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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
24.5 
containing a great variety of Items, including n any 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
IPostJig-e 12 Cents a, Tear in 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. 
How to Remit:—Clieelss on New- 
Yorlt SSa tiks or Bankers are best for large sums ; 
made payable to the order of ©range JTutld & Co. 
Post-Office Money Orders may be 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 without any loss. 
Registered Letters, under the new 
system, which went into effect Oct. 1, 1808, 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 
seat the letter in the presence of the postmaster, and take his 
receipt for it. Letters thus sent to ns are at our risk. 
A Necessary Item. —To correct a mis¬ 
taken idea that has got abroad in some quarters, we wish 
it distinctly understood, that The 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST (Monthly), 
and HEARTH and HOME (Weekly), 
are two totally different, independent Jour¬ 
nals—as much so as if published a thousand 
miles apart. Their engravings and their 
reading matter are entirely unlike, and nei¬ 
ther Journal takes or supplies the place of 
the other. HEARTH and HOME is an Illus¬ 
trated Weekly Family Newspaper, of a high 
order, designed especially for the HOME CIR¬ 
CLE—containing a variety of home reading, 
and general information, with full and choice 
departments for the Housekeeper and the 
Young People, and a NEWS department, 
giving the news of tile World for each 
week, in that complete hut condensed form 
desired and needed by busy men and women 
who wish to keep up with the times, but 
have not leisure to wade through the acres of 
printed matter of the general newspapers. 
Our readers know the character of the AMER¬ 
ICAN AGRICULTURIST. The issuing of the 
two journals under one business manage¬ 
ment, is a saving of expense to each, which 
enables the Proprietors to do more for both 
journals than if each had to separately bear 
the entire expense of offices, clerks, print¬ 
ing machinery, etc. 
TSie Agriculturist jis Premiums.— 
A member of the Lehigh Co. (Pa.,) Agricultural Society, 
writes that the American Agriculturist is offered by that 
Society as a premium at their fair, and commends the 
example of that society to other similar associations. 
This has long been done by many societies, and the plan 
might be profitably adopted by a great many more. 
Aside from its intrinsic value, it will, as our correspond¬ 
ent suggests, be of great use in reminding the recipient 
each month of his relations to the County Society. The 
money could not be more wisely expended. 
Xlic American Pomological So¬ 
ciety. —The circular of the President comes to us just 
as we are making up the paper. The meeting will be 
held at Richmond, Va„ on September 6th, 7th and 8th, 
in Assembly Dali, Eighth street. All Horticultural, Po- 
mological and kindred societies are requested to send 
delegates, and all persons interested in the cultivation of 
fruits are invited to take seats in the convention. The 
Virginia Pomological and Horticultural Society will hold 
to exhibition in conjunction with the meeting, and be¬ 
tides the premiums offered by that society, there are 
premiums from $50 to $5, offered by individuals for the 
best collections of apples, pears, grapes, peaches, figs, 
etc. The Pomological Society lias never held a meeting 
so far south as Richmond, and it is hoped that there will 
he a large attendance from all parts of the country. 
IPeitcr Mesbdles'sosi «fc Co. —The firm of 
Henderson & Fleming having dissolved, Mr. Henderson, 
his son Alfred, and Mr. Wm. Carson, have formed a co¬ 
partnership under the above name. The new firm will be 
located at 35 Cortlandt street, and will soon present a 
general stock of seeds, plants and other articles usually 
found in a first-class horticultural establishment. 
A Now Eai’ly Reacli.—Mr. S. G. Bilycu, 
of Littleton, Halifax Co., N. C., exhibited to us on June 
10th, specimens of a new early peach called Beatrice. 
This is a seedling by the celebrated Thomas Rivers, of 
Sawbridgeworth, Eng. Upon the grounds of Mr. B. the 
Beatrice is at least 20 days earlier than Hale’s Early. 
Like all early peaches, it is small, hut it lias a very high 
color, is very fragrant and of good quality for a very early 
variety. The specimens presented to us had been picked 
for five days, and were in perfectly good condition, and 
would seem to warrant Mr. Bilyeu's claim that they pos¬ 
sess superior shipping qualities. 
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Prevailing' EMsease among Horses. 
