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blown by the mouth, and worth 5 to 25 cents each, on 
which you can play as many tunes as you itnow how to. 
..Beware of Lands at 40 cents per acre, the proprie¬ 
tor of which is ashamed of his own name, and dodges 
behind a P. O. Box. The “ C. O. D. Deeds ” will be 
good for laud in the moon, but noton this planet. 
We hope every person will treat Michelin & Co. as did 
the P. M. at a Maryland office, viz., insist on having the 
watches in hand and examined, before advancing $2 or 
$1 as an 11 assurance of sincerity.” Haven’t “ Michelin 
d Co.,” under their (his) various aliases, got ‘•'assurance 
money” enough to quit “business ?”.Oroide Watches. 
There is a composition of metals, cheaply made, much 
r esembliiig gold in appearance, and retaining its color 
well, and we have seen some very fair watch cases made 
of it. But we have also seen so much humbug in the 
same line, that we can but caution our readers in respect 
to sending money to unknown parties for anything of 
the kind. It is nonsense to assert that an oroide-case 
watch can be furnished for $15 or $20, equal in neatness, 
style, and time , to a gold watch costing $150 or $200. The 
case is comparatively a small proportion of the cost of a 
$200 gold watch—the “works” are the important part. 
If one wishes an oroide watch, or, indeed, any other 
kind, the only safe way to get it is to have it procured by 
a dealer of your acquaintance, or send to a well-known, 
reliable Arm having a reputation to sustain, and desiring 
to sustain it. There are ten bogus concerns advertising 
watches of various kinds, especially by circulars, to one 
reliable one.If you come to New York look out for 
those sleekly-dressed, extra-polite villains, who are to be 
met with at any time on Broadway and 6ome other streets, 
and who will offer you their card with the invitation to 
“drop into their place just to look at some fine oroide 
watches, jewelry, plated-ware, etc.” 
The “envelope game” is their great 
hobby just now, and they will skin 
a man of his last dollar if they once 
get him into their den. Remember 
the story of the “ spider and the fly,” 
and don’t “ go and do likewise.”.. 
A lady is informed that we cannot 
undertake to collect prizes drawn in 
lotteries—not if we get the whole 
$10,000 as commission. She had bet¬ 
ter set her lawyers to look after those 
Kentucky lotteries that won’t hand 
over the money due her. It must have 
been a mistake on their part, or they 
would never have let a ticket drawing 
so large an amount go out of their 
own hands. All lotteries are swindles. 
. A subscriber asks about “ B. P. Williams, Importer 
of Watches, etc., 303 Broadway.” We find no such name 
as “Watch Importer” in the City Business Directory, 
and no such sign at the door or stairway of 303 Broad¬ 
way.—The same of “A. W. Beecher, 678 Broadway.” 
.Recipes for vinegar, honey, cheap oils, etc. Any 
person sending $5, or any other sum, for one of these re¬ 
cipes, is likely to lose his money, and time, no matter 
who advertises them by circular. We have too many of 
these circulars from various parties, to describe them in 
detail—nearly all are humbugs 1.Either a sore-head,or 
a very green man sends, or gets a letter sent, to us all the 
way front Kansas, asking where he can get some genuine 
counterfeit money. Others have tried similar tricks. We 
hope they feel better—to the amount of 3 cents postage 
and cost of paper and envelopes. We get 4 to 6 cents a 
pound for such documents, when not needed for after¬ 
reference.Still more “ Receivers” for Riverside En¬ 
terprise. Elmore & Co., 694 Broadway, claims to be one. 
He figures close—wants $3 for taxes, 15 cents for paper 
and postage—a humbug, just as is every other so-called 
“receiver.” or agent, of Riverside, or any other gift en¬ 
terprise. Wm. Bideau, 676 Broadway is just like Elmore, 
and uses the same letter-head, except the name. R. Smith 
& Co., No. 2 Amity St., is in the same business, only he 
asks but $1.53 commission, as 5% percent on a $26 watch. 
Mr. Giylor will need to follow these fellows sharply. 
They change names every week or two, apparently. 
.“Rseipe” sellers by the score in various towns, 
from Maine to Texas, are filching people’s money. Sam¬ 
bo, in cholera times, said, “ the bes’ way was to eat nos- 
sin at all, and den you no expose yourseff,” and that is 
what we advise in regard to all these recipe sellers. 
“ Dollar watches,” or “ time indicators,” are not worth 
buying—not by any means—even if the Tribune does ad¬ 
vertise them.To a lot of inquirers : The doctors you 
ask about, East and West, are humbugs, and so is every 
doctor who advertises sure cures for all diseases. We 
know this is so. and have said it a great many times. If 
you don’t believe us, why keep on asking us to repeat it ? 
