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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
365 
THE BAKER GUNS. 
Three-Barrel 
GrTTONr, 
Two Shot and 
One Rifle. 
We make the best ouble 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—Be6t 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 
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guns 
G. C. SMITH, Sole*.Maker of iiaker Guns, Syracuse, N. V. 
*MSHOT 
®"GUN!e 
Established, 1848. 
|The Best Double- 
Barreled Shot-Gun 
i in the world lor 
ithemoney. War- 
franted genuine 
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Belt Sox Wads, Box Caps and Wad 
Bunch. Also our celebrated Kentucky Rifle 
for $12, warranted or no sale. Send for Il¬ 
lustrated Catalogue and Price Lists to 
James Sown dc Sou, Enterprise Gun Works, 
X36 «fc 138 Wood St., 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
la Dows Jointed Miami & Siootiu 
DISC HARROW. 
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Being jointed in tile center, is adapted to bot li 
smooth and uneven surfaces. Acknowl¬ 
edged tile best of (lie kind, and will pul¬ 
verize and cover seed better In one 
operation, than going over twice 
with others. Made with both Chill¬ 
ed Metal and Cast Steel Discs 
polished. Send for circular and 
price list. Manufactured by 
WHEELER & MELICK CO., 
Albany, N. Y., for tbe United States. 
By Everett & Small, Boston, Mass., for the N. E. States, 
and by Budlong & Co.. Aurora, Ill., for 111., Iowa, Wis„ 
Minn., Neb., Kan., and Mo. 
MILL MANUFACTORY 
ESTABLISHED 1851. 
Grist Mills of French Ruhr Stone. 
Portable Mills for Farmers, Saw Mills, etc. 18 Sizes 
and Styles. Over 2,000 in use. $80 and upwards. 
Complete Mill and Sheller $95. A boy can grind and keep 
m Older. Adapted to any kind of suitable power. Com¬ 
plete Flouring and Corn‘Mill. ALL SIZES. Send for 
Circular No. 28. NORDYIS.E & MARMON CO., 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
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Hgm nVAjirMT_LOCAL OR Traveline 
IWII Lul lvls-ll i Stute which preferred. 
Also SALARY per month. All EXPENSES 
advanced. WAGES promptly paid. SLOAN 
A- Co. BOO George St. Cincinnati. O. 
Hardy Perennial Plants 
Are Increasing in popularity because they are 
Hardy, their roots living through the winter—and 
Perennial, appearing year after year in the same place. 
They include the most beautiful kinds that bloom all 
through the season, from earliest spring to latest fall. 
Autumn is In many cases the best season for setting out 
there plants. 
Send for Tee descriptive Catalogue of the largest collec¬ 
tion in the Country—including Hardy Climbers, flowering 
Shrubs, Lilies, Phloxes, ferns, etc. Also choice native plants. 
WOOLSOS Si CO., Box 180, Passaic, JV. J. 
VICTOR 
Double Huller 
Clover Machine 
Is the only Huller that has ever 
hulled 100 bushels of seed in one 
day from damp and wet straw. Send 
for Descriptive Circular, which con¬ 
tains many letters confirming this. 
Hagerstown Agricultural Imple¬ 
ment Mfg.Co.,Hagerstown,Md. 
State where you saw Advertisement. 
Farmers’ Report 
ON 1 
CLOVER HULLERS. 
LaGrange, La Grange Co., Ind., May 27,1880. 
Report of a Joint Committee appointed by the Agricul¬ 
tural Societies of St. Joseph County, Michigan, and La 
Grange County, Indiana, to test the relative merits of the 
VICTOR CLOVERHULLER, OF HAGERSTOWN, MARY¬ 
LAND, and of the BIRDSELL MONITOR, JUNIOR, 
CLOVER HULLER, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA: 
Whereas, at the St. Joseph County, Michigan. Fair, held 
at Centreville, on the 2lstdayof May, 1880, an agreement 
was entered into by the representatives of the different ma- 
chines to have a trial of their merits at the LaGrange 
County Fair on Thursday, May 27, a Joint Committee was 
formed, consisting of five from each of the two counties, 
and held such trial this day. 
The Committee, in pursuance of the agreement,secured two 
two-horse-loads of clover, which had been stacked two win¬ 
ters, and brought them on the grounds, and determined that 
each machine should thresh one load, and then each RK- 
THRESH the straw which had been run through the other 
machine according to agreement 
At the conclusion of the trial the Committee repaired to 
Agricultural Hall, and, after due dell eration, unanimously 
decided in favor of ihe Victor for rapidity and ex¬ 
cellency of work in all respects. 
