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for home consumption have somewhat advanced the 
prices. Cows.— The supply has been liberal; the 
demand only fair, ar.d the market dull throughout the 
month. Ohio cows sold at an average of $40_Calves. 
—There was a fair demand for good calves, the market 
not being overstocked. Prime Veals were advanced Jfc. 
per pound. Sheep and Lambs- The average 
receipts have been much below those of last month. 
Exporters have been liberal purchasers of heavy sheep, 
which therefore found ready sale. Prime Sheep brought 
6c. Yearling Lambs, the best, sold for 8t£c_ Swine. 
—The market has been quiet and steady, at $4.50 to 
$4.85 per 100 lbs. The receipts large early in the month, 
followed by a rapid decline. 
Tlie Horse Market.—' The* prices are low and 
the market dull, there being very little outside demand. 
A number of valuable stallions shipped for this country 
have either been killed or injured on the passage during 
heavy storms. Ordinary driving teams are selling at 
$200@$-100; stylish coach horses with good speed even 
reaching $1,000@$1,500 per team. 
Prices of Feed. 
Cotton-seed meal, ..per ton. $30.00 
Linseed-cake meal. . “ 37.50 
Middlings. “ 24.00 
Bran. “ 23.00 
Corn-meal. “ 23.00 
Prices of Fertilizers. 
Nitrate of Potash (95 per cent.), per lb. 9 @9>4C. 
Sulphate of Potash (potash 44 per cent) per lb_ S!4@4 c. 
do. do. (potash 2V4 per cent) per lb.. l^SHfc. 
German Potash Salts (potash 12 to 15p.c.) p. ton.$15.00@18.00 
Muriate of Potash (potash 50 per cent), per lb_ 2 @2tfc. 
Nitrate of Soda, per lb. 5@">^c. 
Sulphate of Ammonia (25 percent.), per lb. 4tfc.@4Mc. 
Dried Blood (ammonia 13 percent) per ton.$40.00@45.00 
No.l.Peruv.Guano 10 p.ct. ammonia, standard, 39 ton..$55.00 
do. do. Lobos, do. do. do. 46 00 
do. do. guaranteed,^ ton, cargo K 56.00 
do do. rectified, per ton, 9.00 p. c. . 65.00 
Soluble Pacific Guano, $ ton. . . 45.00 
Excelsior Fertilizer Works, Fine Ground Raw Bone,.. .55.00 
Mapes’ Complete Manure (clay soils) per 1,000 Ills.25.50 
do. do. do. (light soils) per 1,000 lbs.25.50 
do. do. do. “A" Brand, (wheat) $ 1,000 lbs.10.00 
do. Bone, strictly pure, meal .per ton..42.00 
do. do. do. medium. do. 36.00 
do. do. do. dissolved. do. 42.00 
do. Fruit and Vine Manure. do. 37.00 
Stockbridge Rye Manure, per ton 45.00 
“ Wheat do do 45.00 
“ Seeding Down Manure, per ton. 40.00 
Bowker's Wheat Phosphate, per ton. 40.00 
Baugh’s Raw Bone Phosphate, per ton. 33.00 
Baugh's Manure for Tobacco and Grain, per toil.. 45.T1S 
Walton, VVliann & Co.’s Raw Bone Phosphate_ 40.00 
Gypsum, Nova Scotia, ground, per ton. 7.50 
REMEMBER THAT 
Three Months 
REMAIN 
For Premiums. 
April, May, and June are the three months remaining, 
during which any person who wishes to obtain one or 
more of the useful and valuable articles offered in our 
Premium List (of which a copy will be sent free to any 
applicant not having one). They are easily secured. 
This has already been done by more than 25,000 per¬ 
sons, who during years past have tried with success the 
raising of Clubs of Subscribers for our paper, and availed 
themselves of the liberal offers of Premiums made by 
the Publishers. 
We invite all our Subscribers to take hold of this 
work and secure a Premium while the offer is open. 
Specimen copies of English or German editions will be 
sent to any wishing to show them for this purpose. 
Premium Clubs already started can be filled up. And 
there is plenty of time to start new Clubs and com¬ 
plete them. 
Spring Work is opening, and multitudes will now 
feel the need of the help, the hints and suggestions given 
by practical men in the pages of the American Agricul¬ 
turist. They only need some one to present the paper to 
them and take their Subscriptions. The Premiums will 
well pay those who do this for their trouble. 
