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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
FultonCo Lafayette Oct. 11-14 
Gasconade Co Herman Sept. 13-14 
Grundy Co Trenton Oct. 13-14 
Johnson Co Warrenburg Sept. 27-30 
Jefferson Co De Soto Aug. 30, Sept. 2 
La Fayette Co Lexington Oct. 11-15 
Lewis Co La Grange Sept. 19-23 
Monroe Co Paris Sept. 13-17 
Marion Co Hannibal Sept. 26, Oct. 1 
Montgomery Montgomery Co.. .Sept. 27, Oct. 1 
Montgomery Co New Florence Sept. 27, Oct. 1 
North-eastern Paris Sept. 13-17 
North Missouri Salisbury Sept. 13-17 
Pike Co Louisiana Sept. 26, Oct. 1 
Kaudolph Co Huntsville Aug. 31, Sept. 3 
St. Louis Co St. Louis Oct. 3-8 
Shelby Co Shelbyville Oct. 10-14 
Vernon Co Nevada Oct. 11-15 
"Warrren Co Warrenton Oct. 12-15 
Webster Co Marshrleld Sept. 27-30 
Washington Co Potosi Sept. 20-22 
KENTUCKY. 
Bourbon Co Paris Sept. 6- 9 
Boone Co Florence Aug. 30, Sept. 3 
Fayette Co Lexington Sept. 27, Oct. 2 
Harrison Co Cynthiana Sept. 13-16 
Jeff. Co., & Louisville. .Louisville Sept. 13-17 
Lexington Ag'l & Mech.Lexington Sept. 27, Oct. 1 
Mason and Bracken Germautown Sept. 20 
Mercer Co Harrodsburgh Sept. 6- 9 
Marion Co Lebanon Aug. 30. Sept.. 3 
Nelson Co Bardstown , Sept. 27, Oct. 1 
Ohio Co Hartford Oct. 4 
Paducah & McCracken . Padncah Oct. 11-14 
Shelby Co Shelbyville. Aug. 30, Sept. 2 
Simpson Co Franklin Sept. 6- 9 
Warren Co Bowling Green . Aug. 30. Sept. 2 
Washington Co Springfield Sept. 27-30 
WISCONSIN. 
Beaver Dam Dodge Co Sept. 22^24 
Columbia Co Portage Sept. 21 
Dane Co Madison Sept. 20-22 
Dodge Co Juneau. Sept. 13-15 
Fond du Lac Co Fond du Lac Sept. 13-15 
Grant Co Lancaster Sept. 14-16 
Green Lake Co Markesan Sept. 15-16 
Jefferson Co Jefferson Sept. 21-22 
Kenosha Bristol Station Sept. 20-21 
Lafayette Co Lancaster Sept. 15-17 
Northern Wis Oshkosh Oct. 3-7 
Outagamie Co Appleton Sept. 15-17 
Richland Co Richland Centre Oct. 6- 7 
Ripon Fond dn Lac Co Sept. 20-22 
South-western Mineral Point 
Vernon Co Viroqua Oct. 5- 7 
Walwortli Co Elkhorn. . . Oct. 4- 6 
Waupun Fond du Lac Co Sept. 14-10 
Wisconsin Valley Black Earth Sept. 
MINNESOTA. 
OlmsteadCo Rochester Sept. 21-22 
Fillmore & Mower Co's.St. Charles Sept. 28-29 
Blue Earth Co Garden City Sept. 14-16 
NEBRASKA. 
Douglas Co Omaha Sept. 13-15 
KANSAS. 
Anderson Co Garnet ...Oct. 5-7 
Doniphan Co Troy Sept. 14-17 
Franklin Co Ottawa Sept. 14-17 
Leavenworth Co Leavenworth Sept. 13-16 
Jackson Co Holtou .Sept. 15-17 
Jefferson Co Oskaloosa. . . , Sept. 5- 7 
Northern Kansas Atchison Oct. 5- 7 
TENNESSEE. 
Haywood Co «-. .Brownsville Oct. 18-22 
Robertson Co Springfield Oct. 14-17 
Shelby Co Memphis Oct. 18-21 
GEORGIA. 
Putnam Co 
Muscogee Co 
. .Eatoutou. . . 
. . . Columbus . . 
ALABAMA. 
