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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[November, 
A Hew Seed Store,—Mr. W. H. Carson, 
formerly of Peter Henderson & Co., has established him- 
self at Ho. 135 Chambers St., N. Y. Mr. C. is one of our 
most accomplished seedmen, and has an excellent loca 
tion where we hope he may have the success he deserves. 
Sffow to JPaclc Eg'g's for Winter.— 
“ An old Subscriber,” Utica, N. Y. There are several 
sure ways of packing eggs to keep for some months in 
the winter. Take perfectly fresh eggs, and pack them 
in a butter firkin, or barrel, and pour over them milk of 
lime, or thick lime wash, after it has cooled, and head up 
the keg ; or pour over them the strongest brine; or 
smear the eggs with cotton-seed or linseed oil, and pack 
them on their broad ends in wheat bran in a keg, barrel, 
or box very tightly, and each week turn it over so as to 
: reverse the position of the eggs. The last method we 
have found to be the best. To pack eggs in dry salt has 
failed with us to keep eggs for any length of time. 
InHnmniation of tlie U«ltlcr.—“J. W. 
A.”—When a cow’s milk suddenly dries up and becomes 
■ clotted in the udder, it is probably due to garget or in¬ 
flammation of the udder from some one of many causes. 
The udder is then hard or lumpy, and hot. A remedy is 
to give the cow at once S or 12 ounces of Epsom salts, 
with half an ounce of saltpeter, repeating the latter in 
six hours. If the milk is difficult to draw, a solution of 
• one ounce of carbonate of soda in a pint of water should 
he injected in the teats with a syringe, and then milked 
out. This will bring away the curded milk which, if left 
in, will make matters very much worse. If the cow is 
feverish, the saltpeter may be repeated for a day or two. 
To bathe the udder in cold water, rubbing and squeezing 
it gently for a considerable time, is useful. 
IKnzooilc 4&pli4llsa,5:mia.—“ C. H. S.,” 
Belleville, Kansas.—The symptoms of enzootic ophthal¬ 
mia in cattle are precisely those you describe as exhib¬ 
ited by your cow. They are general fever, loss of appe¬ 
tite and constitutional disturbance ; inflamed and weep¬ 
ing eyes ; swelling of the eyelids; clouding of the eye 
from exudation into the cornea, ulceration and total 
blindness. It is contagious and will spread through a 
herd. The treatment is to administer immediately one 
pound of Epsom salts, followed by one ounce of saltpeter 
daily for a few days ; keep the patient in a dark stable 
and cover the eyes with a cloth kept wetted with a solu¬ 
tion of one dram each of nitrate of silver and carbolic 
acid in a quart of clean rain or boiled soft water. If re¬ 
lief is not gained, common blistering ointment should be 
rubbed on the temples or the cheeks, belpw the eyes. 
•Cattle that have lost their sight should not be used for 
breeding, as the disease may become hereditary. 
AsSitiiig' ^iiesiiosis.—At a time when we 
are having many new readers, we would say a few words 
to them, and to the older ones also. There is, perhaps, 
no portion of the American Agriculturist more useful 
than that called the “Basket,” in which arc given many 
brief items, and it is especially devoted to answering 
questions proposed by our friends. There is no portion 
of the paper to which we devote more careful work, and 
no work upon it gives the Editors more pleasure in the 
doing. It brings us in close contact with a large circle 
of friends, and gives us glimpses of their home lives, 
their difficulties, and their schemes for improvement that 
we could obtain in no other manner. When we state 
that, for the most part, we find pleasure in receiving 
these queries, and giving such replies as we are able to 
offer, it will be seen that it is a great waste of time to 
write, and a needless and often annoying tax upon our 
time, to read a long apology for troubling us. We are 
often obliged to read a whole p go, or even more, of rea¬ 
sons why the letter is written with apologies for taxing 
our time, and it is generally the case that the p:int ( f 
the whole letter is found at the very end, and might all 
be exp:essed in three lines. Of course explanations are 
often needed that wc may properly understand the case— 
but we do not care if this is the first or the 101st time 
the writer has “troubled us.” We desire to get at '.he 
point as quickly as possible, and when we have this, the 
question with us is, will an answer be of any use to 
others, and will it be worth, to the mass of our readers, 
the space it will occupy. If the query is one that could 
be readily satisfi d by a careful examination of the pub¬ 
lished numbers of the current volume, one that any good 
dictionary could answer, or to which the first intelligent 
person in his neighborhood t’’e writer might chance to 
meet could readily reply, we do not consider it just to 
the rest of our readers to occupy valuable space with 
matters that can only be r garded as trivial Another 
■class of correspondents expect too much—or at least ask 
too much. Some seem to think that, for a postage 
stamp, wo can turn out off-hand a full treatise, or tell 
them “all about” any given subject, or that at a mere 
request we can devote several pages to giving matters 
that have been discussed over and again. We get re¬ 
quests like these : “ please tell me how to analyze ferti¬ 
lizers ”—“I intend to try to grow cranberries in our 
State, and wish you to tell me all about it.”—“I think 
of putting up a small greenhouse in our village ; what 
kind of plants do I want, where can I get them, and 
please tell all about propagating them.”—These are ac¬ 
tual cases that are of recent occurrence, and thei'e are 
many more of like character. Generally a reply is want¬ 
ed by “ return mail.” To a .swer such in a manner to 
be of any use, nothing short of a treatise, the writing of 
which would consume not only many hours, but days, 
will meet the case, and we could readily findfuii occupa¬ 
tion for our whole time, day and night, in correspondence 
of this character. When we find that there is a demand 
for information upon subjects not to be found in any ac¬ 
cessible work, we prepare or cause to be prepared special 
treat ses—if the subject is of sufficient importance to 
warrant it, and our works on Tobacco, Hops, Flax, 
Broom-Corn, and others, were prepared for the express 
purpose of meeting a demand for information which 
could not be supplied in a letter, and would occupy too 
much space in the paies of the American Agriculturist. 
