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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[July, 
one ; and do it a month in advance. One number will 
probably go to the old address, as tiio mailing wrappers 
are written some weeks ahead. It is well to provide for 
having one number forwarded, when removing to a new 
P. O., if you have not given us at least a month’s notice 
in advance of your change of address. 
WIffEISE 'I’O MU¥.-A good Directory 
for procuring Implements, Seeds, Plants, Fertilizers, 
and many other things—from trustworthy, responsible 
parties, who have both the ability and intention to do 
what they promise—is constantly at hand in the adver¬ 
tising columns of this Journal. We aim to admit no 
other parties, and exclude medical nostrums, quackery, 
deceptive announcements, etc., in order to make the 
business pages, as well as the reading columns, a reliable 
source of information. It always pays to read all the 
advertisements through carefully; in doing this one can 
scarcely fail to get some new idea that will sooner or 
later come into account. In corresponding with adver¬ 
tisers, it is useful, in several ways, to always inform 
them through what journal you made their acquaintance. 
A.a ATTRACTIVE CATALOGUE, 
finely Illustrated, of KGOK.S on Itifle- 
practice, Hunting, Fishing, Bloating, and 
Out-door Exercises generally.— The rapid de¬ 
velopment of Field Amusements in this country, and 
the increased demands for Standard Books on these 
subjects, has induced the Orange Judd Company to 
establish a Special Department of Kooks on 
the above topics. They now have in press, and will pub¬ 
lish in a few days, a Beautifully Illustrated Catalogue, 
entitled '■‘■Sportsman's Library of Standard Books." The 
work lias been prepared with great care, and embraces 
not only all their own, but other publications of any 
value and interest upon the subject referred to. 
Very many of the Illustrations are drawn from life, 
and faithfully portray the points and characteris¬ 
tics of Game Birds, Fishes, Horses, Dogs, etc., etc. 
The Publishers are now prepared to supply the Trade, 
and individual purchasers, with any of the books includ¬ 
ed in the Catalogue, which covers the entire ground. 
They invite their friends and the public generally, to call 
and examine the books in this Special Department. 
Copies of the Catalogue, which is an interesting work of 
itself, can be obtained by the trade. (It will be mailed 
to individuals desiring it, on forwarding their address 
and a couple of 3-cent poBtage-stamps.) 
Harris’ Inasectfs Imjisrious to Vege- 
tation.— A new edition of this valuable work is now 
in press, and will soon be ready. It is magnificently il¬ 
lustrated with 278 fine wood-cuts, and eight carefully en¬ 
graved steel-plates, of full-page size, containing 95 fig¬ 
ures. It is issued in two styles, both finely gotten up, 
but in one the steel-engravings are beautifully colored 
by hand, and the work bound with beveled boards and 
red edges. Price of colored edition, $0.50; plain edi¬ 
tion, which is also elegant, $-1. Sent post-paid by 
Orange Judd Company, the publishers. 
Si I if is a wonderful product of insect industry. 
It seems like spun spider-webs, and indeed it is but little 
coarser. And when such a concern as the Nonotuck Silk 
Company, of Boston, make their whole business the 
manufacture of “ Corticelli Silk” thread, it shows the 
marvelous adaption of nature’s minutest creations to the 
wants of man, when intelligently taken advantage of. 
Lnrge Grain Receipts Sales.— 
The comprehensive tables on page 245, condensed from 
a great mass of figures, are interesting this month ; 
rightly studied, these tables are always instructive. 
Table 2 shows receipts of ten times as much wheat for 
a month past this year, as compared with 1877 ; the in¬ 
crease in flour receipts (110,000 bbls.) is equal to half a mil¬ 
lion more buehels of wheat. Corn, Eye, and Barley show 
similarly. The sales of Flour, Wheat, Eye, and Oats 
are correspondingly greater this year. Table 3 makes a 
still more gratifying exhibit, running the comparison 
back for half a dozen years. Every bushel sent abroad 
pays debts, or brings gold, and by so much adds to our 
national wealth.—Eeducing the flour to wheat, we ex¬ 
ported, from January 1 to June 11, of Wheat, Corn, Eye, 
and Barley, 39,310.000 bushels, against only 14,772,485 
bushels last year—an increase of nearly 25,000,000 bush¬ 
els, or nearly 2£ times as much. 
Snchan’sCresylic Slieep IMp.—-“D. 
S.,” Joilet, Ill. This sheep dip has for its base, a prepara¬ 
tion of carbolic acid, which is fatal to insects. It is there¬ 
fore used to cure scab in sheep, also to kill the ticks 
which infest them. A dipping in the fall is always ad¬ 
visable for every flock as a preventive, if not a cure. 
