Salt Jot Butter.— It has been the general Im¬ 
pression, till within a brief period, that Ashton 
salt was better for nee in malting butter and 
cheese than Onondaga or any other in common 
use. At the recent State FairtherC were a large 
number of packages of butter submitted to the 
inspection of the Committee, on the article, some 
cured with Ashton and others with factory filled 
Onondaga salt. Iu their report the Committee 
say: — “ We have no doubt that for the preser¬ 
vation of batter the factory filled Onondaga salt, 
has no superior; and wc think that this careful 
and rigid examination must satisfy our farmers 
that they can safely rely on onr own domestic 
salt, made purposely for the dairy; and If there 
is any failure in the butter they will have to look 
to other causes for that failure. 
Poor Baiter. —Owing, probably, to the dryness 
of the season and the consequent short crop of 
pasture grass the quality of the butter coming to 
this market, the present fall, has, as a general 
thing, been much below the average quality. 
This is the statement of some of the more promi¬ 
nent dealers in the article and the cause of the 
general deterioration is the one here assigned. 
But, whether good or bad, the price is such as 
to give a majority of consumers a griping about 
the region where the purse is secreted. 
pondent doubtless writes of large mutton sheep. 
Half a pint of com per day would be heavy feed for 
Merinos. ._ 
Good akd Bad Cloth —“M. C. B.” of Clinton, 
Mich., writes us: — “ The undersigned having ob¬ 
served in the Rural of Nov. 9th an article headed 
‘ Good and Bod Wool,' would like to make a few 
suggestions. Having for some years been in the 
habit of buying factory doth, I find that I have to 
pay a great price for it, and in some Instances it Is 
very poor, flimsy staff. After it is made it looks very 
well for a time.—bnt. after a little while the wearer is 
surprised to find that the outside or dressing wears 
off and shows a coarse, poor article; and farmers are 
obliged to sell their wool for so low a price, consider¬ 
ing the price that they have to pay for the cloth, that 
they get no adequate return ; or, to make the thing 
equal, they are obliged to make their wool weigh all 
that they can within the bounds of conscience. I do 
not wish to stand champion for all the dishonesty 
that Is practiced In selling and fitting wool for mar¬ 
ket,—bnt I do think the manufacturers might with 
propriety take part of the lesson to themselves. I 
think there is quite as much dishonesty practiced in 
manufacturing wool a* in growing and selling it.’’ 
urat Gottis md 
number receive the Becond prize in the same 
way, and so on. 
These are simply suggestions thrown out for the 
consideration of the “ sheep men” of the conn- 
try. and to call out their views for the guidance 
of their representatives in the National Wool 
Growers’ Association. Should the Exposition 
beheld, committees of arrangement will doubt¬ 
less he appointed by both National Organiza¬ 
tions to meet together at an early day and deter¬ 
mine the modes of procedure. Those wishing 
to present any recommendations should make 
them, therefore, as soon as possible alter the 
27th inet., if the Exposition is then decided on. 
We speak our own views, and we have no doubt 
that ul' every officer of the National Wool Grow¬ 
ers’ Association, when we say that all such re¬ 
commendations will be thankfully received and 
placed before the Executive Board for examina¬ 
tion. 
It may be we!) enongb here to remark that the 
National Wool Growers’ Association was not 
organized with any expectation that National 
Fairs would ever become one of its usual fea¬ 
tures. As a general thing the fairs, for obvious 
considerations, had better be left exclusively to 
the States. But for the reasons given last week, 
a departure from that course would, in our view 
be proper and expedient in the present instance. 
Since writing the above we have received an 
official letter from the Secretary of the National 
Association of Wool Manufacturers in which he 
expresses much gratification on the part of the 
President of the Association and himself at the 
proposal that the growers invite the manufac¬ 
turers to join in an Exposition, and he says:— 
“ In order to carryout this plan St will be neces¬ 
sary for us to call a special meeting of our Asso¬ 
ciation, which we propose to do for the 5th of 
December, eight days after your annual meet¬ 
ing.” And he adds“ It is my belief that no 
effort will be spared by the manufacturers to 
make this the most brilliant exposition that this 
country has ever seen of the products of a single 
industry. We hope it will he worthy of onr two 
National Associations and lead to their perpetu¬ 
ity, so essential to the well-being of the woolen 
interests.” 
