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COMMON PRAISE HYMNAL. JJ.'ffift 
eovers), by J. H. WATERBURY, is a wonderfully good, 
compact and cheap collection of 150 standard hymn 
tunes, 170 standard hymns, and numerous chants. Ex¬ 
amine for Sunday School or Congregation. 
NEW FLOWER QUEEN. ROOT? Jnstre- 
xised and improved by the author, and is a fine cantata 
for May and Flower Time. 
EMERSON’S ANTHEM BOOK, 
KHERSON. A very superior Anthem Book. 
Whits Robes. (30cta.) Best Sunday-school Song Book. 
RARIVCnVinP (50 cts.) Good music, a poem 
UUDIlloU.IIUFlii to recite, tableaux, and amus¬ 
ing action, founded upon the adventures of “Poor 
Robinson Crusoe.” By A. DAItR. 
Temperance Jewels. (35 cts.) Best Temperance Book. 
FIELD OF HONOR, 
famous opera. Just published. 
THE SORCERER. 
(SI. 00.) SULLIVAN’S Beat 
Opera. 
Any book mailed for retail price. 
OLIVER LITSON & CO., Boston. 
C. II. Ditson & Co., J. E. Ditson & Co., 
843 B'dway, New York. 1228 Chestnut St,, Philadel. 
ZIMMERMAN 
FECIT AND VEGETAEIE 
DRYER & BAKE OVEN 
Over 11,000 in use. 
The BEST in the market. 
Made entirely of Galvanized Iron 
AGENTS WANTED. 
Send for Circular Address 
ZIMMERMAN FRUIT DRYER CO., 
Cincinnati, Ohio, 
EVAPORATING FRUIT. 
SENT I Treatise on improved methods. Tables,yields, 
“ — — -A prices, profits, and general statistics. 
AMOS 
FREE 
IS STOUFFER, Chambersburg, Fa. 
A Valuable Patent Under Date of .Tan. 30,1881). 
BOWLUS’S PATENT 
Ornamental Brass Spring: Trace Fastener, 
Can be attached to any Buggy or Spring Wagon, old or 
new, in three minutes. Saves time and trouble. Try them 
and be convinced. Will send to anv address, post-paid, one 
(1) pair on receipt of $1.70, or 10 pair $1.10 each. Agents 
wanted. Address M. M. Boivlus, Bowlusville, Clark Co., O. 
Scribner’s Lumber & Log-Book. 
O VER HALF A MILLION SOLD. Most complete hook 
of its kind ever published. Gives measurement ot all 
kinds of lumber, logs, and plank, by Doyles’ Rule, cubical 
contents of square and round timber, stave and heading 
bolt tables, wages, rent, board, capacity of cl terns, cord- 
wood tables, interest, etc. Standard Book throughout 
United Stales and Canada. 
Ask your bookseller for it. or one sent by me for 35 cents, 
post-paid. G. W. FISHER, 
P. O. Box 23S, Rochester, N. Y. 
$Af — u, J/. M _I® v Contains 12 shts.Let- 
W0n06r uUX ter Paper, 12 Envel¬ 
opes. and over 500 articles—Games, Transfers, Embossed 
Pictures, Mottoes, Comic Cards. Dolls' Heads, Soldiers, 
he., ail in a box, 42 cts.; by mail, 53 cts. Catalogue and 
Victuro Card free. J JAY GOULD. Boston. Mass. 
XTr.AV FLORAL AUTOGRAPH A1.BUM.—111ns- 
IN trated with Birds. Scrolls, Feins, Flowers, etc. (48 
Page*). Covers and edges elegantly Gilded ; also 47 select 
quotations, all for lac.; including Outfit 75 styles Photo¬ 
graph and Visiting Cards, 25e„ post paid (stamps taken). 
Agents wanted. G. 'V. BOCEMSDES, West Haven, Conn. 
GENTS WANTED WS'g 
Family Knitting Machine ever invented. 
ill knit a iviir of stockings, with FlKKli and 
TOE complete* in 20 minutes. It will also knit a 
great variety of fancy work for which there is always n ready 
mar' er. Send for circular and terms to THIS TWOMBLi 
KNITTING MAC 11 IN E CO. 40'J Washington St.,Boston. Mass. 
World's ONLY Manufacturer of 
WHEEL CHAIRS 
Exclusively.—ALL Styles and Sizes for 
Invalids and Cripples 
Self-propulsion by use of hands only. In 
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i ase of movement unequalled. Patentee 
and Maker of the “ Rolling Chairs " pushed 
about at the Centennial. For Illustrated 
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HERBERT 8. SMITH, 32 Platt St., New York. 
.AGENTS WANTED to Sell the NEW BOOK, 
F ARMING FOR PROFI T 
TELLS HOW TO 
Cultivate all the Farm Crops in the Best Manner* 
Breed, Feed and Caro for Stock :Grow Frnit; Manage 
Farm Business; Make Happy Homes, and 
How to Blake Money on tee Farm, 
viEve^v Fanner should have a copy. 8G0 Pages. 
