j^rcp>\Ve will mail The PhFadelphia Weekly 
™ t RIBUNE and FARMER, every week, for 
three whole months, on trial , to any address, on 
re<‘eipt of only 12 cents in stamps to pay postage 
on 12 consecutive numbers, published weekly, 
nr for ‘wenty-five cents, silver o- stamps, we will 
mail the TRIBUNE and FARMER every week 
f >i- G months. To anyone sending us a club of four 
twenty five cent subscriptions, we will send a 
premium of Silver-plated war", honest, dura hie, 
OOds, strictlyfirst-class in quality. Regular price, 
SI.00 a year. Established. 12 years. 
HOW FARMERS ARE 
WINDLED! 
A series of articles written expressly for our col- 
ums by a Metropolitan daily paper reporter, show¬ 
ing up the ingenious methods devised by cunning 
ra cals to swindle honest farmers by bogus com¬ 
mission merchants, bogus horse and stock auc¬ 
tions, swindling seed and stock advertisements, 
tree peddlers, etc. 
col o. o. ?. mmm 3 
Founder, and for twenty-five years, editor of 
Moore’s Rural New-Yorker , is the agricultural 
editor of the TRIBUNE and FARMER, and con¬ 
ducts the best and liveliest agricultural depart¬ 
ment to be found in any weekly newspaper in 
this country. Special writers on Small Fruits, 
Market Gardening, Horticultural Matters, Agri¬ 
cultural Machinery, with a list of Agricultural 
Inventions weekly, Philadelphia Market Reports, 
Answers to Correspondents, &c., &c. 
AUNT ADDIE 
Gives young housekeepers and young mothers 
good advice in her letters to the Household Depart¬ 
ment. Regular letters from “Aunt Eva,” “May- 
belle,” “Jennie’Joslyn,” “Mrs. Geo. Caswell,” and 
a score of regular correspondents. 
The Ladies’ and Household De¬ 
partment, under the charge of Mrs. Louisa 
Knapp, devotes one whole page to Household 
Matters every week and is “Just Splendid.” Every¬ 
thing bright and original, no stale receipts. Prac¬ 
tical hints for Housekeepers, How to Dress Well 
and Economically, How to Entertain Comnany, 
Wholesome Advice to Young Girls, How to Care 
fof Children, How to Knit, Crochet and do alV 
kinds of Fancy Work, How to take Care of the 
Sick, All the Latest Fashions. 
The best of American Humorists, 
is a regular contributor, and his letters are to be 
found only in our columns. Youth’s Column is 
complete, with stories of adventure by land and 
sea. Puzzles and Home Amusements.* 
Detective .Sketches, exposing all city sharp¬ 
ers, frauds and him bugs. Our Rome Stories, 
several every week, are complete, and selected 
from the pens of well-known writers. 
To every yearly subscriber sending us SI.00, our 
regular price, for a years subscription, we will 
send at once, an elegant Silver-plated Sugar 
Spoon and Butter Knife, warranted to be oi the 
toes! quality, triple plated on white steel, no 
cheap trash. ’ For io yearly subscrip¬ 
tions, ordered direct from tMs advertisement, 
we will send a handsome American stem 
winding’ watch, warranted first-class time 
keeper. 
m TIP p A TQ17DQ WANTED. Forlarg- 
(jJjU b Iv AlobKo est (lubs to July 1st, 
either six mouths or yearly subscriptions, with or 
without premiums, we give away an elegant 
Rosewood Piano, a large Cabinet 
Organ, Silk Dress, Gold Watch, Sewing Ma¬ 
chine, and numerous other premiums. Send for 
yearly subscription and sample premiums to work 
with. Mention this paper, and be sure to address 
letter plainly to 
H. K. Cl'MTIS & CO,, Pufolislaers, 
IPliiladelpliia, Pa, 
SUTTER WORKER 
ist Effective and Convenient, also 
>wer Workers, Butter Print- 
8 , Shipping Boxes, etc. 
DOC POWERS. 
’rite for Illustrated lata ■ ague. 
A. H. REID, 
3 S. 16th Street, Phila, Pa. 
REID'S , 
CREAMERY 
W IYS MAKES COOD 
BUTTER. 
SIMPLEST AMD BEST. 
i 
m|rM READER who h»3 a garden cr door 
tL w I yard that may bo boautiuod or u-mzed, 
a cemetery lot that may be adorned, even a vin- 
do ,v aill that may be ornamented by the planting cf 
S MALL FRUIT: 
maCARNATIONSSS 
ROSES,SHRUBS&FLQWER^S 
PLANTS 
Should send now for my Spring Catalogue, 
to be issued early in the season. 
It is free to all. It is full of information. 
It offers plants at reasonable prices. 
GEO. S. WALES “SSSSS"* 
