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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[NOVEMBEai, 
Containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestio7is which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
IVlarLc AH Subscriptions sent in, as New or Old. 
I-’or Market Report, See Ra^e 415. 
l*lea<!>e Send, on the Renewals oi' 
Subscriptions.— It will greatly assist us in tlie great 
work of re-entering and arranging names on the new 
Mail Books for 1867, if those wlio find it convenient will 
begin, at an early day, to send in their renewals of sub¬ 
scriptions. Can not every present subscriber get at least 
three otliers to join him, and make up a ciub of four at 
$5 ? Tiie new subscribers have the extra- inducement of 
tlie December number free, if the names are sent this 
month, as noted elsewhere. 
Rritish America Siil»scritoers-5*ost- 
ago. — Subscribers in the Canadas, New Brunswick, 
Nova Scotia, etc., will save half the postage by sending 
12 cents a year to have it paid in advance here. Most do 
so, but some omit it. 
Our Advertisiag’ Colamns — To 
Reaciers and Advertisers — Explanation, 
etc.— As this Journal goes to several tiiousand new 
readers each week, and among these are some who offer 
advertisements, we give a few expianations : While it is 
impossible to guarantee all the advertiseinenis, we try to 
come as near it as praclicable. Our aim is to .advertise 
nothing we would not have read by a brother or most 
esteemed friend. Patent medicines and all other secret 
things are rejected. Also all advertisements deceptive in 
form and substance. Parties offering advertisements, 
who are unknown to the editors personally or by general 
good repute, are expected to furnish evidence that they 
have both the intention and ability to do what they 
promise to do in their advertisements. We want none 
to advertise in these columns to w'horn we would not 
ourselves send orders, or casli in advance, if we happened 
to want what they advertise and at the price they ask.— 
By living up to these rules, we make the advertising 
columns exceedingly valuable both to our readers and to 
the advertisers.—Our readers will find the advertisements 
wortli looking all through, to learn wliat is for sale, and 
by whom.—We repeat a former request, that those who 
order from our advertisers or write to them for circulars, 
catalogues, etc., will state where they saw the advertise¬ 
ments. It is useful and gratifying to business men to 
know through what cliannel they reach the largest class 
of enterprising persons. 
C«rrespoiid.eMts l®lease Ok.scrve :— 
Use any initials or signature desired, but send your 
full name and address with the article. We frequently 
wish to communicate with a writer, and are unable to do 
so for want of the name. We never publish a name when 
some other signature is chosen.—Always name Stale and 
County. There are several Washington’s, Monroe’s, etc., 
and an answer often depends upon our knowing the 
climate, etc,—Do not date from “ Spring Grove ”—“The 
Dell’’—or any other name by which your own place is 
known to yourself and immediate friends. AVe cannot 
be supposed to know it, a thousand miles away.—Do not 
ask too many questions at one time, especially on dif¬ 
ferent subjects.—Do not write about farm, garden and 
household matters all on one sheet. A mixed letter often 
goes to tlie department indicated by the first query, and 
there stops.— We answer questions on tlieir merits, and 
first, such as will interest the greatest number of readers. 
BSigf —As usual at this season, 
Mr. II. Criswell, ‘i the Long Island C.abbage Farmer,” 
ornaments our table with some of ids fine, liard Flat 
Dutch cabbages. They weigh 2’2 to2'2j^f pounds (trim¬ 
med.) lie sliipped over one hundred thousand last 
season to Soutliern ports. 
To 1 “os1«M;b,sS,c«-.s, :igi(l 
—ITlailiil" Eapers.— Explanations why Papers 
oo to Some before Others. — ,\s fast as subscriptions 
or renewals are received, they are numbered and record¬ 
ed in the Entry Books daily. (In busy seasons when 1,000 
to 5,000 names come in a day, an entry Book for each 
day in the week is used.) The Posting Clerks sort out the 
names from the Day Books and arrange them in the Mail 
Books for tlie different Stales and Territories, putting all 
those at the same Post-Office together, and indexing the 
Post-Offices alphabetically. (To find any person’s name 
we must know his State and Post-Office.)—Our mail 
clerks begin a month in advance to write wrappers for 
all names then posted from the Daily Entry Books. 
