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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
Fulton Co.. .. 
.... Lafayette. 
.Oct. 11-14 
Gasconade Co . 
... Herman. 
.Sept. 13-14 
Grundy Co. 
... .Trenton. 
Oct. 12-14 
Johnson Co- 
_Warrenburg. 
.Sept. 27 30 
Jefferson Co . 
_De Soto. 
.Aug. 30. Sept. 2 
La Fayette Co . 
■ Oct. 11-15 
Lewis Co. 
.... La Grange. 
.Sept, 19-23 
Monroe Co . 
... Paris. 
..Sept. 13 17 
Marion Co. 
_Hannibal. 
..Sept. 26, Oct. 1 
Montgomery. 
_Montgomery Co. 
..Sept, 27, Oct. 1 
Montgomery Co. 
_New Florence.. 
.. Sept. 27, Oct. 1 
North-eastern. 
. . Paris. .. 
.Sept. 13-17 
North Missouri. 
... Salisbury. 
.Sept. 13-17 
Bike Co..... 
. Louisiana. 
. Sept. 26, Oct. 1 
Randolph Co . 
.. .. Huntsville. 
.Aug. 31, Sept. 3 
St. Louis Co. 
— St. Louis. 
.Oct. 3- 8 
Shelby Co. 
... .Shelbyviile. 
.Oct. 10-14 
Vernon Co . 
_ Nevada. . 
.Oct, 11-15 
Warrren Co ....... 
_Warrenton. 
.Oct. 12-15 
Webster Co . 
... Marshfield. 
.Sept. 27-30 
Washington Co.... 
.... Potosi. 
.Sept. 20-22 
KENTUCKY. 
Bourbon Co.Paris.Sept. 6- 9 
Boone Co.Florence.Aug. 30, Sept.. 3 
Fayette Co.Lexington.Sept. 27, Oct. 2 
Harrison Co.. . .Cynthiana.Sept. 13-10 
Jeff. Co., & Louisville. .Louisville.Sept. 13-17 
Lexington AgT & Mecli.Lexington.Sept. 27. Oct. 1 
Mason and Bracken_Germantown.Sept. 20 
Mercer Co.Harrodsburgli.Sept, (i- 9 
Marion Co. Lebanon .Aug. 30. Sept. 3 
Nelson Co.Bardstown.Sept. 27, Oct. 1 
Ohio Co. Hartford.Oct. 1 
Paducah & McCracken .Paducah.Oct. 11-14 
Shelby Co.Shelbvville.Aug. 30, Sept. 2 
Simpson Co.Franklin.Sept. 6- 9 
Warren Co.Bowling Green. Aug. 30, Sept. 2 
Washington Co.Springfield. .Sept. 2J-30 
WISCONSIN. 
Beaver Dam..Dodge Co.Sept. 22-24 
Columbia Co.Portage.Sept.. 21 
Dane Co.Madison.Sept. 20-22 
Dodge Co.Juneau.Sept. 13-15 
Fond du Lac Co.Fond du Lac.Sept. 13-15 
Grant Co.Lancaster.Sept. 14-16 
Green Lake Co.Markesan.Sept. 15-16 
Jefferson Co.Jefferson.Sept. 21-22 
Kenosha.Bristol Station.Sept. 20-21 
Lafayette Co.Lancaster.Sept. 15-17 
Northern Wis.Oshkosh... ..Oct. 3-7 
Outagamie Co. Appleton.Sept. 15-17 
Richland Co...Richland Centre.Oct. 6- 7 
Ripon.Fond du Lac Co.Sept. 20-22 
South-western.Mineral Point.. 
Vernon Co.Viroqua.Oct, 5- 7 
Walworth Co.Elkhorn.Oct. 4- 6 
Waupun.Fond duLacCo.Sept, 14-16 
Wisconsin Valley.Black Earth.Sept. - 
MINNESOTA. 
Olmstead Co.Rochester.Sept. 21-22 
Fillmore & Mower Co’s.St. Charles.. .Sept. 28-29 
Blue Earth Co.Garden City. . .Sept. 14-16 
NEBRASKA. 
Douglas Co.Omaha.Sept. 13-15 
KANSAS. 
