1880.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
33 
STEEL BARB FENCE 
Solves the FENCE Problem by meeting all the requisites of 
THE PERFECT FARM FENCE. 
Every Land Owner 
should not fail to examine 
the merits of this fence. It 
is cheaper than all others. 
Easiest handled, and in fact 
just what the people of the 
treeless States have needed 
■ for years. 
To All Inquirers. 
It is an impassable barrier, 
yet harmless. Prohibits t es- 
passing. It can be put up by 
any one, and is compactly put 
up for transportation. In 
fact, it is tlie only fence dog 
and wolf proof. 
Cheaper than Wooden Fences. Imperishable when once in place. Indestructible by the 
Elements. Wastes no soil by Shade. Has no Weedy Fence Borders, shelters no Enemies 
of the Crops. A Protection at all seasons. It is easy ot Construction. It needs no re¬ 
pairs. Accumulates no snow-drifts. 
A STEEL THORN HEDGE. 
Impassable Barrier. Prohibits all Trespassing. It can not be destroyed by fire, 
wind, or ilood. 
100,000 miles of Barb Fence have been erected in 1876, 1877, 1878. Agricultur¬ 
ists, Herdsmen, Sheep Husbandmen, Ranchmen, Vineyard Proprietors, 
Orcliaidists, Nurserymen, Railroad Companies, Road Proprietors, 
and ail owners and occupants of soil and areas to be protected. 
Manufactured by WasKbiirn & Moen Manufacturing Co., 
WORCESTER, MASS., and 31 CUFF ST. NEW YORK. 
Chicago Office, 107 Lake St. St. Louis Office, 803 North Second St. 
AN OLD-FASHIONED KNIFE. 
Made of Razor Steel, Hand Forged, and made es¬ 
pecially tor lough work; blades very thick. No corners 
u handle to wear pockets. By mail, postage paid, 
75 cts. Soft or flawy blades we 
replace free. 
For lighter work we have knives 
of equally good steel, 50 
and 60 cts. One-blade, 
like picture,50 cts.; lighter 
1-blade, 25 and 35 cts. 
Primers; Medium, 75 
I, cts ; Our Best, 8 inches 
I when open, oil temper 
anil tested. $1. 
BUDDING, 65cents; 
Farriers’, $1.00. 
This cut shows new knife. No. 
31, strong, but not clumsy. Price. 
75c. Same, 3-blade, $ 1 .( 10 . Pen 
Knives: Gent's 3-blade, $:.00. 
Fine pearl handle, 2-blade, $1.00. 
Congress knife (our finest), $1.50. 
Ladies’ 1-blade, 25c.; 2-blade, 50c. 
List free. Discount to dealers, a 
Address = 
MAHER & CROSH, 
CUTLERS, 
TOLEDO, OHIO. 
FIRE-PROOF FARM BUILDING, 
FIRE, WATER, & 
WIND-PROOF. 
Can be applied to old or 
new buildings by an ordin¬ 
ary mechanic or laboring 
man. Adapted to all cli¬ 
mates and seasons. The 
cheapest and best cover¬ 
ing for buildings ever 
made where durability is 
desired. See article Am. 
Agriculturist, Nov., 1879, 
page 461. Information 
free. Address 
W. T. WELLS, 
78Beekman St.,New York. 
1880 A. E. IF. 1880 
Improved! Perfected! Warranted! 
D© YOU WANT The Best Apron Thresher ? 
THE 
HARTFORD AUTOMATIC 
PUMP. 
Water Driven to any Hight 
and Distance by Com¬ 
pressed Air. 
_ Country Houses Supplied Cheaply and 
Certainly for Bath Rooms, Water Closets, Hot and Cold 
Water Faucets, etc. _ „ _ „ 
Plenty of Fresh Water for Stock on Farms. 
The best Pump for Irrigating, supplying Railroad Tanks, 
and for Mining purposes. 
For Circular and Price-list address 
EZRA BROOKS, 
manufacturer of the Hartford Automatic Pump, 
(Successor to the Hartford Pump Co.,) 
Cor. Sigourney and Cushman Sts., Hartford, Ct., U. S. A. 
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 8. 