These are first sent off, all those to the same Post-Office 
in one or more parcels, at the same hour. This is called 
the “ regular mail.” Afterwards all names arriving 
witliin a montli are written from the Entry Books and 
mailed in the order of reception. Sometimes half a dozen 
different parcels go to the same P. O., but a week or more 
after tlie regular mail is sent to old subscribers. These 
new names are then posted into the Mail Books, and the 
next month they go in the “regular mail.” It will thus 
be understood why new names and renewals get their 
first copies later, and not with the first regular mail. 
This system is necessary to ensure entire accuracy. 
PliintsiVamed.—F. Bcrlene. Some Begonia, 
probably 8. fuehsioides, but it lacks flowers.Samuel 
Johns, Mo. Verbena Aublctia (early). Partridge Pea, 
Cassia Chamwerista (yellow), and Sabbatia angnlaris 
(ro.se) .M. R. Allen, Me. A variety of the common 
Evening Primrose, (Enothera biennis, and Water Plan¬ 
tain, ALisma Plantago .Mrs. A. D. Gray, Pa. Spot¬ 
ted Dead-nettle, Lamium maculatnm, an old garden 
plant.P. II. Adams, Texas. Erythrcea Beyrichii, 
one of the Centaiirys... . D. N. Began, O. Euphorbia 
marginata, often grown in gardens.Mrs. E. A. 
Robinson, R. I. A green-house species of Milk-weed, 
Asclepias Cnrassavica, sometimes grown as a bedding 
plant.P. F. :^errls. No. 1. Gerardia quercifolia. 
No. 2. Great Purple Orchis, Platanthera peramcena . 
J. B. Metz, Pa. Tlie common Live-for-ever, Sedum 
Telephium. It has great tenacity of life, and must be 
grubbed up completely .Mrs. J. Prescott, N. J. 
Joseph’s Coat, Amaranthus tricolor, a very old “foliage 
plant.” _J. Fitzgerald, Pa. Gerardia pedicularis. - 
A lot of rubbish and incomplete specimens remain un¬ 
determined.-In regard to naming plants, we are very 
glad to help those who cannot get at the name in any 
other way, and who will send us good specimens—never 
more than three at a time, and then properly marked.— 
We don’t propose to spend time in guessing at single 
leaves and ends of growing shoots. Nor can we fill our 
space with giving botanical names of garden plants. The 
person who, without name or date, enclosed us some 
dozen or more garden and green-house things, with the 
common names, and asking for the botanical names, 
should have some good book on tlie subject. 
“ l>o»ation I®a,rties ” are much in 
vogue, and often very pleasant affairs. Our business let¬ 
ters describe several sucli parties a little out of the usu¬ 
al line. In these cases, the members of a congregation, 
headed by two or three individuals, have quietly raised a 
premium club of subscribers, and secured a set of tlie 
Cyclopedia for their Pastor, or a Sewing Machine or 
Melodeon for his family. Premiums 15 to 20, 25, 31, 39, 
etc., in this year’s list, will afford pleasant additions. 
Tlie matier is easily accomplished, and a double object 
is attained ; the paper is scattered and read more widely, 
while the useful premiums are secured without expenses. 
Where this has not been done or thought of by the peo¬ 
ple, the pastors themselves have secured the much valued 
Cyclopedia, etc., by a little effort in making up a club. 
Alkoggt Isssects.— They eat our potatoes, and 
bore our trees, destroy our crops, sting our fruit—yea, 
even sting us and bite us, and suck our blood ; they 
bless us too in a thousand ways. The study of insects 
and their habits is most useful and interesting, and every 
body is interested to read about them. We can recom¬ 
mend without qualification the Practical Entomologist, 
published at Philadelphia, and refer our readers to the 
Publishers’ advertisement. It is practical and not so 
“scientific ” as not to be entirely “popular,” and easily 
understood by every body. 
“ Riiimomil Cmt —Some¬ 
time ago we inserted full paid advertisements of the 
HeraM and World, for the “ reasons” stated last month, 
(page 345.) and two or three cried out “stop my Agri¬ 
culturist.” For the same “ reasons ” we inserted a large 
advertisement of the Tribune in September, and then 
came “a stop my paper,” and complaints from others 
because we did not have in the same paper advertise¬ 
ments of the Herald and AVorld, which chanced just then 
to be pulling together politically. (We did not have their 
advertisements, for the very good reasons that they did 
not happen to bring them in and pay for them.) As the 
friends of the World complained of us that time, we will 
call the World on the stand as a witness in our defense, 
and quote from an editorial in that paper (the World) of 
Sept. 20: “_Wc can do ihe piitilic morals a service 
without being suspected of a sinister motive. That 
service is to enjoin upon every republican to buy the 
Tribune and read that, and to refuse to buy the Herald 
at any price.... The Tribune holds its principles in 
sincerity, and advocates them because it really believes 
the country will be the better for adopting them. The 
Herald advocates them because it thinks their advocacy 
will pay; because it thinks they are likely to suc¬ 
ceed— ”-N. B. : This is not a “political item.” 
