444: 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
* * * * 
FOTIGE— To All SUBSCRIBERS to American Agriculturist. 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
# 
* 
* 
As most Subscriptions expire with this last Number of Volume 
29, the probability is that Your Subscription Expires 
SOW. Our subscribers are so numertus that -we can not send out 
individual notices of the time of expiration. (You will readily re- 
member it, if your oicn subscription runs beyond this date, or if it 
7ias recently been renewed for 1871.) We talce it for granted 
that all who have read this Journal the past year, will cheerfully 
continue its perused. We can only say, that while it shall be in 
nowise inferior to what it has been in the past, we fully intend to.keep 
on improving the paper — in beauty, in the number and character 
of its engravings, and in reai vnEise. All the writers w?w have 
been icith us the present year, will continue tlieir best efforts, and new 
help will be added. Both Publishers and Editors feel that every year's 
experience enables them to do better and better We now ask, as a * 
favor, that our friends will send in their renewals prompt- * 
ly. It can as well be done To-day, as To-morrow. It will greatly * 
aid us to have renewals and new names come in the first part of 
December, so that we can get the new books for 1871 all properly arranged 
before Christinas ; and as this is a work of great magnitude, and 
needs t7ie care of our evpeinenced clerks, we will take it as a special * 
favor, if you will sit. down the day this paper arrives and * 
send lis your own renewed for 1871, with other names Any favor 
on your part, in tlieway of inviting a neighbor or friend to subscribe, 
eitlier for ilie English or German Edition, will be duly appreciated. * 
% % % % :$: ^i^i^j^c 
si: $ ^ $ ifc & si; :Js & :J: 
****************************************** 
********************************** 
****** 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* * 
mile tee intend to make the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST so valuable and 
so beautiful, tliai no one can do witliout it, we oho invite the attention of our readers 
to our Weeki.t Journal, HEARTH AND HOME. It is essentially a Some 
Newspaper — entirely different in matter and engravings from the Agriculturist 
—but filled with splendid engravings, and interesting reading matter for every mem- 
ber of the Household. Asa FAMILY NEWSPAPER it shall be unsurpassed, Rs 
A'ews department, brought up to the latest moment, will give a valuable digest of the 
important events, slated in a CONDENSED but clear manner, so as to vender its 
readers intelligent, and yet not tax their time wither mass of useless details and rub- 
bish. The information about tlie principal products of the farm and plantation, tlieir 
**#-»* e » * * * ******** 
amount, and the consequent market value, will be of very great use to all producing 
or dealing in the leading crops of Vie country The Subscription Price for 1871 is * 
put lower than that of any other equally bmuliful, valuable, and costly journal in the 
world; viz., only $3 for an entire year, or four copies for £2.75 each, or ten 
copies for S2.50 each, or twenty or more copies for $2.25 each IMER1CAN * 
AGRICULTURIST togeltier with HEARTH AND HOME only $-1 a year. 
£#"" The two journals will together furnish an amount and variety of reading 
?natler, news, etc.. that will meet the chief wants of nine- tenths of all the families * 
of our country. They will togetlier give more than $30,000 north of fine, inslruc- . 
tioe and pleasing ENGRAVINGS during a single year. Please TRY BOTH. 
* * 
PSE3IIIJJIS ! «ood Premiums ! 
All should turn to page 4f>9, and examine carefully what 
is said about premiums. There is undoubtedly a fine op- 
portunity to secure articles that are really valuable, aDd 
warranted first-class in every respect. There is no clap- 
trap in this matter. Full 10,000 persons have tried 
^ and proved the truth of this. And it is quite easy to get 
these premiums, for any person who desires it. There is 
no reason why Thirty to Forty Tlimisand persons should 
not each obtain one or more of these articles— to their 
own benefit, to the benefit of the persons they fnduce to 
become readers, and to the gratification of the Publishers. 
...The Steani Engines on page 404 will be very 
attractive, and this is a very fine premium which will 
come within the reach of every one of our readers. 
Clubs can at any time be increased by remitting 
for each addition the price paid by the original members ; 
or a small club may be increased to a larger one ; thus : 
a person having sent 10 subscribers and $12, may after- 
wards send 10 more subscribers with only SS ; making a 
clnb at $20 ; and so of the other club rates. 
