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The reddish or purplish color disappears wherever the 
skin is pressed ; an eruption is aptto appear, and the skin 
becomes scurfy. Death occurs in from three to six hours. 
Post-mortem appearances. —The skin black and blue ; 
the capillaries, veins of the skin, and subcutaneous tissue 
are dark-colored and gorged with blood. A yellow 
serum is apt to accumulate wherever there is the ramified 
redness. The serous and mucous membranes are studded 
with ecchymosis (patches where biood settles), which are 
most developed in the org.ans of the chest. The intes¬ 
tine is stopped occasionally with solid material. The 
liver and spieen are full of blood, and the lungs also may 
be much congested. The blood is dark, serus, fluid, and 
coagulates very slowly and imperfectly. 
Prevention and Treatment. —Wholesome vegetable diet, 
a sparing allowance of only well-cooked animal food and 
cleanliness, with clean and dry bedding, are the best pre¬ 
ventives. When the disease breaks out, send for a 
well educated veterinary surgeon or a physician. If one 
is not to be had, an emetic in the first stage of the dis¬ 
ease may be given, followed by a gentle purgative or 
clyster ; well-made gruel should be the only diet. 
Clover. —“ P.,” Laconia, N. H.,say8 his clover 
has run out, and he does not wish to break up the sward 
if he can get it in again without. We would try sowing 
clover seed, then harrow, sow plaster, and roll, or drag 
it all over with a heavy busli harrow if you have no roller. 
Orass for a. drove.—“ F. J. C.” writes 
to sow grass seed in a grove of Chestnuts and Black 
Oaks, 25 to 40 feet apart, and some nearer together.—He 
can not do better than to break up the old sod and sow 
Blue grass, or Blue grass and Orchard grass mixed. 
Seeds.—Seed dealers will not foil 
to notice the advertisement of the house of James Carter, 
Dunnett & Beale, upon page 333 of this paper. The 
name of Carter as connected with the seed trade is famil¬ 
iar to all who read English Agricultural and Horticul¬ 
tural papers, and their reference to well-known dealers 
here shows that they have established a good reputation 
upon this side of the water. They are alive to their own 
interest in selecting a medium through which to become 
widely known to the American seed trade. 
Tliauks to Cyrus W. Field.— August 
14ih, 3 o’clock P. M. We are now reading Ihe trans¬ 
actions in London and Paris, of To-day Noon !!! 
Fxtra Size.— This number, like all but two 
of the previous numbers of this year, has several extra 
jiages. It now looks as if we should be obliged to •“ keep 
doing so all the time.” 
Sundry llwm'bugs. —The swindlers are 
having a hard time of it. The Agriculturist, and the 
talk it has raised, meet them in every corner of the land. 
Then the N. Y. City Post-Office shut down on them, and 
after July 1st none of the known or supposed fraternity 
of rascals could get a P. O. Box. This of course com¬ 
pelled the chaps to call in person and prove their identity, 
or to have an actual place of business to receive letters 
from the carriers—a fatal thing to the greater portion of 
them, as they had hitherto dodged detection by having 
only a nominal place of business, and a P. O. Box. We 
are glad to learn from the Post-office here, that the letter 
business of these operators has fallen oif to less than a 
tenth of what it was a few months ago. We have ample 
proof that in its warnings, and its exposures of these 
swindlers, the Agriculturist has saved to the people the 
present year, at least five times as much as its entire .sub¬ 
scription has cost. We shall try to be faithful in this 
respect in the future, and we solicit a copy of every cir¬ 
cular or scheme that comes out hereafter.Not much 
need be added about particular cases this month...D. 
Miller, of the “ Depository of the Mechanics’ and Manu¬ 
facturers’ United Stock Company” has been operating 
somewhat. His “$150,” “$165,” “$300,” etc., prizes 
have been scattered around freely. We have a score or 
two of them on hand. For the $5 paid for these he sends, 
as prizes, some poorly printed “ certificates ” of a great 
many shares in the “ Sandy River Petroleum Prize Com¬ 
pany." What’s that, 1 and where is it ? We have some 
of these certificates—one for 300 shares sent to Ross 
County, 0., as the “ $300 prize ” drawn by Mr.-; 
another for $165 (165 shares in the S. R. P. P. Company) 
sent to a Massachusetts Legislator, etc. As we said last 
month, this is “a Dig swindle!”.We have lots of 
tickets, issued by different operators, for watches “valued 
at” $18 to $750, and have by proxy called on all the parties 
that could be found (not one-fourth of them are where 
their circulars and tickets say they are), and not one of 
the watches was worth the small sum asked for the 
tickets. The same of other articles of jewelry, etc., etc. 
