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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[July, 1882. 



best express its size by stating tbat it is a 12 by 15 

 demi folio, of 58 pages, including the covers, and 

 has three columns of beautifully printed matter to 

 the page. We think it can " atford to stay," from 

 the fact that this number contains 210 advertise- 

 ments, 200 of which are embelished with illustra- 

 tions executed in the finest style of wood ena-raving, 

 and that a number of these are full page advertise- 

 ments, all relating to milling and machinery con- 

 nected with milling and its corelalives. To any per- 

 son, or any company making milling and grain- 

 dealing a specialty, this journal would be a perfect 

 vade mecuiH, at least within the realm of its circula- 

 tion, if not beyond it. Thirty-three cards appear 

 under the heading ".Mills (or Sale." Twenty-two 

 " Flour and Commission Cards." Eifjhteen "Miscel- 

 laneous Notices;" thirty -eight under the head of 

 " Wanted ;" ninety-four " News Items " from mills, 

 ranging I'rom one line to fifty, in addition to which 

 the ".Minneapolis Budget" alone contains oyer forty . 

 Special notices seven, business notices eleven, editorial 

 notes twenty-eight, besides ten half column to whole 

 column editorial papers. The "New Mills Items" 

 number one hundred and seventy-one; "Foreign 

 Milling News " twenty ; " Canadian " do twenty-two ; 

 "Scientific and Practical," seventeen. Notes and 

 Queries, twenty-eight, bringing the number up to 1.36 

 since the beginning of tht* present volume ; " Chan- 

 ges," yt/^iZ-sey^H ; list of "new patents," thirty-five, 

 from April 25th to May 33rd, 1882. Besides com- 

 munications, extracts from proceedings of miller's 

 associations, notes on steam-power, descriptions of 

 mill machinery, mill factories, analysis of grains ; 

 " trade gossip," observations on new patent milling 

 aparatus, discussions of questions connected with 

 milling, improvements, buildings, experiments, ex 

 pressions of opinions, quotations from old inventors, 

 corrections, &c., &c. We have been thus minute in 

 scanning the contents of this journal (only limited 

 for want of time and space) because milling is so in- 

 timately connected with good bread, which is literally 

 the "staff" of physical life; and more of man's 

 physical and moral health is involved in good bread 

 than the world at large seems to apprehend, nor can 

 it be too soon enlightened thereon. 



American Silk and Fruit Culturist. It may 

 have been a dictate of wisdom in tying these two 

 domestic interests together in one enterprise, for it 

 seems clear that the first named is not yet able to 

 stand alone, having never fully recovered from the 

 attack of J/H?(»caui'<s of five and forty years ago. 

 No. 1, Vol. 1, of this lively little 32 page S vol., is 

 before us, and we bid it "God Speed," for the inter- 

 ests it represents, ought to be croA'ned with success, 

 especially in a country claiming to be "free and in- 

 dependent." Published by Campbell & Pepper, 

 1328 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, at $1.00 a year, 

 monthly, devoting itself exclusively to the industrial 

 interests included in its title. In the silk department 

 It seems to be the organ of the "Women's Silk-Cul- 

 ture Association of the United States," and as the 

 representative of Wta( alone, it ought to receive the 

 encouragement of all who wear silk in any form 

 whatever. The quality of the material and typo- 

 graphy are "A No. 1," and its silk and fruit litera- 

 ture are able and practical. When we reflect that 

 for the fiscal j'ear ending with June, 1880, we impor- 

 ted from abroad raw silk to the value of 111,088,822, 

 Cocoon and waste silk, §1,206,806; and manufac- 

 tured silk, $30,596,.509, making an aggregate of §13, 

 492,137, we cannot help concluding that we are mis- 

 sing one opportunity to participate in one of the 

 greatest domestic trades that characterized human 

 civilization. Silk culture to become a permanent 

 success must be conducted on an economical and 

 wide expanding basis, and on limited scales — it 

 must become the occupation of the "common peo 

 pie," and the people must subscribe for a silk jour 

 nal, pay for it and read it, before an intelligent be- 

 ginning can be made, and a profitable result attain- 

 ed. We gather from the report of the Woman's 

 Silk Culture Association, that cocoons are worth 

 from ?1.50 to $2.50 per pound, (pierced ones $1.10), 

 and egga from $4.00 to $5.00 per ounce, and as soon 



as a eu/ficient number of such "depots" are estab- 

 lished the thrift of the business will begin. Having 

 such a representative journal uS the one which is the 

 subject of this notice, the silk producers of our 

 country will be provided with a solid staff that will 

 bear them on to a successful issue. Although we 

 do not expect to live long enough to see its crowning 

 success, yet that loill eventually eome. 



