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[June, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of sjiace elsewhere. 
Postage 13 4'eiits a Year in Ad¬ 
vance, —The postage on the American Agriculturist 
anywhere in the United States and Territories, paid in. 
advance, is 3 cents a quarter, 13 cents a year. If not paid 
in advance, twice these rates may be charged. 
How to Itoauit dicclcs en New- 
York Banks or Hanker* are best for large sums ; 
made payable to the order of Orange Judd & Co. 
Bost-OlHce Uton»ey Orders may be obtain¬ 
ed at nearly every county-seat, in afl the cities, and in 
many of the large towns. We consider them perfectly 
sa.r, and the best means of remitting fifty dollars or less, 
as thousands have been sent to us without any loss. 
Registered Letters, under tlie new 
system, which went into effect Oct. 1, 1S68, are a very 
safe means of sending smail 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 he liable 
to be sent to the Dead-Letter Office. Huy and affix the 
stamps both for postage and registry, put in the money, and 
seal the letter in the presence of the postmaster, and take his 
receipt for it. Letters thus sent to us are at our risk. 
Sitnc Mills.—“ D. P. M.” P>ones require a 
great deal of power to grind them. We know of no 
satisfactory horse-power mill. 
Rone Spavin. —A. M. Smith, Washington, 
Conn. If your horse is not lame with the spavin, leave 
him alone. If lame, apply a g*od blister and turn him 
out for about a month. If this fail, the actual cautery is 
to be applied. 
Warts on Morses.—J£. H. Hallis, New¬ 
ton Co., Ind., has a young horse which has upon his 
breast what he takes to he a wart, as large as a silver 
dollar. If the trouble described is really a wart, the ap¬ 
plication of nitric add repeated for two or three days, 
will remove it. Bat if it is nat a wart, he had better call 
a Teterinary Surgeon, as otherwise that application may 
produce much trouble. 
Which Breed of Cattle is Rest?— 
We are asked which of the four breeds of cattle is the 
best,—Jersey, Devon, Ayrshire, or Shorthorn, — which 
combines the most good qualities for a common farmer ? 
This depends entirely on what kind of a common farmer 
it is. If a butter-maker, the Jersey is the best, by all 
odds; if a breeder of working cattle, the Devon ; if a 
producer of milk for sale, the Ayrshire ; and if a beef- 
maker, the Shorthorn. Each is best for its particular 
use. If a combinative cow is wanted, one whose male 
calves will make fair oxen or beef, and whose milk will 
be abundant, yet good for butter, the Ayrshire will gen¬ 
erally be the best, but more money will be made if that 
breed is selected which is best adapted to one particular 
industry,—and that industry well followed. 
Milk Lever.—A Wisconsin correspondent 
writes of a cow belonging to a neighbor that was attack¬ 
ed with milk-fever one day after calving. She was found 
just at night unable to rise—tongue protruding, eyes 
glassy, and it was not thought thart, she could live until 
morning. They gave her a dose of physic consisting of 
one-half pint of soft soap, and one-half pint of vinegar,— 
mixed at the mouth, well shaken, and poured down. 
To their great astonishment they found the . ,w up and 
eating the next morning. They call this “ the nearest a 
miracle they have ever seen.” It is certainly a remarka¬ 
ble cure, and we know by experience that even a violent 
dose of physic is usually ineffectual in milk-fever. An 
ounce of prevention is worth a pound of soap and vinegar. 
Corn Fodder. —Mr. F. T. Baldwin, of Pat¬ 
terson, N. Y. (referring to the remarks about curing corn 
fodder in Ogden Farm Papers,(No. 16), says: “I have 
raised some every year for about 30 yawrs, and iiave never 
had any trouble in curing. I sow from May 10th to June 
10th, and commence feeding the 'last days of August. I 
find at that time the stalks have their full growth. After 
I have fed as much green as I wish, I go into the field 
and with both arms reach around and hind tight at the 
top, letting the commencement of the stout stand fast 
upon the hills or drills—then cut and stout around until 
I have as much as I can bind at the to,p. I have never 
lost a stalk by being moldy or damaged in any way. 
r f lie stalks ©n the inside will remain green, and retain all 
the sweetness as when first cut. My theory in regard to 
putting up in this way is this : the stalks that are hound 
without cutting keep the balance of the stout spread out, 
and tlie air lias free circulation upward through the 
stout which prevents mold or damage. Oil moving the 
stalks to the barn, unbind the stout and tie up in sheaves. 
We usually make three sheaves from one stout.”—This 
is a very intelligible description, and we (O. P.) shall give 
the recommendation a fair trial. We infer that it will 
not do to commence making the stouts (stocks) before 
the middle of October, when the stalks will have become 
somewhat dry, and this will entail some loss in quality. 
