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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[June, 
and Seeds close tamely, at lower prices_The main in¬ 
quiry for Tobacco has been for low grades, for shipment, 
at firm prices.. . .nay. Hemp, and Rice have been quiet. 
York !.ivc Stock Markets. — 
WEEK ENDING. 
April 19th.... 
do. 26tli.... 
May 3d. 
do. 10th... 
Total in 4 Weeks _25,592 
do .for prep. 1 Weeks 23,358 
Coirs. Cah'es. Sheep. Swine. Tot'l. 
1,573 
2,243 
2,104 
2,81)4 
8,871 
4,03S 
Beeves. 
Average per Week .6.39S 
do. do. last Month .5.839 
Cows. 
68 
Calves. Sheep. 
2,218 18,171 
84 
1,009 
21,399 
do. do. preio's Month... 5,246 
01 
700 
21,984 
A verage per Week, 186x8 . 5,733 
do. do. (lo. 1867 . 5.544 
105 
1,583 
27.182 
64 
1,320 
22,154 
do. do. do. 1866 . 5,748 
04 
] ,200 
20,000 
do. do. do. 1865 . 5,255 
113 
1.500 
16.09L 
do. (lo. (lo. 1864. 5,161 
Total in 1868.208,12S 
Total ill 1867. 293,832 
145 
1,511 
15,815 
5,46:1 
82.571 
1,413,479 
3,369 
60,041 
1,174,154 
21.7S3 14,230 44,309 
13,986 20,546 42,870 
18,701 22,477 49,100 
18,053 20,287 4S.510 
T2.683 77,490 1S4.819 
85,597 00,410 173,812 
19,372 
15.117 
10,181 
18,809 
20,605 
13,000 
11,023 
12,076 
978,001 
Total in 1806. 
298.880 4,885 
Total in 1865. 270,271 
Total in 1804. 207,609 
6,161 
7,603 
6.' .420 1,040,000 
77,991 836,733 
75,621 782,462 
672,000 
573,190 
660,277 
The supply of beef cattle has been steadily increasing 
since the month opened. The weather has been dry and, 
for the season, cool, and trade steady. Almost every 
market day the desirable stock was disposed of by noon, 
and but few stall cattle remained over from day to day 
unsold. Prices varied somewhat on different days for 
the same quality of beef, and some drovers felt rather- 
glum at the unsteady prices. Those who paid high prices 
at Buffalo and were obliged to drop tic. per pound to 
make a sale, felt sore. The great supply of mutton and 
increased number of calves for sale always affects the 
trade in beef. Butchers complain of a dull fresh meat 
market. This is the “ shad season ” and eggs arc plenty 
and cheap, and it is not to be wondered at that the con¬ 
sumption of meat is lessened. As we close our report, May 
13th, trade is a little down, owing to the large supply on 
hand, and owners are in low spirits. The following list 
gives the range of prices, average price, and the figures 
at which the largest lots were sold : 
Apr. 19.ranged 11 @17c. Av. 15J4c. Largest sales 14 @16 
do. 26th do. 11 do. l l^c. do. do. 14 @1516 
May. 3d do. 12 @l7c. do. 15J4c. do. do. 14%@16 
do. 10th do. Ilj^@16i4c. do. 14<Sfc. do. do. 14 @16 
The average quality of the stock for the past month 
has been fair. Some weeks the range was wide, when 
Western still-fed cows and bulls were for sale. These last 
always sell slowly at the low prices given above. The fair 
to prime stock sold quickly at 10!4@17c. per pound, net 
weight. There were none really fat or what might be 
called prime in market. The highest price paid was 
1714 c. for good young steers, well fed and “ juicy.” Small 
lots of fair stock generally brought 16c., and seldom above 
that figure for the “bunch.” Large sales, when all were 
included, dropped in some cases as low as 14J4@15c. The 
market may be said to have improved in quality, with a 
decline in price of about lc. per pound over prices paid 
last month_Milch Cows, —The market is too full 
of poor cows, which sell slowly or not at all. Trade has 
been dull, but when a really good cow was ofiered it soon 
found a purchaser at from $80@$90; some few fancy 
cows have sold as high as $110@$125 each. Prices 
may be said to remain unchanged. Poor to medium 
cows were ofiered at $45@.$60 each, and. from this all the 
way up to $90 were paid, the price depending upon age 
and milking quality... Veal Calves.—The supply has 
been very abundant all the month and trade steady. 
Prices have declined somewhat, except for very fat veal. 
Very extra may be set down at 12c. per pound, but most 
of the high sales are at 11c. Prices are quotable at 9c.@. 
11c. per pound. Mixed calves sell by the head for from 
$10@$11 each_Sheep.—There has been a little falling 
oft' in arrivals for the last month; still, sales are slow. 
