1875 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
369 
See the Supplement with this Slumber. 
The Publishers print an Extra Sheet, (making 58 
pages in all, this month). In this they give their 
Premium announcements for the “ Centennial 
Year,” which year, by the way, has already begun, 
so far as subscriptions to this Journal are concerned. 
That is to say, all new subscribers now or hereafter 
received for 1876, are supplied with the remaining 
numbers issued this year after the reception of their 
subscription, without extra charge. .. .All our readers 
will be interested in much that is said and pictured 
in the Supplement Sheet. No doubt many will, as 
hitherto, embrace the opportunity to supply them¬ 
selves without cost, with some of the good articles 
offered. It is comparatively an easy matter to do, 
as many thousands have proved.... As Editors, we 
promise to spare no effort to meet the wishes of the 
Publishers, to have the American Agriculturist for 
the Centennial Year exceedingly valuable to all its 
readers. We trust our readers will agree with us, 
that a Journal, like this, going into a family for a 
year, will not only exert a healthful influence in 
stimulating thought and improvement, and thus el¬ 
evate the mind standard of all cultivators of the soil, 
and of others too ; but that it will also help guard 
against errors, against imposition, and assist all to 
make their labor more profitable. With this view, 
we invite all to lend a kind influence in making this 
Journal even more widely known, and in drawing 
to it as readers, many who are now without its vis¬ 
its. This we ask as a friendly favor, aside from the 
rewards which the Publishers offer on a liberal scale 
to those who respond to their propositions. At 
least, we ask all to read what the Publishers pro¬ 
pose on the first and second pages of the Supple¬ 
ment, and to the Descriptions of Premiums in 
the succeeding pages. 
containing a great variety of Items , including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which ice throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of room elsewhere. 
ESP” N.B.—Xlte Yew I*ostag , e Law. 
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pre-payment of postage by tlie publish¬ 
ers, after January 1st, 1875, each subscriber 
must remit, in addition to the regular rates, ten cents 
for prepayment of postage by the Publish¬ 
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subscriber, whether coming singly, or in clubs at club 
rates, will be particular to send to this oflice postage as 
above, with his subscription. Subscribers in British Am¬ 
erica will continue to send postage as heretofore, for 
pre-payment here. 
Remitting' Money: — Checks on 
New York City Hanks or Hankers are best 
for large sums ; make payable to the order of Orange 
Judd Company. Post-Office Money Orders 
for $50 or.less, are cheap and safe also. When these are not 
obtainable, register letters, affixing stamps for post¬ 
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Money sent in the above three methods is safe against loss. 
'JL'lie IV e w I*ost-$M8see. —The oflice of the 
Agriculturist lias a remarkably central position. Uncle 
Sam thought lie would get into a good neighborhood 
when he selected a site for a new post-office for the City 
of New York, as lie put it diagonally opposite and within 
a stone’s throw of our office. The building is the largest 
post-office in the country, and it is arranged in a most 
convenient manner. We are much obliged to the Uncle, 
as it makes the sending and receiving of onr immense 
mails a comparatively easy matter. Strangers who visit 
New York should not fail to take a look through ttiis 
spacious and magnificent structure, which, taking into 
account its architecture, its finely hut not. fantastically 
cut granite, etc., is one of the noblest buildings in this 
country, and is excelled by few other public edifices in 
the world. 
SEIF* Subscribe this month 
for all of and get 
November and ISecember 
Numbers FREE. 
The XsofB&l Ilouse-Pliins published 
in every number, are giving great satisfaction ; they bring 
many letters of tliauks, and even in these “ hard times” 
many houses, taking the country together, are being 
erected, some, following the plans given, and others vary¬ 
ing them more or less, to suit their individual tastes or 
circumstances. The specifications and estimates of cost 
given are of great value, as a basis for calculation, even 
where prices vary materially from those named. The 
quantities being given correctly by a skillful architect, 
like Mr. Reed, the difference in cost of the lumber, tim¬ 
ber, etc., is easily learned by any one on inquiring in his 
own neighborhood. Everybody wants a house of some 
kind, and most expect at some not very distant day to 
have something different from their present habitation. 
