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to a sense of their duty. We quote from the Franklin 
Repository, Chambersburg, Pa.: “No You Don’t. —A 
brace of cunning fellows in New York, representing them¬ 
selves to be ‘ Attorneys and Counsellors,’ profess the de¬ 
sire to forward ‘ the ends of justice,’ by collecting from the 
proprietors of Gift Enterprises the prizes justly due to the 
ticket holder. A remittance $2.00 is the preliminary 
step in the proceeding. These artful dodgers ask us to 
spread their advertisement before our readers, ‘at the 
same time adding any local ideas of your own.’ The idea 
strongly localized in our head is that these fellows are ns 
arrant rogues as those they pretend to watch, and we 
caution our readers against being canght by their 
transparent swindle.” We have visited their office, and, 
of course,could only find the clerk!!.. .We warn all against 
Rev.Edward A. Wilson,Williamsburgh, N.Y.,and his pre¬ 
scription for consumption, free of charge. No such man 
is known at the number given. We pronounce him an 
unmitigated scoundrel—second only to Dr. Faucher, 68 
William-st., and Dr. M. L. Byrn, Box 4669, New York 
Post-Office. For these last two men we can hardly find 
words strong enough to do justice to the subject. One of 
these chaps professes to issue a monthly paper to dissem¬ 
inate universal intelligence. We have one of these pre¬ 
cious sheets, and find it to be of the infant murder and 
licentious order. Dr. Byrn makes a very bad book, and 
vends medicines to match, and is another nuisance.... 
Among the papers asking for exchange is one purporting 
to be devoted to Agriculture, Literature, Poetry, etc., etc. 
It goes by an attractive name. Its contents are the poor¬ 
est trash imaginable—love, vengeance and thunder, and 
the like. But the trouble does not lie in its worthless¬ 
ness. By turning to the last few pages, we see wonder¬ 
ful inducements offered to agents for spreading its circu¬ 
lation, in the way of Jewelry, Books with high-sounding 
names, Pianos, Organs, Money, (Greenbacks,) etc., etc. 
Then follows a long list of books to be sold at greatly 
reduced prices, each book to be accompanied with a prize 
or “ gift ” valued from $1.00 to $100,000. We pronounce 
this a humbug of the worst sort, the paper itself being 
only a blind. We again warn all persons against investing 
money in any gift publishing establishment of this sort. 
TTlae .Book of Evergreens. —By Josialr 
Hoope3. This is a long needed work, as it posts up the 
present state of our knowledge upon the cone-bearing 
plants, or Conifer®, of the botanist. Mr. Iloopes is one 
of those persons rarely met with—a practical cultivator, 
and a man of science at the same time. While his work 
gives us all the Conifer® arranged in the classification of 
the botanist, it at the same time treats of the experience, 
not only of the author, but of American cultivators gen¬ 
erally, with this large and important family of plants. 
Evergreens play so interesting a part, not only in orna¬ 
mental planting, but in what may be called economical 
planting, (i. e. hedges, screens, wind-breaks, etc.), that 
we are sure a work which treats of their propagation 
and culture, describes in both popular and scientific lan¬ 
guage the many species, and, what is of not the least im¬ 
portance, gives a list of the tender and unreliable ones, 
will be Warmly welcomed by every lover of these beautiful 
trees. Mr. Hoopes brings to his work a perfect enthusi¬ 
asm for his subject, and is as free to condemn a plant as 
if he were not a nurseryman. All the latest novelties from 
Japan, the North-west, etc., are noticed, and their success 
or failure, both in this country and in England, is recorded. 
The work is abundantly illustrated with engravings, so 
carefully executed that the publishers feel it due to that 
department of their establishment to call especial atten¬ 
tion to them. We must commend the conscientious care 
the author has shown in striving to arrive at the correct 
names. As a general thing, the nursery catalogues are at 
fault in this respect; they often contain the same thing 
under different names, or trees with names that have long 
ago been shown to be incorrect. We cannot much blame 
the nurserymen, as the standard works on evergreens 
have heretofore been foreign and expensive. We hope, 
now that we have an available work which may be con¬ 
sidered as a standard, nurserymen will do better. Not the 
least interesting portion of the book is an account of the 
principal collections of evergreens in the country. The 
work is now ready. One large 12mo vol., on heavy tinted 
paper, in bevelled boards, Price, $3. By mail at same price. 