The. supply of other meats being in excess of demand 
keeps mutton low in price, even for good sheep. Good, 
fat sheep sell forSc.@8J4c. per pound ; medium7c.@7‘/4c.; 
while those light and small go for 6c. per pound_ 
Swine.—The arrivals have been numerous and trade 
fair all the month. Prices vary but little from those paid 
last month. Fewer dressed carcasses are coming in just 
now and the live hog trade ispickingup a little. Dressed 
hogs sell for 12c.@12*4C. per pound. Live hogs are quot¬ 
ed at D%c.@.V)%c. A few that were really extra fine sold 
as high as 10*4c., live weight. 
Back Volumes .Supplied. —The back volumes 
fof the Agriculturist are very valuable. They contain 
information upon every topic connected with rural life, 
out-door and in-door, and the last ten volumes make up 
a very complete library. ■ Each volume has a full index 
for ready reference to any desired topic. We have on 
hand, and print from electrotype plales as wanted, all the 
numbers and volumes for ten years past, beginning with 
4857—that is, Vol. 16 to Vol. 27, inclusive. Any of these 
volumes sent complete (in numbers) at $1.75 each, post¬ 
paid, (or $1.50 if taken at the office). The volumes, 
neatly bound, are supplied for $2 each, or $2.50 if to he 
sent by mail. Any single numbers of the past ten 
years will be supplied, post-paid, for 15 cents each. 
containing a great variety of Items , inducting viany 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed foi'm, for want of space elsewhere. 
Postage. — To our published terms for the 
American Agriculturist, postage must in all cases be add¬ 
ed when ordered to go out of the United States. For 
Canada, send twelve cents besides the subscription money 
with each subscriber. Everywhere in the United States, 
three cents , each quarter, or twelve cents, yearly, must he 
prepaid at the Post-office where the paper is received. 
How to Remit:—Cliecks on Mew* 
Fork Banks or Bankers are best for large sums ; 
made payable to the order of Orange Judd «fc Co. 
Post-Office Money Orders may be obtain¬ 
ed at nearly every county seat,, in all tlic 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 ff.etters, under the new 
system, which went into effect Oct. 1, 1868, arc 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 he liable 
to be sent to the Dead Letter Office. Buy 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. 
The I*s»eilic Railrond Completed. 
—It is not within our province to record the ordinary 
news events of the day, but we cannot refrain from a word 
of congratulation at the completion of the great work 
which unites the States of the Pacific with those of the 
Atlantic. Aside from the great commercial advantage ) 
it brings with it, the effects upon the agriculture of the 
country will not be less marked. A large farming popu¬ 
lation will soon spring up along the route, with-every ad¬ 
vantage presented by anew country, while in ready com¬ 
munication with the great markets. The products of the 
fertile fields and teeming vineyards of California will find 
a new outlet, to the benefit of both East and West. More 
than this, long suspended social intercourse will be re¬ 
sumed, and. those who have dreaded the heretofore long 
journey can now revisit the homes of their youth, and 
thus that acquaintance of the people of the widely sepa¬ 
rated parts of our country, which is so essential to our 
national peace and happiness, may lie maintained. 
Round Copies of Volume XXVII 
(1SGS) are now ready. Price, $2, at our office, or $2.50 
each, if sent by mail. Any of the previous eleven vol¬ 
umes (16 to 26) will be forwarded at the same price. Sets 
of numbers sent to our office will be neatly bound in our 
regular style for 75 cents per volume, (50 cents extra if re¬ 
turned by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12c. each. 
President Wilder Strawberry.— 
“ C. F.,” Boston, sends a criticism upon the propriety of 
the above name. He holds that the title “President” 
should be kept distinctive for things and objects which 
have relation to the President of the U. S. We suppose 
that the committee of the Hort. Society who named this 
variety were aware that there was already a European 
variety called “ Wilder,” and it was necessary in coupling 
the name of the originator with the fruit, to use some 
distinguishing prefix. 
About Engraving's. — Some journals, 
despairing of ever being able to equal our illustrations 
in accuracy and elegance, become very much exercised 
over them. The Country Gentleman finds that the pic¬ 
ture of “ Herons and their Nests ” published in April 
last, was taken from a chromo-lithograph which appeared 
in London, and intimates that the artist palmed off an 
old picture upon us, as original. Our artists would not 
do such a thing if they could, and^could not if they 
would. The picture was not taken from a ebromo, and 
the name of the artist who painted the original is plain¬ 
ly and fairly given. The Prairie Farmer, which would 
never have made the discovery itself, takes up the cry of 
the Country Gentleman and rushes to print the state¬ 
ment that we have copied an English chromo, and tries 
to convey the impression that we have published the 
picture as original. If either of these papers knew any¬ 
thing about such matters they would see tlmt we com¬ 
plied with everything that justice and courtesy require 
by giving the name of the artist. That this picture has 
been copied in colors and in wood engraving iu London 
we were well aware, and there is nothiDg abuut its ap¬ 
pearance in our paper that shows any thought of present¬ 
ing it as original. If we use a foreign picture as the 
basis of one for ourselves we are always careful to give 
the credit to I lie artist. “Copy-right secured ” seems to 
trouble some people. “Father,” said a boy who was 
hoeing corn, “ the fish would bite first-rate to-day.” “ Yes, 
my son,” said the father, “hut if you attend to your 
business they won’t bite you." The force of which re¬ 
mark “consistsin its application.” 
