AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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for4®5Xc. $ lb live weight for good, and 5%c. for-choice. 
Buttermilk calves sold heavily at 3@3%c. $ ihlive weight. 
Hogs.— Live hogs are quoted nominally at 3%@.4c. $ 
lb., none being on sale at the close, the market having 
II ruled dull all through the month. City dressed have 
ranged from 4^ e @5^c. <g lb. 
Tke Horse Market.— An active demand exists 
. for good horses and prices are looking up, hut not suffi¬ 
ciently as yet to change quotations. Farmers have made 
their purchases for spring work and the supply has been 
, ample to meet the demand. Sales have been made for 
ordinary work horses from $100 to $1G0 per head, and 
good teams have been purchased at $225 to $300. The ex- 
- port trade is active; 101 horses and several mules have 
been sent abroad the past week*; 50 of the horses went to. 
France; the mules and a few horses to the West Indies. 
The export trade now looks promising for the season. 
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This Is the hast Month for securing the vain- 
able premium articles, offered in our general list for 
1879. All lists must be sent in this month, as the offers 
will positively cease at 6 o’ clock P. JIT., June 30, except 
as noted below. 
But there is abundant time this month to fill up 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 free of cost one 
or more desirable and useful articles. Let all who have 
not a oopy 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.” 
To Distant Subscribers.— To put all upon 
equal footing, as thousands of our readers live at distant 
points, in all parts of the world, vve will allow the time 
of closing the Premium List to be so extended for such 
distant readers, that every one, every where, shall have 
20 days after receiving this paper, in which to gather and 
forward names for premiums. Those living almost any¬ 
where in the United States 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 , inc'vding many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of room elsewhere. 
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. 
Bound Copies of volume 37, and of every pre¬ 
vious volume back to Yol. XVI. (1857), neatly bound, with 
gilt backs, Index, etc., are supplied at $2 each (or $2.30 
if to be sent by mail). See Publishers’ Notes,2d cover page. 
Read tlic Advertising - Columns.— 
Letters are daily received by the editors, asking where 
pigs, fowls, seeds, fertilizers, machinery, etc., can be 
procured. We consider all the informal ion of this kind 
that is given in the advertising pages sufficient, if those 
needing anything will only look there ; and 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 be 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 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. Our friends can do us a good service 
by calling the attention of their German neighbors and 
friends to the fact that they can have tlic paper in their 
own language, and those who employ Germans will 
find this Journal a most useful and acceptable present. 
The American Poinologieal Society, at 
the invitation of the Western New York Horticultural 
Society, will hold its 17th session at Rochester, N. Y., 
September 17th to 20th, next. As Rochester is one of the 
centers of nursery and fruit-growing interests, a large 
attendance is anticipated. It is hoped that the President, 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder will have sufficiently recovered 
from the effects of his accident to allow him to be pres¬ 
ent. The life membership foe is $20 ; that for biennial 
membership is $4. Those desirous of becoming members 
can remit the amount to the Treasurer, Thomas P. 
James, Cambridge, Mass. Each member is entitled to 
a volume of Transactions, a publication of great value. 
i( Wrigglers” ill a Cistern.— "J. W.,” East 
Bolton, P. Q., Canada. Wrigglers are the larvie of that 
musical bird, the mosquito. So long as there is any 
crack, cranny, or crevice anywhere about the covering, 
the inlet, or outlet, large enough to admit a mosquito, 
wrigglers will be bred there. The remedy suggests itself. 
The New Haven Horticultural Society 
will hold its summer exhibition at the Old State House, 
June 19th and 20th, at New Haven, Conn. The schedule 
of premiums is full and well considered, and does not 
omit prizes for the young folks. The President is C. 
L. Mitchell, and Robert Veitch, Jr., is Secretary. 
Horses Gnawing Feed-Tronglis.— “ Sub¬ 
scriber.” The habit of gnawing their mangers is one of 
which horses can hardly be cured. They may be pre¬ 
vented by making the troughs of hard wood, or covering 
them with sheet-iron or zinc. They do not gnaw wood 
to eat the fragments, but to relieve some disagreeable 
sensation in the teeth, possibly the insufficient wearing 
down of them in consequence of feeding upon soft food. 
