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. AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST; 
[April, 
port ...Hops, Seeds and Tobacco liave "been compara- 
tively quiet at about previous figures. 
Current YVholesaltc Prices. 
Feb. 16. March 15. 
Prtce or Gold ■' 136V 13A& 
Flour— Super to Extra State $8 90 <sil 85 ?S 60 @12 40 
Super to Extra Southern.. . . 10 63 @16 50 10 30 @16 50 
Extra Western 9 90 ©16 25 10 00 @16 50 
Extra Genesee 1185 @15 00 12 00 @14 50 
Superfine Western 8 90 (310 JO 8 65 (310 15 
Kye Flour 7 00 @ 8 00 6 80 @ S 00 
Corn Meal 4 90 @ 5 75 4 90 <g> 5 50 
Wheat— All kinds of "White. 2 90 @ 3 25 2 90 @ 3 25 
All kinds of Red and Amber. 2 00 % 3 00 2 00 O 3 10 
Corn— Yellow l 10 m 1 15 1 11 @ 1 14 
Mixed 1 10 @ 1 12 1 13 @ 1 15 
Oats— Western 59 @ 63 62 @ 69 
State.' 67 % 69 70 @ 72 
ZiYK 115 @ 1 30 120 @ 1 35 
Barley 80 ©125 S5 @ l 25 
Hat— Bale # 100 lb 1 85 @ 1 85 1 45 @ 1 S5 
Loose 1 50 @ 1 90 1 50 @ 1 95 
Straw, ^100 ft 1 00 @ 1 50 1 20 @ 1 60 
Cotton— Middlings, ¥» *.... 33 @ 34K 30 @ 313^ 
Hops— Crop of 18C6, ^ It 35 @ 70" 35 @ 70 
Feathers— Live Geese, ~$ ft. 65 @. SO 73 @ 95 
Seed— Clover, ¥» ft 13 @ 35 12K® UH 
Timothy. %> bushel 3 20 @ 3 65 3 65 @ 4 00 
Flax, $ bushel 2 50 @ 2 85 2 SO © 3 00 
Sugar— Brown, ^ lb 9 @ 12K 9K@ 12M 
Molassks. Cuba. ¥*gl 40 @ 55 43 @ 55 
Coffee— Rio,(Gold price)?* ft 1514® 39 15 ^@ 19 
Tobacco, Kentucky, &c„¥iB.. 4 @ 2\! 4^@ 22 
Seed Leaf, ^ft 3 @ 60 3@ 65 
Wool— D.>mesticFleece,^lb. 40 @ G5 40 @ 70 
Domestic, pulled. ¥ lb 30 © 55 30 @ 58 
California, unwashed, 22 @ 40 22 © 42 
Tallow. ^ ft 11 © UK 105£<& HM 
Oil Cake— # ton 5100 ©56 00 53 50 ©55 00 
Pork— M ess, %» barrel 19 62 ©20 75 14 00 ©22 50 
Prime, # barrel 16 62 ©.17 00 17 00 ©18 00 
Beef— Plain mess 12 00 ©IS 00 12 00 ©IS 00 
Lard, in barrels, 31 ft 11 © 13 12 @ 13K 
Butter— Western, $ ft 15 © 35 12 © 32 
State, # ft ' 28 © 45 25 © 45 
Cheese 9 © 21 10 © 20 
Beans— %» bushel 2 25 © 3 50 2 75 @ 3 50 
Peas— Canada. $ bushel 1 40 © 1 50 1 40 @ 1 50 
Eggs— Fresh. ¥» dozen 46 © 52 26 © 29 
Poultry— Fowls, # ft 17 © 19 17 @ 22 
Turkevs, ^ft 18 @ 20 20 © 24 
Potatoes— Mercers, 3>bbl... 2 50 © 2 75 3 00 © 3 25 
Peach BIowp. *1 barrel 2 25 ©2 75 2 25 ©3 75 
Potatoes— Buckeve, '$ bbl. . 2 00 © 2 25 2 00 © 2 25 
Apples— ?» barrel. 3 50 © 8 00 3 50 © 7 50 
Cranberries, # barrel 23 00 @2S 00 17 00 ©22 00 
Wevr York BL.lve Stoclc Ufiarltets.— 
The supply during the past four weeks has been only 
moderate as is shown in the following table of receipts : 
weekending. Beeves. Cows. Calves- Sheep. Swine. 
