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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[November, 
in the furnishing stores. There should be some 
place where matches are to be kept, and they should 
be left no where else. As parlor matches are now 
much cheaper than formerly, they are often care¬ 
lessly made. Poor, cross-grained wood is frequently 
used, and when the match is struck with force, it 
breaks, and the end with the fulminate upon it, 
drops to the floor or often flies among paper or 
clothing. Whenever this happens, make it a point 
to always search for and find that end, and either 
burn it or put it where it can do no mischief. 
When such a match-end is stepped on, it explodes 
with a startling report. In some cases the clothing 
of women and children has been set on fire by this 
means. We have known of persons being greatly 
alarmed by such an explosion under foot. A par¬ 
lor match is a great convenience, but when care¬ 
lessly kept and used is only less dangerous in the 
house than a loaded pistol. The Fire Insurance 
Companies find that a very large percentage of 
losses by fire is due to friction matches. 
RENEW NOW. 
Do not wait until the end of the year, but renew 
your subscription as soon as you get this paper, and 
would not some of your friends like to come with 
you ? 
Cost of Moving Farm Products from the 
West to the East. 
All classes, producers and consumers, and es¬ 
pecially Eastern farmers, are interested in the 
cost of transporting grain, flour, meats, and other 
farm products from the ■agricultural realms of the 
West to the thickly populated, consuming regions 
on the Atlantic coast. If, for example, a bushel of 
wheat can be carried from the fertile fields of Dakota 
to New York or Boston, for 25 cents, the Eastern 
farmer has that much advantage over his far West¬ 
ern competitor; and so of other products of the 
farm. Taking Chicago as the great Western Center 
for collecting breadstuffis and meats, and New York 
as the chief Eastern Center for receiving and distrib¬ 
uting or exporting, we give below the present es¬ 
tablished rates of transportation by railroad be¬ 
tween these points, which are nearly 1,000 miles 
apart. From places west of Chicago, not near two 
or more competing railroad lines, the rates are a 
little higher for proportional distances. 
sold for consumption elsewhere. Ordinary farming 
raises the staple crops, wheat, corn, hay, etc., and 
these are often turned into flesh, wool, dairy pro¬ 
ducts, etc. The proper market-garden is devoted to 
perishable crops, or those that are only at their best 
when fresh, hence are near cities or villages, where 
transportation to the place of consumption occu¬ 
pies but a short time. Farm-gardening is extended 
market-gardening, or the highest kind of farming. 
It is such farming as must sooner or later be 
adopted in all the older and thickly settled parts 
of the country, where the land is high, and must 
raise crops that will pay better than corn and the 
like. The sooner farmers in these localities cease 
to compete with the West in raising grain, and de¬ 
vote their land to crops which meet a ready sale 
near home, the less we shall hear of the complaint, 
“ farming don’t pay.” 
A Special Offer. 
We are enabled by a very 
advantageous arrange¬ 
ment with a large Manufac¬ 
turing Jewelry Firm to offer 
to our readers one of the 
ISest Waicli Cliain 
Ilagic I*encils, as 
shown in the Engraving. It 
is of the finest gold plate, 
and the barrel is of imported 
imitation onyx. It has the 
patent magic movement that 
is so very popular and desir¬ 
able in a pencil. The engrav¬ 
ings show length and size, 
H CLOSED, 
closed and open. It is suitable 
for a lady or gentleman, and very con¬ 
venient to carry iu the pocket, as well 
as on the chain. In fact it is one of the 
most complete Pencils of its kind, and 
something that 
EVERYBODY WANTS. 
We have only been able to secure 
Railroad Freights-, Chicago to Few York. 
Per 100 lbs. 
Wheat, Corn. Rye, 
Barley and Oats.. 25 cts. 
Flour, per barrel .... 60 “ 
Wheat, per bushel.. 15 “ 
Corn, per bushel... 14 “ 
Oats, per bushel .... 8 “ 
Pork. Beef, Lard .... 30 “ 
Horses, Mules, Sheep 60 “ 
Beef Cattle. 40 “ 
Live Hogs. 30 cts. 
Dressed Hogs. 64 “ 
Lumber, Shingles, 
Laths. 30 “ 
Wool . 85 “ 
Bailed Hay. 25 “ 
Salt.30 “ 
Tobacco.311 “ 
Apples, Pears, etc.. 60 “ 
a limited quantity of these beautiful 
open Pencils, and while they last, we will 
send one of them, post-paid, to any 
present subscriber, who will collect and forward 
OAB! new subscription to the American Agricul¬ 
turist, English or German, at $1.50; OR we will 
supply it for the price, which is $1.50. 