No fear of disease, heat of climate or personal 
danger; the period tor all this has past. Good 
men, good citizens, will be warmly and sincerely 
welcomed, aud kindnesses extended which they 
would have little reason to expect. The portals 
are numerous; any State or region one might 
fancy can be visited with pleasure and profit. 
Let visitors select any portion fancy or descrip¬ 
tion may prompt, and my word for it they will 
never regret the time or money spent. If'deemed 
worthy of attention you will hear irom me 
again. Very respectfully, 1 vro. 
A Swindling Agbnt —Mack at his old 7'ricks.— 
Under date of “Racine. Wis., Nov. 16,” Mr. W. G. 
Roberts writes na in this wise: 
“Yesterday a man called on me pretending to be 
an agent for yonr Rural, and bis book showed that 
he bad many names for yonr paper, bt-lde mine, at 
£2.50 n year, postage five, no called himsel f Farson 
or Pharson. I saw a man from Iowa who says that 
there was a person there awhile ago iu the same 
business, bnt there he went by the t amo of McPher¬ 
son Now, will yon be so kind a- to drop me a line, 
stating If he has sent, you my ; •. > .oriptton, and that 
everything i- all right*,—so that I may take a little 
care of the ekek, tongucy gent, and try to find him 
lodging at the expense of the County if he is an 
impostor.” 
This McPherson, with several aliases, is » swindler, 
and has operated as a pretended agent for the Rural 
nearly every winter for many years. Taking advant¬ 
age of the repntatlon and popularity of the Rural, 
he first operated In Canada West, getting several 
hundred subscribers in passing from Qneenston to 
Detroit— pocketing the money and never sending ns 
a dime or name. Wc next heard of him in Michigan 
and other Western States—then again in Canada. We 
once spent some fifty dollars In trying to catch and 
cage the scoundrel, but he skedaddled into the “ con¬ 
federacy,” or elsewhere. We are now “ after him” 
again, having telegraphed Mr R. on receipt of above 
note. Though it’s like unto the preacher talking to 
his attentive listeners about the wickedness of ab¬ 
sentees, we again caution our readers to beware of 
this McPherstm, and all other pretended traveling 
agents far, as we have repeatedly stated, bo such 
a.entfl are employed by the Rural New-Yorker. 
The only safe way to secure this paper a year is to 
remit $3 direct to us, or join a club being formed by 
some one yon know—or form a club yourself. 
EDITED BY HENRY S. RANDALL, LY>. D. 
RATIONAL WOOL GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 
The National Wool Growers' AHsoclation will hold 
its Annual Meeting In Pittsburg, Pa., on Wednesday, 
Nov. 27 th, at IS o’clock, M. The Executive Board 
are requested to meet at the Monongnhcla House. 
Henry 8. Randall, President,. 
W»f. F. GllKKR, SeOreblTy. 
Remedt for Pale Disease.—B y the sheerest inad¬ 
vertence we published, week before last, a fall blown 
advertisement, In the form of a communication Rom 
P. 0. Swxtland of Chesterville, Ohio, who claims to 
have discovered a remedy for pale disease. “ I have 
got,” says Mr. H., “the whole right to the medicine 
and to the discovery qf the disease. There are two of 
lie, aud I have purchased his entire interest in it. I 
have applied for a patent, and if I succeed I will have 
territory to sell," &c. We scarcely, perhaps, need to 
say that we have no confidence in a remedy thus an¬ 
nounced—hat we do say it, to the end that nobody 
may draw a contrary inference from our publication 
of it without dissent. 
CHICAGO WOOL EXPOSITION 
Siikkp in the South.—A South Carolinian mem 
tions in the Monthly Agricultural Report his experi¬ 
ence with a few sheep His land was In Marion Co., 
and twenty-two sheep were pul upon It last season. 
During the winter they were sheltered only on two 
occasions—once during a snow storm in January, and 
the same in consequence of a cold rain. Their food 
for a year, which was grass in the summer and cotton 
seed In the winter, together with 6alt, cost about 
$6.50. The wool was worth $25, and sixteen lambs 
worth as much more. The cost of keeping^each 
sheep was about 'i&k cents. 
