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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[March, 
Parity in the value of the two lots, and the price at 
which he offers to sell them. We shall he glad to show 
any of Rob.’s creditors the letter.Here is another 
from Bond street. The “New York Loan Brokers' 
Union” disposes of unredeemed articles by sending 
“ certificates at 25 cents each.” Each certificate contains 
the description of an article. If the holder of the cer¬ 
tificate will send $4.75 more, the article will be sent to 
him. A complicated sort of a lottery. A correspondent 
in Trumbull Co., Ohio, has sent this concern money, has 
written two letters and had no reply, and writes us 
to know "what course to pursue.” We advise our 
friend to buy last year’s volume of the Agriculturist and 
read over the Humbug articles, where he will find this 
swindle already set forth. He will have the satisfac¬ 
tion of learning that others besides himself have been 
caught in quite as silly traps, and he may reflect that no 
one m New York is fool enough to sell anything worth a 
dollar for a dime. 
LOTTERIES AND GIFT CONCERTS. 
Under various names and for plausible objects several 
lotteries are proposed. Here is to bo a Prize Concert 
to raise funds to found a public library at Greeley, Col. 
Wo do not kuow how much truth there is in the state¬ 
ment that the drawing is to take place “ under the 
direction of the Town Trustees,” but if this is the case, 
those colonists who started out with such high moral 
aims, had better either come back or change the name 
of their town. It is unfair that the name of Mr. Greeley 
should be in this way associated with a swindle—for 
every lottery is a swindle or worse. They need some 
missionaries out West, for here comes a scheme to raise 
funds for the Nebraska Orphan Asylum. What if the 
names of Governors, Judges, Marshals, and other emi¬ 
nent men are attached to it! So much the greater 
shame. H a missionary is sent to Omaha, we hope it 
will not be the Rev. Wm. C. Clarke, of Brooklyn, as he is 
in the same boat. There is to be a fair for the erection 
of the Bethesda Mission-House and other things. 300,000 
tickets are to be issued at $1 each, and $86,7'80 are to be 
distributed in prizes varying from a $12,000 house and 
lot to a 50-cent engraving. The circular for this lottery 
tells us that “ vast multitudes are sleeping in ignorance 
and vice," and after seeing this circular we are disposed 
to believe it, as the “ distribution ” isa strong indication 
of “vice,” if not of “ignorance.” Wewonld suggest 
that this Rev. Mr. Clarke is in a business in which no 
Christian minister ought to be engaged. In this case 
the end does not sanctify the means. Just think of 
sending lottery tickets all the way to a small town in 
Missouri, to raise funds to build a “Mission” in the 
wealthy city of Brooklyn. 
FOREIGN LEGACIES. 
The foreign legacy humbug has started up again. A 
chap in Glasgow, Scotland, named Benedict, has circulars 
printed with blanks to fill in with names and amounts,- 
which he sends to people in this country, informing them 
that more or less millions have been left by “ So and so ” 
to "ms nearest relatives in America. “ And if you choose 
to write me I can inform you further about the matter.” 
Others are less modest than Benedict, and ask for a 
fee in advance. Wo don’t advise taking much stock 
in foreign legacies. 
QUACK DOCTORS AND MEDICINES. 
The melancholy thing about this department of hum¬ 
bugging is the fact that victims are so readily found, not 
only among the poor and ignorant, but among those 
possessing wealth, and, upon most matters, intelligence. 
One of these chaps, with a small fortune in the way of 
diamonds upon his shirt-bosom, came in a short time 
ago to remonstrate with us for classing him with hum¬ 
bugs. It was suggested that he could get his remedy in 
court, but he intimated that he knew too much to try 
that. He told us that last year his profits were $75,000, 
and ho expected that they would be $150,000 this year. 
ThiB was only one of the successful quacks in the 
country into whose pockets the people pour millions. 
About the only “novelty ” we have in the way of medi¬ 
cal quackery is the “ Oxygenized Air.” Oxygen as a 
remedial agent has beeu used more otrioss since the days 
of Beddoes. One Blood issues a sheet containing re¬ 
pulsive engravings, frantic appeals to take'his stuff or 
die. and the stereotyped abuse of physicians, all of 
which induce us to advise people to let Blood and his 
Oxygenized Air alone.Here is the wonderful 
“ Vin Iridin,” which “ should always be used ” in nearly 
fifty different diseases.Here are Moore’s African 
Remedy and Zambesi Fever-Cure. No, we thank you. 
Stanley has been enough for the present; this African 
business is “ ausgespeil." .H. James don’t go to 
Africa for his stuff, but has his Excelsior Ointment of 
India and his Cannabis lndica stuff’. He gives his pre¬ 
scription for making his medicine, but as Cannabis 
Indira is not grown in this country, he informs people 
where the regular lliing can be had in Philadelphia. 
