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1876.1 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
CENTENNIAL PRESENTS FOR 
THE LITTLE COTES. 
Price—No. 1, $2.00; by mail, prepaid, $2.50. No. 3, $1.00; by mail , prepaid, $ 1.25. 
No. 4, $1.00; by mail, prepaid , $1.15. 
Crandall’s Masquerade-Blocks. 
Making 300 different and beautiful Combinations of Pictures, which are in very brilliant colors. They 
are not injured by washing, do not wear out, and afford endless amusement. 
Price $1.00; by mail, prepaid, $1.20. 
Crandall’s 
Acrobats. 
Full of fun and frolic, 
and most brilliant in cos¬ 
tume. These are among 
the most fascinating and 
ingenious toys ever in¬ 
vented. The number of 
figures which can be made 
with the pieces in a single 
box is limited only by the 
ingenuity of the operator. 
Crandall’s Expression-Blocks. 
With Letters on one side, Picture on t-he other. The Alphabet is the key to the picture which, when com¬ 
plete, represents the inventor in Dream Land. These Blocks are water-proof, and can be washed if soiled. 
Price 50 Cts. ; by mail, prepaid, 70 Cts. 
Crandall’s Illuminated Pictorial Alphabet Cubes. 
These Cubes are gorgeously colored, and will make over 500 beautiful combinations or figures. They 
are water-proof, odorless, and durable ; put up in handsome black walnut boxes ; aud are most attractive 
to both young and old—an elegant present for the little ones. 
Price $2.50; by mail, prepaid, $3.00. 
Crandall’s Menagerie. 
One of the most wonderful 
and amusing things ever 
brought out for the entertain¬ 
ment of children. The six 
animals composing the mena¬ 
gerie are beautifully painted, 
and so arranged into 56 pieces 
in each box, that tens of thou¬ 
sands of most laughter-pro¬ 
voking figures can be made up 
with them. 
Price $2.00. [Purchaser will pay express charges. Box too large to go safely by mail.'] 
OrandaH’s Alphabet-Blocks, Red, White, and Bine. 
Tasteless, odorless, and water-proof. The letters are on red, white, and blue ground. All children 
are pleased with them. Price 75 Cts.; by mail, prepaid, $1.00. 
N .31.— if postage is not remitted with the prices, as above', the blocks will be sent by express at purchaser's expense. 
Orders from the Trade will be supplied on Liberal Terms. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 245 Broadway, New York. 
Price $1.00; by mail, prepaid, $1.25. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of space elsewhere. 
Continued from p. Ml . 
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for all ©1° 1877, and get 
Novemafoer and Becember 
Numbers FREE. ^JgrJ) 
Winter ©sits.—A Southern farmer sends- 
the following account of four acres of red rust-proof 
oats, sown in the middle of November, 1875, in North 
Carolina. 3(50 bushels of cotton seed were scattered over 
the plot, and !)£ bushels of oats were then sown, the 
whole being plowed in with a light furrow. The oats 
grew very vigorously, and were harvested in July, yield¬ 
ing over 12 i tons of sheaf-oats, and more than 200 bushels 
of grain. The cost of seed, fertilizer, and labor, was 
$52 ; the value of the crop was $300. In March the oats 
were somewhat injured by the frost. 
St. iLoieisi B'jiis'.— The sixteenth St. Louis 
Fair will commence on the 2nd and close on the 7th of 
October. $50,000 are appropriated by the Association 
for premiums. This fair has heretofore been remark¬ 
ably successful, and the programme of the present year 
promises a show of equal intercat to any previous one. 
Premiums of $3,200 arc offered for cotton alone. 
Blow many Eggs can a. Men Lay? 
W. L.,” Cleveland, Ohio. That depends altogether 
upon the manner in which the hen is fed and kept. Hens 
have been known to have from 700 to 1,000 embryo eggs 
in the ovary, which w : ould all have been probably de¬ 
veloped in course of time, if the fowl bad been properly 
cared for. A Brown Leghorn hen, 8 years old, has been 
known to have laid over 800 eggs, and is, we believe, 
still productive. 
Foaal ist tia« Feet.—“S. H.,” Agassiz 
Landing, British Columbia. The disease characterized 
by blisters between the hoofs of oxen, is what is known 
as “ foul in the foot."’ It is the effect of mud, or wet, or 
filth in yards or stables, or sometimes of a disordered 
condition of the blood. It may he prevented by keep¬ 
ing the cattle dry, and in clean yards, or washing the feet, 
after having been necessarily fouled. It may he cured 
by giving a smart physicing with salts, eight ounces to 
a pound being used, according to the size of the ani¬ 
mal, and by washing the feet with warm water and soap, 
and afterwards dressing the sores with a solution of one 
ounce of blue vitriol (sulphate of copper), or white 
vitriol (sulphate of zinc) in a pint of water. Or the 
vitriol may he ground up smoothly in four ounces of 
lard, and the mixture applied with a feather. 
WlaaSe VeaH.—The Secretary of the Massa¬ 
chusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani¬ 
mals, sends us some extracts from various publications, 
protesting against the cruel aud unnecessary practice of 
bleeding calves, previous to slaughtering them. The 
American Agriculturist willingly joins in such a protest, 
hut at the same time we do not believe that the public 
who eat the veal, are so much to blame, as the butchers, 
who practice the unnecessary and really injurious cruel¬ 
ty. Calves slaughtered upon the farm have flesh nearly 
as white, as that sold by the butchers, and we never 
heard any objection made by purchasers of the veal. A 
popular practice in the trade is not easily set aside, and 
the trade themselves are the mo^t stubborn in resisting 
innovations. We would suggest a legislative enactment, 
and its vigorous enforcement. 
BBciMcily £i>r BBoattlaesi.—“ T. B. P.,” 
Goldsboro, N. C. Wherever the Persian Insect Powder 
(Pyrethrum) can he procured fresh, it disposes of the in¬ 
sects in a single night. It is blown into every crack, and 
as soon as the roaches arc touched by it, they come out 
and soon die. When old, or poorly kept, the powder is 
useless. Any druggist can get it for you. Some 
sprinkle powdered borax in the places which they 
haunt. Others take strips of cucumber peelings, of 
which they are very fond, sprinkle them with Paris 
green, and lay them on the floors at night. The strips 
should be taken up early in the morning and burned, 
and fresh ones laid down at night again. The dead 
roaches are eaten by their surviving relatives, who thus 
