II, 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



A C/^NVASSER W^TED 



IN 



EVERY TOWNSHIP IN THE COUNTY 



TO TAKE 



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FOR THE 



Farmers' Sons and other 



Young Men during their 



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CAN MAKE 



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We want a thorough canvass of every 



district, and will pay canvassers 



liberally. 



Address, 



L. EATHVON, Publislier, 



LANCASTER, PA. 



l!2^~S^>ecial auil business uotices l.i L-euts yer line 



GOOD BOOKS 



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Farm, Garden, and Household. 



The foliowmg is .i list of Vuluuble Buuk-,, which u'lU be 

 supplied by the Editor of the Lakcaster Farmer, No. 

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 be sent po^t paid to auy of our read-jvs ou receipt of the 

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Alleu's (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 



Boramer'9 method of Making Manures 25 



Breck's New Book of t lowers 1 75 



Brill's Fami-Gardeuiug and Seed-Growing 100 



Dadd's Modern Horse Doctor, ]2nso I 50 



Dadd's American Cattle Doctor, 13 mo 1 50 



Flax Culture, (SeveuPrize Essays by practical growers,) 30 



Fuller's Grai e CuUurist 150 



Fuller's Small Fruit Culturiat 1 5fl 



Fulton's Peach Culture 1 50 



Gregory ou Squashes paper . .' 30 



Harris ou the Pig 150 



Heudersou'9 Gardening for Pleasure 150 



Henderson'.^ Gardening for Profit 1 50 



Henderson's Practical Floriculture 1 50 



Herbert's Hiuts to Horse-Keepers ., 1 T5 



Hop Culture. By nine experienced cultivatore 30 



Hunterand Trajiper 100 



Onions— How to Raise them Profitably 20 



Our Farm of Four Acras. Pa., 30c.; Clo., 60c., Ex. clo. 1 00 



Parsons on the Rose 1 50 



Quiiiliys Mysteries of Bee-Keeping 1 50 



Quiucy (Hon. .Josiah) on Soiling Cattle 1 25 



Quiiin'si Money iu the Garden 1 50 



Quiuu's Pear Culture for Profit, 1<^ 



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



Roe's Play and Profit iu my Garden 1 50 



Stewart's Irri^jaton for the Farm, Garden ^nd Orchard I 50 



Stew^trt's StablH Book 1 50 



Stewart "i* Shepherd's Manual 1 50 



Stoddiird's Ann Kgg Farm paper, 50 cts.; cloth 75 



Thomas's Farm Implemeuts and Machiuery 150 



Tim Bunker Papers, or, Yankee Farming 1 oo 



Tobacco Culture. By fourteeu exi>erienced cultivators. 2-5 



Wariu^''s Draining tor Profit aud Heahh ; 1 50 



Wariug's Elements of Agriculture 1 00 



White's Cranberry Cidture 1 25 



Wright's Practical Poultry-Keeper* 2 0I> 



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iiiitiii II fifiifs, 



LANCASTER, i'ENN'A, 

 23S EAST ORANGE ST. 



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 carrying print but- 

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9-5-ly 149 North Queeu-at., Lancaster, Pa. 



