reams of paper were used, at a cost of $10 
per ream, and the total cost of them was some 
$40,000 The postage on them is four cents 
each. 
We took Mr. Vick’s order-book and found 
that for one week, in the middle of March, 
the number of orders received was 11,060, 
on which the cash was $3,097.44. The 
number of persons employed about the 
building is about one hundred and twenty, 
three-fourths of whom are ladies, of most 
lady-like deportment, all busily attending to 
Heal (Estate, (Etc 
lafnntlisf 
WAXTEIl. - A FARM OK ABOUT ONE 
AT Hundred AOres. located nuhlit leu milos uf a 
Railway Station, and convenient lo a lake or river 
a fiord i iik opportunity for boating and fishing. Tlie 
building must he in good order and roomy. Address, 
giving tuirparticulars and price, 
FARM Kit, 277 Fulton Ht... Brooklyn, N. Y. 
MAltyLAND FU FIT FA IIDI8 #8 TO rt-lft 
1T1 per acre,(Zoiid builcHugg, lurgu bearing peach 
orchards. Catalogues free. 1 u 
H. 1’. CHAM liKllS, Kedentlsburg, Aid. 
SEED HOUSE OF JAMES VICK. 
THE ENGLISH SPARROWS. 
A writer ill the World saysEvil re¬ 
ports of what our sparrows are doing iu the 
rural districts come to us. It is a fact to la¬ 
ment, yet nevertheless it is a fact, that these 
little English birds are very good citizens, 
but behave very badly as soon as (hey take 
MISSOURI LANDS 
ORGANIZED BY STATE AUTHORITY 
(Jives Authentic 
Information to 
those 
Desiring Homes 
in the 
WEST, 
either on 
Homestead 
Lands, 
Pre-Emption 
Lands, 
RAILROAD LANDS, 
on 
IMPROVED 
Farms. 
Gives 
Correct 
Information 
as to 
QUALITY (IF SOIL, 
Proximity to 
About tfjO.OOO Acres of tin* Finest Farm, 
tna mid Grusr.iug I,mid In (lie United Sliiles, 
tor 81*10 at low prloes und on very ca.sy toriiiM; thus 
enabling an industrious man with small cawltul to 
pay for his laud with money earned from it. 
Missouri is nor. too far West to built a grunt dis¬ 
tance from markets ; its Uuilroml taolliUett are great 
and Constantly IncreuMrig ; the climale is splendid 
and good crops are almost a. eor'Utitity; wlillo the 
numerous thriving towns amt cities springing up on 
every hand attest beyond doubt that tlm Plight of 
slavery Into boon elfectunily dissipated, and that 
Eastern men mid Eastern capital are doing thoir 
perioct work, 
OH It LANDS DEFY COMPETITION. 
Send for full Descriptive Circulars and Sectional 
Maps, inclosing 30 cents, and star ing what paper you 
saw this In. to EDWA It l> WII.ilKR, 
•mini (onimisslooer, 11 mini Ini 1. Mo. 
MARKETS, SCHOOLS, ETC., 
together with 
The Cost or Farm Implements and Machinery, 
Household Goods and Subsistence at any 
Point in Kansas Desired by the 
Immigrant. 
It. has organized a system Of 
Reduced Tnuispoilajiou, 
Whoreby the Immigrant, is furnished withabont 
HALF KATES OF PASSENGER FARE, 
In first class Coaches, on (lie order of the Socie¬ 
ty, with double the usual weight of personal 
baggago. A Iso, 
Ci really Reduced Rates of Freight 
to the Immigrant. 
For full particulars, address 
A. B8. EB A VMIAS, Secret firy, 
Leavenworth, Knns.i*. 
A C K K S 
OF THK 
james vick’s seed warehouse, 
their work. The packing and mailing tables 
are arranged in most admirable order, by 
States, bo that a group of employes is as¬ 
signed to a particular territory. Neatness, 
order, accuracy and dispatch are the ruling 
features of the whole establishment, and Mr. 
Vick is reaping the reward of Ida devotion 
to a useful occupation. Mr. Vick contem¬ 
plates a trip to Europe during the current 
season, for which ho intends to embark iu 
ROCHESTER, N. V. 
it into their heads to go into the country. It 
will soon he seen that it was an ill-advised 
measure to bring them here at all, for al¬ 
though they destroy the larvae of insects and 
keep caterpillars from covering us iu the 
summer, yet when they get out into the fields 
they descend upon the wheat and t he young 
rye as dissipated youth fall upon the old rye, 
hut with more disastrous effects upon the 
original owners thereof. In some countries 
a reward is paid for the dead body of a spar¬ 
row, and for all sparrow eggs that may he 
found and destroyed, so that they fairly come 
under the head of vermin. But the damage 
done is not alone to the grain ; there is hard¬ 
ly a more quarrelsome and tyrannical bird 
than this. He fights with the robin and 
overcomes him by numbers; lie harries and 
drives away the beautiful Baltimore oriole, 
the most welcome anti lovely of our summer 
visitors, whose orange and Vermillion hues 
on a background of black, and whose plain¬ 
tive, mellow notes are the delight of the 
world; who comes all the way from Mexico 
to us, only to find little gray thieves in pos¬ 
session of hia old haunts, determined not to 
share with him, but on the contrary, bent, on 
his destruction. 