OuB Home and Science Gossip. — A sixteen- 

 page royal quarto, published monthly, at Rockford, 

 111., at $1.00 per annum, by Andruk Illiogworth. 

 No. 6 vol. 6 (June, 1882,) has been laid on our table 

 and is a specially interesting and instructive number 

 including in its scope, practical science, poetry and 

 general literature, in their most latitudinal applica- 

 tion. Printed in fair type, on tinted paper and 

 worthy the patronage of an intelligent public. 



The Iron Hall. — " One thousand dollars safe in 

 seven years." A demi-folio monthly, devoted to the 

 interests of a secret beneficial organization, called 

 " The Order of the Iron Hall," Indianapolis, Indiana, 

 May 15, 18S2, vol. 1, No. 11. The details of this 

 publication is very similar to those given in our June 

 number, noticing the " Banner of Chosen Friends," 

 which need not be repeated here. If any of our 

 readers desire to " take stock " in these associations 

 they had better seud for a representative number. 



Progress, published by the State Sunday School 

 Committee, Boston, Massachusetts, at twenty-five 

 cents per annum, monthly. This is a demi-folio of 

 eight pages, and contains a large amount of practical 

 matter on the organization and conduct of Sunday 

 schools. 



The Sidereal Messenger. — A monthly review 

 of astronomy, in ten numbers annually, at §2.00, 

 and is the only periodical in the United States de- 

 voted exclusively to popular astronomy, conducted 

 by Wm. W. Payne, Director of the Carleton College 

 Observatory, Northfield, Minnesota .No. 4, vol. 1 of 

 this splendidly printed octavo magazine of thirty- 

 four pages in tinted covers, has been placed on our 

 table, and we call the special attention of our " Star 

 Club " to it, as in every way worthy of their liberal 

 patronage, and in which they may realize that — 

 " The voice that rolls the stars along 

 Speaks all the promises." 

 The material and typographical execution are unex- 

 ceptionally good, and the contributions and editorial 

 notes all that a practical " star-gazer " could desire. 

 It will be observed that this is a new claimant of 

 public patronage, and there is a freshness and vigor 

 about it which indicates that it has " come to stay." 

 We hope the votaries of the beautiful science of as- 

 tronomy may manifest an appreciative sense of its 

 worth by a liberal patronage of the enterprise. 



Proceedings of a convention of agriculturists 

 held in the department of agriculture, January 10th 

 to 18th, 1882, Washington, D. C. 204 pp. octavo. 

 Report upon the condition of winter grain, and upon 

 the condition of farm animals of the United States, 

 April 1883, 82 pp. octavo. Florida — its climate, soil, 

 productions, and agricultural capabilitits, 1882. 98 

 pp. octavo. Report upon the acreage and condition 

 of cotton, the condition of all cereals, and the area 

 of spring grain. 15 pp. octavo; and report upon the 

 condition of winter grain, the progress of cotton and 

 corn planting, the rate of wages and labor, and re- 

 sults of the draining. 20 pp., octavo. All neatly and 

 uniformly printed bulletins, issued by the depart- 

 ment of agriculture, and all containing many items 

 of solid information, and also much that has no value 

 except in a local sense, and then only to those who 

 read and heed. 



Eleventh report of the State Entomologist, on 

 the Noxious and Beneficial Insects of the State of 

 Illinois, being the Sixth Annual Report by Prof. 

 Cyrus Thomas, Ph. D., State Entomologist. This is 

 an octavo of 104 ptiges, with title page and index, 

 and without the usual illustrations. Prof. Thomas 

 has valuable aid in the State through the entomolo- 

 gical labors of Mr. D. W. Coquillett, of Woodstock, 

 111., who contributes largely to this report; also in 

 Prof. G. H. French, who contributes the second part 

 of the report. 



