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selected, and they were led on by correspondence, 
by claims to have found them in the line of certain 
.success in securing sums of $10,000 to $100,000. Of 
-course frequent calls were made for funds to prose¬ 
cute the claims. People hunted up their baptismal 
and marriage certificates and family records, and 
often sold their most necessary aiticles of clothes 
and their furniture, to raise the sums needed by 
their “International Law” counsel. Of course 
every one maintained great secrecy, so as not to 
bring in contestants ; and thus the swindling went 
on, until finally discovered by the officers of the 
law,who took possession of the premises, and found 
avast mass of correspondence, etc.,to show that 
the scheme had grown to immense proportions. 
The “Pillow Inhaler,” 
alluded to in our July issue, it is claimed, possesses 
healing virtues. The proprietor writes us from 
Philadelphia : “ Such men as Dr. D. Hayes Agnew 
have commended the idea of the Pillow Inhaler, 
and we are putting them out on doctors’ orders 
right along. There is not an atom of humbug 
about the Pillow.” 
The Ozone Bulletin 
-continues to be sent out; it still claims to be “Pub¬ 
lished Monthly,” but does not tell us in what par¬ 
ticular month. It issues an extra, or supplement, 
in which it states that, having seen “ unjust criti¬ 
cisms on Ozone,” they publish a lot of certificates, 
and offer to forfeit “ One Thousand Dollars for 
■each and every one of which we can not show you 
the original autograph letter.” We suppose that 
our criticisms are regarded as “unjust,” but why 
don’t they publish them ? Our objection to this 
fraud is, that it is obtaining money under false 
pretenses. It is selling as “ Ozone,” at a high 
price, common Brimstone, or 
FLOWERS OF SULPHUR. 
Whether it will preserve this or that, as the certifi¬ 
cates claim, has nothing to do with the question. 
That Sulphurous Acid (Sulpurous Anhydride, S 0 2 ) 
will preserve various animal and vegetable sub¬ 
stances, we are well aware, and have never denied. 
The miserable fraud consists in selling under the 
name of “ Ozone,” for $2, the same stuff that, 
under its proper name, Sulphur, can be bought for 
10 cents or less. 
THE VAPOR OF BURNING SULPHUR 
may be used to preserve various articles, and has 
been so used for many years. Our own examina¬ 
tion, and that of our friend, Dr. Robeft Warder, 
of Ohio, show unmistakably that this so-called 
“Ozone” is only common Flowers of Sulphur, 
colored. It is not Ozone, it is nothing like Ozone, 
and the selling of it as Ozone is one of the most 
barefaced frauds of the day. Every one who has 
bought a parcel of the stuff has good cause for a 
suit against this “Ozone Preserving Company.” 
The law is strict in New York State, and we would 
suggest to this company to read up the statutes 
relating to obtaining money under false pretenses. 
Rennie’s Pain-Killing Magical Oil. 
Sometimes the stories of the discovery of remark¬ 
able remedies are full of interest. We have not of 
late met with any quite so thrilling as that under 
the above name. There are seven large pages of 
oriental adventure : Kristodas, the oriental snake 
charmer; a journey down the Hodgly ; the man- 
goose ; lions—real man-eaters, and all sorts of 
thrilling eastern things contribute to the discovery 
of this “Magic Oil.” Seven pages of story to one 
page of certificates of its cures, show that this oil 
has a green-hand at the helm. Being a “ Magical 
Oil,” of course there is no end to its possibilities. 
A Lost Sister Found. 
On opening the mail one morning recently, we 
found the following communication: “ Editor 
Agriculturist. — Dear Sir.—I am a farmer and sub¬ 
scriber to your paper. I am too poor and too sick 
to undertake a journey to New York on this most 
urgent matter, to which I imploringly call your at¬ 
tention. My sister, Mrs.-, is now detained at 
No. — Mulberry Street, N. Y. She has several 
- children with her. She was decoyed from her 
home at-, Miss., by a good-looking man, by 
the name of -. She had started to join me at 
this place. - had her baggage marked to 
himself in New York, got some of her money, and 
keeps it.”—We at once sent to the house desig¬ 
nated, and found the missing sister in company 
with another sister. The latter had been abandoned 
by a brute of a husband, who had brought them 
both from Miss, to New York, and then decamped, 
leaving them in a state of starvation. The women 
are very ladylike in their demeanor, and have con¬ 
ducted themselves with the utmost decorum at the 
house where found. We hope by the time this 
paper reaches its readers, they will have reached 
their brother’s Nebraska home, having the where¬ 
with supplied them for making the journey. 
Preventable Losses on the Farm. 
BY WALDO F. BROWN. 
It is a “penny wise,and pound foolish,” system, 
to breed from scrub stock. There is not a farmer 
in this region who has not access to a pedigreed 
Shorthorn bull, by a payment of a small fee of two 
to five dollars, and yet we find only one animal in 
ten with Shorthorn blood. It is a common practice 
to breed to a yearling, and as he is almost sure to 
become breechy, to sell him for what he will bring 
the second summer. Many farmers neglect castrat¬ 
ing their calves until they are a year old. I think 
ten per cent are thus permanently injured, must 
be classed as stags, and sold at a reduced price. 
Fully half the calves so stunted never recover. 
With many, the starving process continues 
through the entire year. They are first fed an insuffi¬ 
cient quantity of skim milk; then in July or August, 
just at the season when flies are at their worst, and 
pastures driest, they are weaned, and turned out to 
shift for themselves, and left on the pastures until 
snows fall, long after the fields yield them a good 
support. They are wintered without grain, spring 
finds them poor and hide-bound, and the best graz¬ 
ing season is over before they are fairly thrifty. 
