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AMERICAN AGtRICUIjTURIST. 
June, 
Last Call. 
Tills Js the Dust Month for securing the valu¬ 
able premium articles, offered in our genera! list for 
1878. All lists must bo sent in this month, as the offers 
will positively cease at G o'clock P. M ., J une 30, except 
as noted below. Our contracts with manufacturers and 
dealers extend only for six months of 1878, and wc can 
not respond to those who send for premium articles after 
that dale. 
lint there is abundant time this month to fill tt^un- 
completed lists, and to start and complete new premium 
•clubs before July 1. Many have done so every year. 
A very little time and attention will secure freeof cost one 
■or more desirable and useful articles. Let all who have 
not a copy of the list at hand, send us a postal card at once 
with name and Post Office address upon it, and say on it. 
“ Send Illustrated Premium List.” 
Over 20,000 persons have already secured some of 
these valuable articles, and as many more may get them 
this month. See abbreviated Premium List on page 233. 
To Distant Subscribers.— To put all upon 
equal footing, as thousands of our readers live at distant 
points, in all parts of the world, we will allow the time 
of closing the Premium List to be so extended for such 
distant readers, that every one, every where, shall have 
30 days after receiving this paper, in which to gather and 
forward names for premiums. Those living almost any¬ 
where in the United Slates or British North American 
Provinces, will receive this number about June 1st, and 
thus have a whole month for making up Premium Clubs. 
•containing a great variety of Items , including mam/ 
good Hints and Suggestion's /chick we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of room elsewhere. 
Publishers’ Notices, Terms, etc. — The Annual 
Subscription Rates of the American Agriculturist, postage 
prepaid by the Publishers, are: One Copy, $1.60 a year; Two 
Copies, $3 ; Three Copies, $4.20 ($1.40 each) ; Four Copies, 
.$5.20 ($1.30 each); Five to Nine Copies, $1.25 each ; Ten to 
Nineteen Copies, $1.20 each; Twenty Copies and upwards, 
$1 .10 each ; Single Numbers, 15 cents, post-paid.—The above 
terms are for the United States and Territories, and British 
America. To the above add 14 cents extra per year for 
papers delivered by mail in N. Y. City, and for copies sent 
outside of the United States and British America, ex¬ 
cept to Africa, Brazil, British Honduras, the East Indies, 
and Mexico. For the last named five countries the extra 
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Numbers, 17 cents, post-paid.Remittances, payable to 
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Checks or Drafts on N. Y. City Banks or Bankers ; or P. O. 
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and his receipt taken for it, and the postage and registering 
So be put on in stamps. Money remitted in any one of the 
above three methods is safe against loss. .Bound Volumes 
from Vol. 16 to 36 inclusive, supplied at $2 each, or $2.30 if to 
be sent by mail. Sets of numbers sent to the office will be 
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be returned by mall). Missing numbers for such volumes 
supplied at 12 cents each.—Any Numbers of the paper is¬ 
sued for 21 years past, sent post paid for 15 cents each; 
or any full year, sent unbound, for $1.60.Clubs of 
Subscribers can he increased at any time, at the club rates, 
3f new members begin at same date as original club. 
Every (xerinan Cultivator and 
Laborer on the Farm, or in tiie Garden, 
OUGHT to have the German American Agriculturist, 
and thousands of new subscribers arc taking it this year. 
It contains not only the Engravings and all the essential 
reading matter of the American edition, but an a Iditional 
Special German Department, edited by the Hon. Frederick 
Munch, of Missouri, a skillful and successful cultivator 
and excellent writer. No other German Agricultural or 
Horticultural Journal in America fins been solongissued; 
bo other contains so much useful information and so many 
engravings. Germans are a reading, thinking people, 
and know how to make good use of what they read. 
Many Americans supply it to their German laborers and 
gardeners; all would find it pay to do so. — Nothing 
else can compete with it in cheapness of price for the same 
amount of material, engravings, etc., because the expense 
Of collecting and making these is largely borne by the 
American edition, and no separate office or machinery is 
required beyond German editors and the printers. Its 
terms are the same as the American edition, singly and 
in clubs ; and clubs can be composed of subscribers for 
cither edition in whole, or in part Please call the 
attention of your German neighbors to this paper. It will 
do much to help newcomers to a knowledge of the sys¬ 
tem and modes of culture used in this country. 
