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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[November, 
N. Y., with snndry aliases of both name and address, pre¬ 
tends to have plenty of the “ fac similes." —Wm. E. An¬ 
thony, 088 Broadway, N. Y., ditto. He manufactures a 
false slip of the N. Y. Herald to help him out_A favor¬ 
ite address used by many kinds of swindlers is “ 210 
Broadway,” because there is no such number! What was 
No. 210 is cut out by Pulton Street, which runs between 
208 and 212 Broadway.-All sorts of dodges, change of 
names, etc., are resorted to by the swindlers to avoid the 
detention of their letters at the P. O. Great credit is due 
to the N. Y. P. O. people, for their faithfulness in with¬ 
holding letters from those assuming bogus names. Mr. 
Gayler, Special Agent of the U. S. P. O. Bepartment, and 
editor of the Mail , published at the N. Y. P. O., has been 
and is indefatigable in his efforts to prevent the desecra¬ 
tion of the mails by these various swindlers. We have a 
list of 146 different names assumed by these operators! 
A large number of these were given in our September 
number, pages 327-8... Jas. L. Budd (see our Sept. No.), 
now turns up at 703 Second Avenue, and dreadfully wants 
you to send him $10 for the Havana Lottery, and get 
$10,000 for it sure. He would n’t take the $10,000—a 
single “X” is all he wants. Generous man! alias ex¬ 
pert swindler!_More “Music Boxes,”—one to play 
24 tunes for $5 ! We will furnish one to play 1,000 tunes 
for 10 cents—that is, a little reed whistle such as the boys 
use. N. B.—You must supply the tunes; we can only 
find the “ music box.” A genuine box playing only 4 
tunes will cost $12 to $15. Caution : Beware of all cheap 
music boxes_To X. B. B., and others. We can’t under¬ 
take to get back your money of these chaps. The 
sailor who gave the elephant a golden guinea, to see him 
deposit it on a high shelf, when asking for it to be taken 
down again, was told “ that was a trick they had not 
taught the animal.” The music box, and many other 
swindles have not learned the art of paying money back. 
....None but very foolish people will give any heed to 
the circulars and tickets pretending to give for $10 a 
chance at 16,000 or more watches pretended to be worth 
$100 to $750 each. Every such scheme is a swindle. If 
any thing comes back for the $10 sent, it will always be a 
cheap affair, worse than no watcli at all, however finely 
galvanized may be its case. The cheap watch swindle 
is blossoming out again: lookout for it. Never send any 
money with a ticket offering much for little. If you wont 
believe us, “go in” and get swindled. We have invest¬ 
ed many a dollar in this way for the benefit of our readers, 
and always proved the thing a humbug. We have on 
band some of these splendid $25, $50, $100, and $250 
watches furnished on tickets at $2 to $10 each. They 
would be dear at 25 cents a bushel!. ..“Fourth Street, 
Williamsburg, N. Y.,” both North and South (for there 
are two of them), is properly numbered. If G. II. Day- 
ton intends to give the holders of his “tickets” $25 to 
$50 worth of watches, etc., for only $2, why don’t he tell 
you at what number to find him ? We have a lot of his 
promising tickets, but shall wait about a century before 
we bite at the bait, and advise everybody else and his 
wife to imitate our example. And just the same of Hill 
& Oo., 615 Broadway, N. Y., who pretend to offer us a 
“ solid gold watch, double case, full jewelled, and patent 
lever movement, valued at $65.00,” all sent by express, 
for $5.10. You are too good, Messrs. “Hill & Co.”... 
Two or three Doctors (some under the title of “ Uni¬ 
versities,” “Associations,” etc., and others “on their 
own hook”) have got a great “notoriety” by broad¬ 
side advertisements, books on consumption, well-»ian- 
ufaclured certificates of cures, ingeniously put forth 
claims, etc. And—“tell it not in! lath I” many of our pro¬ 
fessedly religious journals open rlieir columns and papas 
to these pretenders. We hear of hundreds and thou¬ 
sands of dollars sent to them often by persons, who wo 
had a right to expect possessed more common sense. 