Names Claimed. — Loan J. Burgess of North 
Hoosick, N. Y., claims the names of Areola for a ram 
teg. and Irene for a ewe teg. They are twins, got by 
Gold Mine, out of Little Queen. Both of the latter 
have received State prizes, and cuts and pedegrees of 
both have been published in this paper. 
The Best Potato.—M r. James Leonard writes 
the N. H. Mirror and Farmer about potatoes. Having 
cultivated a great many varieties, some of them quite 
good, he gives It as his opinion that the Boston Red 
is the bcBt variety extant. It is supposed to be an 
old potato; is of a rich, good flavor, and “ keepB 
fresh and sound the whole year round." The only 
Objection to it is a tendency to break open too soon 
after the process of cooking commences It has a 
resemblance to the Davis Seedling, but is considered 
a better potato. On good soil it yields well and is 
less subject to disease than many other varieties. 
THE SECRET OF GOOD BUTTER. 
IMPORTS OF WOOL AND WOOLENS, 
There is no process of working or washing 
that will secure a good article of batter, or that 
will get all the buttermilk out till it has stood a 
Bhort time, when it must be worked over the 
Becond time, after which it will keep a long time. 
Butter that has not been worked over the second 
time will not keep more than two or three days 
in warm weather. I don’t care how much pains 
you take with it, the buttermilk that is left in 
the butter becoming sour, makes yonr butter 
rancid. I have bought and sold butter in this 
State, and know wbat 1 am talking about; and 
here is where the trouble begins, you arc bound 
to sell all the buttermilk you can, and so long as 
dealers pay as much for buttermilk as they do 
for * pice artic^* Of butter wo cannot expect yon 
to do much belter. I am satisfied that there can 
ho just as good butter made hi Indiana as is made 
in the cheese and butter regions of the Eastern 
States. But just so long as we pursue the enj. 
cidsl policy of selling buttermilk with the butter, 
so long our butter will be quoted in Eastern mar¬ 
kets as Western grease. 
In our issue of September 7th, wc published 
a table of quarterly imports of raw wool, tloeks 
and manufactures of (wool into the port of New' 
York in 18(50, and the first quarter of 1867. We 
stated that wo obtained our information “ from 
an official and reliable source.” The amount of 
imported wool was drawn from the books of 
the Assistant Appraiser, who appraises all im¬ 
ported wools, and was 6trictly correct for the 
quantity in invoices examined by that officer— 
hut sheep skins with the Wool on tvcrc net In¬ 
cluded, and there are therefore some discrepan¬ 
cies between the figures aud those given below, 
obtained from the Custom House. But these 
discrepancies only show a greater falling off of 
imports of wool in the first quarter of 1867 /rout 
those for the same period in 1806. 
To present a more general view of the import 
of wool and woolens under preceding tariffs— 
the uniform and rapid Increase in the imports 
of woolens since 1860 and down t,o enactment of 
the present tariff, and the great though irregu¬ 
lar increase in the imports of wool during the 
same period—we subjoin the following table, 
obtained from the books of the Custom House. 
Wc have deferred its publication for several 
weeks to obtain tbe imports in the second quar¬ 
ter of 1867, but falling in this (down to the pres¬ 
ent date) wc delay no longer. From the infor¬ 
mation we have obtained, we conclude that the 
wool imports of the second and third quarters 
of 1867 will equal the falling off of the first quar¬ 
ter. The Tarlfi’ works. 
Imports qf Wool and Manufactures of Wool into the 
Port of y< w York from the 1 st of January, 
1857, to the ills! of March, 1867. 
Wool, Raw, Wool 
except Flocks. Manur’d. 
-- . -- < . 
Pounds. Dollars. 