The "I>'ovel ExJiibilioas," announced 
on page 440, will attract universal attention, and will 
donbless not only stimulate many a maiden and matron 
to greater skill in a very useful accomplishment, but will 
fce a great blessing to many poverty stricken sufferers. 
Millions of" S>oli;ir«i have undoubtedly 
been saved to the people, by the untiring exposure of 
humbugs kept up in this journal for more than a dozen 
years past. These cost us no little trouble, affc some 
lawyer's expenses, for the swindlers now and then 
*' strike back" in the form of lawsuits. We seldom al- 
lude to these suits, as we do not propose to give the fel- 
lows the notoriety and advertising they thus seek. Wq 
have never beeu beaten by them, and probably never shall 
be, as we constantly aim to be truthful in all exposures. 
Though often wearied with the time and trouble re- 
quired, the benefit is so great to our readers, and through 
them to millions of others, that we shall not hesitate to 
keep np for another year a vigorous investigation and 
exposure of the various Humbugs that infest the country. 
It Will Pay to supply yourself, your sons, 
and your workmen, with good papers and books. $10 to 
§20, or more, expended in this way, will come back every 
year. Tour sons will be kept from idleness and mis- 
chievons company; they will understand and respect 
rheir work more : they will gain new ideas and learn to 
think and reason better ; they will learn to make their 
heads help their hands ; they will labor more intelligently 
and be happier because their minds will be developed, 
and they will have something to think abont while at 
work. Better sell an acre of land than not to have these 
mind cultivators. Any intelligent man will make more 
off from 9 acres than the unintelligent one will from 10 
acres. _ Think of this in planning and providing for your 
sons in the future. Store their growing minds with use- 
ful ideas, or the devil will fill the vacancies with very un- 
desirable tenants (ideas). (The premium list on page 469 
will afford to many an opportunity to get some books free 
of expense ; and plenty of good books, to be delivered by 
mail or otherwise, will befonnd in the advertising pages.) 
SPECIAL PREMIUMS. 
for renewal axd one subscriber to american 
Agriculturist, or one subscriber to Hearth and 
Home. 
Tropliy Tomato has proved so far superior to 
others that we desire to have it widely distributed, and 
we have made such arrangements with Col. Waring as to 
enable us to oner pure seed from headquarters, with his 
trade mai'k guaranty of gennineness. (See page 445. > 
Japan Lilies. —We offer from the gardens of A. S. 
Fuller, Esq., several of the beautiful Japan Lilies, some 
of which have been sold by seedsmen within the last two 
years as high as $5 each. Any one of these is an orna- 
ment-to any garden, and they can be haxkfree as premiums. 
JKuiuclan Grape-Yiues. — Hasbrouck &Bnshnell, 
proprietors of the original stock, will supply us with 
vines of this most excellent variety, and we wish all of 
our subscribers would try at least one. 
I.— To every old subscriber to American Agriculturist 
who after this date renews, and sends one new subscrib- 
er, with $1.50 for each, and 5 cents for postage on the 
premium, we will send any one of the following eight 
articles that may be chosen : 
1 Package (-200 Seeds) of Trophy Tomato Seeds. 
Or :— 1 Bulb Red Japan Lily, Lilium speciosum rvJbrum. 
Or :— 1 Bulb White Japan Lily, Lilium speciosum album. 
Or: — 1 Bulb Golden-banded Lily, Lilium auratum. 
Or:— 1 Bulb Long-flowered Lily, Lilium longiflorum. 
Or:— 1 Bulb Gladiolus, or Sword Lily, named varieties. 
Or:— 2 Bulbs Tigridia, or Mexican Tiger Lily^iffer't kinds 
Or: — 1 Eumelan Grape-Tine No. 1. 
n. — For one subscriber, received after this date to 
HEARTH AND HOME, for one year, at $3, with 5 cents 
for postage on the article, we will send any desired one 
of the above premiums. Subscriptions taking these spe- 
cial premiums will not he counted in other premium "lists. 
Commercial Matters— Market Prices. 
The following condensed, comprehensive tables, care- 
fully prepared specially for the American Agriculturist, 
show at a glance the transactions for the month ending 
Nov. 14, 1S70, and for the corresponding month last year. 
1. TRANSACTIONS AT TUK NKW-YOKK MARKETS. 
Rkhkitts. Flour, Wlieat. Corn. Hue. Barlejj. Oats. 
