1867.J 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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will send a package of tickets, and if these don't draw elev- 
en hundred dollars in gold, clear of all expenses, they will 
send another certificate in their Brilliant Extra Lottery 
Scheme Frank Mass & Co. send a circular precisely 
similar, only for ten dollais they want you to draw twelve 
hundred in gold. Of course,whoever " goes in " loses his 
coin A. A. Kelley, who was shown up in the July 
number, is still selling his lottery tickets, and swindling 
all those who arc foolish enough to buy. May 22(1 . 1867, 
Kelley issued a flaming circular, headed '* Important An- 
nouncement ! To the patrons and agents of Kelley"- First 
Grand Xorth American Gift Concert. Of 500.000 tickers is- 
sued, only a few remain unsold. The delay in its com- 
pletion has been unavoidable, and we have been com- 
pelled to extend the time of the first concert to Saturday, 
July 13, 1867, when it ivill positively take place at any cost, 
without further 2X>stponement, at Cooper Institute, New 
Totk City" Now, take kotice. Saturday, July 
13th, an advertisement appeared in the New York Herald, 
beaded "Kelley's Grand North American Gift Concert. 
A card. To Ticket Holders, etc. "We have found it 
absolutely nceessary,.in justice to our patrons, to extend 
the time of the first concert for a few days, owing to the 
detention of our mail, containing thousands of letters, by 
the postmaster of Chicago, etc., etc." Peter Cooper, Esq., 
informs us that Kelley has never even engaged the hall 
for his grand enterprise, aud furthermore that he cannot 
have it for any such purpose. Kelley in his last adver- 
tisement says, " Our sales have been immense, our suc- 
cess complete." Of course it has; success to him is to 
fill his pocket with other people's money, but this prom- 
ise that his " Grand Gift Concert will positively takeplace 
vithout further postponement, JulylZ, at Cooper Instituted 
while the hall was not secured, and the concert did not 
take place, wc hold up as a mirror in which our readers 
may see the man.. .Matthew Westbrook sends a great 
variety of circulars, offering fortunes for very little money. 
Among the lot thus advertised are the " Continental Tea 
Company," '"The Metropolitan Jewelers' Association," 
"American Album Watch." " Sporting Greenbacks" 
and vile things, too vile for decent people to read. 
On one of his circulars we find : " Our stock con- 
sists in part of 1400 pianos, 000 melodeous, 700 cabinet 
organs," etc., etc., etc. Matthew was arrested July 3d. in 
the afternoon, for selling lottery tickets, etc., had an ex- 
amination, was held for trial, aud, for want of ready 
bail, was sent to the lock-up, protesting most earnestly 
against this method of celebrating Independence. In clear- 
ing out his place, the officers failed to find any of that big 
stock of musical instruments, etc., the particulars with 
regard to which are seen in the small dills. The stock con- 
sisted of a pile of circulars, as usual, worth three cents 
per pound, electrotype plates of the Sporting Greenbacks, 
a few pounds of tea, etc Many other smaller concerns 
of similar character are still sending out their circulars, and 
gulling the people. Most of them have been already shown 
up in our columns, but are still out of the penitentiary, 
though they ought to be in it, because, as Mr. Beecher said 
in his sermon, of July 11 : "If a man wants to have justice 
in the courts of New York, it would seem as if he should 
go there with his purse in his hand. We have heard of 
corrupt judges. We have heard men speaking of the 
judiciary of the city of New York, which stinks like 
Sodom and Gomorrah. They buy and sell justice, 
they are seeking for pelf, they sell the sanctity of their 
ermine." We warn all our readers against lotteries of 
every kind. Anything aud everything that has prizes 
t<> lie drawn for, is a violation of the civil and moral law, 
and here we mean to include all such drawings at church 
and charitable festivals, fairs, etc. Those who sell a hun- 
dred tickets, more or less, at $1 each, for a share in a 
twenty dollar Bible to lie drawn or rallied for.are violators 
of the State laws, and such practices should be dis- 
countenanced by all good people. A cause that cannot 
be sustained by honest and honorable means is not 
worth sustaining at all. We caution our readers again 
against quack doctors, (don't write to us about them, wc 
don'1 know them, and don't want UO quack medicines, 
quack traders, and quackery of every kind. Millions of 
dollars would be saved animallyto honest people by heed- 
iiiL.' this warning. 
