1878.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
205 ' 
33s. 6d.@40s. per ton. Cotton by sail }£d., and steam 
%d. $ ». Grain, by sail, for Cork and orders, at 6s.®6s. 
1 %0. per quarter, (8 bushels), and to Continental ports, 
5s. 4%d.@6s. 6d.; Italian ports, 5s. 6rf.@6s.; and from 
Phila. for Cork and orders, 6s.®6s. 3d., and from Balt, 
for Cork and orders, 6s.@6s. 3d., and from Phila. for 
Lisbon, by sail, in bags, 15@15)£ cts. per bushel. 
\ew l'orli JLivc-Sloclc Markets. 
RECEIPTS. 
wicuK ending Beeves. Cows. Calces. Sheep. Sivine. 
Apr. 22_... 
....... 9,349 
89 
3,085 
20,100 
30,517 
A pr. 29 
.10,258 
25 
3,OSS 
19,881 
29,931 
May 6. 
.10,768 
34 
4,879 
24,831 
32,966 
Mav 13... ... 
.11,379 
57 
4,177 
21,470 
21 ,955 
Total for 4 II 
'eeks. .41,754 
205 
16,729 
86,282 
121,369 
do.forprev. 5 
JFe&ts50,271 
390 
8,833 
97,984 
148.724 
Beeves. Cows. Calces. Sheep. Swine. 
Average per IFeei.10,438 
do. do. last Month.. 10,055 
do. do. prev’s Month . 9,060 
51 
4.182 
21,570 
30,442 
78 
17,66 
10,590 
29,745 
132 
903 
21,679 
34,918 
Beeves.—Business has been marked by a gradual 
improvement, both in the demand and in the prices; a 
gain of one cent a pound having been made on the whole, 
notwithstanding the continued increase in receipts. The 
quality of the stock offered has also been better than 
usual; some Colorado steers brought 10c. S> for 56 lbs 
f} cwt., and some Texans 9%c. The Texan drive this 
summer will be both larger and better than usual, esti¬ 
mates being made of 300,000 head, and the early grass 
having brought the stock into fine condition. At the 
close, prices were firm at the advance ; a few extra good 
cattle, 58 lbs. to the cwt., sold for ll^c.; Prime steers, 
57 lbs. to the cwt., 10%@llc., and fair natives and good 
Texans, 56 lbs. to the cwt., brought 9*/2@10Kc. lb. The 
foreign shipments reached over 1,000 head per week. 
The prices for the past four weeks were as follows: 
WEEK ENDING 
Range. 
Large Sales. 
A ver. 
Apr. 22. 
. 8 @11 c. 
S?<f@ 9&c. 
9 c, 
Apr. 29. 
. e. 
c. 
9Kc. 
May 6. 
. 8J4@U c. 
9)4®JO c. 
95(c. 
May 13. 
. 8 @!1><C. 
9M@tOKc. 
10 c. 
Cows have been dull and slow of sale, no good offer 
being refused. Prices of common cows are $30©$40, 
and of good ones $50@$65 per head; some very good 
animals were sold at the last price — Calves,— The 
market, after being weak for the best part of the month, 
improved along with beef, and became strong and higher, 
Best N. Y. State veals sold for 6X@7c., and the poorest 
buttermilk calves brought 4c. ^ fl>... Sileep and 
Lambs,-A marked improvement has occurred in this 
class of stock generally. Good sheep have been in good 
demand, unshorn sheep ranged from 6 to 6%c. sg lb., and 
clipped brought 4 %@ 6 c. lb. Lambs have been lower 
than ever before known; 6Xc. $ lb. for Ohio ; S@8Xc. 
for Virginia, and 8c. for N. Y. State, having been the 
rates at the close. As low as $1 .75 to $4 per head was 
paid for many... .Swine.— With pork down to $9 
per bbl.—lower than for 30 years—hogs have done well at 
3%c. ^ lb for live; dressed have fallen dnrinffithe month, 
and closed at 4Xc. $ lb. Pigs brought 4%@5c. ^ lb. 
Prices of Peed. 
Bran, per ton.$18.00®$20.00 
Middlings, per ton. 19.00® 21.00 
Ground Feed, per ton. 15.00® 21.00 
Linseed-oil-cake, western, per ton. 44.00® 47.00 
Cotton-seed-cake, per ton. 25.00® 40.00 
Chandler’s Scraps, per ft.. 3@ 4 
Prices of Fertilizers. 
