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HOMES IN THE WEST. 
To those who are looking in the West for new homes, the lands of the 
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska 
offer special and peculiar advantages. The lands lie in south-eastern Nebraska, adjoining the State of Iowa, and for soil, 
sub-soil, climate, water privileges, and for grain growing and stock raising facilities have no equals in the West. 
The sales of land made by this Company during the year 1878 are equal to the combined sales of all the other land 
grants put together. A vast tide of people from the Middle and Eastern States has poured into this region during*the 
last five years, and form a large and important element of the population. 
The titles are perfect, and the land passes to the purchaser free from every encumbrance. 
Full particulars are given on application to the 
Land Commissioner of the B. & M. R. R., at Burlington, Iowa, or Lincoln, Nebraska. 
T> ARTfl OPPORTUNITY. 
ll Highly Improved Farm at a Sacrifice. ISO 
acres, cosr, $i4,MJ'i six years ago. will sell for $y,5uu, on long 
time and low interest. For general farming best location 
in U. S. Write for particulars to 
GUSTAVUS CROSS, Crocked Creek, Steuben Co., Ind. 
Seedsmen, Nurserymen, 
Poultry-men, and Stock Raisers, 
wlio are using tlie celebrated 
MODEL PRESS, 
find that it saves them, all their 
printing bills, and is an investment 
that repays its cost over and over 
again every season. Any smart 
boy can manage it and do hun¬ 
dreds of dollars worth of work a 
year. Twelve styles Presses for 
_ business printing, $10 to $22. Card 
Presses as low as $3 and $. 1 . Rotary Foot Power Presses, 
$100 to $160. Over 6.000 in use, and Prize Medal awarded at 
Paris Exposition, showing the Model to be 
THE READING PRESS OF THE WORLD, 
Send 10 cents for profusely illustrated 124 page book, en¬ 
titled How TO Print, and a copy of Model Printer’s Guide, 
with full particulars. J. W. Daighaday & Co., Inventors 
and Manufacturers, 123 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
BEST IN THE WORLD. 
COMMON-SENSE CHAIRS 
AND ROCKERS, 
with or without Reading Table. No 
Office, Library, public or private, Sit¬ 
ting-room, or Piazza, should be with¬ 
out some of my Rocking-Chairs, so 
roomy, so easy and durable! Try my 
Puritan Rocker, or Old Point Comfort, 
and you will find Rest, Send stamp 
for Illustrated Price-List to 
F. A. SINCLAIR, Mottville, N. Y. 
Before purchasing, see that the chair 
has my address stamped on frame. 
Agricultural 
Insurance Company, of Watertown, N. Y. 
Capital $200.00 ).00. Net Surplus, $201,939.97. Total assets 
for the security of Policy holders, January 1st, 1878, $1,058,- 
157.60. Insures only Farm Property and Residences against 
fire and lightning. Takes no business risks. 
W. S. BLUNT’S 
U N I VERBAL 
Secured by letters patent. 
These pumps have enormous 
power, ami are for the house or 
for out-door wel' ; of any 
depth. Tliev are constructed 
with special regard to strength, 
ease ot working, and durability. 
They can be immediately 
changed from lift to force pumps, 
and tlie air chamber can be re¬ 
volved, so as to allow tlie handle 
to work at any desired angle with 
the spout. Having close tops, 
they cannot be tampered with. 
Attention is called 10 onr new 
elegant pattern DEEP WELL 
non-freezing FIRE PUMP. 
Also, Blunt’s Sand Vacu¬ 
um Chambers. —A complete 
protection against sand or gritty 
water in dug or driven wells, 
Pits, iniues. and rivers. 
For hand or steam pumps, 
all sizes, from lX-inch to 4-inch 
suction pipe. 
Send for circulars to 
NASON M’F’fJ CO., 
71 Fulton and 71 Reek- 
man St. New York. 
Western Agency, Clins. W. Newton, 
150 Lake St., Chicago. 
Pacific f'oast Agency. Dmiliam. Car- 
rigantSr. Co., San Francisco, Cal, 
An Important Boot tor Stoct-Breeders, 
STOCK-BREEDING: 
A Practical Treat Ise on tlie Application of the 
Caws of Development and Heredity to 
the Improvement and Breeding 
of Domestic Animals. 
By Manly Miles, M. D„ late Professor of Agriculture in 
the Michigan State Agricultural College. 1 vol., 12mo. 
Cloth. With Illustrations. Price, $1 jO. 
“ It is somewhat remarkable, in this book-making age, that 
there is no systematic work accessible to the student in 
which the known facts and principles of the art or improv¬ 
ing and breeding domestic animals are presented, in con¬ 
venient form, for study and reference, notwithstanding tlie 
importance of live-stock to the [farmer, and the wonderful i 
progress that has been made in its improvement since the 
time of Bakewell. The present attempt to supply this want 
has been made in response to ihe repeated solicitations of 
persons interested in stock-breeding, who have attended my 
lectures on this subject, in various pluces,Jor several years 
past. '—From Preface. 
For sale by all booksellers; or mailed, post-paid.to any 
address in the United States, on receipt of price, 
D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 
549 & 551 Broadway, New York. 
ALL ABOUND THE HOUSE; 
OR. 
HOW TO MAKE HOMES HAPPY, 
By Mrs. HENRV WARD BEECHER, 
Author or*’ Motherly Talks,” etc. 
This volume, as Its title implies, consists of papers upon 
topics concerning tlie ordering and tlie well-being of the 
household. It contains, in addition to a large number of re¬ 
cipes for cooking, and rules for marketing, numerous hints 
for the management of servants and children, directions as 
to furnishing, repairing, cleansing, etc., and information on 
all the innumerable things on which housekeepers need in¬ 
formation, while, in addition tolts usefulness as a guide to 
i practical knowledge and economical methods, It Is eminent¬ 
ly interesting and suggestive, in its various essays on home 
topics, to every one concerned in the welfare and happiness 
of the household. 
One vol., 12mo. Cloth. Price $1.50. 
For sale by all booksellers; or mailed, post-paid r to any 
address In the United states, on receipt of tlie price. 
D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 
549 & 551 Broadway, New York. 
Pre-eminent ini WILLCOX & GIBBS LQuality and Merit. 
New Automatic 
SILENT SEWING MACHINE. 
LIGHTEST RUNNING, SWIFTEST, EASIEST IN WORKING, MOST DURABLE. 
Only Sewing Machine in the world with NO TENSION to manage. > 
Simplest in mecktanisn therefore easiest to learn, and never out of order. 
Send for Descriptive Circular. • WILLCOX & G1BRS S. M. CO.. 658 Broadway, New York. 
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