1867.] 
AMERICAN" AGRICULTURIST. 
397 
The New Building, 245 Broadway. 
This month we present a "Basket Item" of unusu- 
ally large size— a view of our present quarters. Last 
month's Agriculturist announced our intended removal, 
and the present issue dates from 245 Broadway. At the 
present time we feel like a hoy with a new pair of boots, 
as we are undergoing the process of li breaking in." 1 "We 
shall, however, soon be at home in the new place, which 
is as far superior for our purposes to the old one, as that 
was to the quarters occupied in the early days of the paper. 
In the American, Agriculturist for October 1S60, seven 
years ago last month, Mr. Judd wrote as follows : — " The 
friends of this journal will be pleased to learn that we 
have secured and removed into large and beautiful rooms, 
in one of the most eligible positions in this city." This 
was on the occupancy of 41 Park Row, as the office of 
the Agriculturist. 
He little thought, at that time, that a change would be 
made so soon, but the increase of the business of the 
Agriculturist has required new partners and an enlarged 
working force, and now its necessities demand enlarged 
room. Since the time the above quoted remark was 
written, we have added an entirely distinct branch ol 
business, that of book publishing, to that of the paper ; 
this alone requires a large space, and removal became an 
imperative matter. The new store is a fine brown-stone 
building, directly opposite the old one, across City Hall 
Park. Every one at all familiar with New York knows 
that the Park is the center of the business part of the 
city, that it is the point of arrival and departure for most 
of the local travel. Indeed, so central is the situation that 
the U. S. Government has selected it as the best site for 
THE YICINITT OF CITY HALL PARK. 
the new Post Office soon to be built. The diagram will 
give an idea of the rela-tions of our new building to the 
City Hall and new Post Office. Its situation is such as 
to face the open space between these two edifices, and 
is just below Murray- street, on Broadway. Our friends 
from abroad will have no difficulty in finding us, while 
the thousands of our city subscribers can reach us more 
readily than they could when on Park Row. 
It will be seen, from the view on the opposite page, 
that the new store is five stories in bight; it has a front 
of 25 feet, a depth of 114'i feet, with an L projection, 
which gives us a wide entrance on Mnrruy-st., with a 
spacious basement extending under the whole. The front 
portion of the main floor is occupied as a sales-room for 
our large stock of Agricultural and Horticultural works, 
where we have ample room for this important and in- 
creasing branch of business. Farther to the rear are the 
subscription and other business desks, while the base- 
ment is devoted to the important work of folding and 
mailing the paper. The printers' room, engravers 1 room, 
and editorial " sanctum " arc on an upper floor. 
If the change to our new location has made this month's 
issue a few days later than usual, wc trust that our friends 
will overlook it. We are sure that they will be glad to 
know that we have such ample facilities for serving them 
all the better hereafter. We do not entirely give up the 
old place, though II is leased to V>. K. Bliss & Son as a 
seed store. We still retain there a desk for subscriptions, 
and a counter for the sale of our books, to accommodate 
those who find it more convenient to call there. 
At our new home, we shall be glad to see all our old 
friends, and to make hosts of now ones, and wc hope that 
to our increasing thousands of readers, 245 Broadway will 
become, as 41 Park Row has been, "familiar In their 
mouths as household words." 
Fair at Slalen Island.— The Richmond 
County Agricultural Society had thelrhorsc trotting show 
at the race-course of the Richmond Clnb, in Southficld. 
Mr. R. W. Cammeron showed excellent Short-horn and 
Jersey stock. Mr. Saunders had a number of coops of 
poultry, including Brahmas, BorT Cochins, Hondans, 
Crevecceurs, and Gray Dorkings of great excellence, also 
Bremen Geese and Aylesbury Dncks. and other good 
poultry was shown. The manager of the County Farm, 
(poor-house.) made a fine display of vegetables, grain, 
etc. The open selling of "pools " at the race-course was 
permitted as on any other race day, and the show was 
little besides a horse-race with plenty of liquor and its 
accompaniments. We plead in behalf of the farmers of 
Richmond County and their families for a festival free 
from these corrupting associations. 
•Viast ice to the 3*artri«lg-e. — When the 
cock partridge drums', standing upon a log, he does it by 
beating his body with his wings, as we knew from per- 
sonal observation, yet we carelessly allowed an old and 
incorrect impression that he beat the log. to sway the 
pen, in the November number, and were not a little 
chagrined to discover the error too late to change it. 
