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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[December, 
and Barley. The offerings of Wheat, other than prime, 
have been liberal. Holders of strictly prinic to choice 
Wheat, have not been eager to place supplies at the 
ruling figures, in view of the small proportion of the 
grades named, now in stock at this point, and the relative 
strength of the interior markets. Corn has been in light 
supply for some days past, yet not in very urgent demand. 
Rye, of prime to choice quality, attracted more attention 
toward tire close, chiefly from buyers for shipment to the 
Continent. Barley has been pressed lor sale, and has 
been very unsettled as to values. Oats have been varia¬ 
ble, with the best grades offering quite reservedly at cur¬ 
rent quotations_Provisions have been more active. 
Western Mess Pork, and western steam Lard, advanced 
sharply, chiefly under speculative manipulations on Octo¬ 
ber options, the settlement of which seriously disturbed 
trade; and at the close values were depressed. Butter, 
Cheese, and eggs closed steady... .Colton has been quot¬ 
ed lower, on a restricted business, but closed steadier, 
with more inquiry_Wool has been held more firmly, 
and has been in fair demand....Tobacco, Naval Stores, 
and Petroleum quiet... Hops have been in better de¬ 
mand, and at the close quoted stronger in price ...Hay 
firmer and more sought after_Seeds inactive and irreg¬ 
ular in price_Ocean freights havts been less active, and 
quoted easier. Flour by sail and steam to London, 2s. 
Gtf. @2s. fl(f. perbbl.; Grain by sail, to do., @ 9 d. 
per bushel; Grain by steam to Liverpool, 8gL, and by 
sail, to do., 7 @ TJi. per bushel. Grain tonnage for Cork 
and orders, os. s. 3d. ; for Penarth Roads, and orders, 
5s. 6d. @ 5s. 9c?.; for the Continent, 6s. 3d. @ 6s. 6 d. per 
quarter. 
Kew York Idve-Siock Markets. 
RECEIPTS. 
week KNnrsG Beeves. Cows. Caines. Sheen. Swine. ToS’l. 
Oct. 18. 8,791 131 2,9.77 81,101 23,118 00,137 
Oct. 2.7.10.773 87 2,238 2.',8!7 31,003 75,028 
Nov. 1.10,891 79 2,313 28.127 32,118 74,027 
Nov. 8.10,113 S7 1,881 35,204 29,089 77,021 
N'ov.10..... 8,430 136 1,850 32,039 39,357 81,863 
'total for 0 Weeks. .49,071 523 11,233 104,351 158.915 371,078 
i\o.for pi'ev.i Weeks 41,093 376 11,233 124,819 91,303 271,903 
Beeves. Cows. Caines. Sheen. Swine, 
finer age per Week . 12,203 130 2,809 38.563 39,728 
do. do. last Month.. . 10.273 9 1 2,808 31,212 23,588 
do. do. prep's Month.. 9,630 74 2,S21 20,379 17,823 
Beeves. —The market which opened strong under 
small receipts, and promised a fair if not good business, 
gave way early, and the second week of our report was 
the most disastrous for sellers since the same week last 
year, when the market was glutted with stock, and own- 
ers lost from $5 to $15 per head. Then the average price 
was 9Xc. per lb. In the week referred to. prices gave 
way fully lc. per lb. on poorer grades and aj^c. on extra. 
S-ince then on full arrivals the market has been without 
recovery, and business has been unsatisfactory. The rail¬ 
road combination to tax all stock arriving here by order¬ 
ing everything to be billed “subject to yardage charges 
Its established by the stock-yard companies,” which are 
in fact the Pennsylvania, Erie and N. Y. Central railroad 
companies, has not tended to improve matters. This 
regulation is to be fought in the courts, and if upheld 
there will be nothing to prevent the taxing of every kind 
of freight, that may pass through the hands of railroad 
companies, by means of warehouse charges. The market 
closes heavy, without any improvement, a few choice se¬ 
lections which retailed at 13i£c.@18.J£c. per lb., to dress 
58 lh. per cwt., alone helping the average somewhat 
above the previous week. The range f»r common to 
prime natives was to dress 53 to 58 lbs. on 
the 112 lbs., and for Texan and Cherokee steers, 7Xc.@ 
IQj^c. per lh. to dress 55 to 58 lbs. 
