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rarri.'i; , pianos, etc,, and on their lottery cirenlars, they 
pr'nt an article from the August A‘jncultun ;:, in a way to 
m.ake r.pp. ar to eudor^c enteriiri: like theirs_ 
To sliow the extent to which peopio arc pestered by 
the humt)u:; operators, a subscriber sends us ticenty-on« 
ciri-ulars, fnim as many dilTereut parties, most of which 
have recently been cut to him by mail. There must be 
many victimr: to thi ^c “wiudllie' achcmca, or the opera¬ 
tors could not i)ay the enormous expense they incur for 
printing, and the js’Stage on the millions of circulars they 
have sent out.V circular alxiut “Jackson's Universal 
Washing I'onipound,’’ quotes a tremendous putT from the 
“ .Vgricultnrist.’’ > paper bearing this name in.ay' 
liave said wltat is quoted—but not the Anurican “ Agri¬ 
culturist.'' We never heard of this compound before, 
but we C’ '-'tun all the recipes for washing compounds, 
that arc old around Uie country. Let Mr. Johnson tell 
icAaf " .\griculturist" he quotes_Several subscrilK-rs 
inquire about -undry “ JIutual i.’oal Companies.'’ There 
may bt; one or more good ones : after repeated solicita¬ 
tions. we Imve not gained eonfldcncc enough in any one 
ti- invest, though we have to uso a good deal of coal.... 
.lolin L. -Vndrews, of M.irion Co., O., like a go<jd many 
oiiicr unliung villains, ofl'ers for tioO to lie a |i500 ticket 
through al' - Ti; " Riuiellt Association.’’ Anybotly tliat 
will trust to a confess.-d liar, ou/jht to be cheated.—Uich- 
anl Adams, Itutfulo, X. Y., is another like Andrews; so 
is : ' F. ShiTwisMl, Providence, X. Y.,aJi(u BaUivia, X. Y., 
alioA Huron, X. Y_Dr. Thos. Andrews, aliai E. An¬ 
drews, of .Vlbiiiy, is -rattcring poison among the peojde. 
In the form of PamphleU- and Circulars, called “Good 
Samaritans," in which he ofl'ers murderous medicines, etc. 
Let every ii-ely, married or unmarried, beware of tnisting 
a word to his statements, as they value their health, their 
liv.-t, and their souls. There arc many others of this 
c’i's. In the same catalogue is a monster who assumes 
th.' nami'S of a pretended firm of French ladies, and 
dates fWjm a room in tlie “ Bible House," X. Y. City. 
He-ends a pamphlet tt'iH)ut “Married Life,” said to be 
“ by a Married Woman." After a great deal of palaver, 
he comes to the gist of the matter, which Is to advertise 
sundry villainous articles of “ French ’’ origin. Xone 
hut very foolish, and Insane people will risk their lives, 
hc.alth and money, by giving the slightest heed to this 
specious pretender. We are sad to know that tliousands 
of women, and men too, are enduring terrible anguish of 
body and mind, and dragging out a miserable existence, 
while many other thousands have gone down to early 
Small Fruit Cultiirisit.— 
Growers of small fruits will be glad to know that Mr. A. 
S. Fuller’s work is in hand, as all who arc familiar with 
hi.s works upon the grape and strawberry, will anticipate 
a valuable and practical treatise upon a subject that has 
of late years assumed great importance. There is a di¬ 
rectness and independence about Mr. Fuller’s writings 
that give tlicm a deserved popularity, and his forthcom¬ 
ing work will, no doubt, meet with the same favor that 
has attended his other productions. We have no work 
exclusively devoted to small fruits, and the one under no¬ 
tice will be very full in all particulars, from propagating 
the plants to marketing the fruit. The illustrations are 
all ready, and will be numerous and line. 
To “ .liitltorM.'* — Letters, concerning the 
publication of books, have been of late quite numerous, 
and perhaps a general statement of our position may save 
many the trouble of writing and us that of answering. 
Xo one tiecd make a book unless he has something new 
to say, or can present old facts better than they have been 
given before. There are books enough ; we wish better 
ones than any now extant. We cannot decide upon the 
publication of any work without first seeing the manu¬ 
script. In each case the manuscript will be submitted to 
competent judges, whose decision will be final, and no 
certificates or commendations from other parties can be 
of any use. Mere compilations of any kind are not want¬ 
ed at any rate—wo are not in the paste and scissors line. 
Itly Viiiey:ii*«l at Falceview. — We have 
just one request to make of the author of this book—viz., 
tliat he will allow us to give his name and thus put many in¬ 
quisitive people out of misery. M’riters upon grape culture 
suspect this or that person of the authorship, and we get 
numerous letters asking as a special favor the name'of the 
author. We arc under a pledge of secrecy which we 
shall keep until the author relieves us from it, and when 
he does, many will be amused at the wildness of their 
guesses. We can relieve the anxious ones to this extent. 
