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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
promised by lot to subscribers, are frauds upon the com- 
munity. Tliere are at least a dozen on a large scale, 
throughout the country, and many smaller local affairs for 
monuments, etc. We speak not of legitimate fairs and 
festivals, but of all those where gifts, presents, etc., are 
offered for distribution. There are, universally, private 
parties who really manage them, and into whose pockets 
the main profits eventually go. This playing upon peo¬ 
ple’s good intentions and kind feelings towards our sol¬ 
diers and their families, is the meanest kind of stealing. 
These enterprises are bona fide lotteries, except in name, 
and tlie most disreputable of all lotteries—wolves in 
sheep’s clothing .. .2d, There are a score or so of purely 
gift enterprises, where, for a small sum returned for the 
tickets sentfyou, often professedly, but not really, at your 
request, you are offered a chance to draw, or ftttne drawn, 
a prize varying from $5 to $100, or more. We have ex¬ 
amined more than a hundred of these, and we here say 
that there is not one of all these ticket schemes, and gift 
enterprises that is not a fraud. Not one in a hundred 
of those who have sent their money for the tickets have 
ever heard from it, unless to hear the standing falsehood, 
that it was “ lost by mail.” Some showy prizes, not really 
valuable, liave been sparingly distributed as a bait to 
others, buttlie second crop invariably gets cheated, usu¬ 
ally the first one too.3d, We liave chased up so many 
advertised medicines, and doctors for all sorts of diseases, 
that we are prepared to brand the whole tribe of adver¬ 
tising doctors as pernicious quacks. Not half of them 
can be found at the places they pretend to occupy. Tliey 
get letters at these places at hours when you cannot catch 
them_4th. “ Agencies”—There are a large number of 
persons in tliis city, and elsewhere, offering by private 
circulars “ agencies,” some for one thing, some for ano¬ 
ther, and some for a variety of things, household appara¬ 
tus, etc. A few of these are genuine; many are swin¬ 
dles, and some are about “ half-and-half.” It takes much 
investigation to get at tire reliability and value of these 
concerns, and we advise extreme caution, especially 
when any money is required to try them. Our silence in 
regard to several recently inquired about, implies that 
they are bogus, or near to it, or of doubtful cliaracter- 
5th, Eschew all “Art Associations.” The “Michigan 
Art .Association,” witli its only office in N. Y. City, is a 
fair specimen of many of them swindles. So is the pre¬ 
tended Masonic affair, at Medina, N. Y. Almost all are 
unmitigated humbugs. One or two, like tlie Crosby .Art 
Association, may do wliat tliey promise, but iiow they 
differ from any other lottery is more than we can explain, 
except in accomplishing the same object in a meaner' 
way ; they add the “sympathy dodge.”—Beware of “One 
price vvatcli companies,” and of all watclies by tickets ; 
of “Howard” and all other benevolent medicine associa¬ 
tions of “ American Jewelry Association of Ann Ar¬ 
bor $2 tickets ; of Jas. Pendergast & Co.; of “ H. Camp, 
•M. D., who insults respectable young ladies, by sending 
them circulars offering disgusting medicines;” of all clieap 
sewing macliine offers, etc., etc ... P, S.—A villainous 
sclieme just comes to light—a pretented Franklin Benefit 
.Association in Chicago, claiming Gen. Wm. B. Logan as 
President.—It is impossible lie could officer such a 
scheme. One Jno. L. .Andrews of Ohio, writes to ladies 
offering for $50 to lie them tickets tlirough worth $500 1 
—A deep-dyed villain! 
MiiresscSftsii l£«se.—Au “Old Florist” 
objects to the engraving of tins rose given in the Novem¬ 
ber Agriculturist, which lie says does not do justice to 
this splendid variety. With him the flowers were as 
large as those of any good rose, and the color—wliich 
cannot he given in an engraving—is as yellow as saffron, 
improving as the flower opens. Our engraving was from 
the only accessible material, a partly opened flower. It 
is not strictly a Tea Rose, but a Noisette, .and is a runner, 
after the style of tlie Lamarque, and like that, adapted to 
planting out in the open ground of the green-house ; 
treated in this way, it attains its greatest perfection. 
Viiae.*» CiJrowing’ iit AiitHiiiis. 
T. Bost, Hennepin Co., Minn., writes, tliat the leaves of 
his small vines were killed by frost in September, and 
that subsequent warm weather lias started the buds for 
next year, and asks if this will hurt the vines. It will be 
apt to injure them, and the young vines will require care. 
It is probably only the upper buds that have started, and 
that good buds still remain near the ground. ' Prune back 
severely, and start a new cane from a bud near the base. 
