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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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carriages, pianos, etc., and on their lottery circulars, they 
print an article from the August Agricultwist, in a way to 
make us appear to endorse enterprises like theirs — 
To show the extent to which people are pestered by 
the humbug operators, a subscriber sends us twenty-one 
circulars, from as many different parties, most of which 
have recently been sent to him by mail. There must be 
many victims to these swindling schemes, or the opera- 
tors could not pay the enormous expense they incur for 
printing, and the postage on the millions of circulars they 
have sent out A circular about " Jackson's Universal 
Washing Compound," quotes a tremendous puff from the 
" Agriculturist." Some paper bearing this name may 
have said what is quoted— but not the American "Agri- 
culturist." We never heard of this compound before, 
but we condemn all the recipes for washing compounds, 
that are sold around the country. Let Mr. Johnson tell 
what " Agriculturist" he quotes Several subscribers 
inquire about sundry "Mutual Coal Companies." There 
may be one or more good ones : after repeated solicita- 
tions, we have not gained confidence enough in any one 
to invest, though we have to use a good deal of coal 
John L. Andrews, of Marion Co., O., like a good many 
other unhung villains, offers for $50 to lie a $500 ticket 
through a bogus "Benefit Association." Anybody that 
will trust to a confessed liar, ought to be cheated. — Rich- 
ard Adams, Buffalo, N. Y., is another like Andrews ; so 
is C. F. Sherwood, Providence, N. T., alias Batavia, N. Y., 
alias Huron, N. Y Dr. Thos. Andrews, alias E. An- 
drews, of Albany, is scattering poison among the people, 
in the form of Pamphlets and Circulars, called "Good 
Samaritans," in which he offers murderous medicines, etc. 
Let everybody, married or unmarried, beware of trusting 
a word to his statements, as they value their health, their 
lives, and their souls. There are many others of this 
class. — In the same catalogue is a monster who assumes 
the names of a pretendsd firm of French ladies, and 
dates from a room in the " Bible House," N. Y. City. 
He sends a pamphlet about "Married Life," said to be 
" by a Married Woman." After a great deal of palaver, 
he comes to the gist of the matter, which is to advertise 
snndry villainous articles of "French" origin. None 
but very foolish, and insane people will risk their lives, 
health and money, by giving the slightest heed to this 
specious pretender. We are sad to know that thousands 
of women, and men too, are enduring terrible anguish of 
body and mind, and dragging out a miserable existence, 
while mauy other thousands have gone down to early 
graves, because they have been lured by the false state- 
ments of these very demons on earth, who, to put money 
in their own pockets, would sell sugar-coated arsenic to 
infants and idiots. We have little, if any more charityfor 
the Heralds, the Timeses, and other journals, which pub- 
lish the advertisements of these Madame Restelles, and the 
like, who make a business of murdering the unborn inno- 
cents in hectacombs, and the fair daughters of our land 
almost by the million — We have hundreds of circulars 
pretending to be sent out from Nassau-street, Cedar-street, 
Third-Avenue, Sixth-Avenue, etc., offering vile publica- 
tions, obscene pictures, etc. None of these parties are 
ever to be found at the places they hail from, or if found, 
they have nothing for sale or to show to callers— they 
must be addressed by mail— and they never make any re- 
turn for money sent them, unless it is when they hope to 
make a larger sum out of their victims. 
Tlie American Pomological So- 
ciety.— Col. Marshall P. Wilder, President of the 
American Pomological Society, informs us that, after cor- 
responding with the Western associates, he has fixed 
upon September 11th, as the day for the next meeting. It 
is found that this date will conflict as little as any with 
other pomological meetings. 
American Pomology.— Doct. Warder's 
work has been delayed, by the great number of illustra- 
tions and the inconvenience that attends the wide dis- 
tance between publisher and printer. The book is now 
approaching completion, and will be one that will be wel- 
comed by every fruit-grower. Its introductory chapters 
upon propagation, the nursery*, planting, pruning, etc., 
are so full that they might well have formed a work of 
themselves. The descriptive list of apples contains all 
the new introductions and peculiarly western varieties. 
The illustrations, all made expressly for the work, are 
from original drawings, and arc in a style superior to that 
of any pomological work heretofore published. Over 250 
varieties of apples will be figured, the majority of which 
were never before illustrated. In this work Doct. Warder 
presents his classification of apples, in which he attempts 
to bring the great mass of material into something like 
system. How far this will prove useful to the pomologiflt 
will be proven by experience, and we have no doubt that 
the author will welcome auy suggestions that will facili- 
tate his object:— to aid in the determination of an un- 
known variety of fruit. Wc hope to have the work ready 
during the present month. 
