1872 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
365 
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Ae w Eug-lti-Jid. jF;a£r.—The New England 
Agricultural Fair of 1S72 may be said to have been a suc¬ 
cess. An attendance of seventy-five thousand people on 
the third day of the fair, with satisfactory attendance on 
’ the previous days, secured its success financially, while 
the exhibition cf stock and agricultural products and 
implements was creditable even to New England. 
Amongst the horned stock a herd of Swiss cattle and 
another of Brittany cattle were particularly interesting as 
being something not often seen in the United States. The 
show of Herefords and Ayrshires was also worthy of note. 
The greatest attraction, however, was the exhibition of 
horses, which showed great improvement in this class of 
agricultural production to have taken place of late years 
in this section. Our visit was necessarily brief, and the 
immense crowd prevented anything like rapid movement. 
If asked what was the most wonderful tiling we saw at 
the fair, we should answer, “the people.” All seemed 
pleased and satisfied, and the fair closed with eclat. 
A Question in. Proportion.—“ W. S.” 
asks if cabbages at five cents per head will pay better 
than tobacco at twelve cents per pound. It is probable 
that cabbages would be the more profitable crop, on ac¬ 
count of the less labor involved in liarvesting ; a good 
crop of cabbages at that price should bring nearly four 
hundred dollars per acre, and the cost of preparation of 
the ground and cultivation is about the same in cither 
crop until ripe, when the cost of gathering would he in 
favor of the cabbages. It must be a very good crop of 
tobacco to bring four hundred dollars per acre. 
About Hops*.—“ S. Y. C.,” Richland Co., 
Wis., writes that lie has two acres of hops. Shall lie sell 
early ?—We can not advise “ S. Y. C.,” or any other man, 
as to how or when he shall market his crops, for very ob¬ 
vious reasons. The Agriculturist is not gifted with a 
prophetic vision, by which it can tell the price of hops 
next January. Hops promise to be a fair crop all over 
the world, and it is not likely there will he much fluctu¬ 
ation in prices. Our experience for some years has been 
that we have always done better by selling our crops as 
soon as they were ready for market, and taking current 
prices. We have speculated, and held for a rise, and have 
been disappointed and lost money. We do not remember 
"ever making anything by it. Hops are now salable at 
fiiir prices, about 50 cents a pound, which may or may 
not advance, and hops are best marketed while new. 
E>isesas>es ol' 8$»e Horse. — “C. H. L.,” 
M.D., Tarentum, Pa., asks if wc can not give some in¬ 
formation on the diseases of the horse and their treat- j 
ment. The horse is subject to as many diseases as a man, 
and to treat of all of them in a satisfactory manner 
would require several volumes, and to treat of them other¬ 
wise would be worse than useless. It is worthy of sug¬ 
gestion whether or not it would bo proper and advisable 
for country physicians to make this matter a subject of 
study and practice. We can see nothing derogatory in 
it to the character and position of a physician or surgeon, 
and our experience has been that no persons could more 
usefully make this a part of their business than such men, 
and so do away with an army of quacks who destroy more 
horses than they cure, if they ever cure any. 
(■ias-S.imc for Cabbages. — “H. W.,” 
Lafayette, Ind. Gas-lime should not be used for cabbages 
nor any other crop until it has been so long exposed to 
the air that it lias no longer any sulphurous odor. It can 
then be used like any other lime. 
Ossijutc ©range Plants. — “J. N.,” 
Normal, Ill. The size of plants will depend upon the 
season and thick or thin sowing. They range in size 
from that of an ordinary lead-pencil to that of one's little 
finger. They may be wintered out of doors by placing 
in a heap and covering with earth as you would potatoes, 
or by laying in trenches and covering. In either case a 
place where water will drain oft' must be chosen. 
