THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



III. 



FARMERS and TRUCKERS ! 



Btjy THE 



NITRO-PHOSPHATE, 



itiAni-: II Y 'nil': 



FARMERS' BONE AND FERTILIZING CO. 



Ouarnntoo^l AnnlyNJM, ns fullowR: 



Phosphoric Arid, suluhlo iiml uvjiilnbk-, 8 to 9 jier ceut. 



Nitrogoii, t'<iuivah'iit tu Aniiuuuiu, 3 to 'A)^ jier ceut. 



rotush, '2J^ to 3 ler ci-nt. 



Uu8uri»aP8ed if eiiviiilh'd by any otlwr fertilizer in the 

 murkot, in ]tru|turtiuii to its cowt, lor iiU Bpriuj; L-roim. Thy 

 obovo Kortiii/t-r, ti.K«tlier with our (ilUHTND KAW BONK 

 (warrnmted aliflohittly imri') will bo found in tho ImndH of 

 dealers ^jent-rully, or inny b*- had on ui'iilicjition tit the ottU-o 

 of the <.\>nii>iiny. Ah a Farnicrs' tloinpiiny we iihk the pu- 

 trouugo and co-operation of nil interested in the production 

 of fertilizers of reliable worth. Send for circulars. 



WM. A. FISIIEU, I'reH't, I T. W. TUK(H), Trens., 



Bryu Mawr, Mont. Co. | Doylestown, Bucks Co. 



JOEL W. STUAWN, Sec'y, and (Chemist, 



119 N. l>elawaro Ave., Philadelphia. 



DTRECTOllS.— William A. Fisher, T. W. Trego, H. I). 



I^onKaker, .I»)nhna Ashbridge, Charles Paxson, Jonathan 

 Kuight, and Joel W. Strawn. 



Factory at the foot of Mifflin street, River Delaware, 

 Philadelphia, always opeu to the iuBjection of consumers of 

 fertilizers. 



(T^'The almve named article is one of the best fertilizers 

 in the market for the i)roduction of good tobjicco. Refer- 

 eDces : Henry O. Shenk and M. M. Moore, of Lancaster 

 coxmty. Constautly kept on hanil and for t*alu by A. F. 

 BAIR, No. U2 North Duke street, Lancaster, Pa. Also sold 

 by D. D. HKS3, Quarryville. S-i-lt 



FERTILIZERS! 



HOIVIE: IMC.A.DE:. 



CHEAPEST AND BEST! 



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WRITE for Circular and Recipes, which are furnished 

 without charge, containing complete instructions for 

 making, at home, first-class chemical manures, suited to 

 the growth of special crops. Our forniulie have p^ovet, in 

 actual use, to be of the greatest value to all who have used 

 them. 



We offer Fertilizing Chemicals of our own manufacture, 

 at lowest prices, with a guaranty as to strength and pu- 

 rity. Ask i)rices for 



Oil Vitriol, 

 Ground Bones, 

 Land Plaster, 

 Sulphate Potash, 



Nitrate 8oda, 

 Sulphate Ammonia, 

 Muriate Potash, 

 Sulphate Soda and Salt. 



Address 



HARRISON BROS. & CO., 



PHILADELPHIA, 



EBtablished as ManufiicturerB of Fertilizing 

 Chemicals in 1793. 



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are the best the world produces. They are planted by a 

 million jieojile in America, and the result is beautiful 

 Flowers and splendid Vegetables. A Priced Catalogue sent 

 free to all who inclose the postage — a 2 cent stamp. 



Vick's Floral Guide, Quarterly, *2.t cents a year. 



Vick's Flower and Vegetable Garden, 35 cents; with 

 cloth covers, (>.=» cents. 

 It] Address, JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. 



The Great Agricultural Wonder, 



BEING THE 



HULLESS OATS, 



Which can be obtained of 



At Leesport P. 0., Berks County, Pa., 



AH FOLLOWS I 



1 ponnd .50clN. 



16 •• « «.oO 



8 pftiiiidH $ 3.30 



3a " la.oo 



It is claimed that it will yield us mauy nioastired bushels 

 B8 any other variety, while it weighs 5G iiomida to the 

 bushel, aud ripeus two weeks earlier than coiniuou oats, 

 thereby eseai'iug the rusty seasuu of oats, 



WWrite tor circulum. 8-l-4t 



FINDING OUT THE SECRET. 



Mrs. Brown ami luT i^o.sxii), Mrs. Wlil/e, were con- 

 vcreiiii; alHUit tiiisbaiids ami the secrets of Kree- 

 UKisoijry. Mr. Urowii was a Freeniusoii ; ami tlie 

 faetdfiiot Iieinirable to s!iare the seerets of tlie onler 

 with liini iiiaile .Mrs. lii-owii very milia|i|iy. She was 

 [Hiurlni; out her !;rief to Mrs. While, ami sayiii:; for 

 tile thousaiidtli time, " I wonder what they do in the 

 loti^^e room '" 



" I have no cioitlit but it is ilreuilfiil," rejilieil Mrs. 