The study of any plans helps educate one’s taste, and fur¬ 
nishes useful hints, and any one intending to expend even 
$500 on a house will be likely to get hints worth ten times 
their cost by investing $5 or $10 in hooks on architecture. 
The readers of the American Agriculturist may expect 
continued plans and suggestions in most, if not all, future 
numbers of this journal, which will alone he worth far 
more than the subscription cost of the p iper. 
Hints to Advertisers. —If the Publish¬ 
ers of this Journal were to offer to put one of yonr cards 
inside every copy of the paper sent out, yon would jump 
at the chance, for though half or three-fourths of them 
would drop out and he lost, and only the first one open¬ 
ing a paper would be likely to see the enclosed card, you 
would reason that if only one in a hundred were pre¬ 
served and examined, it would probably pay. Well, 
1,000 cards with 2 by 2£ inches of decently printed sur¬ 
face, would cost at least $2.00. You would say if 1,000 
would pay, 2,000 would, and so on up to 100,000, costing 
$200. But for $40 to $80, according to the place occupied, 
you can have such a card electrotyped into the pages of 
this paper, where it cannot fall out, where it will be con¬ 
stantly before each reader, and be ready for frequent and 
future reference, as most of these papers are before the 
readers for 3 or 4 weeks, and are then retained on file or 
hound, and probably not less than 500,000 persons read 
each number of the paper, as a majority of them go to 
several families. If you advertise by circular, each 1,000 
will cost you from $1.50 upward for printing, $10 for 
postage, $1.50 to $2.00 for the cheapest envelopes, and $2 
to $3 for addressing them, besides the cost of getting 
names and addresses, or at least $15 per 1,000, or $1,500 
for 100,000! which would pay for several full columns of 
advertising. Further, the select character of the adver¬ 
tisements in this paper is a sort of guarantee to the 
reader that he will not be swindled, which is not pos¬ 
sessed by loose circulars and cards that anybody may 
have put into papers on their journey to you. In respect 
to choice company, few other journals in the world are 
so careful to extract all unreliable men and things. The 
readers of the American Agriculturist know this fact, 
and they are more ready .to patronize the advertisers in 
this paper. Its columns are, therefore, many more times 
valuable than ordinary mediums, aside from the great 
circulation here enjoyed. 
Adorn Your Homes. —Read the adver¬ 
tisement on third cover page of this number, and tell 
your friends and neighbors how easily they can make 
their homes attractive. 
A new Enemy to llte Bgjssplterry. 
—Mr. W. H. Coe, Florist, Lock Haven, Pa., sent us a 
specimen of raspberry cane upon which a Dodder (Cuscuta 
compcicta) was perfectly established; Mr. Coe states that 
the patch whore it was found is upon ground which was 
formerly a swamp. We have known this dodder to in¬ 
jure young apple trees in the nursery. Another species, 
figured in December last, attacks Lucern or Alfalfa in 
California. Being an annual, it is not difficult to get rid 
of; the affected stems should be cut out, and burned, to 
prevent the ripening of any seed. 
Tine American IPmuioIog'iical Soci¬ 
ety closed its 15th biennial sesssion at Chicago on Sept. 
10th. The meeting was one of the largest and most in¬ 
teresting ever held by the Society ; the western nomolo¬ 
gists being out in full force, and the number of members 
from tlie eastern and other states unexpectedly large. 
For details of the proceedings, reference must be made to 
the published transactions. The meetings were presided 
over by Col. Wilder, who, though verging upon 80 years, 
fills the presidential chair with all the vigor of former 
years. The officers of previous years were for the most 
part re-elected, the principal ones being Marshall P. 