The Baldwin Apple.—In August last 
we published a gossipy article from a well-known literary 
lady, upon the Baldwin apple. This lias called out sev¬ 
eral letters, controverting the statements there made, and 
as these letters do not at all agree with one another,-we 
must decline to publish them. We have not space to 
givo to such controversies. For the sake of peace we are 
willing to admit that Count Rumford was bom in six dif¬ 
ferent places, and that the Baldwin apple originated on 
as many different farms. 
STAE>EgA r HUMBUGS.—Some persons 
have sent us the circulars of the so-called “Missouri 
State Lottery,” and ask, “Is this a genuine Lottery?” 
Suppose it was, would the writers invest in it, and allow 
the managers to put $3 of their money in their own pock¬ 
ets, and then give their dupes a chance to draw the re¬ 
maining $2? That’s the way of all lotteries. But this 
Missouri State Lottery is not a State Lottery at all—that 
State has got above dabbling in such swindles. If the 
writers or any one else are foolish enough to send money 
to the individuals who call themselves “ managers,” they 
need not expect to ever get anything back.The 
“ Sale of the Mount Florence Estate ” is merely a lottery 
at best (or worst), and a poor one at that. If the lots be 
valuable, they will sell on their own merits, without the 
bewitchment of a prize, which only one person in a mil¬ 
lion can get. Wonder if Hon. Chancey M. Depew, Hon. 
Jas. W. Husted, and others, know how their names are 
used to holster up this scheme?.The so-called 
“ N. Y. Loan Brokers’ Union,” offering to sell tickets for 
a little money, which tickets will tell you what big arti¬ 
cles you can get for a little more money, is an old catch¬ 
penny. You must send all sums up to $10 in advance, 
and 14 of all above that is to be C. O. D., which is just the 
same as if remitted in advance—and just the same as if 
thrown into the river r.t first—no, not the same, for in the 
latter case you might find it again. Wonder where “ R.II. 
Lewis, Business Manager,” keeps all that “over $1,C00,- 
000 worth of unreclaimed articles, 07,500 in number”? 
Why not call it an even 67,600 while about it ? Wc have 
been looking for Elias to turn up somewhere again, after 
he sold out those millions of dollars’ worth of Geneva 
watches, and this Loan Brokers’ Union looks very much 
as if he had got into “ No. 4 Bond street.” No Elias, no 
Lewis, or their stock was visible when we called there. 
A little sign on a little room on a top floor reads 
R. H. Lewis; nobody in at 11 % A.M.And now 
comes the old Missionary, the very “ Rev. Jasper Marx,” 
who has spent 40 years or so, as a self-appointed mission¬ 
ary in Paraguay, S.A..where he learned from an S7-ycar-o!d 
woman how to make “ Ava-Pana-Coca,” and the “Nica- 
ya,” which are to banish all sorts of diseases; “ to correct. 
neutralize, and banish forever all evils ” of the blood, 
etc., and this very Rev. old Jasper Marx has come home 
to sell his medicines to poor sick North Americans, 
through his “business agent” in Jersey City, State of 
New Jersey. Bah i We grieve to see genius that can 
invent so taking a story as that of “ Rev. Jasper Marx ” 
degraded to so low a business. Such a man ought to be 
in some higher grade of life, an ornament to society, and 
not a vender of quack medicines. Reader, pray do not 
be led to dosing yourself for imaginary diseases, or any 
other, by such pathetic stories as that of old Jasper 
Marx, the missionary, who never got into any worse 
heathen country than is to be found in “ Jarsey City.” 
.And after Marx comes 76-year-old “Aunt Lee,” a 
good Methodist, of Glenmarthen, in Wales, who sang an 
“old-school Presbyterian” “into tears he had not shed 
in years,” as “the good old soul burst into one of those 
wild refrains ” of John Wesley’s followers. She—to wit, 
"Aunt Lee”—had an “all-healing syrup,” and being 
about to “ shuffle oil' this mortal coil,” sold the recipe to 
the aforesaid “old-school Presbyterian” for a “good 
round sum.” He (not she), his “dear wife having long 
since departed to the promised land,” and his “only 
child being married to a British officer in India,” de¬ 
parted to make “ the land of the setting sun the scene 
of his future operations,” until it “ shall please the Lord 
to call him ” (which we hope will be very soon). In 
short, lie erected “suitable buildings in the State of New 
Jersey,” operated in the Southern States until lie “drove 
out all unworthy competition in that direction,” and 
now proposes to give the “ West ” a chance at his Aunt 
Lee’s “life-restorer,” salves, etc. He wants “agents.” 
