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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
the same address as that of J. A. Dodge above. This 
illustration gives one of the modes of operation, and 
shows how much reliance is to he placed upon 
these "§1,000 a day, or year," advertisements An 
ingenious swindler prints off some very plausible, well 
executed lithographic letters, and scatters them at the 
West signing to different lots of the same very " confi- 
dential" letter one of the following names: John F. 
Hamilton, 212 Broadway, and 73 Nassau St.— Eob't. H. 
Holland, 142 Fulton st.— Thos. W. Pierce, SO Nassau St.— 
Edward Palmer, jr., Bergen Point N. J.-¥m. B. Logan, 
15 Butch st.— "Win. J. Ferguson, 104 Broadway, etc., etc. 
Adam Smith is in the same line of swindling. He 
calls himself "Printer and Stationer, 210 Broadway, JSf. 
Y."— a favorite address with humbugs. This Adam 
wont lake any letters nor money from the Post-Office — it 
must always come by express for the good reason that 
he can't get letters Many inquiries come to ns res- 
pecting a Connecticut vinegar recipe, for which $5.00 is 
asked. It goes largely on the recommendation of two Col- 
lege Professors, whose names we are sorry to see on any 
business circular, unless necessary to the introduction of 
something of the highest utility and importance to the 
country. Their names were doubtless given in this in- 
stance without considering how widely they were to be 
used, and for what purpose. We hope they will personally 
test the process, carefully and accurately, and in compari- 
son with the old processes, and let us know the result. 
Cider, wine, and sundry other substances arc converted 
into vinegar by exposure to air. The change is hastened, 
on a large or small scale, by letting the cider, etc., trickle 
slowly through barrels of shavings, with many holes in 
the barrels to admit air freely. It is a simple easy pro- 
cess, entirely effective, and is practised on a large scale 
in some factories, especially in Europe. The new pro- 
cess we understand to be an arrangement of inclined 
shelves to secure a similar result. Of its utility, especial- 
ly to the masses who are led to pay $5 each, we have no 
definite testimony froni uninterested, intelligent parties 
who have given it a thorough, practical and comparative 
trial Henry P. Jones & Co. are the most generous 
"gift enterprise" men we have ever heard of. They of- 
fer to send a §150 watch to a man for simply " accepting"" 
an agency, and they say nothing about any money in ad- 
vance, or any "C.O.D." If there is not a very large cat 
in that meal tub, we agree to not repeat what we now af- 
firm, that aW" gift enterprises," this one included, from 
beginning to end, from top to bottom, from side to side, 
all through and all round, are neither more nor less than 
lotteries, and that all lotteries are swindles, bad in their 
tendency and results upon every participator — the fortu- 
nate ones, so-called, (when there are any), as well as the 
unfortunate so-called. H. H. Wodsworth & Co., also of 
Broadway, 3S". T., appear to be just like Jones «fc Co 
We would strongly object to the " annexation " of Cuba, 
if compelled to take the "Havana Lotteries" with it. — 
Jas. L. Bndd, of Broadway, N. Y., is not only interfering 
with Taylor, he of .Wall st., Havana Lottery "author- 
ized agency," but lie is making cither himself or the lot- 
tery ridiculous. In a neatly litographecl letter, he literal- 
ly implores lots of people to send him §10 each, for tick- 
ets, promising each one to almost certainly select tickets 
that will draw $10,003. Now the lottery must be very nil- 
fair, if any one man can get so many $10,000 tickets as 
Biuld has promised to his §10 customers. 2d, Bndd is 
a big fool, if he knows what tickets will draw $10,000, in 
that he don't buy them himself or by proxy, and not be 
sending round the country to pick up $10 at a time. — 
Query. Has Mr. Eudd any genuine Havana tickets at all ? 