Feb'y. 19 4,714 68 537 15.933 15,250 
Felvy. 26 .4,463 94 606 9,967 13,790 
March 5 6,139 69 C46 18,050 13,900 
March 12 5,018 72 702 13,000 16,860 
Total in four Weeks. . . .20,384 303 l£m~ 56,845 59.S00 
Average per Week 5.096 76 625 14,211 14,950 
do. Ao.last Month.... 4,737 62 510 19,753 11,345 
do. do. prev's Month. 4,840 60 436 17,270 19,850 
Averaaeper Week, 1866.5.748 94 1,200 20,000 13,000 
do. do. do. 1865 5,255 113 1,500 16,091 11,023 
do. do. do. 1864 5,161 145 1,511 15,315 12,676 
do. do. do. 1863 5,150 129 694 9,941 21,670 
Total in 1866 ... 298,880 4.S85 62.420 1,040,000 672,000 
Total in 1865 270,271 6,161 77,991 836,733 573,197 
Total in 1864 267,609 7,603 75,621 782,462 660.270 
Total in 1SG3 .264,091 6,470 35,709 519,316 1,101.617 
The heavy snow storms reduced the supply of animals 
materially, the last half of February Bed' Cattle 
run more than a thousand head below last year's weekly 
average. Prices went up correspondingly, thebestreach- 
ing fully ISc. $ B>, estimated dressed weight, the last 
week in February, but fell back lc.@l}4c. $ Tb, (March 
5th,) and continue about the same this week — viz : 
18^c.@17c. for first quality cattle, and 17J£c. for a few 
extras ; medium good qualities lGc, fair to inferior 15V£c. 
@14i£c; low grades, 12c.@,14c Milcli Cows are in 
very little demand here, A really good milker with her 
young calf by her side, and sure of being sold for no de- 
fect, will bring $B0@§90, calf included, where a pur- 
chaser happens to come along, and an occasional fancy 
animal goes at §100 and upwards ; but the most of the 
sales are at $75@.$70 for fair animals, and $65f§>$50 for in- 
ferior to lowest grade Veal Calves have been sell- 
ing well, 13c.@14c. ^J lb live weight for the best grades, 
but the seizure' oy the Sanitary Police of some 500 car- 
casses of dressed young calves has turned the appetites 
of most persons against veal, and 12c.@13c. are the high- 
est present rates, with plenty of sales at 10c.@llc. for 
common, and 9c. and below for poor. It will be useless 
hereafter to send a calf here under four or five weeks old 
at least Slieep.— The new tariff on wool is leading 
farmers to keep their sheep, to get the spring clip of wool, 
and our markets are scantily supplied. Prices have rap- 
idly advanced to 9%c.@10c. $ lb live weight for good 
sheep ; 10KiC.@10f4c for extras, and 9c.®7!^c. for in- 
ferior to poorest liive Hogs advanced materially 
two or three weeks ago. but with warmer weather ap- 
proaching, with the Lent season present, and with fair 
supplies, the market is declining. The latest sales stand 
at 7%c t @8}-ic. $ lb live weight, for the different grades. 
Hop Culture. — There is increasing interest 
taken in this crop, which is frequently so profitable. We 
cannot better satisfy our readers than by referring them 
to our little manual of hop culture, for which see hook 
list. The authors of the prize essays will be able to give 
information as to how and where sets may be obtained. 
Containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Mints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of sj?ace elsewhere. 
SPECIAL TO ADTERTISEUS.- 
Owing to the greatly inci-eased- circulation of the' Ameri- 
can Agriculturist, it is necessary to send the paper to 
press much earlier than formerly, in order to have the 
numbers reach all subscribers by the first of the month. 
For this reason, to insure the insertion of an advertise- 
ment, send it in by t/ie first of the month preceding publi- 
cation, and never later than the 10th. Advertisers will please 
make a note of this, to prevent future disappointment. 
I\ T © Plants for Sale. No Seeds for Sale. 