We have one infallible rule, and we know it is a correct 
one—and we speak not at guess, nor from imperfect 
knowledge, nor from unfounded prejudice--: Every one 
of these advertising doctors, whether by circular or in, news¬ 
papers, whether an ear doctor, a lung doctor , a consumption 
curer, or the curer of any other human ailment, is a quack 
—who is without any standing among reliable, honest phys¬ 
icians; and no persons should put any confidence in him, or 
intrust their lives or health in his hands, or hold any par¬ 
ley with him by letter or otherwise— This is our answer to 
a drawerful of letters asking about this, that, and the 
other one of these great name “ doctors.”.. .There are 
good map publishers, and we admit such to our adver¬ 
tising columns, but it is well to give a wide berth to 
those who make great offers pretty wel! mixed together. 
Several inquirers can “guess” who the bogus ones are. 
... .Any one expecting to get an Aluminum, or Oroide, 
or any other good watch, for $3, or $5, or $10, may de¬ 
pend upon being cheated, either in the quality of the 
watch, or cheated out of all money sent.—Not one of 
these fellows, offering you a watch for $10 or less, will 
send one worth even the money you do send. Few of 
them will send any thing except a putting off or other 
false let ter_To Inquirer. All these books on “Mat¬ 
rimony made Easy,” and the like, are sheer humbugs. 
For Your Hearth and Home. 
In reference to the “Announcement” made last month, 
we desire to say, that the American Agriculturist is to be 
in no way changed, otherwise than to make it more and 
more valuable. It will continue under the care of the 
same Editors, with all the additional help that can be of 
any possible service in making it interesting and useful. 
Our new weekly HEARTH and HOME, is designed 
to be especially adapted to every llome Circle. It contains 
editorial articles upon the live topics of the day, designed 
to give the readers in brief space,a comprehensive,instruc¬ 
tive, and impartial review of the various topics occupying 
public attention. An Agricultural and Horticultural De¬ 
partment of only moderate extent, prepared by the best 
practical men in the country, will give about all that will 
be desired on these topics by the great mass of readers, in 
country or city. The Household and Children’s Depart¬ 
ments shall be second to no other journal in the country, 
both in interest and instruction. Other Departments 
embrace Art, Science, Literature, and general Miscellany, 
giving just what every family needs to know. An out¬ 
line of news is now given, but it is the intention to make 
this Department also very comprehensive, by the addi¬ 
tion of a supplement to each number, brought down to 
the latest moment of going to press. This will begin 
with the new volume, Jan. 1st, and embrace important 
condensed financial and commercial information, with 
reliable news from the produce and other markets, and 
the condition and prospects of the crops, etc., which will 
be of great value to all having grain, stock, and other 
produce to sell or to buy. 
A large number of finely executed and finely printed 
engravings will be given in every number—amounting in 
the aggregate to about $20,000 in a volume. In this 
respect Hearth and Home will hardly be excelled if 
equalled by any of the high-priced illustrated periodicals. 
In short, it is believed that the Meekly Heautu and Home 
will be just such a journal as will be in the highest degree 
desirable and useful to every family in the whole country 
—one that every man will be glad to take to his home circle. 
The price is put very low, only $3 a year , and less to clubs, so 
as to bring it within the reach of as wide a circle as possible. 
We respectfully request all our readers to try Hearth 
and Home for a year, not to the neglect of the Agricul¬ 
turist, from which it will be entirely different in matter, 
engravings, etc., but to take it in addition. The two 
journals together will furnish a mass of information, 
(including $30,000 worth, or more, of Engrav¬ 
ings,) that can scarcely be found elsewhere for the same 
money. To encourage an acquaintance with both jour¬ 
nals, we offer them both together for one year for $4,—and 
as all our intended improvements are not yet consum¬ 
mated, we will supply both papers the balance of this year 
without charge , to all who subscribe now for the year 1871. 
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“I Can’t Afford It.” 
