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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
A Watch for the People, 
Fig. 1. —FRONT VIEW, PULL SIZE. 
A Most Excellent Watch, 
easily obtained for a Very 
Little Work,- or for a Very 
Little Money. 
Those wSio ivish to obtain a real* 
ly good, serviceable, reliable, and 
quite accurate Tune*keepet', but 
who do not lee! able to pay for ©me, 
or to pay but it small price for one, 
will be isatereste«l in tbe following - : 
Last spring, one of tlic Chief Editors of the American 
Agriculturist, having occasion to leave his Watch for 
cleaning, received a low-priced watch to carry in the 
meantime. He thought it would answer temporarily, if 
watched and corrected daily. To his great surprise, it 
ran very accurately week after week, varying from 
standard time less than a minute per week. The Agent 
of the manufacturers was hunted up, and during the 
summer different editors have obtained for themselves anil 
friends a number of other watches of the same make, 
taking them direct from the general stock (not fixed up 
or selected ones), and carried them for weeks and 
months. These watches have AU given 
the highest satisfaction. For example, one now 
carried by Mr. Judd has been compared daily with 
Benedict’s Standard Clock for a month past, and it lias 
scarcely varied a single second per day! This seems 
hardly credible, and, as a rule, can not be expected from 
any watch except one costing a hundred dollars or 
more, and thoroughly ’‘adjusted to temperature and 
position.” But this much is certain, the watches are 
such good time-keepers, that we can confidently recom¬ 
mend them to our friends wanting a watch of tills kind. 
Another important feature is, that t hese watches are 
Stem-winders and Stem-setters. No key is required for 
winding or moving the hands. (On depressing the little 
pivot near the ring, the stem moves the hands back or 
forward). So, after regulating, one has never to open the 
watch at all. Nine-tenths of all trouble with ordinary, 
good watches, comes from the admission of dust and 
moisture in opening, and especially from the fine dust 
that gets in from the key through the key-hole, and finds 
its way among the delicate works. All this is obviated 
in the stem-winding, stem-setting watches, and the 
necessity of biennial or annual, if not. semi-annual, 
cleaning generally required is greatly lessened. 
DESCRIPTION. —Fig. 1 is a front view of full 
size, and fig. 2, a back view with the cover lifted to show 
tlie interior works. These works are covered with glass, 
so that when thus opened, n@ dust can enter. The case 
is strong, looks well, is heavily plated with nickel, which 
is not easily distinguished from silver, yet is harder, and 
is not tarnished, like silver, by gasses or sulphur vapors 
from the skin. For looks and wear, for use in fact., these 
cases are preferable to coin silver. The case is strong 
and substantial, the face is protected by a strong, flat 
crystal with modern beveled edges, and the dial is neat 
and clear. That, the works, the most important part, are 
well and carefully made, is proved by what they do, as 
stated above. The weight of the watch is 4% ounces. 
Mow to Get this Watch Free. 
The watches described above are sold so low, that the 
manufacturers cannot make sufficient, wholesale discount 
to admit of their being offered as general Premiums, 
like other new articles. SSUT, as a SPECIAL 
OFFER, for tbe great Fair Month (September), 
and only for this Month, the Publishers offer 
300 of these Watches, as follows: 
©ue Watch will be presented to each 
subscriber who shall, during the month 
of September, secure and forward 16 
Subscribers to the American Agricultur¬ 
ist for one year, at the NEW subscription 
rate of $1.50 a year, post-free. (For our 
new terms see the first page) ; 
©B5, 13 subscribers for 1$ years (October 1878 to De¬ 
cember 1379, inclusive), at $1.80 each, post-free ; 
©IE, 31 Subscribers for one year, at the four-club rate 
of $1.25 a year, post-free; 
OR, 25 Subscribers for 1J years (Oct. 1878 to Dec. 1879, 
inclusive), at $1.55 each, post-free. 
(Note 1.)—At least half of the above subscribers must 
be new ones, or those not now on our books. 
(Note 2.) — Two Subscribers for 6 months, or four Sub¬ 
scribers for 3 months will count the same as one sub¬ 
scriber for a year, for tbe above premium. 
(Note 3.) — To Distant Subscribers— Though tbe 
above offer is limited to September, yet, to put all on a 
par, those subscribers living anywhere so distant as not 
to receive this notice before Sept. 10, will be allowed 20 
days after this paper does arrive, in which to gather and 
forward names for this premium. 