We ask Mr. Grouse's pardon, and are much obliged to 
those friends who so promptly suggested that he had a 
right to demand the amende honorable. 
Xlae New Xorlk State Fail' at Bnf- 
falo.— This was held from the 1st to the 4th of October, 
and, notwithstanding the jealousy of other parts of the 
State, and the location at the extreme west end of New 
York, was a marked success. Some 40 or 50 acres were in- 
closed for the exhibition, and ample provision was made 
for the feeding and shelter of the animals, and for the dis- 
play of fruits and vegetables. The show of fruit was not 
what it ought to have been in Western New York, but 
was creditable, especially in the department of grapes. 
The Pleasant Valley Grape Growers" Association, from 
Hammonds port, had fine samples of wine, both bottled 
and in the original packages, and took the first premium. 
They exhibited eleven samples of wine and twenty va- 
rieties of grapes. The show of agricultural implements 
was particularly large, as might have been expected, and 
was some index of the rapid progress making i n improved 
husbandry. Horse hoes and cultivators were of numerous 
and excellent patterns, and among the prominent exhibit- 
ors were F. F. Holbrook, of Boston, and Alden & Co., 
of Auburn. In Pennsylvania and the West, these have 
long been popular, aud in New York and New England, 
they must soon drive out the hand hoe. If stones and 
stumps are in the way, they must be cleared out. The 
reduction in the cost of raising corn by the use of these 
implements is so great that no farmer can afford to do 
without them. Gov. Holbrookes Universal Plow attracted 
much attention. They are in various styles to admit of 
different kinds of work. Each plow changes its mold- 
board for stubble, for sod, and for subsoil plowing, and for 
turning fiat and lap furrow slices. This saves both the 
money and the time of the farmer. An admirable featnre 
of the fair was the arrangement for addresses and discus- 
sions. Too often the evenings of the fair days are lost. 
Thousands of people come together to learn, and there is 
no suitable opportunity for the interchange of experience. 
The show ofjdeas is always the best part of an agricul- 
tural fair. Maj. Brooks 1 address upon the apple, and the 
discussion thai; followed, were worth far more to the pub- 
lic as an incentive to apple growing than the whole show 
of apples upon the tables. The attendance upon the great 
day of the fair. Thursday, were estimated at 35.000. and the 
receipts for the whole four days were $£1,500, which is 
said to be more than has been taken in any year since 
1859, at Albany. This vindicates the wisdom of our Buf- 
falo friends in insisting upon having the fair there. We 
hope it paid them as well as the society. 
Sheep in Oregon. — N. O. This promises 
to be one of the best wool-growing States. Sheep are 
very healthy, and the woo! is of excellent gualitv. Crosses 
of the South Devon and Merino are abundant, and sell for 
a little o\er a dollar a head. Sis: woolen lactones are 
established, or under way, in the western part of the State. 
Weight of Merino Fleeces. — In a re- 
cent number of the Country Gentleman a report is given 
of a public shearing this qning, under the auspices of the 
Springfield, (Vermont;) Airrieuliur.il Society, which took 
place April 05th. and is remarkable for the great weight 
of cleansed wool reported as yielded by some of the ani- 
mals. The sheep were all merinos or merino grades. 
One two year-old ram, weighing llfi lbs,, Bheared 17 lbs. 
Soz., which, cleansed, weighed 7lbs:SJ4oz. ; fleece 869 
days old. Another, two years old, weighing 120 1 £ lbs., 
sheared 18 Jibs. S oz.. which cleansed lbs. 13 oz.; 355 days 
old. A four year-old, weighing 123 lbs., sheared 20 lbs. 
8 oz., cleansed lbs. : 3»»5 days. Not less remarkable is 
the weight of cleansed ewes' fleeces, bf which the heav- 
iest three weighed B IhS; 14' \ 07... 5 lbs. V. OB., and 4 lbs. 
11 oz. The average shrinking of rams' Deecos was 07.76 per 
cent.; that of ewes' fleeces 51.39 percent. Why have wc not 
reports of equally heavy fleeces where different breeds 
and families are shorn in competition ? Part of the fleeces 
were cleansed at one mill, but, on account of a misun- 
derstanding between one of the committee and the pro- 
prietor, they went to another factory to have the rest 
cleansed. It would be interesting to know, in connec- 
tion, which fleeces were washed at the first milL 
The Agricultural College of Penn- 
sylvania.— The circular of this institution has been 
sent to us, containing its programme and list-of officers. 