As matter of fact the adult sparrow cares 
very little for larva; and very much for 
grain; gives the former to his young while 
lie himself lives as much as possible on the 
latter. So it is easy to see how dangerous a 
denizen of the country he is. As for beauty, 
except that which conies from quick motion, 
he has none of it, although he is picturesque 
and piquant. 4 he writer of this paragraph 
happened to be in the country a few days 
TAN O OFF If II 
OF NORTH CAROLINA 
Oil'll I CAROLINA 
IMPROVED FARMS, GOOD HOUSES, 
FENCES, &c„ &c. 
200,000 ACRES 
Unimproved timber land, 7ftc,. f 1, $1.80, $2 per aoro. 
Convenient In Towns, Railroads and Navigable Kiv- 
er.s. All on tlm most liberal tonus. Send lor Cata¬ 
logue, Address 
IL* K1NOSLAND, lienors 1 Manager. 
P- O. Box 240, Raleigh, N. C. 
(Charteredby SpnHal Art of the LcuixUtturr in tSIiO,) 
Olions for mile SOD.ihk) acres of best Farming bands, 
Iinai UiiHr.jadit, Rivers ami Town*, with good lionaon 
A "••••.. n fill I.or acre. 
Alao, JtJi.OOQ acre-, of Timbered ami (Dazing Lamia, 
t il< oh from Wl 0(8. to $2 imr acre. Alan. mimiTOits 
Mo oral und Mill Pitro.'l t ies, Water Dowers. An., lit 
various pi lca. 1 bn Prfnnlnit of tills fiituniinv lias 
boon appointed Ccmuahammer«,/ tnimlitroCUm by the 
Leglslatiiri; of North Carolina, am! by virtue of bin 
oltleo is required to give all needful information to 
eniigriints. No otliLir Ctnrnmny or Agency bus the 
hnhirunnnit and unurJiiw, of tlio Statu. A nply for tiY- 
turmatlon ami Circulars. 
IVa , GKO. LITTLE, President. 
WM SCOTT,Secretary, itabogb. n r, 
pitman 
OFFKH ABOUT -2,000,000 ACHES 
QIL YOUII HARNESS. 
More lasting benefit Is derived from one applica¬ 
tion of 
FRANK 3V£II,I,EK.>S 
PREPARED 
Harness Oil Blacking, 
Than from three applications of any kind of clear 
oil. This assertion is justified by Thirty Years’ 
experience ami observation. Ma nufactured by 
FRANK MILLER & CO.. 
18 und 20 Cedar St., N. Y. 
An OI«l Swarm of Bees 
Thf.ue is a swarm of bees in the adjoining 
town of Knox, Albany Co., that has occu¬ 
pied the same comb for Hie past fifteen 
years, and in the same hive. The swarm 
was found by Benjamin Gallup in the 
town of Watervliet, Albany Co., fifteen 
years ago, on a pine shrub along the road 
side. lie went It) a farmer’s house and pro¬ 
cured a box eighteen inches square inside. 
After hiving the swarm in this box, lie se¬ 
cured them, with proper ventilation, and 
brought them home, some eighteen miles 
from the spot where he found them. They 
have remained in the same box ever since, 
and have cast off swarms every season, with 
the exception of three seasons. The comb 
lias never been renewed since the bees have 
occupied the box. At present they appear 
to he in fine condition to commence the sea¬ 
son’s work, and prospects are they may con¬ 
tinue to do well for some years to come. 
Now, Mr Editor, there is something that 
accounts for this swarm prospering so long 
in the same box and comb, and that is, their 
casting swarms nearly every season left, t he 
hive with a young, fertile queen ; the queen 
being very fertile kept the eolony strong in 
numbers, which is the best protection against 
the moth and in preserving the corn'll. It 
also goes to show the necessity of keeping 
our colonies furnished with young, fertile 
queens. If ibis be at tended to, we need not 
fear, with proper management, but that suc¬ 
cess will crown our efforts in bee culture, if 
blessed with favorable seasons.—P. J. Sev¬ 
erson, Albany Co., N. Y. 
On 10 Years’ Credit, at 6 pr. ct. Interest, 
No pan of Principal Utm for two vent* from pur¬ 
chase?, and afterward* only one-ninth yearly. 
Products will Pay for Land and Improvements. 
