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ESTABLISHED 1855 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY 



The Great Dollar Weekly Agricultural Journal 

 of the Country 



It points back through 38 years of 

 continuous publication for 

 the reason why it 

 is here. 



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It points to the following 

 reasons why it should continue to be 

 here, and why you should subscribe for it: 



FIRST. — It is closer to its readers than an}- other agricultural journal. 

 Three of its departments are maintained exclusively by contributions from 

 its subscribers. Each of these departments is conducted on a distinctive 

 line, under the control of a competent and experienced editor. In addi- 

 tion to these, the largest portion of the " Home Circle " is devoted to the 

 publication of letters from farmers' wives and children. So that, through 

 these four departments, the P. F. comes into direct contact with the thoughts 

 and experiences of several thousands of its subscribers each year. In those 

 three departments, Fifteen Dollars are awarded for the best seven com- 

 munications published in each issue. 



SECOND. — The P. F., as the aggressive pioneer of the agricultural 

 papers, has inaugurated Specialty Agricultural Journalism. That is, some 

 one topic relating to the farm, such as the cultivation of Corn, or Wheat, or 

 Potatoes, the use of Fertilizers, etc., will form the subject for a single issue, 

 and that issue will be devoted to articles on that topic. The advantage of 

 such specials is that they concentrate in a single issue the obtainable infor- 

 mation on a single subject, making that particular special an authority on 

 the subject chosen. And this information is the experience of our practical 

 farmer readers, and their opinions deduced therefrom. In 1892 we pub- 

 lished specials on Fertilizers, Wheat, Corn, Hay, Potatoes, the Extermina- 

 tion of the Canada Thistle and Queries, besides our regular Mid-Summer, 

 Thanksgiving and Mid-Winter Specials. < In 1893 our specials will include 

 Mid-Winter, Fertilizer, Garden, Grass, Dairy, Mid-Summer, Thanksgiving, 

 and such other specials as we may think will be useful to our subscribers. 



THIRD. — We believe in giving our subscribers the best that can be 

 found. In furtherance of this idea we engaged the exclusive services of 

 Mr. T. B. Terry for the P. F. He writes for no other paper or magazine. 

 Mr. John Gould, the practical dairy expert, has exclusive control of our 

 Dairy Department, and has made it the strongest one in the country. Our 

 Editorial Staff takes in besides these, the names of the strongest and best 

 known writers in the country. Such men as Dr. Peter Collier, T. Greiner, 

 Wm. Falconer, Galen Wilson and John E. Read, of New York; Waldo F. 

 Brown and J. McLain Smith, of Ohio ; Dr. A. L. Kennedy and Joseph 

 Meehan, of Pennsylvania; J. M. Smith, of Wisconsin ; Benj. F. Johnson 

 and John M. Stahl, of Illinois; Prof. W. F. Massey, of North Carolina ; 

 C. E. Caldwell, of Louisiana; G. H. Turner, of Mississippi ; Hon. Warren 

 Brown, of New Hampshire, are known throughout the country as clear and 

 entertaining, writing of their actual experiences and experiments in the 

 field, stable, dairy and laboratory, write regularly for our columns. 



FOURTH. — So far as legislation can favorably affect the surroundings 

 of the farmer and better his condition, we shall vigorously insist in our edi- 

 torial columns on the duty of Congress and the State Legislatures to put 

 necessary measures into laws. While our editorial columns will at all times 

 be devoted to an aggressive championship of his interests, our great aim 

 will be to lead our readers to practice a more intelligent, systematic and 

 thorough system, by which their crops and flocks may be increased, and a 

 greater return be obtained from the same expenditure of capital and labor than 

 is possible under the conditions at present existing on the majority of farms. 



FIFTH.— The two departments devoted to answering questions— Vet- 

 erinary and Queries— are complete. Dr. Bridge, who has charge of the Veter- 

 inary Department, is one of the leading veterinarians of the State. All ques- 

 tions on farm practice are answered in the Query Department by our best wri- 

 ters, the questions, as far as possible, being assigned to gentlemen livinginthe 

 section where the information will apply, thus making it of the highest value. 



SIXTH.— Under the careful editorial supervision of Mrs.Velma C. Mel- 

 ville, the " Home Circle" Department is one of the most instructive and 

 interesting in the P. F. Of course it is specially designed for the wives and 

 children of the P. F. family, but has proven just as attractive to the majority 

 of the husbands and fathers. 



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We may say that the three P's 



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have placed the P. F. at the 

 head. Nothing that money 

 and enterprise could procure 

 has been omitted to make it a 

 power among the agencies 

 that are elevating Modern 

 Agriculture to a higher plane. 

 The past few years have been 

 notable ones in the develop- 

 ment of Industrial America. 

 The spirit of progress was 

 never more aggressive than 

 now. While Agriculture has 

 shared in this advancement, 

 it has fallen far behind its 

 possibilities. As the P. F. 

 has labored in the past for the 

 advancement of this basic 

 industry, so it will continue 

 to do in the future. 



The Farmer Co. 



Pubs, of The Practical Farmer, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



P. O. BOX 1317. 



