California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



EXCHANGE NOTICES. 



There are so many Agricultural papers of 

 merit in the United States, that to give ex- 

 tended notices of them and their peculiar 

 excellences, would require too much space. 

 We will continue our list from month to 

 month. Our readers can obtain sample copies 

 of either of them by writing to the publishers, 

 giving your address and enclosing a stamp to 

 prepay postage. 



We will remark right here, that sending a 

 postal card to a publisher for a sample copy, 

 is imposing on good nature. Publishers must 

 prepay postage. They are willing to send a 

 paper to any one who wishes to examine it, 

 but are not generally so generous as to furnish 

 postage stamps to strangers. Some publish- 

 ers advertise that they will pay no attention 

 to postal cards. 



Commencing with the pulilioations of the 

 West: 



Central Union AomctJLTUBisT 



Is a semi-monthly, 8-page paper, the only 

 agricultural paper in Nebraska, and published 

 by Geo. Brewster, at SI 60 a year. Speci- 

 men copies, 10 cents. 



Thb Kansas Farmer 



Is a weekly, only agricultural paper in Kan- 

 sas. Published at Topeka. 

 The Missouri Farmer 



Is a weekly published at Booneville, Mo. 

 Coleman's Rural World 



Is a weekly publication, by Norman Cole- 

 man, St. Louis, and is one of the most valu- 

 able papers on our exchange list. $2 10 a 

 year. 

 The Journal of Agriculturh 



Formerly a monthly, now a weekly, is also 

 an excellent paper, pubhshed at St. Louis, 

 Mo. 

 Our Houe Journal and Rural Southland 



Is one of our favorites, published weekly 

 at New Orleans, La., at $'2 03 a year. We 

 always find something in our Southern ex- 

 changes applicable to California farming. 



The Bural Sun 



Is au excellent Southern paper, published 

 at Nashville, Tenu., at $2 50 a year. 



The Rural Carolinian 



Is a monthly publication, neatly gotten up 

 in pamphlet form, at $2 00 a year. ^ Publish- 

 ed at Charleston, South Carolina. Send 20 

 cents for a sample copy. 

 The New England Farmer 



Boston, Mass., is an excellent weekly, $2 50 

 a year. We can say the same of the 

 Massachusetts Ploughman, 



Boston, Mass., |2 50. We should think that 

 these two papers would join forces. But 

 this is their matter, not ours; however, they 

 are both valuable papers. 



New York produces only about twentj'-five 

 agricultural papers. 

 State Agricultural Journal 



North Carolina produces the State Agricul- 

 tural Journal, a neat weekly at $2 00. Pub- 

 lished at Raleigh, N. C. 

 The liuiiAL Messenger 



Petersburg, Va., weekly, S2 00 a year. 



Thb American Farmer 



Is another neat Southern monthly, publish- 

 ed at Baltimore, Md., at $1 50 a year. 15 

 cents will obtain a single copy. 



l^ Enrighl's Foundry. — Mr. Enright is now 

 at work on quite a number sf Straw-Buruer 

 thresher engines. He expects a big sale this 

 coming season, as his engines give such splen- 

 did satisfaction wherever tried. We expect 

 to see San Jose one of the leading manufac- 

 turing centres for agricultural machinery be- 

 fore many years. 



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CF" Bergstrom Flows. — We think that par- 

 ties wishing to purchase good plows would do 

 well to examine the Bergstrom plows ou St. 

 John street. (See advertisement.) These 

 plows are made of superior steel with iron 

 core, so as to give great strength and admit 

 of case-hardened surface that dirt will not 

 stick to and that will wear. We are sure they 

 deserve notice. 



P^ The National Gold Medal was awarded to Brad- 

 ley & IJuIofson for the best Photographs in the 

 Tnited States, and the Vienna medal for the best in 

 the world. 



429 Mantgomery street, San Francisco. 

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E^" Good Work is deserving of credit. 

 Drs. Menefee & Gaston, dentists, San Jose, 

 have lately done some excellent plate-work, 

 difficult to fit, for the editor. In this age of 

 imperfections, when Nature seems inadequate 

 to provide substantial teeth for everybody, 

 a perfect dentist is a perfect blessing. Good 

 health demands sound, clean teeth, and for 

 comfort alone it pays to keep the mill in one's 

 head in good grinding condition. This is our 

 exijerience. 