Distribution of the Carp. —Many of our read¬ 
ers write to enquire how they can obtain some of the 
valuable newly introduced Carp, the fish which was de¬ 
scribed in our January number. The Carp is being 
rapidly propagated in the Government ponds at Wash¬ 
ington, and they will be distributed as fast as they are 
ready. The only way to obtain them, is to make appli¬ 
cation to the IT. S. Pish Commissioner, through the 
member of Congress from the district in which the per¬ 
son desiring them resides, stating full particulars 
containing a great variety of Items , inc’uding many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of room elsewhere. 
More Extra Pages are again added, to meet the 
demands of business men who feel the influence of the 
renewed activity everywhere produced by the great crops 
of 1879, and the return to specie payments. Though 
with the advance in prices, the extra cost of added pages 
consumes much of the income from them, we prefer 
tliis to trenching upon the reading columns which are 
crowded with valuable information. And further, these 
added pages are useful to our readers, who will find many 
items of needed or useful information all through the 
advertising pages—telling what is offered, by whom, and 
where, and how. As often stated, one usually gets some 
new idea by reading what others say and how they say it. 
Only Reliable business men, those having both the 
ability and intention to do what they promise, are know¬ 
ingly admitted to these pages, and we are happy to bring 
such men to the acquaintance of onr wide circle of active, 
enterprising readers. When corresponding with our 
advertisers please always inform them that you are readers 
of this Journal. They will thus know what you expect and 
what we expect of them as to prompt and liberal treatment. 
Special Features of this Number: 
Tlie usual large variety of original articles and items 
on many lopics is given, all of which most readers will 
peruse. Those too busy for this, should not omit: 
The articles on Fertilizers. The large tables, pages 
136, 137, give in very condensed form, the results of a 
few only of the many extensive and important experi¬ 
ments with fertilizers during two years past, which are to 
be continued this year, as noted. These experiments are, 
perhaps, the most valuable new contribution in our coun¬ 
try to successful soil culture. A careful study and com¬ 
parison of the figures in every line of the tables will fur¬ 
nish useful information. It will be well for themselves 
and for the country, if ten thousand of our readers em¬ 
brace the opportunity offered to make such experiments 
the coming season. The method of procuring the fertil¬ 
izers is plainly stated on page 135. 
The plans and hints for the Work of the Month, pages 
128,129, 130, prepared by several practical men in the dif¬ 
ferent departments, including one valuable new helper, 
will aid the experienced as well as the novice, jog the 
memory, supply sundry suggestions, and answer many 
questions in letters from correspondents. 
Swindlers are on the “boom,” and have a “ benefit” 
on pages 132-3. Some Western Towns may “ see them¬ 
selves as others see (them).” . Subscription thieves. 
Census cheats, etc., are noticed. 
Fences and Fencing, though partly crowded this month 
by 'he Fertilizers, will afford some suggestions. 
The House Plan with full specifications, on page 138, 
if it does not give just the plan wanted by many, will 
help in providing the house that is wanted. 
Sheep Growers will enjoy the illustration and descrip¬ 
tions of the American Merino, with the important 
figures from Mr. Geddes, on pages 139-40. 
Dairy Matters, “ Gilt-Edged Butter,” “ Granular But¬ 
ter,” etc., pages 140-1, will interest every owner of a cow. 
Hints and Helps to Farmers, although not all under 
that title, on pages 142-3-1-5, contain many items useful 
to one or another. 
Poultry Farming, page 145, will answer many queries 
from correspondents and afford suggestions to others. 
The new Coleuses and Flowers, page 147, will interest 
all who grow flowers. 
Everybody shonld have at least one Grape-Vine. How 
it can he grown and trained anywhere, etc., is set forth 
on page 149. 
Market Gardeners and others will find new information 
on Lettuce Mildew, page 148. 
Housekeepers will of course read what a “Delaware 
Housekeeper” offers ; the article on Cloth Mildew, etc. 
The Boys and Girls are not forgotten, as they will see 
for themselves. 
The “Basket,” on pages 131-2-3-4, and 159-60, etc., 
with items on a great variety of subjects will be worth 
delving into, and supply some bits of useful information 
to almost to every one. 
DID IT PAY? —A True Story. — Thirty- 
eight years ago, two brothers settled on adjoining farms 
with equal advantage as to soil,markets, capital, etc.. 
