1881.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
377 
GREAT SAVING FOR FARMERS I 
THE 
Lightning 
Hay Kinfe! 
(Weymouth's Patent.) 
Awarded"FIKSTORDER OF MERIT” 
at Melbourne Exhibition, 1880. 
Was awarded the first premium 
at the International Exhibition in 
Philadelphia, in 1876, and accepted 
by the Judges as 
SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER 
KNIFE IN USE. 
It is the BEST KNIFE in the 
uorld to cut fine feed from bale, to 
cut down mow or stack, to cut corn, 
stq.lks for feed, to cut peat, or for 
ditching in marshes. 
TRY IT. IT WILL PAY YOU. 
Manufactured only by 
HLRSli HOLT & CO., East Wilton, Me.,U.S.S. 
For sale by Hardware Merchants and the trade generally. 
BAILEY’S PATEaNT 
Practical Tree Trimmer. 
By the use of this new Implement, Fruit and Shade Trees 
can be more readily pruned, and with less labor and time, 
than by any other method. Two or three-inch limbs can be 
easily cut with a few blows of the sliding hammer. 
Price, $24 to $26 per Dozen, 
according to length of handles. Liberal discount to dealers. 
Agents wanted to sell this Labor-Saving Implement. 
MANUFACTURED BY 
THE REMINGTON AGRICULTURAL CO. 
Branch Offices! 
ELION, N. Y. 
57 Eeade Street, New York, 
21 So. Howard Street, Baltimore, Md, 
Also Manufacturers of a General Line of Agri¬ 
cultural Implements. 
HAND and POWER 
CORN SHELLERS. 
Horse Powers and Jacks for Farm, Jobbing, Mill, and 
Warehouse work. For circulars and prices, address 
Sandwich Manufacturing Co., Sandwich, Illinois. 
E . o rt WATJD produce commis- 
. 0Z U. VV iillDj sion merchants. 
(established 1845.) Send for Circular of Great Value, 
givingfi.il instructions for shipping 
POULTRY, GAME, BUTTER, and PRODUCE. 
No. 279 Washington St., N. Y. 
lief., Irving National Bank, New York City. 
The Old Reliable Manufacturers 
Of Stationary anil PortaWe Enpes, 
Circular Saw Mills, Poney Saw Mills, 
Cutting from Three to Seven Thousand feet of lumber per 
day with an 8,10,12, or 15 Horse-Power Engine. 
Merchant and Custom Flouring Mills built on the 
Jones’ Improved Gradual Reduction System of 
Milling. Portable French Burr Grist and Feed Mills. 
Shafting, Pulleys, Mill Machinery, Mill Fur¬ 
nishers and Contractors, &c., &c. We send 
with each Boiler an Inspection Certificate and 
Insurance Policy against explosions and erup¬ 
tions, good for One Year, issued by the Hartford 
Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. 
Have one of the largest and best equipped Shops in the 
United States. 
State what is wanted. Catalogue free. 
COOPER MANUFACTURING CO., 
Mt. Vernon, Ohio. 
IMPROVED TRACTION ENGINE 
With or without Reversing Gear. 10, 1S and 1G 
Horse Power. Built by 
RUSSELL & CO., Massillon, 0. 
AMERICUS CIDER MILL 
WHITMAN’S PATENT. 
The Best Cider and Wine 
Mill made. It will make 
Twenty per cent more 
Cider than any other. 
Perfectly Adjustable. 
Three Sizes. 
Geared outside. Large 
Mills made for two cranks. 
Prices as low as any first- 
class mills. 
Circulars giving full des¬ 
cription sent free. 
Address the manufac¬ 
turers, 
WHITMAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY, 
Saint Louis, Mo. 
Champion of the World. 
A THE 
CHAMPION GRAIN DRILL. 
Positive force feed Grain Distributer. 
Positive farce feed Grass Seeder which can be used either 
in front or rear of the hoes. 
The Fertilizer Attachment is unequaled and is warranted 
to sow easily and evenly any of the various kinds of Guano 
and Phosphates in the market. 
The Champion is the only Grain Drill in the market that 
has a special attachment for planting Corn for the crop. 
The Champion is 6impie in construction, easily operated 
both for team and driver. The materials used, and quality 
of workmanship are the very best. Do not fail to examine 
the Champion before purchasing a Grain Drill. All ques¬ 
tions concerning the Champion answered promptly by mail. 
