THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



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CQai^gh Wmu. 



"Talk about creamery butter," said a grocer on 

 Woodward avenue, " sive me the old-fa-shioned- 

 8weet-i-rr;tiii-h<iin(.'-inadi-(-huriU'd butter of the 

 country, like this, ' ami he laid a roll on the coun- 

 ter and proceeded tu butter some cra<-kers. 



"Eh! what's that?" inquired the customer. 

 "Country butter, let me taste it." 



So more crackers were buttered, which he ate 

 gladly. 



"How much of that butter have you got.?" 

 he asked, wiping his chops with a smack of 

 eatis faction. 



" Took the most of it home to my own family, 



Col. M bought some, and will be in after the 



rest. You sec it isn't easy to get June, clover-fed 

 cream butter at this time of year. You couldn't 

 find a pound in any other store in town," said 

 the grocer, proudly. 



"Send me up the lot," said the customer, " I 

 don't want any creamery butterine after eating 

 that. I was brought up on a farm, I was, and 

 know{i:o(»d butter when I see it." And he paid 

 for his goods and went out. 



"Where did you strike that butter?" a«ked a 

 man who was eating prunes and pickles near the 

 stove. 



"Down at the factory where they make it," 

 replied the grocer calmly. And the beating of 

 their own hearts was all the sound they heard. 



German joke, literally translated :—" Of what 

 sickness is the Mi-s. B. deiul? " "Exjictly know 

 thoy not; perhaps because she too fast lived" 

 " How so? At marriage was she, according to 

 her own story, three years younger than her 

 husband, and after her death was she, according 

 to the birth and death certificate, nine years 

 older than the same." 



A young law student in the Southwest went to 

 an old Judge to be examined for adniission to th« 

 bar. After a desultory conversation to the Judge 

 said, " Well, young fellow, hang out your shingle 

 and go ahead." "But y<)U have not examined 

 me." "Never mind," was the brilliant reply. 

 "If you don't know no law you won't get no 

 practice, so you won't do nt> harm no how." 



A young man who believes in self-improve- 

 ment, having recently married, suggested to his 

 wife that they should argue soini' (juestions 

 frankly and fully every morning, in order to 

 learn more of each other. The lirst question 

 happeni^d to be "whether a woman could be 

 expected to got along without a hat." and he 

 took the affirmative, and when lie was last seen j 

 he hati climbed up int^> a hay loft, and was pull- 

 ing the ladder after him. 



*'How in tiie world can you content yourself 

 to live in this dead-and-alive place?" asked the 

 city visitor of her countrv cousin, " I know T 

 should die if I had to stay here." " Well," replied 

 the rustic relative, " I suppose I sh(mld, too, but 

 Chen the city folks ain't here only a few weeks in 

 the year, you know." 



An Illinois lady is said to have collected a 

 string of buttons twenty-four feet long. This 

 a4X!ounts for so many men in that State with 

 their suspenders attaclied to their pants with a 

 Bhingle nail. 



A sentimental editor says " It is comforting to 

 know th!i.t one eye wat^lies fondly for our com- 

 ing, and looks brighter when we come." A con- 

 temporary is grieved to learn that his "brother 

 of the quill has a wife with only one eye." 



An Iowa chemi-it recently discovered an explo- 

 sive belii veil to bv nineteen times a:: powerful as 

 dynamite; but th*^ secret of its comp«»sition Wivs 

 lost at the time of its discovery, together with the 

 chemist and most of the glass in town. 



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and Farm Manual, mailed FREE. 



JOHNSON & STOKES, SEED 6R0WERS,Ph!ladelphla,Pa 



eiVENAWAY 



NEW RED RASPBERRY 



MARI.noilO. 



NEW EVE|;BLOpMING DOUBLE 



NEW SILVER'-EDiiE 'geranium 



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Our prices always n-asonaiili-, niir platiN and seeds an 

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CEORCE S. WALES, Rochester, N. Y_. 



400.000 GEWUIWE" 

 GREGG PLANTS. 



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 ij!i..ri- ordering Trom any otlicr firm. Our 

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 and well rooted. Corro-spondtacc solicited. 



J. W. NEI^SON, 



Indian Run, Mercer Co.. Penna. 









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Grinfl your.own Bone, 



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 IJln till- *3 TT A-JJXa ASXXiXj 



'(F. Wlls. Ill's I'atcut). lOO per 

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 ttck-kiiife. 50e. L,Miies' C- 

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 SI. I'luitiim kiiifp. $1, 

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GARDEN SEEDS 



Plants^ Bulbs, and 

 KequiNites. They are 

 the DeHl at tbe lowest 



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 mailed Free, Addrewa, 



HENRY A. DREER 

 J14 CHESTNUT ST. PUILA. 



THE DOLLAR SEED SOWER. 



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5 AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 



FOR 60 CTS 



In order to introdnca 

 -.-- -- — — --'-rr.^.a - ■■■w^w> tfii'^ wood^rfal potato 

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, containing, tirst. 17 packet.*, one each, of the followinK 



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WllHoiTsllletJy Improved 

 Sew Golden 



, hlchlv-impr' 

 Turnip lieet^ best and earliest for table use. , 



M'lnnliiKMtadt Cabboce. best and earlleat; ^ ,„. „ 



^Lf-lllunehlns Celerv, excelleut quality, easily grown- need 

 up- l^ttPly Green ProlIOe Cueamber, best as cucumbers or tiickles*'"N'« 

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 Heart Lettuce, best lor TUT ABFAV mn »«*■«■? 

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 proved Tariefy. Ohio Sweet Potato Pumpkin, • normoui-lv productive, eX' 

 __.,__. .... .. _.. _. French BreakfaHt liadlnh, best 



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 Munich Turnip, be«t for table nse. SAMPLE PACKET OF 

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 any in iht- country. Recond, ITUT CTDAVDCAIITV ihe earllent 

 medluin.Hlzo tuber of| IIC V I llAf DCAU I I) POTATO 

 ever yet seenj very produrtiv e. eT ci-llent quality, beautiful as an oil painting. 



CORN* moAt beantirul and pi 



THE STRAY BEAUTf 



,_ . . . . _.„ ever yet seen ; vcrv produrtive, eTci-tlent qnalitv. beautiful as an oil painting. 



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» more temptinic offer, and here let ii _ , . „ 



ICFST Fl>OWER REEI>H FOR 80 CFXTH, 



sav we erow th<" 



that _ 



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