One of them subscribed for the American Agricultur¬ 
ist, and now and then bought a Book or two about his own 
business—the whole costing an average of $6 a year. His 
boys read and thought about their work, became interested 
in and respected it, and were happy in their toil, because 
they had something to think about. They grew up intel¬ 
ligent, and settled as good, prosperous farmers, respected 
and influential... .The other brother (partly influenced by 
an economical wife) “ couldn’t afford papers and books” 
(he could afford 6 cents a day, or $20 a year, for tobacco, 
beer, etc.) His hoys worked sullenly by day, and “ sky¬ 
larked” at night; they despised and hated their work, 
which for them was only exercising brute force, with little 
mind applied. When old enough to escape parental re¬ 
straint, they quit the farm, one for this, and another for 
that, and none of them have ever amounted to any thing. 
He is himself a sullen, dispirited man. Six dollars a year, 
or even $2 a year, would have made a wonderful difference 
—would have changed their whole course of life. Would 
it have paidt —Reader, choose the better way. Get 
your neighbors to join you, and secure some hooks for 
the use of all, through the opportunity still offered in our 
general premium list: or in some way put one or more 
books about their business, into the hands of yonr sons, 
from time to time, and read and talk with them about 
your business. It will be the best investment you can 
make for them. 
Prizes at Pairs. —The custom of offering a year's 
subscription to the American Agriculturist as an award 
at fairs, is increasing. Some Societies have done this for 
several years, and we would call the attention of those 
who make up the schedules to the great value of such 
prizes. One who is awarded a dollar or two in money, 
soon spends the sum and forgets all about it. If instead, 
he has a subscription to tlie American Agriculturist , he 
is reminded each month of the Fair and of his success, 
and each time that the paper comes it gives him a hint 
to prepare for the next fair, and helps to sustain his in¬ 
terest in the local society by reminding him of its exist¬ 
ence. Besides this, instead of small cash prizes for arti¬ 
cles exhibited, it would be vastly better to offer in each 
class books npon the subject to which the department is 
devoted. Poultry hooks for fowls, Cattle hooks for cattle, 
a Fruit book for apples, a Cook book for jellies, etc. 
Manure for the Garden.— It is too often the 
case that the corn field gets the best manure, and the 
vegetable garden must put up with that which is second 
clasB. By all means give the garden the best of the heap; 
that which is well rotted, and that in abundance. 
Plans of Dividing Farms by Fences,.~ 
Any suhsebriher having a 200-acre farm, or one near that 
size, will do us a favor by sending a rough outline sketch 
of his arrangement of fences, showing the size, number, 
and shape of the lots, position of barns, lane, etc. A farm 
for mixed husbandry is understood, not a one-crop one. 
Tlie Next World’s Fair.— It now looks as if 
there would be a World's Fair held at New York in 1883. 
For a while there were two, if not more, committees dis¬ 
cussing the matter of location, concerning which there 
was great difference of opinion, if not of interest. As 
it stands now, a bill has been prepared asking Congress 
to incorporate a Commission for the purpose of holding 
the Fair, thus giving it a national character, which is to 
be further impressed upon it by requesting the President 
of the United States to notify other Governments of the 
Exhibition. No appropriation is asked of Congress. As 
the Centennial Exhibition was to commemorate tlie 
Declaration of Independence, the Fair of 1S83 will cele¬ 
brate the 100th Anniversary of the Treaty of Peace, and 
of the recognition of American Independence. The cap¬ 
ital stock will be $12,000,000, in shares of $10 each. 
Worms in Peach Trees.—” L.,” Waynesburgh, 
Pa. If your worms are those of the Peach Borer, they 
are not in the roots proper so much as hi the trunk just 
at or below the surface. The borers already in the tree 
will come out the coming June and lay eggs for a new 
crop unless you dig them out, or kill them by the use of 
a wire. To prevent their attacks another year, bind the 
lower part of the trunk with stiff paper, the lower edge 
of which should be below the surface, and theupperedge 
a foot above ; or make a mound of earth a foot high 
around the base. A few may possibly find an entrance 
under the paper, but they fire easily discovered and killed. 
In the peach orchards they make a business of “ worm¬ 
ing ” in spring and fall, and as they look after them regu¬ 
larly they do not regard the borer as a serious evil. 
The Resignation of Prof. Le Boux.- The 
North Carolina papers inform us that Prof. A. R. Le 
Doux has resigned his position as chemist to the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture of that State, a loss which the reso¬ 
lutions passed by the Board show is greatly regretted 
by those best able to judge of the value of his labors. 