1 ft and 2d Quarters, 1857. 4,609,870 11,840,862 
8d and 4th ” “ 5,813,054 lf>,BU,#4# 
1st anil 2d “ 1858. 2;148,M8 6,UM7,8H1 
3d and 4th “ “ 8,730,171 I2.a58.820 
1st and 2d “ 1859. 18,655,«S7 17,534,i78 
8d and 4 th ” “ 7,521,850 18,878,0® 
1st aud 2d “ 1860. 11,872,797 15,186,481 
3d and 4th “ “ 5,918,592 17,004,437 
1st and 3d “ 1861. .,, 5,855,181 s,m,096 
3d and 4lh “ “ 7,922,128 5,889,583 
1st and 2d ** 1862. 16.412,893 8.S74.S11 
3d and 4th “ *• 17,4712200 9,49s,428 
let and 2d “ 1863. 27,999,131 7,850,618 
3d and 4th “ " 18,980,036 14,352.294 
1st and 2d “ 1861. 39,858,878 16.132,292 
8dand4th •• “ . 13,388,520 9.623,600 
1st and 2d ” 1865. 14,351,099 8.46s,8H9 
3d and 4th " " 14 jB78,018 *6,898,867 
1st aud 2d “ 1866. 30,f04,416 *24,200,176 
3d and 4th “ “ ... 6,998,751 *23,292,227 
1st, •• 1867. 5,242,315 *10j019j044 
* These amounts were not received with the present 
table, but with the previous one published Sept. 7th. 
They then camo from the books of the Custom House, 
and are doubtless correct. 
THE THANKSGIVING TURKEY 
American Dairymen’s Association. — The next 
Convention (or meeting) of this Association will be 
held at Utica, N. Y., Jan. 8—9, 1868. The address 
will be delivered by Prof. William n. Brewer of the 
Sheffield Scientific School. Yale College. Tho sub¬ 
ject will bo ** Cattle Breeding in its Relations to Dairy 
Farming.” Those desiring information in regard to 
the discussions at the Convention, can obtain it by 
addressing G. B, Wkkka Esq., Sec'y, Verona,N. Y. 
As Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching — a 
day closely associated with a prominent Ameri¬ 
can bird, the Turkey—wc give an illustration 
of one of these autumnal martyrs as suited to 
the time and season. In honor of this bird It 
may not he Inappropriate to state that while 
the subject of selecting a national emblem was 
under discussion, Benjamin Franklin sug¬ 
gested the propriety of assigning that honor to 
the Turkey—a position finally accorded to the 
frJOre ravenous and aspiring Eagle. Of course 
atir readers appreciate the excellence of the 
Tnrkty ftrf the table, and will see to it that the 
birds are properly fitted to grace the destiny to 
which they ate tedding. 
A Change or Bake — A correspondent of the Mary¬ 
land Farmer proposes to substitute plowing matches 
for mock tournaments and base ball games, as a more 
healthful and profitable employment than either of the 
others. A plow manufacturing company in Baltimore 
seconds this motion, and promises a superior plow to 
the winner in the first contest for superiority. 
ABOUT COLORING GHEESE 
American Poultry Society.— We have received 
tho premium programme of this Society, which is to 
hold its first fall exhibition at Masonic Hall Lecture 
Room, No. 112 East 18th Street, New York, com¬ 
mencing December 8d, and closing on the evening 
of the 6th. The premiums are numerous aud liberal. 
The Utica Herald quotes from a letter from 
Sir Jambs Montbith to the Ayrshire Express, 
in which the practice of coloring cheese with 
anotta or scarlet vegetable substances is strongly 
condemned. It is not disputed that coloring 
improves the appearance of the cheese, but it 
is claimed that the matter used to raise the color 
is deleterious to the health of consumers. Be¬ 
sides, he asserts that the coloring mutter used 
prevents the cheese ripening for a long time for 
the market. To this the Herald adds :—“ We 
have no doubt that vegetable coloring matter of 
various descriptions may have an injurious effect 
upon the curd. Grantiug that may all be true, 
the practical dairyman has hardly suspected it. 
He knows that the early ripening of cheese de¬ 
pends, for the most part, upon its manufacture 
and curing. Thus, by care in manufacture, light 
salting and comparatively high heat in curing, 
ft cheese highly colored with anotta, may be 
ripened for the table in thirty days, or even 
twenty days from the press. One great objec¬ 
tion which the Euglish urge against the Ameri¬ 
can cheese is that it ripens too quick and goes 
to decay too soon. If color would arrest the 
process of ripening and decay, that might be 
claimed sometimes, perhaps, in its favor.” 
guMiislwr to tlte guMif 
The Price of the Rurat,—If any one objects to 
the price of the Rural, please ask him or her to com¬ 
pare the paper In Contents, Appcarnnce, &c., with any 
similar Journal, weekly or monthly,—or with any reprint 
of a dally or trashy literary paper. State, the tact that 
the first cost of the Rural (for Editorial and other Con¬ 
tributions, Engravings, Ac., Ac.) is far greater than that 
of any of Its contemporaries,—and moreover that It la 
far cheaper now, ut |3, than It was at $2 before the war, 
compared with the prices of provisions, clothing, etc. 