<DIicaji> Eaiids at tlie East.— “ G. C.,” 
Ct. There is no need of going very far west to find low- 
priced lands. It is true that farms in a high state of im¬ 
provement, with good buildings, cannot be bought for 
much less than fifty dollars an acre, and in many places 
near largo towns, they are often worth four to ten times 
that sum. But it is still possible to buy farms with many 
improvements on them, and good facilities for making 
more, for thirty dollars an acre. In the last monthly re¬ 
port of the Agricultural Department, at Washington, there 
is an estimate given of the value of unimproved lands, 
in several of the older States. In New York, the average 
yalue of these lands is put at $33 an acre. In the north 
part of Oneida County, there is a tract of spruce land, 
worth but $5 an acre. In the Catskills, woodland can be 
bought for the same price. In Herkimer County,there are 
a hundred thousand acres for sale, from 50 cents to $5 per 
acre. In Suffolk County, a large tract of pine woods, at 
$8 an acre. In Washington County, land can be had for 
$3 an acre. In Worcester County, Mass., there are unim¬ 
proved lauds, at $6; in Barnstable County, at $5; in Hamp¬ 
den County, rocky and swampy lands, at $5. Salt marshes, 
easily reclaimed, lie all along the coast, from Chesapeake 
Bay northward, at low prices. These lands are all near 
good markets. Some of them can be made available for 
tillage, and most can be pastured or kept profitably in 
forest. They all want capital to improve them. How¬ 
ever, all low-priced things are not necessarily cheap. 
Tito lUnffiton (Mo.) Wine Company. 
The annual report of this enterprise shows a prosperous 
condition of its affairs. The company, of which George 
Husmann is President, includes some of the most sub¬ 
stantial men in Missouri; it owns an extensive tract of 
land on the Missouri River which is well adapted to grape 
culture. The land is offered to settlers on favorable 
terms. Those who wish to go into grape growing at the 
West should send for a prospectus either to George Hus¬ 
mann, at Herman, Mo., or Dr. L. D. Morse at St. Louis. 
EagTity, mot Eigflat. —On page 98, March 
Number, a correspondent speaks of a pine tree planted in 
1813, which “ now has a diameter of more than three feet 
and a liight of nearly eight feet.” It will be seen that a y 
dropped out and made eight out of eighty, a y'd difference. 
A New IPapcs’. TTSae ModelFarmer. 
Semi-monthly, edited by Thomas J. Key, and published by 
Key & Barr, Corinth, Miss. This neat and unpretending 
journal deserves a welcome, not only from the fact that it 
is the only agricultural paper in Mississippi, but because 
it is a “ model ” which some of its contemporaries will 
do well to follow. There is not a growl in it, at things 
that are past change, nor a fling at other parts of the 
country. It goes to work in earnest, and has such a 
cheerful, common-sense way about it that one cannot help 
wishing it the full measure of success that it deserves. 
Wlaitewasla. —“N. P.” Good lime and wa¬ 
ter are the essentials. Some brands of lime have so many 
impurities that they are unfit for inside work. Slake the 
lime in a clean vessel with boiling water, making it so 
thin that a brush will lay it on smoothly. An ounce of 
salt to a pailful will make the wash adherefbetter. Some 
add a very little bluing, as in rinsing clothes. When the 
whitewash is made, keep it off your fruit trees, and on 
your walls and fences. A nice cream color may be made 
for fences by adding to a half bushel of lime three pounds 
of yellow ochre. Nice whitewashing depends quite as 
much upon a good brush and good work as upon the wash. 
Beets Brying Up Mills:.—“ P. R.,” N. 
J. Wo have used both sugar beets and mangolds for sev¬ 
eral seasons, and never noticed any such tendency. 
The difficulty complained of is probably owing to some 
lack of other food, or to unfaithfulness in the milker. 
Early Bose I*otatoes. —On another page 
we notice the remarkable price at which Mr. Hefl'ron 
sold his potatoes. Our advertising columns state that a 
portion of this lot has been sold at $S0 a bushel, and 
we have seen a letter to Messrs. Bliss & Son in which the 
writer proposes to pay $100 for a bushel of Early Rose. 
Bad for Mr. Knox.- Advertisers who 
come late will be left out, and we doubt not that Mr. 
Knox will be very much disgusted when he opens the 
Agriculturist , and finds his broadside seed advertisement 
omitted. Mr. K., besides his most extensive small fruit 
farm, has a first-class .seed and implement store, under 
the immediate charge of his son. Especial attention is 
given to sending seeds, as well as plants, by mail, 
Implement Catalogue.— We have from 
Plant Bros., Platt & Co., of St. Louis, and Kansas City, 
Mo., a very full and excellent illustrated Catalogue of 
Farm and Garden tools, seeds, etc. It is accompanied by 
a calendar, a descriptive catalogue of seeds, and other val¬ 
uable reading matter. Another evidence of Mo. progress. 
