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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
The “American Agriculturist’’ During 
1882. 
During 1882 the American Agriculturist 
will be under the management ©f the same 
able corps of Editors and assistants who have 
given the paper such wide popularity and in¬ 
fluence in the past. They will continue the 
policy of drawing to their assistance the most 
experienced, practical writers all over the 
country, whose contributions have so mate¬ 
rially aided in adapting the paper to all sec¬ 
tions, North, South, East, and West. The 
following, among other names of outside 
writers who furnished articles for the col¬ 
umns of the American Agriculturist during 
1881, indicate what the character of its read¬ 
ing matter is to be during 1882 : 
Dr. J. B. Lawes, Rothamsted, Eng. 
Hon. Edward Atkinson. 
John Bascom, LL. D., Pres. University, Wisconsin. 
A. S. Welsp, LL. D., Pres. Iowa Agricultural Col. 
Prof. E. M. Shelton, Kansas State Agri. Col. 
Prof. J. D. Warfield, Maryland State Agri. Col. 
Prof. J. M. McBryde, University, Tenn. 
W. J. Beal, Prof. Botany, Mich. Agri. Col. 
Dr. D. D. Slade, Prof. Applied Zoology, Harvard. 
G. C. Caldwell, Prof. Agri. Chemistry, Cornell. 
Prof. L. B. Arnold, Rochester, N. Y. 
C. L. Ingersoll, Agricultural Prof., Perdue Uni¬ 
versity, Indiana. 
Prof. C. V. Riley, Entomologist to the Agri. 
Dept.; Chief of U. S. Entomological Comm. 
Hon. X. A. Willard, Little Falls, N. Y. 
Dr. Manly Miles, Director of Experiments, 
Houghton Farm, N. Y. 
W. O. Atwater, Prof. Chemistry, Wesleyan Uni¬ 
versity. 
Mr. L. C. Root, Author Quinby’s New Bee-Keeping. 
Col. Mason C. Weld. 
Rev. Wm. Clift, Mystic Bridge, Connecticut. 
Prof. A. Liautard, D.V.M., President American 
Yet. College, N. Y. 
Prof. F. S. Billings, V. S., Boston Mass. 
Prof. D. E. Salmon, D.V.M. 
Prof. N. S. Townshend, Ohio Univertity. 
Prof. Cyrus Thomas, U. S. Entomological Comm. 
Mrs. E. H. Leland, Authoress “ Farm Homes, In¬ 
doors and Out.” 
Mrs. Fannie E. Russell. 
Etc., Etc., Etc. 
The press and people generally of the coun¬ 
try have recognized the great value of the 
department of the paper devoted to the ex¬ 
posure of humbugs. Thousands of grateful 
letters to us, from those who have been 
warned in advance, bear witness to the value 
and importance of these exposures. During 
1882 this department is to receive more at¬ 
tention than ever before. The special ser¬ 
vices of a gentleman well adapted for the 
purpose have been secured to hunt up, hunt 
down, and expose in the columns of the 
American Agriculturist all the humbugs, 
frauds, and impositions projected all over 
the country to entrap, defraud, and swindle 
the unsuspecting and unwary. This feature 
alone ought to make the paper worth ten 
times more than its subscription price to 
every individual who is not so situated as to 
detect for himself the innumerable schemes 
and devices concocted for fleecing the public, 
and very frequently extensively advertised 
through the country. 
We shall continue as heretofore to exclude 
from our advertising columns every thing of 
an objectionable character, or designed in 
any way to deceive or mislead readers. It is 
the purpose of the proprietors of the Amer¬ 
ican Agriculturist to have the advertising like 
the reading columns, a source of reliable infor¬ 
mation, to which our readers can turn with 
confidence. 
Many hundred thousands of dollars have 
been expended in illustrating the American 
Agriculturist. During 1882, more attention 
and money than ever before will be devoted 
to securing the very best illustrations and en¬ 
gravings which so materially aid the reader in 
understanding the various labor contrivances, 
etc., etc., described in the paper. 
All the matter of the paper is original, and 
prepared expressly for its columns. The price 
is to continue the same as heretofore, $1.50 to 
single subscribers, post-paid. With the very 
large number of valuable premiums offered to 
those who will take an interest in the paper, 
we anticipate a subscription list larger than 
ever before. 
The Amerikanischer Agriculturist. 
The immense emigration which has again set 
towards this country from Germany, is turn¬ 
ing fresh attention to and developing renewed 
interest in the Amerikanischer Agriculturist. 
