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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
Notes, condensed, read : April 24, clear, with high winds, 
peach trees in bloom—25, cloudy — 26, clear, warm A. M., 
light rain P. M., and during 27lh ; cherry trees in bloom- 
28, 29, 30, clear, warm and fine— May 1 to 8, very fine 
warm, growing weather, the mercury reaching 87° in the 
shade on the 7lh—9, warm day, but suddenly changed to 
cool at night, with high wind—10, cloudy A. M , rain P. 
M. and during next day—12, cloudy—13 to 16, clean and 
fine—17, warm rain—18, cloudy, rain at night—19, rainy. 
Preserving' Strawberries. 
A full chapter on the best modes of keeping fruits will 
appear in a month or two, but we are just reminded that 
strawberries will be at the higlit of their season in June. 
We therefore desire to say to one and all, you may keep 
strawberries the year round, and in almost their natural 
flavor and freshness. We have kept them thus in air¬ 
tight cans and in sealed bottles, w ith syrup, and with dry 
sugar. The can or bottle is to be filled with the fresh 
fruit—first picked over, and all bruised and green benies 
removed. A syrup is made by boiling (and skimming) 
one pound of good sugar with one pint of water; this is 
poured over the fruit until the cans or bottles are full. 
They are then partially closed, set into hot water, (cold 
if bottles are used,) heated to boiling, and a few minutes 
more. The vessels are then closed, and sealed with 
wax. They have opened very finely the present month. 
The berries may be added in layers with a little sugar 
between each layer, using no syrup. Treat the vessels 
the same as if filled with syrup, except that they should 
be refilled after shrinking in heating—say put the contents 
of six cans into five. 
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Report t!te State ©£ tJio Crops. 
It is very important this season, to get early and accu¬ 
rate reports of the state of the crops in different sections 
of the country. We shall be glad to have all who can do 
so. send in a few general statements as to the actual 
condition of corn, the different grain crops, grass, etc., 
in their own neighborhoods and those adjoining, so far 
as their observations have extended. Such reports should 
be started so as to reach us, at latest, by the 15th of each 
month, which will enable us to make up a general re¬ 
view in time for the paper, which will, hereafter, be closed 
up and go to the stereotyper about the 18th. From such 
reports we can make out a fair statement, which w ill be 
of great use to all sections. Said the long-time Commer¬ 
cial Reporter of one of our leading daily journals, just 
now : “ I would rely vastly more upon what I could 
glean from the incidental letters of the readers of such 
a journal as the Agriculturist, than from all the reports on 
crops that we could possibly gather in our markets, or in 
the Commercial papers.” We hope our readers will 
value such expressions of confidence, and endeavor to 
make these communications perfectly reliable. 
To Subscribers in California, Oregon, and 
Washington Territory. 
On looking over and counting our subscribers upon the 
Pacific coast, during the past month, we were both sur¬ 
prised and gratified at the unexpectedly large number of 
them. In return for the generous patronage and the 
kindly appreciation tints received from our far off” breth¬ 
ren of the plow,” we have determined to henceforth issue 
an extra early edition of the American Agriculturist, espe¬ 
cially for California. Oregon, Washington Territory, 
Utah, and New-Mexico, and other distant points, includ¬ 
ing our subscribers in Mexico, Central and South Ame¬ 
rica, and the West Indies. (This edition will also go to 
subscribers in the Sandwich Islands, and to those scatter¬ 
ed over the Eastern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, and 
Africa, for there are many such.) The edition will not 
differ materially from the later edition for home circula¬ 
tion ; the chief variation will be the omission of a part of 
the advertisements last coming in, and perhaps a trifling 
change in the market reports, which may require a slight 
alteration by transactions between the earlier and later 
editions. 
The earlier edition will go to press on the evening of 
19th, so as to be ready for the Mail Steamers which leave 
New-York on the 20th of each month. This will be a 
gain of two weeks in the time of receiving the paper by 
subscribers on the Pacific. 
May we not take this occasion to ask our readers who 
are to be benefitted by the arrangement, to give us their 
aid in still further extending the circulation of this jour¬ 
nal. The general character of the Agriculturist adapts it 
to the wants of our enterprising farmers who have gone 
to the far West to subdue the virgin soils, and there build 
themselves homes and foituncs. 
Our Seed Distribution will be specially valuable to 
those remote from the ordinary sources of good seeds. 