_ In a villainous business is he who advertises him¬ 
self as Dr. Seeley, Albany, N. Y. The P. M. should stop 
his letters, and we linve some of his documents which 
the District Attorney of that County should attend to. 
Several more cheap sewing-machine circulars from sundry 
quarters. One offers a fine dress with three $5 machines. 
He hails from the “ humbug roost.” Let them all alone, 
or you will surely regret your money gone.Those 
$2 pistols or revolvers advertised in Michigan, Chicago, 
and elsewhere, are a swindle—the money goes , but no 
shooting-iron, or anything else, comes .J. S. Colgate, 
of the “Eureka Photograph Co.,” 1 New Chambers St., 
New York, has been arrested by Mr. Gaylor for sending 
vile obscenities through the mails, and is now in jail 
awaiting the penalty of his disgusting offense. 
Orchard Queries.—A number of these 
must be answered in a lump. A young orchard should 
be kept clear of weeds ; and this is best done by cultiva¬ 
ting hoed crops, such as potatoes, melons, and root crops 
generally, all to be well manured. When the orchard is 
in bearing, it is best not to cultivate it. Nor is it best to 
seed it down to carry off each year a heavy crop of hay 
and expect a crop of fruit besides. Seed the ground to 
clover and allow the pigs to pasture on it. 
Gtladden’s Tide E£iller. —Our friend, 
Theodore Gladden, of Florence, Mass., has improvised 
a simple apparatus, which proves very effectual in killing 
the pests that, in spring, especially, so torment the sheep. 
He took a Pratt's Astral Oil can, (which, by the way, is a 
very good thing to have, especially if it is filled with the 
non-explosive oil), cut a large hole in the top, and fitted 
a cover tightly. On one side of the can, near the top, a 
hole five inches in diameter is cut, and a common tunnel 
soldered on over the hole. On the opposite side, near 
the center, a half-inch hole is cut, in which a tin tube, 
four inches long, is inserted, and soldered in with a rim, 
to hold it firmly. On the same side, in one of the lower 
comers, a small hole iscut for ventilation, and fitted with 
a stopper. A few ashes are put in the can, and then an 
iron dish, or pan, with live coals and some tobacco leaves 
on top. When the can is well filled with smoke, bring 
the nose of the tunnel just to the outer ends of the wool, 
which should be held apart a little, on the sheep,—if too 
close to the skin, it might be burned; apply a bellows 
to the tube on the opposite side, and blow away. A few 
puffs in a place are sufficient; close the wool, and repeat 
in another place, going carefully over the whole body. 
When the operation is done, nearly or quite every tick 
will be dead, and the sheep, if they could, would give 
you thousands of thanks. 
Books Ackisowletl^ed. 
The Civil War in America , by J. W. Draper, M. D. 
Yol. 3. Harper and Brothers : $3.50 per volume. 
Self Help , with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, 
and Perseverance, by Samuel Smiles. Harper & Bros. 
The Bazaar Book of Decorum. The care of the Person, 
Manners, Etiquette, and Ceremonials. Harper & Bros. 
A German Course , by Geo. F. Comfort, A. M. Harper 
& Brothers: $2. 
Henry Cortland , or What a Farmer Can Do. By A. J. 
Cline. J. B. Lippincott & Co.: Philadelphia. 
Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby , by an Old Boy. 
Harper & Brothers : Paper, 50 cents. This is a capital 
book for boys, by Thomas Hughes, M. P., and we are 
glad to see a cheap edition of it. 
The French Echo , or Dialogues to Teach French Con¬ 
versation, by Jas. H. Norman. A. S. Barnes & Co.: $1.25. 
I'ampliicis Acknowledg-ed. 
Bisects of Missouri. The Second Annual Report of C. 
V. Riley, State Entomologist. 
Small Fruit Instructor, by A. M. Purdy, Palmyra, N. Y. 
Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Tenth Annual Report of the 
Commissioners, finely illustrated by photographs. 
Best Fowls for Eggs and. for «Fie 
Table. —Alvin Adkins, Washington Co., Ohio. The 
French breeds of fowls are the only large, quick growing 
good table fowls which do not incline to sit. Their eggs 
are large and numerous. The Crevecceur, Houdan, and 
La FICche have been bred for several years in this coun¬ 
try, and all are highly commended. They are not yet 
plenty enough to be “cheap,” good trios readily selling 
for $30 in the spring. Leghorns are excellent layers, 
are hardy, never sit, but though good to eat, are not 
usually classed as “table fowls.” 