These prices are based on full car load lots. 
Freight cars carry about 24,000 lbs., or 12 tons of 
grain. Taking the rates above as the basis, add 5 
cents per 100 lbs. for freigh t from Chicago to Boston, 
and 4 cents per 100 lbs. from St. Louis to New York. 
Deduct from Indianapolis to New York, 2 cents per 
100 lbs.; from Cincinnati, 41 cents ; from Detroit or 
Toledo, 6 cents; from Mansfield, O., 61 cents; 
from Cleveland, O., 71 cents; and from Dunkirk 
or Buffalo, 10 cents per 100 lbs. From Chicago to 
Philadelphia, 2 cents, and to Baltimore, 3 cents per 
100 lbs. less than to New York. 
THE 
1883. 
The German Amerikanisher Agriculturist has been 
published for twenty-four years, and stands to-day 
in the front ranlc of German Agri. 
cultural publication!?, being recognized 
in all quarters as authority in agriculU 
What is Farm Gardening? 
A correspondent who has noticed an occasional 
mention in the American Agriculturist, of “farm¬ 
gardening,” asks us to explain how it differs from 
ordinary farming, or from market gardening. The 
farm-garden is devoted to those crops which can 
only be raised by high manuring, and thorough 
cultivation—Cabbages, Cauliflowers, Melons and 
Celery, and similar crops, which, though perishable, 
may be transported to some distance. They are 
raised not to be consumed by animals, but to be 
tnral mutters, and fur superior to 
anything of the kind published in the world. 
The benefit of the immense outlay for editorial 
work, contributions and the multitude of expensive 
illustrations which is required in the preparation of 
the American edition, is received by the Amerika¬ 
nischer Agriculturist. 
AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE JOURNAL. 
While the Amerikanischtr Agriculturist has the 
benefit of all of the enterprise and energy and ex¬ 
penditures of the English American Agriculturist, as 
above stated, it is hereafter to be an entirely separ¬ 
ate Journal from the former, presenting only 
such matter as is specially adapted for the Ger¬ 
mans, and containing departments expressly con¬ 
ducted for the German people in the United States. 
We have made arrangements, and are still making 
further arrangements, to have the ablest German 
writers. With one exception, the Amerikanischer 
Agriculturist is the only purely German agricultural 
paper published in the United States. 
No pains or expense will be spared in making 
this journal an absolute necessity to all German 
cultivators or laborers on the farm or in the gar¬ 
den, who desire to do their work intelligently and 
in the best modes. 
NEW MANAGEMENT. 
Among others who from this time forward will 
devote their entire time to the Amerikanischer 
Agriculturist is Prof. C. H. Plugge, educated at 
the famous Universities of Bonn, Leipsic and Brus¬ 
sels. Twelve years ago Prof. Pldgge came to this 
country. For six years he was connected, as a pro¬ 
fessor, with leading educational institutions; for 
six years he has been the official translator of the 
United States Government, in the Bureau of Edu¬ 
cation, Department of the Interior, and has had 
charge of all foreign works, libraries, correspond¬ 
ence, etc. In his official capacity he has become 
thoroughly familiar with the wants and needs of 
the German gardeners and farmers in the United 
States. He knows where every German settlement 
is located, and what are the special requirements 
of these settlements. He brings to the work 
earnestness and enthusiasm. 
VALUABLE TO ALL. 
The farmer, gardener, and fruit grower will al¬ 
ways find in the Amerikanischer Agriculturist 
most valuable information. Not only the fathers 
and sous, but the mothers and daughters, and even 
the little ones, all will be supplied with much to 
interest and aid them in every number of this 
journal. Many Americans who have Germans in 
their employ, take the Amerikanischer Agriculturist 
for their use, and find they make better gardeners 
and workmen, from the reading of it. 
Above all others, perhaps, the newly arrived 
German should have this Journal if he desires to 
engage in farming or gardening, and would do so 
intelligently. We ask our readers, many of whom 
are in the viciuity of German settlements to make 
known its value. They can rest assured that the 
Amerikanischer Agriculturist for 1883, will be far 
in advance of any previous year in beautiful illus¬ 
trations and interesting and profitable reading for 
the whole family. 
CHEAPEST JOURNAL IN THE 
WORLD. 
Notwithstanding the great improve* 
nieiits made, and to be made in the Ameri- 
kanucha-Agriculturist, we shall continue to furnish 
it at the same price as heretofore—$1.50 a year, 
single numbers at 15 cents. 
We will forward a specimen copy to 
any German in the United States, who 
desires to see the paper with a view 
to subscribing. Special inducements 
will be given to persons who desire ta 
canvass for subscriptions. 