 While. "But if my liusbaiid was a Mason, I'll licl 

 IVl Ijml out what he did." 



" Hut liow I Tliey dare not tell." 



" .Ml ! but I'd ma'lie him lell." 



"How ! oh, liow ;" asked .Mrs. Brown, anxiously. 



" llusli ! I'll till you ; but don't breathe it for the 

 world, beeiiuse it is a dead secret." 



'• No, no ; I won't." 



" Well, ilo you liiiow that tiekliiiij a person's ear 

 when they are asleep will make them talk?" 



" No. "Will it, Ihouirh f 



" Yes. Now you wait 'till Brown eonics home from 

 the iod^e next time, and have a Ijroom straw in bed 

 with you. When he y;ets asleep you liekle his ear 

 with it j^ently, and he will bej^in lo lalk about what 

 he has Iteeii doin^r in tlie lodt^e, and in lliis way can 

 get the whole of the business out of him." 



"tiraeious me. You don't say so, .Mrs. White !" 



"To be sure I do. I always get my husband's 

 secrets out of him in this way." 



"I'll do it!" 



"And you'll tell me all aliout it, won't you?" 



" Certainly. But you must never say anything 

 about it?" 



"Oh, of course not. I'm very close mouthed," re- 

 plied .Mrs. White, earnestly. 



So it was agreed upon, and they separated. But 

 unl'ortunatcly Mr. Wliile overlicard the consjiiraey, 

 and lost no time in informing Mr. Brown, who laughed 

 heartily over it. 



A few nights afterward Brown attended a meeting 

 of his lodge, and his wife was all anxiety regarding 

 it. On retiring, she armed lierself with a spray from 

 lier lirfiom and wakefully waited for her lord and 

 master to return. At last she had almost broken 

 down the veil of secrecy which had troubled her so 

 long, and her heart beat wildly when she heard him 

 open the front door and come in. 



Of course she professed to be asleep, and did not 

 see the comical smile on her husband's face as he 

 turned on the gas and began disrobing for bed. But 

 he said nothing, and in a few minutes he was com- 

 fortably tucked in and gave out premonitory indica- 

 tions of approaching slumber. 



Then Mrs. Brown opened her eyes cautiously, and 

 convinced herself that he had gone to that land from 

 which sleepy husbands never return until sometime 

 next day. Cautiously she reached under the pillow, 

 and took the broom straw from its hiding place. Then 

 stie readied over carefully and began to tickle her 

 husband's ear, and he was all the time doing his best 

 to keep from exploding with laughter. 



Finally he began to talk a little, and her cars were 

 keenly alive to every syllable. 



" Yes, he must die,'' said he. " lie betrayed our 

 secrets to his wife. I've got to kill him— the lot fell 

 on me." 



Mrs. Browu screamed and leaped from the bed, 

 while lier husliand, unable to control himself, gave 

 vent to his laughter and disturbed the neiichbors for 

 the next ten minutes. But they never came lo any 

 understaniling about the strange atlair. She never 

 asked him what he was laughing at, and he never 

 asked her what it was which made her scream and 

 leap out of bed so quickly. 



Mrs. Brown and Mrs. White don't speak now. She 

 thinks Mrs. White played a joke on her, and she 

 seems to have lost niueh of her anxiety regarding the 

 secrets of Freemasonry. 



A Reflection on the Cot'KT. — When Judge 

 Hewett was on the bench in tlie Western District of 

 the State of New York, and Colonel Billings was 

 trying a ease before his honor, the jinlire overruled 

 so many of the lawyer's exceptions that Billini;s got 

 out of patience, and spoke so severely lliat the judge 

 at last dcniunded in a voice of thunder ; 



" What (lues the ecmnsel suppose I am here for ?" 



Colonel Billings kxiked sadly diseoncertcd, scratch- 

 ed his head, thought a moment, and at last, with a 

 bland smile on his face, replied : 



" I confess your honor has got me now." 



A NewHampsiiiue dealer in fancy fowls sings the 

 praises of his favorite breeds in the following unique 

 hymn : 



If you want some feathered st ^ 

 That will not your wishes m 

 Wheu at their nests you daily kn J-ock, 

 Buy some e^gs or net a fl I 



Of the famous I'lyuiouth R J 



When a Chicago man loses the respect of the com- 

 munity, he takes his guu and starts <mt to kill an 

 alderman as the only means of belug restored to 

 (xipular esteem. 



ID . 

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Knitter 



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A Family Knitting Machine. 



