1868.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
5 
volume.-They are profusely Illustrated, the Engravings 
used in them having alone cost above Twenty Thousand 
Dollars ! Those obtaining premiums for from one to ten 
volumes, can select any volumes desired, from XVI to 
XXVI, inclusive. For ordinary use, the sets of numbers 
unbound will answer quite well.—Many hundreds of 
these volumes are taken every year as premiums.—In 
Nos. 61 to 71 we offer the bound volumes also. 
Nos.74to 85—OBRAKIES. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of Books for 
the Farm, Garden, and Household. The per¬ 
son entitled to any one of the premiums 71 to 85, may 
select any books desired from the list below, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the books will be forward¬ 
ed, paid through to the nearest Post-Office, or Express 
office, as we may find it most convenient to send them. 
We need not enlarge upon these premiums ; every one 
knows the value of good books. Twenty-five or Fifty 
dollars’ worth of books on subjects pertaining to the farm 
will give the boys new ideas, set them to thinking and 
observing, and thus enable them to make their heads 
help their hands. Any good book will, in the end, be of 
far more value to a youth than to have an extra acre of 
land, on coming to manhood. The thinking, reasoning, 
observing man, will certainly make more off from 49 
acres, than he would off from 50 acres without the men¬ 
tal ability which reading will give him.-Our premiums 
will enable many a family to secure a larger or smaller Li¬ 
brary. 12?” This is a good opportunity for the Fanners 
of a neighborhood to unite their efforts and get an Agri¬ 
cultural Library for general use, as others have done. 
No, 86—General Book E'l-emi uni.— 
Any one not desiring the specific Book premiums, 74 to 85, 
on sending any number of names above 25, may select 
Books from the list below, to the amount of 10 cents 
for each subscriber sent at $1: or to the amount of 30 
cents for each name sent at the (ten) club price of $1.20 
each: or to the amount of 60 cents for each name at 
$1.50. This offer is only for clubs of 25 or more. The 
books will be sent by mail or express, prepaid by us. 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS AND OTHERS. 
Commercial Matters—Market Prices. 
The following condensed, comprehensive tables, care¬ 
fully prepared specially for the American Agi'iculturist, 
show at a glance the transactions for the month ending 
Dec. 16, 1867, and also for the preceding month: 
1. TRANSACTIONS AT TUB NKW-YORK MARKETS. 
Receipts. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barley. Oats. 
23 days this in'tli416,000 1,809,000 1,057,000 94,000 571,000 1,318,000 
26 (lays last m’th503,000 3,598,000 2,494,000 377,000 1,168,000 2,719,000 
Salks. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Oats. Barley. 
23 days this m’tll,S25,000 1.339,000 1,061,000 153,000 1,647,000 724.000 
20 days last m’tli,376,000 3,314,000 2,520,000 189,000 817,000 2,818,500 
2. Comparison with same period at this time last year. 
Receipts. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barley. Oats. 
23 days 1807. ...416.000 1,869,000 1,057,000 94,000 571,000 1,318,000 
25 days 1S66.. ..417.000 2,409,000 2,184,000 431,000 2,247,000 1,752,000 
Sales. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Oats. Barley. 
23 days 1867 . 325,000 1,339,000 1.661.000 153,000 4,647,000 721,000 
25 days 1866 .214,000 1,012.000 2,593,000 179,000 1,316,000 S91.000 
3. Exports from New York , Jan. 1 to Dec. 14: 
Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Oats. Barley. 
1867.834,595 4,376,340 7,537,S16 417,995 118,345 8S6,8G3 
1866.867,170 440,124 10,S65,IS0 226,688 1,095,571 1,158,880 
4. 
Stock of grain 
in store at New 
York: 
1SG7. 
Wheat, 
Corn, 
Rye, 
Barley, 
Oats, 
Malt, 
bush. 
bush. 
bush. 
bush. 
bush. 
bush. 
Dec. 11.. 
.1,804,215 
1,653,094 
202,900 
392,815 
3,199,563 
83,445 
Nov. 12. 
..911,129 
1,954,706 
134,543 
361.053 
2,246,752 
52,155 
Oct. 15.. 
..107.608 
967,664 
7,300 
32.793 
890,897 
57,077 
Sept. 10. 