140 Illustrations. Send for circulars to 
J. C. McCUllPY & CO., Philadelphia, P a» 
H/ODI rs Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, 
" * ^ I* ™ ^ and Influence, from the Earliest Ages 
rA R/I/’NI | O to the Present Time. Magnificently 
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per month. Send for circular and terms. 
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Cincinnati, O., or, Chicago, Ill. 
NewCookBook 
PLAIN and FANCY COOKING. A book of 
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a practical housekeeper, lc teaches how to prepare 
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any housekeeper can desire. Also contains a caro- 
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postpaid, only 25 v-ents. Agents wanted. Price per 
dozen or hundred given, on application. Address 
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Elegant Photograph Visiting Cardr, 
becoming very popular and are really 
nice. Send j^our picture (photograph 
preferred.) and we’ll a nd you, post 
paid, 1 doz. beveled, gilt-edge cards, 
with name and photograph thereon, lor 
only COc. (currency or stamps). Send 
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guarantee satisfaction. Agents'want¬ 
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National Tiioto Card Co., 
West II *ven. Conn. 
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advanced. WAGES promptly paid. SLOAN 
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BEES OR HONEY, 
We will with pleasure send yon a s-mple copy of onr 
MONTHLY GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, 
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Hives, Honey Extractors, Artificial Comb. Sec¬ 
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A. 1. ROOT, Medina, Oliin. 
THE < LOVER-LEAF. a 4-nage,24-eol- 
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formation on the culture and harvesting of clover for seed. 
Sent free to every farms’- sending ns his name. 
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The Best ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY 
ever made for the price. 706 pages. 30,000 words, 
accurately pronounced and clearly defined. Hand¬ 
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foreign words and phrases, also of American geographical 
names, with their derivation and signification. Popular 
names of American states and cities. Abbreviations in 
general use. Words used in the metric system. Divisions 
of tho Aryan languages. Lang rages and alphabets of ti e 
world. Distances traveled in a second by sound, light, 
PATTEN «£c WADE, Publishers, 47 Barclay Street, 
containing a great variety of Items, including want/ 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of space elsewhere. 
Continued from Page 179. 
Ill justice to tile majority of our sub¬ 
scribers, wlio have been readers for many 
years, articles and illustrations are sel¬ 
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formation on a particular subject can 
cheaply obtain one or more of the back 
numbers containing what is wanted. 
Back numbers of the “ American Agri¬ 
culturist,” containing articles referred to 
in the “Basket” or elsewhere, can al¬ 
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turist are reproduced in the German Edition. Besides 
these, there is a special department, edited by an eminent 
German cultivator. Our friends can do us a good service 
by calling the attention of their German neighbors amt 
friends to the fact that they can have the paper in their 
own language, and those who employ Germans will 
find this Journal a most useful and acceptable present. 
Bound Copies of volume 38, and of every pre¬ 
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Is Corn the Cause of Contracted Hoof?— 
“ B. J. G.,” Nashua, Iowa. Corn is a highly carbonaceous 
food, and as this kind of food is used chiefly for main¬ 
taining the animal heat, too much of it is apt to canso 
disturbance of the system. The result of overfeeding with 
corn, is to make an animal feverish, and the feet of a 
horse are tender spots, on account of the sensitiveness of 
the laminae. This is perceivi d in the easy foundering of 
a horse, by overfeeding. A result of fever in the feet, !• 
contracted hoof ; so that corn may be the cause of con¬ 
tracted hoof. To feed some bran will avoid this. 
Coal Oil Barrels.—“W. \V. H.,” B.air Co.. Pa., 
wishes to so cleanse barre’s which have had coal oil 
(kerosene) in them that they may he used for vinegar, 
cider, etc. lie has tried burning them out, but without 
success. If a thorough burning will not make them fit 
for use, we doubt if anything else will. If any reader 
can help our friend, let us hear from him. 
Shoep Bi«case In England.— The cable brings 
an account from the U. S. Consul at Gloucester. Eng., of a 
serious outbreak of a disease among sheep. In several local¬ 
ities. In this instance, it is “ Rot,” or “ Sheep Rot,” and 
qnite distinct from Foot Rot. The Rot is due to ’Flukes,” 
which are leech-shaped worms, often found in the gall¬ 
bladder, or ducts and liver of sheep. Small numbers of 
these may be present without manifest injury to tho 
sheep, but when they occur in largo numbers, tho whole 
system of the animal is so disorganized, that the term 
“Rot,” best expresses its condition. It is caused by poor 
food, low damp pastures, and water from ponds and 
pools. When it occurs, its course is rapid, and no treat¬ 
ment will save the animal. Prevention is possible, by 
avoiding the causes. One part of the life of the Fluko is 
passed within the bodies of fresh water snails, etc., and 
from these it in time reaches the interior of the sheep; for 
i thisieason it is important to supply sheep with woll» 
