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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
right, and the sooner they come to a cash basis, the bet¬ 
ter. Prices for sheep arc nearly unchanged from figures 
given last month. They range from 4%@6!4c. for ordi¬ 
nary to prime, with some extra fat at 7c. Lambs are 
abundant and low. They are also rather poor, and sell 
oven less readily than sheep. Prices range from 6@9c. 
per pound, with very extra at 9J4C _Swine sell stead¬ 
ily, and every week the yards are about cleaned out. 
Prices are looking up a little. Most of the hogs still go 
at once to the slaughterer’s, and are offered for sale 
dressed. Alive, they are really worth 10@10!4c. per 
pound, as they sell readily at 1214c. when dressed. For 
the week ending Aug. 9th, a few very extra dressed hogs 
brought 12%@12?oC. per pound. One car load of “ Ohio 
etillers,” fat, sold on foot for 10c. per pound. The mar¬ 
ket is not very active just now. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which ice throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of space elsewhere. 
—To our published terms for the 
American Agriculturist , postage must in all cases be add¬ 
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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 be 
prepaid at the Post-office where the paper is received. 
B5ow to ISomst;—Oieelts Aoxv- 
Pork Ita nks or Bankers are best for large sums ; 
made payable to the order of ©range Judd & Co. 
I’ost-Ofticc money Orders may be obtain¬ 
ed at nearly every county seat, iu all the cities, and in 
many of the large towns. Wo consider them perfectly 
safe, and the best means of remitting fifty dollars or less, 
as thousands have been sent to us without any loss 
IJeffistcrcd II.otters, imderllie new 
system, which went into effect Oct. 1, 1868, are a very 
safe means of sending small sums of money where P. O. 
Money Orders cannot be easily obtained. Observe, the 
Hegistry 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 jmtage 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. 
QSoiantl <►!* Volume XSVEI 
(1SGS) are now ready. Price, $2, at our office, or $2.50 
each, if sent by mail. Any of the previous eleven vol¬ 
umes (1(1 to 20) will he 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. 
An ImporlRiit 'Wos-lc.—Orange Judd & 
Co. have in press a work on Agricultural Analysis, edited 
by Prof. G. C. Caldwell of the Cornell University. Teach¬ 
ers of Agricultural Chemistry have long felt the need of 
a text, book which should serve as a guide to the analysis 
of soils, manures, and the products of the farm. The 
present work is very thorough, beginning with the 
preparation of reagents and giving the most approved 
methods of manipulation. To teachers of agricultural 
Chemistry iu the many agricultural colleges now spring¬ 
ing up. this will he a most welcome aid, while it will 
prove a great help to those who are advanced in analysis, 
as it presents at, one view a special class of operations, 
which must, had this r.ot been prepared; have been 
sought for through several works. Professor Caldwell 
modestly calls himself the editor, but his manuscript 
shows that he has not contented himself with-editing 
the works of others, hut has given much of his own 
experience. The work will be ready for t he fall classes 
of the agricultural colleges. 
iPietairos Sis {lie SEoBiselaolU!!. — A bare 
wail is very cheerless. Even the coarse colored litho¬ 
graphs that are hawked about arc better than nothing, to 
pnt upon tlie walls for the eve to rest upon, but a wcll- 
exccntcd engraving is much better. The introduction of 
Chromo Lithographs, or Chromos, as they arc now pop¬ 
ularly called, has placed it within the power of persons 
of moderate means to adorn their dwellings with beauti¬ 
ful pictures. In these chromos ttie picture is reproduced 
in colors with such fidelity that only good judges can 
distinguish the original from the copy. Only the wealthy 
can liflb'rd ’ to' haw original pictures,' hiit almost every 
one can have the next best thing to them,—a good copy 
in chromo. We announced in August last that Mrs. Lilly 
M. Spencer had painted a charming picture, called 
“Dandelion Time,” which the publishers of this paper 
were preparing to produce as a chromo. It will lie seen, 
by reference to the advertising columns, that the picture 
is now ready. Three children are out upon the grass 
with the old family dog, who lias been decked with a 
dandelion wreath, but. feels too much the responsibilities 
of his position to join in the gayeties of the children, 
who are having a good time among the dandelions. The 
picture is full of innocent child life, and will bring hack 
memories of happy days io all who possess it. 
fiSes-jsismlii.—A large steamer now runs regu¬ 
larly between New York and the Bermuda Islands, bring¬ 
ing to our market the earliest onions and potatoes, and 
thousands of bunches of the finest bananas, etc., etc., and 
carrying back such merchandise as is needed at the 
islands, including one hundred and fifteen copies month¬ 
ly of the American Agriculturist. Ah! that’s what did 
it! It improves the state of agriculture wherever its in¬ 
fluence is felt. We advise everybody, and their friends, 
to subscribe now and get three months for nothing. Sec 
page 324. The engravings alone are worth more than 
the price of the paper. 