Information About Sheep - rais¬ 
ing.— -‘ - J. H. H.,” Ligonier, Ind. Although agricul¬ 
turists in general are remarkably free from selfish 
jealousy, and readily impart information about their 
business to novices, yet it must bo remembered that 
business men have quite enough to do to attend to their 
own affairs without being called upon to give instruction 
to every one who may desire it. We can not, there¬ 
fore, give the names of persons who are prominent in 
any particular branch of agriculture, who would not 
thank us for the overwhelming number of letters they 
would undoubtedly receive,—a veritable surprise party, 
and one of the most unwelcome sort. You will find all 
the informaiion you want about sheep-raising—the best 
climates, soils, breeds of sheep, and management, in 
“ Stewart’s Shepherd's Manual.” Price $1.50. 
WBaen to Use JLIiaie or Ashes.-“J. 
M. P.,” Vienna, Ill. They may be spread at any time 
in tlie fall or winter. Lime dissolves slowly, but most 
readily, in the coldest water. The potash of the ashes 
that may be dissolved out will be retained in the soil. 
Fertilizers for Worn Out Land.— 
“S. E. L.,” Ullin, Ill., and W. A. E., Delphi, Ind. Land 
so run out by wheat-growing as to bo so poor that it 
will not grow clover, can generally be brought into 
good condition by using 200 to 300 lbs. of guano per acre, 
or of the Stockbridge or Mapes’ rye manure, and sowing 
winter rye. When the crop is nearly ripe, plow it 
under; then sow rye again, and plow that under. If the 
second crop will grow without manure, don’t use any, 
but save it for the crops to be harvested. As soon as 
the land is rich enough, sow clover; at first if possible, 
with use of fertilizers, as indicated for rye. Cut the first 
crop of clover, and plow under the aftermath, as then a 
larger mass of roots will have developed in tlie soil. 
Eet Cancer Doctors Alomc.— It is 
greatly to be regretted that some, even of the religious 
journals, of the highest character, admit into their col¬ 
umns the advertisements (and “puffs,” too,) of “ Can¬ 
cer Doctors.” We could say a good deal on this subject, 
and may do so if it seems to be needed by our readers ; 
but will here only state that no heed should be given to 
a single one of these advertising curers of cancers, no 
matter how highly commended. A real cancer is a very 
rare tiling ; it is so marked that any good physician will 
know it; and all possible means of alleviation are un¬ 
derstood, or easily accessible, to the regular medical 
profession, and the best advice is obtainable at regular 
rates. The Cancer Doctors (offering free to “ clergymen 
and the poor,” as they can well afford to do, a penny¬ 
worth of caustic, for the advertising they thus get,) 
grow rich on large fees from others. They easily per¬ 
suade a nervous person that a colored spot, or eruption, 
or sore, or wen, is a “ cancer; ” they apply caustic, and 
remove it, and get the praise, and puffing, and notoriety, 
and patronage, arising from the reputation of having 
cured an actual cancer—which they have not done. They 
are generally shrewd enough to invent excuses for not 
curing a real cancer, when they happen to get hold of 
such a case. Cancers may sometimes be a little allevi¬ 
ated by a good, regular physician ; it is not probable 
that a real cancer was ever cured. All the cures heralded 
are cases that needed no cancer doctor’s application. 
Alilkuts-f nH)es.-“ A Subscriber,” who, 
when he “ blows up,” might give his real name, is sur¬ 
prised that we should recommend milking-tubes or ma¬ 
chines, believing that the suction of the calf is the proper 
method of milking. He suggests introducing milk into the 
stomach through tubes as a parallel case, and that, there¬ 
fore, the milk-tube is unnatural and improper. So we 
thought once, but a stubborn fact in the shape of a ner¬ 
vous cow with sore teats, and several pails of milk upset, 
and sore arms and shins, changed our views. The writer 
has been for a month past, and is now, milking all his 
cows with the machine, and has no objection to it, upon 
any account, but many reasons to rejoice that he was in¬ 
duced to test it, in spite of some reluctance. 
Fowler’s Sale ©f kerseys, at Herk- 
ness’s Bazar, Philadelphia, a few weeks since, disposed of 
some fine animals at fair prices. If the sale to come off 
this month at Cincinnati shall include as good animals as 
this, the breeders of that region will get some fine Jer¬ 
seys. One feature of Mr. Fowler’s sales, not too com¬ 
mon, is that they are always actual sales, and are to be 
commended in that as setting a good example to those 
people whose auctions have compelled many to state in 
their advertisements that theirs were to be bona fide 
sales, an if the public expected the bidding-in. 
An Explanation is desired by the owner 
of the stock mentioned in “ Among the Farmers,” in the 
June number, under a “ third sale,” and as a “ closing 
out sale.” His reasons for having some of the cattle bid 
in. were as follows: The sale was advertised in the 
March American Agriculturist, but by mistake the card 
was omitted from the April issue, although tlie sale was in 
April ; a correspondent wrote to another journal that the 
sale was to take place in March, and it was a stormy 
morning; for which three reasons many were kept from 
the sale ; and, further, there was a serious sickness in 
his family, which prevented proper attention to tlie auc¬ 
tion. So tlie owner claims that lie was justified in the- 
course pursued, and was endorsed by his friends. 
