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A Hog- Washer. —Cleanliness is an ef¬ 
fective agent in preventing disease. It is also often 
helpful as a remedy for various diseases. It is undenia¬ 
ble that the hog is the most filthy of our domestic ani¬ 
mals, simplybecuuse it is provided with no facilities for 
.cleanliness. To keep hogs in good health, perfect clean¬ 
liness of body' and. pen should be observed, and the ani- 
Tnal most willingly accepts the means for freeing itself 
from filth. We have frequently been amused to observe 
the gratification shown by our pigs when they have been 
treated to a bath from a hose and sprinkler, and the 
vigorous rubbing they have given themselves afterwards 
.against a rubbing post. This was made a weekly busi¬ 
ness, and at the same time the pens were well drenched 
with water. Now a device for washing swine has been in¬ 
vented by a Mr. Maddox, by which these ill-used animals 
«an he kept clean, and their health preserved. The ma¬ 
chine is manufactured by Day Bros., of Baltimore, who 
.also, for a small sum, furnish plans and specifications by 
which the machine can be made by any farmer. 
German Agriculturist—A Request. 
— The German edition of the American Agriculturist 
■should be in the hands of every German cultivator and 
laborer on the farm or in the garden. Published for 2 0 
years , and recognized in both hemispheres as authority in 
-agricultural matters, it has absorbed one German publica¬ 
tion after another, until to-day it is, with one exception, 
the only purely German agricultural journal in the United 
States. Containing all the more important articles, and 
the illustrations of the American edition, together with 
■a special German department, by Hon. Frederick 
Muench, tlie distinguished cultivator of Missouri, it 
presents in each issue, invaluable information for every 
:farmer, gardener, and fruit grower. The German Agri¬ 
culturist has all the benefit of the large outlay required 
in the preparation of the English edition, and it is for 
-this reason that it can he furnished at such cheap rates ; 
•otherwise, it could not be supplied at less than three 
times the present price. Now is the time to subscribe 
for the coming year. Many of our subscribers take the 
German edition for their gardeners and workmen, with 
-as much regularity as they furnish them necessary tools 
And implements. A year’s subscription receipt would 
make a capital Christmas or New Year’s present to them. 
All new German comers, especially, should have the 
paper, and we ask all our readers to make .known 
its merits to those who are settling among them. 
By so doing, they will indirectly benefit themselves, 
for as adjoining lands are improved and made profit¬ 
able by intelligent farming, their own lands must 
increase in value. Many Germans subscribe for their 
friends in the Fatherland. The latter find useful hints 
and suggestions in the paper which European journals 
do not supply. Those who may contemplate migrating 
at any time in the future to America, to engage in soil 
•culture, stock-raising, or fruit-growing, should he fur- 
nished with the German Agriculturist , inasmuch as it 
will give them much-needed information in advance, 
and, to a certain extent, prepare them for their new field 
of labor. The single and club rates are the same as for 
the English edition, and may he clubbed with it. 
iV. H.—The German edition of the American Agricul¬ 
turist is to be greatly improved, beginning with the De¬ 
cember number. It is to have a beautiful illustrated, 
tinted paper cover, and other added attractions, which 
-will make that Journal still more valuable. 
Nebraska.—Many letters are daily received 
inquiring about this State, its soil, climate, and desira¬ 
bility as a farming country. In a journey across the 
State, a few years ago, we formed a much more favorable 
opinion of its soil than we had previously possessed. 
During the past summer, one of our associates spent 
several weeks there, visiting a majority of the Counties, 
and was very favorably impressed. From all he could 
gather, and from other sources of information, we judge 
that any farmer going there, with sufficient means to 
maintain himself and family temporarily, until he gets a 
.start—that is, until he can get a first crop harvested—can 
hardly fail to do well. This year, a large number have 
unade enonah from a single harvest to pay all expenses 
of the crop, and the original cost of the land, with a sur¬ 
plus over. Those desiring information as to localities, 
prices of land in market, etc., would do well to write to 
Hon. O. F. Davis, at Omaha; or, A. E. Touzalin, at 
Lincoln, Nebraska. 
Dislocation of tlie Patella (Static). 