Anderson Co.Garnet.Oct, 5- 7 
Doniphan Co.Troy.v.Sept. 14-17 
Franklin Co.Ottawa.Sept, 14-17 
Leavenworth Co.Leavenworth.Sept. 13-16 
Jackson Co.Holton.Sept, 15-17 
Jefferson Co. Oskaloosa..Sept. 5- 7 
Northern Kansas.Atchison ...Oct, 5- 7 
TENNESSEE. 
Haywood Co.Brownsville.Oct. 18-22 
Robertson Co.Springfield.. ..Oct. 14-17 
Shelby Co.Memphis.Oct, 18-21 
GEORGIA. 
Putnam Co.Eatonton.Oct. 12-14 
Muscogee Co..Columbus.Nov. 1- 5 
ALABAMA. 
Cent'l Ag’l & Mech’l... Selma.Nov. 8-11 
Lauderdale Co.Florence.. 
MISSISSIPPI. 
Attala Co.Pilgrim’s Rest Church.Nov. 9- 
Jefferson Co.Fayette.Oct. 18-21 
VIRGINIA. 
Lynchburg. ...Oct. 11-14 
Shenandoah Valley.——-- .. . . .. 
South-west Va. .. ' ..Wytheville.Oct. 4-7 
. OREGON. 
Columbia District.Dalles, Wasco Co.Sept. 2S, Oct. 1 
TEXAS. 
Washington Co.. Brenham ...Oct. 11 
CALIFORNIA. 
St. Joaquin.Stockton...Sept. 20-23 
DOMINION OF CANADA, ETC. 
Ottawa. Out.Sept. 21-28 
E. Middlesex & London, London, Out ..Sept. 27-29 
Prince Edward’s Island, Snmmersido.Oct, 7- 8 
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.Oct. 6 
Att< - iidi:sg' tl&e S'Liia-s. —Ouoof the great¬ 
est swindles is the “ Dining-Hall” at a fair. Large prices 
are charged for very poor food, and the crowd end dis¬ 
comfort arc intolerable. One by providing a lunch be¬ 
forehand can be sure of something clean and eatable, and 
save not only money but a great amount of annoyance. , 
WAR. 
War! War! War! 
A u Thirty Year’s War.” 
The people of Europe are at war with each 
other—for What? We have been fighting for a 
long time, and we are soon to enter upon our 
-Thirtieth Year of Unceasing War ! 
We are making war upon Ignorance; war upon 
Poor Crops; war upon Unprofitable Labor; 
war upon Poor Housekeeping; war upon “ all 
work and no play,” among young people as 
well as old ; war upon Humb ugs ; etc., etc., etc. 
We are fighting for the best interests of all who 
till the soil in large or small quantities ; for the 
cheapest and l>est in-door and out-door adorn¬ 
ment of Country, Village, and City Homes; for 
lightening the cares and labors of the House¬ 
keeper; for the instruction and amusement of the 
Children; and, having been always victorious 
thus far, we shall enter upon our Thirtieth 
Annual Campaign with great confidence, 
and courage, and determination, and come out 
victorious at the end of another yea% We in¬ 
vite \ 81W I3LEC BUSTS to our grand, vic¬ 
torious army, of Readers—by the thousand, by 
the ten thousand, and by the hundred thousand. 
A “BOUNTY” is offered to the first Re¬ 
cruits oil page 328. 
containing a great variety of Items , including many 
good Hints and Suggestiom which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
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many of the large towns. We consider them perfectly 
safe, and the best means of remitting fifty dollars or less, 
as thousands have been sent, to us without any loss. 
Registered Skelters, under t.He new 
system, which went into effect Oct. 1, lSliS, are a very 
safe means of sending small sums of money where P. O. 
Money Orders cannot he easily obtained. Observe , the 
Registry fee, as well as postage, must be paid in stamps at 
the office where the letter is mailed, or it will lie liable 
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if the subscriptions all date at the same starting point. 
The back numbers will, of course, be sent to added names. 
Mound Copies of* Volume XXYB4I 
(1869) are now ready. Price, $2, at our office ; or $2.50 
each, if sent by mail. Any of the previous twelve volumes 
(16 to 28) will be forwarded at the same price. Sets of 
numbers sent to our office will be neatly bound in our 
regular style at 75 cents per vol., (50 cents extra, if return¬ 
ed by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12 cents each. 