“ Earttlaoclosots and Esia-fiJi Sew¬ 
age.”—This is the title of a new pamphlet, by Col. 
Waring, on this very important subject. The whole 
community is rapidly waking up to the realization that 
the dry earth system is a success; that it has a wider ap¬ 
plication and scope than at first could have been antici¬ 
pated, and that it is to work great changes in some of 
our domestic arrangements. Our readers know that we 
have long been advocates of earth-closets, and the quick 
abolition of the distressing privy, which, outside of the 
reach of city water-pipes, is universally regarded as a 
necessary nuisance. The book just issued is one full of 
instruction. Drawings are given of all sorts of com¬ 
modes and fixed closets. Systems for the disposal of 
chamber and kitchen slop water are detailed, and the 
superiority of the dry earth system, even in cities aud 
towns where water-works exist, is discussed and de¬ 
monstrated. The pamphlet contains 104 pages, 8vo. It 
is published by Orange Judd & Co. Price 50 cents. 
Stable Manure.—J. R. Williams asks : 
“ Which is worth the most—Horse manure at $1.50 per 
load, or bone-dust at New York prices The former 
would be the cheapest at twice, if not at thrice, the price. 
Mow $M!s “Explode.”—A. S. Canfield, 
(no State), writes, that he uses a benzine mixture for 
burning, and says that it cannot be exploded. “ We have 
burned it in pipes, in bottles, in hollow potatoes and have 
thrown it on the stove.”—The expression that an oil is 
explosive conveys a wrong idea. No oil will explode by 
cither of the means above mentioned. An oil may even 
extinguish a burning match when thrust into it, and yet 
bo. highly dangerous to use as a burning fluid. It is the 
vapor of these oils mixed with air that is dangerous, as 
far as explosion is concerned. Where a partly filled lamp 
has the portion above the oil filled with a mixture of va¬ 
por and air, it may explode. When a lamp is filled while 
lighted, the mixture of air and vapor in the can or filler, 
explodes upon coming in contact with the flame; the 
oil itself does not really explode, though it does serious 
injury when scattered by the explosion. When Mr. Can- 
field says, his oil will not explode by heating it or burn¬ 
ing it, as above stated, we can believe it—but these are 
not the conditions under which such oils are dangerous. 
We repeat that it is positively unsafe to use oils that form 
an inflammable vapor at a temperature lower than 110 
degrees. It is against the laws of the country to sell 
them, and it is contrary to the teachings of science and 
the lamentable teachings of experience to use them. 
Cyclopsediaof Biblical 'J’Sieologio 
al and Ecclesiastical EUerature.—Prepared 
by the Rev. John M’Clintock, DD. and James Strong, 
DD., vol. m„ E. F. G., N. Y.; Harper & Bros. This im¬ 
portant work has now reached its third volume and will 
be completed in three or four more; the death of the 
Rev. Dr. M’Clintock will not occasion delay in the appear¬ 
ance of the work, as the matter was prepared for the whole 
before the first volume was put in type. We have had 
occasion to know something of the thoroughness of the 
labors of the authors, and have no doubt that it is, as 
its publishers claim—superior to every former work of 
the kind ever issued in Europe and America. 
Flowering of tlie California, 
Pftclier Plant.—The specimen of the Darliugtonia 
referred to in March, p. 101, has since bloomed. This 
is the first time, so far as we have heard, that this in¬ 
teresting plant has flowered in cultivation. 
Tree Seeulw.—“ G. P. R.,” Painesville, O. 
A note on the Larch on p. 21, (Jan.) gives the precautions 
to be observed in sowing the evergreen seeds you men¬ 
tioned. The Honey-Locust seed it is generally best to 
scald, though it will often grow without this preparation. 
Na,|»5allisi for ISiirSc Blouse.—A tree in¬ 
fested with the Oyster-shell Bark-louse, is such a hope¬ 
less case, that we have publishe some desperate remedies. 
Ethan Adams, Brecksville. Ohio, had trees thickly cover¬ 
ed with bark louse and painted them from “ stem to stern” 
with naphtha.” “No harm came of it, but the lice were 
almost exterminated. The proper time to apply it is, I 
think, just before the buds start.” Please understand, 
that we give this and other remedies for the trouble, 
as they are sent to us. without commending them. Thoso 
who wish to experiment, should do so cautiously. We 
shall be glad to learn if naphtha or any other application, 
will kill the lice and not injure the tree. Fortunately wo 
have no infested trees on which to make the experiment. 