Tlie author doee live on the shores of Lake Erie, and more 
than one of those who have been so desirous to know 
who he is, have met him and talked grapes with him the 
present winter. His book is none the less valuable be¬ 
cause it has not his name, and is growing in favor because 
It relates experience in grape culture, and rests its 
popularity upon its own merits. Price, by mail, $1.25. 
graves, b’Cause they liavc been lured by the false state¬ 
ment-! of the-e very demon? on earth, who, to put money 
In their own pocket.-*, would sell sugar-coated arsenic to 
infant" and Idiots. We have little, if any more charity for 
the Ib ralds, the Timeses, and other Journals, which pub- 
li«h the .advertisement.- of these Madame Restclles, and the 
like, w ho make a busin<-ss of murdering the unborn inno¬ 
cents in hectacombs. and the fair daughters of our land 
aim-ot by the million... .We have hundreds of circulars 
pretending to be -ent out from Xassau-street, Cedar-street, 
Third-.\veuuc, Sixth-Avenue, etc., offering vile publica¬ 
tions, obscene pictures, etc. Xone of these parties arc 
ever to be found at the places they hail from, or if found, 
they have nothing for sale or to show to coffer*—they 
must be addressed by mall—and they never make any re¬ 
turn for money sent them, unless it is when they hope to 
make a larger sum out of their victims. 
<-lot>.-Uol. Marsliall P. Wilder, President of the 
American Pomological c’oclcty, informs us that, after cor- 
re-^ij^mding with th.! Western associates, he has fixed 
np.>n Si.ptemb<-r llth.as the day for the next meeting. It 
ir. found that this date will conflict as little as any with 
other pomological meetings. 
\m«‘rloan Fomolopry.—Doct. W.arder’s 
wrirk has been delayed, by the great number of illustra¬ 
tion* and the Ineonveniencc that attends the wide dis¬ 
tance Ix-twen publisher and printer. The book is now 
approaching completion, and will he one tliat will be wel¬ 
comed by every fruit-grower. Its introductory chapters 
upon propagation, the nur-ery, planting, pruning, etc. 
ar«- ftill that they well have formed a work of 
thein-elvfs The descriptive list of apples contains all 
the new introductions and peculiarly western varieties. 
The illustrations, all made expressly for the work, are 
fnim original drawings, and arc in a style superior to th^ 
of any pomological work heretofore published. O'er ^ 
varieties of apples will be figured, the majority of which 
wen- never before illustrated. In this work Doct. M arder 
presents his cJaHsiflcation of apples, in which he attempts 
to brii." the great mass of material into something like 
system" How far this will prove useftil to the pomolo^st 
will be proven by experience, and we have no doubt that 
»h.i author will welcome any suggestions that will f 
tate his object :-to aid in the determination of an un¬ 
known variety of fruit. We hope to liave the work ready 
during the present mouth. 
V. lAve Stock ]tlai’lcct« in. 18C«. 
-The following interesting statistics, prepared from the 
ccords kept at the Office of the American Agi'iculturist, 
rill give the reader some idea of the magnitude of the 
lealings in neat Cattle, Sheep and Swine, destined for 
Laughter, at the Metropolitan markets. To assist the 
lemory, we give the nearest round numbers, which difl’cr 
lilt slightly from the actual figures: Beef Cattle.— 
{eccipts 300,000 head ; value, about $32,000,000. 
Ve estimate the cattle—good, bad and indifferent—to 
verage 700 lbs. dressed weight each, and the average of 
11 safes at a trifle over 15 cents per lb. The weight of 
ressed beef amounted in round numbers to 210,000,000 
is. This equals 140 lbs. to each of one and a half mil- 
bn of people, adults and children included, which is 
bout the population supplied regularly by the New York 
ity markets, including Brooklyn, Jersey City, and a score 
f smaller suburban cities and villages... .Over half of 
hese cattle are credited to the single State of Illinois, one 
ixth to Ohio, one-eighth to New York, one-ninth to Ken- 
uckv, and one-thirtieth to Indiana, or about nine-tenths 
f) these five States... .To bring them all by railway, 15 to 
he car, would require 20,000 cars. Allowing 00 feet to 
car the cattle trains would stretch away nearly 200 
ailes .. .The price of extra cattle declined about 4 cents 
ler lb. net from January to December, medium grades 
bout 2 cents... .The actual weekly average receipts were 
758 a'’’alnat 5,2.55 in 1805, an increase of about 500 head 
icr week, which has been our estimate all along through 
he year of the probable increase, as our readers will rc- 
uember Veal Calve«.-Rcceipts 62,000, or an 
Lrage per week of about 1,200 head. This is 15 , 000 , or 
00 per week, less than in 1805, the decrease being doubt- 
ess due to the stringent measures f 
f Health to shut out young calves, or bobs, that m ere 
o largely sold in previous years.... Slieep antt 
hamb«.-Receipts 1 , 000 , 000 , (or ni|^« ^ 
0.30,000,) averaging very nearly 20,000 per week. This is 
bout‘200,000, or 4,000 per week in excess 
■car The price of the various grades ran down from 
^,10 cents per lb., live weight, in January 
, K,.,. I.lve Ilotrs. — Receipts, GOb O.JU, 
vSms 9.3 000 Jbove 1805, about the same as in 1804, and 
ctrly laif amilUon^ than in 1862 and 1863. The 
• Jrnnmvl betwceii lOc. and 12c. per lb., live weight, 
bTthe firs”! ten months, but ddined from 
\ f tn at the close of the year-Mllc u 
Sw* -RcStB. Bcant 5,000, the lowest number in 
mvrher one of‘ a dozen ycL past... .The toUl receipts 
in 1866 of Cattle, Sheep, and Swine destined for slau<rhter 
were, according to our 8tatistics,,fully 2,000,000 head. 