..120,532 
1,154,892 
500 
9,376 
135,737 
61,508 
Aug. 13. 
.. 90.174 
863,724 
32,785 
12,376 
200,349 
48.632 
July 15. 
. .245.509 
160,780 
66,986 
21.390 
206,763 
34,700 
June 14. 
. .578,279 
217,796 
117,257 
69,643 
379,865 
16,311 
May 15. 
..731,330 
261,092 
186,804 
145,706 
608,494 
16,161 
5. Receipts of Breadstuffs at tide water at Albany , 
May 1 st to November 301/4/ 
Flour, Wheat, Corn, ltye. Barley, Oats,! 
bbls. bush. bush. bush. bush. bush. 
1867.. . .394,800 8,853.400 15,369,500 S62.900 3,569,700 8,331,800 
1866.. . ,S99,900 5,821,700 24,496,100 1,307,SOO 6,001,800 9,581,600 
Gold has been as low as 133, since our last. It closed 
on Saturday, Dec. 14th', at 133)4_Breadstuff's have been 
in moderate demand, during the month. The sudden 
closing of the State canals, and the detention therein of 
unusually heavy amounts of produce, have materially re¬ 
stricted our winter supplies, giving holders of available 
[For sale at the office of the Agriculturist, or they will be 
forwarded by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. All 
these are included in our Premiums, Nos. 74 to 86, above.} 
Allen’s (L. F.) Rural Architecture. 
Allen's (R. L.) American Farm Boole. 
American Agricultural Annual. 1867, paper, 50c.; cloth 
Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals. 
Am. Horticultural Annual, 1S67 & 1868,each pa. 50c.; elu. 
American Bird Fancier. . 
American Pomology—Apples—By Dr. John A. Warder. 
American Rose Culturist. 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. 
Architecture, by Cummings & Miller. 
Barry’s Fruit Garden. 
Bement’s Rabbit Fancier.. 
Bommer’s Method of Making Manure. 
Boussingault's Rural Economy. 
Breck’s New Book of Flowers. 
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory. 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener. 
Chorlton’s Grape Grower’s Guide.. 
Cobhett’s American Gardener . 
Cole’s (S. W.) American Fruit Book.... 
Cole’s Veterinarian. 
Copeland’s Country Life...8vo„ cloth,.. 
Cotton Planter’s Manual, (Turner). 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) Modern Horse Doctor. 
Dadd's American Cattle Doctor. 
Dana’s Muck Manual. . 
Dog and Gun (Hooper’s).paper,30c.. cloth.. 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening (new Edition). 
Draining for Profit and Health, by G. E. Waring, Jr.. 
Eastwood on Cranberry. 
Elliott’s Western Fruit Grower's Guide. 
Flax Culture. . 
Field's (Thomas W.) Pear Culture. 
French’s Farm Drainage. 
Fuller’s Grape Culturist, (Revised Edition). 
Fuller’s Strawherrv Culturist. 
Fuller’s Small Fruit Culturist. 
Gardening for Profit, by Peter Henderson. — 
Gregory on Souashes..paper.. 
Guenon on Milch Cows. 
Harris’ Rural Annual. Bound, 8 Nos., ill 2 Vols. Each 
Herbert’s Hints to Horsekeepers. 
Hop Culture. . 
Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry. 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 
Leuchar’s How to Build Hot-IIouses... 
Miles on the Horse's Foot. 
Mohr on the Grape Vine. 
My Vineyard at Lakeview. ... 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture. 
Onion Culture. . 
Our Farm of Four Acres (bound) 60c.paper.. 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 
Peat and Its Uses, by Prof. S. W. Johnson. 
Pedder’s Land Measurer.... 
Qninby’s Mysteries of Bee Keeping (new). 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry. 
Randall's Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry. 
Rivers’ Miniature Fruit Garden. 
Richardson on the Dog, paper 30c.cloth.. 
Saunders’ Domestic Poultry (new), paper, 40c., bound 
Schenck’s Gardener’s Text Book. 
Skillful Housewife . 
Stewart’s (John) Stable Book. 
Thompson's Food of Animals. 
Tobacco Culture. 
Todd’s (S. E.) Young Farmer’s Manual. 
Warder’s Hedges and Evergreens. 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse... 
Touatt and Martin on Cattle... 