The prices for the past five weeks were as follows: 
"WEEK EKDIKG 
Range. 
Large Sales. 
Aver. 
()Ct. 18. . 
. 7!<@t0 He. 
V)'4®uy c . 
lOXo. 
Oct. 2.7. 
. 8H®13 c. 
9 @W'AC. 
10 c. 
Nov. 1. 
. 7 @!3Kc. 
9'4®wy.c. 
lOHc. 
Nov. S. 
. 7 @13' r. 
9%@ioy.c. 
10J4C. 
Nov. 15. ... 
10 @11 C. 
10>4C. 
Milch Cows. —The offerings have been light, else 
prices must have given way under the dull business that 
has prevailed the past month. Poor cows are not salable 
at any price, and the demand is fair for good at $70@$75 
per head, calf included. To be forced oft', poor stock 
would not bring over $30 per head.... Calves.—The 
market for calves has been dull, with a slow business at 
lower prices. Grassers sold at the close of our report at 
$6 per head for poor, up to $12.50 per head for the best 
lots. Fat veais sold at 7j£’c.@10Xc. per lb. live weight. 
... Sheep and ILambs have been in demand with 
large sales at low prices. Good stock have met with a 
ready market, while poor sheep have been dull and re¬ 
main so. The closing rates were steady at 
per lb. live weight, for poor to fair; GJfc. per 11). fora few 
selections of Ohio and Canada sheep, and 5Jfc.(5®£c. per 
lb., for poor t.o extra lambs_ Swine.— Hogs have been 
qu : et and steady. The arrivals of live have been all con¬ 
signed direct to slaughterers, and none have been offered 
for sale. The latest quotations were 8?aC. for Slate hogs. 
City dressed sold fairly at the close at 9%c.@10>fc. per lb. 
Remember 
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American Agriculturist.—For 10 years past an 
edition of this journal has been issued in the German 
language for the benefit of the large number of our citi¬ 
zens who read only tlie language of Yaterland. It con¬ 
tains the engravings and all the principal reading of the 
English edition. Several pages devoted to the adver¬ 
tisements in the English edition, are in the German 
edition occupied by a special extra Department, edited by 
the Hon. Frederick Munch, a distinguished cultivator of 
Missouri, which gives it additional value to the German 
reader. The colored cover only is omitted from the 
German edition. Many of our subscribers take the Ger¬ 
man copy for their gardener or their workmen. Will our 
friends make this edition known to their German friends 
and neighbors ? Having the advantage of the engravings 
of the English edition, it is larger, better, and cheaper, 
than it could he if published independently. Both edi¬ 
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sist of either edition, or a part of bolli. 
Notices of Catalogues and BBoolcs 
intended for this number must, from the crowded state 
of our columns at the end of the year, he left over. 
Tlie Index for the volume now closed, is is¬ 
sued on a separate sheet. Formerly we have, as is the 
usual custom, given the index within the regular pages ; 
we give this year the full number of pages of reading 
matter, and the index besides. Save the Index. 
A Few Mints to Correspondents. 