In justice to the majority of our sub¬ 
scribers, who have been readers for many 
years, articles and illustrations are sei^ 
dona 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 
in the “Basket” or elsewhere, can al¬ 
ways be supplied and sent post-paid for 
15 cts. each, or 81.50 per volume. 
Bound Copies of volume 38, and of every pre¬ 
vious volume back to Vol. 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. 
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 be 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 the 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 our second cover 
page, and reckon 22 cents to the shilling sterling. 
Hoose in Calves. — “II. C. B.,” W. T. The so- 
called “diptheria” which killed your calves is doubtless 
a parasitical disease known as husk or hoose, otherwise 
vermicious bronchitis. It is common among calves and 
lambs which feed in marshy or wet pastures, and often in 
other pastures where older animals have run. The disease 
is caused by the presence of white thread-worms in the 
air passages, which are often so numerous as to cause 
suffocation. The remedy is to give Turpentine in one 
ounce doses in milk, every morning, for a week or ten 
days: or to give Sulphur in 2 dram doses, every day for 3 
or 4 weeks. The whole system must be impregnated 
with the medicine, which passes off by the lungs and the 
mneons secretions, but kills the worms with which it 
comes in contact. 
Mow Many Hogs to an Acre of Clover i — 
“E. P.,” Taunton, Mass. That depends on the kind of 
hogs and the sort of clover. An acre of good clover, that 
would cut two tons of hay, should afford pasturage for 10' 
hogs of 200 pounds each, if they would not root it up. It 
would keep more, if the clover were cut and fed to the 
hogs in pens, and a little meal slop given for drink. 
Bone Meal is a valuable but slowly acting manure. 
Some farmers who have used it with little or no increase 
of the crop, the first year, have been disappointed. 
Buy Our 1880 Eagle Machine! 
DCf> YOU WANT The Popular Eclipse Thresher 7 
Its Exclusively Ours for 1880! 
BO YOU WANT A Vibrator Thresher? 
Our New 1880 Vibrator is Unequalled! 
Threshing Engines, 8, 10. 15-Horse—A No. 1 
Always. Portable, Traction, Stationary. 
J. 1. CASE CO., Racine, Wis., 
Annually make and sell more Threshing Machines than any 
firm in the world. Ask for Catalogue'; they cost nothing. 
Bookwalter Engine, 
Compaq, Substantial, Economical, 
and Easily managed. Guaranteed 
to work well and give full power 
claimed. Engine and Boiler com¬ 
plete, including Governor, Pump, 
&c., (and boxing), at the low price 
of 
3 Horse-Power.. .$315.00 
4K “ “ ... 345.00 
6K “ “ ... 315.00 
BSTut on Cars at Springfield, Ohio. 
JAMES LEFFEL&CO., 
Sprinafleld, Ohio, 
or 109 Liberty St., Hew York City. 
Early Prolific and Reliance, 
the most certain and best paving Market Raspberries, 
12 acres now in bearing on our grounds. 150.000 plants 
for sale. 200.000 Cinderella, 200.000 Continental. 
200,000 other fine varieties of Strawberries, including 
Sharpless, Miners, Glendale, etc. Lots of other 
good things. Prices low. See now descriptive circular. 
GIBSON & BENNETT, Woodbury, N. J. 
Bone, when used as a fertilizer, is not washed out: a 
great advantage in porous or leachy soils. The finer the 
meal is ground the quicker it is used up by vegeta'ion— 
coarse meal may make its presence felt upon the crops 
for several years after its application. 
ILiee from Birds.— “J. C-E.,” Clinton, Pa. Lice 
from poultry and birds will greatly annoy horses and 
cattle, and cases have beon known in which horses have 
been so badly infested with them as to die under the in¬ 
fliction. But it is only the mature insects which give 
trouble. They will not breed upon any quadruped, and 
if the source of the annoyance is removed, the effects will 
be only temporary. Poultry, sparrows, swallows, owls, 
and other birds are usually infested with the minute lice 
which do the mischief. The remedy is to clear these out 
from stables and barns, and if necessary brush the infested 
animals thoroughly with a mixture of lard and kerosene 
oils. Smear a brush with the oils and shake it out thor¬ 
oughly, and then give the coat a vigorous Crushing. 