Ha-ple Sugar.—C. A. Simon, of Board man, 
O., sent us a package of Maple Sugar which was very fine, 
some of it quite dry, and fit for any household use, and 
some in nice cakes, which was really delicious. Thanks, 
Simon. We wish a hundred times more of tills good 
article were made yearly, as there might he, if proper at¬ 
tention were given to it. Some one else, from a great 
distance, sent us a box of maple, without thinking that 
the Express charges would he about a dollar a pound. It 
was sweet, though. We forget the name. 
Seedling (arapes.—The Nauvoo, Illinois, 
Horticultural Club offers premiums for seedlings, as fol¬ 
lows : $100 for the best six pounds of grapes raised 
from the seed of Yitis cordifolia, or V. cestivalis, and $20 
for the second best; $50 for the best six pounds raised 
from the seed of V. Labrusca ; and $50 for the best raised 
from the seed of any variety to ripen not later than the 
Hartford Prolific. Premiums to he awarded in 1872. 
Potatoes upon Sod.—A Canadian sub¬ 
scriber thus describes his practice in planting potatoes 
on sod. (Why not say under the sod f)—“We turn under 
the Bod in spring, at planting time, with two plows on 
two separate lands, and the hoys drop the cuttings six to 
nine inches apart in every third furrow, and going from 
one land to the other, the plowmen keeping account of 
their “ thirds ” as they come to them. When planted, it is 
well harrowed and rolled, and when the plants or weeds 
come up, it is well harrowed lengthways in dry weather, 
until the plants arc over six or seven inches high, when 
it is lightly ridged up, and tiien afterwards leveled again, 
as the weeds grow until final ridging up.” 
Sundry Humbug's. — Several months 
ago, when “ One Dollar Stores ” were just in the bight of 
their activity, and while every thing, to all exterior 
appearances, seemed honestly conducted, we ven¬ 
tured to pronounce them ill-advised, impractical, and un¬ 
safe, and predicted the downfall which has come to most 
of them. There now exist hut 011 c or two of the 
“One Dollar Stores ” out of the dozen or more that were 
in operation in New York a month ago. The high- 
sounding name of “New York Jewelers’ Co-operative 
Union ” started the largest store of this sort, and had 
for sale Oroide, brass jewelry, glass diamonds, ladies’ 
and children’s under-garments, flannels, etc. This concern 
flourished about six weeks, hut one morning it was 
gone, and in the place of the gay decorations in the 
windows was the sign “ Store to Let.” We were in 
hopes the thing had, as the boys say, “ died dead,” but it 
had not, for now they arc at the lottery (lodge. In reali¬ 
ty, this is their old trade, the “New York Jewelry Co¬ 
operative Union ” being only a name to entrap people 
into buying tickets in a lottery. We warn people against 
the Association, and at the same time thank our Mayor 
for his timely letter, cautioning all strangers against such 
concerns. This letter was given last month, and should 
bo copied by every honest newspaper in the country. 
Our Mayor's good work, however, does not end here. 
He has taken upon himself (lie business of shutting up- 
several “ Quack Doctor Shops,” and he declares his de¬ 
termination to rid the city of those vile pests. The- 
“ New York Medical University ” was the first to receive: 
his attention. He found it to be a University only in- 
name, and Doctor J. Walter Scott and Win, Tripp were 
ordered to appear at the Mayor’s office to answer to the 
charge of swindling. Their answer not being satisfac¬ 
tory, they were sentenced to tlie full penalty of the law. 
He lu is several others up under indictment for swindling. 
Photography, also, comes in for its share of notice by 
tlie city courts, and a “Spiritual Photographer” was 
called up on the charge of obtaining money under false 
pretenses. The photographer professed to take pictures 
upon which a likeness of some deceased relative or 
friend should appear with that of the sitter. The ac¬ 
cused claimed that this was the work of the spirits, and 
though the contrary could not be proven, it was shown 
by experts that there were several ways in which the 
same thing could he done without troubling the spirits 
_Messrs. William Nicholson & Co., your “General 
Detective Collectors” may be all very well, but we 
shall not advise people to employ such means to have 
their hills collected_Good for the Androscoggin Her¬ 
ald, published at Mechanics Falls, Me.! We hope that 
the example of the American Agriculturist will soon tell 