—“ G. R. C.,” Flatbush, L. I. When the patella or knee¬ 
cap has been dislocated by any means, the remedy is to 
draw the foot forward, by means of a rope tied to the 
fetlock and passed through a saddle girth, if other means 
fail, and then press the bone into its place. Then, bathe 
the part in ice-cold water and decoction of oak hark, and 
keep the horse on a level floor for a week or two. 
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done so already, will send in their renewals for 
1878, and any new names to come with them, im¬ 
mediately, onreceipt of this paper; i-or the reason 
that it will enable our old experienced Book¬ 
keepers and Clerks to get the names carefully and 
neatly arranged alphabetically, in the different 
States and Territories, before tlie Holidays, when 
there is always a rush of business, requiring night 
work, the calling in of temporary clerks, etc. 
This is especially important the present year, as 
the sending out of the Microscopes will involve 
four-fold work, since every instrument must be 
carefully packed, directed, and, when sent by ex¬ 
press, a receipt taken for it. It will lalce no inoi'e 
time to renew subscriptions Sec. 1st than at a 
later date. Clubs can bo increased, at any time, 
as noted elsewhere. Those sending for the micro¬ 
scopes first will receive them first. 
The Next Yoliime will certainly be superior to 
any previous one. Increased experience and new 
facilities will secure this. From those whoapprove 
our work, we ask as a favor, that they will invite 
other friends and neighbors to join our company. 
Will it not be a pleasure to each ,one of our read¬ 
ers to bring along one, two, three,, or more —at 
least one —to begin with us tlie new year? It will 
be a favor appreciated by us, while every addition 
to the number of subscribers gives us increased 
facilities for doing better for all. 
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Xo Advertisers—Important Klin Is. 
—1st. All who have plants, seeds, Implements, indeed 
anything, to place before farmers, should not forget that 
January and February, especially oanuary, is their sea¬ 
son for rest, for reading, for planning and laying out 
their work for the year, and deciding upon what they will 
use in the way of seeds, implements, improved animais, 
what purchases they will make. This j ournai is not -ike 
a daily or weekly paper—read to-day, and m the waste¬ 
basket to-morrow—but it is preserved for reference for 
months, generally for years.—2d. No advertisement can 
be admitted, at any price, from any person who is not 
fully believed to have both the ability and intention to 
do just what he promises— 3d. No patent medicines or 
secret things are admitted. We have recently returned 
an unusual amount of money offered for advertising 
such things, showing that some peop\e have forgotten, 
or do not understand our rules.—4th. The best advertise¬ 
ment is one setting forth most clearly what is for sale, 
its cost, and how to get it.—5th. The German edition of 
the American Agriculturist is a valuable and cneap me¬ 
dium for reaching a large claass of most intelligent peo¬ 
ple ; it circulates in every State of the Union, largely in 
some of them ; in Germany, Russia, Austria, Norway, 
and most other countries. 
€!ubtt can at anj’ time be increased by remit¬ 
ting 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 10 subscribers and 
$13, may afterwards send 10 names more and $9, making 
20 subscribers at $1.10 each, and so of other club rates. 
In«M;i-K8Jl»l>es“ or Gum Boots, are at 
certain times, and in particular places, of so much real 
comfort and value to farmers and others of our readers, 
that in February, 1876, we gave an account of their man¬ 
ufacture. This article described and illustrated the pro¬ 
cesses followed at the “L. Candee & Co.” works, atNew 
Haven, Conn., the oldest factory of the kind in the coun¬ 
try. Since the article referred to appeared, we have had 
occasion to test the quality and observe the satisfactory 
wearing of the “Standard Pure” boots supplied by 
“ Candee & Co.” It is, as we know from experience, 
exceedingly annoying to find an article, upon which has 
been expended great care and thought in bringing it to 
perfection, closely imitated, and put before the public, 
as our own. We are told, and there is but little satisfac¬ 
tion in knowing it—that the highest possible testimony 
that can be paid to the excellence of an article, is to im¬ 
itate it. The Candee Co., finding that boots are made of 
adulterated stock, in exact imitation of their “ pure gum 
boots,” have issued a circular cautioning all purchasers 
that their boots are branded on the leg, in plain letters: 
“ Standard Pure. ‘L. Candee <& Co., ’ ” and state that 
all other makers of “ Pure Gum Boots ” have adopted a 
similar brand. They state that all hoots not similarly 
branded, whether dull, or finished with a luster, are 
made from poor stock, which the purchaser, from in¬ 
spection only, can not distinguish from the “Pure.” 
