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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



A CpVASSER WpTED 



IN 



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district, and will pay canvassers 



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Address, 



L. RATH70N, Publisher, 



I.ANCASTER, PA. 



Rates of AdvertlslnB In the Farmer. 



pi^Special and buai uesa potices 15 <;euta per liue 



GOOD BOOKS 



FOK THE 



Farm, Garden, and Household. 



The following ia a list of Valuable Books, which will be 

 auppUed by the Editor of the Lancahteb Fabmbb, No. 

 101 North Queen St. Auy one or more of these books will 

 be sent post paid to auy of our readers on receipt of the 

 regular price which is named against dach book. 



AllAD'fl (R. L. & L. F,] New American Farm Book $2 50 



Allen's (L. F.) American Cattle.* 2 50 



Atwood's Country and Suburban Houses 150 



Bommer's method of Making Manures 25 



Breck's New Book of Flowers 1 T5 



Brill's Farm-Gardening and Seed-Growing 100 



Dadd's Modern Horse Doctor, 13mo 1*0 I 



Dadd'8 American Cattle Doctor, 13 mo 1 50 



Flax Culture, (Seven Prize Kssayaby practical growers,) 30 



Fuller's Grape Culturist 1 50 



Fuller's Small Fruit Culturiat 1 5» 



Fulton's Peach Culture 1 50 



Gregory on Squashes paper.. 30 



Harris on the Pig 150 



Henderson's Gardeniug for Pleasure 1 50 



Henderson's Gardening for Profit 150 



Henderson's Practical Floriculture 1 50 



Herbert's Hints to Horse-Keepers » 1 T5 



Hop Culture. By nine eiperieuced cultivatora 30 



Hunter and Trapper 100 



Onioua— How to Raise them Profitably 20 



Our Farm of Four Acras. Pa., 30c.; Clo., «0c., Ex. clo. 1 00 



Parsons on the Rose 1 50 



Quinby 'a Mysteries of Bee-Keeplng 150 



Quincy (Hon. Joaiah) on Soiling Cattle 1 25 



Quiun's Money in the Garden 1 50 



Quinu'a Pear Culture for Profit, 1 (^0 



Riley's Potato Peats Paper 50 cts.; cloth., 75 



Roe's Play and Profit iu my Garden 1 50 



Stewart's Irrigaton for the Farm, Garden 'Eud Orchard I 50 



Stewart's Stable Book 1 oO 



Stewart'^ Shepherd's Manual 150 



Sfoddard's Ann Egg Farm paper, 50 eta.; cloth 75 



Thomas's Farm Implements and Machinery 160 



Tim Bunker Papers . or, Yankee Farming 150 



Tobacco Culture. By fourteen experienced cultivators. 25 



Wariug'a Draining for Profit and Health 1 50 



Wa ring's Elements of Agriculture 1 00 



White's Cranberry Culture 1 25 



Wright's Practical Poultry-Keeper* 2 00 



A. N. BRENEMAN, Jr., 



MANUFACTUBEK OF 



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TOR FOB 



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DUNBAR'S 



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CHILD'S SHOES A SPEOIALTY. 



kutgspohd's 



iiiih 



U the BEST and MOST ECONOMICAL in the World. 

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 Is STRONGER than any other— requiring much less 



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 Is UNIFORM— stiffens and finishes work always the same. 



Eingsford's Oswego Corn Starch 



I.s the most deliciou.^ of uU prejiarations for 



PUDDINGS, BLANC-MANGE, CAKE, Etc. 



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J. STAUFFER, 



LANCASTER, i'ENN'A. 

 235 EAST ORANGE ST. 



Great Stock- Breeder's Monthly. 



^THE NATIONAL 



. LIVE-STOCK, 



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Pablished at 

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THIS GREAT MONTHLY is universally ackaowU 

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 Duriug the year 1877, Prof. Jahkb Law, the eminent 

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