crop cither to sell or feed than potatoes. 
Jftalt-Jfeanovr >Incl*.— " A Subscriber," 
Suffolk Co., L. I., asks what is ihe best use that can be 
made of salt-meadow muck. The best way to use it is 
to haul it into the barn-yard, and compost it with the 
manure in the proportion of one load clear manure to ten 
loads of muck. In the absence o. the stable manure it 
may be composted with 1'me in !be proportion of one 
bushel to the load, and used as a ton dressing for crass or 
clover. It will beof vary little use spread in a fresh state. 
Summer Fed for 47bw*«'— J. T. Gor- 
don, Ashland, Va., wants to know what feed he shall 
give a cow which he is forced to keep in a dry lot. so 
that her milk will not fall off". lie can get plenty of mill- 
feed and wild hay, but the green feed from the garden has 
given out. — This is a diffieult business to manage. Milk 
can not be looked for, nnless fresh succulent feed is given, 
and wild hay will not satisfy a cow which has been used 
to croon fodder. But it might answer to ent the bay ami 
mix it with feed and bran, and scald it, and feed it when 
cooled; there will be some fermentation, which will 
make it more palatable. 
Use the Roller.— A coarse, lumpy soil is 
not favorable to a successful wheat crop. It requires a 
compact yet well-pulverized soil. This may he made to 
some extent by rolling ; in fact, this is the only resource 
now, at this season of the year. A rolling given to the 
young wheat will compact the soil about the roots, and 
tend to give them a hold sufficient to resist a good deal of 
freezing and thawing. 
Advertisements worth Reading. 
— Our newer readers may perhaps not understand that 
very great care is taken to exclude from the pases of 
the American Agriculturist all advertisers and all adver- 
tisements that, will be likely to deceive the readers. Xo 
patent medicines are admitted on any term?. It is our 
constant aim to exclude all humbugs and all advertise- 
ments deceptive in form or substance. It is not enough 
that an advertiser pays for space. Our rules say: 
" Every advertiser unknown to the editors personally, or 
by good repute, mu t furnish satisfactory evidence that 
he has not only the ability but the intention to do what he 
promises to do in his advertisement."' In short, we would 
not knowingly admit any advertiser to whom wc would 
not ourselves send money in advance, with an order, if 
we happened to want the things advert iaed. and at the 
price asked for them. In this way wc hope not only to 
make the advertising columns valuable to good business 
men, but also to guard the interest of onr readers, and to 
make the advertising pages a valuable source of informa- 
tion — almost or quite as much so as even the reading 
columns. This strictness cuts us off from a large revenue, 
because the class rejected arc just those who can and do 
pay the highest prices, as they can well afford to, because 
they give little of value in their medicines, wares, etc. 
Cut we feel well repaid for the loss, in the cousciomn ss 
of doing an honorable business, and it is a sonrce of 
satisfaction to have such testimony as that given by 
Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Co., t!:c great Advertising 
Agents, who recently said to one of their customers : " It 
is very difficult to get an advertisement into the Agricul- 
turist ; probably no other journal in the land has laid 
down stricter rules or more persistently adhered to them 
through a long course of years." 
