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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
fine colored plates of flowers, and one of tlie new Early 
Summer Cabbage. 
Hovey & Co., Boston, Mass., one of the oldest bouses, 
but keeps pace with the novelties. 
A. Howard & Co., Pontuosuc, Ill., lias bulbs and plants 
as well as seeds. 
David Landreth & Son, Philadelphia, Pa., add to 
the catalogue of their well known seeds, a useful Rural 
Register and Almanac. 
G. A. Law, Roslindale, near Boston, Mass. Also bulbs 
and vegetable p'ants. 
Joiin F. Otwell, St. Mary’s, Ont., Canada, is a market 
gardener, who now puts out his first catalogue of seeds. 
A very creditable attempt. 
Plant Seed Company, St. Louis, Mo., send a large and 
elegant catalogue, and a smaller one in the form of an 
Almanac. 
Perry & Robinson, Syracuse, N. Y., offer premiums 
for the best plants raised from their seeds. 
John Saul, Washington, D. C., has, as his catalogue 
shows, a seed store, besides his nursery and florists’ es¬ 
tablishment. 
R. H. Siiumway. Rockford, III., sends his Annual Il¬ 
lustrated Garden Guide. 
Wm. II. Spooner, Boston, Mass., sends a Gardening 
Guide; full, neat, and instructive. 
J. M. Tiiorburn & Co., 15 John St.. N. Y. City, send 
four neat catalogues, vegetable, flower, and tree seeds, 
a wholesale trade list, and all full of the best. 
James Vick, Rochester, N. Y., calls his catalogue a 
Floral Guide; he says that it is so good that the post- 
office clerks or some one else steal it, that is why people 
Complain of not getting it—He has a German edition. 
Washburn & Co., Boston, Mass., in their Cultivator’s 
Gli de offer all the “Boston notions.” 
H. Young, York, Pa., h is flower and vegetable seeds, 
as well as plants of various kinds. 
NURSERYMEN. 
Some of these are also largely engaged in flower grow¬ 
ing—where this is the case, it is mentioned, as is any 
specialty. 
S. W. Adams, Springfield, Mass., also young evergreens. 
P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. Peaches a specialty. 
Also flowers. 
Chas. Black, Hightstown, N. J. Peaches in large 
quantities. 
Bronson, Hopkins, & Co., Geneva, N. Y., send their 
wholesale trade list. 
A- Bryant, Jr., Princeton, Ill., has a full assortment 
of fruit and forest trees. 
Robt. Douglas & Sons, Waukegan. Ill., evergreen and 
other forest tree seedlings are offered by the million. 
Benj. A. Elliott & Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., offer fruit 
and ornamental trees. 
Eli.wanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. The extent 
of this establishment is shown by its catalogues, of which 
we have four, covering fruit, ornamental, green-house and 
every other department. 
A. IIance & Son, Red Bank, N. J., also green-house 
plants. 
C. L. IIoag, Lockport, N. Y. Grapevines and straw¬ 
berries. 
IIoopes Brother & Thomas, Westchester, Pa., include 
ornamental plants. 
T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia, N. Y., specially grapes. 
T. C. Maxwell & Bros., Geneva, N. Y., have a very 
full catalogue, including many new and rare ornamental 
trees. They make a specialty of the finer kinds of clematis. 
Thomas Meehan, Germantown, Pa., specially hedge 
and ornamental plants, tree seeds, greenhouse. 
Otto & Achelis, Westchester, Pa. Also large quanti¬ 
ties of seedling and other small stock. 
S. B. Parsons & Sons, Flushing, N. Y., specialties, 
evergreens, camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas. 
Randolph Peters, Wilmington, Del. Peaches a spec¬ 
ialty. 
Richardson & Vail, Geneva, N Y. A wholesale list 
with some very low prices. 
JonN Saul, Washington, D.C. Also greenhouse plants. 
J. H. Simpson, Knox Nurseries, Vincennes, Ind. 
Wholesale list of fruit and ornamental trees. 
Storrs, Harrison & Co., Painesville, O. Seedling 
chestnut trees a specialty—also florists’ plants. 
E. Ware Sylvester, Lyons, N. Y. Peppermint-roots 
also. 
N. M. Thompson, St. Francis, Wis. Evergreen and 
deci Inous tree seedlings. 
FLORISTS. 
Many of the nurserymen are also florists; see the cata¬ 
logues enumerated above. 
Bellevue Nursery Co., II. E. Chitty, Sup’t., Pater¬ 
son, N. J.. Some fine novelties. 
D. II. Brown & Sons, New Brunswick, N. J. Also 
vegetable plants. 
Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. Roses a 
specialty. 