This is the answer that will meet yon from three- 
fourths of all the cultivators in the whole country, when 
you ask them to buy books or to subscribe for papers 
devoted mainly to their business. It is a great mis¬ 
take—an unfortunate mistake. They can’t afford not to 
procure all such papers they can get hold of. Begging 
pardon for referring to our own papers (and there are 
many others that might he included), let us illustrate: 
Suppose a man pays $4 for American Agriculturist and 
Hearth and Home. In the course of a year he will get a 
great nuniber —many hundreds—of hints and suggestions 
that he would not otherwise receive. Suppose he does 
not carry into practice a single thing he reads, or even 
suppose he rejects every recommendation given in the 
papers. Yet the very act of criticising and rejecting 
what he reads will quicken and enlarge his reasoning 
faculties, and turn his mind into new channels of thought; 
and at the end of the year he will ho a wiser man, a 
better thinker and planner, and ho will be a better culti¬ 
vator—one who will turn his bard labor to better account. 
But it is impossible that a man should read the thousands 
of suggestions from other practical men, without gather¬ 
ing very useful ideas—ideas that will bring money with 
them. Then bow much better off will be his wife and 
his children, if he have these, if their minds are stored 
with information. How many idle or vicious thoughts 
will he driven out, and their places taken by useful ones. 
Reading advertisements alone will quicken a man’s wits. 
He sees what others are doing, and he insensibly learns 
business habits. The market news, and reports upon 
the state of the crops, will almost invariably help in sell¬ 
ing and buying to better advantage. We could enlarge 
upon these topics bad we room. Need we add that that 
man who has bis mind filled with the ideas that reading 
papers and books supplies,is far happier while at work than 
the one who toils like the ox, with few higher or more com 
prehensive thoughts ?-A penny or two per day, or the 
price of a single pair of shoes, will supply a store of 
reading all through the year. “ Where there is a will 
there is a way.” One wise man we have heard of, sets 
aside an acre of corn each year, and all he can raise and 
sell from It, he invests in papers and hooks. His hoys, 
and oven his wife and daughters take great interest in 
that acre, and it is cultivated so well, at odd hours, that 
it is the most productive one on the farm. 
“ two STriaarscis to tbie ssow.” 
The Ten Thousand fortunate persons who have hither 
to received valuable Premium articles from this office 
(nearly all of whom are now at work for other articles,) 
and all other persons who wish to join them, will find 
by the Table on page 433 that our Publishers add a second 
paper, the Weekly Hearth and Home, to the list, and 
allow premiimi clubs to be composed of subscribers to 
both papers, counting one copy of Hearth and Home the 
same as two copies of American Agriculturist, and vice 
versa —both at the regular rates ($1,50 and $3.00,) and at 
the club rates ($1 and $2.50.) This will give a double field 
for enterprise. Some will want one paper and some the 
other, while a multitude will find it advantageous to take 
both papers, as they do not clash, or take the place of 
each other. At least 30,01)0 persons (one at every P. 
O.) may secure a capital premium this year. At half the 
Post-Offices in our Country there is abundant room for two 
to five or more premium clubs. At each of some of the 
larger offices we have 1,000 to 1,300 subscribers for 
Ameiican Agricultuiist alone, or enough for twenty large 
premium clubs, and the addition of Hearth and Home 
opens a field for a still larger number of such clubs. This 
is a tempting opportunity for any enterprising person- 
man, woman, or child—to secure a valuable article with¬ 
out any outlay of money. 
WE UBIES-ilEVE ALL our Eriesids 
will "be C3 really B®l«ase«l with our Now 
Weekly Journal , HEARTH AND HOME. Thousands 
have asked us to issue the Agriculturist weekly, but that 
seems to meet a great want in its present form and issue; 
Hearth and Home, owing to its large pages and frequent 
issue, will not only furnish abundant other reading matter, 
differing entirely from that in the Agriculturist, hut will 
also supply a great amount of fresh news, miscellany, 
etc. It will also, by reason of its large and numerous 
engravings, supply the place of Illustrated Journals con¬ 
taining less desirable and often objectionable reading 
matter. We respectfully solicit our old readers to add 
this journal to the Agriculturist , for a year, and give it a 
trial. We believe they will be greatly pleased with it. To 
facilitate this, we offer both journals from now to the end 
of 1871 for $4, which has been the price of Hearth and ' 
Home alone, before receiving the improvements and en¬ 
largement. Those having the American Agricultuiist 
already, can furnish the extra copy of it to a friend. 
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Large Pay*»■ Little Work. 
ITo!' A.11.—See 433. 