So far, the higher rates of postage have rendered it im¬ 
possible to send seeds very liberally, but we expect be¬ 
fore the close of this year to make arrangements to have 
seeds go as freight to California, and be there distributed 
at the lower rates of postage charged on shorter distances. 
Seeds can then be sent for 6Jcents an ounce, instead of 
20 cents per ounce, as now charged on those sent direct 
from our office. 
The next number of the Agriculturist (for July) will 
begin the second half of the present volume, and we 
suggest that that will be a good time for commencing new 
subscriptions. Whenever it is desired, we can always 
send back numbers from the beginning of the present or 
previous two volumes, as we keep stereotype plates to 
print from whenever needed. 
ESomitl Volumes—Binding—Covers. 
Any copy of the Agriculturist, dated after 1856, can always bo 
supplied. 
We have bound sets, of Vols. XVI and XVII, singly, and Iso 
both volumes in one cover. The prices of these are ; 
Vol. XVI,or Vol. XVII, unbound, $1.00 each. 
6° d” neatly bound., $1.50 each. 
VolumeXVI and Vol. XVII neatly bound inone cover, $2.69 
Cost of Vols X\ I and XVII bound together and sent by mail 
post-paid, $3 40. 
ESPTho circulation of the Agriculturist to regular 
subscribers, is much larger than that of any other 
Agricultural or Horticultural Journal in the world. 
Please ©peals, a. Word for Use Gea’- 
jsaasa Edlitiosa. 
With the present month we close the first year of our 
German Edition. We are now printing for subscribers 
4.500 copies. This we consider a very promising circu¬ 
lation, though considerably below a paying point yet. 
This German edition seems to meet a want in the coun¬ 
try, as there is a very large class of worthy, enterprising 
German farmers, who desire and need just such a jour¬ 
nal as the Agriculturist, but who can, as yet, only read 
papers in their native language. Owing to the failure 
of every previous agricultural journal in that language, 
many Germans have been fearful to subscribe for this 
one. Our German Edition is already a success, and it 
will be continued long in the future. 
Our readers who - have German neighbors may con¬ 
fer a favor upon both them and the proprietor, by 
bringing the paper to their favorable notice. The Ger¬ 
man edition is as nearly like the English as it can be 
translated into the German language. • We hope to re¬ 
ceive a large accession of subscribers to begin with the 
second year, and will be thankful to any of our friends 
who will lend their influence to secure this result. 
EIP Specimen numbers will be furnished free to any 
one desiring them. 
©M Pi’etfiiliaaaa Usfs to close with 
June. 
In order to avoid confusion, and to prepare for our new 
Premium list, we find it necessary to ask those who are 
sliil engaged in making up premium lists of subscribers 
beginning with the present volume, to close up their lists 
during the present month (June). All names received 
during this month, if to begin with the present volume, 
may be counted in the old lists, so that those who have 
partial lists made up, have still time to complete them. 
Those desiring to do so may now begin to form new lists 
as noted below. 
Irfrfmrtmmenfs. 
Advertisements to be sure of insertion must be received at 
latest by the 15lh of the preceding month. 
TERMS — (invariably cash before insertion): 
FOR THE ENGLISH EDITION ONLY. 
Twenty-live cents per line of space for each insertion. About 
9 words m ke a line, if undisplayeo. 
One whole column (145 lines) or more, $30 per column. 
Business Notices Fifty cents p r line. 
FOR THE GERMAN EDITION ONLY. 
Ten cents per line of space for each insertion. 
One whole column, (130 lines), or more, Sll per column 
Business Notices twenty cents per line. 
FOR BOTH EDITIONS—ENGLISH AND GERMAN. 
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Agents are wanted by the subscriber, who has been success¬ 
fully engaged in the Subscription Publishing business for the 
last twelve years, to travel and solicit orders in each county in 
the United States and Canada, for his publications, which are 
gotten up in the most attractive manner, with colored engrav¬ 
ings and elegant binding, and sold only by subscription, viz.: 
The “ ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ALL NATIONS,” a new 
work, just published, in 2 ro^al octavo volumes, l,GOO pages, and 
over 1,000 engravings, many of which are colored by hand, in 
imitation of nature. 
" THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD,” in 2 volumes, octavo, 
1,500 pages; numerous engravings all colored by hand, with 
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“THE NEW WORLD,” in the German language, and the 
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All books unsold may be returned at prices charged. 
School teachers, professional men, and young men from the 
country, are preferred as agents, and generally make from $50 
to $200 per month. 