A little examination and figuring will satisfy any candid, 
Intelligent person that the Rural New-Yobkku is really 
the cheapest paper of lts class. 
THE CRISP - FEATHERED FOWL. 
This singular appearing fowl is supposed to 
be a native of Southern Asia or the East Indies. 
The curious appearance of its feathers, which 
are crisped and project outwards, as though 
they had been rubbed and ruffled in the wrong 
direction, has undoubtedly suggested its name, 
Bemknt says:—“This variety of fowl does not 
appear to possess any peculiar advantages, and 
is more interesting as a curiosity than valued 
for any practical purposes. The hens are not 
good layers, and their eggs are small, averaging 
little more than two ounces in weight. They 
are said to be good mothers, breed freely with 
other varieties, and the offspring is hardy and 
prolific.” 
omy single jirei, second ana tnird prizes are 
awarded iu each division of a class. We con¬ 
sider the former system, especially where com¬ 
petition is large, the most just aud satisfactory 
-one. We have attended a good many Sheep 
Fairs, and seen a good many able and Impartial 
viewing committees discharge their duties, iet 
we have never seen one such committee act, 
without perfectly well knowing, in cases of very- 
close aud extensive competition, that if another 
equally able and impartial committee were called 
on to judge the same animals, there would be 
twenty chances to one that they w-ould bring in 
different awards. Nay, If several such commit¬ 
tees should act, without any concert or knowl¬ 
edge of each other’s opinions, it would be very 
doubtful whether any two of them would ex¬ 
actly coincide in their decisions. While such is 
the fallibility of—or difference In—the opinions 
of the best judges, it would, we think, afford 
far better encouragement to the breeder or owner 
of sheep, who proposed to carry them a thou¬ 
sand miles for exhibition, to know that the com¬ 
parative merit of all good sheep would be pub¬ 
licly passed upon aud recognized, than to know 
that they must be adjudged one of the first three 
places, as individuals or pens, or receive no offi¬ 
cial notice w hatever. A competent committee 
who might find great difficulty in selecting out, 
even to their own satisfaction, the three best in¬ 
dividuals in a class, could scarcely err in select¬ 
ing the twelve or twenty best, and iu arranging 
them into, say, three orders or divisions of merit. 
Nor need this prevent animals of clearly supe¬ 
rior excellence in either such division from ob¬ 
taining their due priority by being placed first, 
second, third and so on in each division. Thus 
five rams in the same class and division might 
receive the first prize, or an equal prize, the only 
distinction between them being made by rank¬ 
ing them as 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th,—an equal 
How to Help the Hural. —There are numerous 
ways tn which lea friends can aid la circulating the 
Rural. First, show the paper, or talk to yonr friends 
about It, or both. Get up a clttb, or aid some friend to 
do so—or Induce your P. M, to act as agent. Our pre¬ 
miums are liberal and sure. Send for the list, which 
(together with show-bill, prospectus, &e.,) we send free. 
A little effort will secure a good club In almost any lo¬ 
cality, and this Is the bcBt Boason to make the effort. 
Reader, wjll you please sec that the matter is attended 
to In your neighborhood ? 
DAIRY ITEMS, 
Premium IAnI, Show-Bill, Ac.—Our Premiums 
to Club Agents are more liberal than ever before, bnt 
we have not space to give a list of them In the Rural. 
Premium Lists, Show-Bills, Specimens, &e., are promptly 
sent, free,to all applicants. Give ns your address, and 
also that of any friends who may be disposed to form 
clnbs, that you and they may see our offers of “ Good 
Pay for Doing Good.”_ 
Our Club Rate.—The lowest Club Rate of the 
Rural Is $2.50, and ]f any agents offer Jt for less they 
must pay ns that price. Our rates are invariable, and 
none are authorized to depart from them—though of 
course we cannot prevent agents from doing so, or even 
giving away the paper; that Is their business. 