.The “honey manufacturer” is a humbug; $5 is 
asked for a recipe, which we published several years 
ago and condemned.Humbug “Mackey & Co.,” 
and M. Morphy & Co. issue precisely the same circulars, 
except the heading and names, both printed from the same 
type !.The sewing machines offered by tickets, and 
the “English Time Keepers” are worthless ...The 
Washington “ Grand National Concert,” as stated last 
month, was a simon pure “ lottery,” operating upon the 
benevolence of people.Westbrook & Co., of N. Y. 
City, send three different schemes in one envelope. They 
say their “ Manufactory is not accessible until further 
Notice.” Will they not hurry up that “notice” and let 
us in to see the grand things. They offer “ Phot’hs of 50 
voluptuous Female Beauties I”.Parkinson & Co., in 
the “ ticket” line of business, feel dreadful bad at being 
refused a Box in the N. Y. P. O., and issue a “smashing” 
circular against said Office. Parkinson & Co. must be 
splendid fellows, and wonderfully rich and generous, 
too, for in one of their circuiars we find 128,000 ar¬ 
ticles, valued at $6,800,000, or $53 each, all offered 
for$5eaeh! or less than one-tenth of their “value.” Why! 
they offer at $5 each, “ 500 solid gold hunting watches 
valued at $300 to $750 ” a piece, and another “500 watches 
valued at $250 to $500 ” each ! We found their magni- 
ficient establishment lo be a small upper room, and could 
but wonder where they keep the 3500 watches, the 1000 
music boxes, the 1000 silver dining sets, the 1500 silver- 
tea sets complete, the 2000 silver urns and salvers, the 
2000 richly framed oil paintings, the 3000 mammoth pho¬ 
tographic albums, etc., etc. That little upper room of 
their’s must be a wonderful place. Wish we could see 
something beyond that “ talking hole ” in the partition, 
through which they do business with callers. We would 
give the price of several $5 tickets to have one look at 
half the things they claim to be distributing ; it would be 
a bigger sight than all Paris affords. We strongly en¬ 
dorse the advice of Parkinson & Co.’s, (alias, Hubbard, 
alias Gaughan,) as in their circular they say “ we [P. & 
Co.] beg of you not lo make any remittances by mail.” 
Al>oitt Fickles.— With pickles for family 
use there is no difficulty, but many who raise cucumbers 
on the large scale for profit, there is a doubt as to how 
they shall dispose of their crops. Many have gone into 
the raising of cucumbers for pickles, from reports of 
the large returns of some few cultivators. Those who 
within our knowledge have made pickle-raising the most 
profitable are those wffio, living within easy distance of 
the great pickle factories, could find a ready sale for their 
crop. The putting up of pickles and canning tomatoe.s, 
and the like, is a regular business, and is prosecuted by 
those who have the experience and capital, on so barge a 
scale, that it is not advisable for small operators to at¬ 
tempt to compete with them. Growers of cucumbers, 
tomatoes, and the like, who are near these large estab¬ 
lishments, meet with a ready sale for the raw material. 
There is another class of growers who live within a few 
days by rail, who find a market for their cucumbers by 
slightly salting them. These put up their cucumbers in 
tight barrels, with a half peck of salt, then fill the barrel 
with water and bung it up. In this weak brine the cu¬ 
cumbers will k««p a week or two, but if allowed lo re¬ 
main much longer they will get slimy. This is the way 
in which growers send the cucumbers to not very far dis¬ 
tant factories. To put up cucumbers to last for a long 
time. Instead of four quarts of salt to the barrel, at least 
a half bushel should be used. A brine of this strength, 
in tight barrels, will, as we aie informed by an old pickle 
maker, keep them for an indefinite time. For family use, 
when small pickings are made daily, it is as well to dry 
salt the cucumbers. They will give out their water to 
make a brine and will shrivel, but when soaked for put¬ 
ting in vinegar they will acquire their plumpness. Use a 
plenty of salt, as no more will be dissolved than is needed. 
Architecture.— The book of designs, etc., 
which we noticed in July (p. 245) meets with such general 
favor from practical men (cai-penters, etc.) that we call 
attention to it again. It is advertised on page 340. 
ISow much Hay -will an Ox Fat a 
Day? that is, what proportion of his own weight; sup¬ 
posing he is in good “store ” order from first to last, has 
a good stable in winter, and is required to do no work ? 
Another Report ou Reas.— “H. W. B.” 
writes from Peekskill, N. Y. “ A correspondent in your 
August Agriculturist is indignant over ‘ Carter’s First 
Crop Pea,’ and slaughters Carter, and seedsmen general¬ 
ly. My experience is far happier. I bought of Thor- 
burn, in New York, the same pea, (which is sold also 
under the name of Sutton’s Ringleader.) It came on 
finely, and on June 14th we gathered the first mess. The 
vine is early, very productive, and the pea the best early 
pea that we have yet tried. Another pea tried this year 
for the first time is ‘ McLean’s Little Gem.’ It is very 
early, a dwarf, grovying but about 14 inches high, quite 
productive, and of a flavor nearly equal to the Champion 
Fig. 2. 
