AMERICAN AG-RIOULT UR I ST. 
[August, 
286 
Cows.—After a drill-week at the beginning of the J 
month, daring which poor stock was worked off, a be:- j 
ter business was apparent with an advance of $5 per I 
head on good cows. Poor cows are almost unsalable at I 
any price. Common to fair cows sold at $45 to $50 per j 
head, extra good animals brought $70 to $75_Calves. 
—With a considerable falling off in supply, veals.liave 
done better, there being a good demand for fat veals at 7c., 
7£c.@8c. per lb. alive... Slieep.—Sheep and lambs are 
lower after a pretty steady business during the month. 
1,100 fat sheep have been exported. Poor sheep sold for 
4c., 90 to 120-pound sheep brought 4Jc.@5c. per lb., and 
prime stock reached 5Jc. Thin lambs sold for 5Jc.@6c., 
and the best Jersey and Canada lambs at 7£c.@Se. per lb. 
live weight.Swine.—A dull market for hogs has 
been experienced through the month, and there is no 
change to note at the close ; 160 lb. hogs selling at 7}c. 
dressed; heavy hogs at 6fc.@7Jc., and pigs at 7£c. per lb. 
Prices of Feed. 
Bran, per ton. 
Middlings, per ton. 
Ground Feed, pel- ion. 
Linseed-oil-caUe. western, per ton.. 
Cotl on-seed-calce, per ion. 
Chandler’s Scraps, per li. 
.$18.00® $20.00 
.. 19.03® 21.00 
.. 15.00© 21.00 
. 41.00® 47.00 
.. 2.7.50® 40.00 
S@ 4 
Prices of Fertilisers. 
No.l.Bertiv. Guano 10 p.ec. ammonia, standard, $ ton..$50.50 
do. do. Lobos, do. do. do. 47.50 
do. do. guaranteed, V ton, cargo C 56.00 
do do. rectified, per ton, 10 p: c.. 66.50 
Mapes’ Complete Manure (Villeformula) p. 1,000 lbs 20.U 
do. Wheat and Grass Manure, $ 1,000 lbs., 27.00 
do. Tobacco do. do. 24.67 
do. Turnip do. do. 19.36 
do. Bone, strictly pure, fine .per ton. 40.00 
do. do. do. medium do. 37.00 
do. do. do. coarse do. 35.00 
“ Dissolved Bone, 15'per cent. do 40.00 
Q.uinnipiac Fertilizer Go’s. Phosphate; per to».. 40.00 
“ “ Illy g’d Fish Guano, toil 9 p.-c. ain'a 42.00 
“ “ Pine Island Guano, per toil. 41.00 
Stockbridge Corn Manure, (Boston) per acre... 22.00 
“ Potato do do do 12.00 
“ Tobacco do do do 60.U0 
Bowker’s Hill and Drill Fertilizer, per ton. 45.00 
German Potash Salts. (25@35 per cent), per ton. 20.00 
Gypsum, Nova Scotia, ground, per ton.. • 7.00®S.OO-« 
Nitrate of Potash (95 per cent.), per lb. 9>sc. 
Sulphate of Potash (actual potash 44 per cent) per lb_4 e. 
do. do. (actual potash 27% per cent) per lb 2 c. 
German Potash Salts (actual potash 12 to 15 p. c. p. ton?20.00 
Muriate of Potasli (actual potash 50 per cent), per lb.. ,2>tc. 
Nitrate of Soda, per lb. 4Ec.@ 5 c. 
Sulphate of Ammonia (25 per cent.), per lb_ i'Ac.Cm 4‘Ac. 
Dried Blood or Dried Meat (ammonia 14 per cent) p. ton $53 
containing a great variety of Items , including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of room elsewhere. 
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The Talcs.—' While we have received a larger 
number of notices than usual up to the present time, we 
would renew tiny request to Secretaries of the various 
State, County, and other Societies, who have not already 
sent, to forward its at once, tlie 1 time and place of their 
coming fairs. If posters or programmes are not yet ready, 
postal cards are, and it helps greatly towards the accuracy 
of the list, to get the data from headquarters. 
Hlew York Morticultural Society. 
—The following pvizes awarded to Sam’l. Henshaw, gar¬ 
dener to Mrs. Greene, New 'Brighton, Staten Island, 
were accidentally omitted. Mr. II. took the first prize on. 
cucumbers, a fine pair of Telegraphs. He was also 
awarded a special premium for Brown Turkey Figs. 
The Jfeeatli of Charles «>. 