Youattion the Hog.... 
VDUatt on Sheep....... 
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lots the advantage as regards price, in the local market. 
But the light offerings and the advanced rates claimed, 
have checked the home and export trade in both flour 
and grain. Export orders generally run below the earlier 
figures here, and can be executed with difficulty. Toward 
the close, holders were firm in their views, and buyers 
were more disposed to operate.... Cotton has been quite 
freely offered and purchased, since our last, at reduced 
quotations, closing however, with more steadiness.... 
Wool has attracted more attention from manufacturers, 
as well as from the trade, and desirable lots of domestics 
have been held with more confidence_Hay has been 
less plenty and more sought after at an advance_Pro¬ 
visions have been in light demand, generally at irregular 
rates.... Seeds and Tobacco have been quite dull at about 
previous prices. 
Current Wholesale Prices, 
Nov. 18 
Price of Gold. 1759% 
Flock—S uper to Extra State? 8 30 (§10 
Super to Extra Southern_ 9 65 @15 
Extra Western . 9 25 @15 
Extra Genesee. 10 40 @13 
Superfine Western.. 8 30 @9 
Rye Flour.. 7 00 @9 
Corn Meal. . 6 15 @7 
Wheat—A ll kinds of White. 2 S5 @3 
All kinds of Red and Amber. 2 15 @ 2 
Corn—Y ellow . 1 37 @ 1 
Mixed. 1 35 @ 1 
Oats—W estern. 78 @ 
State. 78 @ 
Rye . 1 65 @1 
Barley.. 1 42%@ 1 
Hay—B ale ’gl 100 lb. 80 @1 
Loose.. 90 @ 1 
Straw, ^ 100 lb. 70 @ 
Cotton—M iddlings, B ... 17X@ 
Hops—Crop 0(1806. P It. 35 @ 
Feathers— Live Geese, ?) lb. 75 @ 
Seed—C lover, ?) B . 11>£@ 
Timothy, ?) bushel. 2 50 @2 
Flax, if) bushel. 2 50 @2 
Sugar—B rown, ?t lb . 1I%@ 
Molasses, Cuba, ?)gal. 34 @ 
Coffee—I iio.fGold price)?) B 12%@ 
Tobacco, Kentucky, &c„ ?) B. 6 @ 
Seed Leaf, %»lb. 3 %@ 
Wool—D omesticFleece,?) B. 35 @ 
Domestic, pulled. ?) B. 25 @ 
California, unwashed,. 16 @ 
Tallow. <8) B . HK@ „ 
Oil Cake— ton . 51 00 @59 
Pork—M ess, if) barrel. 20 95 @3t 
Prime, If) barrel . 18 75 @19 
Beef—P lain mess. 14 00 @19 
Lard, in barrels, ?) lb. 12%@ 
Butter—W estern, ?)B. 18 @ 
State, if) B. 36 @ 
Cheese. 8 @ 
Beans—?) bushel. 2 50 @4 
Peas—C anada. ?) bushel.. 140 @1 
Eggs—F resh, ?) dozen. 30 @ 
Poultry—F owls, if) ll>. 16 @ 
Turkeys, ?)B. 22 @ 
Potatoes—?) bbl .. 2 25 @3 
Apples—|) barrel. 2 i.5 @ 4 
Cranberries, $ barrel. 19 00 @11 
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New Yo.-Iv live Stock II;ii-licfs.— 
WEEK ENDING. 
Beeves. 
Cows. 
Calves. 
Sheep. 
Swine. 
November 18. 
73 
1,170 
32,700 
31,848 
November 25. 
81 
1,017 
40,084 
28,609 
December 2. ,.. 
44 
582 
25,745 
26,732 
December 9. 
....4,723 
86 
819 
31,932 
27,567 
Total in four Weeks. 
.. .27,080 
234 
3,588 
130,461 
114,756 
Average per Week... 
... 5020 
71 
897 
32,615- 
28,089 
do. do. last Month. 
... 6,588 
74 
1,219 
30,338 
33,851 
do. do. prey's Month. 6,544 
44 
1,300 
38,974 
24,488 
Average per Week, 1866.5,748 
94 
1,200 
20,000 
18,000 
do. do. do. 1865... 
