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- '—-——— v-c- 
Fifteenth Session of the American Po- 
mological Society. 
We learn from Col. Marshall P. Wilder, the President 
of the Society, that the next meeting will be held at 
Boston on Wednesday, September 10th, and continue for 
three days. It is very desirable that there should be a 
full attendance, not only because this will be the Quarter- 
Centennial Gathering, but. for the reason that several im¬ 
portant matters will come before the meeting. Liberal 
premiums will be given upon the fruit exhibited, and 
various excursions are proposed, and there is every pros¬ 
pect of a pleasant and successful session. Farther par¬ 
ticulars will be given later. 
Condition Powder.— “ Lankford.” Prob¬ 
ably the most trustworthy condition-powder is Taylor’s 
medicated cattle-food. 
Bruised Shoulder.-“ Lankford.” The in¬ 
flammation and swelling on a horse’s shoulder caused by 
uneven bearing of the collar may probably be reduced 
by cold water dressings. If the swelling suppurates and 
breaks, the wound should be washed with warm water, 
and a little compound tincture of benzoin be injected 
into it, after which it will rapidly heal if protected from 
the air by simple ointment and a covering of cotton 
cloth. Of course, no collar can be worn until the wound 
is healed, but if a breast-strap does not interfere with it 
the horse may do moderate work. 
Time to BSrealc a, Colt.— “S. F. S.,” 
Neoga, Ill. A young colt should be trained from the time 
he is a few months old. By two years of age he should 
be used to the harness or the saddle but not be driven or 
ridden. Then in his third year lie may be mounted or I 
driven without any breaking, and will come naturally 
and gradually to work. But the training should be con¬ 
stant, regular, and of the gentlest character. He should 
never be frightened or teased or ill-used. 
IVavy ISeaixs.— “S. F. S.,” Neoga, Ill. The 
soil best adapted for beans is a light, loamy one, not too 
rich, but clean and free from weeds. They should be 
planted in hills 24 inches apart or in drills 27 or 30 inches 
apart, and IS inches apart in the drill; five or six beans 
may be dropped in a hill. The crop needs sufficient cul¬ 
tivation to keep the ground clean, but they should not bo 
hoed or cultivated while wet with rain. They are har¬ 
vested by pulling the plants when the beans are ripe, and 
stacking them up around a pole five feet long, laying the 
bunches of beans across each other, the roots being kept 
on one side of the pole. Do not expose to rain, which 
injures the color of the beans. Thrash with the 
flail, or with the machine with the concave raised. 
SailxsoiliasEf ssbs«I E>eep PlovvisaR'.— 
(Young Farmer.) These terms are not synonymous, 
Deep plowing is turning over a deep furrow and thus 
bringing the subsoil to the surface. Subsoiling is break¬ 
ing and stirring the subsoil without bringing it to the 
surface. The usual plan until within a few years was to 
plow an ordinary furrow with one team ; and then to fol¬ 
low with another team and subsoil-plow. The latter had 
no mold-board. It simply ran in the furrow left by the 
first plow, and broke up the subsoil. Wo have seen plow¬ 
ing of this kind done in England with three horses on the 
first plow, and six horses on the second or subsoil-plow. 
As a rule it was too cosily to be profitable. In this coun¬ 
try we rarely put more than two or three horses on to 
cither the first or second plow. And within a few years 
several contrivances have been patented and more or less 
used whereby the subsoiling and plowing are done with 
the same plow and at one operation. 
SSJicnmsUi^iai ixa —“ S. K. Fv.,” 
Adams Co., Wis. A common remedy for acute rheuma¬ 
tism in horses is to give 25 drops of tincture of aconite 
root every four hours until six doses have I een given. 
The horse should be placed in a clean stable with plenty 
of bedding under him, and the legs and body should be 
covered with blankets kept wet with cold water (in 
summer.) Often rheumatism accompanies epizootic 
catarrh in which cases it disappears with the catarrh. 
New Eng’laiitl S B o«iltry CUssIt).—At the 
annual meeting of this association held at Worcester, 
Mass., on April 11th, it was decided to hold the next an¬ 
nual exhibition at Wore ster on January 20-22, 1S74. A. 
D. Warren was elected President, Philander Williams, 
First Vice-President, and G. II. Estabrook, Worcester, 
Mass., Secretary. 
MnalcliiiBgf Ertait-TTrees.—“ J. A. McC.” 
asks : “ What is the best way to make fruit-trees live and 
grow the first year? Would you mulch or hoe?”—Wo 
would do both. Plant in well-prepared soil. It can not 
be made too fine and mellow. Spread out the roots care¬ 
fully, cover with fine, rich earth. Press the earth as firm 
as possible round the roots. Then cultivate and hoe to 
keep down weeds. Keep doing this until dry weather 
sets in, and then mulch with manure, straw, or any¬ 
thing that will check evaporation and stop the growth 
of weeds. The mulch should extend for at least three 
feet on all sides of the tree. 
Baising' Potatoes witfoout Moo¬ 
ing.— “J. A. McC.,” of Niagara Co., N. Y., favors us 
with his plan of planting and cultivating potatoes. lie 
cuts peachblow potatoes two eyes in a piece. Marks out 
the land witli small plow 3 or 4 inches wide, and furrows 
3 feet apart. Then crosses the furrows with a common 
corn-marker with teeth 2 feet apart. Drops one piece in 
a hill. Covers with a large plow. Just before the pota¬ 
toes are up harrows thoroughly crosswise of covering fur- 
row. In a dry season, when the plants are one or two 
inches high, he throws a light furrow on the row. This 
acts as a mulch, and the potatoes grow rapidly for a few 
days. Then if the drag does not hurt the vines, harrow 
again. If it does, cultivate across the back furrows. 