Condensed Correspondence. Items, &c 
American Chedder .— F. W. Collins of this city, 
exhibited, at the late State Fair, a sample of 
eheeee made on his farm iu Otsego county which 
he christened “ American Chedder." The Com¬ 
mittee say of it:—“ This cheese is in small sizes, 
varying from nine to twelve pounds. The skin 
of the. cheese iB very thin, while it is so close and 
impervious to the air as to hold the inside of the 
cheese soft aud in good condition. This cheese 
we look upon as a great and valuable addition to 
the kinds made in onr country.” This opinion 
was backed up by a very handsome special 
premium. 
Keep the Cows in Heart. — The editor of th e 
Practical Fanner, Philadelphia, alluding to farm 
stock, especially milch cows, timely and truth¬ 
fully remarks that “ uninterrupted' thrift at all 
seasons with all domestic animals should be the 
motto; and this depends on constant care and 
oversight” combined with a practical under¬ 
standing of what is proper to be given to keep 
animals in good heart. With cows giving milk 
this oversight and care is of prime importance, 
as without it they will fall away in flesh; the 
flow- of milk will diminish, and the profits 
expected to result from keeping them fail of 
realization. 
Mr. Deardorff’s Cuts. — These have not boen 
received by ns, nor are they in the Rural office. All 
cu ts should be sent directly to D. D. T. Moore, Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. 
POULTRY-FIVE YEARS’ EXPERIENCE. 
A corkespondent of the Iowa Homestead, 
having devoted five years to the business of 
poultry raising, arrives at the following conclu¬ 
sions iu reference to the Brahma fowl : 
1.—The knowledge that these fowls are une¬ 
qualed as winter layers. 
2—That their eggs average larger aud richer 
than those of any other breed. 
3. —Their home-like domestic qualities qualify 
them for confinement in small yards, which with 
little or no disposition to roam, make them a 
desirable fowl for cities or villages. 
4. —Their superior quality for the table cannot 
be denied. Kill aud pick one and you will hate 
Raising Lambs.— An English farmer, who has been 
farming in this country 35 years, writes us as fol¬ 
lows:—“In raising lambs, nothing is so impor¬ 
tant as so to arrange matters that yonr lambs should 
all drop within one week, and in any week you should 
choose as best in the locality of the farm. I have 
raised many lambs for the Loudon market, also for 
the New York market, and my plan has been attend¬ 
ed with success. Thus, supposing I wished my 
lambs dropped in tbe first week of April, I go back 
twenty weeks, the time for putting the bucks to the 
ewes. Having ascertained that, then for fourteen days 
previous to using the buck , (the ewes being in fair con¬ 
dition,) I give each ewe half a pint of corn per day up 
to the time of using the buck. Then I divide my 
ewes into bunches of 50. putting them away from the 
others as far as I can, and pnt one buck to every 50 
ewes. Yon will find that tbe com has so invigorated 
the ewes that they arc ready for the back tbe moment 
you introduce him. There will be but little doubt 
that he will serve the 50 ewes within the first week, 
bo that your lambs will all drop within the week yon 
wish, thus giving yon an even lot of lambs, and all 
ready for the market at the same time.” Our corres- 
Abont Premiums, &c.— Agents and others who 
form clubs for onr premiums will pleaso be careful, in 
Bending In their lists, to note which are the new sub¬ 
scribers aud which are the renewals. This is essential 
that we may keep the accounts correctly. 
I/ocul Club Agents.— We want a live, wide-awake 
agent for the Rural Iu every town where there is none. 
Reader, If you cannot act as such, please Induce your 
P. M. or some influential friend to do so. 
family. One will weigh as much as two com¬ 
mon fowls, nml oftentimes more. 
5—Their chickens are hardy, easily raised, and 
grow rapidly, and last of ull, they are fine, hand¬ 
some looking fowls, snoh as a nmn can take 
pride in showing to bis friends. 
These expressions will doubtless conflict with 
those of some others w'hose favorite fowls have 
a different appellation, but there is consolation 
in knowing that there is room for them to put 
in a plea for their favorites, 
No Traveliiur Agent* are employed by us, and wc 
give no certificates of agency. Any person so disposed 
can act as Local Club Agent, on his or her own author¬ 
ity, and compete for premiums, etc. 
How to Remit.—The safest way to remit for the 
Rural is by Draft or Post-Office Money Order, —and 
either of these, if made payable to his order, maybe sent 
at the risk of the Publisher. 