Every Drill Wnrranted. Send for Descriptive Pam- 
phletto JOHNSON, GERE & TRUMAN, 
Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y. I 
containing a great variety of Items , including many 
good Hints and Suggestions ichich we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for leant of space elsewhere. 
Iu justice to llie majority of our sub¬ 
scribers, who have been readers for many 
years, articles and illustrations are sel¬ 
dom repeated, as those who desire in¬ 
formation on a particular subject can 
cheaply obtain one or more of the back 
numbers containing what is wanted. 
Hack numbers of the “ American Agri¬ 
culturist,” containing articles referred to 
iu the “Basket” or elsewhere, can al¬ 
ways he supplied and sent post-paid for 
15 cts. each, or $1.50 per volume. 
The German Edition.— All the principal arti¬ 
cles and engravings that appear in the American Agricul¬ 
turist are reproduced in the German Edition. Besides 
these, there is a special department, edited by an eminent 
German cultivator. Onr friends can do us a good service 
by calling the attention of their German neighbors and 
friends to the fact that they can have the paper in their 
own language, and those who employ Germans will 
find this Journal a most useful and acceptable present. 
Bound Copies o t volume 39, and of every pre¬ 
vious volume hack to Yol. XVI. (1857), neatly hound, with 
gilt hacks. Index, etc., are supplied at $2 each (or $2.39 
if to be sent by mail). See Publishers’ Notes, on last page. 
Clubs can at any time be increased by remitting for 
each addition, the price paid by the original members ; 
or a small club may be made a larger one at reduced rates, 
thus : One having sent 6 subscribers and $7, may after¬ 
wards send 4 names more and $3, making 10 subscribers 
for $10.00; and so for the various other club rates. 
Terms to New South Wales, New Zea¬ 
land, Australia, Africa, etc.— To several in¬ 
quirers. Under the latest revision of the Postal Union 
Regulations the price of the American Agriculturist 
(either English or German edition), including postage 
prepaid through, will he covered by 7 shillings sterling 
per annum. This applies to the above countries, and to 
all others embraced in the General Postal Union. The 
simplest mode of remittance is by Postal Money Orders, 
payable in London, to tire order of Orange Judd Com¬ 
pany. These can be readily cashed in N. Y. City at a 
slight discount, which the publishers will cheerfully pay. 
For Club rates (postage included), see page 304, and 
reckon 22 cents to the shilling sterling. 
Blend tlie Adverlising Columns.— 
Letters are daily received by the Editors, asking where 
pigs, fowls, seeds, fertilizers, machinery, etc., can be 
procured. We consider all the information of this kind 
that is given in the advertising pages sufficient, if those 
needing anything will only look there ; we can not find 
room to repeat what is already plainly told elsewhere. 
Every page of the American Agriculturist, including the 
covers, is interesting reading, and should all he carefully 
examined every month. In addition to looking after what 
one may want, the reading of what others have to say, in 
offering their wares, etc., starts up some new idea in the 
mind of the reader.—When writing to any advertiser, al¬ 
ways tell him in what paper his advertisement was seen. 
The First’ JPrize Horse Essay.—Correc¬ 
tion.— The Judges to whom the Horse Essays were 
referred, awarded the first prize to the one signed 
“Slack.” In taking the name of the writer from the 
original record, it was by an error given wrongly. The 
name of the author is C. F. Barber, Esq., Auburn, N. Y. 
Grape Catsup.— Several have asked for a recipe to 
make this. The only recipe we have seen is one we 
received from a far western housekeeper, some twenty 
years ago. She prepared from the common wild grapes 
a sauce, which she called grape catsup, finding it so de¬ 
licious with cold meats on the table, we afterwards asked 
for the recipe, which is as follows: Stem the grapes, 
place in a kettle or preserving pan, which, to prevent 
scorching, is set within another vessel of water. To each 
quart of grapes add a teaspoonful each of cinnamon and 
mace, both broken fine, and half a teaspoonful of bruised 
cloves. Cook for an hour, and pass the juice and pulp 
through a colander or sieve. To each quart of this add 
a pound of sugar, and boil until nearly a jelly. Then 
thin to a proper consistence to flow from the bottle, with 
vinegar ; cork, seal, and put in a cool place. 