E^" San Jose Foundry. — This establishment, 

 managed by Mr. McKinzey, proprietor, is 

 turning out a good deal of agricultural ma- 

 chinery, and every year does more at it. We 

 notice there the Harris Tubular Harrow, two 

 kinds of excellent gang-plows of recent inven- 

 tion, an improved seed-sower, a new grain- 

 cleaner for seed-wheat, etc., and the Pelton 

 horse-powers. Mr. H. Mitchell, the foreman, 

 informs us that they will soon enter more 

 largely into the manufacture of improved 

 farming implements, including threshers, en- 

 gines, etc. 



f^° From Bradley & Eulofson, leading 

 photographers, San Francisco, we acknowl- 

 edge the receipt of a handsomalj' finished 

 photograph of the Palace hotel, including 

 the oj^posite corners, also handsome models 

 of architecture, one of which is designed for 

 the business of these jihotographers, who will 

 take their new stand ou Market street, in the 

 very heart of the business of the city. At- 

 tached to the card is a description of the ho- 

 tel itself, by Professor Knowlton. 



Berkshires For Sale! 



FOUE EXTEA FINE PIGS, 



3SowB auil oue Boar pig. Pure-bred Btrkshirei*, far. 

 rowed 19th of last April, by that superior, flfrst- 

 premium, breedinj; sow, America, and sired bj- first- 

 premium boar, Yorso Comet. There are no finer 

 bred pigs in the United States than these. 



S^ For further information and price, inquire of 

 th@ Editor of this journal. 



ENLAEaED 'AND lUFR 



THE FARMERS' 



STOCK JTOURSrAIi, 



Till it h:iR noHUpirinr as a. Farmer's and Stockman's 

 ■Journal ou the Cimtinciit; publisbed ou the finest 

 quality of tinted book-paper, beautifully embellished 

 with numerous engravings of Stock, the finest that ar- 

 tistic skill and tafitecan execute, at only $1..10 i)cr year, 

 postiige paid. It is no new onterprise, being in its 

 .•Jth Volume, thoroughly established, recognized and 

 p;itronizcd by the leading stock men and farmers of 

 the East and West. Gives Engravings and Biographi- 

 cal Sketches of leading stock men. The bestpaiier iu 

 the country to adverrise in. It does not claim hun- 

 dreds of thousands of readers io order to deceive ad- 

 vertisers; but it does claim to reach, by bona fide 

 subscription, nearly every agricultural State iu the 

 Union, and in many counties iu Iowa its circulation 

 exceeds that of the local press. 



Send 10 cents for sample copy and you will like it. 

 No attention paid to postal cards asking for samples. 



ALEX. CHARLES, 



Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



Farmers of Small Means 



CALIFORNIA HOLDS OUT MANY INDUCEMENTS 

 to immigrants of small means, who may wish to 

 engage in farming. There are fine agricultural lands, 

 still unlucati d, iu the coast and mountain counties, 

 which are admirably adapted to a diperslfied system 

 of tillage. The soil is unusually rich and fertile to 

 the very summits, and even over the steep and rocky 

 places there can be found good pasturage — Nearly all 

 of this land can be broken up with ordinary plows 

 and sown to the cereals and tame grasses, or cultivated 

 iu cotton, ramie, hemp, etc. Much of it is adapted to 

 the growth of all the semi-tropical fruits. The New- 

 ark Land Association have recently placed their valu- 

 able tract of laud {i.Oi acres) in market, subdividing 

 the same into small tracts (1 to 10 acres) for resideiuf; 

 I)ro]K'rty, and 10, 20 and iO were tracts for farms — and 

 will sell on verj' liberal terms to parlies wlio desire to 

 purchase at private sale, until the Grand Aiictiou Sale, 

 which will take place about the last week in Novem- 

 ber or the first week iu ne(r(mber. This land is a 

 perfect garden spot, and within easy reach of the city, 

 and with a climate unsurpassed. NVe soy, then, to 

 farmers of small means, that California offere you in- 

 ducements that no other State in the Union, or country 

 in the world, can offer. Here you can lay the foun- 

 dation of a permanent home, with the certainty of, at 

 least, a competency, and, in all probability, a fortune. 

 The Association has placed the whole management in 

 the hands of Mr. "Wm. H. Martin, the General Agent 

 of the California Immigrant Union, 534 California 

 street. Tliis Means Success. 



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