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SAN JOSE, CAL., MAY, 1875. 



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 16 cents. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Pago 99, Correspondence. - 



Dr. Scott). 



Carbolic Acid (by 



100, Bditorial Notes. Etc. 



101, Poetry, — Grasshoppers. Some One's 

 Servant Girl. Come, Lovely Spring. Two 

 Simple Rules. Christian Advertising. The 

 Temperant'o Picket. Love. Not the First 

 Class. Etc. 



10*3, Editorial Correspondence. 



103, Editorial.— Extra Value of Fine Over 

 Common Cattle for Beef. A New and Im- 

 portant Industry. 



104, EditoriaL— What Shall We Do With 

 Our Immib'rauts? What Are the Graut^ers 

 Going to Do About it. Reclaiming Alkaline 

 Soils. Summer-fallowing. 



105, Hygienic. — Another Physiological Let- 

 ter. DiRinfectante and Deodorizers. Im- 

 portance of Wholesome Beds. 



IOC, Hygienic (continued). — Purifying the 

 Blood. Sunlight a Necessity. Domestic^ 

 Practical Recipes. Paragraphs Worth Ke- 

 Membering. Miscellaneous Recipes. To- 

 bacco and Bread. 



107, Dairy .—Nervous Cows. Creamery Aver- 

 ages. Apiary. — Most Practical BeeHivts. 

 Buckwheat for Bee Pasture. The Profits of 

 Farming. Etc. 



■ 108, Stock Breeder.— Keep Pure Breeds. To 

 Fatten Cattle. Dogs and Sheep. Scrub 

 Stock. StockPays All the Time. Etc. 



' 109, The Horse. — Breeding Horses for I^so. 

 Hardy Colts the Best. Percherou and Nor. 

 man Horses. Endurance of Eastern Hordes. 

 Pisciculture.— How Fish Spawn Can Be 

 Hutched. How Oysters Are Born. Trout 

 and White Fish. 



' 110, Pisciculture (Continued). — Seth Green 

 audHisWurk. Etc. Poultry Yard. — 



Dark Brahmas. Cock's Combs ae Food. 

 Guinea Fowls. 



Ill, Porcine.— How to Tell the Age of Hogs. 

 The Berkshire. Feeding Swine in Summer. 

 Cost of Preparing Pork for Market. The 

 Value of a Thoroughbred Boar, 



' 113, Correspondence. — Notes of Travel and 

 Id«^as Ui>on Health Subjects. *' Honor to 

 Whom Hiinur is Due." 



' 113, Correspondence (continued) .—Politics 

 and Religion in the Granges. 



' 11*, Household Reading. — Words of 

 Counsel With Parents. A Mothers Influ- 

 ence. False Delicacy Between jSothers and 

 Daughters. A Cheerful Home. Etc. 



' 115, Educational.— A P.irody for the School 

 Room. Taking Agric\iltural Papers. Com- 

 mon Sense. Purs Expression. Words, 

 Thoughts. Actions. Help the Children. 

 Hi>w to Keep a Situation. Etc. 



* 116, Boys and Girls.— Mollie's Troubles. 

 How a Lad Wheeled Himself into Fortune 

 and luflucuce. Silk-lined House. Moles 

 and Tuads. 



' 117, Editorial. — ^New Publications. Etc. 



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Because We Trust 



THOSE WORTHY OP CEEDIT 



We canuot sell 



Groceries, Hardware, 



And A.11 Kinds of Goods, 



As Cheap for Cash 



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TRY US. 



UZESLAIS i& POZMCERO 



Market Street, San Jose. 



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TTAVING MADE NEW ARRANGEMENTS 



^^ with MR. McKENZIE, I am prepared to supply 

 my Powers to all persons favoring me with their or- 

 ders. All Powers hereafter maniifactured can only be 

 obtained of me or my Agents. In future they will be 

 made under my directions and specifications, and 

 nothing but a prime quality of Machinery Iron will 

 be used iu their manufactui'o. 



I have ■ reatly improved the application and bracing 

 of my Levers, whieh will give them ample strength. 



All Powers fully wiuTauted. 



For further information send for cii-culars and price 



S. rZiLTO]>r, Patentee. 



San Jose, California. 



list to 



A. O. Hooker. 



W. F. GrscKEL. 



OFFICE, 



I 318 



'I [First St^ 



San Jose. 



Mr. STTTYVESA-ITT, 



Of Eilgewood, Pouglikeepsie, New York, 

 wishiuf,' to increase his Short-horn herd of 

 cattle, oft'ers for sale is entire herd of 



AYI\SHII\E CATTLE, 



Containing Twenty-five Cows in milk ami in CAlf to 

 "ROBBIE BRUCE," 



Undoubtedly the finest Ayrshire bull iu the country; 

 four Heifers, due to calf by the same Bull during the 

 Summer; seven Heifer Calves, dropped this Spring: 

 fmir Bull Calves of this Spring; one yearling Bull, and 

 the Bull ROBBIE BRUCE. This entire herd will bo 

 Sidd for the simi of $8,000. 



This herd is ciunpuseti of the two entire herds for- 

 merly belonging to Mr. W. Binni of Springfield Mass., 

 and Mr. H. S. Collins, Collinsville. Conn. Mr. Stuy- 

 vesant having some years since bought these two en- 

 tire herds, and having had a weeding out sale last fall. 



Mr. Stuyvesant was awarded the HERD PRIZE at 

 the New York St:ite Fair at Rochester, last Fall, with 

 large comijetition. 



THE PEDIGREES 



of this stock are all good. Ctitalogiics containing ft 

 description of the herd will be sent on application. 

 Also, catalogue of the small but value herd of Short- 

 horns at Ecigewood written out on applieation. 

 Address, JNO. R. STUY\'ESANT, 



Edgcwood, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., N. T. 



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