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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



"THE FARMER'S FRIEND." 



The great Grange paper. 



The farmers' own journal. 



."500 farmers' write for it. 



60 farmers' wives ■wriLe for it. 



Circulates in 36 States. 



Circulates in tJ Territoriea. 



Circulates in Canada. 



04 columns every week. 



16 pages of reading. 



Keptou file in 1,2(»U Granges, 



Read weekly by over 100.000 people. 



Only official organ of tive State Granges. 



Market reports from the great cities. 



Practical experience by pr:ictical farmer?. 



Crop reports printed weekly. 



No middlemen agents. 



$1.50 a year ; or 1.'25 in clubs of 8 or over. 



Postage always prepaid by publishers. 



1'2X cents a mouth to the close of any year. 



In clubs of S or over, 10>^ cents a month. 



Neatly printed ; "big type ;" good paper. 



National Grange offlcers write for it. 



Grange news from everj- State. 



Farmers are delighted with it, and say, 



" Just what we have wanted." 



Sample copy three cents, sent directly from the Grange 



Steam Printing House of five States. 



Address, THOMAS & BEMMING, 



7-12-S Mechanicsburo, Pa. 



ROOT'S 



(g arden IVf anual. 



Is filled with tojiics of interest to every owner of a garden — 

 is POINTED, PRACTICAL and THOROUGH, and contains 

 one-half as mueh as J1.50 books on the subject. GARDEN- 

 EliS throughout the coimtry commend its practical labor- 

 saving methods as invaluable to them. 



itS"Sent for 10 cents, which will be allowed on the first 

 order for seeds. Address, 



J. B. ROOT, ced Grow&n 



ROCKFORD, Illinois. 



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m FLQ^ie/VEGETAB LE g 



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is the most beautiful work of the kind in the world. It con- 

 tains nearly 150 pages, hundreds of fine illustrations, and 

 /our Chromo Plates of Flowers, beautifully dra\vn and col- 

 ored from nature. Price, 35 cents in paper covers ; 65 cents 

 bound in elegant cloth. 

 Vick's Floral Guide. Quarterly, 25 cents a year. 



Address. JAMES VICE, Rochester, N. Y, 



PATENTS 



OBTAINED BEST AP CHEAPEST BY 



LOUIS BAGGER & CO., 



SOLICITORS OF PATENTS, 



"WasJaingtoa, D. C. 



«»" Address aU letters to P. O. Box 4i4. 7-3-12m 



FERTILIZERS! 



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CHEAPEST AND BEST! 



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 formulae have provec, 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 prices for 



Oil Vitriol, 

 Ground Bones, 

 Land Plaster, 

 Sulphate Potash, 



Nitrate Soda, 

 Sulphate Ammonia, 

 Muriate Potash, 

 Sulphate Soda and Salt. 



Address 



HARRISON BROS. & CO., 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Eatabliahed as Manufacturers of Fertilizing 

 Chemicals m 1793. 



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 roll ItEAL ESTATE OR PERSONAL PRORERTT, 

 Printed exijeditiously and cheap at the office of 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



" Before they Call I will Answer."* 

 Give me to eat ! O, Father in Thy garners 



The i;olden jrain is stored, 

 Tliy purple grapes hane heavy in the vintaee, 



Thy harvest HeMs with promises are scored; 

 To eat, for I so wearily have fasted. 



And yet my kindred call on me for bread, 

 On me, whose harvesting the worm has blasted, 



Ou me with hands in helplessness outspread ! 



Give me to drink ! O, Father, in Thy garden 



The fountains ever flow, 

 I liear their coolincr plash and see them glitter. 



Oh, pour their fullness on thes» sands below; 

 To drink, I am so weak and faint witli going 



To brokeu cisterns that can hold no rain. 

 Then lead me nigh to that rich ovei-flowing. 



Let my parched lips Thy cup of gladness drain ! 



So prayed my soul in heaviness of sori'ow, 



Lo ! even as I cried. 

 Bread, manna-sweet, was broken at my table, 



And crystal-brimmed the goblet close beside. 

 Even " before they call," is it not written ? 



The banquet hall awaits the tardy guests. 

 The faint, the thirsty, and the famine-smitten 



Have but to cry; God's love outruns the rest. 



AViiAT interjection is of the feminine gender?^ 

 A-lass ! 



Accommodating a friend with a fifty dollar note 

 is an ex-L-lent way of getting rid of money. 



TuE extreme height of misery is a small boy with 

 a new pair of bootsand no mud puddle. 



Cool drinks— Those taken at another fellow's ex- 

 pense, without invitation. — Sunday Courier. 



Soliloquy by a tippler — The public always notices 

 you when you have been drinking, and never when 

 you are thirsty. 



The useless waste of money on weddings and 

 funerals calls for reform. Extravagance makes 

 young men dread marriage and death. 



