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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[Novembek, 
superintended tho engraving of all the plates for the 
United States money. When the Government ceased to 
issue Greenbacks my services were no longer required, 
and as'soon as I •found that my time was my own I con¬ 
ceived the idea of engraving a few plates for myself and 
for mV benefit as I am well aware a man can not become 
rich by work in" for a Balmy. I have just finished the 
work that I be "an almost three years since ; that is, the 
enm-aviii" of seven plates, which are exact duplicates of 
thljpovernmenl’s, namely: the One, Two, Five, Ten, 
and Twenty” Dollar, and Twenty-five and Fifty 
Cent Fractional Currency Plates. I have taken the 
greatest care in engraving 1 these plates, and I clefy any 
one to detect my counterfeits from the genuine. I use 
the Same paper as tho Government uses, as well as the 
same identical ink, and all my notes are correctly num¬ 
bered and properly signed, all ready for immediate use. 
I assure you the goods aro perfect in every respect and 
can not.'lie delected from the genuine. They have m 
several instances been passed over bank counters wi thout 
exciting the least suspicion; it is therefore improbable 
that yon will ever get in nr. y trouble or ever meet any one 
who can distinguish them from the genuine. 
“ I guarantee every note to be perfect, for every note 
is examined carefully by myself as soon ns finished, and 
if not strictly perfect is immediately destroyed. Of 
course, it would be foolishness for me to send poor work, 
as it would not only get my customers in trouble, but 
would breakup my business and ruin me. So, for per¬ 
sonal safety, I am compelled to issue nothing that will 
not compare with the genuine money. 
11 1 can furnish you the goods in any quantity, at the 
following prices, which will he found as reasonable as 
the nnture'of the business will allow. 
For a $1,000 in my goods, assorted as you desire, I 
charge $100. 
For a $2,500 in my goods, assorted as you desire, I 
cliargo $200. 
For a $5,000 iii my goods, assorted as you desire, J 
charge $350. 
For a $10,000 in my goods, assorted as you desire, I 
charge $500. 
“You can see from the above price-list the advantage 
of buying largely. You can not make money as rapidly 
in any other bnsiness, and there is not the slightest dan¬ 
ger in using my goods, one of the best proofs being that 
not a person doing business with me lias ever been in 
any trouble, but, on the contrary, all are making money. 
I have no connection with any other firm in tin's country, 
and every dollar of my money is manufactured under my 
own personal supervision—so in dealing with me you get 
the goods from first hands." 
Then follow various details, cautions, etc. Formerly 
these circulars insisted on transacting their business by 
express; later they gave directions to the victim for 
finding the trap, but tho latest dodge is to accompany 
the tempting circular with something like the following: 
“REAP THIS CAREFULLY! 
“ If you want to be sure and see me. and not be disap¬ 
pointed, follow these instructions: Two or three days 
before you leave home, write me when you will be here, 
and say what hotel you will stop at. Be sure to write me 
from home; do not wait until you.arrive in this city and 
'then drop me a letter, for you will save time by doing ns 
I ask .yon. On your arrival in this city, go directly to the 
bote!'named on the inclosed card, take a. room and regis¬ 
ter your name; go up to your room and remain in until 
I call. Remember, I do not know you by slight, so if you 
are arrnnd the hotel it will be impossible for me to 
recognize you, and I can only find yon by calling on you 
up in your room. 
“ Wh in.'you arrive at the depot here there is no doubt 
but that you will be spoken to by strangers, who will try 
to make your acquaintance. Some will represent them¬ 
selves to he the party yon arc looking for, others will ask 
you what hotel you are looking for, and when you 
tel! them they will try and persuade you to go to some 
other: and other men may ask you if you have received 
a confidential iett -r—but remember, not one of those men 
are the part'/ you ore looking for. Even if I knew you, 
and met you on the street, I would not speak to you ex¬ 
cept up in your room at the hotel ; and ns I will know 
from the leiler you write me, before you leave home, 
when you will be here, of course I will be on the look¬ 
out. for you, and will be waiting your arrival at the hotel. 
Any one who speaks to you, have nothing whatever to 
say to them. When I call on yon in your room, I will im¬ 
mediately hand you your letter, and when you see your 
own handwriting then you will know you are dealing 
with the right party. Be sure to remember that any one 
wJio cannot show you your last letter has no right to speak 
toyou. 
“ I have put yon on your guard, and if you obey these 
instructions, you can not fail to sec me." ’ 
- There is also inclosed a card of one of the cheaper 
hotels kept upon tho European Plan. How this business 
has been carried on in one form or another for years, and 
must be profitable, or those engaged would not persist in 
it. That it can ho successfully and thns openly prose¬ 
cuted is a sad comment upon the efficiency oi our Treas¬ 
ury Department. 