These, and numerous larger works give full, fresh, and 
complete information upon their several subjects, and 
are afforded at very moderate prices. Our friends some- 
tim s forget that our time is of value, and that it would 
be much easier, and vastly more economical, for us to 
send them a dozen books than to write the answers they 
expect. We do not write treatises in reply to requests 
to tell “ all about” things which cannot be answered in 
brief, nor do we send our reply in the shape of a book, 
for the books cost both time and money. Our notion is, 
if one wishes to enter upon any special culture, or to 
him new branch of farming or gardening, and has not 
enterprise enough to purchase the collected information 
on the subject, he had better leave such matters to others, 
as he is very su-e to utterly fail. Not only do letters 
come that require a long treatise for a proper reply', but 
we have those which can only be answered by the con¬ 
tents of a small library. We have just at hand a letter 
in which (II) fourteen distinct questions are propound¬ 
ed, cowering a wide range of topics in agriculture and 
liorti ulture; many of the queries are such as any work 
on domestic animals would answer, others involve laying 
out a wh le plan for the writer’s farming, and others 
cover su jects to which no living man can give a definite 
reply. Yet after all, this letter is very moderate in com¬ 
parison with some that we receive. We ask our friends 
to remember that our contract with them is to furnish a 
monthly paper for a given sum—and we are under no ob¬ 
ligation to give anything else. But as our heart is in our 
work, and as we desire to do all the good we may, we 
willingly and gladly go beyond the letter of the contract, 
and lend a helping hand whenever we can—and we write 
hundreds upon hundreds of letters because we think the 
i formation of too personal a character to find a place in 
the paper, or where it seems desirable that a reply should 
reach the writer sooner than it would if printed. We do 
not write thus to discourage a single correspondent, who 
feels that a word from us will help him over a “hard 
place,” or show him a way out of his difficulties, but we 
do wish our friends to consider that correspondence has 
its limits, and while we cheerfully give brief replies, and 
timely hints, we do not propose to stand to each subscri¬ 
ber in the place of a full set of Appleton’s New Cyclopse- 
dia, or a full library of “ Agricultural and Rural Books.” 
Catalogues Received, 
NURSERYMEN. 
Geopge Achelis, Westchester, Pa. Wholesale list of 
fruit, and ornamental stock. 
Bronson, Hopkins & Co., Geneva, N. Y. Wholesale 
list with several specialties. 
A. Brtant, Jr.., Princeton, Ill. Trade catalogue of 
fruit and forest trees. Evergreens a specialty. 
Bush, Son & Meissner, Busliberg, Mo., send their 
concise and full price-list, with special circular of the 
“ Elvira,” a new white grape. 
Geo. W. Campeell. Delaware, O. Price list of grapes, 
with full account of the “ Lady,” herctolore noticed. 
B. W. Clark, Lockport, N. Y. Wholesale grape-list. 
Robert Douglas & Sons, Waukegan, III. Evergreen 
and other trees, tree seedlings and trees. Very full in all. 
Downer & Brother, Fail-view, Ky. A wholesale list 
of general nursery stock. 
H. M. Engle & Son, Marietta, Pa. Wholesale cata¬ 
logue, including some new peaches originating with 
them. 
A. IIance & Son, Red Bank. N. J., send a semi-annual 
trade-list, with novelties in all departments. 
II. E. Hooker & Brothers, Rochester. N. Y. A price 
list for the trade, including specialties in roses. 
Hoopes Brother & Thomas, Westchester, Pa., publish 
several retail catalosues, but. condense the wholesale lists 
in all departments into one comprehensive price list. 
T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia, N. Y. Grape-vines at speci¬ 
al rates and general nursery stock. 
• R. S. Johnston, Stockley, Del. Fruit trees and hed^-e 
plants in quantity. 
Saml. Kinsey, Dayton, 0. A full list of small fruits 
at wholesale prices. 