Query 2d. Does anyone know of any lottery that gives 
its customers a fair, fully equitable chance? We don't, 
though we have carefully studied out a good many, for the 
purposes of this column To S. W., and others: You 
will find the recipe sellers attended to on page 240 (July 
No.) New Hampshire and Maine have an undue share 
of these operators Mr. W. E. Hamlin, P. M. of Ster- 
ling, Wayne Co., Pa., gives us full details of the opera- 
tions of a medium sized, wooden-legged man, that came 
into that town, and by professing to be agent of a Dental 
Association, and other subterfuges, got many dollars out 
of the people in advance for promised work, spoiled 
many teeth, and left without paying board, horse keep, or 
even his washer-woman. We have not room for more 
particulars. No real dental association sends out agents. 
Look out fur this chap elsewhere. If he appears any- 
where, get him into the hands of the Sterling, Pa., peo- 
ple John F.Boyd ctfers to send Three "American 
Patented Watches " for $5, or $3 C.O.D., if $1 be sent in 
advance. He shows his cloven foot in telling you that 
these watches " are just the thing " to barter or " swop " 
with, etc. The $1 in advance is what he is after 
Look out for Pocket Microscopes until you know what 
you are buying. Thousands of bits of globular glass, set 
in a scrap of paste-board, have been sold at $1 to $2 each, 
to persons at a distance sending money by mail, and hav- 
ing no redress. They can be made at a profit for 2 cents 
each, and are of little account — will do for a plaything. 
Tfiae JPiiblishcrs oS" tlie Amerkau 
Jkg-ricultiii-ist, £ox m Sept- only, Offici- 
al Months Subscription for © 9 
As follows: JEfoeryHew /Subscriber for 
the Thirtieth Annual Volume {all of 
1871), whose subscription is received dur- 
ing this month of September, will be 
presented with the paper for October, No- 
vember, and December without Charge* 
N.B. — Subscribers too distant to respond to this before 
Oct. 1, will be allowed extra time to send in the names. 
THIS IS ONLY 
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or 
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or 
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Explanations. 
First : Single subscribers pay §1.50 per vol- 
ume; but a siew subscriber sent in now for 
1871, gets the paper 15 months, Trliicli is at the 
rate of only $1.20 a year, or 10 cents a month ! 
Second : Four subscribers sent together 
pay $5 per volume ; but four new subscribers 
sent in noio for 1871, get the paper 15 months 
for the same price, which is at the rate of only 
$1 a year, or 8M3 cents per month for each. 
TJlir«l : Ten subscribers sent together, pay 
§12 per volume ; but ten new subscribers sent 
in now for 1871, get the paper 15 months for 
the same price, which is at the rate of only 9G 
cents a 3 7 ear, or 8 cents per month for each. 
Fonrtli ; Twent}' subscribers, sent togeth- 
er, pay $20 per volume; but twenty new sub- 
scribers sent in now for 1S71, get the paper J5 
months for the same price, which is only 80 cts. 
a } r ear, or 6 2 |g cents a month for each! 
Can any thing be Cheaper ? Any one will see 
that these prices scarcely cover the cost of the 
printing paper ; but no matter about that. We 
invite all the world and the rest of mankind to 
come forward and avail themselves of these of- 
fers. We are able to make them good, and will 
do so, and give a paper not only as large and as 
good as now, but just as much better as human 
skill, and effort, and labor, and care, cau make. 
The Flora of C»Iorado.-N. C. Meeker 
writes to the N. T. Tribune from the new colony of 
Greeley, Colorado: " The flora of this and of the moun- 
tain region is varied and rich, and it is airnost wholly 
new. Many of the common plants growing hy the road- 
side are surprising for variety and rich coloring, and of 
these there are constant successions. I am entirely con- 
vinced that a florist would do a grand hnsiness in culti- 
vating and improving the finest sorts for our Eastern 
market, and that they will he received with a wonder 
equal to that with which many varieties, now well estab- 
lished, were received from over sea."— All of this means 
that the plants are new to N. C. M. We should he de- 
lighted to see some of these " wholly now" plants, and 
will give $5 for a dried specimen of any species that has 
not heen heretofore described. We douht if there is a 
single plant in the whole vicinity worth cultivating, that 
is not in the botanical gardens of England, France, Prus- 
sia, and Switzerland. Onr friend M. is a capital writer, 
but he appears to the best advantage when upon topics of 
which he has some knowledge. 