Three Months’ Subscription, Tree, 
Is offered on page 328, to new subscribers received this 
month. The publishers desire to secure the attention of 
as many new readers as possible, before the beginning 
of the new volume. Each new reader induced to come 
in now, by means of this extra offer, will he likely to en¬ 
list still others for the next volume, so that the expense 
will, in part at least, be made up. The paper ought to 
have at least a quarter of a million subscribers to begin 
for the next volume. 
Please Notice. — Letters asking advice 
whether one shall buy a farm here or there, whether one 
is likely to do well in this or that speculation, whether 
one had better pull up stakes and move to another place, 
and letters asking us to find employment for the writers, 
have become so numerous that we must make this general 
answer. We will ask each of these persons who write 
for advice as to whether they shall engage in this or that 
pursuit, make this or that move, buy or sell this or that 
property, what answer he would make if a perfect 
stranger applied to him. Would lie not say, “I must 
know the man and all about his antecedents and present 
circumstances before I can make an opinion.”—It may 
seem unkind to refuse advice in these cases, but it; is far 
better than to advise blindly. Letters asking us for em¬ 
ployment are a waste of paper and postage. We have a 
hundred applications from personal friends for every va¬ 
cancy that occurs or is likely to occur in our own estab¬ 
lishment—and we cannot look up places outside. 
A Or ape Exhibition in New York. 
—Messrs. B. K. Bliss & Sons propose holding an exhibi¬ 
tion of Grapes late in September. Liberal prizes will he 
offered, which will he awarded by a committee of pomol- 
ogists from different parts of the country. Circulars giv¬ 
ing full particulars may be had by applying to B. K. Bliss 
& Sons, 23 Park Place. 
Newspaper Enterprise.— The resources 
of a large newspaper were never more strikingly shown 
than by the N. Y. Tribune at the breaking out of the war 
in Europe. The declaration of Hostilities came with 
great suddenness, but it found The Tribune prepared 
with a correspondent at every important point upon each 
side of tlie line. The war news of this paper for com¬ 
pleteness and promptness has been a marvel; and we trust 
the publishers have been rewarded for their enterprise. 
Eastern Western Agricultur¬ 
al Papers,—The Western Farmer, Madison, Wis., in 
a well considered article, enters its protest against the 
course of the Western agricultural papers towards those 
published at the East. The only feeling that we have in 
the matter is one of regret, when we see editors whom 
we would like to respect, engaged in a wholesale crusade 
against Eastern papers. The Western Farmer sensibly 
says; “ Making a personal case of the matter we say 
that if any Western farmer thinks an Eastern paper will 
be more useful to him than ours, we wish him to take it 
by all means. A good Eastern agricultural paper is of 
much value to an intelligent farmer, even in the North¬ 
west, and if such a farmer, after a fair trial of the two, 
concludes that a paper designed more especially for the 
East will suit him hotter than ours, designed especially 
for file West, we will certainly not discourage His taking 
the paper of his choice.”—We may add that the Western 
Farmer gives emphasis to the above by making an able 
and well-conducted paper. 
Wheat and Corn in Virginia. —A 
correspondent puts the whole story in a nutshell, thus: 
Some scratch in wheat in October or November, and 
make sorry crops, others here plow early, and will sow 
in Septeniber and make 40 bushels per acre. Some corn¬ 
fields contending with grass, briers and bushes, yield 
from 5 to 15 bushels per acre, other fields upon which 
nothing but the corn is suffered to grow, will yield 40 to 
60 bushels. Few will learn the great advantage of thor¬ 
ough cultivation. 
Unit (in?? and Curing' Tnhacco. —No 
plant is so sensitive to frost, or more thoroughly ruined 
by freezing. Saws, hatchets, and corn-knives, are all ad¬ 
vocated for cutting up tobacco. A good, heavy corn-knife 
is handy enough. Tobacco should not be handled until it 
is wilted. Lay the plant down and turn it once, after one 
side has felt the sun for an hour or more. Handle by the 
huts with great care. The plants must he immediately 
suspended, not close enough to crowd eacli other, and so 
close that- the room shall be well economized. They must 
