1875.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
24,9 
containing a great variety of Items , including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which u'e throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of room elseivhere. 
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New York City Banks or Bankers are best 
for large sums : make payable to the order of Orange 
Judd Company. Post-Offlce Money Orders 
for $50 or less, are cheap and safe also. When these are not 
obtainable, register letters, affixing stamps for post¬ 
age and registry ; put in the money and seal the letter in 
the presence of the postmaster, and take his receipt for it. 
Money sent in the above three methods is safe against loss. 
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—On account of the new postal law, which requires 
pre-payment of postage by t!se publish¬ 
ers, after January 1st, 187 -j, each subscriber 
must remit, in addition to the regular rates, ten cents 
for prepayment of postage by the Publish¬ 
ers, at New York, for the year 1875. Every 
subscriber, whether coming singly, or in clubs at club 
rates, will be particular to send to this office postage as 
above, with his subscription. Subscribers in British Am¬ 
erica will continue to send postage as heretofore, for 
pre-payment here. 
lloinntl Copies of Tolmtie Thirty- 
three are now ready. Price, $2, at our office ; or $2.50 
each, if sent by mail. Any of the last eighteen volumes 
(16 to 33) will also he forwarded at same price. Sets of 
numbers sent to our office will be neatly hound in our 
regular style, at 75 cents per vol. (50 cents extra, if return¬ 
ed by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12 cents each. 
“ Science Applied to Farming,” 
on page 254, gives some useful and important hints on 
the value of several kinds of feed. 
Our “National BAZAAR” this 
month, contains the usual assortment of good things, ad¬ 
vertised by trustworthy men. It will always pay any one 
to look all through the advertisements, and see what is 
offered, by whom, at what price, etc. Many a man has 
got a valuable new idea from seeing what others say 
about business matters, which has started his own 
thoughts in a profitable direction. When writing to any 
of our advertisers, for information, catalogues, etc., or 
Bending orders to them, please let them know that you 
belong to the great Agriculturist family, and you may ex¬ 
pect and will receive good treatment. Our advertisers 
know that we carefully exclude any one who does not 
promptly perform what he promises in his advertisement. 
Fruit and Frodtaee, may be consigned 
for sale to Messrs. Meyers & Alley, 83 Murray Street, 
with confidence in having them qnickly and well sold, 
and honest returns made at a reasonable commission. 
A Summer Resort, Quiet, Home-like, 
Healthful, with charming surroundings in the neighbor¬ 
hood, and at reasonable rates, can be found by address¬ 
ing “Maplewood," Ellenvilie, Ulster Co., N. Y., or in¬ 
quiring at No. 2 Exchange Place, (Room 6,) N. Y. City, 
between 9 A. M. and 3 P. M. 
Potato Bug'—Paras ftreen.— F. W. 
Devoe & Co., 115 & 117 Fulton St., N. Y., issue a circular 
giving an article from the Report of the Mich. Board of 
Agriculture, by onr friend Prof. A. J. Cook, on the use of 
Paris Green. Devoe & Co. claim that they make only 
pure Paris Green. There is a plenty of the adulterated 
article to be had. 
Amei'icaia Veterinary College.— 
This college, recently incorporated, is under the direction 
of the former Faculty and Medical officers of the New 
York College of Veterinary Surgeons. Prof. A. Liautard 
is Dean of the faculty, and Dr. A. Large is the professor 
of veterinary practice. Under the direction of experi¬ 
enced professors this college offers a good opportunity 
for students who desire a veterinary education. The 
session commences in October. The fees are $135. Cir¬ 
culars may he obtained of Dr. A. Liautard, at the college, 
141 West 54th st., New York. 
Professor Turned. Farmer. —Profes¬ 
sor N. entered our office the other day. He was dressed 
in a suit of black, not of the newest fashion, but highly 
respectable, with white cravat, polished boots, and withal 
smoothly shaved. We had known him for a score of 
years, first as a professor iu a Biblical Institute, then as 
a writer in church periodicals, and lastly as United States 
Consul at one of the inland cities of Germany. But his 
consulate ceased and he returned to his native country. 
We presumed, of course, that he had resumed his old 
occupation of teaching, or that he had settled down as a 
writer, for which lie possesses rare quaities, when in 
course of conversation be announced himself a farmer. 