Still, if it will secure good keeping, the loss will he more 
than made up. 
SCURRY HCMlStJ«S.—We are right 
glad to find the new contributors to this department less 
numerous than at any time before, for a long time. Only 
twenty new schemes, or names, require special notice 
this month. Very many who have written us, or sent 
contributions of circulars within the past four weeks, 
will find them already referred to in our previous numbers. 
.A Scranton (Pa.) subscriber sends a circular of a 
$5 Sewing Machine from Nassau-st., N. Y., and says a 
neighbor sent the money and received one weighing 114 
lbs., in a box 8 inches square, and 5 inches deep ; that it 
will sew a little, but on trial it does not prove to be 
worth 50 cents (he might have said not worth 5 cents 1) 
.We have circulars offering 53,000 tickets at $5.00 
each, in a ” Grand Gift Concert, and Distribution, for 
the benefit of the Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of 
Charity, in the City of New York, and the Soldiers and 
Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, of Washington, D.C., to he held 
in Washington City, June 7th, 1871.” While all such 
affairs, even when genuine and as fairly conducted as can 
be, are wrong in principle, and bad in their influence 
upon all concerned, this one has several special objec¬ 
tions. To make up the pretended $360,000 of prizes of¬ 
fered, the large block of Erie It. It. stock put in must be 
reckoned at par, while it is selling in open market at 
about one-fourlli of this sum ! Asa” vacant lot ” iB usu¬ 
ally 35x100 feet, we should not like to hike shares in tlie 
$17,500 of vacant lots in Govanstown, Md., at $3,500 eaeli; 
nor in the $SO,000 to $100,000 of other “ real estate” of 
probably similar valuation. We should like to know 
what part of the proceeds go to the Washington “Home,” 
and wliat part to the N. Y. Asylum. Further, would we 
have any chance, if the whole number of 51,999 other 
foolish people should not be found to take tickets at $5 
each. Five dollar bills must somewhere be plenty—fools 
ditto—to afford any chance for such an enterprize !.... 
Tlie N. Y. ” Agent” of the above advertises himself also 
as “Agent” of tlie “Cosmopolitan Benevolent Society 
of California,” which proclaims 100,000 theatre tickets at 
$3.50 each, each ticket having one chance in' fifty at some 
gold prizes. This differs no whit from tlie old lotteries 
suppressed by law, except in giving less chance for suc¬ 
cess to the ticket buyers.The “$765,000 in Cash 
Gifts ” of C. B. Taylor & Co., 78 Broadway, can not need 
any attention from us, among our readers. If distant 
Editors publish the “direct advertisement,” we notify 
them not to ask us to help collect their bills—nor will 
Geo. P. Rowell & Co. help, as they give Taylor & Co. 
no permission to refer to them. N. S. (miff said). 
Golloday’s “Drawings” at Danville, Ky., is another of 
tlie schemes to blind audjcatch greenhorns.Edgerton 
& Co., 703 Second ave., N. Y., is writing letters about 
“ Havana Lotteries,” and as a blind, offers to go in on 
shares in the purchase of tickets. His share will of 
course be all the money that comes to him from his 
dupes.A so-called “ American Engraving Company,” 
at a small town in Connecticut., lias the impudence to 
send an advertisement to our weekly journal, Hearth 
and Home -offering engravings at $1, and with each a 
ticket giving a chance at $200,000 of gifts to be dis¬ 
tributed in July. We refer said “Company” to our 
humbug columns in this and previous numbers. We 
charge nothing for advertising such enterprises. How 
could we have the heart to do it, when^they are of such 
inestimable benefit to the dear people !_ 
The “Foot of thqRocky Mountains” must be a won¬ 
derful place, if anybody can find it. At least, so thinks 
a New York “medicine man” who, now under one 
name, then under another, and then another, professes 
to have been a Missionary there, and to have discovered a 
wonderful plant whose juices cure almost every disease 
that flesh (especially lung-flesh) is heir to. An old woman 
with a wonderful his-stwy, and a changing face and name, 
graces the frontispiece of this doctor's wonderful—won¬ 
der-telling-pamphlets. We can hut feci sad to know that 
there are poor dupes enough to send money sufficient 
to keep this man at his swindling trade.“Married” 
or “Unmarried,” we advise you to hum all circulars 
coming from John H. Stevenson, of Nassau-street, N. Y. 
Neither he nor any other man living can do what he pro¬ 
poses. So keep your $10 for some good purpose.Put 
no faith in any “ Potato Bug Destroyer,” advertised in 
Michigan or elsewhere. If any man believes he has a sure 
thing of this kind, let him go into tlie culture of the 
tuber and make the money himself. We can’t afford a 
“ stamp ” for any such tract, though earnestly invited to 
do so by a lot of circulars on hand. 
