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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1 October, 
An Interesting Supplement. 
The usual October descriptions aud illustrations of a 
considerable variety of useful and desirable articles for 
the Farm, Garden, and Household, is greatly enlarged 
this year. Our readers will find in this department 
(pages 407 to 44(1) a good deal of interesting information, 
and the answers to a multitude of queries in regard to 
what to select for their own use, and for Holiday and 
other presents. On account of the large number of ex¬ 
tra pages required, and the difficulty of enclosing them 
in the ordinary cover, we have put them in a separate 
Supplement Cover, though these pages constitute an im¬ 
portant part of the present number, and should be pre¬ 
served for binding with it for future reference. 
Figures That Make Glad. 
While travelling some 6,000 miles through the great 
West, during June, July, and August, and seeing the 
tnillions of acres of ripening wheat, which, with the in¬ 
creased area, indicated much more than an average yield, 
and the corn crop so vast and promising beyond any¬ 
thing we had ever witnessed in many previous journeys, 
this mental query very often arose: If this wheat is all 
gathered safely, and these wonderful corn-fields escape 
early autumnal frosts, what will we do with it all ? Well, 
this is September 17th, and the wheat was mainly gath¬ 
ered in good condition, and now the corn crop is safe ex¬ 
cept in a few most northern localities—entirely safe in 
the great corn-growing regions. What we will do with 
it, is being daily answered. On Saturday last, six great 
Steamships sailed for Europe, loaded down with the 
products of our fields, and hundreds of steamers and 
sailing vessels have gone before, aud will continue to go 
for many weeks to come. 
The 'London Economist,” figures up that England 
alone will need to buy 146,000,000 bushels of wheat 
from abroad this year. France is in the market for 
50,000,000 bushels more. The other grain-produc¬ 
ing countries have less surplus than usual, and a large 
proportion of the requirements of both Great Britain 
and France will necessarily be drawn from our country. 
The receipts of gram at the four Ports of New York, Bos¬ 
ton, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, this year, up to Sep¬ 
tember 10th, were 100,453, 554 bushels, against 146 267,- 
408 bushels for the same time last year, an increase this 
year of 20,186,146 bushels. Every conveyance, from 
the West to the seaboard, is actively employed, aud will 
he for some time to come. 
Already $30,000,000 of gold have been sent here 
from Europe ; and not less than $25,008,000 of currency 
have gone from New York, West, to “ move the crops,” 
in addition to the funds already there, and the exchange 
used for this purpose. The foreign gold has replaced the 
currency thus sent away, and supplied the wmts of New 
York business men. The unusual demand for food abroad, 
will draw more largely than ever before upon our corn 
crop, taking away a good deal of what would other¬ 
wise be an unwieldy, unconsumable surplus. Vast 
sums more of foreign gold will yet be shipped here. 
The great excess of exports over imports during two 
years past have so largely cancelled our foreign indebted¬ 
ness, and repurchased our bonds previously sold abroad, 
that with our improved credit, few more of these bonds 
give figures that will prepare us, as a people, to join in a 
'lhanksgiving such as has not been possible before in a 
score of years. 
A Special ILand IPreiniiiiw for Subscribers. 
—Since our regular Premium list went to press, we have 
completed arrangements whereby we are enabled to pre- 
sentEighty Acres of fine land in Iowa to the individual 
who forwards us Eight Hundred Subscribers to the 
American Agriculturist at $1.50 each. It is situated two 
miles from the border line of Minnesota and Iowa, and is 
about five miles from Bigelow. Minnesota, which is a 
station on the main line of the St. Paul and Sioux City 
railroad. The land is rolling and the soil is of a deep 
rich loam. This, like other lauds along the St. Paul and 
Sioux City road, is admirably adapted for agricultural 
purposes. The above farm can be purchased for $600. 
