Our Best Exchanges. 
Among the many Journals that we receive 
at our oliice we are pleased to mention the 
following as being particularly valuable in 
the special features to which they are devot¬ 
ed. Most ol 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 stor¬ 
ting merit and solid practical value. We have an un¬ 
interrupted tile of some 20 volumes and would not 
take first cost for them today. Weekly, $2.50 per 
rear. 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. 
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. 
The Prairie Farmer. A Weekly Journal for the 
v arm, Orchard and Fireside, is a large 8-page paper 
published at Chicago, Ill., at $2.00 per year. The va 
dous departments are well edited and the whole 
«xake-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 department,s 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 trie 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. Revoted to “Bees, and Honey, 
and Good will to Men." This should be in the hands 
of every one interested in Bee Culture, and its Horn© 
Department will be found worth more than the sub¬ 
scription price, $1.00 per year, to any person interest- 
ad in his own spiritual welfare. Sample copies free. j 
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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 interestirig*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 iD quality it has improved very much. It 
Is truly a practical paper for every farmer. ©2 a yr 
* The Poultry Monthly published by the Ferns Pub 
fishing 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 North American Review, should be read by 
every patriotic American citizen. Its numerous ar¬ 
ticles upon important topics connected with the so¬ 
cial, political and moral well-being of our people, 
make it pre-eminently the greatest exponent of our 
civilization. A series of articles upon the Pre-histor- 
ic Ruins of Mexico and Central America, by the em¬ 
inent French traveler and writer. Desire Charnay, 
has made the last year’s numbers doubly valuable, 
and will be continued from time to time. Published 
at No. 30, Lafayette Place, New York. 
The Western Plowman, published at Moline, Ill., 
comes to us filled to overflowing with seasonable Ag¬ 
ricultural and Literary matter of the highest order. 
It nas now leaciu d its’fourth number and if the pre¬ 
vious numbers a; e any index of the future we pre¬ 
dict for it a larpe subscription and a welcome in 
every farmer’s he me. 
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. 
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. 
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 
tioR and revenue as it offers iarge 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 everything pertaining to 
^Esthetic Agriculture. $2.10 per 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 Journal of the American Agricultural 
Association, 127 Water Street, N. Y., of which 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 and Stock 
Farm The Fuel Problem of the Treeless Plains. 
Farmers and the Tariff. Co-Operative Experiments 
wi h 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. 
The Household, published by George E. Crowell, 
Brattleboro, Vt., should be in every home. Seud fur 
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. 
