"THE FARMER IS THE FOUNDER OF CIVILIZATION.'-WEBSTER. 



The Liancaster Farmer, 



A MONTHLY NEWSPAPER: 



DEVOTED TO 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY, DOMESTIC ECONOMY 



AND GENERAL MISCELLANY. 



EDITED BY PROF. S. S. RATHVON. 



VOLUME XII-1880. 





LANCASTER, PA.: 

 JOHN A. HIESTAND, PUBLISHER. 

 1880. 



