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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
121 
The Hoys anil Girls’ (janlcn—No. 1. 
An unusual number of business items has crowded 
out a share of the space intended for the young people, 
but perhaps there is room for all that is necessary so ear¬ 
ly in the season. As hinted last month, we intend to 
give some plain and familiar Talks about, plants and the 
way in which they grow, which will be botli interesting 
and useful to our young readers, and perhaps to older 
ones also. While we shall use engravings to explain 
what we write, it will be much better to have the living 
plant directly before us to talk from, and before our read¬ 
ers also, and we advise all those who wish to follow 
these lessons to put in seeds of the plants we have se¬ 
lected to illustrate them. The seeds are: Flax; Sweet 
Pea ; Muskmelon ; Tomato ; Morning Glory ; Four O 
Clock, and Oats. If more convenient, the common Pea 
and Cucumber or Squash may be planted in place of 
Sweet Pea and Muskmelon. All these seeds can be pro¬ 
cured by every one. They should be planted in a bed in 
the garden, where they can be watched all summer. It 
is best not to put the seed into the ground until it becomes 
dry and warm weather. So look out for the seeds now, 
and be ready to meet us for a Garden Talk next month. 
New Puzzles to l»e Answered. 
No. 35. Illustrated Rebus. A most excellent rule. 
No. 36. Problem. —Suppose a clock to Irave six hands, 
which go around respectively in 1, 6, 12, 18, 24, and 30 
hours, and that they are together at 12 o’clock, April 1st; 
when will they next be together. 
Answers to Puzzles and Problems in March 
No. (page 89). No. 31. Illustrated Rebus. —F ear toe 
doe vil if you wood be bray v. That is: “Fear to do evil 
if you would be brave.”—No. 32, Illustrated Rebus .— 
Well bee gun eye S half done ; or “ Well begun is half 
done.”—No. 33, Mathematical Problem. Answer 42 feet. 
—No. 34, Word Question. Answer : Facetiously, or ab¬ 
stemiously. N. B.—By an oversight, no answer was given 
to the Illustrated Rebus on page 57, (Feb. No.) It leads 
Be shoe-er ewe r rite before ewe-fight; that is: “Be sure 
you’re right before you fight.” 
Crowded Out.^-A good many pleasing items, prob¬ 
lems, and a host of names of those sending in answers.— 
We expect to find room for them next month. 
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To Sunday School Teachers and Others. 
The Book of “Lessons for every Sunday in the Year,” 
has met with a success far beyond our anticipation. The 
edition of five thousand copies published at the office of 
the Agriculturist, which it was supposed would last a 
year at least, was soon exhausted, and another large edi¬ 
tion printed. This is exclusive of the great numbers 
printed and sold by otiiers. The many letters from 
Superintendents, Teachers, and others, commending it in 
the highest terms, are satisfactory evidence of its value. 
These questions and the accompanying lessons were 
originally prepared for our own school, without any 
thought of making a book, until repeated calls from oth¬ 
ers for copies, seemed to make it necessary. We shall 
continue to supply the work at 10 cents per copy, and as 
tills barely covers the cost, the price is the same by the 
hundred or thousand. If to go by mail, the postage to be 
prepaid, is 4 cents for a single one ; 3j£ cents per copy on 
two to nine ; and 3 cents each, where ten or more are sent 
in a single package. Over 1,500 mites, the postage is 
double these rates. The following is one of the many 
notices of the book which have appeared. 
From the Sunday School Times (Philadelphia,) March 14. 
“ A New Question Book.— We have just been exam¬ 
ining a little book published by Oiange Judd, (of New- 
A ork City,) called “ Lessons for Every Sunday in the 
Year," and have risen from the examination with a feel¬ 
ing of thankfulness that such a book has been made. We 
have never seen a Question Book containing so many 
conveniences and advantages as this, so many excellen¬ 
ces, botli positive and negative. Mr. Judd is a life-long 
Sabbath-school man, and this hook has been the fruit of 
the experience of himself and some of his friends in trying 
to meet the practical wants of the Sabbath-school. Like 
all good text books, it has grown, out of actual necessities 
and experience ; it is a growth rather than a work. We 
advise every Superintendent to send at once for a copy.” 
The Markets. 
American Agriculturist Office. ) 
New-York, Thursday Morning, March 19, 1863. | 
1. TRANSACTIONS AT THE NEW-YORK MARKETS. 
Receipts. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barley. Oats. 
