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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
Of letter* from various, places in Texas show that the 
quack Dr. F. E Andrews, or Lexington avenue N. Y.. 
aim- Albai y, X. Y.. is just now vigorously operating in 
that State with his humbugs, his "Good Samaritan.'* 
" American College of Health," etc.. etc. '" Dr n. M. 
Brown,'" ol Albany, X. Y., may be Andrews under an- 
other name, or a brother quack. Let them both alone, 
and burn all their circulars that are thrust into yonr 
hands Five hundred letters of commendation will 
not whitewash "Rev. Edward Wilson" into anything 
less than an old swindler. The "Golden Remedies," 
Enquired about by several, are nonsensical quackery 
Our Humbug Drawer for this month contains 43 differ- 
ent names ol swindlers. The "263 Lof.ery of the Free 
City of Hamburg '" is a swindle, at least so far as any 
agency in the t". S. is concerned The "X. Y. Loan 
Brokers' Colon,*' R H. Lewis, manager, 4 Bond street, 
N. Y., is a humbug, as before stated Pardee, of 
Binghamton, X. Y., was still selling his humbug tick- 
ets, etc.. as late as October 23d. Why don* t the good 
people of Binghamton drive this nuisance out of their 
midst ? They are in danger of getting as bad a reputa- 
tion as New York Don't be humbugged into sending 
money for watches to any but well-known, reputable par- 
ties. A large share of that sent to our large cities in 
answer to circulars is never heard of again, and so much 
of it as is heard from is poorly recompensed. The stories 
about failing firms, etc.. etc.. is all humbug. Good 
watches, like good gold coin, never go begging cus- 
tomers at half-price Xo decent person of common 
sense will rive the slightest heed to the circulars of C. 
Sheldon & Co.. Hoboken, X. J., or any one of his class 
who pretend to be such great friends to the married and 
inferentiallv. to the vicious unmarried To T. E., of 
Pennsylvania, and others: These various eye-doctors, 
eye-sight restorers, etc., are merely advertisers of cheap 
spectacles. Go to the nearest village, and you can try 
and be fitted with glasses even' way as good, at a quar- 
ter of the cost, and with more certainty. We are tired 
of chasing up every advertising swindle of this kind after 
having looked into merits of a score or more of them, 
and find them all e/e-merits To E. H. M., New York : 
Xo circular was inclosed. The syrup is doubtless 
quackery. The swindling fraternity have, in one way and 
another, got the P. O. address of most persons in the 
V. S. They sell and " sw3p " lists of these names among 
themselves and with quack-doctors, etc The 
"Queer" or "Sawdust" swindlers are brisk at work, 
adopting a great variety of names to deceive the P. O. 
people, who try to keep letters from those known or be- 
lieved to be chcits. The fellow operating in this line 
sends out, among others, the following names as his ad- 
dress: At ?A Amity street, X Y.-n. L Barnard; K. P. 
Douglass; Geo. Savon - ; L. F. Harness; M L Keiley; 
N. L Werner • F. H. Park : L. P. Benchley ; H. J. 
Keenc: Clias. W. Young; K. G. Pott: H. W. Elston ; 
E S Hale ; L. F Stark ; Elbert Putnam ; G. E. Sturtevant ; 
F. P. Waltc: s ; G. L. Demey ; Ben. L. Crowe. At 609 Broad- 
way.— Col. James Warlow ; Thos. Jackson; E. C. Catlin ; 
OlisT. Bender; S W. Westervelt; K. M. Walters; Isaac 
S. Lewis ; Edwin Virgil ; Arthur Debenham, 100 Broad- 
way. Also Reid. Delafield &, Co., S3 Broadway. X. Y., 
and New Haven. Ct. ; David W. Coles. 207 3d ave. ; Myron 
F. Brittell & Co., 30 Bond st. ; W. H. Malcolm, 63 -1th 
ave., etc., etc. All the above use essentially the same 
circulars We have not room for a lot more of hum- 
bugs on hand, but will renew the war upon them in the 
next volume, and, as hitherto, we expect to shield at 
least all our readers from swindlers, and through them 
many other people. 
Parsnip Seed. — u C. C. M." Leave the 
roots in the eronnd until spring, then dig. Select 
the best, and set them out to bear seed. If there are wild 
parsnips in the neighborhood, there is danger that they 
will cross with the cultivated ones, and deteriorate the 
seed. This may have been the cause of your trouble. 
Evergreen-Tree* from I he Woods. 
— W. Oldfield. Canada. Evergreens from the woods need 
care the first year. Take thetn up and set them in rows 
close together, and put over a rough shelter— a rail plat 
form, covered with boughs, and a foot or two above the 
trees, will answer. Those that survive a season under 
this treatment, maybe set out the next year, and be quite 
sore to live. Yon can judge whether it would be cheaper 
for you to take this trouble, or to purchase trees at the 
price named. 
