1874.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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AT CRETE, NEB., LOOKING UP THE BIG ELITE VALLEY. 
IF YOU WANT A FARM OR HOME, 
YOJT SHOULD BUi" OF THE 
BURLINGTON AND MISSOURI RIVER RAILROAD 
CO. 
I1V IOWA OR NEBRASKA. 
BECAUSE— Their prices are low, ranging for the best land from Three to Tea Dollars per acre. 
BECAUSE— No payments are required of the purchaser for four years, except interest at six per cent. 
BECAUSE— After the fourth year only one seventh of the principal is payable annually till the whole.is paid. 
BECAUSE— Yon are not required to go into a wilderness, these being well-settled States, the population of which is rapidly increasing.? 
BECAUSE— The mildness of the climate and fertility of the soil is such that the settler can pay for his farm from the products raised upon it long before the time when the principal 
becomes due. 
BECAUSE— Failure of crops from drouth is unknown. 
BECAUSE— Large allowances are made upon fare and freight, thus giving low rates on both to purchasers of this Company's lands. 
ANI> YOU SHOULD BUY THIS YEAR. 
BECAUSE— Purchasers of our lands in Nebraska during 1871 who cultivate one-half their land within two years from their purchase are allowed a reduction of twenty per cent on its 
price. LARGE DISCOUNTS also, FOU CASII, within One, Two, or Five Years. 
By Send for Circulars, with full information on all points, to CEO- S. HARRIS, Land Commissioner, 
At Lincoln, Nebraska, for land in Nebrnska. At Burlington, Iowa, for land in Iowa. 
Or to W. D. COWLES, General Agent. 317 Broadway, New Turk. JAS. R. WOOD, General Agent, 50 Clark St., Chicago, 111. 
Established 1858. 
1EADE MAKE PATENTED. 
TIio best and cheapest Paint in the 
"world for Iron, Tin or Wood. For sale by 
the Trade everywhere. PRINCE'S METALLIC! 
1 J AINT CO., Manufacturers, 90 Cedar St., New York. 
CAUTION. — Purchasers and consumers are cau- 
tioned against imitations of our Metallic Paint. 
All genuine PRINCE'S METALLIC PAINT will 
bear our name and trade mark on each and every 
package. Send for a circular. 
YOUR HOUSE WITH THE 
NEW YORK ENAMEL PAINT 
AND SAVE 50 PEU CENT. 
White, Black, and all the other Shades, mixed 
ready for wse. 
Send for Sample Cards and Price-List. 
N. Y. Enamel Faint Co., 43 Chambers St.,lV.Y. 
BUILDING FELT. 
This water-proof material, resem- 
bling "fine leather, is for outside 
work (no tar substances used) and 
inside. Instead of plaster. Felt 
carpetlngB, etc. Send two 3-cent 
stamps for circular and samples. 
C. J. PAY, Camden, N.J. - 
ADVERTISERS should send to Geo. P, Howell & Co 
41 Park Row. N. Y., for their Eighty -pag& Pamphlet 
containing lists of 3,000 newspapers and estimates, Bhowlne 
the cost of advertising. Mailed free to all applicants 
Lake Superior and Mississippi R.R. 
Saint Paul, June, 1S7I. 
This Company has for sale large tracts of Land, In the 
vicinity of ils Railroad, ou which, are extensive wild 
Cranberry Marches, from which several Thou- 
sand Bushels were gathered In 1873. To any person 
acquainted with the culture of Cranberries, rare oppor- 
tunities are offered. Address 
JiXO. P. IliSLEY, 
President and Land COMHissiOOTSit. 
THE PEHN MUTUAL 
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 
OF 1 PHILADELPHIA. 
ASSETS ACCUMULATED, S4,437,996.9G. 
Tlir Penn is a purely mutual Company. All of Its surplus 
premiums are returned to the members every year. Divi- 
dends may be applied to reduce the premium or increase 
insurance as desired. SAH'L C. HUEY, I'n 1 -. 
General and Local Agents wanted in the Middle and West- 
ern States. Apply to H. S. STEPHENS, Vice Pics., No. 031 
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Pa. 
FIRE INSURANCE 
COMPANY, 
201 Broadway, N.Y. 
N8A0ARA 
Capital Stock.... . ... 
Cash value of Assets. 
Total Liabilities : 
1500,000 
.$1,808,234 
82,802 
Net Assets $1,225,023 
Dwellings and Farm Kisfcs a specialty at all our Agencies. 
HENRY A HOWE, President. 
P. NOTMAN, V. P. and Sec'y. 
"TrTMcflfD A "DTJV " A "«" '*>° t " a the «* <* 
Iji/JjVUilfAr III . Writing by Sound; a com- 
]>le(c system of Phonetic Short Hand — the shortest, most simple, 
easy, ami comprehensive, enabling any one, in a short time, to report 
trials, speeches, sermons, &c. The Lord's Prayer is written with 
forty -nine strokes of the pen, and I to words per minute. The unem- 
ployed should learn this art. Price, by mail, f>0 tits. Aeents wnnted. 
Address T. W. EVANS & CO.. 13'J S. Seventh Street, Phila., Pa. 
Mow to Make a Dollar or Two, 
Mornings and Evening;— near borne— with "GOOD 
Bl )t iKS FOR ALL." Send stamp for facts to S. R. WELLS, 
3S0 Broadway, New York. 
Every Farmer, 
Every Breeder, 
Every Horse-Owner 
His Own Farrier, 
Send for circulars to 
fiOOllENOUGII 
HORSE-SHOE, 
Box 3,044, P.O.. N.Y. 
Offices: 3* and 3G 
Elizabeth Street. 
ToiignccI.oHiiig; Bits. 
We make Bits to prevent the above bad habit. $2, $3, or 
$4, for cosh with order-or C. O. D. Hand-forged Bits made 
in any style to order. Patentees of the 
BALDWIN BIT, for side pullers and hard mouths. 
$2. $3. and $4. Also agents tor the 
MARTIN BIT. ^Sce adv. in "Turf, Field, and Farm," 
and " Wilkes' Spirit of the Times." 
JOS. BALDWIN & CO., Newark, N. J, 
New York" College of Veterinary Snrpons, 
INCORPORATED 1837. 
Lectures for ISM will commence about the middle of Octo- 
ber and continue until the last of February, 1875. 
Fees; Matriculation, $5; Faculty, $120 ; Graduation, $25; 
Dissecting;, $."> ; Address for Circulars, 
A. F. LIAUTARD, V.S., M.D., Sec'y. 
205 Lexington Ave., New York. 
1290 Piano. Circulars free. U.S. Piano Co. 810B*dway,N.Y. 