The sun's rays focus on the earth about this season 

 of the year, and those are the raysons for its being 

 hot enough to scorch a paper collar. 



Painting tlie Lily. — Generous shoeblack (to col- 

 ored gentleman) ; " Better 'ave 'em done, sir; I'll 

 touch up yer face, too, for the same, sir ! " 



Henky Watterson poetically says that ice is 

 " water gone to sleep." It has every opportunity for 

 going to sleep while Henry Watterson is around. 



"yon are a nuisance. I'll commit you," said an 

 offended judge to a noisy person in court. " You 

 have no right to commit a nuisance," said the of- 

 fender. 



A YOUNG lady, following a Shakspearian play with 

 the book, remarked to her companion: "How im- 

 perfect those actors are ! None of them say ' exit ' 

 wheu they go otf." 



A PERSON who was sent to prison for marrying 

 two wives, excused himself by saying that wheu he 

 had one she fought him, but when he got tuo they 

 fought each other. 



" Mrs. Spinks," observed a boarder to his land- 

 lady, "the equal adjustment of this establishment 

 could be more si^fely secured if there was less hair in 

 the hash and more in the mattresses." 



"Have you much fish in your bag?'.' asked a per- 

 son of a fisherman. "Yes, there's a good eel in it," 

 was the rather slippery reply. 



Even during the heated term two of our Western 

 contemporaries got into a grammatical dispute. Its 

 singular how men could be in such a mood, while the 

 heat is in tense. — Jfew York Commercial Advertiser. 



In Bath Abbey, England, is to be seen the follow- 

 ing : 



"Here lies Ann Mann, 

 She lived an old maid and died an old Mann." 



It wasn't a loaded Onondaga county preacher who 

 recently said : " Brezzern, szeasier for a cmmit — hie 

 — tgo srough ze knee of an idol, zan for — hie — a rich 

 man to live — hie — peazably with hiz muzzer-in-law" 



An Illinois judge has decided that a washing bill 

 cannot be collected, and any experienced washer- 

 woman will tell him that he is right six times out of 

 ten, which is probably better than the average of his 

 decisions. 



It is supposed that the reason graduates of female 

 colleges are called bachelors of art instead of maids 

 of art, is that the former is a higher degree. At least 

 the maids are always after the bachelors. — Norwich 

 Bulletin. 



Plant a Cjntennial tree this year — it may live to 

 see the seccnd Centennial. 



'*' And it shall come to paBS that before they call I will 

 answer ; and while they are yet speaking I will hear. — 

 Isaiah, Ixv, 24. , 



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Knitter 





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A Family Knitting Machine. 



Now sttractiufj universal attention by its astorishing per- 

 formances and its great practical value for ever>'-day family 

 use. It kuit.s every possible variety of plain or fancy work 



"WITH ALMOST MAGICAL SPEED, 



and gives perfect shape and finish to all g.^rmeotB. If will 



knit a pair of socks in fifteen minutes! Every machine 



WARKAX'rKi> perfect, and todojuM what is rppresented. 



A comi lete instruction book accompanies each machine. 



No. 1 Family Machine, 1 cylinder, 72 needles, $30. 



No. 3 *' -'2 " T2 & 100 " 40. 



A sample niai^huie will be sent to any part of the United 



States or Cauadii, (where we have no agent) express cluxTgea 



prepaid, on receipt of the price. 



AuENT.s wanted in every State, County. City and Town, 

 to whom very nl)eral d'scounts will be made. Address, 

 BICKFORD KNITTING MACHINE MFG. CO., 

 T-ll-tf] Sole Manufacturers, Brattleboro. Vt. 



THOS. M. HARVEY, 



WEST GROVE, CHESTER CO., PA., 



Breeder and Shipper of 



GUERNSEY !3eSI BUTTER STOCK, 



Yorkshire and Berkshire Pigs. 



Dark Brahma Chickens from the best imported 

 blood. Also Bronze Turkeys. 



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

 million people in America, and the result is beautiful 

 Flowers and sj-leudid Vegetables. A Priced Catalogue^ent 

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



Vik's F oral Guide, Quarterly, 25 cents a year. 



Vik's F ower and Vegetable Garden, 35 cents; with 

 cloth covers. (J.j cents. 

 It] A.ldress. JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. 



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Farmers' Sons and other Young Men, 

 during their leisure hours, 



CAN MAKE GOOD WAGES. 



We want a thorough canvass made of every district, and will 

 pay good canvassers liberally. Address 



PEARSOL & GEIST, Publisliers, 



7-8-tt I.A5rO.\STEB, PA. 



DEALERS IN ALL KlUrS OF 



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Orders received at 



Office, NO. 15 East King street, ? ud at the 

 8-l-l'2m] Yard, No. 613 NORTH PRINCE STREET. 