W iiitlmilis.—W. Hawkins 
and several neighbors, of Sayville, (Stale not given) are 
interested in tlie subject of irrigation. There are two 
plans, one to “ pipe” the water 1J<S mile, the other for 
each to dig a well and get a windmill and tank on the up¬ 
per part of ins land. The former plan would be very ex¬ 
pensive for one man to do, but might do for several com¬ 
bining to lay a large pipe. The windmill plan is feas- 
able, and yet anotlier may be better. A well on liiglt 
ground will often furnish a supply of water which may 
be delivered by a syphon (a simple pipe extending from 
near the bottom of the well to a lower level on the slope 
of the hill,) at a tank or reservoir. Windmills for simple 
pumping are advertised at about $150. 
l*ioMp anil Spi-iiikler.—We 
saw this new contrivance for throwing water at the 
Cleveland Grape Show, and It impressed us as being very 
simple and efficient. Some apparatus for tlirowing a jet 
of water is very handy in various ways, and if this one is 
found to work as well in the hands of every one as it did 
in those of the exhibitor, it will take the place of more 
expensive machines. 
Wltite IVillow.— E. F. Duuue, writes from 
Humboldt Co., Nevada, saying ; “ .Away out here, 
‘ Where the wild sage-stems of tlie desert die, 
In the cold white marshes of alkali,’ 
we live, farm and read the Agriculturist, and liave a bet¬ 
ter liorne than the writer of the quoted lines imagined. 
We raise, first crop on the sod, 1,500 pounds of barley to 
the acre, and sell it, in bulk, for 8c. per pound coin. We are 
much exercised though on the subject of liedge-fences. 
Won’t you tell us about that Wliite Willow that Levi Smith 
writes to you of in September number, 1866. Where we 
can get it and liow to manage it. Won’t you put an item 
in the ‘ basket ’ for us ? ”— Ans. It is not hard to get the 
White Willow ; almost any good nurseryman would send 
you the right thing, and once obtained, you could multi 
ply it indefinitely in a few years. A few cuttings might 
be sent by Post. Your California nurserymen probably 
have it. But wlietlier it will grow “in the cold white 
marshes of alkali,” that is another question, which indeed 
you do not ask. Remember it bears several names, 
white, gray, powder, etc., besides the Latin, Salix alba, 
EaigS-i®**- Market Measures.—In read¬ 
ing over the reports of the Covent Garden Market, one is 
puzzled at terms not in use in this country. We have 
been at a little trouble to look tliem up, and perhaps the 
result may interest others besides ourselves. Pottle is a 
long tapering basket made of shavings, and holding a 
pint and a half. Punnets are shallow baskets, varying in 
size for different articles ; radish punnets are 8 inches 
across and 1 inch deep: those for mushrooms are 7 
inches by 1 : while salad punnets are 5 inches by 
2 indies deep. A Sieve is a basket 15 inches in diame¬ 
ter and 8 indies deep, and holds 7imperial gallons. The 
half-sieve holds 3>^ gallons, and is 12)^ indies across by 
6 inches deep. The Bushel sieve is 17% inches in diame¬ 
ter at top, 17 at bottom, 11% deep; the Bushel Basket \s 
at lop 14% inches, at bottom 10 inches, 17 inches deep. 
SlisMles of Color in 
iiig of MoHses.—J. W. White, of Mifflin Co., Pa., 
ask.s :—‘‘ In painting a w’ooden house should the cornice, 
window-facings, etc,, be of a lighter or darker sliade than 
the body of tlie liouse? Also, should tiie panels of 
doors, window shutters, etc., be darker or lighter tlian 
tlie panel frames?” The colors appropriate to wooden 
houses are iiglit ones of some agreeable neutral tint, 
avoiding all positive colors, and all dark colors. The 
cornices, base and corner strips, pilasters, door and win¬ 
dow casings, etc., should be of a slightly darker shade 
tlian the body of the house. So likewise should the pan¬ 
el frames be a little darker than the panels. 
Tlie llliistrated Aiiiiiial Keg'ister 
of K-ural AiFairs for 1867. By J. J. Thomas. 
Albany: Luther Tucker & Son.—Another volume is 
added to this series, and, like its predecessors, is a useful 
compendium of agricultural and horticultural matters. 
It is sufficient praise to say of this volume tliat it is as 
good as the previous ones, and is well worth the modest 
sum it costs—30 cents. We would gladly stop here, but 
one of its contributors has been guilty of an act that we 
cannot, and ouglit not to allow to pass unnoticed. UpoH 
page 84 is “A Chapter on Various Practical Subjects.’ 
[Written for the Annual Register, by S. Edwards Todd.l 
This article contains nine illustrations ; eight of these 
are re-drawn from the Agriculturist for 1865 ; and the re¬ 
maining one is taken bodily and literally from a work of 
which we hold the copy-right—American Weeds and 
Useful Plants—without the slightest acknowledgment. 
The figures from the Agriculturist are re-drawn, slighlly 
modified in one way or ;inother, so as to avoid the copy¬ 
right. (Our original articles are paid for well, and every 
number oi the paper is copy-righted in full, and not to be 
copiedwithout credit.) The author of this article was, un¬ 
satisfactorily to us, for a short time employed to aid upon 
tlie Agriculturist, and he may possibly think that lie lias a 
right to illustrations drawn for some articles of wliicli lie 
made Ihe rough notes. Other people think differently. We 
are quite sure that neither oiir good friend, tlie editor of 
the Register, nor its publishers, had any suspicion of the 
trick of which they have been made the victims. They 
paid for the article as new, and will feel cliagrined to find 
they have instead a re-hash of old matter tliat has 
already appeared in a widely-circulated paper, illustrated 
by figures that will appear old and familiar to a large 
proportion of tliose who may purchase the Register. 
