ISCu 
AMKIIICJAN AailIC:!ULTUHIS’ 
will eciul a puckai^t* of tii'ki't?*, niitl if don't draw t‘U’v- 
on hundred dollars in g<dd, clear of all expenses, they w ill 
send another cerlitlcato In their llrllllant Extra Lottery 
Scheme.... .fVwat .Jfast <{• f^o. send a circular precisely 
similar, only for tm dollars they want you to draw twelvt 
hundred in gold. Of course.whoever " goes in” loses his 
.Kelley, who was shown up in the July 
number. Is ^tin selling his lotterj- tickets, and swindling 
all those who are foolish enough to buy. May 
K.'lley issued a llaming circular, headeii “ Important An- 
nonncementl To the patrons and agents of Kelley's First 
fJraml .\orih American (lift Concert. Of 500,000 tickets is¬ 
sued, only a few remain unsold. The delay in its com- 
pl'-tion has been unavoidable, and we have been com¬ 
pelled to extend the time of the first concert to Saturday, 
July i:i, lv;7, when it will jxi-^'ivehj ta\( jilace at any cost, 
without further at Vooiier Institute, Xeio 
York fity." Now, T.vKE NOTICE. Saturday, July 
l.'lth, an advertisement appeared in the New York Herald, 
headed " Kelley's tJrand North American Gift Concert. 
A card. To Ticket IIoi.deiis, etc. We have found it 
absolutely necessary, in justice to our jiatrons, to extend 
the time of the first concert fora few days, owing to the 
det. ntion of our mail, containing thousands of letters, by 
the postmaster of t'hlcago, etc., etc.” Peter Cooper, Esq., 
informs us that Kelley has never even engaged the hall 
for his grand enterpri-e, and furthermore that he cannot 
have it for any such purinHc. Kelley in his last adver- 
tlictnent “ays, '• Our sales have been immense, our suc- 
ce.s complete.” Of Course it has; success to him is to 
fill his jMX'ket with other iwople’s money, but this prom¬ 
ise tlxat ids tJrand Gift Concert •' <// jsMitirely take place 
.rithout further tusitjMnement, July Vi, at Vooper Institute," 
while the hall was not secured, anil the concert did twl 
take |)lace, we hold up as a mirror in which onr readers 
may s^e tin? man.. .Matthew Westbrook sends a great 
variety of cinmlars, oibTing fortunes for very little money. 
.Vmong the lot thus advertised are the “ Continental Tea 
Company, ' "The .Metro[K)litan Jewelers’Association,” 
"American .Vlbum M'atch,” " Sporting Greenbacks”- 
and vile things, too vile for decent people to read. 
On one of his circulars w e find: “ Our stock con- 
.“ists in iiartcf IICO pianos, 000 mclodcons.TiTO cabinet 
organs." etc., etc., etc. .Matthew was arrested July 3<1, in 
the afternoon, for selling lottery tickets, etc., had an ex¬ 
amination. was held for trial, and, for want of ready 
Imil, was sent to the lock-up, protesting most earnestly 
against this methocl of celebrating liitlejwndence. In clear¬ 
ing out his place, the officers faiU d to find any of that big 
et4)ck of musical instniments, etc., the particulars with 
regard to which arc seen in the email bill*. The stock con- 
Ki“f'-d of a pile of circulars, as usual, worth three cents 
pi-r pound, electrotype plates of the Sporting Greenbacks, 
a few pounds of tea, etc.Many other smaller concenis 
of-imilar character arc still sending out their circulars.and 
gulling the people. Most of them have baen already shown 
up in onr columns, but are still out of the penitentiary, 
though thi-y ought to l>c in it, Ijccause, as ^Ir. Beecher said 
in his sennon, of July M : " If a man wants to have justice 
in the courts of New York, it would seem as if he should 
go tln-re with his purse in his hand. M’e have heard of 
corrupt judges. M'c have heard men speaking of the 
Judiciary of the city of New York, which stinks like 
Sodom and flnmorrah. They buy and sell justice, 
they are seeking for j)elf, they sell the sanctify of their 
ermine.” We warn all our readers against lotteries of 
every kind, .\nything and cvi-iything that has prizes 
to be drawn for, is a violation of the civil and moral law, 
and here we mean to incliidi^all such draw ings at church 
and charitable fi-“tivals, fairs, etc. Those who sell a hun¬ 
dred tickets, more or less, at $1 each, for a share in a 
twenty dollar Bible to be drawn or raffled for.are violators 
<if thi; State laws, and sneh practices should be dis- 
countenancecl by all good people. A cause that cannot 
be sustained by hoiK’st and honorable mean.s is not 
worth sustaining at all. We caution our readers again 
against qu:u-k doctors, (don't write to us about them, we 
don't know them, and don't want to.) quack medicines, 
quack traders, and quackery of every kind. Millions of 
dollars would be saved annually to honest people by heed¬ 
ing this warning. 
