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Our Best Exchanges. 
Among the many Journals that we receive 
at our office we are pleased to mention the 
following as being particularly valuable in 
the special features to which they are devot¬ 
ed. Most of them are offered at reduced 
rates in our Clubbing List: 
Arthur’s Home Magazine, —T. S. ARTHUR & Son, 
Philadelphia, devoted to general literature, and the 
improvement of mankind, still holds its high rank 
and grows even better as it grows older. 
Demorest’s Monthly, devoted to Fashion, Art, and 
General Literature. Sustains its high character as 
the leading magazine of its kind. Every number is 
finely illustrated, and the beautiful and artistic pict¬ 
ures given with each number make it well worth the 
subscription price. It is $3.00 per year with a beauti¬ 
ful oil picture as premium to each subscriber, or $2.50 
without premium. 
Peterson’s Magazine. Chas. J. Peterson & Co., 
Philadelphia, comes again with its monthly greet¬ 
ing and is welcomed by all, the ladies especially. Its 
old and well known writers, as well as many new ones 
still fill its pages with choice matter while its fashion 
department is always up with the times and reliable. 
Lippincott’s Magazine. J. B. Lippincott, & Co., 
Philadelphia, is ever a welcome visitor. Filled to 
overflowing with choice literature, which is not of the 
ephemeral character of many of the so-called litera¬ 
ry magazines, he who has a year’s subscription has 
a real treasure to which he may refer with pride. The 
most noted writers of England and America contrib¬ 
ute to its columns, while the elegant illustrations that 
adorn its pages serve to render the text even more 
instructive,—if such a thing were possible. 
The Phrenological Journal. S. R. Wells, & Co., 
New York, ranks ahead of any other in America in 
its specialty. Each number contains a fine portrait 
of some gentleman of note, with an analysis of his 
character, and much other matter of interest to every 
one who would know himself. 
The Prairie Farmer. A Weekly Journal for the 
Farm, Orchard and Fireside, is a large 8-page paper 
published at Chicago, III., at $2.00 per year. The va¬ 
rious departments are well edited and the whole 
make-up shows that men of brains are in charge. 
The Rural New-Yorker still maintains its place in 
the front rank of Weekly Agricultural Journals. Its 
various departments are in charge of practical men 
and it now enjoys a greater popularity than ever. A 
highly prized feature is its experimental farm reports 
and its free seed distributions connected therewith. 
Publication office 78 Duane Street. New York. 
Vick's Monthly Magazine, Rochester, N. Y., devot¬ 
ed to Horticultural matters. Every number is finely 
illustrated with original engravings, and a choice col¬ 
ored plate each month is one of the attractions. Mr. 
Vick is a natural artist. Whatever lie does is done 
well and his Magazine proves it. 
The Gardener’s Monthly and Horticulturist. 
Edited by Thos. Melian and published by Charles H. 
Marot at Philadelphia Pa., at $2.10 per year. It gives 
full instructions in the science and practice of every 
branch of gardening. 
The American Cultivator. Boston, Mass. This 
is the oldest and best of the N. E. farm Journals. 
We know of no Agricultural journal of a higher 
standard or whose teachings are more reliable. 
Subscribers get their money’s worth every time. 
The Ladies’ Floral Cabinet is an elegant month¬ 
ly devoted to flowers and home adornment. Every 
lady should have it on her work-table. Published by 
Adams & Bishop, New York, N. Y.. who give splendid 
premiums to every subscriber. . 
Semi-Tropic California, monthly, Carter & Rice, 
Los Angeles, $1.50 per year, devoted to the agricultu¬ 
ral interests of the Golden State, is edited with the 
usual “snap” for which the great West is noted. 
The Housekeeper, Minneapolis, Minn., monthly, 75 
cents a year, is one of those rare good papers whose 
every number is worth the full year’s subscription 
price to every woman that is engaged in the laudable 
occupation of doing her own work. A most valuable 
department is that containing choice recipes for pre¬ 
paring all kinds of food, and all so plain that a child 
can understand. Our wife says it can’t be beat. 
The Herald of Health. Wood and Holbrook, 15 
Laight St.. New York. One of the oldest and best 
sustained health publications issued. Has an excel¬ 
lent corps of eminent writers who strive to elevate 
the mind as well as strengthen the bodies of mankind. 
Hall’s Journal of Health. New York. This pub¬ 
lication differs in the fact that it is composed entirely 
of short and concise editorial articles upon the most, 
common causes of loss of health, and best methods 
of regaining it. Ought especially to be read by the 
young. 
The American Bee Journal. Monthly. Thomas 
G. Newman & Son, Chicago. Ill. Established at Wash¬ 
ington D. C., in 1861, like the “Course of Empire” it 
westward took its way, and apparently lost nothing 
by the change. $1.50 per year. 
The Scientific News, published bi-weekly by Mr. 
S. H. Wales & Son, N. Y., should be in the hands of 
every mechanic. It is devoted to Science, Arts, In¬ 
ventions, Patents, Shop and Household economy. It 
is finely illustrated. $1.00 per year. 
Gleanings in Bee Culture, monthly, published by 
A. I. Root, Medina, O. Devoted to “Bees, and Honey, 
and Good will to Men.” This should be in the hands 
of every one interested in Bee Culture, and its Home 
Department will be found worth more than the sub¬ 
scription price. $1.00 per year, to any person interest¬ 
ed in his own spiritual welfare. Sample copies free. 
American Rural Home. A neatly printed and care¬ 
fully edited eight-page weekly published at Roches¬ 
ter N. Y. Its editors are not unknown to fame as lit¬ 
erary v riters, a nd they keep their columns filled with 
unusually interesting matters. $1.50 per year. 
The Weekly Witness. John Donga l & Co., New 
York. Contains News of the Day. Prices Current, 
Financial Reports. Spirit of the New York Daily Press. 
Home Department, General Correspondence, also 
Departments for Agriculture, Temperance, Sabbath 
School, Religious Reading. Stories Ac. It gives more 
reading matter than any other religious weekly. 
The Poultry Monthly, published by the Ferris Pub¬ 
lishing Co., Albany, N. Y., comes filled with every 
good thing pertaining to Poultry, Pigeons, Rabbits 
and other pets. Splendid in make-up and well-edited. 
$1.00 a year. Send for it. 
PURDY* S RE CORDER 
Best paper on fruit and flowers. SST’Specimen free. 
Speaks for itself. Address PURDY, of Palmyra, N. Y. 
Tell? in plain, simple language how to plant and grow 
all lands of Small Fruit for home and market; lion to 
make a Dry-House; profits of the business; sorts, with 
description; how to market; manures; crates; d i e: ■ 
ent plans for growing ; garden and market plans ; s<-ils. 
• prep aration, etc., etc. 64 pages pox paid for only 
’'""‘Postage stamps accepted. Also his Catalogue on 
16 pages, 
applicants. 
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