Fuller's Small Frnif Cnlturist.— 
Growers of small fruits will be glad to know that Mr. A. 
S. Fuller's work is in hand, as all who are familiar with 
his works upon the grape and strawberry, will anticipate 
a valuable and practical treatise upon a subject that has 
of late years assumed great importance. There is a di- 
rectness and independence about Mr. Fuller's writings 
that give them a deserved popularity, and his forthcom- 
ing work will, no doubt, meet with the same favor that 
has attended his other productions. We have no work 
exclusively devoted to small fruits, and the one under no- 
tice will be very full in all particulars, from propagating 
the plants to marketing the fruit. The illustrations are 
all ready, and will be numerous and fine. 
Xo " Authors." — Letters, concerning the 
publication of books, have been of late quite numerous, 
and perhaps a general statement of our position may save 
many the trouble of writing and us that of answering. 
No one need make a book unless he has something new 
to say, or can present old facts better than they have been 
given before. There are books enough ; we wish better 
ones than any now extant. We cannot decide upon the 
publication of any work without first seeing the manu- 
script. In each case the manuscript will be submitted to 
competent judges, whose decision will be final, and no 
certificates or commendations from other parties can be 
of any use. Mere compilations of any kind are not want- 
ed at any rate— we are not in the paste and scissors line. 
My Viaaeyar« at Kjalceview. — We have 
just one request to make of the author of this book — viz., 
that he will allow us to give his name and thus put many in- 
quisitive people out of misery. Writers upon grape culture 
suspect this or that person of the authorship, and we get 
numerous letters asking as a special favor the name of the 
author. We are under a pledge of secrecy which we 
shall keep until the author relieves us from it, and when 
he does, many will be amused at the wildncss of their 
guesses. We can relieve the anxious ones to this extent. 
The author does live on the shores of Lake Erie, and more 
than one of those who have been so desirous to know 
who he is, have met him and talked grapes with him the 
present winter. His book is none the less valuable be- 
cause it has not his name, and is growing in favor because 
it relates experience in grape culture, and rests its 
popularity upon its own merits. Price, by mail, $1,35. 
I\. Y. S^ive Stoclc Markets In 1S66. 
— The following interesting statistics, prepared from the 
records kept at the Office of the American Agriculturist, 
will give the reader some idea of the magnitude of the 
dealings in neat Cattle, Sheep and Swine, destined for 
slaughter, at the Metropolitan markets. To assist the 
memory, we give the nearest round numbers, which differ 
but slightly from the actual figures: Beef Cattle.— 
Keceipts 300,000 head; value, about $32,ftOO,000. 
We estimate the cattle — good, bad and indifferent— to 
average 700 lbs. dressed weight each, and the average of 
all sales at a trifle over 15 cents per lb. The weight of 
dressed beef amounted in round numbers to 210.000,000 
lbs. This equals 140 lbs. to each of one and a half mil- 
lion of people, adults and children included, which is 
about the population supplied regularly by the New York 
city markets, including Brooklyn, Jersey City, and a score 
of smaller suburban cities and villages Over half of 
these cattle are credited to the single State of Illinois, one 
sixth to Ohio, one-eighth to New York, one-ninth to Ken- 
kicky, and one-thirtieth to Indiana, or about nine-tenths 
to these five States To bring them all by railway. 15 to 
the car, would require 20.000 cars. Allowing 60 feet to 
a car, the cattle trains would stretch away nearly 201 
miles The price of extra cattle declined about 4 cents 
per lb. net from January to December, medium grades 
about 2 cents The actual weekly average receipts were 
5,758, against 5,255 in 1SU5, an increase of about 500 head 
per week, which has been our estimate all along through 
the year of the probable increase, as our readers will re- 
member Veal Calves.— Receipts 62,000, or an 
average per week of about 1,200 head. This is 15,000, or 
30t) per week, less than in 18fV5, the decrease being doubt- 
less due to the stringent measures adopted by the Board 
of Health to shut out young calves, or "bobs," that were 
so largely sold in previous years .... Sheep and 
Lambs. — Receipts 1,000,000, (or more nearly 
1,080,000,) averaging very nearly 20,000 per week. This is 
about 200,000, or 4.000 per week in excess of any former 
year The price of the various grades ran down from 
8(3)10 cents per lb., live weight, in January, to -Ha©"*-'- in 
December .... Live Hogs. — Receipts, 666 OOO, 
which is 03,000 above 1R65, about the same as in 1SW, and 
nearly half a million less than in 1862 and 1868. The 
prices ranged between 10c. and 12c. per lb,, live weight, 
for the first ten months, but declined from 9!4c(gU0^c. in 
October, to 6c®7c. at the close of the year ITIllclt 
Cows,— Receipts, scant 5,000, the lowest number in 
any other one of a dozen years past.. .The total receipts | 
in 1866 of Cattle, Sheep, and Swine destined for slaughter 
were, according to our statistics, fully 2,000,000 head. 
