IV. 



THE LANCASTR FARMER. 



[December, 1878 



1878 



SPRING AND SLWMEB. 



878 



RATHVON & FISHER'S 



CHEAP CLOTHING STORE, 



Cormr Sorth (|iieon and Orange Sts., 



LANCASTER., PA. 



Good all wool Business Suits from $12 to $20 

 Fine Cloth or Worsted Dress Suits, 15 to 20 

 Fine Cassimere Pants, - - 4 to 10 



Fine Vests, - - - - -3 to 6 



CUSTOM WORK A SPECIALTY, 



and salisfuctiuu guaranteed. 



READY MADE CLOT^jING 



And Furnishing Goods 



of all kindfl, very cheap. Cottonades as low as $2.50 a suit. 

 Cloths, Cassimeref, W'oi pficgs, Suitings, Coatiuge aud 

 VeBtings in a full liue, and made prompily to order. 



KATHVON & FISHER, 



3.878 PRACTICAL TATLORS. XS'78 



ESTABLISHED 1832. 



a. SEXEK & SONS, 



Mauufacturers and dealers iu all kinds of rough and 

 fiuished 



Ttiebest Sawed SHI^GT.KKiu fbe country. Also Sash, 

 Doors, Bliude, Mouldings, &c. 



PATENT 0. G. WEATHERBOARDING 



and PATENT BLINDS, wbieh are far superior to any 

 other. Also best i'OAI. coustautly on hand. 



OFFICE AND YARD : 



Northeast Corner of Prince and Walnnt-sts., 



LANCASTKR, PA. 



ART OF PROPAGATION. 



A consise practical work on the rapid increase and mul- 

 tiplication of stock — amply illuslrated. 



Price pre-paiti by mail. 50 cents. 



PUBLISHED BY 



Winona, Columbiana Co., Ohio. 

 SEND FOR IT, AND FOR FREE CATALOGUE. 

 By a Bpecial arrangement with the piiblisherB, we offer 

 tiie above work at 40 cts. per copy. It has teceived the fa- 

 vorable notice of over 1000 leading pax eis of the country, 

 be sent to this office. 

 9-10 L. liATHVON. 



AND 



Thoroughbred Short-Horn Cattle; 



Bred and For Sale by the undersigned. 



OF THE BEST MILKING STRAINS, 



and at prices to suit the times. Herd cnen to i-ispection by 

 strangers at all times (Sundays excepted.) I will be ple;i8ed 

 to show my herd to visitors, aud any informntion iu regard 

 to the cattle will cheerfully be given, by letter, as desired. 



10-2-ly] 



A. M. RANK, 



Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster co., Pa, 



J. STAUFFER, 



LANCASTER, f ENN'A. 

 235 EAST ORANGE ST. 



All matters appertaining to UNITED STATES or CJ^NA- 

 DIAN PATENTS, TRADE MARKS, aud COPYRIGHTS, 

 promptly attended to. His experience, success ad faithful 

 atention to the interests of those who eng^.ge his services 

 are fully acknowledged aud appreciated. 



Preliminary examinations made for him by a reliable As 

 sistant at Washington, without extra charge for drawing 

 or descrijjtiou. [9-1-tf 



prtT T^ Any worker can make $12 a day at home. Costly 



1 0-2-1 y* 



( Outfit free. Address True & Co., Augusta, Me. 



EDW. J. ZAHM, 



DEALKB IN 



AMERICAN AND FOREIGN 



WATCHES, 



SOLID SILVER & SILVER PLATED WARE. 

 CLOCKS, 



JEWELRY! TABLE CUTLERY. 



Sole Agent for the Arundel Tinted 



SPECTACLES. 



Repairing strictly attended to. 



$66''Ta1r^s/THr.Irx?-&crPo\trd,°Ml^^^^^^^ ! North Queen-st. and Centre Square, Lancaster. Pa. 



lU-2-ly» I 9-4-ly 



MINERALS, SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL BOOKS, 

 SHELLS, FOSSILS, BIRDS' EGGS, 



And all objects of NATURAL HISTORY are bought, sold and exchanged 



By A. E. FOOTE, M .D., 



1223 Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Specimens sent to any part of the world bj mail Specimen copy of an illustrated monthly bulletiu of IG pages sent 

 free. Subscription 50 cents a year; for club rates see each monthly Issue. 



I received the highest award given to any one at ihe Centennial Exposition for 1876, and the only award aud medal 

 given to any American for " Collection of Minerals." 



My Mineralogical Catalogue of 50 pages is distributed free to all customers, to others on receipt of 10 cents. It i» 

 profusely illustrated, aud the printer and engraver charged me about $900.00 before a copy was struck off. By means of 

 the table of species and accomi auyiug tables most species may be verified. The price list is an excellent checklist, 

 containing the uames of all the species and the more common varietiee, arranged alphabetically aud 7ireceded by th& 

 species number. The speHes number iudicates the place of any mineral in the table of species; after it will be found 

 the" specie^ name, composition, streak or lustre, cleavape or fracture, hardness, specific gravity, fusibility and crystal- 

 lization. I have very many species not on the price list, and some that I had in 1876 are no longer in stock. 



COLLECTIONS OF MINERALS 



Tor Students, Amateurs, Profossers, Pbysiclans, and other Professional Hen. 



The collectioiis of 100 illustrate all the principal speciea and all the grand subdivisions in Dana and other works on 

 Mineralogy; every Crystalline System; all the principal Ores and Minerala iu which have been found every known 

 Element. The colUections are labeled with printed label that can only be removed by soaking. The labelp of the $5.00 

 and higher pi-iced collections give Dana's sjecies number, the uame, locality, and in most cases, the composition of the 

 Mineral. All collections accompanied by my lUustrated Catalogue and table of species. The sizes given are average ; 

 some small -r, many larger. 