This journal, established twenty-four years 
ago (1858), is the only purely German Agricul¬ 
tural paper in the United States. It has the 
immense resources of the American Agricul¬ 
turist establishment, including the engrav¬ 
ings, to draw from,. together with an able 
corps of writers—men like Professor Fred¬ 
erick Munch, of Missouri—who are especially 
acquainted with the wants and needs of Ger¬ 
man farmers. But the circulation of the 
paper is not alone limited to the United 
States. It has subscribers in Russia, Norway, 
Denmark, Sweden, and in fact wherever the 
German tongue is spoken in Europe. Those 
in this country having relations and friends 
in the fatherland, who are preparing to 
migrate hither and settle on farms, cannot do 
them a greater service than by sending them 
the Amerikanischer Agriculturist for prepara¬ 
tion prior to their departure. The emigrants 
who are now coming, and have not been sup¬ 
plied with it, should have the paper placed in 
their hands at once by their friends already 
on the ground. They will find the journal in¬ 
valuable in furnishing them with knowledge 
and information regarding the climate, soil, 
and agricultural features of the new country 
to which they have come. The paper is fur¬ 
nished at the same low price as the English 
Agriculturist, viz.: $1.50 per year, post-paid. 
What to Do with a Drowning Person 
What is drowning ? This is a vital ques¬ 
tion. That the lungs are designed for taking 
in air that it may act upon the blood, is 
generally known. It is also well known that 
when, from any cause, the lungs fail to per¬ 
form this duty, life will soon cease. If, in 
hurried eating, a piece of meat or other food 
lodges where it closes the passage through 
which air reaches the lungs, the person, un¬ 
less the cause is removed, will die for the 
want of air. If water enters the lungs, and 
thus prevents the access of air, death will 
soon follow. Fortunately death does not take 
place at once; if the apparently drowned 
person has the water removed, and air ad¬ 
mitted to the lungs, he may often be restored, 
even after life seems to be extinct. Of 
course, the circulation of the blood, by the 
action of the heart, and breathing, are inti¬ 
mately related, each being dependent upon 
the other. In the treatment of drowned per- 
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sons there are a few common-sense rules to> 
be followed. The very first thing to be done, 
in such cases, is to send for medical aid, pro¬ 
vided it is to be had within reasonable dis¬ 
tance, and the messenger can be spared.. 
The drowning person is to be taken to the 
nearest dry place, and the clothing removed, 
especially from over the chest and waist. 
A smart slap of the hand upon the pit of the 
stomach will sometimes startle the dormant 
functions into work, and should not be omit¬ 
ted. If this does not rouse the patient, at 
once proceed to rid the lungs of water. Turn 
him upon his face, placing some support 
under the pit of the stomach; for this, coats 
or other garments rolled up, or whatever 
thing there may be at hand—a sail, bags, or 
anything that will make a mass, which will 
raise the pit of the stomach above the level 
of the mouth. Make a steady pressure with 
the hands, on the back and over the stomach, 
and then relieve it. If fluid comes from the 
mouth, continue to do this until no more fluid 
flows. Turn the patient on his back, with 
the bundle of clothing so placed that the 
lower part of the breast bone will be higher 
than the rest of the body, and tiy to induce 
artificial respiration. The best position is, to 
kneel astride of the patient, and with both 
hands applied upon the front part of the 
lower ribs, which is just at the pit of the 
stomach, throw considerable pressure upon 
the hands, as if trying to force the contents 
of the stomach and chest out of the mouth. 
Continue this pressure until you can count 
three, and then release it, letting up the pres-. 
sure suddenly. After counting three, renew 
this pressure as before, again forcibly press¬ 
ing with the hands, and suddenly letting go. 
This should be repeated about five times 
a minute, thus endeavoring to imitate the 
natural breathing, and the rapidity of the 
motion should be gradually increased to about 
15 times a minute. If another person is at 
hand, he should, by the aid of a handkerchief, 
hold out the tip of the patient’s tongue at the 
left-hand side of the mouth, and also extend 
the patient’s arms well above the head and 
hold them there. Watch for the first return 
of natural breathing, and as soon as this ap¬ 
pears, dash a little cold water upon his face. 
So soon as breathing appears to be restored, 
strip the person quickly, and wrap him in 
blankets, and give a teaspoonful of hot 
brandy-and-water every five minutes for the 
first half hour, and a tablespoonful every 15 
minutes after that. If brandy is not at hand, 
use whiskey, or gin, or rum. If the limbs are 
cold, use friction. No attempt should be made 
to give stimulants until the patient can swal¬ 
low. Give an abundance of fresh air, prevent¬ 
ing persons from crowding round. Do not, in 
winter, take the patient to a heated room, a 
free supply of cool air being of the greatest im¬ 
portance. There are other methods of in¬ 
ducing respiration than the one here men¬ 
tioned, but all have for their object the suc¬ 
cessive filling and emptying of the lungs. 
No person supposed to be dead from drown¬ 
ing should be given up too soon. Medical 
aid can be obtained in most places, long be¬ 
fore the efforts should be abandoned. There 
are well-known cases in which no visible 
signs of breathing were seen, until the efforts 
had been continued for nearly an hour with¬ 
out signs of life. In most cases, life is not 
extinct, but suspended, and no effort should 
be spared to resuscitate the waning spark. 
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