Now iittrudtitK unlverHiil att«-t)tioii by Itn aHtoi InhhiK P^r- 

 formaiiC<*H and ilM (.,'rt*at priictlr;il viihn* for rvery-ilay runilly 

 UBO. It kuit.s every j nhHiblt- vui itty i»f plitiii or faiiey work 



WITH ALMOST MAGICAL SPEED, 



and Kiv<'H tx-rfrrt Hlni)>*- mid fbiinh to all KamivntH. H will 



knit a pair of sockt in fifteen minutoe) Kv«*ry ninrliliio 



\l'AKICA^TI-:i» \'*rU'vt, and (tula jiiMf tr hat U rrjrrrjirntfd. 



A coiii|ilt-te inHtruction IkkiU accoinpuntftt tuch inuetilue. 



Nit. J Family Machine. 1 cyliudi-r, I'i n*t'dle»», $;tO. 



No. 3 " -'2 " T2 AlOO •• 40. 



A RainpU tnarhitie will bo sent to any jwrt pf tbo ITDiti>4l 



States or Canada, (whore we have no agent) exprens ehargr-a 



prr/iaiil, on receipt of the price. 



AciKNTM WHntcd in ev»jry HtHle, County, City and Towd, 

 to whom very liberwl dtKcounte will l>e ninrte. AiIiId'hr, 

 BICKFOUI) KNITTINO MACIUNK MF{}. <<i., 

 7-11-tf] Bole MunufacturerN, KrHllli>lM»ro, Vt. 



LUMBER FOR FARMERS. 



NO MIDDL£-M£X. 



We have a larRo stock of !,umI>or, and one of the most 

 exteuBivis Sunh un<l l>o()r Fiictori(-M ni the Stat)-, and wc are 

 prepared to furnish IIoiiho and Knrn lidlH tximplcto. 



All kinda of Manufacture*! FeuciuK. A:c., makinx a upeci- 

 alty of HU)>plyinR the agricultural ootniuunity. We will 

 make pric^B delivered to any Itailroud Stattun. AJl our 

 material ^'■■nrnHleed aa rei-reMente*!. All nianufiiclnred , 

 work kihi-drii-rt and warranted not to Hhrluk. All Inqulrien 

 cheerfully auHwered. 



One of the flmi can be wen at the Franklin House, North 

 Queen Street, Lancaster, I'a., on Momlay of each week. 



KENDIG, BRICKER & LAUMAN, 



7-4-12ni] Middlctown Dauphin cc, Pa. 



I have foinided my buaiiieRK on the iM-lief that the pabllo 

 are anxious to get their serd iiircrdy fritm the fjrotrrr, and t 

 therefore offer krkk to every man and woman In the United 

 States who cultiVHt''fl a farm, tills a vegelttble gardfu, or 

 plauta a flower garden, my large IlluBtrate<l Catalogue of 

 Vegetable and Flower S<t*ds for ls7r. ; it contains, in addi- 

 tion to the choicest kinds j>n«luced in Kurope, on^ hututrM 

 and fi/tt/ van'efieA of ri-ffctahle ttcfd <jroitn on mt/ /mir *^£d 

 faJ-ittA. Customers of hint season iie«4i not write for It. Aa 

 the original introducer of the Hubbard, Marbtehead and 

 Hutman Squashes, Phmney's Melon, the Marblehead Cab- 

 bages, and a %c*tTv of other new vt-geishles. I w>ilrit y«)ur 

 jiatronogc. All seed sold under three warrants. A hundred 

 thonsnud catalogues will Ih> issued and aent out the first of 

 Januarv. 

 7-11-r.l" JAMKS .1. H. GUFOOKY. MarM. head. Maail. 



NflVT POTA.TOES! 



C&Or^i^ IX l*RK.nH*MM toOrowcrs! Two New 

 Twi^^yKy Varieties sent gratis, prepaid. ClrcuUr 

 frtjelOMll applicants. D. A. COMI'TON, llawley, Pa. («l 



SKNP 2Sc. to G. P. ROWFIJ. k CO., Ne»- Vork. for Pam- 

 phlet of 100 |<age«i, containing liala of :t,OOU uowspftpen, 

 aud estimates showing cost of advertising. 



$125.00 in CASH PREMIUMS. 



For i>articul8rB pec my IlhiRtratotl Caialof^uo for 187«, OOD- 

 tniniiift all th.» new ami iH'ct varietloit of frr«th, true mnd n*- 

 liablo Garden S«H'.la, carefully urowii from fine w!l©ct<Nl 

 ntocks, and the larKe«t and t>eRt colU^'lion of Cliolce H«*d 

 FotatoM ever offered. Seut free- to all api>liraDlfl. Do not 

 fail to He It. 



J. R. V. IIAWKIXN. 



OOSIIKS, N. Y. 



HORSE-BILLS 

 I'l.AIN UK IN FAN<"Y COLOIW. 

 Prloted in tbo Beat Style at the ofllcc of 



THE FABMBU. 