Scraps sire Ouolsstioi&ss.—“A Friend,” 
at Keyport, N. J., finds an anecdote in regard to a juve¬ 
nile misreading of scripture which we gave in the Boys’ 
and Girls’ columns last month, irreverent. Wo would 
not in any way offend the religious feeling of any person. 
We did not see anything improper in the item, or it 
would not have been printed. To show that we are not 
alone in our view of the matter we will say that the 
anecdote referred to was given us by a clergyman who is 
a Doctor of Divinity, and an author whose writings 
wo have no doubt our friend lias read with pleasure. 
Xcw York fStsite IPosnltry Society. 
Coining Bixltibit ion. — This Society, which won 
golden opinions last spring, is now distributing its golden 
and silver tokens to successful exhibitors. These medals 
arc beautifully designed and executed. The silver medal 
contains over $3 worth of silver and lias cost the Society 
not less than $6. The design represents a group of farm¬ 
yard poultry of all kinds, and a chick breaking the egg 
in the foreground. On the reverse is the inscription, 
enclosed in a wreath of bay, with a bird’s nest where the 
wreath is tied. The Society encourages every thing useful 
or ornamental produced from the egg (including insects, 
we presume) and certainly fish ; lienee the prominence 
given to the egg in their design. The great gold medal 
is struck in the same dies with the silver medal, and is 
worth not far from $80. The small gold medal is consider¬ 
ably smaller, hut very chaste and beautiful. The Society 
proposes to hold an exhibition beginning on the first 
Tuesday in December and continuing until the last of the 
subsequent week. The distinguished writer on poultry, 
Mr. Teget.meier, of London, has accepted the invitation of 
tlie Society to deliver a course of lectures at the time of 
the exhibition. The officers of this Society are, we believe, 
exerting themselves to the utmost to give the Society a 
high stand and make its decisions the highest authority 
in the land, on its specialties. Mr. G. II. Warner, ofNow 
York Mills, N. Y., is President, and Mr. Daniel E. Gavitt, 
of New York City, is Secretary. The Society has our 
confidence, best wishes, and hearty co-operation. 
Sundry Mumling*!;.—There is one “Doc¬ 
tor” E. Andrews, the “Good Samaritan” of Albany, 
who is a great man. He offers “ the public a treasure ” 
in the way of medical and religious books, etc.,—at. least 
lie says so, and we should say so too, judging from the 
paper before us. Of course, Mr. Dr. A., you are a “re¬ 
former in medicine;” “ Good Samaritans ” always are, 
and when you get through with reforming medicine if you 
will only reform yourself,—leave off quackery and take 
up some honest business,—we shall think better of you. 
There is no need t o toll us “ there is halm in Gilead.” Wc 
know that already; hut Oh! Doctor, is there balm in 
Albany? We doubt it, for as wc read on to the end of 
this precious;little pamphlet of yours, we find the “Doc¬ 
tor” has fallen from grace and wants two throe-cent 
stamps for every letter lie answers, and from $1.00 to 
$12.00 for every bottle of medicine he sends out_ 
Gumbridge & Co. seem to have had such good luck with 
their photographed “greenbax” that we find others are 
taking up tlie trade. Two of the more prominent just 
now arc Ilciiry B. Chatman, Bridgeport, Conn., and 
Noyes & Co., New York. This last-named firm arc old 
offenders in many ways. A few months ago they were in 
the bogus lottery business; now they want to sell spuri¬ 
ous money. They all have the same confidential letter, 
and manifest the same great haste to strike a bargain 
with some one.- -Beware of .all--such men. We are often 
asked, IIow can such t hings be done day after day in open 
defiance of law ? We answer, by finding young men and 
old ones who are foolish enough to trust them and risk 
$5.00 or $10.00 in the “ stuff,” as it is aptly called. IVe 
have no doubt that many persons send money to these 
advertisers out of mere sport, and without thought 
that their action is criminal and punishable... .Wo 
know nothing about the “Apex Sewing Machine;” and 
repeat here what- we have often said — Don't buy cheap 
sewing machines. If any one wants a sewing machine 
lie should buy a good one, and none of the cheap ones 
that we have seen are good for any thing_Messrs. S. W. 