A Good Appointment.—The Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture lias appointed C. V. Riley, who lias 
been for the past 10 years State Entomologist of Missouri, 
the Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture. 
Judging from his past, we have reason to expect much 
useful work from Prof. Riley. The only regret attaching 
to the announcement, is, that the letter which brings it, 
also informs us that our old friend Townsend Glover, 
who occupied the position, lias quite broken down in 
health, and it is feared that Ids working days are over. 
Reliable Iliisiiiews Men, those who 
have both the ability and the intention to do what they 
promise, are the only ones invited to use the business- 
pages of this journal, and those in charge of that depart¬ 
ment arc under positive instructions to admit no others 
at any price, and they try to live up to it, and generally 
do, though once in a while they may make a mistake—to 
err is human—but this seldom occurs. We could make a 
fortune in a single year, and supply the paper at lower 
rates, if the advertising pages were thrown open to those 
who gladly pay high prices, as they can afford to, 
because they give little for much. But we mean our ad¬ 
vertising pages shall be a valuable source of trustworthy 
information to our readers.—When ordering from, or cor¬ 
responding with any of our advertisers, or sending for 
catalogues, etc., it is well to state that you are a reader 
of this Journal. They will know what wc expect, and 
what you expect of them as to prompt and fair treatment. 
The Winchester Repenting Arms 
Company, one of the most successful and extensive 
companies in this country, have leased and fitted up in 
very fine, attractive style, the ground-floor of the Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist Building, extending back 114 feet from 
Broadway, and including the L upon Murray street. 
Any of our readers visiting the city will be well repaid 
for a visit to this fine establishment. The Publishers of 
the American Agriculturist occupy nearly the entire first 
floor above, in four rooms, for General Offices, the Base¬ 
ment for mailing and packing, the fifth floor for editorial 
rooms, etc., and the sixth floor for printers and engrav¬ 
ers. A cordial invitation is always extended to all our 
friends and subscribers to drop in and see us, whenever 
visiting the City. The Editors spend much of their time 
at their various country places, but some of them are 
usually here a portion of each day. The electrotvping is 
done at the large establishment of Messrs. Lovejoy & 
Son, on Vandewater St., and the presswork and folding 
in the great printing-house of S. W. Green, on Jacob St, 
Paris Green.—From inquiry among the 
manufacturers and dealers, we learn that there are sold in 
the New York market alone, over 500 tons of this poison 
annually. One establishment alone, that of F. W. Devoe 
& Co., sold last year over 150 tons. Nearly all of this is 
used on the potato crop. 
The BT’osl.—We go to press before full re¬ 
ports come to hand of the effects of the cold spell about 
May 12th. The area visited by it is unusually wide, and 
its effects, especially upon tender garden-plants, in most 
localities disastrous. To what extent the staple grain 
and fruit crops have suffered, we have yet to learn. 
TlicTpilmne’sNew Printing-Press 
is one of the most interesting objects to be seen in New 
York City. In a small compact space stands a machine 
that draws a wide strip of paper from a continuous roll, 
prints two copies at a time on both sides, gathers and 
folds the sheets ready for mailing, and drops them out 
at the rate of four to five in each second, or 15,000 an 
hour! All this is done by the machine itself, without the 
intervention of human hands, except to turn on or shut 
off steam with a little lever. Any one happening in the 
city in the early forenoon of any Wednesday should drop 
in at the Tribune building and see the press in operation. 
Advcrlising Agencies.— Mr. J. H. Bates 
has taken the large rooms in the Now York Times Build¬ 
ings, formerly occupied by Geo. P. Rowell & Co., and fit¬ 
ted them up finely, and has a well arranged collection 
of all the newspapers of the entire country. With the 
advantages here offered, and also at the excellent es¬ 
tablishment of S. M. Pettingill & Co., so long and favor¬ 
ably known to the press of the country, and which is 
close at hand, every possible facility can be found by 
business men wbo may wish to use the advertising col¬ 
umns of any or all the newspapers and other periodicals 
issued in America. 