Post-masters and others should he careful about furnish¬ 
ing any lists of names to parties in N. Y., and elsewhere 
—no matter what tlie pretense, or what the compensa¬ 
tion offered (though never paid). These names are al¬ 
most invariably used for improper or humbug purposes. 
We have a dozen or more of different circulars of this 
kind sent out through the country, every one of which is 
a swindling dodge....The “Arabian Secret to restore 
Verility!” We suppose the ignorant swindler who-ad- 
vertises this from Philadelphia, at $5, means “ Virility.” 
He better lake a dose himself, and then go to Arabia and 
sell his medicines. Our people don’t want any such 
verility or virility as abounds in that country. 
The pretended counterfeit money operators are at work— 
but not so briskly. Some of them have taken to sending 
written instead of lithographed letters. The most annoy¬ 
ing rascal in this line is one who pretends to he Day & 
Wallace, 143 Fulton-st., N. Y. He, by theft, or by re¬ 
printing, or by other means, has secured a lot of letter 
envelopes of Orange Judd & Co., and sends them to dis¬ 
tant parts of the country enclosing his swindling circu¬ 
lars. We could expect nothing else. Those who will 
lie and cheat will not stop at theft. “Milton & Brother,” 
new No. 307 Bleecker-st., N. Y., is one of those chaps 
who plead with young men to take more of the stuff, or 
“come and get it at the Factory, No. 10 Fake street, 
where you will see over the door, Harris & Brother, 
Fancy Goods. You ring three times, and when you 
come in, introduce yourself. You need not be afraid, for 
I pay the Police to inform me of all coming trouble.”— 
As there is no Fake-st., of course this is all a ruse to 
get you to send money. Among the new names in this 
line, we find Chas. A. Roberts and Jos. G. Perry, both 
at 6SS Broadway; J. B. Page & Bro., 200 Broadway ; John 
Baker, 5 Catherine-st,., etc. 
Sage’s Vinegar Recipe.—Vinegar is 
ordinarily produced by allowing cider, alcoholic fruit 
juices, as wine, sugar containing fluids, as molasses, 
sweet-wood saps, and the like, to stand for a long time 
exposed to the air. The process is greatly hastened by 
various methods securing greater exposure, the more 
common one being to allow the liquids to trickle down 
through barrels filled with shavings, to which free access 
of air is given. Sometime since F. I. Sage proposed 
arranging a series of gently inclined shelves, to have the 
fluids drip from one to another, spreading over the sur¬ 
face of each, so as to give large exposure. With a great 
number of these shelves, the same end would be secured 
ns in tlie use of the shavings. The plan was submitted 
to Prof. Johnston, of the Wesleyan University, and Prof. 
Silliman, of Yale College, and they gave their approval 
of the idea without specially examining any apparatus, 
as we understand. Whereupon, Mr. Sage advertised his 
process largely by newspaper and circular, offering 
tlie secret for $5, first taking a pledge of secrecy from 
the purchasers. His circulars gave such wonderful 
claims for the great value of the process, the immense 
profits to he made, etc., that multitudes of persons were 
led to invest $5 each. They probably did so, largely,on 
their faith in the recommendation of the worthy Pro¬ 
fessors. We have yet to hear of the first one of all these 
purchasers.who has put the process to practical, profita¬ 
ble use—though a few may have done so. One great 
objection to Mr. Sage’s circulars is the ^claims he 
puts forth as to tlie profits to be surely derived, and 
the simple, cheap, and easy adoption of the process by 
any and every person. Last October, we stated in aP.S., 
that we had received (too late for insertion then) a with¬ 
drawal of the recommendation of the above-named col¬ 
lege Professors, and that they had so notified Mr. Sage— 
adding, that “ of course he would not send out any fur¬ 
ther circulars with their names as endorsers,” and we 
supposed that that would end the matter. But it would 
seem that this is not the case, as we learn that the Pro¬ 
fessors are still greatly annoyed by letters concerning 
Mr. Sage, and we are requested to publish the following, 
which speaks for itself: 
A CARD. 
“The undersigned hereby give notice, that their certifi¬ 
cate to Mr. F. I. Sage, of Cromwell, Ct., concerning his 
vinegar process, was withdrawn many months ago, and 
he forbidden longer to use our names, because of his very 
objectionable practices connected with it that came to 
our knowledge. We are driven to this course, as we 
leami that he is still distributing his circulars through 
the mails with our names attached. Beware Of them.* 
John Johnston, Prof. Nat. Science, Middletown, Ct. 
B. Silliman, Prof. Chemistry, etc., New Haven, Ct. 
May 3d, 1871. 