..Oct. 12-14 
.Nov. 1- 5 
Cent'l Ag'l & Mech'l ..Selnm Nov. : -11 
Lauderdale Co Florence — 
MISSISSIPPI. 
AttalaCo Pilgrim'sRestChurch.Nov. 9- 
Jefferson Co Fayette Oct. 1S-21 
VIRGINIA. 
Lynchburg 
Shenandoah Valley 
South-west Va... 
.Oct. 
Columbia District. 
. ..Wythevflle Oct. 
OREGON. 
. . Dalles, Wasco Co. Sept. 28, 
TEXAS. 
Washington Co .Brenham Oct. 
CALIFORNIA. 
St. Joaquin Stockton Sept. 
DOMINION OF CANADA, ETC. 
Ottawa, Ont Sept. 
E. Middlesex & Loudon, London, Ont Sept- 
Prince Edward's Island, Summerside Oct. 
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Oct. 
11-14 
4- 7 
Oct. 1 
11 
20-23 
21-28 
27-29 
7- S 
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Atteinlijsg; the Fairs. — One of the great- 
est swindles is the " Dining-Hall" at a fair. Large prices 
are charged for very poor food, and the crowd and dis- 
comfort are intolerable. One by providing i. lunch be- 
forehand can be sure of something clean and eatable, and 
save not only money but a great amount of annoyance. 
WAR 
U 
Thirty Year's War." 
The people of Europe are at "war with each 
other — for AVhat ? We have been fighting for a 
long time, and we are soon to enter upon our 
Thirtieth Year of Unceasing War ! 
We are making war upon Ignorance ; Avar upon 
Poor Crops; Avar upon Unprofitable Labor; 
Avar upon Poor Housekeeping; Avar upon " all 
work and no play," among young people as 
Avell as old ; Avar upon Humbugs ; etc., etc., etc. 
We are righting for the best interests of all Avho 
till the soil in large or small quantities; for the 
cheapest and best in-door and out-door adorn- 
ment of Country, Village, and City Homes; for 
lightening the cares and labors of the House- 
keeper; for the instruction and amusement of the 
Children; and, having been ahvays victorious 
thus far, avc shall enter upon our Thirtieths 
Annual Campaign with great confidence, 
and courage, and determination, and come out 
victorious at the end of another year. We in- 
vite KEW RECRUITS to our grand, vic- 
torious army of Headers — by the thousand, by 
the ten thousand, and by the hundred thousand. 
A "BOUNTY" is offered to the first Re- 
cruits on page 328. 
containing a great vanety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewltere. 
Postage IS Cent* a Year in Ad- 
vance. —The postage on the American Agriculturist 
anywhere in the United States and Territories, paid in 
advance, is 3 cents a quarter, 12 cents a year. If not paid 
in advance, twice these rates may be charged. 
ISo-*v to EEe»i3t s— Cheeks on -tfew 
York Banks or Bankers are best for large sums ; 
made payable to the order of Orange Jncld <fc Co. 
l*ost-Officc Money Orders may be obtain- 
ed at nearly every county-seat, in all the cities, and in 
many of the large towns. Wc consider them perfectly 
safe, and the best means of remitting lifty dollars or less, 
as thousands have been sent to us wit/tout any loss. 
Registered ]Letteirs 9 iiaaclei" the jacw 
system, which went into effect Oct. 1, 1S6S, are a very 
safe means of sending small sums of money where P. O. 
Money Orders cannot be easily obtained. Observe, the 
Registry fee, as well as postage, must be paid in stamps at 
the office Avhere the letter is mailed, or it will be liable 
to "be sent to the Dead-Letter Office. Buy and affix the 
stamps both for postage and registry, put in tlie money, and 
seal tlie letter in the presence of the postmaster, and talce his 
for it. Letters thus sent to us are at our risk. 
C'Inhs can at any time be increased by remitting 
for each addition the price paid by the original members, 
if the subscriptions all date at the same starting point. 
The back numbers will, of course, be sent to added names. 
Bound Copies of Volume X\YIH 
(1669) are now ready. Price, $3, at our office ; or §2.50 
each, if sent by mail. Any of the previous twelve volumes 
(16 to 28) will be forwarded at the same price. Sets of 
numbers sent to our office will be neatly bound in onr 
regular style at 75 cents perA'ol., (50 cents extra, if return- 
ed by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12 cents each. 
