1871 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
4,5 
Below we give the range of prices, average price, and 
figures at which large lots were sold : 
Dec. 19tli,ranged 10 @21 c. Av. U c Large sales 13 @18 
do 26th. do 10 @17 c do 13>fc. do do. 12K@15 
.Tail 2d, do. 8!4@16bic. do. 13=Vc. do. do. 12p»@15 
do Otli. do Sb;@l(> c. do. 13'4c. do. do. 11 @11 
do 16th. do S @15 e do 13 c. do. do. 11 @14 
milch Cows.— The fresh cow trade seldom amounts 
to ranch during the winter. Milkmen supply themselves 
in the fall, and towards spring begin to purchase again. 
Trade has been very dull for a month past, poor cows 
selling low. Some sent in to be palmed off as fresh 
cows, when they were really “ stepmothers," were sold 
at $25@$30 each. Very poor, but. fresh cows are selling 
at $45@$55, fair to good at $70@$S5, and prime to extras 
$90@$100. Calves. —These have fallen oft' in num¬ 
bers, but remain steady, so far ns prices are concerned. 
During the winter season, large quantities arc sent in 
ready dressed, with skins on, which do not appear in the 
receipts Such calves sell at 12c.@16c. for thin to prime 
milk veals, and Gc.@.10c. for fed calves. Live are worth 
10c.@12c. per lb., if fair to fat, and 4c.@8c. for grass or 
hay fed up to thin, milk veals. Slaeep. —There was 
a good supply of extra fat sheep sent in for the holidays, 
weighing from 120 to 200 lbs. alive. Such animals sold 
at Sc.@10c., with an occasional sheep Sjtill higher. Since 
then the markets have been tame, with a surplus of 
stock usually on hand. Butchers now complain of the 
many ewes sent to market heavy with lamb. Wethers 
sell much the quickest. Prices range from 4'4c.®5 , 4c. 
per lb., live weight, for thin to fair sheep, and 6c.@.7c.. 
for good to extra.Swisic.—In addition to the 
102,450'live hogs during the last five weeks, we have had 
36.779 Western dressed, most of them during the past 
fortnight. Arrivals of dressed, at the present, time, 
equal those sent in alive. Dealers in hogs have had a 
rough season so far, prices declining between the time 
the hogs were bought West and sold here. They are now 
about. y 2 c. lower than one month ago, and nearly 2c. be¬ 
low the prices of this time last year. We quote live at. 
7I|c.@7> ! aC., with city dressed at S^c.TJ9’fc., and Wes¬ 
tern dressed at 8J4c.@S$£c. Light pigs, when selected 
out, sell for more money. 
Special Premiums. 
For a renewal and one new subscriber, to 
American Agriculturist, or one subscriber to 
Heartii and Home. 
Trophy Tomato has proved so fir superior to 
others that we desire to have it widely distributed, and 
we have made such arrangements with Col. Waring as to 
enable us to offer pure seed from headquarters, with his 
trade mark guaranty of genuineness. 
Japan Lilies. —We offer from the gardens of A. S. 
Fuller, Esq., several of the beautiful Japan Lilies, some 
of which have been sold by seedsmen within the last two 
years as high as $5 each. Anyone of these is an orna¬ 
ment to any garden, and they can be had/reeas premiums. 
Emnelan 4;rapc-Vines. —nasbrouck & Bushnell, 
proprietors of the original stock, will supply us with 
vines of this most excellent variety, and we wish all of 
our subscribers would try at least one. 
I. —To every old subscriber to American Agriculturist 
who after this date renews, and sends one new subscrib¬ 
er, with $1.50 for each, and 5 cents for postage on the 
premium, we will send any one of the following eight 
articles that may bS chosen: 
1 Package (200 Seeds) of Trophy Tomato Seeds. 
Or1 Bulb Red Japan Lily, LUium speciosum n/brum. 
Or1 Bulb White Japan Lily, I LUium speciosum album. 
Or1 Bulb Golden-banded Lily, Lilium auralum. 
Or:—1 Bulb Long-flowered Lily, LUium longiflorum. 
Or:—1 Bulb Gladiolus, or Sword Lily, named varieties. 
Or:—2 Bulbs Tigridia, or Mexican Tiger Lily,differ’t kinds. 
Or:—1 Ehmelan Grape-Vine No. 1. 
II. —For one subscriber, received after this date to 
HEARTH AND HOME, for one year, at $3, with 5 cents 
for postage on the article, we will send any desired one 
of the above premiums. Subscriptions taking these spe¬ 
cial premiums will not be counted in other premium lists. 
Sc!*vIce;jIi>S« IPeanssjB for Wells,, 
— ; ‘T. B. R.,” Broad Run, Va., writes: ‘‘I have found 
difficulty in obtaining a good, durable pump for a deep 
well. Do you know a pump which is desirable for wells 
70 to 75 feet deep, in localities not convenient to cities ? 