Purchasers of rubber boots, should look to the brand 
upon the leg. At the great Trade Sale of rubber goods, 
held in Boston in October last, the Candee goods 
brought higher prices than any others sold. 
Sundry Humbusg. 
One of the rascalities prac¬ 
ticable in cities is that of 
personating a police officer. 
Sometimes this is done by a 
rogue to accomnlish some 
purpose.of intimidation or 
other scheme; but the risk 
of detection is great, and the 
punishment heavy. It is 
much safer to pretend'to be 
a detective, and in view of 
the number of private de¬ 
tective concerns—some of 
which are organized rascal¬ 
ities, on tlie principle of 
“set a rogue to catch a 
rogue”—that have noth¬ 
ing to do with the’regular 
police force, and, as the suc¬ 
cess of detectives depends 
largely upon being un¬ 
known, it sometimes hap¬ 
pens that rouges assume to be detectives, and under this 
disguise manage to fleece timid or unsuspecting persons. 
This has happened a number of times, but it remained 
for Cincinnati, O., to have an organized bogus detective 
force, and, under the pretense of a widely-extended 
secret service, manage to raise a crop of petty swindles. 
For some months we have received occasional postal- 
cards, setting forth the claims and aims of the 
“united states secret service company.” 
This proposed to do a “ General Detective Business,” 
and especially to go for “ swindling advertisers.” The 
special method in which this company would “ realize ” 
was not evident on the face of tlie ca-d, and all that we 
could do was to warn our friends, by mail, to let the 
thing alone, as its very title was a fraud. There is a “ Ui 
S. Secret Service Co.,” but it does not advertise for busi¬ 
ness, it being attached to the Treasury—and, perhaps, 
other departments at Washington. One suspicious thing 
about this “ Secret Service Co.” was its method of get¬ 
ting names to which to send cards. Notwithstanding al« 
that has been said, some papers (and, we are sorry to say, 
some agricultural papers) continue to advertise a remark¬ 
able “Lamp-Glass Co.” Persons sending to the glass 
concern, for circular, concerning their wonderful terms 
to “agents,” in a few days after receive one of the “De¬ 
tective Co.’s” advertisements, directed in the same hand 
as the glass chimney document. All this .boked sus¬ 
picious, but we could do nothing but wait for devolop- 
ments; and they came at last, as they are very sure to do 
if one is patient. It appears that the “U. S. Secret 
Service Co.” advertised for members of its force. What 
is a “ Service Co.” without servers ? Onr correspondent, 
“A.D.,” of Marengo, Ill., applied. He was accepted, 
nis salary to lie $1,000 to $3,000 a year; but he must first 
“ sign enclosed certificate,” which “ would be referred to 
proper officers,” etc. “A.D.” signed and sent. Soon 
he received another letter, and then—the cat was out of 
the bag. The “Secret Service Co.” send a circular say¬ 
ing that they publish 
“ THE AMERICAN CRIMINAL GAZETTE.” 
Every member oi the forceps “required to bo a regular 
subscriber,” and pay his $3 in advance. Then “ A. 
D.” is told: “When you remit, enclose the money 
in an ordinary envelop; do not send by P. 0. 
money order, or in a registered fetter. Send in or¬ 
dinary mail, as you would any letter on business.” All 
that machinery to get a paltry $3; but, then, the letters 
appear to be done by one of' the new copying processes, 
and may be turned off_>very rapidly, and, as the offer of 
$1,000 to $3,000 salary was pretty good bait, the $3 re¬ 
mittances no doubt came in lively. But, after all their 
caution about mailing, the “ Co.” has been hauled up to 
answer to an indictment for sending matter through the 
mails “calculated to defraud the public.” The transac¬ 
tion has quite soured onr correspondent, “ A. D.,” as he 
wishes us to “ advise no one to send any money into 