• of England. It is the only wrinkled dwarf pea that I 
have ever seen. The peas on which I shall rely for an¬ 
other year, are: For very early. Carter’s First Crop ; for 
early, McLean’s Little Gem ; and for main crop, Cham¬ 
pion of Engiand.” 
Cooking Egrg Rlants.— “L. M. R.,” and 
others, ask how to cook the egg piant, or rather egg fruit. 
Slice the fruit haif an inch or more thick, peel and place 
for an hour or so in salt and water ; then drain and dtp 
in thin baiter, or preferably in egg, and then in pounded 
cracker and fry brown. They are sometimes fried with¬ 
out batter or egg, but then they soak up fat and become 
too greasy. The rind is sometimes left on to make the 
pieces hold together, but when they are covered as above 
this is not necessary. There may be other ways of cook¬ 
ing this fruit, but the above is the only one we have tried, 
and is good enough. 
The New Rotate ISsigf—The lO-lsmed 
Spearman. —Numerous specimens of this fearful pest 
have been sent us this year from Iowa and Illinois. Last 
♦ year we had it from west of the Mis¬ 
sissippi, and as it seems to be pro¬ 
gressing eastward—according to Mr. 
Walsh in the Practical Entomologist 
—at the rate of over 50 miles a year, 
we reproduce our engraving of the 
beetle and its larvre, in order that it 
may be recognised and “stamped out” 
on its first appearance in any locality. 
Fig. 1. The insect is known to entomologists 
as Doryphora decemlineata, and is represented in its per¬ 
fect stale, fig. 1, of twice the natural size. It is yellow, 
with 10 black stripes. It lays its eggs on the leaves of 
the potato ; they are yellow, placed endwise in clusters, 
and hatch in about six days. 
The young larva is nearly 
black, but when full grown, 
fig. 2, (enlarged,) isorange 
colored with black mark¬ 
ings. In seventeen days 
it goes into the earth, 
where it takes on the pupa state, and in thirteen days 
comes forth as a perfect insect. These dates are from a 
very interesting series of observations communicated to 
the Practical Entomologist by Henry Shirmer, M. D., of 
Mount Carroll, Ill. This destructive insect has some 
natural enemies among insects, but the only practical 
way thus far known of treating them is to hand-pick, oi 
knock them off into a pan and destroy them. Mr. J. 
Malony, Jr., Dubuque Co., Iowa, sent us a particularly 
fine lot which came alive, and we have taken good care 
that they shall not increase here, except in print.—Since 
the above was in type, we notice a repoit that this 
destructive insect has appeared in Maine. If this is true, 
it is greatly to be regretted, and we trust that it will 
prove that some other insect has been mistaken foi it. 
A Mine in tlie Huclc Swamps.— 
It is hard to make people believe that in those dark, 
black, alder-growing, musquilo-hatching, ague-breeding, 
snakey, musk-ratty nuisances of peat bogs, and muck- 
swamps, which have been eye-sores and abominations, 
they are to find their Eldoradoes—their gold mines—and 
Anthracite mines. The material which shall w arm them 
in winter, and cheer them in summer, which shall carpet 
the landscape with green and gold, make smiling harvests 
and heavy purses. Notice the advertisement of Pi of. 
Johnson’s new work on “ Peat and Its Uses," on p. 339. 
S. S. Question BooUs.— The series, en¬ 
titled Lessons for every. Sunday in the Year” embrace 
four numbers, each containing 52 lessons, viz : No. 
The period from the Birth of Christ to the End of Acts ; 
No. 2, The rest of the New Testament; No. 3, Prom 
Adam to Elijah; No. 4j From Elijah to Chiist. The 
plan in each book is: the selection of lessons to be learned 
of about? verses each, and connecting them with a histo¬ 
ry, so that while the lessons are land-marks in order of 
time, the connecting history gives the pupil a clear idea 
of the events of each period in the order of occurence. 
The questions and answers, direct or by references, aid 
both teachers and scholars to thought, and are especially 
valuable to the great mass of teachers who are not sup¬ 
plied with abundant commentaries and reference books. 
These books seem to have met a decided want among 
Sabbath School people, as between three and four hun¬ 
dred thousand of them have been called for, we believe, 
almost equally from all denominations of Christians. 
Editions are issued by several publishers, one of which 
is supplied at the Agriculturist Office. Price 15 ceiits 
each, $1.44 per dozen, or $12 per 100 copies, for any o' *ne 
numbers. If sent by mail 4 cents each must be added for 
prepaid postage, or 3 cents each in packages of ten or 
more. Four sample copies (Nos. I 5 3, an 4) w 
be sent post-paid to any address for 65 cents. 
