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for $10,000, an average of only $175. The best bull, 
■which is thought to be superior to any other bull of the 
breed now living, brought less than $500 ; the cows sold 
for $200 to $300. A sale of 45 Jersey cattle, the property 
of Mr. Marjoribauks, of Busliey Grove Farm, brought 
from $35 to $355; only one cow reaching the latter figure. 
This herd sold badly, as it had been bred injudiciously, 
every other valuable feature having been sacrificed to 
•olor. Breeders may well be warned by this example. 
Tlte sale of the Waldberg herd of Shorthorns, of A. A. 
Conger, of Haverstraw, N. Y., at Chicago, resulted in an 
average of $456, bulls selling from $100 to $900, and cows 
$130 to $1,800. Alexander Charles’ sale of 71 animals 
brought an average of $131. At several other sales in 
Illinois the average was from $103 to $231. At the sales 
of Kentucky Shorthorns, held through October, low 
prices were received for what is called unfashionable 
stock. At a joint sale of several breeders 35 animals 
brought only $3,155, an average of $90. E. G. Bedford’s 
sale of 35 head brought $58,520, the highest prices being 
$6,000 for London Duchess 9th, and $7,000 for 21st Duke 
of Airdrie. 119 head of Mr. B. B. Groom’s sale brought 
an average of $573, $90 and $2,550 being the extremes. 
Gag Bros, sold 57 head at an average of $159. In all 690 
animals were sold in October at 13 sales, and at prices 
which were remarkably reasonable, and which should 
be tempting to farmers who desire to improve their stock. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and. Suggestions which u-e throw into smaller 
type and condensed fmm, for leant of space elsewhere. 
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our basket is smaller in December, than in any other 
month. Pages for the index are taken from that part of 
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how to have a more capacious basket. 
SUNDRY Ma;jamJGS. — In looking 
back upon tlie year, we cannot regard it as having been 
very prolific in the way of humbugs. But few startling 
new enterprises of this kind have been set on foot, and 
the old ones do not appear to have done a very flourish¬ 
ing trade. The ‘ panic ” of last fall, which had such a 
disastrous effect upon legitimate business, appears to 
have had its influence upon swindlers. The pretended 
dealers in counterfeit money have shown a remarkable 
falling off ; in former years it was not rare for us to ex¬ 
pose a dozen or twenty of these rascals every month, but 
now new names are very rare. The year lias not been 
memorable by having any important law-suits brought 
against us, but the decision in the action brought against 
us by one David Richards, which was instituted earlier, 
but only closed in January last, is one of the greatest 
significance. Hero we have, for the first time, from the 
highest judicial authority—the Supreme Court—an opin¬ 
ion which clearly shows the relation of journalists to 
the public, and gives emphatic support to those who, 
with honest intent, would shield their readers from the 
various schemes of quacks and swindlers of all kinds. 
While we do not court law-suits, as they take up too 
much valuable time, we arc very glad to have been the 
means, through this one, of calling forth an opinion that 
will long stand as a terror to evil doers, and as an en¬ 
couragement to those who expose them. 
OUR COURSE NEXT TEAR 
will be the same that it has been in former years. Aided 
by a better knowledge of “ ways that are dark” that ex¬ 
perience brings, we shall unrelentingly pursue all open 
and covert attempts to defraud the people, all schemes 
for getting money without sending an equivalent; all 
lotteries by whatever name they may be called ; all 
quacks who sell nostrums by acting upon the fears of the 
unfortunate, or hold out false hopes to the suffering—in 
short, all those persons and things which are collective¬ 
ly classed under the convenient name of 
“humbug.” 
Perhaps there is no word In so general use, the origin 
of which is so little known. Several derivations have 
been given, but the most probable is that it is a modifi¬ 
cation of Hamburgh. During the Continental wars, so 
many false rumors came from that city, that when any 
startling intelligence arrived at London, the people said, 
“Oh! that’s another Hamburgh”—and this, easily 