.Manure I’i-aii<l>*—Xlic Soiilli 
ly Victimized. —Our attention is seldom called to 
fraudulent dealing in pretended fertilizers, when we do 
not find that the planters and farmers of the Southem 
States are the great sufferers. K case of most glaring 
fraud has lately comi- to our notice in this way. A gen¬ 
tleman having a depo.-it of excellent shell-marl in Vir¬ 
ginia, where it is easy to load vessels with it, was brought 
in contact with a Ikdtimoro chemist, who jiroposcd to 
him to manufacture it into a fertilizer fully etpial to Peru¬ 
vian guano, at a very low rate. A sample was furnished 
of a "manipulated” fertilizer he was then making.and sell¬ 
ing for $W or $50 per ton retail, and the manipulator 
agreed to make an article equally valuable, using the marl 
as a basis. He took abso some of the marl and jirepared a 
sample of what he would furnish. This was sent by us 
to Prof. Johnson, of the Sheffield Scientific School, New 
Haven, for analysis, and we soon learned that it was, as 
we presumed it would prove, of no value as a high-priced 
fertilizer. It is probable that the rascally “chemist” 
had added nothing whatever of manurial value to the 
marl. The marl itself has value where it can be liberally 
applied, and the cost of transportation is not much. 
Our friend was thus saved the loss and shame of being 
Involved, with liis friends, in so disgraceful an enterprise, 
but the fact remains that the chemist continues to make 
and supply to tire southern trade, the worthless article of 
his own, at a high price. The man actually pretended to 
court investigation, and to bo perfectly willing to have 
the stutr analysed, thinking in this way to bluft’oft'inves¬ 
tigation, by a show of honesty and conscious rectitude. 
His name is Carey, as wo understand, and the “ fertiliz¬ 
er is called “ b rench ^lanipulated Guano,” or some 
similar name. There are more birds of the same feather. 
l>rainiii;>(—aii«l San¬ 
itary. —Among the Book Advertisements of this num¬ 
ber will be found a notice o{ " Draining for Profit and 
Draining for Health," by Col. Goo. E. Waring, Jr., whose 
Essay on Tile Dniining in our Agricultural Annual for 
lSf.7, has attracted such favonible attention. After a care¬ 
ful reading of this work, wo are impelled to speak more 
strongly concerning it than is our custom with regard to 
the publishing finn with which we arc associated, for we 
think that both the importance of the subject and the 
merits of the work demand that it be commended to the 
notice of all our readers. The Xeio York Tribune says of 
this volume :—“ Every page is lucid and practical; and he 
who works with this essay in hand can hardly fail to drain 
thoroughly and permanently. We exhort every one who 
meditates draining even one acre to obtain Col. Waring’s 
treatise, for it will save him many times the cost.” It 
might have gone still further, and added that every one 
who owns an acre of land that, at any time during the 
growing season is too wet for the best cultivation, will 
find therein arguments to convince him that he cannot 
afford to have it undrained. The questions of cost and 
profit are discussed with great fairness, and in a manner 
to induce even the most “ practical ” farmer to drain his 
wet lands. Iii fact, of all the books and es.says on drain¬ 
ing that have been published in this country or in Eng¬ 
land, none is so readable, clear in its directions for prac¬ 
tical work, and convincing in its arguments for the neces¬ 
sity and profit of tile drainage and improved sewerage as 
this. Col. M'aring's experience during the four years that 
he held the position of Agricultural Engineer in the Cen¬ 
tral Park in New T'ork. and in an extensive private prac¬ 
tice, has fitted him particularly well for the preparation of 
a manual of the art of draining, and he has performed the 
task with entire fidelity. 