Mannie Frauds- Xlie South Chief- 
ly Victimized.— Our attention is seldom called to 
fraudulent dealing in pretended fertilizers, when we do 
uol find thai the planters and fanners of the Southern 
Slates are the great snfferers. A case of most glaring 
fraud has lately come to our notice in this way. A gen- 
tleman having a deposit of excellent shell-marl in Vir- 
ginia, where it is easy to load vessels with it, was brought 
in contact with a Baltimore chemist, who proposed to 
him to manufacture it into a fertilizer fully equal to Peru- 
vian guano, at a very low rate. A sample was furnished 
of a '^manipulated" fertilizer he was then making.and sell- 
ing for $40 or $50 per ton retail, and the manipulator 
agreed to make an article equally valuable, using the marl 
as a basis. He took also some of the marl and prepared a 
sample of what he would furnish. This was sent by us 
to Prof. Johnson, of the Sheffield Scientific School, New 
Haven, for analysis, and we soon learned that it was, as 
we presumed it would prove, of no value as a high-priced 
fertilizer. It is probable that the rascally '■ chemist" 
had added nothing whatever of manurial value to the 
marl. The marl itself has value where it can be liberally 
applied, and the cost of transportation is not much. 
Our friend was thus saved the loss and shame of being 
involved, with his friends, in so disgraceful an enterprise, 
but the fact remains that the chemist continues to make 
and supply to the southern trade, the worthless article of 
his own, at a high price. The man actually pretended to 
court investigation, and to be perfectly willing to have 
the stuff" analysed, thinking in this way to bluff off inves- 
tigation, by a show of honesty and conscious rectitude. 
His name is Carey, as we understand, and the " fertiliz- 
er" is called "French Manipulated Guano,'' 1 or some 
similar name. There are more birds of the same feather. 
I>rainin*i — Agi-ieiiltiiraX and San- 
itary.— Among the Book Advertisements of this num- 
ber will be found a notice of" Draining for Profit an d 
Draining for Dealt/i,"" by Col. Geo. E. Waring, Jr.. whose 
Essay on Tile Draining in our Agricultural Annual for 
1S07, has attracted such favorable attention. After a care- 
ful reading of this work, we are impelled to speak more 
strongly concerning it than is our custom with regard to 
the publishing firm with which we are associated, for we 
think that both the importance of the subject and the 
merits of the work demand that it be commended to the 
notice of all our readers. The New York Tribune says of 
this volume : — " Every page is lucid and practical ; and he 
who works with this essay in hand can hardly fail to drain 
thoroughly and permanently. We exhort every one who 
meditates draining even one acre to obtain Col. Waring's 
treatise, for it will save him many times the cost." It 
might have gone still further, and added that eveiy one 
who owns an acre of land that, at any time during the 
growing season is too wet for the best cultivation, will 
find therein arguments to convince him that he cannot 
afford to have it undrained. The questions of cost aud 
profit are discussed with great fairness, and in a manner 
to induce even the most '-practical' 1 farmer to drain his 
wet lands. In fact, of all the books and essays on drain- 
ing that have been published in this country or in Eng- 
land, none is so readable, clear in its directions for prac- 
tical work, and convincing in its arguments for the neces- 
sity and profit of tile drainage and improved sewerage as 
this. Col. Waring's experience during the four years that 
he held the position of Agricultural Engineer in the Cen- 
tral Park in New York, and in an extensive private prac- 
tice, has fitted him particularly well for the preparation of 
a manual of the art of draining, and he has performed the 
task with entire fidelity. 
JlassacHnsetts Agricultural Col- 
lege. —The Old Bay State, after some preliminary diffi- 
culties, is soon to have a college for farmers' boys in 
complete running order. It is not surprising that there 
should be differences of opinion among highly intelligent 
men as to the organization of an Agricultural College. In 
this country it is an untried experiment mainly, and the 
few agricultural schools that have been started have not 
done much to dispel the popular prejudice against agri- 
cultural education. The abiding conviction of farmers 
is, that education, beyond the rudiments, is a dangerous 
thing for a farmer's son, and if he attempts to master the 
science of his calling, he is pretty sure to have a call to 
some other business soon after he opens his books. The 
great majority do not believe that a young farmer can have 
any education, to fit him for his business, half so good 
as that which he can get upon the farm ; and if that be 
the case, agricultural schools and colleges are humbugs. 
They may make scholars, but they fail to make farmers. 
Tile Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 
have another idea, and are going to give it. a fair trial. It 
will succeed in Massachusetts if auywhere. Through the 
efforts of Prof. Clark, of Amherst, they have secured 400 
acres of land, admirably adapted to their purposes, about 
a mile north of the literary institution, and just a con- 
venient distance from the village. Any one who has ever 
had occasion to buy live contiguous farms for any public 
enterprise will know how to appreciate the professor's 
labors in this behalf. The site for the principal buildings 
has been selected, and a dormitory, built to accommodate 
4S students, a dining hall and a laboratory, are now in a 
state of forwardness, and will be ready for use before the 
beginning of the college year, which is October 1st. It is 
expected that a corps of instructors will thou be on hand, 
and. what is rarer in these enterprises, a body of students 
to meet them. There is to be a regular and a special 
course of instruction, the first to embrace four years, and 
t<> ground the student thoroughly in the science and prac- 
tice of agriculture. This proposes to lake boyaof 11 
years of age and upward, and (0. give them a good educa- 
tion cheaper than they can get it elsewhere, and in one of 
the most healthful and beautiful regions in the country, 
distinguished for the high moral and social cultivation of 
its people. The special course will be arranged for the 
fall and winter, for the benefit of those who can devote 
but a few weeks or months to agricultural studies. A spot 
has been selected for propagating houses and a botanic 
garden, in which it is designed to have specimens of all 
the trees, shrubs, and flowers that will flourish in that 
soil and climate. The Pinetum is to be upon tie north 
and east side of a hill, that overlooks the whole farm— a 
natural locality for pines and hemlocks. It is proposed 
to have here all the new varieties of evergreens that pro- 
mise to be hardy, and to serve for ornamental planting. 