In April 1869 it was our sad duty to record the death of 
Mr. Judd’s then oldest son, William Orange,—a youth of 
great promise and of such early developement that though 
only 13 years of age, lie was nearly advanced iu his 
studies to enter college, diaries O., who was after 
Willie’s death the eldest of three boys, was in Wesleyan 
; University at Middletown, Conn., where he had just com¬ 
pleted his Junior year, and had passed a most creditable , 
examination preparatory to entering the Senior class. 
The exercises of the Commencement Week were to in¬ 
clude an exhibition in the Gymnasium, and as Charlie had 
been one of the best athletes during his first two years, he 
was urgently solicited to assist in the preparation. Ho 
had, however, outgrown a love for such exercises, and his 
parents were also opposed to it. But at the last moment, 
as a matter of accommodation, he went iu to aid the 
others a little, and on June 23d, while showing a simple 
performance on a low cross-har, ho dropped a few feet 
upon a mattrass, as he has often done from much greater 
liights, and striking upon his head, he iu some unac¬ 
countable manner shattered the fifth cervical or neck ver¬ 
tebra, and severely injured the spinal cord, as it was 
found after death. He was taken home, and the best 
medical aid was called. All below the neck being not 
only paralyzed, but without sensation, the case was 
from the first pronounced exceedingly grave, but as 
recovery had, though rarely, followed similar accidents, 
the family had still the very slender hope to cling 
to, that Charlie, being of a most robust constitution 
and of vigorous habit, might prove to be one of the ex¬ 
ceptional cases. The fact that he survived beyond Hie 
time at which such injuries are usually fatal, seemed to 
be in his favor; but all care and hope were vain, and after 
lingering for 16 days, with his mental faculties unim¬ 
paired, except when occasionally under morphine to al¬ 
lay pain iu head, he gradually grew weaker until July 9th, 
when death came to liis relief,—a death for which the 
comforting assurance that lie was well prepared, remains 
for the loved ones who survive him. Charlie was a 
young man of very quiet disposition, and inheriting much 
of the mechanical talent and practical turn of mind of 
his father, he had a special fondness for mathematical 
! studies and the natural sciences. A promised career of 
future usefulness is thus suddenly ended at the early age 
of 19, and by an accident that in itself seems so trivial, 
that it shows in a manner so forcible as to be startling, 
by what a slender tenure are held our own lives and those 
upon which our hopes are built. Of course this occurrence 
cast a gloom over the usually joyous ©ommencemeut An¬ 
niversary. Of the grief it brought to the household, this 
is not the place to speak. When we state that this is the 
fifth time the father has been called to mourn the loss 
of an eldest son, every parent will feel that it is a be¬ 
reavement of peculiar sadness, and one of those dispen¬ 
sations so beyond human scrutiny, that we can only bow 
in submission, knowing that the Hand that taketli away is 
the Hand that gave.—[We have written the above in the 
absence of Mr. Judd, believing that his many friends will 
be interested iu knowing the particulars here given. Eds.] 
Tlie Death of <*. IS. Walton.— The 
“Florida Agriculthrist,” of June 30th, announces the 
death of its founder and publisher, Mr. Walton, at Talla¬ 
hassee, Fla., on June 27th, of consumption. 
Swine Husbandry—Now Ready.— 
The work, by F. D. Coburn, of Pomona, Kas., announced 
last month as in press, is now ready. It forms a handsome 
volume of 275 pages, and is “chock full” of solid meat. 
The author is himself a breeder of swine on a large scale, 
and in addition to bis own wide experience, gives that of 
other practical melt who have long been engaged in this 
important branch of agricultural industry. Wo like to 
see an author who docs not think that he knows ail that 
is worth knowing on his special topic, and is willing to 
give others credit for labors in tlie same field with his 
own. In this volume Mr. Coburn lias introduced papers, 
or copious abstracts of papers, of great value, but which 
are hidden in the reports of societies and elsewhere, and 
lienee not accessible to the public in general. An exam¬ 
ple of these is an essay by Joseph Sullivant, Esq., of 
Ohio, on “Hog-Feeding and Pork-Making,” which is of 
itself worth the price of the book. The division of the 
work which will he most eagerly consulted, is that de¬ 
voted to the “Diseases of Swine;” where, as mentioned 
last month, all that is known about that scourge, the 
“Hog Cholera,” is here brought together, and the in¬ 
formation upon this, as upon all other subjects, is up to 
the most recent date. Being a western man, the work 
lias a decided western flavor, so to speak ; while princi¬ 
ples are the same everywhere, practice is greatly modified 
by locality; in certain Western States the conversion of 
the staple product, Indian corn, into pork, has an import¬ 
ance it can not assume in States where the agriculture is 
more varied, and its operations upon a smaller scale; 
while the work is none the less useful to tlie farmer or 
villager who keeps but few animals, this is the only one 
within our knowledge that gives the methods of manag¬ 
ing hogs in large numbers. Indeed, there seems to be no 
topic relating to the subject, that is not,plainly and in¬ 
telligently treated, even to putting down the family sup¬ 
ply of pork, hams, and bacon, and we are sure that the 
work will be generally acceptable to farmers in all parts 
of the c.ountry. Published by the Orange Judd Company, 
and sent, post-paid, on receipt of price, $1.75. 