The Aiuer. Pomologies*I Society*’ 
Report of the meeting at Baltimore in 1877 
greatly exceeds in size, fullness, and usefulness, any of the 
former excellent volumes. Including the catalogue, it com¬ 
prises over 200 ample pages, and bears throughout, the 
evidence of the industry and thoroughness of Col. Wilder, 
Mr. Barry, Mr. Flagg, the late lamented Secretary, and 
other faithful workers, and is a volume which is cred¬ 
itable not only to the Society hut to the country. The Pro¬ 
ceedings are richly worth the membership fee of $4.00. 
Oiesip Watches. —Watches are advertised 
at $3 and upwards. We have not heard of any one's 
getting a $3 watch, though we have seen excuses wlty 
they were not sent, and promises to fill the order from 
the “next lot received.” Any one of common sense 
knows that there must be a limit to the cheapness of a 
watch that will keep time; the cheapest watch must 
have a spring and gearing, or “ train,” must have a face 
and hands, and tne whole must be enclosed in a case.— 
Of course, if these parts are servicable, no matter where 
they are made, there must be a point below which the 
cost can not go. Several weeks ago, Messrs. J. S. Birch 
& Co. brought us a watch, taken at random from their 
stock, whiclt they wished us to carry in comparison with 
our own watch or any other time-keeper. This watch 
has a case nickel-plated on German silver: beveled 
crystal, is a stem-winder and a stem-setter; the works, 
which have a neat look, though not highly polished, are 
covered with a glass shield, to keep out dirt, and there 
are, if we mistake not, six holes jewelled. The watch, 
which is a very presentable one, is called the “ Centen¬ 
nial,” and has this and a Maltese Cross on the back ns a 
trademark.—We are thus particular in mentioning the 
trade mark, as another concern has adopted the name 
“ Centennial” for a very different watch with another 
device in place of the Maltese Cross. Messrs. Birch & 
Co., knowing the deception there is in cheap watches, 
preferred to have theirs tested before offering them. We 
can only say that the one left with us for trial has thus 
far proved a most satisfactory time-keeper. 
Miles ami Acres of Eaint.— The 
largest paint contract ever made, was that oi the H. W. 
Johns' Co., to furnish their Asbestos paint to the Gilbert 
Elevated R. R., to cover their miles of trestle-work. 
Tlte surface of wood covered by their paint in the two 
stores of A. T. Stewart & Co., is estimated at 4% acres. 
•rite ]>calli of I*rof. Iflcnry.— As we 
are closing these pages the sad intelligence comes to us 
of the death oi Prof. Joseph Henry, Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution. We can only say that not only 
America, but the world, loses one of its first scientists ; 
there are few remaining'wbose lives offer so marked an 
example of pure devotion to.science for its own sake. His 
admirable administration o. the Smithsonian greatly 
contributed to “ the diffusion of knowledge among men,” 
while bis important investigations and discoveries have 
made the world his debtor. It was his discoveries in elec¬ 
tricity which made the telegraph possible ; he estab 
fished very many important scientific principles, and 
freely allowed inventors to turn them to profit. He never 
had time to make money. * * * Since the above was 
in type, we learn that the Regents of the Smithsonian 
have elected Prof. Spencer F. Baird, for many years As¬ 
sistant Secretary, to fill Prof. Henry’s position. The 
best possible thing they could do. 
The Emhrcllii In Agriculture.— 
It is said that a soldier hired himself to a farmer to dig 
his early potatoes; after a hearty breakfast, on a hot 
August morning, the new help seated himself in the 
shade of the barn, saying to the farmer, “Now, if you 
want your potatoes dug, bring them along.”—We can 
not all dig our potatoes in the shade, but there is much 
exposure to our intense mid-summer heat, that may be, 
and should be avoided, not only as a matter of comfort, 
but of health. Sunstrokes are more frequently heard of 
in cities, as there every casualty of the kind goes at once 
into the papers, while the same percentage of sunstrokes, 
in a population scattered over a county or two, would 
scarcely be heard of. We often see a kind-hearted 
farmer arrange a shade for his horse, while he forgets 
himself. Of course, most of the active work of the farm 
must he done under full exposure of the sun, or at least 
with only the protection afforded by the broad brim of a 
straw hat. [Mem. do not forget to put a cabbage leaf in 
that hat]. But in riding, whether upon the mower or 
reaper, or upon an open wagon along an unshaded road, 
a full exposure to the noon-day sun can be, and should 
be avoided. He must be deficient in ingenuity, who can 
not “conjure up” some screen which shall break the 
force of the sun, upon the head, at least. These remarks 
