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Among the many Journals that we receive 
it 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 
lake first cost for them today. Weekly, $2.50 per 
Fear. L. Tucker & Son, Publishers, Albany, Is. 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 Avell 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 jiride. 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 
<iake-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 enjoj-s 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. 
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 par 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 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 tanner. a yr. 
The Farm and Garden is ihe tide of a new monthly 
published at Philadelphia, Pa. Jotm E. Reed is the 
editor and its corps of contributoi-s includes some of 
the ablest agricultural writers. Fifty cents a year, 
The Household, published by George E. Crowell, 
Brattleboro, Vt., should be in every home. Send for 
a specimen and you will certainly subscribe for your 
wife. 
Farm and Fireside, Springfield, O., continues to 
be a welcome visitor to thousands of farms and fire¬ 
sides and loses nothing by age. 50 cents a year with 
valuable premiums to clubs. 
The Maryland Farmer, published by Ezra Whit¬ 
man, Baltimore, Md., at $1.00 per year is worth five 
times its cost to any farmer. Try it. 
The Journal of the American Agricultural 
Association, 127 Water Street, N. Y.. of which J. H. 
Reall, is editor is a new publication that bids fair to 
take a high rank. Each number contains about 200 
pages filled with choice articles. The last number 
contains, A Description of a Model Dairy aud Stock 
Farm. The Fuel Problem of the Treeless Plains. 
Farmers and the Tariff. Co-Operative Experiments 
with Fertilizers. Agricultural Education for the 
Young. The Railroad and the Farmer, etc. Price, 
$2.00 a year, 
The American Farmer, published by Samuel 
Sands & Son, Baltimore, Md., is one of the oldest and 
best Rural Magazines in America. It will be pub¬ 
lished hereafter semi-monthly, and at $1.50 per year 
is well worth its cost. 
City and Country, is the new title of the Western 
Home Journal, whose advertisement appears in 
another place. 
The North American. Review, edited by Allen 
Thorndike Rice, at No. 30 Lafayetta Place, N. Y.. 
is an epitome of American thought well worthy of 
consideration of every citizen of the United States. 
The January number contains five articles upon the 
Moral Responsibility of the Insane, by Drs. Elwell, 
Beard, Segain, Folsom and Jewell. The New Politi¬ 
cal Machine, bj r William Martin . Dickson; Shall 
Woman Practice Medicine, by Dr. Mary Putnam 
Jacobi, and other articles by prominent writers 
whose writings are word^ of wisdom. Indeed the 
writers without exception are men eminently com¬ 
petent for the tasks assigned them, while of the 
subjects discussed, there is not one that doe* not 
possess a living interest. Every lover of his country 
should read it. 
The Poultry Monthly published by the Ferris Pub¬ 
lishing G’o., 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 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. 
American Agriculturist. We consult the 
best good of our readers in recommending 
them to now secure the valuable and important 
information and most interesting reading matter 
including a Thousand or more of pleasing and in¬ 
structive Engravings and sketches, that can be ob¬ 
tained at trifling expense in the American Agricul¬ 
turist. This is not merely a farm and garden Journal, 
but is very useful to every House-keeper and to every 
houseliould in Village and Country. It has an enter¬ 
taining and useful department for the little ones. 
It is a journal that pays to take and read Try it. 
