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fellow do n’t say which, or give his number) is one of the 
benevolent swindlers who wants to get your $2.75 for a 
ticket promise to send “ a $50 patent gold double-cased 
American Watch,” w : tk ever so many fixings. Are there 
still people so foolish as to believe this? Yet, if there 
were not many such persons he would not keep scatter¬ 
ing his circulars and tickets at large expense. B. W. 
Howard, hailing from the same place, is trying to cheat 
other rogues by getting their money on the promise of 
sending them good counterfeit money.Thomas G. 
Allison, 30 Ann-street, New York (only to be reached by 
express, not by post-office), in addition to offering the 
41 Queer,” offers “ Tobacco Stamps ” on “ reasonable 
terms ”—genuine, of course !.“ The New York Cash 
Prize Company,’’advertised in some, otherwise respecta¬ 
ble, newspapers, and largely by circulars, with several 
places of business on Broadway, is only known to people 
at a distance who have money to fool away in hopes of 
getting many dollars for one. Such people, of course, 
pay for the extensive advertising of these imaginary con¬ 
cerns.A. R. W. Taylor & Co., gift-enterprise men, 
receiving money at Cincinnati, but claiming to “ draw ” 
in St. Louis, are still flooding the country with circulars, 
flaming bills, and private circulars, and, of course, 
all finding patrons among foolish people—not among 
any others. We notify them that we have lots of 
their tickets on hand, not “ paid for,” and that 
will not be. What will they do about it? Charge ’em 
to us ? We shall sell them for old paper at 4 cents a 
pound, and—keep the money.There are four or five 
“Doctors” at Albany, N. Y., or that number of assumed 
names, who flood the country with circulars, quasi med¬ 
ical journals, etc., which are very ingeniously worded to 
work upon the fears and hopes of sick and nervous peo¬ 
ple, as if it were not enough to be sick and nervous ■with¬ 
out being humbugged out of their hard-earned money 
into the bargain. We would whisper in the ear of such 
persons, “ bum everything of the kind before reading be¬ 
yond the title-page, if you value your money, your life, 
your comfort, or your peace of mind.” It should be thor¬ 
oughly understood that NO reliable physician now advertises 
sure cures for anything. This is only done by quacks or 
villains. We cannot too strongly warn our readers against 
ALL these doctors advertising themselves, by circulars, etc., 
to cure eyes, ears, private diseases, female complaints, 
consumption, nervousness, neuralgia, asthma, dyspep¬ 
sia, salt-rheum, scrofula, cancers, lung complaints under 
various names, catarrh, urinary troubles, etc., etc., etc. We 
heartily wish the whole tribe had but one neck, and we 
had a rope around it. We have studied medical science 
and practice enough to speak advisedly. The amount 
of money filched from those who can ill afford it, by 
these pretenders, counts by many millions of dollars an¬ 
nually. The harm done by them is almost inconceivable. 
Their ingeniously set-forth “ symptoms ” frighten mil¬ 
lions of people into supposed sickness who would other¬ 
wise be well and happy. Their professed cures are as 
false as their father, the..Persons requested to 
act as agents for some old granny’s wonderful medicines 
sent to them without any money in advance, will do well 
to be careful about ordering packages of the stuffs, if 
they do n’t want an elephant on their hands which they 
will have to pay for before they get through with their 
“agency.” A word to the wise, etc.Numerous inquiries 
come to us asking about certain periodicals issued in 
Maine, in New Hampshire, in Massachusetts, in New 
Jersey, in Ohio, and in Illinois. They range in price 
from 25 cents to $1.25 a year, and large cash commissions 
are offered to those who will act as “ agents.” The in¬ 
quirers must be thei r own judges. We should need some ev¬ 
idence beyond the promises of a private circular through 
the mail. There are sheets for which the issuers can give 
their “ agents ” all the subscription-money received ; 
because these papers are used to promote the sale of 
nostrums, recipes, humbugs, etc. In other cases, one or 
two splendid specimen numbers are prepared and offered 
very cheaply, and after pocketing all the yearly subscrip¬ 
tions received, the papers are stopped, and the publish¬ 
ers are hereafter “ non-come-at-ibus.” This last-named 
swindle has been extensively practised.We advise 
no one of the “50,000 young men going to prema¬ 
ture graves” to send their money to the very benevo¬ 
lent Nassau street man, who wants to send them, for 
$5, “asure-cure,” medicines that cost $5, precisely, or 
for $2, if they can’t afford $5. He is too good by half or 
three-fifths—cat—meal-tub.To one and all we say, 
give a wide berth to all advertisers by circular of books 
on delicate subjects, marriage-books, and the like. As a 
rule, no due return will ever come back for your money 
.The counterfeit money operators are numberless 
in name, and we have hundreds of their circulars, which 
have been already sufficiently explained and shown up. 