No.l.Peruv.GnanolO p.r.t. ammonia, standard, 79 ton..$56.50 
do. do. Lobos, do. do. do. 47.50 
do. do. guaranteed,!? ton, cargo F 56.00 
do. do. rectified, per ton, 9.70 p. c.. 69.00 
do. do. do. do. 3.40 p. c. 51.00 
Soluble Pacific Guano, ^1 ton. 45.00 
Excelsior Fertilizer Works, Fine Ground Itaw Bone,.. .55.00 
Mapes’ Complete Manure (Ville formula) p. 1,000 lbs 26.14 
no. Spring Wheat Manure, V 1,000 lbs., 25.00 
do. Fruit and Vine Manure, do. 17.50 
do. Bone, strictly pure, meal .per ton. 42.00 
do. do. do. extra fine_ do. 40.00 
do. do. do. fine. do. 38.00 
do. do. do. medium. do. 36.00 
do. Lawn Top Dressing. do. 60.00 
do. Potato Manure, (Ville Formula).. do. 51.94 
Stockbridge Corn Manure, per acre. 20.00 
“ Potato do do 10.00 
“ Tobacco do do 50.00 
“ Rve do do 10.00 
“ Wheat do do 15.00 
Bowker’s Hill and Drill Fertilizer, per ton. 45.00 
Gvpsum, Nova Scotia, ground, per ton. R.00 
Nitrate of Potasli (95 per cent.), per lb. 9qc. 
Sulphate of Potash (actual potash 44 percent) per lb....4 c. 
do. do. (actual potash 27K per cent) per lb 2 c. 
German Potash Salts (actual potash 12 to 15 p. c. p. ton$18.00 
Muriate of Potash (actual potash 50 ner cent), per lb...2Kc. 
Nitrate of Soda, per lb. 4)fc.® 4 qc. 
Sulphate of Ammonia (25 percent.), per lb_ 49fc.@ 5 \ic.. 
Dried Blood or Dried Meat (ammonia 14 per cent) p. ton $55 
-- 
C’oeuii. Experiment SSsaliosn— 
Bulletin No, 11,— May 11, 1878— Analyses: No. 
11 8—Nitrate of Soda , guaranteed 95 to 96 per cent, by 
H. J. Baker & Co., N. Y. City. Sampled by W. S. Bald¬ 
win, Naugatuck, Conn —Moist condition. 
No. 120 —Peruvian Guano , from Chapman & Van 
Wyck, N. Y. City ; sampler J. N. Bishop, Piainville, Ct. 
No. 121 — Pulverized Bone. — P.efuse from Baking 
Powder Factory. Bought of Lombard & Matthewson, 
Vfarrenvillo, [Ct. ?] Sampled by J. D. Gaylord, Ashford. 
No. 122 —G. B. F. Superphosphate, (English?) guar¬ 
anteed lQper cent soluble Phosphoric Acid. Prom H. 
J. Baker & Co., N. Y. City; sampled by L. S. Wells, New 
Britain, Conn. [We suppose all the samplers were sup¬ 
plied by the purchasers.— Ed. American Agriculturist.'] 
Nitrogen. 
Soluble Phosphoric Acid... 
Nos. US 
120 121 
-Percentages.— 
122 
8.-'6 
.06 
ione. 
. . . . . - 
5.62 
.01 
11.96 
Reverted Phosphoric Acid. 
„ - 
5.01 
.80 
.19 
Insoluble Phosphoric Acid. 
. - 
2.93 
1.53 
.07 
Potash... 
-- 
<5.91 
— 
— 
Sulphate of Lime, (plaster) 
Moisture. 
.... 8.71 
z 
75.59(?) 
— 
Undetermined . 
.... 0.79 
— 
— 
— 
Calculated value.... 
. .$71.73 
$67.04 
$10.82 
&29.09 
Cost. . 
..$30.00 
$50.00 
$20.00 
829.00 
* Equivalent to 95.50 of Nitrate of So 
la (about as sold for.) 
Cocoa and. Chocolate.—While coffee 
and tea allow of various adulteratious, these may usually 
be avoidable by the careful purchaser, but Cocoa, when 
made up in the form of Chocolate, the cocoa beans being 
ground to a paste by the aid of heat, can be largely adul¬ 
terated with materials which can only be detected by a 
chemical examination. Sugar is desired by many, and 
this can hardly be regarded as an adulteration, but 
starch in some of its many forma, plaster, and chalk, 
are often used to add weight, and red-ochre, umber, and 
other earthy paints are added to give the proper color. 
As chocolate and other such preparations are frequent¬ 
ly advised for invalids, it becomes especially desirable 
that it should be pure. The only real safety for the 
purchaser is in the integrity of the maker of the article. 
Since our earliest recollections, the name of Baker has 
been identified with cocoa and chocolate of the best 
quality. In Europe it is not uncommon for a business 
to remain in a family for many generations, but such 
cases are rare with us, and the Bakers are a remarkable 
instance of the long continuance of a business under the 
same name, their cocoa and chocolate manufacture having 
been carried on for within two years of a full century. 
The present firm, Walter Baker & Co., while adopting 
modern improvements, maintain the early reputation of 
the name, by the excellence and purity of their products, 
and the purchaser feels sure that the name is a guaran¬ 
tee that the article he buys is exactly as represented. 