26 (lavs this in'thJSll.OOO 3,190.000 1.574.000 SO .000 &4T.0O0 1,716.000 
25 days last nf tli.453,500 2,S14.090 1,287,003 9'J,003 715,000 1,58S,000 
Sales. Flour. Wheat. Corn, Hue. Barley. Oats. 
26davs(//i.9iU'Hi.3-. , 9.000 3.i37.<lt0 1,5IO.O"0 01,500 230.006 1.856.000 
25days/a.sim'th.307,500 S,168,000 1,521,000 71,000 217,000 1,71S,00U 
3. Comparison with same period at this time last year, 
Rr<;kipts. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Hue. Barley. Oats. 
2G thwslRlO 511.000 3.106.000 1,574.000 MJ.000 847,000 1,716,000 
29 days 1809 471,000 3,763,000 1,636,000 35,000 858,000 1,645,0(10 
Sales. Flour. Wheat. Corn, Bye. Barley. Oats. 
26davslS70 329,000 3,437.000 1,549.000 61,500 239,000 1.856,000 
29 days 1369. ...312,000 3.841,000 1,965,000 38,500 351,000 3,537,000 
3. Exports from New York, Jan. 1 to Nov. 14: 
Flour. Wheat. Com. Bye. Barley. Oats. 
1S70 1,677.064 15.291,109 360,877 92.431 131 22.050 
I860 1,304,834 16,197,951 1,595.282 130,948 46.594 84,969 
186S 84-2,393 4,809,527 5,645,795 153,093 61,598 149,479 
4. Stock of grain in stco-e at New York: 
Wheat, Com, JRi/e, Barley, Oats, 3fa1t, 
1870. bush. bush. bush. bush. bush. bush. 
Nov. 9 2,092,900 SOO.OOO 116,800 400.400 2.125,000 
Oct. 10 1.809,921 476,544 53,391 184,803 1,079,058 237,453 
Sent. 12 1,387,487 761,894 50,869 107,474 1,053,079 130.S81 
All"". S 1,438.876 089.973 25.437 106,101 691.766 119,046 
July 11 1.281.913 483,540 28,816 93.600 655.068 109,478 
June 7 706.478 69.845 21,891 94,630 488.143 108,775 
MftVlO 1.158.052 110,829 20,502 126.043 440.517 83,000 
April 11 1,845.186 285,946 23,249 1S7.172 756.811 99,988 
March 7 2.509.60S 484.176 39,089 278.905 1,105,194 97.139 
Feb. 11... 2,902,638 534,003 62,112 322.425 1,199,672 36,214 
Jan. 12 4,423.028 591,903 38,289 34,900 1,310,935 85,405 
1869. 
Dec.ll 3.810.562 833.909 50.043 285,906 1,386.594 77.097 
Nov. 10 ..1,610,030 693,085 31,700 31,581 281,531 66,78-2 
a. Receipts at head of fide-wafer at Albany each sea- 
son to Nov. 7 ; 
Flour, Wit eat. Com, Hue, Barley, Oats, 
bbls. bush. bush. bush. hush. bush. 
1870. .. .356,600 13.918.300 4.584.300 529.900 2,3011,800 5.210,900 
1869.... 391,000 14,315.000 0.253.200 202,300 743.9CO 3,131.400 
1868.... 353. 700 10.710.500 16.091.400 445,000 2,(573.300 9.400,400 
1867. . . .334,100 7,051,000 14,582,400 735,200 2,626,400 6,S76,100 
Gold has fallen to 110. since our last, influenced by the 
reported signing of an armistice between Prussia and 
France ; and by the very liberal disbursements of coin 
from the United States Treasury, chiefly on the Novem- 
ber interest account. The closing quotation is 111% 
BreadstufTs have been quite active. The export demand 
for Flour and Wheat has been brisk ; and the home 
trade have been free buyers. The large receipts, howev- 
er, added to the rise in ocean freights, operated against 
prices, which have been quoted lower and quite variable, 
but which leave off with reviving firmness. Corn and 
Oats have been in more request for home trade and spec- 
ulative purposes, and have advanced. Barley has been 
offered freely at lower rates, yet lias been very moderate- 
ly inquired for. Rye has been dull and more or less nom- 