The Window Flower harden, is the title 
of a work by Julius J. Heinrich, a practical florist, which 
giv s in a familiar, yet concise manner, plain directions 
for cultivating window plants. The great trouble with 
the majority of works of this kind is that they aim at 
too much, and by treating of a'large number of plants, 
confuse the novice. Mr. Heinrich very judiciously selects 
a few plants, such as are generally popular, and of which 
the culture is not difficult, and gives simple directions, 
which, if followed, can hardly fail to lead to success. In 
view of the increasing taste for window gardening there 
has arisen a deman 1 for various appliauces, such as win¬ 
dow boxes, brackets, etc., to meet whichan entirely new 
branch of manufacture has sprung up within a few years. V, 
This work describes these new fixtures and their uses, 
and gives illustrations of many of them. The work con¬ 
tains a large number of engravings, and we are confident 
that it w’ill be acceptable, and prove valuable, to a vast 
number of lovers of plants and their culture. Published 
by the Orange Judd Company. Sent by mail for-75 cts. 
Sundry Humbugs. 
Nothing rs more surpris¬ 
ing to us, after all we have 
written concerning Wall St. 
schemes, than to receive 
month after month almost 
daily inquiries concerning 
the parties who send out at¬ 
tractive circulars to induce 
people to invest in stock 
speculations. So far as we 
have inquired, the parties 
engaged in the business 
have a large bank account, 
and as we have never heard 
anything to the contrary, 
have no doubt that they will 
do all that they agree to do. 
The trouble is not that the 
parties are unreliable, but 
that the business is risky. 
We have often said, and re¬ 
peat once more, that the 
risks in stock speculation arc such that in business cir¬ 
cles no one engaged in regular business can be known to 
speculate in stocks without greatly injuring his credit. 
That large sums are made in stock speculations, we ad¬ 
mit—so they are made on horse races. It is safe to say 
that these attractive circulars should have no attraction 
for any reader of the Ainerican Agriculturist — at least for 
no farmer—unless he has money that he had as lief lose 
as not. So far as we have inquired, those who seiftt out 
the circulars do not belong to the Board of Brokers. One 
of this Board said to us, “ If your readers ham money to 
lose , why don't they send it to us, and let us lose it in a 
legitimate way”? That is the way the matter is looked 
upon by one who has been in Wall St. these many years. 
HASTY COMPLAINTS. 
HE DOESN’T KEEP ANY MORE—HE IS KEPT ! 
Kingsland wrote just one letter too many when ho 
stirred up a corresponueni m u. M. Copeland, Esq., at 
Brockton, Plymouth Co., Maos., as we learn from the 
“ Brockton Enterprise.” To judge from their paper, the 
Brocktonians are wide-awake people, and.they don’t be¬ 
lieve in fooling with the sympathies of surviving rela¬ 
tives and friends. When Mr. Copeland learned that a 
friend, W. S. Green, Esq., was about to visit San Frau- 
cisco, he gave Mr. Green the letter from Kingsland, with 
a request that lie look the matter up. and learn more 
about Iris dear departed namesake. Green, like “the 
course of empire,” westward took his way. At 'Frisco 
he hunted for Kingsland and his hotel ; finding neither, 
he sought help. Detective—search—arrest—trial—con¬ 
viction—sentence—and if for the next two years people 
from Attleborough and from Brockton go to San Fran¬ 
cisco and die at hotels, there will be no sympathizing 
Kingsland to write to surviving friends for that “ $30 
for board and attendance.” 
There has recently been advertised far and wide the so 
called 
“SOLARQRAPH WATck,” 
and numerous inquiries.have been made concerning it. 
It is advertised by the “Eastern Manufacturing Co.,” 
Rockland, Mass., by the “Star Manufacturing Co.,” 
South Weymouth, Mass. — places to be regarded as 
“ spokes,” and at the very “ Hub ” itself, by one Slocomb 
in Boston. It is advertised in papers, and by postal 
cards. Each advertisement is illuminated by an engrav- 
i- In the papers, this cut appears thus: 
The advertisement 
is too long to copy. 
It states among other 
things: “A perfect 
time-keeper, hunting 
case, and h envy 
plated chain, latest 
style. We warrant 
it for five years to de¬ 
note time as accu¬ 
rately as a $100 chro¬ 
nometer watch, and 
will give the exact 
time in any part of the world. **** For men, boys, trav¬ 
ellers, and farmers it is indispensable. They are as good 
as a high-priced watch, and in many cases more reliable. 