24 days thin m’tli 235,000 41,000 173,000 57,000 78.000 294.000 
28 days last m’tli 211.000 26,000 163,000 39,000 102,000 225,000 
Sales. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barley. 
24 days this month, 850,000 1.810,000 2,031,000 139.000 121,000 
28 days last month 452,000 2,416,000 2,571,000 36,300 126,000 
2. Comparison xoilh same time last year. 
receipts. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barley. Oats. 
24 days 1863.. ..235.000 41.000 173,000 57.000 78,000 294,000 
24 days 1362 ... 304,000 163,000 269,000 119,000 164,000 171,000 
sales. Flour. Wheat. Comi. Rye. Barley. 
24 davs 1863 . 850,000 1,810,000 2,031,000 1S9,000 121,000 
24 days 1362 . 311,000 279,000 1,061,000 113,950 265,000 
3. Exports from New-York, Jan. 1, to March 12. 
Flour . 
Wheat. 
Corn. 
Rye. 
Oats. 
Bbls. 
Bush. 
Bush. 
Bush. 
Bush. 
1863.. 
... 514,740 
3,156,890 
1.398,05-1 
59,106 
96,332 
1S62.. 
....619,675 
2,091,781 
2,712,801 
305,005 
6,403 
The above tables show at a glance the volume of busi¬ 
ness in Breadstuff's, and the figures below show the pres¬ 
ent prices and their changes. Prices of Breadstuff's, Pro¬ 
visions, etc., have gone up and down with the premium 
on gold, and their consequent variable value for export. 
Wool is in great demand and still advancing in price. 
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Flour—S uper to Extra State $7 00 @ 7 95 
Superfine Western... 7 00 @ 7 25 
Extra Western. 7 55 @10 50 
Extra Genesee... 8 00 @ 9 50 
Super, to Extra Southern — 7 90 @10 50 
Rye Flour—F ine and Super. 3 50 @ 5 50 
Corn Meal. . 4 15 @ 5 00 
Wheat—A ll kinds of White.. 180 @2 00 
All kinds of Red. 1 40 ® 1 78 
Corn—Y ellow. 97 @ 1 00 
White. 98 @ 1 05 
Mixed. 95 @ 97 
Oats—W estern. 75 
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Barley.. 1 45 
Beans—M edium and Pea, bu. 
Marrow and Kidney. 
Hay, In bales, per 100 lbs. 
Cotton—M iddlings, per lb.... 
Rice, per 100 lbs. 
Hops, crop of 1862, per lb. 
Feathers, Live Geese, p. lb. 
Seed—C lover, per lb. 
Timothy, per bushel. 
Flax, per bushel. 3 10 
Sugar—B rown, per lb. 
Molasses,N ew-Orleans, p.gl.. 
Coffee. Rio, per lb.. 
Tobacco—K entucky,&c,p.lb.. 
Seed Leaf, per lb.... 
Wool—D omestic fleece, p. lb.. 
Domestic, pulled, per lb.. 
Wool, California, unwashed.. 
Tallow, per lb —. 
Oil Cake, per tun. 4’ 
Pork—M ess, per bbl. 14 75 @17 00 14 12><@16 75 
Prime, per bbl. 11 50 @14 00 11 50 @13 “ 
Beef—P lain mess. " ~. 
Lard, in bbls., per lb .. 
Butter—W estern, per lb.... 
State, per lb. 
Cheese. 
Broom Corn—ner lb. 
Eggs—F resh, per dozen. 
Poultry—F owls, per lb. 
Ducks, per lb. 
Geese, per lb. 
Turkeys, per lb. . 
Potatoes—C ommon, p. bbl. 
Buckeyes, per bbl. 
Peach Blow, per bbl. 
Mercers, per bbl. 2 00 
Nova Scotia, per bushel. 
Sweet, per bbl—. 3 50 
Onions, Red & Yellow p. bbl. 3 00 
Apples, Greenings & Russets 125 
Apples, choice, per bbl... 2 00 _ 
Dried Apples, per lb. 3 % @ 
Dried Plums, per lb. 11 00 
Dried Peaches, per lb. 14 00 
The Live Stock Markets are unusually 
active in this city, and prices have advanced one cent per 
lb. on beef within a month. The receipts of beef cattle 
have averaged 4,383 per week, but the taking out of 300 
to 500 each week by buyers for the government, has left a 
light supply for butchers. Good animals now sell for 
prices equivalent to 10c.(2)1 lc. per lb. for the dressed 
carcass, and common to good stock at 8c.(2)9c.Sheep 
are higher than ever before, owing to the great advance 
on wool. They are now selling at prices equivalent to 
9c.(2)10c. per lb. live weight. The whole of large lots 
have been sold out at an average of $8.50 to $9. per head. 