I.ook Over flae T;il>lc of Contemts. 
—Our readers who do not read the Table of Contents in 
each number of the Agriculturist, are apt to overlook 
valuable articles.^ For instance, many did not see the 
Market Reports in the December number, because they 
were not in the part of the paper where usually found. 
«ar«leMisig:for Frofit.— The rapid sale 
of this work shows that a treatise of this kind was needed, 
and that !Mr. Henderson’s recorded experience is eagerly 
sought after. As this is the only work in which the 
practice of commercial gardening is given, it has a value 
above that of any other on vegetable gardening, while for 
the private garden it is as useful a guide as any other. 
The value of the book is increased by a full chapter on 
the construction of the best form of houses for forcing or 
forwarding vegetables. As the same style of house is 
used by Mr. II. in his extensive propagation of plants, he 
has added an appendix on the “ Propagation of Plants by 
Cuttings.’’—A neat volume of about 250 pages, on excel¬ 
lent paper, and well illustrated. Sent by mail for $1.50. 
Aexv ^IVorli: on in Fi-ess. 
—Orange Judd & Co. have now in press and will publish 
early in the spring, a work entitled “ Dbaining foe 
Profit and Drainage fob Health,’’ by Geo. E. Waring, 
Jr., of New York, Engineer of the Drainage of the Cen¬ 
tral Park. This is a very thorough, complete, and prac¬ 
tical treatise, simply and easily followed. The subject of 
thorough farm drainage is discussed in all its bearings 
and also that more extensive land drainage by which the 
sanitary condition of any district may be greatly improv¬ 
ed—even to the banishment of fever and ague, typhoid 
and malarious fevers, as shown by New York experience. 
Hi-eclc’s JVew ICook of Flowers.— 
There are plenty of works in the style of a dictionary which 
tell something about flowering plants, what family they' 
belong to, and give some points of their history. Who¬ 
ever really loves flowers, and is not satisfied with these 
unsympathetic works, will turn with pleasure to Greek’s 
New Book of Flowers, where he speaks of them in a 
familiar, talky way, and as if he loved them. This is not 
a book made up by re-arranging antiquated English works 
on gardening, but one which was written, and written 
too because the author had something to say. It is the 
only flower-book that records personal experience, and 
when that experience is that of a veteran cultivator like 
Mr. Breck, avo care not how personal it is, for the more it 
tells just what he has done, the more the novice feels that 
he can do the same. In this work all the genera and the 
leading species are noticed, and their proper treatment 
given. Varieties come upon us in numbers every year, 
and for these the cultivator must consult the frequent is¬ 
sues of the florist and seedsman. Besides the annuals 
and herbaceous perennials, this work contains a descrip¬ 
tive list of the choicest flowering shrubs. A handsome 
volume of 480 pages, finely bound, well printed and illus¬ 
trated. Sent by mail, post-paid, for $1.75. 
40 FAOES!—Our old advertising patrons 
who have for years past done business with our readers, 
and learned by experience the value of the Agriculturist 
as a medium of communication with their customers, 
seem more anxious than ever to secure space in our col¬ 
umns. They will doubtless find many other agreeable 
business acquaintances among tens of thousands of new 
subscribers this year.-These, with some new adver¬ 
tisers, have crowded in upon us so much that to make 
room for a part of them only, we have added more space, 
and issue 40 pages-the limit of single postage rates. 
This is a double advantage to the readers, as they got an 
extra page of reading matter for every added page of 
advertisements, and as our advertisers are all believed to 
be responsible, reliable men, the advertisements are them¬ 
selves of great value to the readers—showing, as they do, 
St is for sale, where, and by whom. We advise a care¬ 
ful reading of all the advertisements, (there are no stale, 
ong stendingones among them).-AdvertiserB express so 
m ch pleLre at learning where they find so large a class 
muen picasun. ^ o thev meet througli 
of wide-awake enterprising readers as tney n ^ 
this ioumal, that we arc induced to repeat the request 
Journal their advertisements wero seen. 
wko Want Space, 
1 their orders in early. Those coming after the 
r'V'^^e meceffi^ month, have no certainty, and in 
will have but httle likelihood of finding admission 
. ... Tt. takes almost a month to work off our 
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