THE WATCH IN THE ADVERTISEMENT. 
Boys, think of it 1 **** The Solargraph watch is being fast 
introduced into all the schools throughout the United 
States, and is destined to become the most useful time¬ 
keeper ever invented.”—There is much more, equally at¬ 
tractive, all about a watch to be had for$l. Wishing to be 
able to answer inquiries, we sent for a “Solargraph,” and 
HERE IS ITS REAL PORTRAIT. 
The “ Solargraph ” 
is a sort of thin me- 
tallic pill-box, within 
this is a circular 
block of wood, upon 
which is pasted a pa¬ 
per sun-dial—a little 
crooked piece of met¬ 
al dignified with the 
name of “Gnomon” 
(probably because it 
is of no use to no¬ 
man), to make the the watch as it is. 
shadow, and a compass as big as a half dime, complete 
the “works.” Then there is a chain 1 It is really a 
small, very poor sun-dial, set forth as shown above 
BY A MOST DECEPTIVE DESCRIPTION 
to appear as something else. It has no “ hunting case ” 
any more than a box of shoe-blacking has. Its case is of 
some white metal, not even gilded, but washed with 
lacquer, a yellow varnish. Tiie advertisement claims that 
it contains V a first class compass.” If “first class” means 
unvarying—always there—this maybe; so far, ours has 
“ TINTED DUE NOR’ HARP ” 
will be sent home, and gold must continue to come to 
pay for our products. Our exports so far this year arc 
still largely in excess of our imports. Not in many 
years has business in this, and in most other cities and 
towns been so active as now. Thousands of manufac¬ 
tories that have either lain idle or been doing but little, 
are now in active operation. In short, look where we 
will, there is activity, cheerfulness, and well-founded 
hopefulness. The great Dairy interest has almost alone 
suffered through over-production and consequent un¬ 
precedentedly low prices. But as hinted in the Editorial 
Correspondence elsewhere, this will not long continue 
thus. General prosperity, such as our country has al¬ 
ready entered upon, will ere Jong extend to every nook 
and corner of the land, and reach every department of 
industry. By another month we expect to be able to 
It nas several times happened that we have received 
letters complaining of well-known dealers, the parties 
writing that they have ordered of, and sent money to, 
“So and So,” and have received no returns, and, of 
course, wishing us to show “ So and So” up as “ hum¬ 
bugs.” Knowing the chances of error, our first step is 
to make inquiry of the persons accused. In more than 
half the cases we have found that the persons accused 
have letters from their accusers, acknowledging the re¬ 
ceipt of goods, or whatever it may be —but the persons 
who complained have omitted to inform us, as they 
should have done at once, that the matter had been 
adjusted_In August last we gave a brief notice of 
the revival of the old “ Hotel Dodge,” and illustrated its 
method by the publication of a letter from R. V. Kings¬ 
land, San Francisco, Cal., to a gentleman in N. Attle¬ 
borough, Mass , notifying him that a person who regis¬ 
tered by the same name had died at the hole] kept by the 
aforesaid Kingsland. But now alas for Kingsland, 
ever since we have had it. The whole thing is a very 
mean swindle, about which we would say more were it 
not likely to be thoroughly squelched. On the day the 
engravings were made for illustrating it, there came a 
despatch from Boston stating that three parties of Rock¬ 
land, Mass., and one Mrs; Hunt were held by the U. S. 
authorities in $1,000 each for a misuse of the mails. It is 
alleged that they have advertised by postal cards and let¬ 
ters the sale of valuable timepieces for $1, and in answer 
to applications have sent the “ Solargraph.”_Inquiries 
are still made about, the wonderful 
“CLEAR OUT YOUR STUMPS” 
cia-cular, of which a quits full account was given last 
month. As the method proposed to remove “ New and 
old stumps,” and do it in “ the first three months ” we 
were interested in the matter agriculturally, but when it 
proposed to do it with Electricity , we were at once in¬ 
terested in it scientifically. Ever since the lightning 
made kindling wood of our tall Elm tree, we have had 