—Dr. Liautard, of the N. Y. College of Veterinary Sur¬ 
geons, writes to the American Agriculturist: “In rela¬ 
tion to the disease which is now raging amongst t he 
horses of this City, I would say that it is not a new dis¬ 
ease, but the Cerebral Spinal Meningitis, or Spotted 
Fever—that the disease lias shown itself this year in a 
peculiar form, and lias been of a much milder character 
than I have seen it before, that the curative treatment 
which consists principally of counter-irritants, cathar¬ 
tics, narvous arterial sedatives, is, in many cases, unsuc¬ 
cessful, and that I am satisfied that in-that disease, more 
than in any other, prevention is the true way to treat it. 
In several instances where I have seen horses dying from 
it, by putting the remainder of the stock under prophy¬ 
lactic treatment, I always stopped the disease, and feel 
satisfied that the same result could have been obtained 
in this fearful outbreak.’’ 
E b cb re Water.— Chickens that are kept con¬ 
fined should always have at least the luxury of pure, cool 
water, and they will not flourish without it. Many con¬ 
trivances are in use for this purpose, none probably bet¬ 
ter than the Flowing Spring Poultry Fountain. 
Will Xurnips ami CalVbages Mix? 
—“ R. W. W.,” Union Lakes. We never knew of a case 
in which cabbages and turnips Crossed with one another, 
but they are so closely related, that we should not he 
surprised to learn that such admixture had taken place. 
Mot-betl Covered with. jSffuslin.— 
“ Amateur ” asks how to make one. Such a tiling would 
be so much bother, that it would be poor economy to use 
nuislin instead of glass. The plants would not get suf¬ 
ficient light, and snow and rain would get it out of order. 
Poiato BEug-s. —Joseph Bowland, Win¬ 
neshiek Co., Pa., wishes to know if the Colorado potato 
beetle has left Colorado. Who can tell ? 
Sweet - Podaio Bssseet. —G. J. Read, 
Adair Co., Ivy. The insect that looks “ like a terrapin ” 
when magnified, is one of several tortoise beetles that 
infest the sweet-potato. Yours is the Mottled Tortoise- 
beetle, Cassida guttata. The larv® of the half dozen 
species all have the singular habit of making a screen or 
shelter of their own excrement. As the beetles are upon 
the under sides of the leaves, it is difficult to reach them 
with Paris green, which it is said will destroy them. 
Examining the young plants, and picking off the first 
comers before they increase, is tiie best remedy. 
TSse CjJraiitJ. Molli or EAiaUe Wolf. 
— Quinton Dick. Marshall. Ohio, has his granary infested 
with small worms of a dirty white color, which spin 
a web connecting several grains of wheat together. They 
eat out the heart of the grain, and now (May) are in the 
chrysalis state and appearas brown pup® three-eighths of 
an inch in length. They are the larv® and pup® of the 
Grain Moth or little Wolf, at the present time, and until 
August they exist as moths which may he found on the 
walls and ceilings ofgranaries by day, and flying about 
by night. They may he destroyed by burning a candle in 
the granary. The worms and chrysalides will he de¬ 
stroyed by scrubbing the floor and walls of the granary 
with hot soft-soap suds and limewashing the ceiling. 
All cracks should he carefully cleaned out and then fil¬ 
led up. Once got rid of, they may he kept out by using 
fine gauze screens to the windows. 
Humbugs. — In reference to one 
ofthe" Gift Enterprises ” referred to last month, thatfor 
the “Home” at Washington and the “Asylum” in N. 
Y., we have heard from several parties interested. Mr. 