R. G. IIanpord, Columbus, O. A very full list. 
Peter Henderson, 35 Cortlandt st.., N. Y., and Jersey 
City flights, N. J. Amply illustrated—unusually fine 
colored plate of roses. 
Long Brothers, Buffalo, N. Y., have a plant catalogue, 
besides a useful little work, the Home Florist. 
W. F. Massey & Co., Chestertown, Md. Their dollar 
collections afford plants very cheap. 
Tyra Montgomery, Mattoon, Ill. A special rose list 
and very full. 
Henry S. Rupp, Shiremanstown, Cumberland Co., Pa. 
A special catalogue of plants sent by mail. 
George Such, South Amboy, N. J. The wonderful 
rare plant catalogue of Mr. S. was noticed some months 
ago. This contains mainly bedding plants and gladiolus. 
E. Y. Teas & Co., Richmond, Ind. A fine rose-list 
with many novelties. 
IMPLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS. 
The seed dealers generally keep garden implements of 
all kinds, and some have those for farm work. 
Bramiiall & Co., 128 Chambers st., N. Y., manufacture 
children’s carriages, wagons, and sleds, of all kinds in 
great variety. 
A. E. Cooper, Cooper’s Plains, N. Y. Balcony and 
other strong and elegant chairs. 
Wm. Clift, Mystic Bridge, Conn. Stock of various 
kinds. Pekin Ducks and Bronze Turkeys a specialty. 
Joseph Harris, Moreton Farm, Rochester, N. Y., 
offers, among other things, the much talked of Essex 
pigs, and the productive and popular Late Rose potatoes. 
IIigganum Manufacturing Co., at Higgauum, 
Conn., publish a New England Almanac, from which 
their own manufactures are not omitted. 
N. Y. Knitting Machine Co., (18!> Broadway. Various 
styles of Bickford knitting machines. 
Schenectady Agricultural Works, at Schenectady, 
N. Y., are carped on by G. Westinghouse & Co., for the 
manufacture of various farm machines and implements, 
EUROPEAN CATALOGUES. 
William Bull, London, S. W., (Eng.). Bulbs and 
tuberous-rooted plants—an immense list. 
Waite, Burnell, Huggins & Co., London, Eng., 
have also a house in Havre, France. They are among 
the heaviest wholesale seed dealers abroad. 
J. B. Guii.lot, Fils, Lyons, France. This is one of the 
great rose houses of the world, and their stock immense. 
Louis Leroy, Angers, France. Pabst & Esch, N. Y., 
agents. Wholesale catalogue. 
Joseph Schwartz, Lyons, France. New roses. 
Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., Paris, France, Pabst & 
Esch, No. 11 Murray St., N. Y., agents, send their whole¬ 
sale list of seeds of all kinds, and a wonderfully com¬ 
prehensive document it is. 
J. C. Schmidt, Erfurt, Germany. Dried and preserved, 
as well as living greenhouse plants. 
Americiin DiiirymenN Conven¬ 
tion, —The tenth annual meeting of this Association 
began at Utica on January 12th. Delegates from New 
England, Ohio, Pennsylvania, several of the Western 
States, and Canada, were present. Several papers were 
read, and discussions held upon the subjects treated in 
them. The most noticable points brought out were that 
poor milk is caused by poor feed ; corn-meal is not, on 
the whole, a satisfactory feed for milch cows, and must 
be fed with great caution; bad milk makes bad butter 
and cheese; too much acid in the curd makes poor and 
crumbly cheese; it is not the most cream that makes the 
most butter, some creams yield three times as much but¬ 
ter as others; dairy practice can not be regulated by 
guess-work ; the coming butter-package is a tin one that 
shall cost very little, and will not be returned; the lower 
qualities of butter are the most difficult of sale, and drag 
down the whole market with them ; the best qualities of 
butter never stay in the market unsold ; the steadily im¬ 
proving quality of American cheese is extending the de¬ 
mand for it in European markets, no poor dairy products 
are wanted anywhere. Generally the proceedings were 
interesting and instructive. That portion relating to the 
manufacture of cheese out of skim-milk, and a prepara¬ 
tion of tallow known as oleo-niargarine, can hardly be 
called instructive, unless it be to the unhappy consumers 
of the cheese and so-called butter, who may thereby be 
warned against using any abominable adulteration of this 
kind. It is very strange that a dairymen’s association 
should quietly listen to an endorsement by any of its 
officers and leaders of a method of adulteration, which 
can only have the effect of casting doubt upon the char¬ 
acter of their products, and of tending to diminish the 
popular demand for one of the most valuable articles of 
food. Tallow, by whatever name it be called, can never 
become a dairy product. 
