" THE FARMER IS THE FOUNDER OF CIV1LIZATI0N."-WEBSTER. 





A MONTHLY NEWSPAPER: 



DEVOTED TO 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY, DOMESTIC ECONOMY 



AND GENERAL MISCELLANY. 



EDITD BY PROF. S. S. RATHVON. 



VOLUME XIV.-1882. 



V. \4 



LA2f CASTER, PA. : 



JOHN A. HIESTAND, PUBLISHER. 



1882. 