Changes Which Bring Strength. 
Mr, Judd’s “Silver Wedding,” 
If ever a man was wedded to any pursuit, Mr. 
Orange Judd has been to that of Editor and Pub¬ 
lisher of the American Agriculturist. And it is no 
stretch of propriety to say that in marking the 25th 
Anniversary of his connection with this paper, he 
celebrated his “ Silver Wedding.” Probably there is 
no other paper between which and its readers there 
exists such a peculiar personal relation, as between 
the American Agriculturist and its constituents. This 
was so noticable long ago, that it has been very 
common for us to speak of the “ Great Agricultur¬ 
ist Family,” and this has of late been manifested 
to a degree as marked as it is gratifying, in the 
many hundreds of letters that have come to us with 
the renewed subscriptions for the present, year. 
This Pleasant Relation 
between Publishers, Editors, and Readers, is large¬ 
ly due to the fact that we have told our friends 
more about our business successes, our hopes and 
our future plans, than is customary ; we are sure 
that this has not been without its good effect, in 
making its readers feel a greater attachment to and 
confidence in the Journal. Twenty-five years does 
not seem such a very long time,but when we say that 
A Quarter of a Century Ago, 
Mr. Judd allied himself with the American Agri¬ 
culturist, and has devoted to it “ a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury ” of hard work (which measured by the work 
of most men, will count a rounded century), it will 
be admitted that he might properly celebrate iiis 
“Silver Wedding” with the paper. Wc can not 
now review the many changes that have taken place 
in these 25 years, at the beginning of which, the cir¬ 
culation was numbered by hundreds, instead of the 
many tens of thousands it now enjoys—when it was 
read mainly in a few adjacent States, instead of, as 
now, in every land where the English and German 
languages are read and spoken. At the present 
moment the f uture of the American Agriculturist is 
of more consequence than the past, and we with 
pleasure announce that Me. Judd celebrates his 
Twenty-fifth. Anniversary, 
by instituting such changes as can not fail to add 
greatly to the future prosperity of the “ Company,” 
and usefulness of the Journal. Me. Judd’s brother,, 
The Mon, David W. JTudd, 
who has had a wide and varied experience as a 
journalist, will now assume an active part in the 
business of the concern. The business force is still 
further strengthened by the addition of 
Mr. Wm, K. Beckwith, 
a gentleman who has had abundant experience in 
the publication of one of the most successful 
special, or trades journals of the day, and who will 
hereafter devote himself to the business of the 
Orange Judd Company. The occasion was 
marked not only by strengthening the business 
force, but the editorial corps is not omitted in the 
general improvement. 
Mr. Edgar 5S. Libby, 
was brought up a farmer, and, after receiving a 
thorough education in the sciences relating to agri¬ 
culture, founded the “ Scientific Farmer,” and until 
recently was the Managing Editor of that excellent 
Journal. Mr. Libby will hereafter devote himself 
to similar duties on the American Agriculturist. We 
make these announcements with all the more 
pleasure because they are 
Additions, rather than Changes. 
While “young blood ” and fresh energy are added 
to each department, no efficient member of the force 
has departed. The business is so large and so va¬ 
ried—and this remark applies to the editorial a& 
well as to the business department—that each one 
was, formerly, not only overworked, but was 
obliged to attend to an immense variety of details.. 
These very strong additions to both departments^ 
allow each one, as has never before been practica-- 
ble, to devote himself to those business or editorial 
duties for which he is best fitted ; and while those 
who have borne the “brunt of the battle” these 
many years, do not propose to relax any of their ef¬ 
forts, they hope, by devoting themselves more ex¬ 
clusively to special departments, to make their- 
work more effective. We have given these an¬ 
nouncements that our many friends—and no paper 
ever had more and better—may see that the round¬ 
ing of a quarter of a century is marked, not by a 
recital of what has been done in the past, but by 
immediate arrangements for the more complete ac¬ 
complishment of the work of 
Tile Next Quarter-Century 
of the American Agriculturist. It long ago be¬ 
came “an institution,” and the most fitting man¬ 
ner in which Mr. Judd could celebrate the 25th an¬ 
niversary of his alliance with it was, to place it in 
every respect upon even a firmer basis than ever 
before, so that its permanence or its usefulness 
may not depend upon the health or the life of any¬ 
one person or of several persons engaged in its dif¬ 
ferent departments. Let no one infer that the new 
arrangements involve the retirement of Mr. Judd. 
We have figuratively referred to his alliance with 
the American Agriculturist as “a marriage,” and 
this, like all true marriages, was “for life,” hut 
they will essentially relieve him from many cares, 
and really allow him to become more efficient, aa 
he can now put forth his energies in whatever direc¬ 
tion they may be most needed. EDITOR. 