INQUIRIES ABOUT DOCTORS. 
Notwithstanding our frequent declarations, letters stiL 
come asking about this and that fellow who calls him 
self “ doctor," and we find it necessary to repeat that we 
can not reply to such inquiries, We have stated over and 
over again, that any one who advertises his cures or puts 
out circulars and pamphlets setting forth his own skill or 
the virtues of any particular medicine is a quack, and to 
be avoided. 
TEMPTATION Tv MINISTERS. 
A chap by the name of n. G. G. Fink, lias a “ Magic 
Oil," and lie sends on! r. circular “ Confidential to minis¬ 
ters of the M. E. Church only,” in which he offers to 
make the ministers agents for the sale of his “ Magic Oil," 
or to pay those a commission who will find him a person 
to act, as agent. This chap claims to have “ devoted the 
prime of (my) his life to the work of the ministry.” We 
may infer, as he deals in Magic oil, that he is devoting 
the rest of his life to quite another service. We think 
that this “ fellow laborer in the Gospel ” needs the espe¬ 
cial attention of his bishop. 
THE ELECTRIC HEALTH RESTORER. 
In last month’s Humbugs we mentioned the remarka¬ 
ble manner in which this thing was “ discovered.” A 
correspondent in Wolcott, N. Y., sends us one of the cir¬ 
culars and says: “ Please inquire and see if the firm are 
sawdust swindlers and what their names are.” This 
Electric Health Restoring Co. advertises itself at 233 
Thompson Street, New York City. We find 233 Thomp¬ 
son Street to be the side basement door of77 Amity street, 
and the place from which come the “Wine of Apocynum," 
“ Mother Noble’s Healing Syrup,” “ Dr. Clark Johnson’s 
Indian Blood Syrup," and aid the rest of it. 
OLD MOTHER NOBLE’S SYRUP 
is still working in New Jersey. That” citizen of Rahway ” 
whose letter we presented not long ago, claiming $100 as 
damage we have done to his business, is so much pleased 
with the notoriety we have given him by publishing his 
letter that he writes again, but we shall not gratify him 
by printing li-is elegant epistle. But now comes one 
AIR. WILLIAM BROWN, 
of Plainfield, N. J. William wishes to get into print, so 
we will gratify his desire. William says: “and another 
thing I speak of is what I saw in the Agriculturist of him 
(meaning ‘citizen of Rahway,’) claiming damages of 
Orange Judd & Company, 245 Broadway, New York, for 
109 dollars, which I think is no more than wriglit [Prin¬ 
ter will be sure to spell that right wright as I write it.— 
Ed.] of him for so doing, and I am certain if he is not 
recomendedXO according to his.Claims I will have it pub¬ 
lished in all papers. I shall call and see him [do] to 
know if he has his money that he claims, for I am certain 
that it has done him more than that amount of damage, 
and if Orange Judd & Company are not willing to pay 
him I shall take it in hand myself," etc. Now if William 
means by taking the matter in hand himself that he pro¬ 
poses to pay “citizen of Rahway” $160 or any other 
sum we have not the slightest objection, and if ho will 
have us published “in all papers,” we shall he under 
great obligations. In the meantime we would suggest 
to Mr. William Brown that many people have got rich by 
letting other people’s business alone. 
A MgSiosa ©ueiMnlber.—Every now and 
then instances occur which go to show that pollen does 
have direct influence upon the fruit of the current year. 
The Journal of Horticulture (Eng.) reports and figures a 
melon and cucumber growing upon the same vine. 
Vines of both kinds are growing upon opposite sides of 
the same house, and it is inferred that a cucumber flower 
had become fertilized by pollen from the melon. 
Amerfeasi Mowers sana®! lSea,pea*s 
at Vfieima.— 1 The Buckeye Triumphant. — The 
Buckeye Machine, which lias won so many honors at 
home, hut which was sent to Vienna to compete for the 
first time at a world’s fair, has distanced all competitors, 
and has been awarded two first premium grand medals 
of merit. Adriance, Platt & Co. have also received the 
highest awards at the great German field trials in com¬ 
petition with all the leading American and English 
machines. 
TBae <Ko©sle3s®Hag;2a Jas. 
A. O'Neii, Granville Co., N. C. We have a very good 
opinion of the Goodenougli horse-shoe, and of the sys¬ 
tem of shoeing adapted to the use of that shoe. It is a 
rational, humane, and very successful method of keeping 
the horse's foot sound and safe from injury. 