E*resex*vati©iii of Meat l»y tine €}am= 
gee Process.— The process of preserving meat per¬ 
fectly fresh and sweet for many months, without the use 
of salt or ice, has something about it which challenges 
every doubt. Seeing is said to be believing, and many 
persons saw hanging in the great show window of the 
Agriculturist office, on Broadway, four carcasses of En¬ 
glish mutton preserved in this way, one, two, three, and 
four months old after slaughtering. One carcass had hung 
for six weeks in Professor Gamgee’s kitchen before it 
was boxed to cross the Atlantic. There was not the least 
taint of corruption upon any part of them. Two were 
slightly mouldy, owing to the manner in which they were 
packed, but were otherwise perfect. A select company 
had the pleasure of dining with Prof. Gamgee upon some 
of this mutton, and it was pronounced unsurpassed. Tim 
process by which this meat was cured is patented in this 
country, and consists of causing the animal to inhale car¬ 
bonic oxide gas until it loses consciousness, when it is 
killed and bled. The carcass is then quickly dressed, 
and while still warm, exposed a short time in a chamber 
to an atmosphere of the same gas, mingled with a little 
sulphurous acid gas. These gases, especially the former, 
combine with all the oxygen in the system, and take 
away all that enters the meat through absorption of air. 
This very important discovery, which is the result of 
years of study, may be of incalculable advantage to the 
people of this country and of the old world. If Texas 
beef can be placed in our markets at 5 or even 10 cents 
per pound, both the raiser there and the consumer of 
beef here will be greatly benefited. It seems almost as 
if the time might soon come when beeves, and sheep, and 
hogs, will no longer be packed in close cars, transported 
for days and nights in suffocating heat or piercing cold, 
driven through our crowded cities, feverish and excited, 
starved and famishing for drink, to be thus slaughtered; 
but killed within sight of their own pastures, and their 
flesh, pr-eserved by this process, transported like any 
other merchandise, to be sold and used any time within 
six or eight months. Experiments will soon be made of 
transporting. “ Gamgecd” beef and mutton from some of 
our Western States and from Texas, and our readers shall 
have reports of the success. These experiments or 
tests are taken in hand with great zeal by several gentle¬ 
men of large means and entire responsibility, so that wo 
may hope for speedy and accurate results. It is but fair 
to add that this interesting discovery of the action of car¬ 
bonic oxide on fresh meat was made in pursuing investi¬ 
gations having for an object the furnishing of healthy 
meat, at a cheap rate, to the population of Great Britain. 
A “Small” Eemost.— “Citrus”, of St. Aug¬ 
ustine, Fla., writes: “Please receive herewith a small 
specimen of our Sicily Lemons, produced in my garden, 
at this place, and as only a moderate type of the excel¬ 
lence of many of the semi-tropical fruits of Florida, all 
of which are grown hero of rare excellence of quality, 
flavor, shape, and size, as compared with the more trop¬ 
ical climate of the West Indies.” The “small” lemon 
measures a foot in its smallest circumference, and at¬ 
tracts much attention from the passers on Broadway. 
The Americas! Naturalist. — Tho 
March number begins a new volume, and presents us not 
only an increased amount of reading matter but the as¬ 
surance that the magazine will be continued. Mr. George 
Peabody has placed in trust a fund to found the Peabody 
Academy of Science, and the Naturalist will hereafter be 
issued as one of the publications of the Academy, at 
Salem, Mass., on the same terms as heretofore—$3 a year. 
Hems Eating- ©tie Amotlier’s Eeatli*. 
ers.—“ G. S. W.,” Foxboro, Mass., asks what will cure 
hens of eating the feathers off one another’s necks. This 
trouble usually occurs when hens are getting ready to 
begin laying or are laying, at a season when insect food 
is not to be had. We may be mistaken, but have the 
opinion that a block of beef scraps in the yard would be a 
cure. We feed our poultry all the fresh bones from the 
kitchen, pounded fine, and never have any trouble of 
this kind. Beef scraps would probably afl'ect the flavor 
of the eggs a little in warm or mild weather. Most peo¬ 
ple will not notice it, and the eggs sell just as well. 
Side Chickens. —On page 7 of the current 
volume, in an article entitled Bad Luck with Poultry, a 
disease was described as causing the filling up of tho 
mouth and throat with a yellow, offensive, tough mucus. 
Several remedies have been suggested, and it seems that 
the disease is quite common and fatal. Sprinkling salt 
and burnt alum into the mouth after wiping it out thor¬ 
oughly, is recommended. “C. II.,” of Bethlehem, Pa., 
was successful in curing several cases, by first removing 
all the substance thoroughly, then swabbing and rinsing 
out the mouth with a solution of Sulphate of Iron. An 
acquaintance recommends very stimulating diet of scald¬ 
ed meal or soaked bread with red pepper, and ale ; tinc¬ 
ture of iron in the water, and a daily washing of tho 
mouth in vinegar and water, or vinegar, if not too strong. 
Strawberries in New oEei-sey.— 
The following account of strawberries in southern New 
Jersey is from the Report of the West Jersey Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association. It is the experience of market growers 
in Cinnaminson, Moorestown, and that part of Burling¬ 
ton County where the soil is generally very light: 