Wilder, President; Thomas P. James, Cam bridge. Mass., 
Treasurer; and W. C. Flagg,' Moro, 111., Secretary. The 
next biennial session will be held at Baltimore, Md. The 
Society accepted the invitation of the Penna. Horticultu¬ 
ral Society to meet at Philadelphia in Sept, of next year, 
as their guests ; this is not to he a business meeting, but 
rather a social re-union in honor of the Centennial. A 
large and very fine exhibition of fruit was made by the 
members, hut it was unfortunately placed in the building 
of the Chicago Inter-State Industrial Exposition, where 
the collections were so much scattered and in places so 
unfitted for tlie purpose that the fruit could not be seen 
to good advantage. The exhibition of seedling pears, by 
B. S. Fox, of California, and Clapp Brothers, Dorchester, 
Mass., and of new grapes, by J. II. Ricketts, Newburgh, 
N. Y., attracted special attention_Among the courte¬ 
sies accepted by the Society, was a drive to South Park, 
offered by the Commissioners, and a banquet given by the 
Illinois Horticultural Society. 
— «<»»- •— --— 
Sundry Humbugs. 
A correspondent suggests 
that a burning candle by 
which moths are attracted, 
with some of the insects 
singed and helpless, while 
others, regardless of the 
fate of their companions, 
still fly towards the danger, 
would make a good head- 
piece to our humbug col¬ 
umn. He thinks that hum¬ 
bugs would not be success¬ 
ful were it not for the folly 
of the people, who rim after 
them—a view of the case we 
have presented in former 
numbers. We gratify our 
friend by adopting his idea, 
and regret that there is one 
thing which can not be 
shown in an engraving. 
To make the picture truth- 
fnl, we should represent the moths, after they had 
recovered from the effects of one singeing, at length 
regaining the use of their wings, and going as fast 
as before, directly to another and similar candle. 
Some persons are teachable, and do not need to run their 
heads against a stone wall more than once, to find out 
that they get tlie worst of it; such persons, if they have 
been foolish enough to lie caught by some humbugging 
scheme, do not repeat tlie folly—one dose is a cure. 
Others are not so tractable, hut go on investing in one 
tiling after another, in the vain hope that luck will turn 
in their favor. Where such persistence in folly is accom¬ 
panied by loss of money only, it is had enough, but where 
MONEY AND HEALTH 
are both squandered, the case is deplorable. Some let¬ 
ters that come to us from these victims, are truly pa¬ 
thetic, and it is difficult to read them unmoved. Such 
letters are mostly from young men who, frightened by 
the circulars of the private disease quacks, have sent 
every dollar they could raise in the hope of a. cure, to 
one and then another, until, having made themselves 
poor, and broken down in bodily health, and in a mental 
condition bordering on insanity, they write to us in de¬ 
spair to know what they shall do. They know that they 
are “going to a premature grave,” and it is singular how 
generally they talk of going away from home, where the 
cause of their death may not he known to their famiSes 
and friends. Such letters we have usually answered per¬ 
sonally, hut some remarks in a recent article have called 
out an unusual number, more than we can afford time to 
reply to by mail, and we briefly answer lliem here. Such 
young men need to do two things: (1) stop taking quack 
medicine, and (2) cure your mental disease. The second 
is perhaps the first step towards a bodily cure. We can 
see plainly by the tone of these letters, that each writer 
has brooded in secret over his trouble, whatever it may 
he, has fed his imagination by reading ail the circulars of 
quacks, which are issued for tlie sole purpose of frighten¬ 
ing such as he into paying high prices for their stuff, and 
have magnified every ache or slight disturbance, into a 
symptom of dreadful import. It is of the greatest im¬ 
portance that such a person should get out of this state 
of mind, and he can best do it by confiding his troubles 
to some one else. He must be badly off who has not 
some bright, hopeful friend who will cheer him in his 
despondency, and talk him out of the notion of dying just 
at present. Then find some good physician at home, and in 
this case we should prefer a young to an old one, and fol- 