They cannotget letters through the P. O.; the Amer. Mer¬ 
chants’ Union Express has long refused their business, 
and now the other companies are objecting to their busi¬ 
ness, so that this dodge is nearly up. They will doubt¬ 
less take some new tack. H. Colter is already in mourning, 
per envelope ; Thos. Morgan, alias Wm. Hardy & Co., alias 
Bates & Co., of 599Broadway, professes to have been a U. 
S. engraver, and tells a plausible story in a very well exe¬ 
cuted lithograph letter. He wants you to come to his 
den, give the pass-word “ink,” etc., and—get robbed of 
all the money you bring. Here are new names adopted 
by the “queer” swindlers; Wm. Sage & Co., 37 Nassau 
street; Robert S. Ward, 73 Broadway and 49 Pine street; 
Thos. A. Walker, 22 Park Row; A. D. Bates & Co., 599 
Broadway ; John Swallow, 59 Cedar street (well named); 
E. Connors & Co., N. Y.; Wm. Sage & Co.; Dr. Howard, 
Williamsburg, L. I.; Jos. A. Holt, 52 John street, N. Y.; 
James A. Holt, 52 John street; Thos. B. Gray, No. 6 or 
No. 1 Chambers street; Thos. F. Williamson, 52 John 
street; E. Monro Clay, 197 Broadway, etc., etc. 
Wood, of Vernon, N. J., is a very vile villain, as what his 
circulars offer plainly indicate; no money sent to him 
could be safe.It is unsafe to send money for cheap 
sewing machines to new or previously unknown parties, 
no matter how great may be the promises made, or how 
great the premiums or reductions offered. Pittsburgh is 
vieing with New York in this kind of swindling. 
We know of no “Union Hospital” in this city having 
agents in Ohio or West Virginia. All such pretenders 
should be hooted out of town wherever they make then- 
appearance with their big advertisements.Our West¬ 
ern and Southern friends should not be taken in by any 
dingy-connected advertising sheet, dubbed a newspaper, 
which offers to supply ours or any other New York journal 
more cheaply than it is offered by the publishers them¬ 
selves. If they send money to such concerns, it is the 
last they will see or hear of it. State Center P. 0.,and 
other localities in Iowa, are flooded with this humbug. 
A filial! Ti'rjicBc Farm, such as has 
been frequently inquired after, is advertised on page 119. 
Newspaper €lul» Agencies exist in 
various parts of the country. The self-appointed agent 
contracts with publishers for a large number of subscrip¬ 
tions at the lowest club rates, and supplies them to indi¬ 
vidual subscribers at a very small advance upon what 
he pays—thus securing a little profit and the facility of 
advertising other business in his business circulars. 
Some of these agencies have been long established, and 
so far as we know have treated their patrons honestly. 
A few others have been temporarily started in a small 
out-of-the-way town, run a few weeks, and then abscond¬ 
ed with all the money received. Persons who choose to 
subscribe through such agencies for any real or supposed 
incidental advantages, will of course look to their chosen 
agents for any deficiency. The publisher’s responsibility 
to the subscriber only begins when his name and money 
is actually received, whether direct or from others. 
Another Good BScsuItofthe Patch. 
Ing and Darning Exhibition.— We suppose it is 
generally known thatthe irrepressible PhineasT. Barnum 
is collecting an immense traveling exhibition, or mu¬ 
seum on wheels, which will abound in all sorts of curious 
things. Seeing the great crowds that were so intensely 
interested in the patched and darned clothing at our 
office, during four days, he sped away to the Five Points 
Mission, and planked down a round $100 for a dozen or 
so of the garments, which was of course many times 
more valuable to the Mission in securing supplies for the 
poor than the dozen garments could be. Furthermore, 
as the garments will be exhibited by him all through the 
country, multitudes who could not come to New York 
will have a chance to see specimens of the 1,300 “darned 
things” as they were, not profanely, termed.- Note. 
One of the prize-takers writes us that it is causing her 
much trouble. Her reputation as a prize-patcher is bring¬ 
ing in applications from all the neighborhood for the 
practical exhibition of her skill. 
Plowing- in Outs for Mail wire.—J. B. 
D., of Ohio, asks if oats “ would be a good green crop to 
plow under for manure, the laud to be followed with 
wheat?” No; peas would be much better. If the land 
is not sandy, better summer-fallow than to sow oats fora 
■green crop to be turned under as manure. Such, at least, 
is our opinion. 
Early Eainlis for tlie ISutclier.—The 
essential points in the management of early lambs in¬ 
tended for the butcher are : (1) to feed the ewes well be¬ 
fore calving; (2) to continue to feed them liberally after 
lambing, giving plenty of bran and all the roots that can 
be spared, with half a lb. of oil-cake or grain per day, 
and what clover hay they will eat, with constant access 
to fresh water. The shed or bam should be dry, warm, 
roomy, and well ventilated. Sawdust makes excellent 
litter for the floor, and the next best thing is chopped 
straw. Littering is an important point, and demands 
good judgment. Little and often is the rule. The ewes 
and lambs must have a dry, clean bed on the one hand, 
and the greatest care must be taken to prevent the ma¬ 
nure from accumulating underneath to such an extent 
that it will ferment. The constant trampling of the sheep 
will prevent this, if too much litter is not used at a time. 