About twenty thousand dollars have been given for this 
Botanic garden, but this is not half enough. We hope 
some gentleman of liberal ideas, who has a spare fifty 
thousand dollars, will endow this garden, and enable the 
trustees to give us a good arboretum, and thus do well 
what has never been done at all in this country- This 
school of agriculture has no connexion with the literary 
institution in the same place, known as Amherst College, 
except the privilege of access to its cabinets and libraries, 
which are among the best in NewEni:! ,:i 1. We are happy 
to commend this new institution to our readers, and shall 
be greatly disappointed if it does not meet a want that 
has long been felt for the sons of farmers, and of men in 
other pursuits. 
Karley— Early SoTve*!.— U L.," of Mid- 
dlefield, Mass., gives his experience in answer to the ob- 
jections of J. S. C. to sowing barley early, (p. 244. July 
No.,) as follows : L " Seeing a suggestion a few years since 
about sowing carrots early, to have them get a start of the 
weeds, I sowed about 90 square rods of very weedy 
ground with 2' ' 2 bushels of barley that had foul seed in it, 
as early as I could work the ground, and harvested 2G 
bushels of extra clean barley. I don't think there was 
half a pint of foul seed in the whole lot. Whether it was 
the result of sowing early or not, I can't tell, bnt think it 
was that and the heavy seeding together, for. after raking 
off the barley, the stubble was pretty full of weeds." 
Should Animals 1>e Shown in their 
Natural Condition ?— Mr. A. C. Clarke, of Hender- 
son, Jefferson Co.,N. Y., writes : " I find the following use- 
ful and truthful statement in 'Walks and Talks.' of the 
April No. of the Agriculturist^ p. 130, 'In the case of ani- 
mals that have been bred for generations for the sole pur- 
pose of producing a large amount of flesh and fat in a 
short time, a fleshy condition is perfectly natural and will 
not prove injurious, unless carried to excess.' To what 
animal can this truth apply so well as to the hog* The 
same author says, ' I have a thorough-bred Essex sow, 
that, compared with ordinary sows, was excessively fat, 
and at ten months old had a fine litter of six pigs. 1 
I ask, is it not better, then, to breed hogs whose natural 
condition is fat rather than lean ? The Agricultural So- 
ciety of the State of New York oilers a premium for hogs 
6 not too fat to breed.' I have been denied a premium on 
an k improved Cheshire sow.' because she was " too fat to 
breed,' and yet within two weeks after she had a litter of 
tenfat pigs that sold, at six weeks of age. at $20 a piece, 
and the pigs of the lean sow. that took the premium, were 
not worlh.and would not sell for, more than $3.50 a piece. 
Now, the natural condition of the improved Cheshire 
hog is fat. Though a large breed, I have bred a great 
manyof them that. at one year of age. on coarse food aud 
no extra care, would weigh from 500 to TOO pounds. The 
pigs arc fat, many exceeding 350 pounds, and some 400 
pounds, at nine months old. A neighbor fattened one last 
fall that weighed at nine months aud six days 420 pounds. 
Would not the judges who inspect hogs for a premium at 
our State Fairs do well to take into consideration the not- 
vral Condition of the animal f Certainly, but Mr. C. will 
admit that an improved Cheshire sow may be too fat to 
breed, and, if so, ought not to show as a breeding sow. 
I*©rl«: Raising;. — Bidwcll Bro's, of Minne- 
sota* suggest that great good might result by calling at- 
tention to the unprofitable course pursued by many in 
pork raising. They say : " In the fall all the largest pigs 
arc fatted and killed, while the smaller ones are left to 
winter over. These have pigs the next season, and so 
the evil is continued. From severe cold or want of prop- 
er food in winter, or both. they become stunted, and make 
no heavier pork than spring pigs. The same cause re- 
duces the number of pigs in their farrows. We ought to 
Belect the largesi and besl sows for breeding, and keep. 
them year alter year. They should come in early in 
spring, and be well fed. and the size and number of their 
progeny will be increased, and early maturity secured." 
The Fairs.— The managers of Agricultural 
Fairs make a greal mistake in not putting i i their 
announcements in time for exhibit-'!- to be able to 
Btudy their mutes over months beforehand. Wc would 
