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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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HAY & STRAW PRESSES. 
■DEDERICK’S HAY AND STRAW PRESSES are guar- 
anteed cheaper at price than any others as a gift or no sale. 
If inexperienced purchasers are confused by manufactur¬ 
ers of inferior machines who claim their presses are best, 
then order a press of each on condition that you keep the 
best, and advise all that DEDERICK’S PRESS will be 
there. The absence of all others will then convince you 
that DEDERICK’S PRESSES are beyond competition. 
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advertisements of Hay Presses which have appeared in these col¬ 
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bale bound lengthways, and by Dederick’s patent process and ma¬ 
chinery, and some even have the cheek to use Dederick’s Continu¬ 
ous Hay Press patent, without which the operation must stop to tie 
and remove the bale. Dederick has suits pending to enforce these 
S atents, and will in due time prosecute every purchaser for $10,000 
amages. Meantime he earnestly remontrates against this high 
handed piracy of his property, and warns the public against being 
swindled into partnership in a steal with unscrupulous characters. 
Why join a stem for the Denefit of thieves and receive an inferior 
machine, when the same price will purchase a good one of the 
owner. While Dederick bore the immense expense o f introducing 
these improvements that are such a benefit to the hay interests of the 
eountry, these communists opposed him, and now propose to steal not 
only Dederick’s patents, but the capital represented by its intro 
Action into use. Send tor free copies of patents in proof of this, 
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Nervous Exhaustion. 
How to Cure Nervousness. 
The Cure of Nervousness ( Continued). 
Food in Nervous Disorders. 
Fifty Important Questions Answered. 
What our Thinkers and Scientists Say. 
Nervousness in Girls. 
On Headaches. 
Resting the Brain. 
Hunting as a Remedy. 
How to Banish the Blues. 
Mental Hygiene for Farmers, 
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Mens in Winter.— If eggs are expected during 
the winter months—and they ought to be—the fowls 
must be kept warm and well fed. They will not bear 
crowding, a fact that is too often overlooked. Hens are 
natarally active creatures, and must have room to run and 
exercise themselves. The house must be kept clean, and 
an abundance of fresh air and pure water provided ; also 
a constant supply of oyster shells or hones, broken fine. 
Paeking Frozen meat.— Meat that has been 
frozen, as is often the case with pork and beef killed at 
this season, should be thawed out before being put into 
the barrel, as the hard frozen meat does not absorb the 
salt as it ought, and otherwise would do. 
Bolling Wheat After Sowing.— This is a 
good time of the year to observe the effect of rolling the 
wheat ground and making it smooth after the grain is 
sown. If a light snow, or even a moderate one, comes, 
followed by a wind, it is carried to the fence rows, etc., 
and lodged wherever it can get a foothold, and if the 
field is rolled smooth the surface of the ground will be 
left bare and exposed to the severe cold, and more es¬ 
pecially to the destructive influences of sudden freezings 
and thawings that may follow. If the surface had been 
left rough, much of the snow would have remained in 
place abont the roots of the plants, and served as a pro¬ 
tection against “ winter killing.” 
milking. —The thoughtful dairyman knows the value 
of a good milker, and will have no others in his herd. 
Much of the complaint made by men who have recently 
bought good milch cows and been disappointed in them, 
is dne to the change of the milker. Careless milking is 
a fertile source of loss in dairying. The milk should be 
removed as rapidly as possible to the last drop, and at 
regular hours. With careful milking, kind treatment of 
the cows in all respects is of course understood. 