.llasiSiarliiiMotts AK-rioiiltiiral C’ol- 
loge.—The Old Bay State, after some preliminaiy diffi¬ 
culties, is soon to have a college for farmers’ boys in 
complete ninning order. It is not surprising that there 
should be differences of opinion among highly intelligent 
men as to the organization of an Agricultural College. In 
this country it is an untried experiment mainly, and the. 
few agricultural schools that have been started have not 
done much to dispel the popular prejudice against agri¬ 
cultural education. The abiding conviction of farmers 
is, that education, beyond the rudiments, is a dangerous 
thing for a farmer’s son, and if he attempts to master the 
science of his calling, he is pretty sure to have a call to 
some other business soon after he opens his books. The 
great majority do not believe that a young farmer can have 
any education, to fit him for his business, half so good 
as that which he can get upon the farm ; and if that be 
the case, agricultural schools and colleges are humbugs. 
They may make scholars, but they fail to make fanners. 
The Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 
have another idea, and are .going to give it a fair trial. It 
will succeed in Mas.sachusctts if anywhere. Through the 
efforts of Prof. Clark, of Amherst, they have secured 400 
acres of land, admirably adapted to their jiurposes, about 
a mile north of the literary institution, and just a con¬ 
venient distance from the village. Anyone who has ever 
had occasion to buy five contiguous farms for any public 
enterprise will know how to appreciate the professor’s 
labors in this behalf. The site for the jirincipal buildings 
has been selected, and a donnitory, built to accommodate 
4S students, a dining hall and a laboratory, are now in a 
state of forwardness, and will be ready for use before the 
beginning of the college year, which is October 1st. It is 
expected that a corps of instnictors will then be on hand, 
and, what is rarer in these enterprises, a body of students 
to meet them. TIktc is to bo a regular and a special 
course of instmctlon, the first to emlyace four years, and 
to ground the student thoroughly in the science and prac¬ 
tice of agriculture. This proposes to take boys of 11 
years of age and upward, and to give them a good educa¬ 
tion cheaper than the:' can get it elsewhere, and in one of 
the most healthful and beautiful regions in the eountry 
distinguished for the high moral and social cultivation of 
its people. The special course will be arranged for tho 
fall and winter, for the benefit of those who can devote 
but a few weeks or months to agricultural studies. A spot 
has been selected for propagating houses and a botaidc 
garden, in which it is designed to have specimens of all 
the trees, shrubs, and flowers that will flourish in that 
soil and climate. Tho Pinetum is to be upon tlie north 
and cast side of a hill, that overlooks the -whole farm—a 
natural locality for pines and hemlocks. It is proposed 
to have here all the new varieties of evergreens that pro¬ 
mise to be hardy, and to scn'c for ornamental planting. 
About twenty thousand dollars have been given for this 
Botanic garden, but this is not half enough. We hope 
some gentleman of liberal ideas, -who has a spare fifty 
thousand dollars, ivill endow this garden, and enable the 
trustees to give us a good arboretum, and thus do well 
what has never been done at all in this country. This 
school of agriculture has no connexion with the literary 
institution in the same place, known as Amherst College, 
except the privilege of access to its cabinets and libraries, 
w hich are among the best in New England. We are happy 
to commend this new institution to our readers, and shall 
be greatly disappointed if it does not meet a want that 
has long been felt for the sons of farmers, and of men in 
other pursuits. 
