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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



in this number of the series of articles 

 entitled "With Stoddard's Team in Aus- 

 tralia." Grant Allen's new book "How 

 God revealed Himself to Man,'' is given a 

 lengthy review, and the current events of 

 the month in the Australia colonies and in 

 foreign lands, receive the usual attention. 



The Louisiana Farmer and Rice Journal, 

 published at Crowley, La., in the interest 

 of the rice industry, is a journal of which 

 the state may be" proud. Not qnly is it 

 neat and up-to-date in its mechanical part, 

 but contains articles of practical benefit to 

 farmers and especially to those engaged 

 in raising rice. 



One of the most unique catalogues that 

 has lately come to hand, is the one of J. 

 H. Hale, fruit grower, of South Glaston- 

 bury, Conn. It is called "Fruits of 

 Water'' and is original in its ideas from 

 cover to cover. 



We received this month the 1898 cata- 

 logue of D. Hill, of Dundee, 111., the ever- 

 green specialist. It is very well gotten 

 up, and any one contemplating buying 

 ornamental or fruit trees should send for 

 one of these catalogues. The business has 

 been established for over forty years, 

 which is a good recommendation. 



RELIABLE OUT-DOOR BROODER. 



the industry for the year 1897 amounted 

 in round figures to $300,000,000. 



The advance and increase has been most 

 rapid in the recent past and the industry 

 is now growing at a very rapid rate. Of 

 course, all this increase" and growth would 

 not be possible under old conditions, and 

 indeed it has not been so. Shrewd bus- 

 iness men and inventors seeing their op- 

 portunity and the immensity of the field 

 before them, have perfected many ma- 

 chines and appliances which have made 

 this increase and the profit of the poultry 

 industry possible. Along these lines no 

 body has done more than the Reliable In- 

 cubator and Brooder Co., of Quincy, 111., 

 whose machines we illustrate herewith. 

 They make a complete line of incubators 

 and brooders and other poultry supplies 

 and appliances. 



Their machines have been shown in 

 competition with others all over this and 

 other countries and have never suffered de- 



FALSE IMPRESSIONS. 



Through both correspondence and di- 

 rect conversation with the people we have 

 become aware that the fewest number of 

 our people have anything like a proper 

 conception of the worth and magnitude of 

 the poultry industry of this country. It is 

 a fact that no other single industry of our 

 people with one single exception pro- 

 duces annually so great an amount of 

 wealth. The receipts from every branch of 



feat. Their single policy seems to be to 

 make the best materal, with the best work- 

 manship to be sold at a moderate profit. 

 This company also operates one of the 

 largest farms of thoroughbred poultry in 

 country. They keep all standard varieties 

 and sell eggs and poultry in season. Send 

 ten cents and get their new 224 page illus- 

 trated catalogue,guide and poultry doctor. 

 It contains information that no man or 

 woman in the poultry business can afford 

 to be without. 



A LIBERAL, OFFER. 



We are authorized by the manufacturer 

 of the "Acme" Pulverizing Harrow, Clod 

 Crusher and Leveler, Millington, N. J., 

 and South Canal street, Chicago (sec ad- 