When horses are fed upon corn in the ear they are 
much less addicted to this habit. 
Nurserymen, Florists, Seedsmen, and 
those engaged in kindred occupations have formed an 
“American Association,” which will hold its fourth an¬ 
nual meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, this month (June) 18th 
to 20th. The Association is for the improvement of the 
trade in its various aspects, and its list of members in¬ 
cludes names that are a guarantee that its objects are 
praiseworthy. The programme as far as given shows 
that a number of the leading nurserymen will take part 
in the proceedings, and the subjects announced show 
that the discussions will not be entirely of a commercial 
character. The invitation is extended to “ all who feel 
any interest in the general welfare of the Trade.” J. J. 
Harrison, Painesville, O., is President, and D. Wilmot 
Scott, Galena, Ill., Secretary. 
“ Tlie Diseases of Live Stock, and their most 
efficient Remedies,” is the title of a work by Lloyd V. 
Tellor, M.D., and published by the H. C. Watts Co., Phil¬ 
adelphia. While to thoroughly test the value of a work 
of this kind one should learn by experience how far it 
meets his wants as an aid in treating his own animals, a 
very fair opinion can be formed by a careful inspection 
of its contents. We are favorably impressed by the au¬ 
thor's preface, in which he tells us in a few lines that he 
makes no claim to being a veterinary surgeon, but is a 
country physician, who, having been frequently con¬ 
sulted about the diseases of domestic animals, turned 
his attention to veterinary medicine. Of course, with a 
regular medical education, he was abundantly prepared 
with the aid of the best works on the subject, to apply 
his medical knowledge in this direction. In the present 
work, he gives descriptions of the diseases of animals in 
popular language, and such directions for their treat¬ 
ment and for simple surgical operations as the owner may 
safely follow. We are not informed of the price of the 
work, but presume it is given in the advertising pages. 
Value of Light Brahmas.— “G. H. W.,” 
Jacksonville, HI. The Light Brahmas are valuable 
chiefly for their large size, early growth, good flavored 
and tender flesh while young and until two years old. 
Besides these, their habit of laying in winter is an impor¬ 
tant consideration. They are very domestic, are easily 
handled, hardy, and do not fly over a three-foot fence. 
Sale of a Pcrclieroti.— The Percheron (import¬ 
ed) stallion “Louis Phillipe ” was recently sold by his 
owner, J. J. Parker, of West Chester, Pa., to the Hamp¬ 
ton Institute, Va. This horse received a prize at the 
New York State Fair at Elmira last fall. 
Tire New Work on Dogs.— “The Dogs of 
Great Britain, America, and Other Countries,” a con¬ 
solidation of two works by “Stonehenge,” announced 
last month, met not only with a cordial welcome from the 
press, but what is quite as gratifying, from the dog fan 
ciers and readers of such works. The rapid and unex¬ 
pectedly large sale of this book indicates that the interest 
in dogs is an intelligent one, and that those who love 
these animals have a desire to be informed as to their 
history, and to learn whatever relates to their well-being. 
** Archery ” is the brief and modest title of a mod¬ 
est little hand-book prepared for the instruction and guid¬ 
ance of those who would learn the use of the bow, or 
form Archery Clubs, and know the regulations governing 
shooting. It describes the various implements used in 
archery, illustrated by numerous engravings, and gives 
other useful and interesting information. Published by 
the Orange Judd Company. Price, by mail, 15 cents 
Fisk & Hatch— “ 4 Per Cents.”— We were 
startled, 14 years ago, at the announcement that our 
friends,Messrs. Fisk & Hatch, had made a round subscrip¬ 
tion for over $5,000,000, of a single issue of U. S. 