No Cuttings for Sale. — We wish we had a thousand acres 
with hundreds of people with nothing to do but make 
cuttings, save seeds, and do all sorts of kind things. But 
the trouble is we havn't, and if we were to supply all the 
grafts of the Beurre Clairgeau pear that have been asked 
for, our one tree would only serve as a bean-pole. So 
with seeds ; we notice a plant, and hundreds of people 
think we have seeds to sell or give away. We are not in 
the nursery or seed business, hut have only private 
grounds for our own amusement and instruction. The 
dealers advertise, and each nurseryman or seedsman is 
supposed to have a general assortment. Will our friends 
just see how impossible it is to answer their many 
requests for plants, cuttings, seeds, and the like ? 
American Pomology. — Part 1. Ap- 
ples, by Dr. J. A. Warder. — To pomologists a work by 
Br. Warder will need no commendation. Though a citizen 
of Ohio, he is so sure to be at any pomological gathering, 
be it East or West, that the whole country claims him, 
and if any one has a right to entitle his work American. 
Pomology it is certainly Dr. Warder. The present is the 
first instalment of a work that will cover the whole 
ground. The author has taken the " bull by the horns." 
and attempted to bring apples into something like order. 
We leave criticism of the work to other hands, and con- 
tent ourselves with giving an idea of its contents. This 
volume has over 750 pages, the first 375 of which are de- 
voted to the discussion of the general subjects of propaga- 
tion, nursery culture, selection and planting, cultivation 
of orchards, care of fruit, insects, and the like. The re- 
mainder is occupied with descriptions of apples. With 
the richness of material at hand, the trouble was to de- 
cide what to leave out. It will be found that while the 
old and standard varieties are not neglected, the new 
and promising sorts have prominence. A list of selec- 
tions for different localities by eminent orchardists is a 
valuable portion of the volume, while the Analytical 
Index or Catalogue Raisonne, as the French would say, 
gives evidence "of a fearful amount of labor. This dif- 
fers from any fruit book heretofore published in this 
country, in presenting a classification of apples. The au- 
thor gives principal European systems and modestly puts 
forth his own to he tested by practice. He divides ap- 
ples into four classes, according to their forms. Each 
of these classes is sub-divided by other obvious charac- 
ters, and it would seem that any apple described in the 
book might be easily identified. Should this stand the 
test of experience it will prove a great advance in pomol- 
ogy, and we trust it will be given a trial. Fruit-growers 
will welcome this book as a valuable and long-wished for 
addition to pomological literature, and it will prove 
equally useful to the novice and the experienced orchard- 
ist. The work has 293 illustrations, and is printed on 
good paper, well bound, and sent by mail at §3. Ready 
on April 1st, or shortly after. 
S. S. Qisestion-SSoolcs — Adrance in 
Price. — The manufacturers find it necessary, in order 
to cover cost, to increase the price of " Lessons for Every 
Sunday in the Year" to 15 cents per copy. They are still 
the cheapest books in the market, however. The postage 
is 4 cents per copy, or 3 cents each in parcels jof ten or 
more. We send full sample copies, (Nos. 1, 2. 3, and 4.) 
post-paid, for 75 cents. 
A Horticultural " Gift Enter- 
prise."— Several have sent us circulars of the "New 
England Vine Growers' Association.'' at South Norwalk, 
Conn., asking our opinion thereof. This circular, in brief, 
starts with the announcement that the object of the Asso- 
ciation is — we can't use all their adjectives — the promo- 
tion of Grape Culture. It will receive "subscriptions" 
from everybody at §2 each. (It would 1 nt look well to say 
sell tickets.) For this §2, one gets 1 Iona, 1 Delaware, 
and 1 Concord grape vine. The circular says : " This 
being a discount from "Nursery prices," which simply 
is not true. Besides these vines, a "subscriber" has a 
chance in the "award of premiums" — why not say lot- 
tery and be done with it ? These are : First, " A farm of 
40 acres, title perfect ; second, 15 acres of land near a 
thriving New England village." We will not discuss the 
vagueness of these premiums as it is self evident. We 
have a letter from the secretary of this "Association" refer- 
ring to very respectable people. We advise him to get out of 
a disreputable scheme, or he will not be able to refer to 
some of these again. That precious humbug, the "Or- 
phans' Home Lottery," leaves its slimy train behind it, and 
though it was countenanced by wives of officers whose 
patriotism outweighed their discretion, it is now a com- 
mon by-word of reproach. In behalf of horticulture wo 
denounce this project, and beg every right-thinking man 
to withdraw his name from it. New England enterprise 
needs no such "stimulating" for any " lucrative branch 
of husbandry." (See catalogues.) Better that Connecticut 
should never hear grapes, other than on her State shield, 
than that their culture should be forced by a lottei'y, and it 
is " only this and nothing more." 
