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birds, mammals, iusecta, trees and plants and the value 

 which most of them are to the human race. 



JSuch pnblieatiC'US). if properly illustrated, would be 

 of far more service to the people at large throughout 

 the Commonwealth than the cumbersome and tardy 

 Legislative Kecord, and certain other documents 

 which so often find Iheir way to the junk shop. 



LET THE MILLIONAIRE HELP THE POOK. 



Generally, however, when eliorts are made lo pro- 

 vide for such really useful publications, which will 

 be of great worth to the poorer classes, and which 

 would be paid for largely by corporations and in- 

 dividual taxpayers of large holdings, some wise (?) 

 fellow conies forward and cries ''economy,'' "job,'' etc. 

 I have known individuals to raise such protests, and 

 having been in a position to know something of their 

 official acts and broken political contracts, it occurred 

 to me that their utterances, made most guardedly and 

 by insinuation under, often, the mask of hypoci'itical 

 friendship, were given birth to hide their own ques- 

 tionable methods, even if it did injury to others who 

 endeavored to be honest and when placed in official 

 I)laces faithfully tried, to the best of Iheii- ;ibilil\. I;i 

 give to the public printed matter in an attractive and 

 useful form. 



THE WOODCHUCK. 



This bothersome animal, which is known to many 

 as the Ground Hog, is common and of wide distribu- 

 tion throughout the State. 



WHAT A PPACTICAL FARMER WROTE. 



My good old friend, the late A. C. Sisson, of La 

 Plume, Pa., about two years ago, and but a few days 