This is very old and very thin.We must repeat 
again and again that no New York University or Dis¬ 
pensary of any kind that has any right to the names ever 
advertises medicines of any kind or ever publishes 
their cures. Let all such alone. 
IMPROPER BOOKS AND APPLIANCES, ETC. 
For those who send for books and prints advertised in 
such a way as to lead to the belief that they are lewd, 
and receive unexceptionable things, we say, “ Sarved’em 
right.” Don’t come whining to us because you did not 
get the things you hoped for. We have no sympathy 
with people who send money for improper things and 
get cheated, but we have great sympathy for a decent 
person who receives a vile circular, asking him to buy 
books, pictures, and appliances which he had never 
known the existence of. We will not advertise these 
people by mentioning names, but will merely say there 
are persons in Augusta and Portland, Me., and New 
Bedford, Mass., that will need looking after. Wood's 
Museum is a very innocent-looking paper published in 
New Jersey. The two outer pages are filled with unex¬ 
ceptionable matter—even that of a religious tone—while 
the inside is filled with advertisements of the most ob¬ 
jectionable kind. 
QUICK WAYS OP MAKING MONEY. 
How is it possible fora person to fall into a trap like 
that of Dennis Wells, who offers to show how to make 
$1,000 a day? Why does not Dennis make the money 
himself? If people would apply this test to these rapid 
money-making projects, they would see the folly of them. 
A concern offering great inducements with Needlebook 
and Porte-monnaie, another wanting agents for the sale of 
Tea and Coffee, is not to be found in the N. Y. Directory. 
_Suspicious-looking- chromo advertisements appear in 
the Boston papers. 
DEALERS IN TIIE “ QUEER.” 
Our Humbug article would not be complete without a 
reference to those who apparently offer to send counter¬ 
feit money. We described last month the manner of 
operating. A printed or lithographed circular is sent 
out, and a name and address ie inclosed, on a loose slip of 
paper. We give the following names: At 34 Amity 
street—L. M. Craig, Dr. G. B. Ernes, P. L. Hawkes, T. 
Hindman, C. Large, Dr. Geo. Prefule, Chas. Stebbins, T. 
M. Weller, Egbert Warton, II. Hinds. At74Bleeckerst.—J. 
Bishop, O.E. Burras, G. Bedell, Geo. Bower, W. Bames, 
A. B. Beesey, W. Grant (or Crant), Wm. Chidester, L. 
S. Downing, W. C. Dutton, J. W. Ensign, E. Goodrich, L. 
M. Gearing, Geo. M. Green, A. E. Kelly, R. Lamphere, 
n. B. Meech, C. Melvin, G. L. Masher, Col. L. Putnam, 
Geo. Richey, L. D. Skelton, Col. J. Townsend, L. Wal¬ 
dron, C. B. Miles, J. Ward Emerson. At 609 Broadway—A. 
M. Bond, Wm. Ballard, M. T. Ferrier, J. Travis, D. An- 
thon. All of the addresses here given, save two, are writ¬ 
ten upon precisely the same paper and in the same hand. 
Isn’t it a pretty set of aliases? J. W. Ensign, at 74 
Bleecker street, says; “Remember I do not dare to 
call for any letter, and if you write me by mail I will 
never get your letter.” What a green person must it 
be who will trust money to a man who does “ not dare” 
to call for a letter ? From 88 Broadway, circulars are sent 
by Reid Delafield & Co., who entreat their correspond¬ 
ents to send by express, -‘never by mail, positively 
never,” to which we add—nor in any other way. It is 
melancholy to think that there are fools enough in the 
country to make profitable such a transparent swindle as 
this pretended counterfeit-money business. It is a con¬ 
solation to know that those who send for “the queer” 
never get any ; they lose their money and are ashamed 
to “ squeak.”_Since the above was written we notice 
that some of these dealers have been arrested, and the 
Mayor of New York promises to do all that the present 
laws will allow him to do in suppressing this vile 
swindle. 
4*ood Advice. — “S. W.” writes: “I see 
1 Walks and Talks ’ is in doubt whether mangel-wurzels 
are or are not more profitable than corn. I would say, al¬ 
ways raise both." —We think this hits the nail right on the 
head. The two fed together are more profitable than 
either alone—and our friend W. and T. would be the last 
man to say otherwise. 
Tlie Fs-acticnl MagfaziHe.—This is an 
elegant monthly of eighty large quarto pages, devoted to 
“ Industrial News, Inventions, and Improvements.” It 
is beautifully illustrated, and the first number gives 
promise of a serial of great value and excellence. It is 
published simultaneously in England and in this coun¬ 
try. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. Price, $1 each 
number, or $10 a year. 
