1880.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
285 
COLUMBIA 
BICYCLE. 
Bicycle riding is unsurpassed as 
a method of travelling, whether 
for speed, sport, or the renewal 
of health. Mo horse can compare 
with tlie bicycle lor endurance, 
no other pastime is half so fas¬ 
cinating, and the exercise is rec¬ 
ommended by the medical pro¬ 
fession as being most conducive 
to health. Appleyard rode 100 
miles in 7 hours, over a common 
turnpike road, and Waller has 
accomplished 1,400 miles in 6 
days. Send 3c. stamp for 24-page 
catalogue, containing price lists 
and full information, or 10c. for 
catalogue and copy of “ The 
Bicycling World.” 
THE POPE M’F’G CO., 
No. 101 Summer St., 
Boston, Mass. 
SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST OF 
PRESSES, DIES AND OTHER 
FRUIT-CAN TOOLS. 
FERRACUTE MACHINE WORKS, 
linU^eton, N. Jersey. 
ARTESIAN WELL 
DRILLING & M1N- 
, ERAL PROSPECT- 
ING MACHINERY, 
and how to use, is fully illustrated, explained and highly recommended 
by the ** Americas Agriculturist** in the November Number 1879. 
Page 465. Send for it. Portable, Sow priced, worked by man* horse or 
eienra power. Needed by farmers in every county. Good business for 
Winter or Summer .and very profitable. Can getgood wells in earth or 
rock anywhere. We want the names of men that need wells. Send for 
ustruted price-list and terms to Agents. Address, 
' ,T? all Excavator Co.. 29 Loss Street. New York, U. S. A. 
WELL BORING. 
G rind your bone meal, crush your own oyster shells in 
the $4.00 Hand Mill. Samples 6 cts. Larger sizes for 
farmers—to run by power, testimonials furnished. 
FRANK WILSON, 52 Delaware St., Easton, Pa. 
Moth’s All Metal Honey Extractor, 
And Uncapping Knife. 
Have received the Highest Encomiums!-Also Langstroths 
Bee Hives; Honey Jars, and a lull assortment of Bee-Keep¬ 
ers’ Supplies. Every Bee-Keeper should send formy circular 
giving the details regarding the Care of Bees and How to get 
the most Honey. Sent flee on application. 
CHAS. F. MPTH, No. 976 Central Ave., Cincinnati, O. 
Z3T FRIENDS! If you are in any way interested in 
BEES OR HONEY, 
descriptive price-list or the latest Imp 
Extractors, Artificial 
actors. Artificial Comb. Sec* 
" snd jouri ' 
Nothing 
on apostal card, written plainly , to 
A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. 
Hives, Honey Extractors, Artificial Comb, Sec* 
tion Honey Boxes, ail books and journals, and every¬ 
thing pertaining to Bee Culture. Nothing Patented. Sim¬ 
ply send your address on aj 
GENTS WANTED EVKKYWHERE 
A LxiAV At? vv xa,xi xxu/ to sell the best 
Family Knitting Machine ever invented. 
Will knit a nair of stockings, with HEEL, and 
TOE complete, in 20 minutes. It will also knit a 
great variety of fancy work for which there is always a ready 
market. Send for circular and terms to THE TWOMBLv 
KNITTINGMACHINECO^OflWashingtonSt^BostonJWass. 
'.re sold by all Hardware and Harness Dealers. There 
is no one owning a horse or mule but what will find in 
mis line of goods, something of great value, and es¬ 
pecially adapted to their wants. COVERT M’F’G CO., 
West Troy.N. Y., Sole Manufacturers. 
Creameries on Trial.—The manufacturers of 
The Ferguson Bureau Creamery, announce that they will 
send out their Creameries on trial. 
This apparatus has given such universal satisfaction 
for the last three years, and they have such confidence in 
its perfect adaptation to the wants of all dairymen, that 
they freely offer to send one to any reliable party, of such 
size as they need, on 30 days’ trial. If it does not work 
satisfactorily it may be returned. 
In the last year they have sent out over two hundred 
Creameries on these terms, and not one has been rejected. 
Particular attention is called to the fact that the Cream¬ 
ery can be used with either ice, running spring water, or 
cold well water, and that it is especially useful in cold 
weather. After a person becomes accustomed to it, they 
will be able to use it nearly the whole year without arti¬ 
ficial cooling, by taking advantage of the cool night air, 
according to the directions. 
No other Creamery is offered on such liberal terms, and 
no dairyman in justice to himself, and to his wife (for 
they are especially adapted to dairies where women do 
the work), should buy any apparatus until lie has given 
the Bureau Creamery a trial. 
They also offer to send their Concussion Churn on the 
same terms. 
Messrs. Wells, Richardson & Co., the well known 
manufacturers of the Perfected Butter Color, are largely 
interested in the Fergnson Manufacturing Company, and 
we have their guaranty that all the business of the Com¬ 
pany will be done in the most honorable manner. 
We advise all our readers in want of milk setting ap¬ 
paratus to correspond with the Ferguson Manfg Co., 
Burlington, Vt. 
TESTIMONIALS. 
Cornwall, Vt., May 21, 1880. 