Waters & Co. still keep at the preliminary drawing of tho 
“ N. Y. Jewelers’ Cooperative Union,” and we continue 
our warning against them.Calvin Willis & Co. claim 
to be “ Purchasing and Forwarding Agents,” and they 
may be sucli; but Who would want any of tlie trash they 
advertise to send, forwarded any where at auy price ? 
Their advertising circular is silnply" nasty, to put it 
mildly, and we need only mention the fact to our readers. 
_Flashy advertisers of cheap burning fluid arc again 
coming around. Here is one that assumes the dignity of 
a paper. “ The light for the world, 25c. a year," — dear at 
half the price. We warn all persons not to trust them 
or their burning fluid; all low-priced fluids are dangerous 
to use... Dailey & Co., New York, are also in the coun¬ 
terfeiting business. Their plan is little better calculated 
to deceive than those mentioned above. Messrs. D. & Co. 
claim to have stolen from the treasury vault the plate 
upon which original copies were taken, and that the 
“greenbax” they send are “sure go every time,” and 
just like the genuine one, only a little shorter, etc. How 
fortunate it was for the treasury vault to be open just at 
the right time with nobody to watch it! Messrs. D. & 
Co., we have an eye on your operations. 
Abortion in Cows.— Dr. Win. II. Car- 
malt, Commissioner of the N. Y. State Ag’l Society for 
the investigation of the cause of abortion in cows, which 
has caused such great losses to tho farmers of tlie State 
of New York, reported at the annual meeting in Feb¬ 
ruary. This report is how printed and circulated, and 
is, in a measure, a continuation of the report made by 
Dr. Dalton last year. It shows extended and minute 
research, and is illustrated by maps and numerous tables, 
prepared apparently with great care. No absolute con¬ 
clusion is arrived at, hut it seems to be the Doctor’s de¬ 
cided opinion that the great demand made upon tlie 
cows for milk during pregnancy is a probable cause. 
Cuba. —The war is still raging in the “ ever 
faithful Isle,” each of the contending parties weekly 
claiming decided advantages over the other and as often 
charging its opponents with gross excesses and in¬ 
humanity. It. is a pity that this beautiful land should be 
thus desolated, and millions of dollars’ worth of property 
be burned up, and more a pity that human life should be 
thus sacrificed. Our sympathies, of course, arc with the 
free, and wc suggest to all parties in Cuba, and every¬ 
where else, to turn their attention to agriculture, sub¬ 
scribe for the American Agriculturist now, and get. three 
months for nothing. See page 321. The engravings 
alone are worth more than the price of the paper. 
SewMg’e System.—Wc nave received from 
Dr. F. Coar, of Philadelphia, a pamphlet by Dr. G. Zelifnss, 
of Frankfort-on-the-Main, translated by Dr. Coar, on the 
Pneumatic Sewage System of Capt. Liernur. This sys¬ 
tem removes all the contentsof the privies of cities, daily, 
and delivers them to the farmers at a reasonable cost. 
It is done by a steam locomotive, air-pump, and a suita¬ 
ble arrangement of reservoirs and of pipes connected 
with each house. It is being put into practical operation 
in Prague (Bohemia), and Briinn (Moravia), by capitalists 
depending solely upon the sales of manure for profit. 
TVe shall look with interest for tho results. Meanwhile 
the eartli-closct system of disposing of mid utilizing tho 
same offensive matter is daily gaining favor. The two 
systems seem each to otter a solution to the vexed ques¬ 
tion— How shall we stop 1 lie present great waste of 
fertilizing matter? 
Tlie water drawn from the hydrants In Cen¬ 
tral Park, New York, is conveyed through lead-encased 
block-tin pipe. 
EBenry SI. Crapo.— Ex-Governor Crapo, 
of Michigan, a man widely known and respected in the 
political world, and endeared to the people of his adopt¬ 
ed State by faithful services and zeal for her welfare, 
died at his home in Flint, Mich., July 23d. He was born 
in Dartmouth, Mass., and was for many years largely 
interested in the lumber trade of Michigan, where ho 
took up his residence. He was a large farmer, and thor¬ 
oughly and actively identified with agricultural progress. 