The ^attras-allsa's «3iii«lo, hy C. J. 
Maynard. Boston : Fields, Osgood & Co. We are fre- 
quently asked to give directions for stuffing birds and 
preparing other specimens. The preparation of birds is 
a matter of so much detail, that it could not he satisfac- 
torily presented in the limited space we could devote to 
it, and we are glad that we can refer inquirers to a work 
like the present, which is, perhaps, as complete as auy 
upon the subject. Each operator soon learns wa}'s of his 
own, and the chief use of instruction is to start him right. 
To properly prepare a bird skin, and mount it, is a work 
of art, and requires not only careful manipulation, but an 
eye for form and proportion. These, no book cau impart. 
The manual of Mr. Maynard will, however, be of great aid 
in the mechanical portion of the work. Price, by mail, $2. 
The Ag-i'iciiltui-ist Strawberry. — 
We have no possible interest in the strawberry called the 
Agriculturist, beyond the satisfaction we feel in having 
widely disseminated a variety so generally successful and 
of such good quality. We are well aware that there are 
higher flavored berries, but take it for all its qualities, its 
introduction was of great benefit — at least we used to 
think so. Now a "Daniel has come to judgement," and 
we get opinions on the strawberry question which, what- 
ever merit they may lack, have at least the rare one of 
novelty. The editor of the Horticulturist is the "very 
Daniel" — he says of the Agriculturist in his August No.: 
" Flesh soft, and taste from sweet to nauseous" The 
value of such an opinion can be best shown by another 
quotation from the same article : " Hippoioam — resembles 
the Agriculturist so closely, it does not need any especial 
description." Mr. Horticulturist, you can go to the head 
of the class in pomology. The P.ippowam and Agricul- 
turist are as much alike as Lennig's White and Wilson. 
TBlacls Currants. — " P. H. B.," Glasco, 
N. T., was induced by a nursery agent to buy 200 plants 
of Black Naples Currant. They have come into hearing, 
and he writes : " The fruit has a rank, unpleasant flavor 
and smell, so much so that my family wont touch them. 
Cau you give me any information as to their use, etc. ? 
Are they good for anything, or am I ' sold' on them ?" — 
You ordered black currants, and according to the descrip- 
tion, received them ; so there was no " sell," as far as 
that goes. The lesson, not to invest in fruit that you 
know nothing about, is cheap at the price of 200 currant 
bushes. As to the currant itself, it is disagreeable to 
many, but much liked by some, especially the Enslish, 
who make it into jam and jelly. The unpleasant taste, 
to a great extent, disappears in the preserve. The fruit 
is usually in our city markets. 
Dtrarf Breaches. — We made the state- 
ment that the dwarf peaches were worked upon the stock 
of the conRnon peach. A Tennessee correspondent 
thinks that as the quince stock dwarfs the pear, and 
the Paradise stock dwarfs the apple, the free growing 
peach ought to break up the habit of the dwarf peach 
when budded upon it. It is not " a rule that works both 
ways." Individual peculiarities are perpetuated by bud- 
ding and grafting, and it is no more singular that the 
dwarf habit should be perpetuated in this way, than that 
a weeping tree or a curled or cut-leaved one should be 
grafted on one of the ordinary kind without reverting to 
the normal condition. 
Tlie Salway IPeach. — This variety was 
noticed in our Horticultural Aunual for last year. It 
was first introduced by the late Isaac Pullcn, of Hights- 
town, N. J., and we were pleased to receive a few weeks 
ago from his sou and successor, Mr. Thomas J. Pullen, 
some specimens of the fruit from trees that bad been 
started in the orchard house and set out of doors as 
soon as the weather became settled. We think wc never 