This loosens the soil and works it down level. After a 
few days shovel-plow one way and cross with cultivator, 
which levels the earth down again. Finally, hill them 
up with shovel-plow, working thoroughly early and late. 
Taliae oiVISootfs.—“H. H. M.,” Camden, 
Me. On the whole, stockfeeders agree that the best roots 
for stock are mangels. They yield a far heavier crop than 
any other, and their feeding value is equally as good, if 
not better. The yellow globe is preferred generally, al¬ 
though the long red yields a heavy crop. Potatoes con¬ 
tain more nutriment weight for weight than mangels. 
SU.^¥ ED SIDS 3R07<iJS a i.—In this season 
of backward crops the usually bountiful crop of humbugs 
seems to have been retarded. We look at ibis time for a 
new set, just as we look for spring styles in bonnets and 
hats. Our agricultural readers are no doubt too busy 
with spring work to send us the usual swarm of letters 
and circulars, but we do not flatter ourselves that the 
supply has given out. Here we have a lot of 
LOTTERY SWINDLES OR GIFT ENTERPRISES 
for various objects that are, in themselves, worthy enough. 
It is a great pity that every State will not do as Ohio has 
done, and put a stopper upon Lotteries, Distributions, 
Gift Concerts, and every form of this kind of gambling 
by abundant penalties in the way of fines and imprison¬ 
ment for all concerned. If any of our readers wish to 
invest in the Gift Enterprise for the Library of Leaven¬ 
worth, Kansas, the Omaha Orphan Asylum, the Milwau¬ 
kee Light Artillery Gift Enterprise, or any other chance 
game of that sort, let them refer to our Humbug article 
for April, and see what people right on the spot say as 
to what proportion of the money paid in goes to the 
ostensible object of the scheme. The management of 
the Louisville Lottery, as there exposed by Louisville 
papers, is a bad enough showing, but it is probably 
better than can be made by the majority of such schemes. 
WORE ABOUT PROCURING NAMES. 
We have already shown how the various swindlers 
procure the names of parties to which they can send their 
(often infamous) circulars. A gentleman in Wisconsin 
sends us a new circular, with a letter expressing his in¬ 
dignation that such a tiling should have been sent to his 
daughters—the good man not knowing that no home 
can be an Eden so sacred that* these slimy serpents will 
not crawl into them. At the risk of giving the Charles¬ 
ton Medical Infirmary a first-rate advertisement, we will 
give the circular in full, remarking that the matter 
quoted is at the head of a ruled sheet, properly laid off 
for the convenient insertion of name, post-office, county, 
and state: 
“Office CHARLESTON MEDICAL INFIRMARY, 
“Charleston, III., May, 1873. 
“Dear Sir or Madam: 
“Thanking you for past kindness, we again solicit, a 
small favor at your hands, for which we propose to 
recompense you. If you will fill out tl.is blank to the 
number of 50 names and post-office address—first of all 
with the afflicted of every form, whether cripples, de¬ 
formed, or chronic diseases, such as Consumption, Fe¬ 
male Diseases, Catarrh, Deafness, Sore Eves, etc., etc., 
in your vicinity and county ; if not a sufficient number of 
these, add the names of your best farmers to make the 
number up to 50 (in all cases give afflicted first). If you 
do not always kn w tlie address of those afflicted, give 
the names and address of some of their friends, so we 
may reach them through 1 his channel. On receipt of the 
list returned, we will send you (postage prepaid) by mail 
a fine colored engraving, 13xts incites in size, of the late 
Washington Irving’s home. ’ Sunnyside. on the Hudson,’ 
a beautiful picture, handsome enough to adorn the walls 
of cottage or palace. These names are intended as a 
channel through which to distribute oir Health Journal, 
free. In doing this you are not only doing ns a service, 
but a deed of philanthropy, as lie that directs the sufferer 
to relief is a philanthropist. 
“ Trusting that we shall receive a speedy response, 
“ We are, very truly yours. 
“Dr. S. VAN METER & CO. 
“ P. S.—On receipt of 10 cents our ‘ Lecture on Mar¬ 
riage and Guide for the Young’ will be salt, postage 
prepaid ; a magazine of 48 pages, illustrated. 
“Continue list of names on opposite page in same 
order as on this, and lie sure and sign your own Name, 
Post-office, County, and State separate and apart from 
the rest, so we may know where to send the Engraving.” 
In every village or country place there is likely to he 
some one thoughtless enough to, for the sake of the prof¬ 
fered reward, fill up such a list with the names of the 
neighbors. If one of these “ infirmaries ” can get the 
name of a person afflicted in any manner, whether a 
hopeless cripple or one with an in-growing toe-nail, they 
will “go for him.” But Van Meter and Co. did not catch 
our friend, N. B., of Beloit. 
MEDICAL HUMBUGS 
are unusually dull this month. One subscriber writes 
that he tried the “Ear-Vibrator” advertised in New 
York, and that it proved utterly useless. We suppose 
our friend to be a farmer, as he dares from a farming 
community. If one of “J. F.’s” men should come in 
and report that the reaper was out of t rder and would 
not work, would ho look over the advertisements and 
order some hardware ? This would be about as sensible 
as to order an “ Ear-Vibrator ” without knowing what is 
the matter with the ear. Would ho not first examine the 
reaper and find out what was the matter, and then ar¬ 
range for his repairs accordingly? The ear is one of the 
most delicate organs of our bodies, and of more value 
than many reapers; yet it is treated as if it were so much 
old iron, rather than, as it is, one of the most exqui¬ 
sitely-fashioned channels with which we communicate 
with the outer world. Why will people be sensible, and 
even economical, with regard to everything except their, 