—The end of one year and the beginning of another, al¬ 
ways brings us in relations with many new correspond¬ 
ents, and we would suggest to them, as well as to many 
old ones who seem to have forgotten them, a few points 
to observe in writing to the editors,_Unless you wish 
to sign your name, do not write at all. Anonymous let¬ 
ters are not noticed. Sign the article what you please, 
but give the real name also... .Do not ask our opinion of 
any advertising “Doctor.” Wc do not personally know 
any of them ...Do not ask our advice as to change of 
locality or of business: it is a delicate matter to advise 
an intimate friend or relative in such a case ; and impos¬ 
sible, when the party is an entire stranger....We are 
always glad to hear what our friends have done, either in 
the “farm, garden, or household,” and failures are often 
as instructive as successes. Matters of personal experi¬ 
ence are always welcome; essays upon “matters and 
things in general” are not likely to be of use. We are 
willing to admit that the county the writer lives in is the 
best in his state, and that his state is the best in the 
Union, for they are so to him, but being the American 
Agriculturist, we cannot give room for the special advo¬ 
cacy of the claims of any portion of it. It is such a great 
and grand country, this of ours, that did wc publish all 
the praises of special portions of it that are sent to us, we 
should have no room for anything else... No matter if 
you are frequently in the city, if you have an article, send 
it by mail, or leave it, hut do not ask to seethe editor 
that you may talk to him about it. Editors judge ot arti¬ 
cles in their own time, and in their own way. We not 
long ago had a case in which a person insisted npon 
reading an article to one of the editors, something we 
never before heard of ...If your article is declined, it is 
no indication that it lacks merit; we often have several 
articles at once upon a subject that we do not care to 
treat at all at that time. An editor’s duty is to leave out, 
as well as to publish, articles. Do not ask why he did 
not publish yours_The English papers generally, and 
some American journals, give notice that they will re¬ 
turn no manuscripts whatever; we endeavor, when 
stamps are enclosed, to return those which are declined. 
_Crochety correspondents will do well to remember 
that it has been decided in the courts, that publishers are 
not responsible for any volunteer articles sent to them ; 
unless it can bo shown that the articles were ordered, the 
writer has no claim upon the publisher. 
InsecSs and PlautHi.—All intelligent per¬ 
sons are interested in the means by which nature works 
to bring about certain results, and while every cultivator 
knows the great injury insects inflict upon vegetation, 
but few are aware that these are of so great nse to 
plants, that many kinds would disappear from the face 
of the earth did not insects aid them in producing seed. 
The relations between the two—insects and plants—have 
within the* past few years, occupied the attention of nat¬ 
uralists at home and abroad, and the results are most 
wonderful and interesting. Fortunately, this is a matter 
which any close observer can study without being either 
a botanist or an entomologist to any greater extent than 
most intelligent persons are, and every one who lives 
in the country, or has n garden, has opportunity to 
make interesting observations. In the volume for 1876, 
we shall give a series of articies upon this most attrac¬ 
tive subject, and when we say that they will bo by Prof. 
Asa Gray, it is assurance that while they will be charm¬ 
ingly popular, they will also be scientifically accurate. 
©laao Horticultural Society, meets 
at Toledo, December 1-3.—If notices came earlier, the 
story would be longer. 
'JOec Money isi Horl».—It is estimated 
that the pork packers of Chicago alone, will need 
1,500,000 hogs, averaging 330 lbs. each, which at 7 cents 
per pound, will cost about 35 million dollars. This 
amount of money will be scattered throughout Illinois. 
Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. A nearly equal sum will 
go from Cincinnati into Ohio, Missouri, and Indiana, 
with large amounts from St. Louis ; and much from Mil¬ 
waukee will gointoMichigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. 
The “ White Sageof the IFar 
West.—Under this title wc gave on p. 57, in Feb. last, 
a description and engraving of a plant of great import¬ 
ance to farmers in Nevada and other parts of the far west, 
who find it a very valuable forage. In the article it was 
stated that the plant “is said to impart a peculiar and 
rather disagreeable flavor to the beef fed on it.” This 
statement was made on the authority of Prof. Sereno 
Watson, the botanist of Clarence King’s “ Survey of the 
40th Parallel,” who no doubt derived it from what he re¬ 
garded as good authority. However, our Nevada friend, 
a trustworthy source, whose account of the plant was 
quoted in the former article, dissents from this, and says: 
“ White Sage has but little taste or smell, except wjien it 
is green and full of juice, and neither beef or butter made 
from cattle fed upon it in the winter have any disagreea¬ 
ble taste; the butter made from it in winter has the yel¬ 
low color of that from summer feed in a greater degree 
than that from cows fed upon straw and potatoes.” 
Ordering Clothing'.—Tlie rales for self¬ 
measurement sent on application by our neighbors, 
Freeman & Woodruff, allow persons at a distance to buy 
their clothing in New York, if they wish to do so. 
Important to Seedsmen. — A trial 
which concluded on Nov. 8th, in one of the New York 
City Courts, is of interest to every seedsman in the coun¬ 
try. The case in brief is this; one Van Wyck, a mar- 