We just want to show our protesting friends that we 
have pretty high authority for admitting an advertise¬ 
ment of Ihe Tribune, as some seem to think we need 
to ask permission for advertising anything of any kind. 
Tl»e Talfe Shore ^wrape and 'Winie- 
Orowers’ Convention was held at Cleveland, O., 
on the 10th, lltli, and 12th, of last month. The attendance 
was large, the discussions animated, and the display of 
fruit and wines very fine. The interest of the meeting 
was enhanced by the presence of veteran poinologists, 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Prof. J. P. Kirtlaiid, Dr. War¬ 
der, George Graham, etc. We gathered many notes at 
the meeting, and shall hereafter allude to some of the 
prominent features. 
©Bir Yowngf Folks, published by Messrs. 
Ticknor & Fields, Boston, has, from its commencement 
taken the first rank as a magazine for Boys and Girls. 
The instructive yet lively articles it contains monthly, at¬ 
tract the altentionof many “ children of a larger growth,” 
as well as always delighting the juveniles. The plans 
for the coming year promise increased excellence, and 
we commend it to all who would furnish their children 
with good matter which they will read. 
Ilay and. Cotton Presses. —These have 
been very greatly multiplied of late years, and increased 
in power so that many of the most bulky substances sent 
to market. Hay, Cotton, Straw, Rags, etc., are now 
pressed into small bulk and can be as easily handled, or 
loaded on cars or vessels as flour or similar merchandise. 
We saw recently a press called the Champion, advertis¬ 
ed elsewhere in this paper, which exhibits an astonishing 
combination of mechanical powers. A screw operates 
upon the periferies of two wheels, which move a “tog¬ 
gle-joint” lever, which does the pressing, with great 
power and rapidity. 
N. Y. Time Taldes. —Benedict Brothers, 
171 Broadway, issue monthly a very convenient Guide, 
giving the full time tables etc., of all the numerous Rail¬ 
road Trains, and the Steamboats centering in this city, 
including a conden.sed map of the city and its streets up 
to 59th street, and of parts of Brooklyn and Williams¬ 
burg. Price 20 cents. 
“A Sow (writes ‘X.’), owned by John Ambler, 
of Cambridge, O., recently produced a litter of 20 pigs !” 
ISommer’s MettUod for Maicins? Ma¬ 
nure.— Some 20 years ago letters patent were issued to 
Geo. Bommer, for a method of making manure of great 
value out of the common rubbish and litter of the farm, 
at a small expense for a few articles, or their equivalents, 
which indeed are usually at hand. This patent, now ex¬ 
pired, was somewhat extensively sold at $10, for a farm 
right, we believe. The account of the process was giv¬ 
en minutely in an 8-vo. pamphlet of 90 pages. These 
pamphlets we now offer on our Book—list. The infotma- 
tion is just as valuable as if the patent right were still in 
force, and the process we know by e.xpeiience and ob¬ 
servation is a most excellent one to inciease both the 
quantity and value of the manure. 
^ItcU Marl as a FcrtiHztcr.—A Caa- 
tion.— The investigations which the peat swamps have 
undergone of late, have developed the fact that many of 
them are underlaid with shell marl. This is chiefly car¬ 
bonate of lime, and is a valuable manure where it can 
be had in large quantities. The value may be $l to $3 
per cart load. The quality of marls varies greatly, and 
the quantity applied, in like manner. Tims 12 to 20 tons 
of some kinds and on some soils—and 60 to 100 tons be¬ 
ing applied in other cases. The idea of making shell 
marl an article of commerce like the phosphatic guano, 
or even the green-sand marl, to say nothing of more valu¬ 
able manures, is simply absurd I 
Tlie E’rciiing' Rost appears again in a new 
dress, new type, and printed on better paper. Though 
in its 66th year, it has all the freshness and vigor of any 
of its more youthful competitors. Mr. Bryant’s writings 
have always been its principal charm, and it is gratifying 
to know tliat his pen is still active as ever. See Adver’nt, 