©il ir«m Pea, NHats.—“ W. J. D.,” Red 
River, La. Pea nuts contain 30 to 40 per cent of oil, and 
yield besides about 5S to G8 per cent of cake, which is a. 
very nutritious feeding substance. The process of ex¬ 
tracting tlie oil is in no way different from that used in 
the linseed, cotton seed, or castor bean oil manufacture. 
The nuts are ground ; the meal is put into hair-cloth bags, 
and these are pressed between heated metal plates in a 
very powerful hydraulic press. Wo cau not give tlie cost 
of the machinery precisely, but $1,000 will procure suf¬ 
ficient to work up 2,500 bushels per year. D. Kahn- 
weiler, of 120 Center St., N. Y., would probably be ablo 
to give some information as to cost of machinery. A 
6-horsc power engine would be sufficient for a small mill. 
EniciiDators.— “ J. P. W.,” St. Louis. The 
incubators which have been described in the American 
Agriculturist are patented, and any person who makes 
them without authority from the patentees would be 
liable to prosecution. Besides, these machines are so 
sensitive in their use that, unless perfectly well made, 
they would not be effective. 
Uotton-Sced Huller.-“R. L. S.,” 
Cheneyville, La. Kahnweiler’s cotton-seed hullcr is a 
very effective machine, costing only a moderate sum in 
proportion to its usefulness, to any Southern farmer who 
wishes to use cotton-seed, either for a fertilizer or for 
feed. For use in oil-mills, it is a standard machine. 
Nitrate of Sotla for Grass.— “ Sub¬ 
scriber.” This is an excellent fertilizer for grass, either 
in spring, or for use immediately after cutting, and is 
beneficial on almost any kind of soil, though its effects are 
more conspicuous on light land. But the retentive pow¬ 
er of the soil for it is so slight, that a heavy rain coming 
just after its application will wash it into a light soil 
beyond the reach of tlie roots. Moreover, it should he 
remembered that nitrate of soda has only one element of 
fertility—the nitrogen, in tlie form of nitric acid—and is 
entirely lacking in potash and phosphoric acid. For 
starting grass, it has no superior, but cau not be relied 
on as an exclusive manure. “Now that an agency of 
tlie Peruvian Government has been established in I his 
country for its sale,’ ’ it should be obtainable at a low price. 
Tlie Fi’ospect for Elsairyiiagf.—“ M. 
E. H.,” Story Co., Ia. Good Western butter brings as 
good prices as any other in market, and an extra good 
quality always sells well. There are “ups and downs” 
in all branches of business, yet it is a fact that dairy- 
farmers make more money, and get it in a more regulur 
way, than grain farmers. With good pasturage, water, 
and grass land, dairying is more promising than grain¬ 
growing. For grinding the grain, the “ big giant” mill 
would be useful; and a plan of a dairy-barn, that can be 
made small or large, was given in the American Agricul¬ 
turist for June last. 
Connecticut Experiment Station. 
—Bulletins 12, 13, 14, and 15, have analyses from 117 to 
148. It is evident that the New Haven chemists place 
the value of nitrogen, potash, and phosphoric acid at a 
much lower rate than do the manufacturers; for in all 
these 32 analyses, only eight have an estimated value 
equal to the cost. These are Peter Cooper’s Ground 
Bone (two samples), Forrester’s Potato Fertilizer, Peru¬ 
vian Guano, G. W. Baker’s Bone-manure, Eafferly & 
Williams’ Bone-meal, and several samples of muriate 
potash. As some of these valuations differ materially 
from those of other good chemists, the basis of calcu¬ 
lation should be given, when publishing reports adverse 
to men believed to be reliable ; although there are some- 
in the lot we should feel no mercy for. 
Foot-Rot Shi Steep.— “J. B.,” Lawrence 
Co., Pa. Foot-rot in sheep is caused by a decay of the 
horn of the sole and crust. It becomes malignant and 
contagious when the products of the decomposition poi¬ 
son the adjacent tissues, and cause an acrid discharge 
which conveys infection to the feet of other sheep, do 
cure it, the hoof should be pared; all rotten horn cut 
away; the diseased parts dressed with some caustic sub¬ 
stance, such as carbolic acid, or a strong solution of sul¬ 
phate of copper, and the diseased animals kept in a dry, 
clean yard, or a fresh grass-plot. Infested yards or pas¬ 
tures should be plowed up, or left unoccupied by sheep,, 
for at least two years. For fuller account of this disease 
refer to “ Stewart’s Shepherd’s Manual,” price $1.50. 