E. Moody & Sons, Lockport, N. Y. One of our oldest 
nurseries, yet its trade-list is bright and youthful. 
J. D. Morrow & Sons, De Vail’s Bluff, Ark. This, the 
only catalogue we now recollect to have had from Arkan¬ 
sas, and contains several southern varieties. 
I. A. Mendenhall, Richmond, Ind., sends wholesale 
list of Cedar Hill Nursery. 
E. P. Roe, Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., describes 
varieties and gives prices for his small fruits. 
Rakestraw & Pyle, Willow Dale, Chester Co.. Pa., 
offer a general stock with the Duelling Cherry among 
other specialties. 
John Saul, Washington, D. C., gives wholesale prices 
in all departments of liis extensive nurseries. 
R. B. Tiirapp, Tallula, Menard Co., Ill., has fruit and 
ornamental trees at wholesale prices. 
A. K. Williams, Richmond Ind., succeeds E. Y. Teas 
& Co. at the Cascade Nurseries. 
I. C. Wood & Brother! Fishkill, N. Y., succeed Bur¬ 
row, Wood & Co,, and send trade-list. 
SEEDSMEN. 
The seedsman’s catalogues issued in the fall, are de¬ 
voted to bulbs, implements, and a few special seeds. 
Those containing seeds in general appear in February. 
Beach, Son & Co., No. 7 Barclay St... give in their 
quarterly, “The American Garden,” lists of bulbs, and 
useful matter about these and other plants. 
Hovey & Co., Boston, Mass., offer all the usual, and 
many unusual bulbs. 
C. W. Park, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, makes a specialty of 
California bulbs and seeds. 
Price & Knickerbocker, Albany, N. Y., succeed V. 
P. Douw & Co. in the seed and bulb trade. 
W. H. Spooner, Boston, Mass., sends a full and neat 
catalogue of bulbs, etc. 
J. M. Thorburn & Co., No. 15 John St., N. Y., have 
the usual large variety of hardy and greenhouse bulbs 
and roots. 
James Vick, Rochester, N. Y., in the last number for 
the year, of his “Floral Guide,” is as interesting and in¬ 
structive as usual, with of course an eye to increase an 
already immense business. 
Young & Elliott, 12 Conrtlandt St., N. Y., have so 
many bulbs, etc., that they require two catalogues— 
wholesale and retail. 
FLORISTS. 
Ws. B. Burleigh, Plainfield, Conn., offers flowering 
plants and bulbs prepared for winter blooming. 
Miller & Hayes, No. 5774 Germantown Avenue, Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. A full list of ornamental plants, and a 
special and splendid rose catalogue. 
Miller, Servers & Co., San Francisco, Cal., offer Cali¬ 
fornia bulbs and seeds, and various palms and other 
tropical and semi-tropical plants. 
George Such, South Amboy, N. J., issues an autumn 
catalogue, and when we say that in appearance and char¬ 
acter of its contents it is quite equal to its predecessors, 
we have given it all possible praise. 
IMPLEMENTS. 
Wright’s Buckeye Hominy Mill. —This mill removes 
the husks without any previous soaking of the corn, and 
turns out the hominy in a perfectly dry condition. 
The Anti-friction Hay Carrier, made by the U. S. 
Wind Engine Co.. Batavia, Ill. 
The Reciprocating Screw Mower, made by the Na¬ 
tional Iron Works, New Brunswick, N. J., lias no cog 
wheels or gear of any kind. 
The Ayr (Canada) Agricultural Works, John 
Watson, Ayr, Ontario, Canada, sends us descriptive cata¬ 
logue of implements. 
Barnes Patent 'Saws and Lathes for foot and steam 
power. 
FERTILIZERS. 
United States Fertilizing and Chemical Co., 
Camden, N. J., manufactures a soluble bone with 15 per 
cent of available phosphoric acid. 
The Quinnipiac Fertilizer Co. offer Potash salts; 
dry ground fish guano ; Fish scrap and soluble Nitrogen¬ 
ous Phosphate. Sold according to analyses of Prof. At¬ 
water of Middletown Experiment Station. 
POULTRY. 
Chas. E. Perry, Wollaston, Mass.—Dark Brahmas from 
the stock of Lewis Wright of England, the whole of 
which lias been purchased by Mr. Perry. 
EUROPEAN CATALOGUES. 
William Bull, Kings Road, Chelsea, London, S. W., 
Eng. Each new edition of his catalogue of “Beautiful 
and Rare Plants ” is pleasant to study. 
Wm. Rollinson & Sons, Tooting, Eng., send a supple¬ 
ment to their former excellent catalogue. 
P. Sebire, Ussy, France. Nursery plants of all kinds. 
Vilmorin, Anbrieux & Co., Paris, send a “prelimi¬ 
nary ” to their usually wonderful seed list. 
Wilson & Rankin, Glasgow, Scotland, send a whole¬ 
sale price list of garden and agricultural seeds. 