The Ferguson Man’e’g Co. ^Gentlemen : You ask 
for my experience with the Bureau. We have used one 
for the last two years, and so far this. 
We are perfectly satisfied with it, and are sure that it 
is the best method of setting milk, giving all the cream, 
and with the least labor in taking care of the milk. 
There are two in this vicinity, that are saving to those 
using them theexpense of a hired girl—the ladies finding 
that the Bureau saves them so much work in skimming 
and washing small pans, that they can now do their own 
work alone easier than with help before. 
We find that we do not have to use ice except in the 
very hottest weather; if we will take care to open the 
Bureau in the evening, so as to use the cool night air, and 
shut the Bureau in the mornig, it will keep cool all day. 
One day this week, when the thermometer was among 
the eighties, the milk in the pan that I emptied at night 
was 62° by the thermometer, and that without any ice, 
showing how easily we can keep the milk cool by just 
using the night air. We have not put any ice in our Bu¬ 
reau yet this year. 
To any one wishing the Easiest, Neatest , Quickest and 
most Perfect method of setting milk, we would recom¬ 
mend tlie Fergnson Bureau Creamery. 
Respectfully, Win. H. Matthews. 
“I have used the Ferguson Bureau Creamery, and in 
my opinion it is the best cream-raising apparatus with 
which I am acquainted. 
“ I find it to produce the largest amount, of Butter, and 
of the best quality, and with the greatest saving of labor. 
I prefer it to any deep-setting apparatus, or any open 
pans, and cheerfully recommend it to all dairymen.” 
May 22tf, 1880. Chas. E. Fiske, Greenfield, Mass. 
[Mr. Fiske made the butter that took Five First Sweep 
stakes Prizes at the Mass. Butter Show last December, 
(the Mass. Sweepstakes, $50; the New Eng. Sweep- 
stakes—a Mosely & Stoddard Creamer; the Ferguson 
Sweepstakes—a Bureau Creamery; the Franklin Co. do. 
—$12; tlie Boston dealers’ do.—$10. j 
AMERICUS CIDER MILL 
WHITMAN’S PATENT. 
The Best Cider and Wine 
Mill made. It will make 
Twenty per cent more 
Cider than any other. 
Perfectly Adjustable. 
Three Sizes. 
Geared outside. Large 
Mills made for two cranks. 
Prices as low as any first- 
class mills. 
Circulars giving full des- 
scription sent free 
Address the manufac¬ 
turers. 
WHITMAN AGRICULTURAL. COMPANY, 
Saint Louis, Mo. 
THE BAKER GUM S. 
We make the best double gun in the world for the money 
-choke-bore, rebounding locks, extension rib. Our $40 gun 
has the best English twist barrels, and the best material 
throughout. All guns sent on trial and guaranteed. 
Price—Best English Twist Barrels. $40. Damascus steel, 
$55 to $200. Send stamp for Descriptive Circular. 
A new feature in the Gun line. It is light, compact; from 
8 to 10 lbs. in weight. The Rifle is perfectly accurate. It has 
proved a great success for all kinds of shooting. All guns 
shipped on trial and guaranteed. Price $75 to $250. 
L. C. SMITH, Sole Maker of Baker Guns, Syracuse, N. Y. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into >•mailer 
type and condensed form, for want of fpace «•-.■■■< a- .are. 
Continued from Page 260. 
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these, there is a special department, edited by an eminent 
German cultivator. Our friends can do ns 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¬ 
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Bitter Milk.— Last month we gave the statement 
of Mrs. "A. N.’ of Texas, that the milk was made bitter 
by Dog-Fennel, which the cows ate. Prof. D. L. Phares. 
Woodville. Miss , writes that it is a common error to- 
suppose that cows eat the plant named. He says 
“Cows do not eat Dog Fennel, nor if eaten would it 
produce the alleged effect. The plant producing the bit 
ter milk is Helenium teram/WiMm—Bitter-weed. Where 
this plant is eaten in large quantities it causes the but 
ter to be a little bitter and also the flesh. Mutton is 
rendered bitter by this same plant; and cooking does 
not remove the bitterness. Ignorance of these facts 
| caused families to suppose that attempts were made by 
| servants to poison them. And it has been my fortune 
1 more than once, by showing the true state of the case, 
to save innocent persons from prosecution for ‘attempt 
to poison’.” The plant in question is a native of the 
| Southernmost States, and is sometimes seen in northern 
! gardens. It has smaller yellow flowers than the common 
Helenium autumnale, the “Sneezewort” and very nar- 
; row, almost thread-like leaves. 
Excursions to Europe.- When one has de- 
j termined to make a visit to Europe for the first time, his 
first step in the way of preparation is to look np some 
friend who has already been there, and inquire of him aa 
to routes, hotels, expenses, and such other particulars ns 
will help him on the way. Every one can not readily 
find a person who can give him such aid, but lie can 
procure it of Cook & Son, the excursionists, who have a 
wide reputation for taking excursion parties to nearly all 
parts of the world. It is not necessary to travel with a 
party in order to avail one’s self of Cooks’ facilities, as 
a large part of their business is in furnishing tickets- 
and information to single travellers and families. 