We have given the above two specimens of a vast amount 
of printed stuff sent through the country to beguile the 
ignorant masses into buying and swallowing' the medi¬ 
cines (so called) under the impression that they are doc¬ 
tored liy the divinely-sent prescriptions of some old 
semi-spiritual being. Is this whole quack-medicine 
business any better than sheer swindling?.Beware 
of the fellows at the fairs and elsewhere who sell en¬ 
velopes with numbers in them, the lucky numbers to 
draw prizes. They have their stool-pigeons who draw 
good prizes before your eyes, but these swindlers know 
how to get your money and keep it, and they’ll surely 
cheat you out of your money if you invest with them. 
The Fair managers or other good citizens shou’d arrest 
them as lottery dealers, and give them a doso of “coun¬ 
try justice.”.. ..Among new names for operating the 
“Spani li Policy” swindle are: S.W. Cone, 105 Blcecker 
st., alias Clark Fargo, 22 West 4th st., alias 16 South 5th 
avenne_..The “Queer” or pretended counterfeit 
money swindlers have the following new names: F. E. 
Morrell, 89 Fourth ave.; Arthur Debenham, 190 Broad¬ 
way; O. Arogon & Co., 12 Broadway, alias J. B. Marlett, 
Saugerties, N. Y.; Geo. W. Lucas, alias Wade M. Jacobs, 
105 Bleecker st., alias F. A. Newton, 34 Amity st. ; R. J. 
Sprang, alias Wm. Layton, alias E. M. Wentz, 609 Broad¬ 
way ; Geo. D. Marshall, alias Wm. O. Paige, alias Col. M. 
A. Ennever, alias Harrison L. Felix, at 34 Amity st., alias 
Amos Wainwright, 170 Broadway, in Trenton, N. J.,etc., 
etc. Most of the above use the same circulars—that is, 
they come from one operator — but new names are contin¬ 
ually sent out to hoodwink the P. O. clerks. 
laasects ota Asters.—“J. N.,” Ironton, 
Mo. The insect sent as the one destructive to your 
asters is one of the blistering beetles, Lytta vittata. It 
is also destructive to potato vines and oilier vegetation. 
It appears to have been unusually abundant this year. 
We set out a great many asters, and, so industrious were 
the insects, did not get a single perfect bloom. The 
only remedy we know of is to shake them off into a pan 
of water, but we were too short-handed to do this, and 
had to go without asters. 
Hail Iiisiiratice. — In ail article some 
months ago, Mr. Henderson alluded to the necessity for 
insurance against damage by hail. We learn that there 
is a Mutual Hail Insurance Co. in Milwaukee that com¬ 
menced business in April, and up to July had issued 1096 
policies and paid 19 losses. 
Tree I..amis it* Iowa.—John Brennan, 
Sioux City, Iowa, informs us that ho will reply to any in¬ 
quiries regarding government lands open to settlement 
under the homestead law. 
Steam-Plows.—“ C. F.,” Aid'ene, Kan., 
asks if there are any thoroughly practical steam-plows 
now made in the United States which do not use tackle. 
—The Americau steam-plow is as yet unperfected, and as 
there arc in the way of the practical use of those engines 
which travel over the ground immediately in advance of 
the plows serious difficulties which have not yet been 
completely overcome, wo have to wait further develop¬ 
ments before we can sav that we have a thoroughly prac¬ 
tical steam-plow which does not use tackle. 