The Birdsell, from 1.339 pounds straw, threshed 37 pounds 
seed mixed with a large quantity of chaff; the Victor, from 
1,210 pounds straw, threshed 48)4 pounds seed mixed with a 
less quantity of chaff. The time occupied In threshing bv the 
Victor was eight minutes less than that occupied bv the Bird¬ 
sell. From the straw of the Victor the Birdsell machine re¬ 
threshed two pounds seed ; from the straw of the Birdsell 
the Victor rethreshed eight pounds of seed. The time occu 
pied by the Victor in this rethreshing was seven minutes 
less than that occupied bv the Birdsell. 
These machines were both run by a Russell engine, from 
Massilon, Ohio, in chirge of John F.Fallon; used essential¬ 
ly the same amount of power. 
'E. Sixby, chairman, LaGrange, Ind. 
J. H. Gardner, Sec'y, Centreville, Mich. 
James Richards, Centreville. Mich. 
Morden Sabin, Centreville, Mich. 
Signed by Samuel Frankish, Centreville, Mlcb. 
Committee.) Charles Frankish, Centreville. Micb. 
L. M. Woodworth, LaGrange. Indiana. 
James Clugston, LaGrange, Indiana. 
Arad Lampman, LaGrange, Indiana. 
J. E. Hock, LaGrange Indiana. 
Circulars of the Victor sent postage prepaid on applica¬ 
tion. 
Hagerstown Agl. Imp. Manf. Co., 
HAGERSTOWN, Md, 
MEDAL MACHINES' 
New York State Agricultural Works. 
First Premiums at all Competitive Trials. 
Railway, Chain an.l Lever Horse Powers, 
Threshers and Cleaners, Threshers and 
Shakers, Clover Hollers, Feed Cutters, 
Wheel Horse Ra kes, Corn Cultivators, 
Horse Pitehtorhs, Shingle machines, 
Straw Preserving Rye Thresh¬ 
ers, Portable Steam-Engines, 
Cider and Wine-mills and 
Presses Dog and Pony 
Powers, etc., etc. 
WHEELER & MELBCK CO., 
ALBANY, N. Y. 
Send stamp for circular and report of Centennial trial. 
CIDER 
Can be kept 
for years 
SWEET 
As when pressed bynslng Old w Preservative 
It absolutely prevents fermentation; Is simple cheap, and 
healthful; far ahead of anv other process: convincing tes¬ 
timony sent to the doubting. Package for 3 bb's., 50 cte.; 
for 7 bbls., $1, with full directions for use by mail, prepaid. 
Address FRANK FORD, Ravenna, Ohio. 
containing a great variety of Hems. including wavy 
good Hints and Suggestions which ice throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
Continued from Page 339. 
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page, and reckon 22 cents to the shilling sterling. 
“ Smut Grass,’’.Indian Drop-Seed Grass, 
—This grass, Sporobolus Indicus , and Agrostis Indica 
of the older works, appears to be common from North 
Carolina southward. The flowers are often ergotised, 
and as the fine spores blacken the hands, or whatever 
else comes in contact with them, it has received the 
popular name of “Smut Grass,’’and in some places is 
known as “Black-seeded Grass.” If any of our friends 
have had experience with this as a pasture or lawn grass 
we shall be glad to hear from them in regard to it. 
Chisel Handles are very apt to be spoiled by 
splitting down when improperly struck with the hammer 
or mallet. This trouble may be avoided by putting a 
piece of heavy leather around the upper end as a ferule, 
fastened in place by a few small tacks. When a mallet 
is used, the leather ring is better than an iron one, as 
the mallet is not beaten out of shape by the leather as it 
may he if there is an iron ring on the handle. 
A Large Horse.— One of the largest horses ever 
seen in New York City, recently arrived from Ohio. He 
is 20 hands and one inch in bight and weighs 2,450 
pounds. The animal is of “native” stock and is a dark 
bay, of fine proportions and appears in perfect health. 
Are Lombardv Poplars Injurious ?—‘\T M. 
W..” Pontiac. Ill., asks if Lombardy Poplar will injure- 
fruit trees and prevent them from bearing. Most de¬ 
cidedly. provided it is planted where its roots can ex¬ 
tend and rob the fruit trees of the nourishment that 
their roots ought to take up. And so with any other tree. 
Handsomer tban silver Mate.— Some quits' 
novel ware recently attracted our attention, and wo 
learned that it was a “ Granite Tea Set,” a new preminns 
for 1881 with other articles, brought to the office to have 
engravings made for the Premium List. There were, be- 