Three Months 9 Siahseriptiou. Free, 
is offered on page 32S, to new subscribers receiA'ed this 
month. The publishers desire to secure the attention of 
as many new readers as possible, before the beginning 
of the new volume. Each new reader induced to come 
in now, by means of this extra offer, will be likely to en- 
list still others for the next volume, so that the expense 
will, in part at least, be made up. The paper ought to 
have at least a quarter of a million subscribers to begin 
for the next volume. 
Please Notice. — Letters asking advice 
whether one shall buy a farm here or there, whether one 
is likely to do well in this or that specidation, whether 
one had better pull up stakes and move to another place, 
and letters asking us to find employment fur the Avritere, 
have become so numerous that we must make this general 
answer. We will ask each of these persons who write 
for advice as to whether they shall engage in this or that 
pursuit, make this or that move, buy or sell this or that 
property, Avhat answer he would make if a perfect 
stranger applied to him. 'Would he not say, "I must 
know the man and all about his antecedents and present 
circumstances before I can make an opinion.' 1 — It may 
seem unkind to refuse advice in these cases, but it is far 
better than to advise blindly. Letters asking us for em- 
plojinent are a waste of paper and postage. "We have a 
hundred applications from personal friends for every va- 
cancy that occurs or is likely to occur in our own estab- 
lishment—and we cannot look up places outside. 
A Grape Exhibition iin IVew York. 
—Messrs. B. K. Bliss & Sons propose holding au exhibi- 
tion of Grapes late in September Liberal prizes will be 
offered, Avhich will be awarded by a committee of pomol- 
ogists from different parts of the country. Circulars giv- 
ing full particulars may be had by applying to B. K. Bliss 
& Sons, 23 Park Place. 
I\c>vspaper Enterprise.— The resources 
of a large newspaper were never more strikingly shown 
than by the X. Y. Tribune at the breaking out of the war 
in Europe. The declaration of hostilities came with 
great suddenness, but it found The Tribune prepared 
with a correspondent at every important point upon each 
side of the line. The war news of this paper for com- 
pleteness and promptness has been amarvel ; and Ave trust 
the publishers haA - e been rewarded for their enterprise. 
Eastern and LVestern Agricultur- 
al Papers. — The Western Farmer, Madison, Wis., in 
a well considered article, enters its protest against the 
course of the Western agricultural papers towards those 
published at the East. The only feeling that we have in 
the matter is one of regret, when we see editors whom 
we would like to respect, engaged in aAvholesale crusade 
against Eastern papers. The "Western Farmer sensibly 
says: "Making a personal case of the matter we say 
that if any Western farmer thinks an Eastern paper will 
be more useful to him than ours, we wish him to take it 
by all means. A good Eastern agricultural paper is of 
much value to an intelligent farmer, even in the North- 
west, and if such a farmer, after a fair trial of the two, 
concludes that a paper designed more especially for the 
East will suit him better than ours, designed especially 
for the West, Ave will certainly not discourage his taking 
the paper of his choice." — We may add that the Western 
Farmer gives emphasis to the above by making an able 
and well-conducted paper. 
Wheat and Corn in Virginia. — A 
correspondent puts the whole story in a nutshell, thus: 
Some scratch in Avheat in October or November, and 
make sorry crops, others here plow early, and Avill soav 
in September and make 40 bushels per acre. Some corn- 
fields contending with grass, briers and bushes, yield 
from 5 to 15 bushels per acre, other fields upon which 
nothing but the corn is suffered to grow, will yield 40 to 
60 bushels. Few will learn the great advantage of thor- 
ough cultivation. 
Cntting- an«l €«ring Xohac-eo. — No 
plant is so sensitive to frost, or more thoroughly ruined 
by freezing. Saws, hatchets, and corn-knives, are all ad- 
A'ocated for cutting up tobacco. A good, heavy corn-knife 
is handy enough. Tobacco should not be handled until it 
is wilted. Lay the plant down and turn it, once, after one 
side has felt the sun for au hour or more. Handle by the 
buts with great care. The plants mnsi be immediately 
suspended, not close enough to crowd each other, and so 
close that the room shall be well economized. They must 