Durability, and non-liability fo get out of order arc prime 
necessities with us."—We do know, just such a pump, 
and Believing it to be one of the best if not the very best 
pump in the world, we offer it- as a prize for subscribers 
to the Agriculturist. See our Premium List on page 73. 
containing a great variety of Items , including many 
goo/l Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
3 B osiJag-e IS fends sa, Acsim- Ini Ad¬ 
vance. —The postage on the American. Agriculturist 
anywhere in the United States and Territories, paid in 
advance , is 3 cents a quarter, 12 cents a year. If not paid 
in advance, twice these rates may be charged. 
Slow lie BEoiaaitf ;—CSaeoScs on New* 
Yor3s itanks or (Bankers are best for large sums ; 
made payable to the order of Orange Judd & Co. 
Post-OJSiee Money Orders may Ire obtain¬ 
ed at nearly every county-seat, in all the cities, and in 
many of the large towns. We consider them perfectly 
safe, and the best means of remitting fifty dollars or less, 
as thousands have been sent to us ipilhout any loss. 
B2eg'5s4ei*e«l ILet-ters, mmnlei’ new 
system, which went into effect. Oct. 1, ISOS, are a very 
safe means of sending small sums of money where P. O. 
Money Orders cannot be easily obtained. Observe, the 
Registry fee, as well as postage, must be paid in stamps at 
the office where the letter is mailed, or it will be liable 
to be sent to the Dead-Letter Office. Buy and affix the 
stamps both for postage and registry, put in the money, and 
seal llie letter in the presence of the postmaster, and take his 
receipt for it. Letters thus sent to us are at onr risk. 
BSoossatl <Coj»ies of Volume 5J1> are 
now ready. Price, $2, at our office ; or $2.50 each, if 
sent by mail. Any of the previous thirteen volumes 
(10 to 2S) will also be forwarded at same price. Sets of 
numbers sent to our office will be neatly bound in our 
regular style, at 75 cents pervol., (50 cents extra, if return¬ 
ed by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12 cents each. 
Clciilto* can at any lime be increased by remitting 
foreacli addition the price paid by the original members; 
or a small club may be increased to a larger one ; thus : 
a person having sent 10 subscribers and $12, may after¬ 
wards send 10 more subscribers with only $3 ; making a 
club at $20: and so of the other club rates. 
'fflaere i«< Ao MS«<a;slke in the assertion 
that. Many Thousands of our readers may this month se¬ 
cure, free of cost, one or more of the valuable articles de¬ 
scribed on pages 73, 7-1, and 75, (see also page 44,) and 
that, too, without interfering with their regular business. 
A subscriber or two a day for either journal, will soon 
count up enough for a large and valuable premium. Few 
persons, if properly enlightened as to the practical value 
of such journals, will fail to subscribe. They will decide 
to save, if necessary, a few cents per week from some 
needless luxury, to secure so large an amount of useful 
reading, and so many hundreds of fine engravings. They 
only need an invitation with a few explanations from 
some oue who knows the journals. 
will Soona. !>e Alosag’, and 
those who contemplated setting out fruit trees, shrubs, 
etc., will do well to look out early for their supplies. It 
is best to begin in time, and send now for catalogues of 
seeds, trees, and plants, and make up orders. If deal¬ 
ers have their orders early, they can be all ready to sup¬ 
ply them at the proper time, far better than if they 
“come all in a heap” just at the digging season, 
and the earliest orders generally fare the best. Our 
own advertising columns furnish a fair directory to good 
dealers—we aim to admit none others—none that we 
would not buy of ourselves if occasion required. As 
our advertisers know our strict rules, and their danger of 
exclusion, if nothing worse, if any member of ow family 
of readers is not well dealt by, it is always best in writ¬ 
ing, on sending for circular, etc., to note the fact when 
advertisements responded to were seen in this journal. 
That !L5S2.Ie Stea.m-EiijOg'iBi©, which was 
described in December, is worthy of all we said of it. 
Our own boys find it a perpetual source of interest; 
and the first one obtained, which has been very frequently 
run during more than two months, seems rather to im¬ 
prove with ago and use. Fifty-five of our Sunday school¬ 
boys each received oue of these as a Christmas token from 
their teachers, and we know of nothing else that could 
have given a hundredth part so much pleasure as these 
have. Several have added various toy attachments, which 
are worked by steam, and are quite interesting. It is not 
only a pleasing but a rational toy for boys, and there are 
a good many grown-up boys that enjoy them. They are 
perfect, reciprocating engines that go. Our first 2,009, 
bought for premiums, are fast going to those who have se¬ 
cured them, but we have made arrangements for a sup¬ 
ply, for a month more at least, and will continue to fur¬ 
nish one of these for three subscribers io American Agri¬ 
culturist at $1.50 each, or for two subscribers for Hearth 
and Home at $3 each a year. They will be mailed safely 
to any part of llie United States or Territories, if 36 cents 
be supplied for prepaying posting on the engine and box. 