_Live Hogs are in good demand and are selling at 6c. 
to 6^c. per lb. live weight for corn-fed and 5%c.(a)5%c. 
for still fed hogs. 
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1G 
F LOWER SEEDS BY MAIL.—The subscriber 
raises about one hundred kind9 of Flower Seeds, select¬ 
ed from over one thousand varieties, of the most showy and 
attractive. He will furnish, neatly put up, any 83 kinds on 
the list for $1, and send by mail, with postage prepaid. 
G. ft. GARRETSON, Flushing, N. Y. 
A SPARAGUS ROOTS, of the best quality, two 
and three years old, at 40 cts. per 100, or $3.50 per 1000, 
including packing. Cau be sent anv distance. 
Cr. R. GARRETSON, Flushing, N. Y. 
Business Notices. 
C37“ Eighty Cents a Line of space. 
(Copy.) 
New-York State Agricultural Society, 
Rochester Fair, 1862. 
I hereby certify tiiat James Pyle, of New-York. was 
awarded a special prize at the State Fair at Rochester on 
his O. K. Soap, Dietetic Saleratus, Cream Tartar, Bak¬ 
ing Soda, and various other articles of exceeding great 
merit—and the Executive Committee of the Society give 
special commendation for the great excellence of the ar¬ 
ticles exhibited. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, 
and affixed, the official seal of the Society. 
\ r c I B. P. JOHNSON, 
) a ’ j_Secretary. 
Lauds—To All Wanting Farms. 
Large and thriving settlement of Vineland, mild cli¬ 
mate, 30 miles south of Philadelphia, by railroad ; rich 
soil; fine crops ; twenty acre tracts, at from $15 to $20 
per acre ; payable within four years. Good business 
openings ; good society. Hundreds are settling and mak¬ 
ing improvements. Apply to CHAS K. LANDIS, Post¬ 
master, Vineland, Cumberland County, N. J. Letters 
answered. Papers containing full information, sent free. 
Advertisements to be sure of insertion must be re¬ 
ceived at latest by the 15th of the preceding month. 
TERMS — (invariably cash before insertion): 
FOR TIIE ENGLISH EDITION ONLY. 
Fifty cents per line of space for each insertion. 
One whole column (145 lines), or more, $60 per column. 
(^“Business Notices, Eighty cents per line of space. 
FOR THE GERMAN EDITION ONLY. 
Ten cents per line of space for each insertion. 
One whole column (130 lines), or more, $10 per column. 
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IIOW TO PRUNE YOUR GRAPE VINE. 
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE 
GARDEN AND VINEYARD CULTURE OF TIIE VINE, 
AND TIIE 
MANUFACTURE ©F DOMESTIC WINE. 
Designed for the use of Amateurs and others In the 
NORTHERN AND MIDDLE STATES. 
Profusely Illustrated with new engravings. By Jons' Puin 
CELEBRATED 
Tliomery System of Grape Culture. 
PRICE $1.25. 
Sent free of postage on receipt of price. 
Every person who has a Grape Vine, should own this Book. 
Address C. M. SAXTON, 
Agricultural Book Publisher, 
New-York. 
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WITH VALUABLE IMPROVEMENTS. 
Office No. 505 Broadway, New-York. 
Great International Agricultural 
Exhibition, 
TO BE HELD AT 
Hamburg, Germany, in July, 1863, 
The attention of Agriculturists, Growers of Stock, and 
Manufacturers of Agricultural Implements, machinery, and 
others interested in Agricultural Products, Is called to this 
Exhibition, which will probably exceed in interest am! 
magnitude any Fair of the kind ever held. 
Every facility will be afforded for the cheap transportation 
of all contributions to the Exhibition, as well as to the dele¬ 
gates from the several State Societies, and others connected 
with the Exhibition. 
All applications for entries must be made to the only 
authorized Agents undersigned, before the fifteenth day of 
April next, who will furnish programmes and any informa¬ 
tion required. AUSTIN BALDWIN «fc CO.. 
Sole Agents, 72 Broadway, New-\ ork. 
