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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Interesting Announcement 
FOB ALL YE BOYS, 
From 5 to 105 Years Old ! 
Scroll or Fret Sawing is one of the most delight¬ 
ful amusements, combining pleasure, utility, and a 
development of taste and skill. Every home, how¬ 
ever humble or maguifieent, is more beautiful if 
adorned with brackets and other work produced 
by home hands. Hundreds of thousands of such 
homes now exist, where only the slow and tedious 
hand-frame fret saws have been available. More 
recently the foot pedal and multiplying wheels 
have c-ome into use, and the increasing demand has 
tended to cheapness and improvement. We are 
now happy to announce another large advance in 
Perfection, Cheapness, and Portability, 
by which is secured stronger, better working machines; 
a material reduction in price, and a great saving in 
cost of carriage or delivery, as well as in storage room 
when not in use, with sundry other improvements and 
advantages.—All the above are secured in 
Beach’s New Folding Fret Saw. 
Figure 1 shows it ready for use, while in half a 
minute or less it can be folded ( without removing the 
saw) to the form, figure 2, occupying but a quar¬ 
ter of the space, to be set away, or put in a small 
box for sending anywhere at small cost for car¬ 
riage. By a simple arrangement the table is lowered 
to a convenient working hight for a boy of 5 or 6, 
or raised high euough for the tallest man, and at 
every hight it stands firmly. 
It has a tilting table, and will execute very fine 
scroll-work or inlaid-work. The clamps will firmly 
hold any saw, from the finest No. 00000, up to No. 
10; they are readily and quickly inserted or 
changed. A space of 20 inches behind the saw 
allows quite as large pieces to be worked as any 
other instrument of the kind in the market. 
By an ingenious arrangement, there are no dead 
centers, hut the wheel starts right off the moment 
Fig. 1.— beach’s fret saw ready for use. 
the foot presses the pedal, while it can be instant¬ 
ly stopped by simply pressing the knee against a 
brake. The upper clamp is hinged to be thrown 
up for changing the saw, or for inside work. The 
working parts are iron or steel, finely fitted, 
securing great durability, while the frame, of tough 
white ash, or other tough timber, is formed to 
secure the greatest strength. The whole is so sim¬ 
ple that A child CAN work it. Parents will ap¬ 
preciate the convenience of such an instrument, of 
full size, yet quickly folding up so as to be set in 
the corner of a closet if desired. Though as strong 
and durable as any one could desire, 
The Weight is only 15 lbs. 
With all the above advantages, and its great 
superiority over any other hitherto produced, 
The Price is only $2.25, 
which includes full instructions, so that a beginner 
can go to work at once. It is 
packed iu a neat box and is de¬ 
livered to any express office in 
New York City FREE. The 
small space required, and the 
lightness, will reduce the cost 
of carriage very greatly, as 
compared with other machines 
for similar work. 
The Editors and Publishers 
of the American Agriculturist 
were so pleased with this new 
machine that they at once 
secured the control of it for 
the benefit of their readers, 
though it will be supplied to 
others as soon as it can be pro¬ 
duced in sufficient quantity. It 
will be forwarded by express or otherwise, as direct¬ 
ed, in the order of calls for it, at $2.25 each ; or 
FREE as a Premium. 
A special object in taking hold of this new ma¬ 
chine was to secure it for our new Premium List 
now in course of preparation. 
In the meantime, any one will be presented with 
one in return for four yearly subscriptions to the 
American Agriculturist at $1.50, or for eight half- 
year subscriptions (July to December inclusive) at 
75c. each. On receipt of address we will mail our 
full instructions for using this charming Scroll Saw. 
Some Things this I'lumber Contains. 
Numerous helpful hints about the Work of the Month, 
will aid many in this busy season ; see pages 254 to 256. 
One of the special features of this number is the Second 
Prize Essay on Keeping one Cow, which should be read 
by every subscriber ; pages 270-271. 
Plans and specifications for a Country and Village 
House, costing $3,500. will meet the actual wants of many 
who desire to build a neat and commodious dwelling. 
Page 264. with numerous illustrations. 
Further experience on the subject of Fences and Fenc¬ 
ing, is given on page 261. 
Prof. Atwater gives a thorough treatment of the sub¬ 
ject of Hungarian Grass, on page 261. 
The Humbugs are sundry and important; pages 25S-259. 
An interesting and instructive article may be found on 
Training Animals on page 269. 
A very practical Plan for Planting Fruit Trees, by S. B. 
Parsons, with diagram, may be seen on page 273. 