Number of Specimens. 



Cryet als and fragments 



Student's size, larger 



Amateur's size. 2i^ in. x IJ^ 



High Schooler Academy size, 2^x3)^ in., Shelf Specimens. 

 College size, 3>(;'x6 in.. Shelf .Specimens 



25 

 iu box 



$ 50 

 1 60 



50 

 in box 



$1 00 

 3 00 



100 

 in box 



$1 60 

 6 00 



100 



200 



$1 00 12 00 



6 00 10 00 



10 00 26 no 



25 00 50 00 



50 00 1 150 00 



300 



$3 00 



25 00 



50 00 



100 00 



300 00 



I have now over thirty-tive tons, and over $40,000 worth of Minerals, mostly crystaUized, in stock. It is well recog- 

 nized that my prices are lower and my specimens moie accurately labeled thau those of any other dealer in the country. 

 This is mainly due to the immeuse stock I carry (the largest iu minerals of any in the country) and my system of printed 

 labels attached tDthe s/ecimeue. I can refer to the following Gentlemeu aud Colleges, all of whom, with th nisands of 

 others, have bought specimens of me; most of them have given me especial permission to use their names as reference. 



Prof. S. F. Baird. Prof. F. V. Harden; Dr. Joseph Leidy, Prof. F. A. Genth, Prof. J. D. and E. S. Dana, Prof. G. J. 

 Brush, Prof.J.P. Cooke, Prof N. H. Wiiicbell, Prof. S. F. Peckham, Prof. T. Eggleston, Prof. J. S. Newberry, Prot. C. F. 

 Chandler, Prof. K. H. Richards, Mrs. Prof. Ellen S. Kiehards, Prof. Maria 8. Eaton, Prof. T. Sterry Hunt, Prof Henry 

 How, \Vm. S. Vaux, C. S. Bemeuf, N. Spang, T. A. Greeu, Prof. J. W. Mallett, Prof. E. A. Smith, Prof. .J. Lawrence 

 Smith, Prof. G. A. Koenig, Dr. T, M. Chatard, Ph. D„ Prof. H. B. Cornwall, Prof. P. T. Austen, Laurence Malheiro, Lis- 

 bon, Portugal ; Prof. Orton, Prof. Ira Reniseu, General A. Gadoliu, Imp. School of Miijes St. Petersburg, Russia ; 

 Prof. A. E. Nordenschiold. Koyul Museum. Stockholm, Sweden ; Dr. Nic »lo Moreira, Imjierial Museum, Rio de .Janeiro, 

 Brazil ; British Museum, Royal Museum, Berlin ; Dr. P. E. Defferari, Italy ; Harvard Unibersily, University of Minne- 

 sota, Yale College, Wisconsin University, Columbia College, Michigan University, Wellesley College, Illiuois Industrial 

 Uuiversity, Massachuattts Institute of Technology, Col. School of Mines, University of Virgiuia, University of Missouri, 

 Eutger's College, University of Notre Dame, Princeton College, University of Nashville. Johns Hopkins University, 

 Uuiversity jf Georgia, Waco University, Texas ; University of Oho, and many others iu Missisaippi, Alabama, Oregon, 

 Washingtou Territory, California, Iowa, Canada, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Indiana, Kentucky, Chili, England, 

 Brazil, Germany, Australia, &c., &c. 



Catalogue of 2,600 species of Shells, made for me by Geo. W. Tryon, Jr., who has labeled nearly all my shells, 3 ots., 

 printed on heavy paper with genns label list 10 cts. I have purchased one or two of the most celebrated ooHections 

 ki own, aud have now over 2,000 lbs.. 3,1100 species, and 30,000 specimens of Shells and Corals iu stock. Catalogue of 

 Birds, Eggs, Eyes, Skins, &c., &c.. 3 cents. Catalogue of Books, Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, Agricnl- 

 ture. Horticulture, &c.. 10 pp., 3 cts. Medicines, &c., 10 pp., 3 cts. Geolog.v, Mineralogy, Mining aud Metallurgy, Stiite 

 Surveys, Travels, &c., 16 pji., 3 cts. Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Meteorology, &c., 16 pp,, 3 cts. A large stock of 

 Fossils and Rocks, Plants, Ferns and .Ugee on hand. While I hive made Mineralogy a specialty, as is evtnred by the 

 hundreds of thousands of specimens of Amazon Stoue, Rulile, Brookite. Perofskite, Amethyst, Smoky Quartz, Green 

 Wavellite, Gothlte, Variscite, &c , &c., that I have sent all oveFthc world at from one-half to one-tenth the price they 

 were ever sold at before.I furnish collections of Shells. Rocks, &c., at nearly as low rates. The Society for the Encourage- 

 ment ol Studies at Home has for a long time recommended their corsespoudents to get their collections of Rocks and 

 Minerals of me. As the correct naiuiug of the specimeus will be the important point to most persons, I feel justified iu 

 mentioning that I have be n a collector of Minerals for fifteen years ; that I was a student under Prof. Wolcott Gibbe, at 

 Cambridge, aud Prof. A. Hoffman, at Berlin, I was also Instructor at Michigan University, aud Professor iu the Iowa 

 S. A- College iu Chemistry and Mineralogy for six yeaas. 



Send for the ''Naturalist's Leisure Hour," giving full particulars. Specimen copy free. You will confer a double 

 favor by handing this to some physician, or other person interested in science. 



A. E. FOOTE, M. D , 



1228 BELMONT AVE., PHILADELPHIA, PA., 



Professor of Chemistry and MIneralogry, 



Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; Life Member of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and of the American Museum 

 10-10-3m] of Natural History, Central Park, Hew York. 