Those wishing further information, or desiring appointments 
as agents, will apply immediately at the office of the subscriber, 
or address by mail. 
HENRY BILL, 
Norwich, Conn. 
New Premium U§ts cam JScgiai 
Now. 
In answer to several enquiries, we reply that we shall, 
the coming Autumn, offer as liberal premiums for new 
subscribers, as those offered the past year. We have not 
yet arranged the premium list in full, but it will embrace 
the more valuable premiums hitherto offered, and sever¬ 
al new ones, including Mowing Machines and other Farm 
Implements, etc., etc. We will now say, that any person 
may at once commence making up a new list of subscri¬ 
bers, and all new names sent in for one year may be 
counted in, whether the subscriptions commence with the 
July number or next January. This offer gives the can¬ 
vasser the double chance, of getting new names to begin 
now, and also in January. Two half yearly subscribers 
will count the same as one for a whole year. 
When names are sent to bo included in premium lists, 
a duplicate list should be sent at the same time, to be 
kept on a separate file, for reference in making up the 
final award at any time when the list is complete. 
During the past year we have given out over six hun¬ 
dred valuable premiums. A great number of families are 
now in possession of a Sewing Machine, a splendid 
Dictionary, or a Microscope, etc., which they have obtain¬ 
ed without any actual outlay of money. How many oth¬ 
ers will be equally fortunate next Winter, or before, in 
getting, on as easy terms, one of these articles, or a valu¬ 
able farm implement? It is not too early to begin the 
work now, of collecting and sending in the names, as 
every name will count. 
It will be noticed that our premiums are absolute, and 
not in any case dependent upon competition, or upon what 
some other unknown individual is doing, so that every 
person understands exactly what he or she is working 
for, and what is the point to be reached. These pre¬ 
miums are offered as pay for time and effort expended in 
bringing the Agriculturist before those unacquainted with 
it—and not in the manner of a gift enterprise. What others 
pay in commissions to agents, we pay out in this form. 
THE 
WILLC0X & GIBBS’ 
SEWING MACHINES- 
Patented June 2, 1857. Re-issned July 13, 1858. Patented 
August 10, 1858, and licensed under six Patents, owned several¬ 
ly by Elias Howe, Jr., Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co , 
I. M. Singer & Co., and Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Co. 
Purchasers may therefore; feel assured that they are 
not buying a PIRATED MACHINE. 
The beauty and accuracy of the mechanism of this machine 
is strikingly exhibited in the fact that it is capable of making, 
unerringly, 
FOUR THOUSAND STITCHES A MINUTE. 
And in the opinion of the Judges of the late Fair of the Frank¬ 
lin Institute. ** fills nearer the requirements of a FAMILY 
MACHINE than any other,” and their judgment is fully cor¬ 
roborated by all who become familiar with its merits. Prices 
$30 to $50. 'Manufactured and sold, wholesale and retail, by 
JAMES WILLCOX, 
Masonic Hall, No. 715 Chestnut st., Philadelphia, Pa., 
New-York Depot, No. 504 Broadway, 
opposite St. Nicholas Hotel. 
Keep yurai 0 Feet J©i*y 
AND 
Preserve your Health. 
The long sought for principle of making leather perfectly wa 
ter-proof, without injuring it, has at last been discovered. 
A. BROWER’S PATENT WATER-PROOF COMPOSITION 
FOR LEATHER. 
makes Boots, Shoes. Hose, Harness and all Leather perfectly 
impervious to water by a single application, and warranted to 
keep so, at the same time it softens, makes the leather pliable, 
prevents cracking, will polish with blacking better than before, 
and leather will last at least one-fourth to one-third longer by 
using it For sale by A BROWER & CO., 4 Reade-st., 
and by all the principal Boot and Shoe, Hardware, Drugeist. Gro¬ 
cery and Yankee Notion houses. A liberal discount to ngenls 
N. B. None genuine unless signed by A. BROWLK. 
Whale ©il Soas> 
ir destroying insects on Trees, Vines, Shrubs ami Plants 
sale in large an<l small quantities at DAVID S BROWN'S 
P ATENT BUTTER MILL OR CHURN. 
_Butter made in two minutes from sweet milk. Call and 
see it in operation at 10 and 4 daily. The butter can be made, 
the churn washed and put away in five minutes. Single churns 
or county rights for sale Apply to WESTBROOK & MINOR, 
534 (sign of the Golden Tea Kettle) Broadway, New-York, 