For a variety of Household information, including 
Faith Rochester's entertaining and instructive Notes, 
see pages 276-277. 
The Bovs and Girls will know where to turn for their 
Special Department, and will not be disappointed; 
pages 278 to 280. 
The Basket is unusually full of short items, on various 
important subjects, pages 257-260, 286-290. 
The Army Worm, so destructive to farm crops, re¬ 
ceives the full attention it deserves, page 260 and 262. 
Fig. 2.—THE SAW 
FOLDED. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of room elsewhere. 
To Subscribers to “ Land and Home.” 
—Special Notice.— The subscribers to “Land and 
Home ” will receive the American Agriculturist for the 
remainder of the time for which they have paid their 
subscriptions to that journal. Those who have already 
paid in advance for the American Agriculturist will have 
their time extended for an equivalent period. In other 
words, whatever may have been due in subscriptions to 
that journal when it discontinued, will be made good by 
supplying the American Agriculturist the current rates. 
Wliere to Get Tilings Wanted.— Many thou¬ 
sands of letters come to the Editors every year (some 
with and some without “ return postage asking where 
they can obtain from trustworthy parties, implements, 
animals, poultry, seeds, plants, fertilizers, and a great, 
variety of other things, all of which questions we try to 
answer when we can. But nine out of ten of these let¬ 
ters, and much valuable time of both writers and re¬ 
spondents, would be saved, if the inquirers would take 
the little trouble required to just look through the adver¬ 
tising columns, where usually, in one number or another, 
several parties announce the very things asked about. 
We try to keep out all parties not trustworthy. If any 
mistake occurs, after all possible care, we can only ac¬ 
knowledge to having been deceived, for we do not admit 
any advertisers whom we would not ourselves patronize 
when wanting the things they offer. (The Editors 
have the “veto power” over any and every advertise¬ 
ment proposed for these columns.) It will always 
pay to read through the business columns to see what is 
offered and by whom, and useful hints are often derived 
from reading what others say and how they say it. New 
ideas are thus started up in one’s mind.—When corre¬ 
sponding with any of onr advertisers, or sending for 
catalognes, etc., it is well to state that you are a reader 
of this Journal. They will know what we expect, and 
what you expect of them as to prompt and fair treatment. 
SEE s—All interested in the hidden truths and beau¬ 
ties of nature should see them, and this can be clone 
by the aid of a good Microscope. See a full accountof the 
American Agriculturist Compound Microscope, page 286. 
To Get Rid of Chicken Idee.— Vermin is the 
pest of poultry, and when chicken houses get thoroughly 
infested, it is not an easy matter to cleanse them. If the 
house is washed with a hot lime wash, and the roosts 
are rubbed with a mixture of kerosene oil and lard, the 
lice will be made uncomfortable, and if this treatment is 
repeated a few times, the house and also the fowls will 
be quite free from vermin. If the house is, as all poultry- 
houses should he, detached from barns arid other build¬ 
ings, it may be fumigated. Shut it up tight and close 
every opening. Then place a pan of live coals on the 
ground (or if it must be on a wo > len floor, put down a 
few shovelfuls of earth, or coal ashes, to hold the pan). 
Throw on a handful of lumps of brimstone, and get out 
quickly, closing the door tightly. If the work has been 
thorough, no lice can be found at the end of a few hours. 
The white-washing, etc., may be then done. 
Stumps.— It is not wise to employ any expensive 
methods of getting out the stumps on a new piece of land, 
that is not from location, or otherwise of very great value. 
It is in most cases cheaper to let stumps rot out. There is 
a general desire to clear and clean a piece of land all at 
once, but as in many other things, it may be, “ the more 
haste, and the less speed.” The use of dynamite, or any 
other quick acting and expensive method, is recom¬ 
mended only when the room the stump occupies, is worth 
a considerable more than the trouble and expense of 
taking it out while green and difficult to remove. 
Insure Farm ISuiltliiigs.— The average farmer, 
when his barns are full of grain and hay, can be almost 
ruined by a fire unless he is well insured; and it is at 
just that time that barns are most frequently destroyed by 
fire. Lightning comes mostly in the summer months, and 
is a common cause of barn fires. It is best to be in¬ 
sured in a good company near at home. 
Thte House Plan. —For several months we have 
been giving our readers plans and estimates of cottages 
or houses of moderate cost, and suitable for only a small 
family. This month a larger, more commodious dwell¬ 
ing is presented in all its details, and will doubtless an¬ 
swer the ends of many, who contemplate building a 
house that will cost in the neighborhood of $3,500. 
