AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[February, 
Hundreds of 
Are Wasted Every Year 
For lack of facilities for marketing. Various 
processes and appliances for saying a portion 
of the crop by canning or drying are measur- 
ably successful. But those in use — some from 
their expensiveness, others because of the in- 
ferior quality of the product — are not so adapted 
to general use as to utilize one half of what 
might be turned to account. 
The American Fruit - Drier, 
Recently invented and patented, is the result of 
long experiment to secure an apparatus within 
the means of all fruit-growers, and yet adapted 
to the largest operations, which will turn out 
fruit unimpaired in its good qualities. 
As usually found in the market, a large pro- 
portion of dried fruit is of little value. It is 
flavorless, discolored, wormy, and unclean. 
Yet it sells. The people will have it. A good 
article brings good prices ; a superior article 
sells readily at higli prices. 
The American Fruit - Drier 
Combines the application of principles that se- 
cure the toest preparation of fruit yet accom- 
plished. 
It has been thoroughly tested with fruits of 
all kinds, and the products are pronounced by 
competent authorities, such as Thomas Meehan, 
editor of the Gardener's Chronicle, Prof. George 
Thurher, editor of the American Agriculturist, 
and others, to be of better qtfaliSy than 
assy yet exhibited. 
The construction of the American Fruit- 
Brier is such that all the sugar of the fruit is 
retained, its flavor is unimpaired, its color is of 
the most attractive brightness, it is kept entire- 
ly clean, and is, in short, just such dried fruit 
as everybody wants, and will command the 
readiest market at highest prices. 
How this is done will be shown hereafter. 
The American Fruit - Drier 
Is so simple in plan and in working, that any 
carpenter can make it, and any ordinary laborer 
operate it. Its capacity can be adapted to small 
or large operations. The ordinary family size 
will in favorable weather dry apples as fast as 
two persons can prepare the fruit. The cost is 
so moderate, that every farmer can profitably 
buy it to save the surplus product of his orchard 
or fruit-yard. 
Individual, Town, and County rights will be 
disposed of at rates which will enable the pur- 
chaser to do much good and make much money. 
For further particulars, address 
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examination, with the excellence of the apparatus and 
the trustworthiness of the company. 
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P. T. Q.XJHV0V, 
PRACTICAL HORTICULTURIST. 
tLLUSTRATEQ. 
If one wishes to raise pears intelligently, and with the 
best results, he must know first the character of his soil, the 
best mode of preparing it, the best varieties to select under 
existing conditions, the best mode of planting, pruning, 
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trees come into bearing, and finally, of gathering and pack- 
ing for market. 
The hope of furnishing practical information on all these 
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others the same lessons which years of practical experience 
have afforded him. 
Contents: 
Chap. I. Varieties. Chap. IX. Varieties to Plant. 
" II. Aspect. " X. Pruning. 
11 III. Preparation of " SI. Manuring and 
the Soil. Mulching. 
•' IV. Distance Apart " XII. Gathering Fruit. 
in Planting. " XIII. Marketing Pears. 
" V. Dwarfs and " XIV. Profits. 
Standards. " XV. Propagation, etc. 
" VI. Planting-Time. " XVI. Practical Sugges- 
" VII. Planting. tions. 
" VIII. Nursery Trees. " XVII. Orchard Record. 
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THE 
HUNTER MB TRAPPER. 
HALSEY THRASHER, 
AH EXPERIENCED HUNTER. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
This little book will be read with interest by all who 
would find instruction and entertainment in the narrative 
of an old hunter's experience. The following, from the 
author's Preface, will give an idea of the character and 
design of the work : 
" I am a blacksmith by trade, but when I was a boy I 
became fond of a gun and a trap, and my first success in. 
my shop was to make a steel trap. It was my aim to 
become an expert trapper, and I tried my hand at catch- 
ing foxes. 
II Many a dollar have I paid to cunning old men to learn 
the art, and I have succeeded pretty well, too ; but why 
has not some man of experience written a book explain- 
ing the art of successfully trapping the different kinds of 
fur animals ? I propose to tell the boys how to do it 
II I have studied the nature and habits of animals of 
different species, and a plan that was good to capture the 
otter, the mink, and the beaver, forty years ago, is just 
as good now as then. The nature of animals doesn't 
change like the nature of men ; we have grown wiser, 
while they have remained the same. The mode of cap- 
turing them when I was a boy, and the way used now, 
may be put together, and succeed better than cither one 
alone. 
" Men are traveling through the country selling reclpea 
at a high price to teach how to dress skins. I propose in 
this work to teach all these things, so that a man may 
have them in a neat little volume for reference at any 
time. I shall also treat upon angling for the trout, the 
bass, and the pickerel, which I think I understand. I 
hope to make it all so plain that even the inexperienced 
will, in sonic measure, succeed." 
CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I.— Deer Hunting. 
CHAPTER H— How to Catch the For. 
CHAPTER m.— How to Hunt and Catch the Beaver. 
CHAPTER rV.-How to Catch the Otter. 
CHAPTER V.— How to Catch the Mink. 
CHAPTER VI. -How to Hunt and Catch the Muskrat. 
CHAPTER VII.-How to Catch the Marten. 
CHAPTER VHI.— How to Catch the Fisher. 
CHAPTER IX.— How to Catch the Raccoon. 
CHAPTER X.— How to Hunt and Trap the Bear. 
CHAPTER XI.— How to Hunt and Trap the Wolf. 
CHAPTER XII.— How to Trap the Pocket Gopher. 
CHAPTER XHI.— FishingfbrTront, Pickerel, andBass. 
CHAPTER XIV.— How to Hunt the Honey Bee. 
CHAPTER XV.— Hints About Skot-Guus and Rifles. 
CHAPTER XVI. -Traps. 
CHAPTER XVII.— Dressing and Tanning Skins and 
Furs. 
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