Carina-*.- (t L. A. G.," Vernon, N. Y. The 
rooti shonld be dua before the stems are fairly cut down 
by fro*t. When the stem* are snhjected to hard frost, the 
roots soon decay. We find that the roots do not keep 
well in the cellar, and shall try them in a drier place. 
Borers. — " J. K. B." We doubt the efficacy 
of any external application after the borer has entered 
the tree. They may be of use. at the proper season, to 
prevent the deposition of eggs. Remove the earth around 
the base of the trees, and search for the holes. Often 
they may be cut out with a knife, but if they have entered 
too deeply, a wire-probe must be used. Sometimes it is 
necessary to cut the wood away with a gouge, before the 
grub is reached, hut the cutting will not be equal in In- 
jury to that done by the borer. Well-rotted stable manure, 
ashes, or lime arc best manures. 
Oroiind-Tinery.— "AV. (X," Quebec. We 
do not know of any one who has tried to growexotie 
grapes in ground-vineries so far north, but we think the 
probabilities are in favor of success. We figured the 
ground-vinery in June, 1S6G, 
Yinegrar Eels.— " II. L. D-," Oswego, N. 
Y. The so-called eels are worms, and are called by nam 
ralists Anguiilula acdi. There are several species, some 
being found in vinegar, some in porter and other ferment- 
ed liquors, and others in wet moss and moist earth. The 
only way that we know of, to get rid of them, is to heat 
the vinegar to the boiling point, but it is not likely that 
thi- will prevent others from breeding after a while. The 
mannerof the production and reproduction of low forms 
of animal life related to these vinegar eels is a subject of 
scientific controversy, and one too wide for our limits. 
Peaches Tor Canada.— U W. O," Qne 
bee. Probably no variety of peach will endure your win- 
ters, no matter how well protected by evergreens When 
the mercury goes 12° below zero, thefrnit buds an 1 usually 
destroyed. You can grow peaches in boxes or tubs, and 
remove them to the cellar in wiuter. We can not answer 
the other question. 
Spreading Mannro.-'J. C,"Ridgway, 
Minn., asks if it is best to spread manure direct from the 
wa^on in the fall of the year for plowing in for corn, or 
let it He in heaps.— Don't by any means let it lie in heaps. 
but spread direct from the wagon. It saves labor, and 
the *n*ound is more equally fertilized. 
Cross-Harrowing,-" M. B.," Brush Val- 
ley, Pa., sends us a method by which he cross-harrowed 
bis field with only half as much turning of the team as by 
the usual method. He commenced at one corner and 
crossed the field diagonally to the opposite corner, turned 
to the left and returned, then turned at right angles unti 1 
he reached the edge of the field at his left hand, then re- 
turned alongside of bis first stroke to the end of it, then 
turned at risht angles until he reached the fence at his 
left hand again, and so on, going continually round the 
field diagonally, when he finished at a corner, and the 
ground had been passed over twice and no hoof-marks 
were left on the field. 
Cord-wood Sticks for Hay.— Those 
Northern farmers who put sixty pounds of wood in the 
bales of hay sent to Texas, which the Texan planters 
think not so kind treatment as they might naturally be 
led to expect, shonld remember that though euch con- 
duct may be profitable, it is not neighborly. 
Lolling; of the Ton-ue.- 1 L. W. TV ., " 
Defiance Co.. Ohio, informs " O. C. S." how to cure a 
horse that carries his tongue out— viz. : Rivet a section 
of a knife from a mowing-machine on hi s bit: dull the 
edges, and make everything smooth. The knife running 
up in his month prevents him from drawing his tongue 
far enongh back to get it over the bit. Carelessness in 
breaking colts is the cause of it. He has just finished 
breaking a colt that had this habit, ne broke him by 
taking a strong rubber tape, sewing a buckle on one end, 
and running it through the rings in the hit and over his 
nose, tight enough to bold the bit up against the roof of 
his month. He thinks the rubber would not cure an old 
horse of the habit, although he never tried it; but the 
knife will prevent it as long as it is used. 
Hondan FowIs.-'An Old Subscriber" 
asks if Houdan fowls have mnffl's in front of the neck 
as shown in the illustration < f a trio in the Agriculturist 
of March, 1S71.— This is indispensable in pure-bred fowls. 
Sundry Questions.—" Wm. T. O .*' Bun 
combeCo., N. C. asks a* follows— viz. : 1st. What is the 
difference in value between le .ched and unleashed wood- 
ashes on a wheat crop ? 2d. What i the best way «'f re- 
ducing bones to fine dust where there is no bone-mill? 
Sd, Is not $00 per ton sufficient freight on fertilizers for 
1,000 miles? 4th. What is the best and cheapest way, 
and what is the cost, of transporting a mare from Liver- 
pool to North Carolina t 5th. What is the co^t of a -jood 
drill to sow seeds and fertilizers at the same time ? 6th. 
