"THE FARMER IS THE FOUNDER OF CIVILIZAT10N."-WEBSTER. 





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A MONTHLY NEWSPAPER 



DEVOTED TO 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY, DOMESTIC ECONOMY 

 AND GENERAL MISCELLANY. 



EDITED BY PROF. S. S. RATHVON 



VOLUME XVI.-1884. 



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LANCASTER, PA : 

 JOHN A. HIESTAND, PUBLISHER, 

 1884. 