E®co>s”iag”C ©ai etc.—Correspond¬ 
ents, especially those living near small post-offices, fre¬ 
quently write us that seme postmasters refuse to take 
parcels of plants, seeds, etc., unless letter postage is paid, 
while others insist that the package must not exceed 12 
ounces in weight. We should think every postmaster 
would take the U. S. Mail, a paper devoted exclusively 
to postal matters. As some evidently aro not aware that 
the law was altered by the last Congress we will quote 
from the U. S. Mail for September, 1S73, first page and 
last column: “On pamphlets, occasional publications, 
transient newspapers, magazines, and periodicals; hand¬ 
bills, posters, sheet-music, unsealed circulars, prospec¬ 
tuses, book” manuscript ami proof-sheets, printed cards, 
maps, lithographs, prints, ehromo lithographs and en j 
gravings, seeds , cuttings, bulbs, roots, and cions— & cent 
for eacli two ounces or fraction thereof— 
weight of package limited to four pounds." Single copies 
of tills paper can be had for 10 cents by addressing Pub¬ 
lishers U. S. Mail, New York. 
Wool Prospects.— 1 “ Wool is hardening.” 
This is the expression of the present market reports. 
Importation of foreign wool is light. During one week 
recently not a single pound was received at Boston, and 
only 1G4 hales at New York. The increase of long-wool 
sheep constantly taking place is affecting the supply of 
middle and clothing wools, and half and three-quarter 
merino wools is the staple that promises the most steady 
and profitable demand for many years to come. It is 
fortunate for farmers that sheep-breeding is thus encour¬ 
aged by the promises of the wool market, for the reason 
that there is no stock that so well repays the care 
bestowed upon it, nor any other that so tends to improve 
the condition of the farm upon which they are kept. 
American Institute IFalr.—This fair, 
which will now soon close, should bo seen by every 
visitor to New York. As an exhibition of implements 
and processes of industry it has never been surpassed, 
and there are thousands of things there which are of 
the greatest interest, especially to young folks. Persons 
living within a short distance of the city should make a 
point of visiting this fair although an especial journey 
should be made for this purpose. 
[F2ie Agriculturist Patent Agency. 
—Our friends who wish to know about terms aDd other 
matters should address their letters directly to the Agency, 
245 Broadway, and they will meet with prompt attention. 
For the capability and trustworthiness of the gentleman 
in charge, we can refer to the Patent Office itself. For 
further particulars we refer to the advertising columns. 
'Fixe Best Clmrn.—“J. C. M.,” Lafayette 
Co., Wis.— 1 The Blanchard Churn is one of the best of 
the square churns with rotating dashers ; but it is doubt¬ 
ful if the.rapid churning it perforins is really best for the 
butter or as to economy of tlie process. The upright 
churn which brings the butter in about forty minutes is 
preferred by some of tlie fancy butter-makers. 
Patent Superpliospliate.—“ W. T.," 
Columbia Co., Pa. A superphosphate composed of GOO 
pounds of bone, 200 pounds of sulphate of soda, 8 pounds 
of nitrate (of soda?), 50 pounds of salt, 200 pounds of 
plaster, 200 pounds of oil of vitriol, and seven bushels of 
sand would be very poor stuff. We doubt whether any 
patent could have been granted for such a mixture,which 
is not a superphosphate of lime, and lias nothing new 
or ingenious about it. 
From tlse IScsicJi to flic IF arm.— 
“ W. E. B.," Howard Co., Iud. A young man of 22, a 
shoemaker, with a few hundred dollars saved, should be 
cautious about changing liis business, in which he has 
apparently been successful, for farming. He might pos¬ 
sibly succeed in raising vegetables or small fruit on a few 
acres near a town or village, in a situation where he 
could carry on.his business as the chief means of living 
and gradually change as he succeeded in his first small 
ventures; but on general principles we should fear an 
abrupt change would be disastrous. 
Cosagla la. Pig’s.— “C. J. G.,” West Jer¬ 
sey, Ill. A cough is often tho first symptom of what is 
called hog cholera, and should be attended to without 
delay on its first appearance. The pigs should be well 
nursed and housed; a dose of salts should be given to 
them, and the feed changed at once to vegetables, with 
bran and oatmeal scalded and fed cold in the shape of 
gruel before it sours. 
IScsaBovIaig SSlemisls» — “ M. A. M.,” 
Elkhart, Ind. We know of no means that is to be de¬ 
pended on of removing the scar left by a severe blistering 
A small quantity of powdered cantharidcs in lard is 
sometimes used to stimulate a new growth of hair, but if 
the hair follicles have been destroyed there is no remedy. 
Br©®3m»U2ss.l£ing' BfiacloaBiery. — “T. 
S.,” Clinton, La. The machines recently described in 
the Agriculturist for making brooms are so simple that 
they can easily be constructed by any fair mechanic. 
They are not made for sale. 
See Pages 433, 434, 435, 43G, 437, and 438. 
DSacaset! Teats.—” J.W. H.,” Black Horse, 
Md. It is possible that the lumps in the cow’s teats are 