(Note 4.)--The subscribers need not necessarily all 
lie at the same Post Office, but they must all be sent by 
the person who is to receive the Watch. 
52F" This is the most liberal Premium we have ever 
offered, or expect to offer. N.B. —It is special, and only 
for September, 1878, with the 20 days aflei 1 the arrival 
of the paper to distant subscribers, above specified. 
Capital Work for the Fairs. 
Those wishing the above premium, will do well to 
take a copy of the American Agriculturist along to the 
Fairs, whore they can gather many names—perhaps 
enough at a single Fair to secure the watch. 
This Watch Supplied to Subscri¬ 
bers for $10. 
If any subscriber of the American Agriculturist may 
wish to purchase one of the above valuable watches, 
without getting it ns a premium, or in addition to a pre¬ 
mium one, the Publishers will procure and forward one 
on receipt of $10. They are sold at from $10 to $20, ac¬ 
cording to locality, and are worth more for real service 
and reliability, than many watches sold at several times 
this price. 
Mode and Cost of Delivery.—' The above 
watches will be packed in a safe wooden box and for¬ 
warded by express—the delivery to he paid by the receiver. 
The expressage will probably amount to from 25 to 50 
cents, according to distance, to points east of the Mis¬ 
sissippi River, and a trifle more to more distant points. 
'File Hessian Fly and tine Wheat Midge. 
—These two pests stand on cither hand of the farmer. 
If he sows early, the fly destroys; if he sows late, the 
midge infests the crop. Of the two evils the fly is the 
worse, and deserves the most consideration. This insect 
lays its eggs in August and early September upon the 
leaves of the young wheat. When hatched, the larva, a 
small white maggot, works down to the stalk near the 
root, where it sucks the juices, causing the leaves to be 
eome yellow, if not the death of the plant. A variety that 
starts freely and grows vigorously will therefore resist the 
fly better than another of less strong growth. And the 
more fertile the soil, the better the plant sustains the 
injury. The remedies are obvious. With the help of 
some active fertilizer and a vigorous variety of wheat, a 
late planted crop may he as far ahead when the winter 
comes, as the early crop not so favorably started. To sow 
on and after Sept, loth seems to practically secure safety 
from this euemy. 
Rain—How Much oil ail Acre.— A fall of 
rain one inch deep on an acre (43,560 square feet), is 
equal to 3.030 cubic feet; or 27,154 gallons; or 862 barrels. 
As water weighs 62,‘£ lbs. to the cubic foot, the one inch 
of rain on an acre (3,630 cubic feet), equals 226,875 lbs., or 
over 113 tons; and on a single square mile, 145.200,000 
lbs., or 72,000 tons. As we write (Aug. 7), a telegram says 
2 inches of rain, twice the above amount, fell in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I., yesterday, in half an hour! The annual fall 
of rain over the United States, east of 100° longitude, 
varies from 32 to 56 inches. A mean fall of 44 inches 
would give 37,928 barrels, or about 5,000 tons of rain¬ 
water to every acre. It. is much more in many places. 
Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of 
Six, by Jnliet Corson, Supt. of N. Y. Cooking School, 
No. 35 East 17th St., N. Y., price 15 cts. Several months 
ago, we noticed ‘‘Fifteen Cent Dinners,” by the same 
author, and the present work is written with the same 
laudable purpose— i. to show working-people and 
others bow it is “ possible to live upon a very moderate 
income.” Bills of fare are given for each meal for every 
day in the week, tbe cost of each article being stated. 
Of course, to bring tbe prices within her limits, her di¬ 
rections for buying must be heeded, and tbe meals so ar¬ 
ranged, that what is prepared for one, may sometimes 
serve in part for another. Even those who are not 
obliged to closely count their expenses, will find here 
hints for useful economy and methods of cooking, 
worthy of being tested. We are glad to see that the 
author gives due prominence to macaroni, a most nutri¬ 
tious article of food that may be cooked in various ac¬ 
ceptable styles, and one which should be oftener found 
on the tables of the well-to-do, as well as of those who 
must study close economy. 
Disease in Sheep.— In an item last month, by 
inadvertently dropping a word, we were made to say 
that “a soft loose swelling under the jaw,” is known as 
“liver rot.” It should have read, “it accompanies 
pleurisy, pneumonia, and the disease known as liver- 
rot.” meaning of course that it is one of the attendant 
symptoms of “liver-rot.” and not the disease itself. 