.4 B’lovrertiiarden, a»««l no Mninirc, 
— “ M. N. R..” writes from Vermont: “I want a flower 
garden. No manure of any kind to be. had. Can I use 
the commercial fertilizers? If so, what kind is the 
best ? ” — In such a case we should use fine bone, or some 
of the manures made with dried blood, several of which 
are advertised. If the garden is not a large one, there 
should be no difficulty in making during the coming 
season, all the manure that will be needed for another 
year. In some place out of sight, make a pit 2 or 3 feet 
deep, and of convenient size. Begin in spring, and 
gather all the leaves you can find after the snow is off; put 
these into the pit, add every bit of sod from trimmings 
of paths, or what can he had from the road-side; throw 
in all weeds that have not gone to seed, and all the refuse 
vegetable matter of the place, and if you have a vegetable 
garden too, there will be a plenty. Keep all this moist 
with chamber-slops ; if it gives off a bad smell, throw 
on a coating of dry earth. Put here all waste vegetable 
and animal stuff that will decay ; let some one look out 
for the manure dropped in the road by passing animals, 
or, if you live on a paved street, sweep the portion in 
front of your place once a week, and take the sweepings 
as pay. If there are woods near by, hire some one to 
bring a load or two of the earth, provided it looks rich. 
Save all twigs, brush, and whatever will not readily 
decay, burn, and preserve the ashes. See if any neighbor 
throws away the sweepings of his hen-house or pigeon 
loft, and get that or buy it if for sale. It must be a 
strange [dace, if, with a little attention to the matter, 
you can not get together all the manure you will need. 
AS a m«l si rim ED siclt s.—Upon the Annual 
“ Show Bill,” which is sent to canvassers for the Agri¬ 
culturist, there is among the engravings a pair of Manda¬ 
rin Ducks, which have attracted much attention, and we 
are daily in receipt of letters asking where the birds or 
their eggs may be had. The engraving was made two or 
three years ago, of a pair of ducks in the possession of a 
private gentleman, who kept them for the great beauty 
of their plumage. The birds are very small, and they 
can only be regarded as ornamental water fowls. If any 
have eggs for sale, they will do well to advertise, as the 
enquiries are very numerous. 
I£ul!>l>ei* Slaocs ior Morses.—“J. J. 
A.,” Cumberland Co., N. J. The rubber shoes for horses 
you wish for working upon salt meadows, may be pro¬ 
cured of C. M. Moseman & Bro., 114 Chambers St., New 
York. These shoes are valuable for many purposes ; for 
tender feet; for corns ; in mowing lawns, the surfaces 
of which should not be marked by the horse shoes ; for 
quarter crack ; contracted hoofs ; interfering ; and in 
breaking colts. 
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“Walks and Talks” Correspondence. 
Feeding Wheat to Stock. — “G. B.,” Nebraska, 
writes that in his section “all the farmers are feeding 
wheat, and generally wiih very indifferent results. I have 
done better than some others, as I made a cutting-box, 
and feed chopped food entirely.” 
Wheat vs. Bran. — The same correspondent asks, 
“ which would be the better economy, to exchange a 
bushel of wheat for 20 lbs. of bran and 40 lbs. of shorts, 
or to have it chopped, and give one-eighth toll. I can do 
either, but do not know how to decide.”—I feel sure 
that 60 lbs. of wheat are worth more than 60 lbs. of bran 
and shorts. As to paying, one-eight for grinding the 
wheat, I am not so certain. If I had the wheat in the 
sheaves, I would neither thrash it or grind it. I would 
run the sheaves through a feed-cutter, and feed the whole 
together. We frequently do this with oats. The wheat, 
straw, and chaff would then be all mixed up together, 
and the cows, horses, and sheep, if fed judiciously, would 
digest the wheat. 
Feeding Judiciously.— The Deacon, who happened 
in while I was answering tins letter, asked, “what 
do you mean by feeding judiciously ? ”—That depends. 
In this case I meant giving the horses and cows no 
more at a time than they would eat np clean, without 
stopping to “ mouth it over,” and pick out the grain. 
The point is to make them eat grain and straw together. 
I would far rather feed horses and cows whole grain 
mixed with straw or hay, than to feed them meal alone.. 
The chief advantage in feeding meal, is that it can be so 
mixed with cut feed, that the animals can not separate 
the meal from the straw and hay. 
Feeding Pigs. —“Would you,” asks a correspondi nt 
at Huntington, Ind., “feed spring pigs that are to be 
slaughtered in November, all the food they will eat all 
the time, or would you just feed them enough to keep 
them in good growing order? I would give them all 
they would eat and digest. If they are getting too fat, 
reduce the quality of their food, but let them have all 
they want of something. In other words, I would let 
them have the run of a good pasture, and give them corn 
and slops enough to keep them growing as rapidly as 
possible. If they seem to be getting too fat, ease np a 
little on the corn, but let them have all the slops or grass 
or clover they will eat. 