TIih 1,1 ticriil Credits given i K!’<•«• Ponses 
allowed . stnuJl annual payment!) required ; the cur¬ 
rent market value of money, and profits on Stuck 
mixing, prove those terms Cheaper, easier aim bel l.-r 
than to buy II. 8, haul within nilli'oud-ltuuldimltt) at 
$2.50 fior Here, wOLIo our prlpos range generally from 
to , •>’ *L 8 and l ft Dollars per acre. Guuliiyimd 
local advantages rule the price. 
On these gen cron. Terms the Imlustrioun and 
competent can buy and pay for a good Farm and 
Home. In beginning. It. lx necessary to have money 
enough to pay six pur cent. Interest on the land, ob¬ 
tain provisions, build a cabin, buy a team mid agri¬ 
cultural implements (111 crops are raised, which can 
bo done the first season, by commencing in early 
tipri riff. 
CIRCULAR8 giving ful.l particulars nro sup¬ 
plied gratis and any wishing to lndboe others t<? 
emigrate with them, or to form a Colony, are invited 
to ask tor all they want to distribute. 
A SECTIONAL MAP. showing exact location 
of Lands for sale n Iowa, Is sold for cents, and a 
similar Map of Nebraska Lunds Is sold for 20 cents. 
Apply to GEO. S. IIA flit (8, 
Laud Com’r Burlington & Mo. River R. R On 
pilAGKANT SAPOLIENE 
f loans Kid Gloves and all kinds of cloths and cloth¬ 
ing; removes paint, grease, tar, instantly, with- 
out' injury to Hit; finest fahrlo. Sold by dnmLdHtN 
•J™* fancy goods dealers. FRAGRANT SAPOLIENF 
lo.. Ji Barclay street. New York; it; La Salle street, 
FREEZERS 
Lull for the White Mountain Freezer. Liberal dis¬ 
count to the trade Circulars free. Address Wuite 
MT. Fkioiczek Co.. Laconia. N. H. 
W . I I> E L L , 
* iriciJlT AND PRODUCE 
C O ML niSSIO * HI ■: It C ■■ AJVi\ 
328 GREENWICH STREET, 
7N K W Y O It TC . 
Carlton 
^ '-C/. NTR the Lines of the 
SAINT PAUL and PACIFIC, RAIL ROAD COMPAl 
L’ W iak» And its Connections™ 
Bees Adapted to Localities. 
Frederick William Vogel, a Prussian 
beo keeper, Bays: —“An improved breed 
equally suited t.o all parts of an extensive 
country is an impossibility For each par¬ 
ticular district an improved breed specially 
suiled may be produced. In a cross, result¬ 
ing from the Italian queen with the black 
drone, degeneration became apparent in the 
second generation, Ihe hybrids divided nu¬ 
merically, one portion resembling the Ital¬ 
ian, and the other the black bees. In the 
jotirUi or fifth generation some of these 
hybrids reached again the pure Italian, oth- 
PACIF 
Out.rlaii 
Lak 4 
«msfk Y\/( 
“ Among the many curious phenomena 
which piesented themselves to me iu the 
course of my travels,” says Humboldt, “I 
confess there were few by which my imagi¬ 
nation was so powerfully affected ns by the 
cow tiee. On the parched side of a rock 
on the mountains of Venezuela grows a tree 
with dry and leathery foliage, its large woody 
roots scarcely penetrating into the ground. 
For several months iu the year its leaves 
are not moistened by a shower; its branches 
look as if they were dead and withered; 
but when the trunk is bored, a bland and' 
nourishing milk flows from it. It is at sun- 
nse that the vegetable fountain flows most 
freely. At. that time the blacks and natives 
are seen coming from all parts, provided 
with large bowls lo receive the milk, which 
grows yellow and thickens at its surface. 
Some empty their vessels on the spot, while 
others carry them to their children. One 
imagines he sees the family of a shepherd 
who is distributing the milk of his flock.” 
1 Si; Croix 
CfUls 
Sdlluiatcr 
New Bees. 
I think I have an item of news which will 
surprise oar Rural New-Yorker friends 
some, if not more. To-day 1 had a fine 
swarm of bees come out, which was hived at 
2 o’clock; at 4 they were at work ns nicely 
as one could wish. They are the common 
bee, wintered out in a Langstrolh hive. If 
there is another new swarm of bees in the 
State I should like to know it.— Austin B 
Culver, Chant. Co., N. Y, April 7, 1871. 
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•ff.T'eW Falls 
^ er Thn *r! m«'nf fI rinVdOliar pep nprp liiftR tliiin CTc'filt V’rieesV 11 w,lore " 81 beven ** r 
1 «—■ 
HKIUIANN TKOTT, Land Commissioner, 
M _. r ~ , General Office at St. Paul, Minnesota, 
Railroad. Go7ernment tands still to be had, under the Homestead Law, along the wain line of the above 
Inquiries for Aparln.is.-wtllsome one who 
knows, please inform rne if Lees can tie sueeess- 
fnt y kept in a small, dark room, where the 
jeot is a supply of honey for family use?—A New 
S imscHHiKK, Tioga Oj.,A'. y. anew 