118 
1,500 
16,091 
11,023 
do. do. do. 1864... 
... 5,161 
145 
1,511 
15,315 
do. do. do. 1S63... 
... 5,150 
129 
694 
9,941 
21,670 
Total in 1866. 
. .208.880 
4.8S5 
63,420 
1,040,000 
672,000 
Total in 186.7. 
. .270,271 
0,161 
77,991 
836,733 
573,197 
Total ill 1861. 
. .267,609 
7,603 
75,621 
782,462 
660,270 
Total in 1863. 
. .264,091 
6,470 
35,705 
519,316 
1,101,617 
Beef Cattle. — With a decreased supply and some¬ 
what improved quality in beef cattle, prices have looked 
up decidedly, though they have been considerably affect¬ 
ed by the large numbers of sheep and of poultry that have 
come to market. At the date of our last report there bad 
been an advance of fully 1 c. per lb, over prevalent prices 
during the proceeding three weeks. We quote extra 
beeves 17@18 cts. per lb, estimated dressed weight, me¬ 
dium quality 14%@15*4 cts., poorest 11@.12 cts., the aver¬ 
age of sales being about 15)4 cts. This advance was on 
account of the cold weather, which lias since continued, 
and been accompanied by storms which have seriously 
interfered with the transportation of stock, so that we 
cannot anticipate an overstocked market, or lower prices 
for the present_ Milch Cows. —The supply is hard¬ 
ly equal to the demand, and prices for good cows have 
advanced to $100@$110; poor to fair ones bring all the 
way from $50@,$ti0 to $90_ Calves. —Well fatted veals 
sell now at an advance over previous weeks, bringing 13 
cts., only moderately good ones selling at 10 cts. per lb, 
live weight. Hog-dressed, that is dressed with the 
skins on, and heads, feet., and entrails removed, sell, if fat, 
at 16@1S cts. per lb_ Slieep. —The great supply which 
oppressed the market has in a manner been relieved, and 
with the cold weather, prices have advanced. We quote 
prime sheep G@(i)4 cts. per lb, live weight; inferior 4)4®, 
5?4 cts., lambs being just about 1 c. per lb higher ... 
Swine. —We quote the prices of the last week of our 
report as follows ; Prime hogs 7?s@7 %,—common 7)4® 
7‘4 —the market being quite active. 
Containing a great variety of Items , including many 
good Hints and. Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
S B j-ciai a gc vie st for Everybody. —Atten¬ 
tion is called to the Publishers’ announcement on page 4, 
which it will be worth while to read through. Several 
persons in every town may each easily collect a club of 
subscribers, and obtain in return a choice of the very de¬ 
sirable articles offered as premiums. A few hours may 
be profitably used in collecting a list of names by any 
person disposed to try it. This is a good season for such 
work, and it may be continued for several months, as the 
premium lists will be open until May at least, and all the 
names sent in by any person, marked “ for a premium 
list,” will be counted, whenever he or she is ready to call 
for the premium. About ten thousand persons ' Wave al¬ 
ready received our good premium articles, and almost 
always with great satisfaction. Let all our friends take 
hold this year, and thus benefit themselves as well as 
those whom they induce to become readers. 
Lost I®»pers—Mail-Car BSiircted.— 
By the burning of a railroad car at Jersey City, a number 
of papers in our Western mail, for last month, were 
destroyed. We cannot, of course, know who of our sub¬ 
scribers have thus been disappointed until we hem- from 
them; but we will send the paper again to those who 
inform us that their December number is missing. 
Lost Letters— S^ost Motaey.— The P. 
M. General’s Annual Report presents some striking facts 
in regard to the carelessness of people generally in direct • 
ing their letters. During the past year there were sold 
371,599,005 postage stamps and 01,228,900 stamped enve¬ 
lopes, or, in all, 432,828,505, which is about the number of 
letters sent through the mails. But 4,306,508, or one in 
every 105, of these letters reached the Dead Letter Office, 
and generally because the writers directed them wrong¬ 
ly or illegibly. About 1,000,000 of the dead letters were 
without any signature. Add to these the number that 
reached their proper destination, but which were defec¬ 
tive in date or signature, and we may safely estimate that 
at least one letter in every seventy-five is defective either in 
the direction, date, or signature, or in the sealing 1 Is if 