Bonds. These figures seemed enormous then. On ques¬ 
tioning them about it, they said they knew the people 
would want them at a premium, and the event proved 
that they knew what they were about. We were, there¬ 
fore, less surprised the other day when the morning pa¬ 
pers announced that this same Firm had sent to Wash¬ 
ington a single subscription for $150,000,000 of 
the 4 per cent Bonds, for themselves and others, includ¬ 
ing $25,000,000 on their own account 1 It did strike us 
that this was rather rash. Where would they find pur¬ 
chasers to take off their hands $150,000,000 in 
Bonds paying only 4 per cent a year interest? We did not 
see then so well as they, that hard as the times have 
been, our people have been growing richer all the time— 
because they have been learning the important lesson of 
keeping expenses within income. The truth is, if 40 mil¬ 
lions of our people, by savings, by reducing debts, by 
adding to their implements, or stock, or the productive 
value of their farms, etc., are on the average only $25 
better off at the end of a year, it is equivalent to adding, 
and really does add, $1,000,000,000— one thousand million 
dollars—to the actual wealth of the country, and we 
have no doubt that this has been done in each of the 
past two years, if not longer. How far our friends, 
Fisk & Hatch, judged rightly as to the latent wealth of 
the country, and to the demand for even a 4 per cent 
Government Loan, is told in their business announce¬ 
ment on another page. It seems surprising that a 4 per 
cent bond should already command a premium; but the 
English Government 3 per cent bonds are selling nearly 
at par. Our 4 per cents would pay as much annual in¬ 
terest if they cost 18 per cent premium. Should not 
the credit of this country equal that of Great Britain ? 
Quinby’s New Bee-Keeping.— 1 This work, an¬ 
nounced some mouths ago, is now ready. Mr. Quinby 
was collecting materials for this revision when his long 
and useful career as our leading Apiarian was terminated 
by his sudden death. It is fortunate that his son-in-law, 
Mr. L. C. Root, was thoroughly prepared through a long 
business association and many years of joint experiment 
and investigation with him, to take up the work, and 
give not only Mr. Quinby’s later views, but the results of 
his own experience. Being the latest work on the Api¬ 
ary, it is also the fullest. In no industry have more im¬ 
portant improvements been made within the past few 
years than in bee-culture, and these are embodied in this 
new edition. While the work is adapted to the wants of 
the amateur bee-keeper, those who would take up bee¬ 
keeping for profit will find here the methods of one who 
has for years devoted himself to it as a business. Though 
Mr. Root modestly accepts the position of reviser, he is 
really joint author, the work being almost entirely re¬ 
written, and the abundant and excellent illustrations are 
mainly new, and made expressly for this edition. Sent 
post-paid by the Orange Judd Company for $1.50. 
Planting; Fodder-Corn.— “W. C.,” Spring 
Valley, N. J. Corn for the main crop or for fodder may 
be quickly planted with the Albany Corn Planter. This 
implement drops the seed 3 inches to 3 feet apart, as 
may be required, in the row, covers the seed and rolls it, 
and deposits fertilizer if desired. It is drawn by one 
horse, and plants 8 or 10 acres in a day. By attaching 
plows, etc., to it, it is changed to an effective cultivator. 
Remedy for Splenic Fever. —Dr. T. E. Wil¬ 
cox, N. Y., of the U. S. Army, writes as follows in regard 
to splenic fever or apoplexy of cattle, generally known 
as Texas fever: “Last season, while I was stationed at 
Camp Supply, Indian Territory, the disease broke out in 
the herd of Lee & Reynolds, army beef contractors, and 
was quickly arrested by feeding the sugar-beet to the 
cattle exposed, as well as to those not too far gone to 
eat. This would support Prof. Gamgee’s theory that 
the disease is caused by eating coarse, dry weeds.” The 
undoubted original cause of the disease is malnutrition, 
by which the blood is disordered and the digestive or¬ 
gans rendered incapable of exercising their functions. 
Laxative food, su'ch as roots of any kind, are a healthful 
change of diet, and tend to restore the tone of the sys¬ 
tem, which has been deranged by indigestible and innu- 
tritious food. Such laxative food will act as a preventive. 