For two subscribers to each paper at the above prices, 
we will send an engine post-paid. 
?^EB5E.4le - y Mna.sasl&sag's?,,—It is lamentable 
that Journals, otherwise respectable, continue to adver¬ 
tise almost any swindler that will pay them for the space. 
To issue good papers, with such advertisements where 
they will meet the eyes of the unwary, is equivalent to 
selling sugar-coated poison under a false name. Many of 
the tilings advertised contain poison to mind and morals 
ten times worse in the end than strychnine itself, which 
indeed kills the body, but not the soul also. A letter be¬ 
fore us from a gentleman who writes like one of fair in¬ 
telligence, tells us bow lie was swindled by responding 
to an advertisement which was so constantly before 
him in Harper's "Weekly , and in other leading journals, 
(including several “Religions” papers,) that lie sup¬ 
posed it must be all right. This is only one case in hun¬ 
dreds that are constantly coming to our knowledge. 
Covert, advertisements of vicious books and appliances, 
are continually placed before the young. Every pub¬ 
lisher should promote the pecuniary and moral interests of 
his readers ; he lias no right to print any advertisement 
that he has not good reason to believe is of a useful 
character, and from an upright, reliable, and responsible 
advertiser. If bis Editors—who are supposed from their 
very position to have facilities for information superior 
to those enjoyed by the readers—cannot determine as to 
the character of advertisements, they should be dismiss¬ 
ed, and belter men put in their places. Unfortunately, 
they are not usually consulted, but office boys or clerks, 
who are expected to get in all the money they can, are 
left to judge of advertisements, or left without discre¬ 
tion; and so we often find in one column “Sunday 
reading,” moral precepts, warnings against vice, exhor¬ 
tations to honesty, etc., and in the next column or two, 
on the same page, advertisements of a directly opposite 
tendency, and of the meanest swindlers. “ Brethren, 
these Ihings ought not so t,o lie.”.We have another 
large batch of letters and circulars concerning the pre¬ 
tended counterfeit, money operators, mostly from parties 
already reported. We will simply give a list of their as¬ 
sumed names, old and new, as a sort of guide or direc¬ 
tory to this class of swindlers: Jas. P. Baker & Co. ; H. 
Colter it- Co.; Bell & Son ; King & Co.; Owen Brothers ; 
Jas. Fisher & Co. ; Williams & Co. (the above 7 names 
all used by one man); Win. J. Ferguson; II. Hicks & 
Co. ; Rufus Stockton; Thos. W. Pierce : Win. B. Logan ; 
Robt. II. Holland; Jos. R. Lee; B. B. Walker & Co.; 
Jno. F. Hamilton ; Jas. B. Sherman, etc. And as new 
names, assumed by this class of swindlers, we have C. E. 
Benson & Co., 170 Broadway; W. II. Wood & Co., 20S 
Broadway; J. C. Walter and Batey & Co. (alias Thos. 
Pierce), 599 Broadway; E. Conway & Co., 102Nassau-st., 
etc. A double thief, calling himself II. Colter & Co., 
193 Broadway, but who will not receive any letters there, 
wants money by express, and not only seeks to steal oilier 
people's money, but lie either has stolen or counterfeited 
the printed envelopes of Messrs. It. II. Allen & Co., pro¬ 
prietors of the well-known Agricultural Warehouse, and 
uses those to give character to his swindling circulars 
enclosed in them. Several other reputable firms have 
been similarly imposed upon.A letter from Lock- 
port, Ohio, says the writer’s boy was so worked upon by 
a circular sent out from Canton, O., that he stole $10 and 
forwarded it, and received about $100 in counterfeit 50c., 
25c., and 10c. currency. The name givcp we withhold, 
as we have no such name on our list of pretended coun¬ 
terfeit dealers, and furthermore none of these men actually 
send any counterfeit money; they only pretend to, and 
then pocket llie money of their dishonest dupes. If any 
one lias received such circulars from Canton, Ohio, please 
send us a copy.“Jeffries’ Grand Gift and Musical 
Jubilee ” of Council Bluff's, Iowa, though variously sugar- 
coated, is in principle and in fact, nothing more nor bet¬ 
ter than a “Havana Lottery.'’ Wo should prefer the 
latter, if disposed to invest at all in any such tiling, for 
all the prizes awarded in the Havana Lotteries, where 
any are received, are in gold, good anywhere, and not 
wliat-will-you-do-with-them city lots, which would be 
sold regularly for cash, if they could be readily sold for 
any thing.like wliat they are put down at as “prizes.” 
We suppose some people will be foolish ononirh to invest 
in Ibis and similar “Gift Enterprises,” alias lotteries, 
but we hope not one of our readers will do so.. ... A 
gentleman in Maryland, who chanced to receive a copy 
of our paper from Washington, as a wrapper, gives us 