Appleman, of Hagerstown, Md., says, lie believed it to be 
a well conducted enterprise, everything on the square, 
and he put ini some property with the distinct understand¬ 
ing, that all profits from it should he given to the Sol¬ 
diers’ and Sailors’ norae at Washington. Mr. Devlin 
says, lie took the New York agency of the tickets, just as 
lie would of any other business, which lie believed hon¬ 
orably conducted, but he took extra pains to have a part 
of the profits go to the N. Y. Roman Catholic Asylum, in. 
which lie was interested. Probably every one connected 
with the enterprise would show similar good intentions, 
unless it he that some first originator who started it to 
get a ready market for real estate, that had come to 
he an “elephant” on his hands. We believe no one 
denies that, as a whole, the property offered in this 
scheme is priced far above what it would sell for. Indeed, 
we are told that it was estimated that the managers 
should receive $10,000 each, and that there would still he 
a good surplus for the institutions, after paying all expen¬ 
ses, advertising, commissions, etc. It amounts to just 
about this: People arc invited to pay in their money, 
partly because a small percentage of it will go to benev¬ 
olent institutions, which is “ touching them in a tender 
spot,” and they are further stimulated with the hope that 
there is a possibility (a very remote one) that they may 
draw a big prize. The best result which can happen t® 
any but the managers, who get $10,000 each, and those 
who have put in property, will he that: 1,003 persons 
will get something worth on the average half of wiiat it 
is priced at in the scheme, and 50,997 persons will get 
nothing, except the consolation that a few cents on the 
dollar have gone to good objepts. The whole scheme, 
like every other one of the kind, is had in its results; it 
differs nothing in principle from the old lotteries, and no 
amount of good intentions, and good faith in carrying it 
out, can whitewash it into credit. Lotteries of any kind, 
in and for churches, asylums, or otherwise, from the 
grab-bag up to Pike’s Opera House and the San Francisco 
Library, are worthy of the severest condemnation. They 
appeal to and cultivate a morbid hope of “ luok.” that 
stifles self-reliance, painstaking effort, and manly energy, 
which lie at the foundation of all true success in life. 
An Illinois Loan Agency, proposing to receive and in¬ 
vest funds at 10 per cent, appears very plausible, and 
something on this plan, under the control and manage¬ 
ment of thoroughly known, responsible, and experienced 
business men would he useful. The one before us, may be 
all right, and we think the originator means well, though 
we always look with suspicion upon any business circular, 
addressed specially to clergymen, beginning with the pat¬ 
ronizing “Dear Brother.”. ... A swindler, calling him¬ 
self J. T. Stewart & Co., advertised a paper, “The 
Press,” at 10 sents a year, and offered a $50 Greenback 
in every hundredth paper as a prize to secure a large 
circulation. A multitude of such ignorant people as are 
always expecting somebody to give them $20 for $i, sent 
in their subscriptions. Every subscriber received an in¬ 
timation that he was the lucky one, and received a pic¬ 
ture of a greenback, informing hint, that on remitting 
$10 for expenses, lie would receive a $175 Watch. And 
thus it is, that these rascals go on stealing from their ig¬ 
norant dupes. 0 90,000 foolish people (no others 
can he expected to participate) are invited to send $6 
each for a remote chance of drawing $60,000 in breastpins 
and ear-rings, etc., to he positively distributed at Wash¬ 
ington, July 5tli, and they are expected to take the 
tickets promptly, because the “victims of the French 
war” will get some benefit. Anybody who wishes to 
sport a $60,000 breastpin, and believes such a thing will 
he distributed, and is positively sure that, among 190.000 
people he will he the lucky one, will send on $0fora 
ticket instanter. All others better think it over until 
July 4th, 1872, and in the meantime send their whole 
contribution at once to the proper relief-committees_ 
Will the self-dubbed “ Dr. Andrews,” of Albany, never 
die, hut forever keep on distributing those numberless 
disgusting circulars, etc.? In cite before us he tells the 
post-masters they have been his constant friends, and 
helped him for over 40 years! no ought to he known well 
enough by this time to lie every where avoided — hut his 
latest circulars come to us from way down in Texas. 
And now one ofthe “Spanish Policy” swindlers calls him¬ 
self “C. P. Barkis, 1210 Broadway, N.Y.” lie is “ willing" 
to take and keep your money—for there is no “ Spanish 
Policy.” Next month he will assume other names. 
One signing himself S. C. Thompson & Co., 41 Maiden 
Lane, N. Y., sent out lists of cheap goods, and filled 
small orders quite satisfactorily. The bait took, and 
many others united in clubs and forwarded considerable 
sums of money. After waiting and waiting, week after 
week, the only answer .hoy could get, was, that part of 
the goods ordered were ‘out,” hut would soon he on hand 
and he immediately forwarded. We find no such person 
