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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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JONES OF BINGHAMTON, Binghamton, N. Y. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
Continued from Page 336. 
In justice to the majority of our sub- 
scribe rs, 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 tile back 
numbers containing wliat is wanted. 
Rack numbers of the “ American Agri¬ 
culturist,” containing articles referred to 
In the “Basket” or elsewhere, can al¬ 
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slight discount, which the publishers will cheerfully pay. 
For Club rates, (postage included), see our second cover 
page, and reckon 22 cents to the shilling sterling. 
Casting for Windmill Arms. — “C. G.,” 
Utah. A casting for a spider of a windmill shaft can be 
easily and cheaply made, as shown in the engravings. 
The arms are fitted into the open sockets and are bolted 
to the plate,and are centered as shown in the wood-cuts, 
by which one supports the other. For a windmill of 2 
or 3 horse power, a plate 18 inches in diameter will be 
large enough. The flange for the shaft should project 3 
or 4 inches to give a good bearing, one inch projection 
will be sufficient for those for the arms. 
Pleiiro-pneumoiiia. — A Basket Item, last 
month, p. 320, reads; “ Pleuro-pneumonis lias dimin¬ 
ished greatly in those European countries where inocula¬ 
tion has been introduced. We may soon see this terrible 
disease successfully treated by this method, as the dread¬ 
ed small-pox is now in the human subject by vaccina¬ 
tion.” This item was quoted by the “ New Era,” Lan¬ 
caster, Pa., with wliat comments we are not aware, but 
it gives the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture of Penn¬ 
sylvania, Thos. J. Edge, Esq., a text for an official com¬ 
munication to that journal. A careful reading of the item 
quoted will show that it is the statement of a fact, and an 
indication of what may possibly happen. The Secretary 
is much in doubt as to the fact, and construing the rest 
into a recommendation of the practice of inoculation, 
goes on to give his reasons why “it would be a grave 
mistake” to attempt it in his State. Some of his views 
we quite agree with, but we hardly think it fair to place 
the American Agriculturist in the position of recom¬ 
mending indiscriminate inoculation. The Secretary him¬ 
self admits that there are conditions “ where it may da 
good,” which is quite as much as we have ever advocated. 
We have in hand, and hope to publish before long, an 
article by a veterinary surgeon of large experience with, 
the disease, which we think may convince the Hon. Sec¬ 
retary that in some localities, at least, the disease has 
been diminished by inoculation. 
Concrete.— An error was made last month in refer¬ 
ring a writer, who inquired about concrete, to Novem¬ 
ber, 1874. It should have been December of the same 
year—in which number the subject is fully treated, with 
fifteen illustrations. 