S^ook Over tSie Xal>Ie of Contents. 
—Our readers who do not read the Table of Contents in 
each number of the Agriculturist, are apt to overlook 
valuable articles. For instance, many did not see the 
Market Reports in the December number, because they 
were not in the part of the peper where usually found. 
Gardening for Profit.— The rapid sals 
of this work shows that a treatise of this kind was needed, 
and that Mr. Henderson's recorded experience is eagerly 
sought after. As this is the only work in which the 
practice of commercial gardening is given, it has a value 
above that of any other on vegetable gardening, while for 
the private garden it is as useful a guide as any other. 
The value of the bonk is increased by a full chapter on 
the construction of the best form of houses for forcing or 
forwarding vegetables. As the same style of house is 
used by Mr. H. in his extensive propagation of plants, he 
has added an appendix on the " Propagation of Plants by 
Cuttings."— A neat volume of about 250 pages, on excel- 
lent paper, and well illustrated. Sent by mail for $1.50. 
JSetv Work on Draining in Press. 
—Orange Judd & Co. have uow in press and will publish 
early in the spring, a work entitled "Draining F03 
Profit and Drainage for Health,'" by Geo. E. Waring, 
Jr., of New York, Engineer of the Drainage of the Cen- 
tral Park. This is a very thorough, complete, and prac- 
tical treatise, simply and easily followed. The subject of 
thorough farm drainage is discussed in all its bearings 
and also that more extensive land drainage by which the' 
sanitary condition of any district may be greatly improv- 
ed — even to the banishment of fever and ague, typhoid 
and malarious fevers, as shown by New York experience. 
Breclc's New Bool* of Flowers.— 
There are plenty of works in the style of a dictionary which 
tell something about flowering plants, what family they 
belong to, and give some points of their history. Who- 
ever really loves flowers, and is not satisfied with these 
unsympathetic works, will turn with pleasure to Breck's 
New Book of Flowers, where he speaks of them in a 
familiar, talky way. and as if he loved them. This is not 
a book made up by re-arranging antiquated English works 
on gardening, but one which was written, and written 
too because the author had something to say. It is the 
only flower-book that records personal experience, and 
when that experience is that of a veteran cultivator like 
Mr. Bveck, wc care not how personal it is. for the more it 
tells just what he has done, the more the novice feels that 
he can do the same. Iu this work all the genera and the 
leading species are noticed, and their proper treatment 
given. Varieties come upon us iu numbers every year, 
and for these the cultivator must consult the frequent is- 
sues of the florist and seedsman. Besides the annuals 
and herbaceous perennials, this work contains a descrip- 
tive list of the choicest flowering ehrjibs. A handsome 
volume of 4S0 pages, finely bound, well printed and illus- 
trated. Sent by mail, post-paid, for $1.75. 
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who have for years past done business with our readers, 
and learned by experience the value of the Agriculturist 
as a medium of communication with their customers, 
seem more anxious than ever to secure space in our col- 
umns. They will doubtless find mauy other agreeable 
business acquaintances among tens of thousands of new 
subscribers this year. These, with some new adver- 
tisers, have crowded in upon us so much that to make 
room for a part of them only, we have added more space, 
and issue 40 pages — the limit of single postage rates. 
This is a double advantage to the readers, as they get an 
extra page of reading matter for every added page of 
advertisements, and as our advertisers are all believed to 
be responsible, reliable men, the advertisements are them- 
selves of great value to the renders— showing, as they do, 
what is for sale, where, and by whom. We advise a care- 
ful readiug of all the advertisements, (there are no stale, 
long-standing ones among them).— Advertisers express ^o 
much pleasure at learning where they find 60 large a class 
of wide-awake enterprising readers as they meet through 
this journal, that we are induced to repeat the request 
that every one writing for circulars, or otherwise, or send- 
ing orders to our advertisers, will inform theminwhat 
Journal their advertisements were seen. 
Advertiser**, who Want Space, 
mn&l Bend their orders in early. Those coming after tho 
5th of the preceding month, have no certainty, and In 
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on any terms. It takes almost a month to work off oar 
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