The keeping of old cows long past their prime is 
another thing which largely reduces the profits of 
the farmer. We have found quite a large per cent 
of cows, whose wrinkled horns and generally run 
down condition, show that they have long since 
passed the point of profit. A few years ago, these 
cows would have sold at full prices for beef, now 
they will sell only for Bologna at 2 cts. per pound. 
Thus cows have, in a majority of cases, been kept, 
not because they were favorites, or even because 
they were profitable, but from sheer carelessness 
and want of forethought. Another fruitful cause 
of loss to the farmer, is attempting to winter more 
stock than he has feed for. Instead of estimating 
his resources in the fall, and knowing that he has 
enough feed even fora hard winter, he gives the 
matter no thought, and March finds him with the 
choice of two evils, either to sell stock, or buy feed. 
If he chooses the former, he will often sell for 
much less than the animals would have brought 
four months earlier, and if the latter, will usually 
pay a much higher price for feed than if it had 
been bought in autumn. Too often he scrimps the 
feed, hoping for an early spring, and so soon as he 
can see the grass showing a shade of green around 
the fence rows, or in some sheltered ravine, turns 
his stock out to make their own living. This 
brings one of the most potent causes of unprofit¬ 
able cattle raising; namely, short pastures. The 
farmer who is over-stocked in winter, is almost 
sure to turn his cattle on his pastures too early in 
the spring, and this generally results in short pas¬ 
ture all summer, and consequently the stock do not 
thrive as they ought, and in addition, the land 
which should be greatly benefited and enriched, 
is injured, for the development of the roots in the 
soil, must correspond to that of the tops, and if 
the latter are constantly cropped short, the roots 
must be small. The benefit of shade is lost, and the 
land is trampled by the cattle in their wanderings 
to fill themselves, so that it is in a worse condition 
than if a crop of grain had been grown on it. 
From all these causes combined, there is a large 
aggregate of loss, and it is the exception to find a 
farm on which one or more of them doe6 not exist, 
and yet without exception, they may be classed as 
“preventable,” if thought, and practical common 
sense are brought to bear in the management. 
A Paper To Keep Ten Years. 
At least a hundred hours of severe mental work 
have been expended upon four pages of this August 
number of the American Agriculturist , (pp. 328, 329, 
330, and 346). They will be found not only interest¬ 
ing, but very valuable for frequent reference, as no 
equally comprehensive and accurate summary can 
be had again before 1892. The facts set forth have 
been gathered, collated, and condensed, partly by 
the aid of advanced sheets from the Census Bureau, 
partly from correspondence, and partly from nu¬ 
merous speeches in Congress on tariff, taxation, 
etc., etc., by Senators and Representatives, who 
have direct access to, and assistance from the Cen¬ 
sus records, not yet made fully known otherwise. 
With these four pages before one, he can, at a 
moment’s glance, know where to find the greatest 
amount of any farm product, of animals, etc., and 
what is the leading agricultural industry of any 
State or section of the country. It will be worth 
while to obtain an extra copy or two of this num¬ 
ber, cut out these pages, and paste them in a refer¬ 
ence book. The figures, etc., without the grouping, 
unless our plan is adopted, will be found scattered 
through the Census Reports when fully published, 
but they will be too bulky for convenient reference, 
or for universal or even general distribution. 
On page 328 will be found not only the total num¬ 
ber of Farms in the United States, but in each indi¬ 
vidual State and Territory, and also the number of 
each of eight different classes as to size, and also 
how they are cultivated—by owners, by renters, or 
on shares. Then follows a dozen groups, showing 
the relative standing of the States, in each class of 
farms, the farms per acre, the number of families, 
of dwellings, etc. ; also the product of milk, but¬ 
ter and cheese in the leading dairy States. 
On page 329 is a complete exhibit of all Farm 
Animals (quadrupeds) in the whole country, and in 
each of the 47 States and Territories, with a group¬ 
ing of the States in respect to the number of each 
kind of animals. Most people will be surprised at 
some of the results. For example, we recently 
asked a dozen or more intelligent men: “Which 
State has the most Swine ?” and every one 
promptly replied, “Ohio, of course,” forgetting, 
or not knowing, that Chicago, instead of Cincin¬ 
nati, is the present “ Porkopolis,” and her largest 
supplies come from Iowa, as any one would readily 
believe on going west from Chicago, and seeing 
the miles of freight trains bound eastward, loaded 
with the black-haired porkers. Iowa has nearly a 
million more Hogs than any other State, and in 
this nearly doubles Ohio, which ranks fourth in 
Swine production, though at the head of all in the 
total number of all farm animals, having over ten 
and a half millions of them.—Few would assign 
to New York 66 per cent, or 571,942 more Milch 
Cows than any other State; or put Pennsylvania 
in the fourth rank; or would write down Ohio as 
the greatest Sheep growing State, and California 
as next; or suppose that five States and one Terri¬ 
tory have more Sheep than all the other forty-one. 
Other like surprises will be found in our record. 
On page 330 are grouped the leading Grain¬ 
growing States, the acreage of the principal crops, 
the total product, and the yield per acre in all and 
in each, with such striking facts as, that six States 
alone supply half of all our Wheat ■ or that three 
States grow within four per cent of all the Indian 
Corn raised ; or that all New England grows less 
than one-fifth as much Rye as the single State of 
Pennsylvania; or that New York yields three 
eighths, or 38 per cent, of all Buckwheat grown, 
and that New York and Pennsylvania produce 
seven-tenths of this crop.—Numerous other inter¬ 
esting and surprising comparisons will be found, 
or suggest themselves, in the larger tables. 
Finally, the variety of facts we have prepared 
and condensed upon page 346, will be both enter¬ 
taining and valuable to all for future reference. 
