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induces unprincipled agents to deceive customers by claiming, for their old pattern machines, automatic and 
other features belonging exclusively to us. 
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98 Per Cent. Pure! 
STRONGEST AND BEST LYE MADE. This LYE is a FINE POWDER, and 
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MANUFACTURED ONLY BY 
GEORGE T. LEWIS & MENZIES CO., Philadelphia, Pa. 
FARMERS AND OTHERS 
having spring or running water can have the 
water conveyed to their premises by using a 
Hydraulic Ram. More than 800 different 
styles. Lift and Force Pumps, Hy¬ 
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Send for circular and prices. 
KUMSEF & CO., 
_ Seneca Falls, N. Y„ U. S, A. 
“ THE PERKINS’ 
WIND MILL. 
Was the first solid Wheel Wind 
Mill that governed itself success¬ 
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for the last 10 years. For Beauty, 
Strength, Durability, and Power it lias no 
equal. Warranted to stand any storm in 
which other substantial buildings stand.Send 
for circular with full description and prices. 
Perkins’ Wind Mill & Axe Co., 
Mishawaka, Ind. 
"We manufacture the old reliable Stover 
—the well tried, strong, durable, self regu¬ 
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: took the Centennial Diploma, as well as a 
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for stock and house use, and Winger's 
Gravity Churns. Agents wanted every¬ 
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„ STOVER WIND ENGINE CO., Freeport, Ill., 
E. B. WINGER, General Manager. U. S. A. 
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Is durable, elastic, and has a water-proof surface. We 
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VICTORIOUS AT 
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35 Years in Use. 
GUARANTEED SUPERIOR 
To any other Windmill Made. 
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85,500,000 worth now in Use. 
Send for Catalogue “A.” 
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containing a great variety of Items, including many- 
good Hints and Suggestions -which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere . 
Continued from Page 220. 
In justice to llte majority of our sub¬ 
scribers, who have beeu readers for many 
years, articles and Illustrations are sel¬ 
dom repeated, as those who desire in¬ 
formation on a particular subject can 
cheaply obtain one or more of the hack, 
numbers containing wliat is wanted. 
Back numbers of the “ American Agri¬ 
culturist,” containing articles referred to 
in the “Basket” or elsewhere, can al¬ 
ways be supplied and sent post-paid for 
15 cts. each, or $ 1. 50 per volume. 
The German Edition.— All the principal arti¬ 
cles and engravings that appear in the American Agricul¬ 
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 and 
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¬ 
vious volume back to Vol. XVI. (1857), neatly bound, with 
gilt backs, Index, etc., are supplied at $2 each (or $2.30 
if to be sent by mail). See Publishers’ Notes,2d cover page. 
Clubs can at any time be increased by remitting for 
each addition, the price paid by the original members; 
or a small club may be made a larger one at reduced rates, 
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wards send 4 names more and $3, making 10 subscribers 
for $10.00; and so for tlie various other club rates. 
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Regulations tlie price of the American Agriculturist 
(either English or German edition), including postage 
prepaid through, will be covered by 7 shillings sterling 
per annum. This applies to the above countries, and to 
all others embraced in the General Postal Union. The 
simplest mode of remittance is by Postal Money Orders, 
payable in London, to the order of Orange Judd Com¬ 
pany. These can be readily cashed in N. Y. City at a 
slight discount, which the publishers will cheerfully pay. 
For Club rates, (postage included), see our second cover 
page, and reckon 22 cents to the shilling sterling. 
Home Made Boot Cutter.— “ L. B.” In the 
March number for last year we gave a description, with 
illustrations, of a cheap and easily constructed cutter for 
preparing roots for farm animals. 
Osage Orange a Bapld Grower.— A speci¬ 
men of Osage Orange planted by Dr. Darlington at West 
Chester, has been recently cut down. At one foot from 
the ground, the body of the tree, about 50 years old, was 
10 feet 3 inches in circumference. 
Liquid Manure.— The amount of fertilizing ma¬ 
terial in the urine of animals equals that contained in 
the solid excrement, but is in a form that may be very 
readily lost. The TJrea is the ingredient of chief value— 
a quite complex nitrogenous substance which is easily 
decomposed into Carbonate of Ammonia, and then es¬ 
capes into the atmosphere. Whenever there is a pun¬ 
gent odor of ammonia from a manure heap, or tank in 
which liquid manure is stored, there is a loss of valuable 
manure taking place, and it should be arrested by using 
some absorbent as plaster, muck, or litter of any kind. 
Asparagus In Wet Soil.— “S. T.,” Marion, 
Ind., writes to Peter Henderson, asking a question on 
Asparagus culture. Thinking that the reply may he of 
use to many others, Mr. II. sends it for the Basket. “ His 
land is ‘ rich alluvial deposit, which at certain seasons 
of the year is covered by water for three days at a time,’ 
and he wishes to know if such land ‘ would he suitable 
to grow Asparagus or other crops.’ We think not, the 
land being covered with water for three days becomes so 
completely saturated that the roots are actually in water 
for twice or thrice that time, and no plant other than an 
aquatic could so long endure inundation without injury. 
These bottom lands on the margins of streams, are 
usually most fertile, and if by diking or hanking, the water 
I can be kept off, no land is better fitted for garden crops.”' 