(3) the lambs must be induced to eat as soon as possi¬ 
ble. And it is necessary to partition off a space of say 
four feet wide on one side of the barn or shed where the 
ewes and lambs are, and nail up slats wide enough apart 
for the lambs to go through, but not wide enough for the 
ewes. Inside this partition place a little rack for hay, 
and also a shaped trough, made of boards f»ur inches 
wide. In this trough place a little bran, or meal, or oil¬ 
cake, or oats, or any thing that the lambs will eat. In our 
experience, we have found that they will eat bran as soon 
or sooner than any thing else. We have had them com¬ 
mence to eat a little at a week old. In two or three 
weeks they will cat a few sliced roots. And nothing is 
then better for them than roots, bran, and oil-cake, all 
they will eat. And at the same time every thing must be 
done to induce the ewes to give a good supply of milk. 
In sunny days the ewes and lambs may be allowed to go 
into a warm yard or grass-field, and their pens be well 
ventilated while they are out. But great care should be 
taken to prevent all risk of the lambs getting chilled. The 
more sun that, can be got into their apartment the better, 
provided the lambs can get into the shade, if desired. 
A bright sun is very invigorating to a strong lamb, but is 
sometimes very debilitating to a weak one exposed to it 
for any length of time. IV hat we want is to keep the 
lambs in good health, so that they may eat well, sleep 
well, and get flit. They must be pushed all they will 
bear, and the advantage of having Leicester, Cotswold, 
or South-Down lambs is, not merely because they are 
larger, but because they will bear pushing better than the 
Merinoes. They can be made ready for the butcher two 
months earlier than Merino lambs. And we need not 
say that a fat lamb in May is frequently worth 30 cents a 
lb., while a similar lamb in July might not be worth 10 
cents a lb. The great point, therefore, is to get them fat 
at the earliest moment, and sell the moment they are 
ready. The man who is afraid to feed liberally should 
not attempt to raise early lambs for the butcher. 
Seeds, Trees, etc., in great va¬ 
riety, are announced in our advertising columns by relia¬ 
ble parties. The present cheap mail facilities, enable any 
one living anywhere near a post-office, even in the re¬ 
motest Territory, to order seeds from the best dealers, 
however distant. As the planting season will soon be 
along, it is time to provide a supply of seeds. Our ad¬ 
vertising columns afford a wide choice, and it will pay 
to look them carefully through, as they constitute an im¬ 
portant department of information at this period. Many 
advertisers desire us to request those ordering of them, 
or sending for circulars, catalogues, etc., to note in what 
journal their advertisements were seen. 
New §eed-!§tore.—Messrs. Richardson & 
Gould have taken rooms in the Agriculturist Building, 
245 Broadway, for the transaction of a general seed-busi¬ 
ness in all its branches. Mr. Richardson has had several 
years’ experience with those well-known and reliable 
seed-houses, J. M. Thorburn & C 01, and B. K. Bliss & 
Sons,and is thoroughly posted in all the details of the seed, 
business. We bespeak for the new firm a share of the 
public patronage. They are prepared now to fill orders 
for seeds in any quantity. Send for their catalogue. 
Maple-Sugar Stem.—Mr. W. J. Cham¬ 
berlain writes as follows: Any one will confer a favor on 
many maple-sugar makers, by telling two things: 1st, 
how to keep the syrup from cnystalizing; and 2nd, how 
to separate the lime commonly found in syrup. 1st. 
When syrup is kept some time, it often turns partly into 
grained sugar, and often crystalizes in part. A can sealed 
hot last spring, like canned fruit, lately opened in my 
family, contained about half a pound of crystals, almost 
as clear and hard as glass. These take much from the 
thickness, sweetness, and quantity of the syrup, and it is 
difficult to dissolve them, or remove them from the can. 
Another can, opened about the same time, contained 
thicker syrup, and no crystals or sugar. Usually, how¬ 
ever, the thickest syrup forms the most crystals and 
sugar. Now, why do the crystals form, and how can 
their formation be prevented? 2nd. When the soil of a 
maple-grove contains lime—and most maple soils do—the 
sap contains it also, and it forms a gritty sediment in the 
syrup, no matter how well clarified, hard to separate 
from it by mechanical means, without waste. Is there 
any chemical process for its removal? The lime also 
coats the boilers, as t often coats tea-kettles. How can 
this be prevented ? In my February article I gave, from 
inaccuracy of memory, $4 per 100 as the price of Post’s Eu¬ 
reka Sap-spout; it seems $4.50 has always been the price 
Madder. —“ W. D.,” Dayton, O. Seed can K 
obtained of all principal seedsmen for about 75c. per ff 