The Grape Cnlturist, by A. S. Fuller, 
New and Revised Edition, N. Y., Orange Jndd & Co., 
1S67.— When this work first appeared in 1S64, and before 
the publishers of the Agriculturist had any interest in it, 
the following appeared in a notice on page 101, vol. XXUl : 
"This treatise covers the whole ground of garden and 
vineyard culture, from starting the plants from eyes or 
cuttings, to the established fruiting vine. The whole is 
told in a plain style from the author's own experience ; 
his system of pruning is very simple and easily under- 
stood, and the reasons are given for preferringit to others; 
he, however, gives the other modes in practice and illus- 
trates the whole in a most liberal manner. * * * This 
most useful manual will be equally valuable to one who 
cultivates a single vine and to the vinyardist." After 
three years, and having in the interval read all its suc- 
cessors, we cannot express its character better than to re- 
peat and emphasize this commendation. Mr. Fuller, in 
his writings, as well as in his nursery, tells the " secrets," 
as some consider them, of horticulture so freely that 
some grape-growers blame him. This, however, only 
gives him the stronger hold on " the people," for whom 
he writes, as is seen by the large sale that attends every 
book that bears his name. The new edition is brought up 
to the present time by additions. Some parts have been 
entirely re-written and new illustrations added. It still 
continues to be the Grape Book. Price, $1.50 by mail. 
19 unions;- Plants, Seeds, Etc. — At 
this season it is well to avoid all circulars and advertise- 
ments of wonderful corn, and other seeds and plants, 
brought before the public just at the planting season, 
too late to admit of an inquiry into their real merits. 
We see several such things advertised with got up " cer- 
tificates," and have rejected sundry such advertisements 
offered at prodigious pay. Don't waste money, time, 
soil, and labor on any of these before unheard of things. 
SUNDRY HUMBUGS.— Hundreds of 
letters this month show great activity among the " Tick- 
et" and Circular operators. Many ask an immediate 
answer by letter, but we cannot respond individually to 
half of them. Many swindlers, previously shown up by us 
arc still inquired about. We cannot repeat all we have 
written ; those interested should look over our hack 
numbers ; several hundred operators have been described 
within a year. We give below the present names of sev- 
eral operators, but most of these names will soon be 
changed to others, if not already done. Three or four 
men, like Turtle and Todd, have used quite a num- 
ber of different names within two years past A huge 
swindle, with large plans and employing a great many 
clerks, was recently started at 62 Broadway, under the 
name of the "Bankers' and Merchants' 1 Grand Presentation 
Entertainment,'''' ostensibly by " Clark, Webster & Co.," 
hut probably by a large Chicago operator, with J. D. 
Miller, the " Sand River Petroleum Prize Co." man. The 
police stepped in and seized an immense mass of circulars, 
etc., and nipped the swindling scheme, though about 20,000 
circulars had already gone out. All of these Gift Enter- 
prises, etc., are to be carefully avoided, no matter how 
pretentious or plausible, or how good an object they may 
profess to be aiming at We continue to receive circu- 
lars issued by "Harris Brothers," of Boston, offering a 
copy of the American -Agriculturist to subscribers to the 
so-called "National Distribution," alias lottery, for a 
home for disabled soldiers. In October last we exposed 
this swindling concern. The managers have been 
put under "bonds" in the Boston Courts. As before 
stated, we recognize no certificate issued by them A 
vile villain, calling himself "A. B. Channing, M. D.," 
sends circulars to young men, and even to lads as young as 
13 years, offering disgusting books, instruments, etc. He 
refuses to deliver these things in person, and can only be 