ISarloy—Ka.i-Iy So-wert.— “L.,” of Mid- 
dlefield. Mass., gives his experience in answer to the ob¬ 
jections of J. S. C. to sowing barley early, (p. 244, July 
No.,) as follows : “ Seeing a suggestion a few years since 
about sowing carrots early, to have them get a start of the 
weeds, I sowed about 00 square rods of vciy weedy 
ground with 2‘^2 bushels ofbarley that had foul seed in it, 
as early as I could work the ground, and harvested 20 
bushels of extra clean barley. I don’t think there was 
half a pint of foul seed in the whole lot. Whether it was 
the result of sowing early or not, I can’t tell, but think it 
was that and the heavy seeding together, for, after raking 
off the barley, the stubble was in-etty full of weeds.” 
Slio«tl<l AiiiiimlKl»e Sliown. isi tlieiv 
Natural Coiiditiou ?—Mr. A. C. Clarke, of Hender¬ 
son, Jefferson Co.,N. A'., writes: “I find the following use¬ 
ful and truthful statement in ‘ M’alks and Talks,’ of the 
April No. of the Agriculturist, p. 1.30, ‘ In the case of ani¬ 
mals that have been bred for generations for the sole pur¬ 
pose of producing a large amount of flesh and fat in a 
short time, a fieshy condition is jrerfectly natural andivill 
not prove injurious, unless carried to excess.’ To what' 
animal can this truth apply so -well as to the hog? The 
same author says, ‘ I have a thorough-bred Essex sow, 
that, compared with ordinary sows, was excessively fat, 
and at ten months old had a fine litter of six pigs.’ 
I ask, is it not better, then, to breed hogs -whose natural 
condition is /af rather than leanf The Agricultural So¬ 
ciety of the State of New Wirk offers a premium for hogs 
‘ not too fat to breed.I have been denied a premium on 
an ‘ improved Cheshire sow,’ because she -was ‘ too fat to 
breed,’ and yet -within two -weeks after she liad a litter of 
ten fat pigs that sold, at six -weeks of age, at $20 a piece, 
and thqpigs of the lean sow, that took the premium, were 
not worlh,and -would not sell for, more than $2.50 a piece. 
Now, the natural condition of the improved Cheshire 
hog is fat. Though a large breed, I have bred a great 
many of them that, at one year of ago, on coarse food and 
no extra care, -would weigh from 500 to TOO pounds. The 
pigs are fat, many exceeding 350 pounds, and some 400 
Iiounds, at nine months old. A neighbor fattened one last 
fall that -iveighed at nine months and six days 429pounds. 
Would not the judges who inspect hogs for a premium at 
our State Fairs do well to take into consideration the nat¬ 
ural condition of the animal?" Certainly, but Mr. C. will 
admit that an improved Cheshire sow may be too fat to 
breed, and, if so, ought not to show as a breeding sow. 
l*oi*Ic Itriising’.—Bidwell Bro’s, of Minne¬ 
sota, suggest that great good might result by calling at¬ 
tention to the unprofitable course pursued by many in 
pork raising. They say: “ In the ftill all the largest pigs 
are fatted and killed, while the smaller ones arc left to 
winter over. These have pigs the next season, and so 
the evil is continued. From severe cold or want of prop¬ 
er food in winter, or both,they become stunted, and make 
no heavier pork than spring pigs. The same cause re¬ 
duces the number of pigs in their farrows. AVe ought to 
select tho largest and best sows for breeding, and keep 
them year after year. They should come in early in 
spring, and be well fed, and tlie size and number of their 
progeny -\vin be increased, and early maturity secured.” 
TIic Fairs.— The managers of Agricultural 
Fairs make a great mistake in not putting forth their 
announcements in time for exhibitors to be able to 
study their routes over months beforehand. We would 