What is the chemical operation of burnt clay used as a 
manure for turnips? 7th. What is the rate of import 
duty on English farm implements, new or second-hand? 
— Replies: 1st. Vuleached are worth double the leached 
2d. There is no ready way. 3d. If they could be carried 
in bulk in large quantities. Yes; if cot. No. 4th. By 
steamer to New Vi rk. thence by steamer to Wilmington, 
N. C. The pas^ai?.' costs from $3.i, gold, upwards, with 
fare of attendant, $Sft, and feed additional ; total, proba- 
bly imt less than $200. gold, if not more. 5th $90. 6th. 
Potash is released and rendered soluble. 7th. Forty per 
cent ad valorem. 
Question for Decision. — 'J. D. II." asks 
the following question: At an agricultural fair a pre- 
mium is offered for the " best coop of chickens, not less 
than three varieties, and three of each.* 1 The only coop 
ci the ground that contained three fowls of each of three 
varieties was one with five light ttrahmas. four dark 
Brahmas. and three half-bred Houdaua. Was this coop en- 
titled to the premium '•— We should Bay it was. unless 
the judges, as the; sometimes do, reserved the righi to 
refuse a premium when in their opinion th" specimens 
exhibited ar<> unworthy. But unless this is expressly de- 
clared and understood, it leads to dissatisfaction and ill- 
feeling, which should be avoided. 
Crushing: Bone<».- l 'Wm. A.." Gainesville, 
Va., wants to know all abont crushing and reducing 
bones for manure, and if a two-horse railway power is 
sufficient to run a bone-mill.— There was a crusher fig- 
ured in the Agriculturist oCSovcmWr, 1871, which could be 
run by such a power if the number of stamps were re- 
duced to two or three. The ordinary bone-milts require 
five-horse power to run them. The methods of reducing 
bones with snlphuric acid or with alkalies have been 
so often described that almost any back number of the 
Agriculturist coutains one or other equally effective 
method. 
Ho-%v to Hanaffe a. I*ot of CalTes. 
— "Young Farmer" has a lot of yearlings, which he 
wants to feed as cheaply as possible on corn-stalks and 
corn. lie wants information on the subject.— We once 
fed twenty-four Lead of calves and yearlings in the fol- 
lowing manner: A shed, fifty feet long, was furnished 
with a feeding trough to which access could be had from 
the front. The trough was divided into partitions, so 
that the animals could not crowd each other, and each 
had a feeding place from which it could not be ejected by 
the others. Corn-stalks were cut and wetted and mixed 
with corn-meal and wheat-bran, ground together in equal 
parts, and salted; and half a bnshel per head was fed 
twice a day. Each animal had two quarts per day of the 
meal and bran. Plenty of straw was thrown into the 
Ehed. and none removed until sprint, when there was 
three feet in deprh of well-rotted mannre which had not 
frozen at all, taken out. and which paid for all the feed 
the calves consumed. R^nlnr cnrryin<r, and exercise in 
the yard through the day when they wished, kept them 
in good health. We know of no belt r plan. 
Books Received. 
The Polytechnic and Tlie Athenaeum are both new col- 
lections of music, the first containing selections for 
schools, and the other part songs for female voices. J. 
W. Schemerhorn & Co. $1.-25 each. 
Object -teaching Aids. J. V7. Schemerhorn & Co.. New 
York, send a catalogue of a i_-reat nnmherof rurions and 
useful appliances for the instruction of children. 
MonteUh*s Comprehensive Geography. A. S. B-imes A 
Cm. send us a copy of tbie • ■ w school-hook, which has 
much to commend it to teacher- and ol 
llobb^t Architect me, by Isaac II. Hobbs & Sen. Lippin- 
cott & Co., Philadelphia. A handsome volume, contain- 
ing a large number of designs in various styles of archi- 
tecture, [twill he found useful to architects and those 
who intend ;o build. 
Dick** Bncydapedia of Practical Receipts, by William B. 
Dick, published by Dick & Fitzgerald. This is a compi- 
lation of over 6,000 receipts or recipes, covering every 
lira cli of art. The value of such a work, like that of a 
dictionary, can only he ascertained from actual use. T1il> 
contents seem to be carefully classified, and to be i 
taincd from the best snurr.-*. and th- whole is] 
in a handsome volume of C07 pages. 
Tht In lepend* (Child's Speller. A juvenile book, which 
teaches a child to spell by the use <-f script, or writing 
letters, which allows writing to be taught with spelling. 
A. S. Barnes: ftCo. i"5c nts. 
Hie Const 'it ''■!},„, (if (he United 67o/«t, witha concordance 
and classified index. This seems to be a most carefully 
prepared and useful work. The index allows reference 
to 1" readily made to any article or section. The author 
is Charles W. Stearns. M.D. Published by Mason. Baker 
& Pratt, New York. 