The publishers have our sympathy, as they will that of 
all honest men. 
Ti'oiaMe witli a Steep “ A Sub¬ 
scriber” in Tennessee, who lives on a mountain side, 
finds tliat every hard rain turns his path into a gully, ffiid 
wislies to know wliat he can put upon it, as stones wash 
out and planks warp. Perhaps a little engineering would 
turn the bulk of the water in another direction. In such 
a place we should try gas-tar and gravel, or sand. As 
mucii tar as will stick tlie sand togetlier, will soon liarden 
and make a durable and pleasant walk. If, as appears 
likely, tile path is below the general surface, then the' 
cement should be laid upon the sides of the depression, 
as well as to prevent tlie water from working under. 
Another plan would be to pave the foot way, and make 
very capacious gutters on each side of the pavement, and 
plaster them over with a mortar of water lime. The lat¬ 
ter plan is followed in some portions of Central Park. 
Hardiiaessj of tlie C|8ai8E.ce. — D. P., 3,000 
feet up on the Catskills, wishes lo know the probable suc¬ 
cess of Quinces in that locality. As he raises apples and 
pears, we doubtnotthat Quinces would succeed. Do not 
plant in low wet ground, give good and well enriched 
soil, and take care of them as if they were pet pears. 
Tls.«* Study of Cwcog-i'aisliy, as usually 
taught, involves a great waste of time. The pupil strug¬ 
gles through a long list of names which his burdened 
memory refuses to retain, and many of whicli would be 
mere rubbish if retained, so far as any practical use is 
concerned. A new primary work by Miss Hall, publisli- 
ed by Samuel F. Nichols, Boston, is a step in the right 
direction. By means of interesting reading lessons, ac¬ 
companied with common-sense maps and illustrations, it 
leads the cliild to acquire information, and a relish for the 
subject at the same time. Teachers and parents will do 
well to examine the work. 
“ Tl&e MetSaodist ’’ Luts made an important 
arrangement with Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and other 
eminent clergymen, for a weekly sermon to be published 
in its columns.—See advertisement. 
A New Mats ofN. Y. City and 1,200 square 
miles of the adjacent region, just publisliedby the reliable 
firm of Messrs. H. H, Lloyd & Co., N. Y., gives a very 
complete view of the region, localing all rail-road sta¬ 
tions willi their distances from New York, the country 
roads, small streams, etc., more minutely and accurately 
than we have seen in any similar publication. It is a 
valuable work of reference.—Price $3.00, 
Docsonents AcScmowledg-ecl.—The fol¬ 
lowing catalogues of general nursery stock liave been re¬ 
ceived : “The Evergreens,” Sami. Edwards, La Moille, 
Ill. ; Central Nurseries, Edward F. Evans & Co., York, 
Pa. ; Thomas Wright, Rochester, N. Y. ; Georgetown 
(Conn.) Nursery, Geo. Perry & Son; Erie (Pa.) Com¬ 
mercial Nurseries, I. A. Plattmanii; Westbiiry Nurseries, 
Isaac Hicks & Sons, North Hempstead, L. I., N. Y. ; 
Gieenvale Nurseries. W. D. Strowyer & Co., Oswego, 
N. Y.; Jolin Murphy, Dansvillc, N. Y. ; South Bend 
(Indiana) Nursery and Fruit Farm, A. M. Purdy : Read¬ 
ing (Mass.) Nursery, J. W. Manning .. “ The tiiree best 
Market Berries,” Wm. Parry, Cimiaminson, N. J- 
Catalogues of Grapes from A. M. Burns, Manlialtaii, 
Kansas; J. M. SPCullough & Son, Cincinnati, O. ; H. B. 
Lum, Sandusky, O. ; Ilollon & Zundell, Haverstraw, N. 
Y.; A. J. Hatfield, Niles, Mich-Catalogues of Bulbs, 
Seeds and Strawberries, Vilmorin, Andrieiix & Co., 
Paris, France — Catalogue of Farm Stock. Dogs, Fowls, 
elc., S. & W. S.Allen, Vergennes. Vt... Catalogue of Edge 
Tools, Collins & Co., Harlford, 112 Water St.. New 
York-Catalogue of German Periodical Literature 
(Zeitschrifteu-Listc), 1666, E. Steiger, New-York. 
Tlie IfestivJil of Song'.— This is a gift 
book, published by F. J. Huntington & Co., New York. 
It consists of choice extracts from ancient and modern 
poets, compiled by Frederick Saunders, Librarian of the 
Astor Library, and prefaced by a brief account of the au¬ 
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cd with original drawings by leading artists of tlie National 
Academy of Design—some of which are really charming. 
TSie 4woi«leii SLcaves Series.”—These 
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ductions of the older British, modern Englisli, dramatic 
and American Poets. Tlie seleclions, by J. W. S. Hows, 
seem to be made with taste and good judgment. 
