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THE ORNITHOLOGIST AND BOTANIST. 



ORNITHOLOGIST ^BOTANIST. 



A MONTHLY 



Devoted to Nature and Poultry. 



published by the 

 Ornithologist and Botanist Publishing Co. 

 Patteeson, Vance & Co., P't'rs, 410 Locust St. 



Articles on subjects of interest to Naturalists 

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Ornithologist and Botanist. 

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VOL. n. JULY, 1891. NO, 6, 



EDITORIAL. 



We wish to start a Geolog-ical department 

 in the O. & B. next month. We would have 

 done it this month but we were short of 

 Oeological MSS. 



In making an exchange we have received 

 about four hundred paper backed novels, 

 all good and interesting, by good authors. 

 These we will give to the first four hundred 

 who send in twenty cents for one years sub- 

 scription. 



Fill out the voting coupon on first page 

 (if this cover and send it back, and the per- 

 son in whose favor the most of these are 

 made <iut, will receive a roundtrip ticket to 

 to San Fiaiicisco, New York, New Orleans 

 (.iv ^Montreal, the second a roundtrip ticket 

 to Cincinatti, Chicago, Denver or St Louis, 

 and to the third a Kodak camera. Papers 



are already in demand, but we have reser- 

 ved a limited number to fill orders with. 

 We will sell copies containing the coupons 

 as long as they last for$2.50 per 50 or$-1.50 per 

 100. This is your chance to get a free trip 

 to the " end of the world " and back. 

 Prizes awarded September 1st, 1892. Order 

 extra copies early. 



If yon have poultry, pets, stock or speci- 

 mens that you wish exhibited at the Iowa 

 State Fair,, and cannot come to attend to 

 it your self we ^ill do it for you and sell the 

 stock to if desired. Write stating particu- 

 lars of stock and amount and we will give 

 terms. 



Auction sale next month. Every body is 

 requested to bid, for the articles advertised 

 in the auction columns. If you are the 

 highest bidder you get the stock without 

 extra charge, i. e., no commission is charged 

 for buying. If you have any thing to sell 

 and wish to put it up at auction you can do 

 so Free of charge, if you are a subscriber, if 

 not 10 per cent is charged, if sold, deducted 

 from the highest bid. 



We see that Mr. Lattin of Albion N. Y. 

 has discontinued his blucle list. We are 

 sorry for this for there are as many frauds 

 in this as in the philatelic field, but if Mr. 

 L. accepts the advice t)f this paper, he will 

 be sure that what he says is so. and avoid 

 ambigous experiments. Two Des Moines 

 parties one a former editor of this paper 

 and and the other a friend of the present 

 management, could make Mr. L. consider- 

 able trouble for slander. We know that 

 he was not authorized to publish what he 

 did: and the statement was entirely false. 

 This we are prepared to prove. Please look 

 into the matter Bro. L. and right the wrong 

 you have done, as far as possible. 



F. Leon Englebert, alias W. B. Thomp- 

 son, alias Miss Amelia Williams, et al. has 

 left Des Moines for the city of brotherly 

 love where he is permanently located. 



If this is a sample copy to^you please send 

 us 20c. for a years subscription. 



All poultry men are personally requested 

 to write up a few notes and observations 

 for publication in this paper. The notes 

 you may write may seem of little import- 

 ance to you but to those who don't know 

 about it they would prove valuable. Don't 

 be selfish and keep those things to your 

 self but give the fraternity the benefit of 

 your observations. You will be .benefited 

 by those of others. 



We have a recipe for making water proof 

 tent covers, blankets, etc., which will be pre- ■ 

 sented to the readers of the ORinTHOLO- 

 GisT AND Botanist in the near future. 

 Also several other valuable recipes, not one 

 of which you can afford to be without. We 

 would be pleased to recieve any recipes, you 

 have come across, that are of any advant- 

 age to poultry men or naturalists This 

 paper is going "to benefit its subscribers in 

 every way it can. Is not this a good plan. 