The report is mainly confined to new phases of old 

 insects— subjects] heretofore described, but have 

 since developed some new characteristic features in 

 their histories, for instance, Hellothis Armigera as a 

 boll-worm, a corn-worm, a tomato worm, etc., 

 showing its flexibility'of character, and its [adapta- 

 tion of means to ends. Two years ago we bread this 

 insect from larva sent to us from Spring Garden In 

 Lancaster.county, where it was'.feeding on tobacco 

 plant. We do not know that it was plentiful, but 

 we have had its existence as a feeder on the tobacco 

 plant and its species, identified by competent authori- 

 ties outside of our own experience. We acknowl- 

 edge the receipts of this report^with thanks for this 

 and many other favors extended to>s by thej State 

 Entomologist of Illinois. 



The Ladies Floral Cabinet," for July 1883. A 

 large royal embellished quarto of 22 pages; a true 

 "Pictorial Home Companion," devoted to the flower 

 garden, and polite and domestic literature, New- 

 York, §1.35 a year. This journal is gotten up in the 

 highest style of typographic, pictorial and. literary 

 art, and worthy the patronage of at least the women 

 of our country. 



The Sugar Beet, devoted to the cultivation and 

 utilization of the Sugar Beet, 3rd year, No. 2, Phila- 

 delphia, May, 1882, price 50 cents per annum. This 

 excellent quarterly quarto seems to have come to 

 stay, and abates not in its faith in the ultimate suc- 

 cess of the Sugar Beet industry in the United States; 

 and from the fact that 38,666 pounds of Sugar Beet 

 seed valued at $4,165 had been imported into the 

 United States in ISSl, we have reason to belieye 

 that the people are cultivating an abiding, although, 

 perhaps, a somewhat tardy faith in it. Slow but 

 sttre is considered a normal progress. 



We have just received a " Pamphlet of Pot- 

 grown AND Later Strawberry Plants," with 

 instructions for their cultivation, and for sale by J. 

 T. LoTctt, Monmouth Nursery, Little Silver, Mon- 

 mouth county, New Jersey, for the Summer and 

 Autumn of 1883. Six pages octavo, with a beautiful 

 illustration of the Manchester Strawberry, natural 

 size, in colors, including an announcement of the 

 Hansall Raspberry, two varieties of small fruits that 

 have received the endorsement of some of the most 

 prominent fruit-growers of New Jersey, New Tork 

 and Pennsylvania, after the most thorough and 

 practical tests. We somehow never have too much 

 of either of these fruits in our markets, nor yet of 

 too good a quality or too low in price, and as it is to 

 the interest of the producer as well as the consumer, 

 to have good prolific and hardy varieties of these 

 fruits, we believe it would be to the advantage of 

 both if our fruit growers were to extend their in- 

 quiries in the direction above indicated. For further 

 particulars we would suggest that thej send for 

 catalogues, especially as the proprietor offers pamph- 

 lets post free to all. 



State, District and Countv Fairs. — We have 

 received a copy of the Premium List — 60 pages 

 octavo— of the Thirtieth Indiana State Fair, profuse- 

 ly embellished, and in tinted covers. We always re- 

 ceive similar documents from Indiana, Illinois, Kan- 

 sas, Ohio, and elsewhere, long before we receive any- 

 thing of the kind from Pennsylvania. The book also 

 contains a diagram of the Indiana State fair grousds, 

 and a map of the State, illustratiBg its entire railroad 

 system. Perhaps there is no city in the Union that 

 i8 60 central in its State, as the City of Indinnapolis, 

 nor none that has more railroads ramifying its entire 

 domain. The list is large and the premiums liberal, 

 with a department especially for boys and girls under 

 sixteen years of age, together with a large list of 

 " special premiums" from outside enterprising busi- 

 ness houses. Indiana certainly has some faith In 

 tlie uses of fairs to stimulate progress in agriculture. 

 She advertises 56 county fairs for 1882, between Au- 

 gust 8th and October 11th. Also, 18 district fairs in 

 the State, and one great general fair. The diagram 

 of the fair-grounds looks like a clever town, having 

 about thirty buildings for the accommodation of the 

 various exhibits. About one-half of the enclosure is 

 devoted to a race-course. That is a feature in agri- 

 cultural exhibitions that seems indispensable almost 

 everywhere, and the idea is to improve It, and not 

 abolish it. 