Had actually exchanged the professor’s chair for the 
plow, and dropped his pen for the boo. Our astonish¬ 
ment was freely expressed. We said to him. “Why, 
Professor, some people say that a man cannot live by 
farming, even if raised to the business, Low then do you 
expect to succeed, who are without experience ?"—“ Oh,” 
he replied, “ men cannot live if they depend on others to 
do their work, but it hasn’t cost me over seven dollars 
all this spring. I have done my own plowing, planting, 
and chores, and as I must starve unless I work, I con¬ 
clude to work so as not to starve.” —Our friend looks 
healthy, cheerful, and gritty. Perhaps here is a lesson 
for seedy merchants and hankers who are troubled be¬ 
yond measure for simple support in these hard times. 
Let them go to mother earth with Queen Esther’s reso¬ 
lution, " If I perish, I perish.” C. C. N. 
IS;« Halo CJuasit.—A brief account of this 
mischievous insect, is given on page 262, in which, by 
the dropping of a single letter, the scientific name of the 
insect is spelled incorrectly. It should be simidium, and 
not simulum, as it stands there. 
Frodiace Comuaissiou—Removal.— 
The old house of W. A. Covert & Co.,' has taken up new 
quarters at 112 Warren St., N. Y. 
WesnsEi of LJeon-g-e S. Parsons.—Mr. 
Parsons was well known to those dealers in and purchas¬ 
ers of agricultural implements, as lie was for many years 
with R. II. Allen & Co., and more recently with Carr & 
Hobson, of New York. He died on June 1st, of Brights 
disease, and though only 2S years of age, was a well 
known and popular member of the trade. 
LJunno. —“ M.” Jersey City. Plants with deli¬ 
cate foliage will he very apt to he injured, if guano is 
dusted upon their leaves. 
1^“ Don’t fail to read about the 
Wonderful Menagerie, 
On Page 283. 
THe Colorado S’otato Beetle has 
put in its appearance, and has now reached salt water. 
Some of the potato growing counties of New Jersey are 
badly infested, and they are equally numerous in Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and southward. Last fall wo gave warning that 
they were near the coast, and have this year given timely 
notice. Knowing that they were to he expected, the 
writer began to examine his potatoes as soon as they 
were fairly up, and in the last week in May a few hugs 
were found. Examination was daily made of the vines, 
and a few hundred in all collected, and what few eggs 
were found destroyed. If the first ones which come from 
their winter quarters in the ground, are allowed to breed, 
then the case becomes serious, hut having, while the 
plants were small, and the beetles easily seen, disposed 
of the first brood, we hope to keep them in check, though 
no doubt some will come in from other places, and it 
will not do to omit frequent examination. Those who 
have been so unfortunate as to allow the insects to get 
the mastery, must resort at once to Paris Green. Full 
particulars as to its application, are given in June, page 
226. Every day of delay only makes the matter worse. 
If the bugs are few, pick by hand, and destroy the eggs, 
which will he found in little orange-colored clusters on 
the leaves. If too many to pick, then use Paris Green, 
observing all the precautions given in the article referred 
to. Keep up the watch ; if no hugs are found now, they 
are liable to come at any time during the summer, and 
success depends greatly on beginning in time. 
Tlae 2 *e»cla Crop.— The peach trees in 
Delaware and Maryland, were, as usual, all badly injured 
by the severe winter. Again in spring, that frost came 
and killed all the buds, as it is bound to do every year. 
Very likely the convenient peach hug will he along at the 
proper time, it came last year and was very destructive- 
in the newspapers at least. On the other hand, we have 
it from the best sources, that up to the middle of June 
the prospects were that the crop will he the greatest ever 
known in the great peach counties of Del. and Md. 
Ag-rieaaitural College.— “ A Correspon¬ 
dent,” who gives no clue to his whereabouts, not even 
his stale, dates his letter May 31st, and asks us to reply 
in June. We don’t know who this youth is, or where 
he lives, but he needs many things more than he does an 
Agricultural College. He should learn to spell, and 
should know that every third word does not begin witli a 
capital letter. Asking if students “are Learned to plow 
Good,” shows that he has not done with the common 
school. He should learn that it is impolite to write to 
any one without giving his name, and that it is custom¬ 
ary to give town and state. Take onr advice, young 
man, and get a decent common-school education before 
you think of anything beyond. 