Am Honor Weil ISestowetl.—So long 
as conferring titles and bestowing orders are in many 
countries the customary methods of rewarding distin¬ 
guished services, we are glad to see them sometimes fall 
to others than those eminent in the arts of war. Every 
horticulturist will be glad to know that Doct. Joseph 
Dalton Hooker has been Ihus honored by his Sovereign. 
His election, within a few years, as President of the Royal 
Society of England, was a really greater honor, a> ho was 
placed there by the votes of the most eminent scientific 
men of England, and it is generally regarded the highest 
honor these men can pay to one of their peers. Doct. 
Hooker is one of the few leading botanists of the world, 
and as Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew, he occupies 
a position in which he has been able to do much for hor¬ 
ticulture; while pre-eminent as a scientific botanist, he 
is none the less practical, as his labors iu tlie introduc¬ 
tion and cultivation of the Cinchona, or Peruvian Bark 
trees into India, and the introduction of other useful 
plants into these and other British possessions are evi¬ 
dence. In view of his services to science and the national 
welfare, the Queen lias made him a Knight of the Order 
of the Star of India. This honor is accorded to but very 
few, and we are sure that none of the select company of 
tlie Order have better deserved it, or will wear it more 
modestly, than Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, K.C.S.I. 
Blow Nebraska 5,ooks.- One of our 
associates who is making a Western trip thus summarizes 
his observations in Nebraska. Writing from Lincoln he 
says; Have travelled the entire length of the State, 
distance about 500 miles, visiting the majority of tlie 
counties. Crops promise a great yield. Corn is back¬ 
ward, owing to June rains, hut is now coming rapidly 
forward. Grasshoppers are non est. Apprehensions re¬ 
garding them being dismissed. Farmers in good spirits,7 
and in hopes of reviving emigration, which stopped two 
years ago. Farmers are paying too much for money, 12 
to 20 per cent, and buying too much machinery on credit: 
Menuonites and Bohemians.are settling here iu consider¬ 
able numbers. Cattle in the western, which is the grazing 
portion of the State, are looking fine. 
Putting Down Ratter.— While the but¬ 
ter made in September has not usually the rich flavor of 
that made in June, next month's product is mainly that 
which is put down by farmers and dairymen for the win¬ 
ter’s supply. Much of the success iu keeping butter de : 
pends upon the quality of tlie salt used in packing it. If 
the “Domestic Society” (there is much more of tlie 
name) of the little State of Rhode Island, was not the 
first to discover, it was, we think, the first to publish 
the fact, that the poor keeping of butter was due to im¬ 
purities in the salt. They had analyses made of the va¬ 
rious brands of salt, and it was found that those kinds 
that were found best in practice, were shown byanalysis 
to be the least contaminated by salts of magnesia. 
Among the various brands of salt in the market, none 
bears a higher reputation for purity, than that known as 
“Ashton’s Factory Filled,” and so firmly is this reputa¬ 
tion established, that in some important butter-making 
localities, no other brand can be disposed of. The quality 
of tlie salt is of so much importance, that butter makers, 
if none is sold near at hand, had better order it from 
New York, than to risk the use of a brand, the purity of 
which has not been tested. 
Tlie ESural New Yorker lias experi¬ 
enced another change iu its management. Mr. A. S. 
Fuller, the former editor, and Mr. G. A. C. Barnett, pub¬ 
lisher, both retire from their positions oil the “Rural,” 
having disposed of tlicir interest to Mr. E. Carman, one 
of tlie joint proprietors, who thus assumes entire control. 
Screws vs. Stitches.— The winter, when 
a boy, once heard an old gentleman, who was himself an 
excellent mechanic, say that there was one product of 
human industry that liad reached perfection, and iii which 
no further improvement was possible—that was a well- 
made boot. The old gentleman did not foresee that 
screws of brass wire would supersede stitches of flaxen 
thread, for the “ Standard Screw Machine ” had not been 
invented, mid the “ McKay Metallic Fastening Associa¬ 
tion’’was not then thought of. This most ingenious 
machine, being supplied with a coil of wire, upon which 
is cut a continuous screiv-thread, automatically cuts this 
wire of the proper length, and screws the pjeces into the 
boot or shoe, as near or as far apart, as may be desired, 
fastening the parts together with a firmness and solidity 