Tools for ISoys. — “ J. A. B.,” Peoria, Ill., 
asks if it will help a boy to be a farmer to learn how to 
use carpenters’ tools.--Decidedly; every farmer should 
know how to use carpenters’ tools, and he will be apt to 
plow a better furrow, and check out his cornfield more 
equally, if he can saw a straight cut through a board, or 
plane a straight edge on it. Besides, every farmer ought 
to know how to make his gates, or build his sheds and 
stables or pig-pens, in such a shape that he will not be ! 
ashamed of them. In this way he saves money ; which 
is money twice earned. 
4$Slip, f%»r SSsaMcj.".— “J. S.,” Warren Co., 
Ohio, has five hundred bushels of oats, which are worth \ 
only thirty cents a bushel. Ho asks if it would pay better 
to feed them to milch cows, making butter at twenty-five 
cents a pound, than to sell them.—If they are ground 
into meal, and four to six quarts a day are fed to good 
average cows, the extra yield of butter ought to pay for 
the oats, and the better quality of the manure made and 
the gain in the calves will yield a fair profit besides. 
SccsaitcSaes.—“ G. P.,” Buffalo, wants a remedy 
for the scratches.—Scratches or grease may very often be 
cured by washing the legs with warm water and soap, 
and, after drying thoroughly with a soft cloth, applying 
glycerine or lard perfectly free from salt. If this does 
not avail, a pound of “concentrated lye” or carbonate 
of potash may be dissolved in two quarts of water and 
put Into a bottle. A quarter of a pint of this solution 
should bo put into a pailful of cold water, and the horse’s 
heels bathed with it night and morning. The legs should 
be dried immediately after the bathing, but considerable 
moisture will exude from the skin afterwards. The 
stable must be kept clean, and no snow or ice allowed to 
remain on the legs. 
Scos&trs in Sheep.—“R. G.” wants a reme¬ 
dy for “ dysentery ” in sheep. He probably means diar¬ 
rhea, which is a far more common aud less dangerous 
disease than dysentery. For ordinary cases of diarrhea 
in sheep, change the food and give the sheep all they will 
eat of a mixture of equal parts of Glauber’s-salt (sulphate 
of soda) and common salt. This may apparently increase 
the difficulty at first, but will usually effect a cure. Where , 
there are only one or two sheep affected, and it is probably 
caused by weakness, give a pint of fresh milk made into 
a porridge with a table-spoonful of wheat flour, once a 
day. If this does not effect a cure, give two ounces of . 
Glauber or Epsom salts and 20 drops of laudanum, and in 
five hours give ten more drops of laudanum. If the sheep 
is very weak, give half a pint of warm ale with a little 
ginger or gentian. 
Weight of :i Barrel of PoUasli,- 
“ Reader” is informed that a barrel of potash weighs 
about 500 pounds. 
Spring Wheat.—“ G. H. W.,” Gallatin, 
Tenn., wants information as to the cultivation and yield 
of spring wheat.—Spring wheat is a good crop in the 
more Northern States and Canada; it is sown as early ns 
possible in spring on fall-plowed land, and succeeds peas 
or roots, or on new rich land is made to follow fall wheat, 
but the latter only in exceptional cases. A good yield is 
25 bushels per acre. This crop is not suitable for Ten¬ 
nessee, nor for south of the center of Lake Brie. 
Feeding Breeding- Sows.—T. R. Lo- ; 
gan, of Texas, asks: “ Is there any feed that can be given 
without stint to a young sow that she may grow to her 
fullest capacity, and not get too fat ? ”—We know of none. 
You must use more than one kind of food, and feed with 
judgment, sometimes making the food richer and some¬ 
times more bulky, in proportion to nutriment. Our own 
plan, which we have not space to give in detail, is to 
feed young sows intended for breeding all the rich food 
they can cat and digest until they are four or five months 
old, and sometimes until they are seven or eight months 
old—depending on the season and on the disposition to 
fatten. When they appear to be getting too fat (not as 
compared with common pigs, but as compared with others 
of the same breed), we give all the food they will eat up 
clean, but make it less nutritious. Turnips, cabbage, 
mangels, green clover, and bran are good to weaken the 
food, and corn-meal, oatmeal, or barley meal good to en¬ 
rich it. Plenty of exercise, food, and water is our motto. 
ILong-Icecping - Apples.—In November 
last, Mr. Otis Chickering left with ns an npple which was 
then in the third year of its age. This apple is a local 
variety at Enfield, Mass., of medium size, and sweet. 
They were always known as keeping until apples came 
again, and late in the spring of 1S71 a barrel being found 
in excellent order, their keeping qualities were still 
further tested, and though harvested in 1870, they were in 
good order after the harvest of 1872. 
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