We are glad to see in the faculty a number of men who 
have a well established reputation, and as the college 
seems to have made an effort to become a first class insti- 
tution, we wish it all success. We are quite surprised to 
read one thing, however. The circular says: "For the 
benefit of the farming community, an Agricultural Jour- 
nal, under the editorship of members of the College 
Faculty, will be commenced in the course of the current 
year. In the journal will be published the experiments 
made at this college." Now we advise the *■* Board of 
Trustees'" to consider, in the first place, how much money 
they have to lose in amateur publishing, and whether, 
with the extensive courses laid down, their professors 
have not quite enough to do without editing a paper. If 
the professors have anything to say that is of value, there 
is no lack of channels of communication by which they 
can reach the public much more effectually than by any 
publication like that proposed. We advise the trustees 
to confine their " experiments" for the present to the 
establishment of the college in the favor of the people of 
Pennsylvania, before they experiment in journalism. 
The 1>i-ongrh£ at the West has been 
very severe. They are shipping stock hogs from Illinois 
to Western Missouri, on account of the scarcity of corn. 
The estimate of the Agricultural Bureau is that Illinois 
will be 14 per cent short of the previous year, Indiana 17, 
Kentucky 2S, and Ohio 30. These are the great corn-grow- 
ing States, and the large crops of the Southern States will 
hardly make good the deficiency. Corn was worth 20 cents 
a bushel more in Cincinnati than in Nashville October 
1st, and this difference in price led to large shipments. 
Wheat on Wet Land, Drained.— 
Wet clay lands, when drained, make the best wheat lands. 
In mucky soils, the plant, especially the winter varieties, 
would not probably do as well, as the surface would 
sooner feel atmospheric changes. Spring wheat does well 
on black prairie soils where winter wheat fails, and we 
should not hesitate to try that variety on reclaimed swamp, 
if thoroughly dry. The wheat should be sown early in the 
spring, before the deep frost is out, even if you have to 
get it in with a barrow. Early sowing is regarded as a 
matter of the first importance by those who have thor- 
oughly tried it. 
JRye for Spring Feed. — The sowing of 
rye early in the fall, for this purpose, is quite common at 
the West, and can be introduced with advantage in all tho 
dairy districts. The rye can be sown amon<r corn at the 
last hoeing or cultivating, and still later, by plowing spe- 
cially for the purpose. It starts very early, and gives tho 
cows their first bite of green fodder in the spring. 
HFew Jersey Slate Fair.— The State 
Agricultural Society held its exhibition at its new grounds, 
at Waverley, midway between Elizabeth and Newark. 
We have rarely seen grounds better adapted to such pur- 
poses. They are gently rolling, include a grove, a beau- 
tiful lake, and a bill of considerable bight, upon which is 
level land enough for the exhibition tents and buildings, 
and where everybody can see the whole trotting course, 
and all the rest of the show. The future exhibitions, if 
well managed, ought to be among the most interesting 
people's festivals of this part of the country. The show 
wafi a very pleasant one to visit, but very small. The 
Jerseys were the only breed of cattle present in any force, 
and of these there were very fine specimens. The show 
of poultry Included most excellent Rouen Bucks, Black 
P«. lands. White Dorkings, very good Brahmas, Black 
Spanish, aud Silver-spangled Uamburghs, and other va- 
rieties above mediocrity. There was one hog and six 
sheep. The horticultural tent. In charge of Mr. P. Quia, 
was arranged with great taste, and contained a very fine 
display of pears. Other fruits. Bowers, and vegetables 
were good, and all were well labelled. The other depart- 
ments of the exhibition contained, of course, much to in- 
struct and Interest, and would compare favorably with a 
good county fair in New England, New York, or Ohio. 
We were interested in B Bnckeye Mowing Machine, 
shown by the President, which ha- been in use ten years 
on his farm, cutting, annually, over 100 acres, and hav- 
ing, as he testified, required bur $5.86 for repairs. Of 
oue thing we think tho public have a right to complain, 
and that Is the almost entire absence of the names and 
