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shut out all advertisements of patent and secret medi¬ 
cines, because we don’t believe people ought to buy or 
use them. It is a pretty severe sacrifice to do this, be¬ 
cause the medicine makers get from sick and nervous 
people dollars for what costs them lialf-dimes, and they 
can, and do, pay publishers largely for space in which to 
work upon the fears and hopes of the people. We also 
ask advertisers of good things, when they are not known 
to the editors personally, or by good repute, to furnish 
satisfactory evidence that they have both the ability and 
the intention to do what they promise t< do in their ad¬ 
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this point, they arc excluded. Our strict rules annually 
shut out a hundred thousand dollars of advertising, 
which is admitted into most newspapers. Sometimes, 
with all the care eve can exercise, an objectionable ad¬ 
vertisement gets in, but on our attention being called to 
it, we stop it. There have been one or two books, for 
example, admitted, which, though proper enough to be 
read by parents or adults of good judgment, we do not 
wish to bring to the notice of children or young people 
of prurient imagination. We shall try not to err even in 
this respect again. And now, after this explanation, we 
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vertising pages. They will get many suggestive hints 
about business, by so doing. And further, as our adver¬ 
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and are in a good place, among good company, we like 
to have them know that they reach, through this journal, 
a good class of readers— we think the best class in the 
world. So when our readers send inquiries, or orders, 
or for circulars, to our advertisers, they will confer a 
favor upon them and upon us by mentioning the fact 
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culturist. (We may hint, privately, that this may be 
useful to the readers, for our advertisers generally know 
that if there is a “ black sheep” among them who does 
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liable to exclusion from these columns, if he does not 
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our present subscribers speak “a good word ” to friend 
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who desire to have our beautiful chromo, 
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get it, the Publishers have just decided to 
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of postage, a mounted copy of this beautiful 
Chromo, which has given so much pleasure, 
all for $1, if promptly called for. 
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containing a great variety of Items, including manf 
good Hints and Suggestions -which roe throw into smaller 
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: On American Agriculturist, 12 cents 
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at the office where the papers are received. For sub¬ 
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be sent to this office, with the subset iption, for prepay¬ 
ment here. Also 12 cents for delivery of American Agri¬ 
culturist in New York City. 
Ilosaml Copies of Folstssac Thirty- 
two are now ready. Price, $2, at our office; or $2.59 
each, if sen! by mail. Any of the last seventeen volumes 
(1G to 32) will also be forwarded at same price. Sets of 
numbers sent to our office will be nearly bound in our 
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the West are reminded that wc have an office at Lake¬ 
side Building, Chicago, Ill., in charge cf Mr. W. E. 
Busbcy. Subscriptions to American Agriculturist are 
taken there, and sample copies of the paper and chroma 
are delivered, and orders received for advertising on the 
same terms as in New York. All our books are on sale 
at the Western Office. Please call and examine, buy, 
subscribe, and advertise. 
Sale of Hearlh aaad HETouiiac.—During’ 
four years past, the Publishers of this Journal have ais® 
issued tlie weekly Hearth and Home. Mr. Judd has 
been absent in Europe for a year, and experienced s® 
great benefit in the improvement of his health, that Sta 
desires to be more at liberty in the future to devote hisi- 
seif to tlie American Agriculturist. The Publishers have 
therefore deemed it expedient to be relieved of the care 
and labor of a weekly journal, and Hearth and I-Ioke 
has been sold to the Publishers of the Graphic Company, 
of 39 and 41 Park Place, who will hereafter issue it with 
illustrations by the new photographic process. And now, 
with the well-known and well-tried corps of Editors at 
their posts, aiid with Ihe attention of all concent-ated. 
upon this Journal, the Publishers are confident that these 
old favorite, the American Agriculturist , will be mors 
than ever worthy a place in every home. 
Otlaei* Basket Stems on page 273. 
Hl’MECfiS.-It seems nec¬ 
essary to remind our friends, from time to time, that this 
column is not the place in which individual grievances 
can be set forth. We take quite as much care to avoid 
doing injustice to innocent parties, as to do justice to 
those fraudulent persons, who deserve tlie distinction of 
a place among humbugs. Men, on tlie average, are sus¬ 
picions, and if mistakes occur in their dealings will* 
persons at a distance, they at once conclude they have 
been defrauded. There is no business in which dissatis¬ 
faction is more likely to occur, than in that of seedsmen. 
Probably not one person in ten can sow seeds propei-iy, 
yet all failures, from whatever cause, are set down ta> 
dishonesty on the part of the seedsmen. There is hardly 
one of our seedsmen, oven those of the highest reputa¬ 
tion, of whom wc have not had complaints, accompanied, 
with a request to put him among the humbugs. Upon 
investigating such cases, wc have found that the fault 
ivas generally on the part of the complainant, and the 
dealer ready to make ample reparation, ■whenever the 
fault lias been hrs own. In fact, no dealer in seeds, or 
other matters, in which a good reputation is al! impor¬ 
tant, can afford—to put it upon no higher ground—to be 
dishonest. A seedsman, florist, or nurseryman, who 
gets a reputation for inaccuracy or unfairness, might as 
well shut up shop. The same remark will apply to deal¬ 
ers in live-stock of all kinds, from bees to Shorthorns. 
That Pennsylvania live-stock concern, of whom we have 
had so many complaints, would have been shut up long 