SFAEFRY EaaJMB tr«S.—The letters we 
receive thanking us for giving warning against certain 
schemes, and thus saving the writers from fraud, are so 
numerous that we are sure that these exposures have 
been of great benefit to our readers. But thisisonly one 
side of the matter, certain other letters make us feel that 
there is a class of persons which, do what we may, we 
cannot help, and their letters are quite as discouraging 
as the others are the reverse. It seems very strange when 
we have exposed a scheme month after month, and 
warned our readers against it in the plainest language, 
to receive a letter taking up the subject afresh and ask¬ 
ing the very queries we have already answered. Then 
again, if there is anything that we have tried to state 
clearly, and enforce by repetition, it is the fact that we 
regard all advertising doctors as useless or dangerous, 
and have stated that we make no exceptions to this—yet 
more of the time of one man than we can spare is taken 
up in answering letters from all over the country, asking 
if we know anything about this or that advertising doc¬ 
tor, or if such a one is not an exception to the general 
rule. These inquiries come so often that we sometimes 
wonder if these people read what is written. While we 
are willing to aid our readers with advice'upon schemes 
not already treated of in this column, we beg of them not 
to ask about matters already disposed of. We have no 
information held hack, and cannot add to what has been 
said, and it is too great a tax upon our time to repeat in 
a private letter what has already been published for the 
general good. We are led to these remarks by several 
letters now before ns which the writers need not haoe 
written had they looked over the humbngarticles for the 
past few months. Some of these letters are inquiries 
ABOUT WALL-STREET BROKERS, 
and we have already given abundant warning in this 
matter. As had a name aa the street has, there are men 
in it of the highest integrity who advertise their legiti¬ 
mate business, so we cannot say that all Wall-street bro¬ 
kers are frauds. But where you find those calling them¬ 
selves brokers, advertising in obscure country papers, 
setting forth the hope of immediate great returns for 
small investments, you may be very sure that such 
are of the kind known as “curbstone brokers,” who 
have no standing at the regular hoard, hut belong to that 
class of “ shysters ” who give the street its had name. It 
i3 safe to say, in every case and all the time, one who 
is not familiar with stock operations should have noth¬ 
ing to do with the street either personally or by proxy. 
“ Never play at a game you do not understand.” 
HEAVY LOSSES IN EVERY COMMUNITY 
annually result from small frauds which the people ac¬ 
quiesce in if they do not encourage ; the small losses in 
each family every year are in the aggregate very large. 
Some storekeepers designedly cheat, while many others 
are careless, and those who buy their supplies at retail, 
not only pay a larger price for a given weight or measure, 
hut they often do not get the weight they pay for. In 
cities weights and measures are, or should be, annually 
examined and sealed ; this, while it prevents much unin¬ 
tentional false dealing, does hut little to avoid actual 
fraud; hut in the country the buyer has not even thiB 
protection. Those who have never given attention to 
the matter would he astonished to find how few scales, 
weights, and measures are really accurate. Every family 
should have correct scales and weights, and re-weigh 
each article in the package as it is brought home, if 
found short-weight, return it immediately, even at the 
cost of some trouble, and ask that it be made right. As 
soon as it is understood that you intend to have what 
you pay for, there will he little trouble in future. Some 
may say that 
“IT LOOKS SO SMALL AND MEAN 
to make a fuss about an ounce of coffee or a quarter of a 
pound of sugar.” It is not mean, hut just. For example, 
you agree to pay 35c. for a pound of coffee, and law and 
custom decide that you are entitled to 16 avoirdupois 
ounces. If you get hut 15 ounces, itis your duty to show 
the dealer, if he is honest, that his scales are inaccurate, 
and that lie is unconsciously defrauding his customers; 
if the short weight is intentional, the dealer should be 
exposed. Let any one who thinks it mean to insist on 
full weight, try the other side of the case and give 32c, 
instead of 35c., the agreed price of the coffee, and sec if 
the seller will think it “ mean ” to ask for the other 
three cents. Not only in articles that are sold by weight 
