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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: 
The Country Gentleman properly stands at the 
head of the list of all agricultural journals for ster¬ 
ling merit and solid practical value. We have an un¬ 
interrupted file of some 20 volumes and would not 
take first cost for them today. Weekly, $2.50 per 
year. L. Tucker & Son, Publishers, Albany, N. Y. 
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. 
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 Prairie Farmer. A Weekly Journal for the 
Farm, Orchard and Fireside, is a large 8-page paper 
published at Chicago, Ill., 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 34 Park Row, 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 he does is done 
well and his Magazine proves it. 
The Botanical Index is the title of a handsome 
quarterly published by L. B. Case, Richmond, Ind,, 
who is interested in collecting rare and valuable 
plants from all parts of the Globe and uses these 
pages to illustrate and describe them. It is very in¬ 
teresting and instructive. 
The Farming World. We earnestly advise every 
man who reads for knowledge and works for money 
to at once send 80 cents for The Farming World, for 
1881 It is invaluable alike as a source of informa¬ 
tion and revenue as it offers large premiums to club- 
raisers. Address, The Farming World, Cincinnati, O. 
The Gardener’s Monthly and Horticulturist. 
Edited by Thos. Mehan. A 32-page Monthly Maga¬ 
zine for the Flower Garden. Pleasure Ground. Land¬ 
scape Gardening, Greenhouse, House Gardening, 
Forestry. Botany, Natural History and Science, Hor¬ 
ticultural Literature, and evetything pertaining to 
^Esthetic Agriculture. $2.10per year; Two new sub¬ 
scribers for $3.20; Five subscribers for $7; Single 
numbers, 18 cts. Address, Charles H. Marot, Publish¬ 
er, 814 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Pa. Try it a year. 
The Farm Journal, 144 North Seventh St,, Phila¬ 
delphia Pa. Monthly; 16 pages; 50 cents per year, 
or only 25 cents in clubs. If you are not acquainted 
with this Journal just send your name for a sample 
copy and I think you will become a subscriber. 
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. 
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. Weekly. 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. $2.00 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 writers, and they keep their columns filled with 
unusually interesting matters. $1.50 per year. 
The Weekly Witness. JohnDougal & Co., NeAv 
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 &c. 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. 
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. 
The Farmers’ Review, Chicago, Ill., walks right in 
every week, and with its pages of statistics from all 
over the country shows what the farmers are doing. 
It advocates “profitable agriculture, anti-monopoly 
and equal ttxation.” $1.00 a year, and well worth it. 
The Fi oral Instructor. The author of those 
pleasant floral articles signed “Mr. Itennie,” also 
edits a little monthly with the above title which will 
strive to keep us posted upon floral matters. It can 
be had by addressing the publishers, Spalding & Mc¬ 
Gill, Ainsworth, Iowa. 
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 Practical Farmer, Philadelphia, Pa., takes a 
front rank among the great agricultural weeklies. 
By the change in the management, it lost nothing in 
size, while in quality it has improved very much. It 
is truly a practical paper for every farmer. $2 a yr. 
The Farm and Garden is he title of a new monthly 
published at Philadelphia, Pa. John E. Reed is the 
edit or and its corps of contributors includes some of 
the ablest agricultural writers. Fifty cents a year, 
