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AMEEIOA^T AGEICULTUEIST, 
July.] 
GOOD NEWS 
HL ADIES; 
Now’s your time to get 
■np Or<lers for our CELEBRA¬ 
TED TEAS and COFFEES, and 
secure a beautiful MOSS 
ROSE or GOLD-BAND CHINA TEA-SET 
(14 pieces), our own importation. One of tliese beauti¬ 
ful china sets given away to the party sending an order 
for $25. This is the greatest inducement ever offered. 
Send in your orders and enjoy a cup of GOOD TEA 
or COFFEE, and at the same time procure a HAND¬ 
SOME CHINA TEA-SET. No humbug. Good Teas, 
30c., 35., and 40c. per lb. Excellent Te,as, 50c. and 60c., 
and very best from C5c. to 90c. We are the oldest and 
largest Tea Company in the business. The reputation 
of our house requires no comment. We have just im¬ 
ported some very fine WHITE (5RANITE DINNER 
SETS, (115 pieces), which we give away with Tea and 
Coffee orders of $40 and upwards. E'or fuii particulars, 
Address THE GHEIT IMERICIH TEA GO. 
T. O. Box 289. 81 and 33 Vesey St., New York. 
FAY’S 
WATER-PROOF 
BUILDING MANILLL 
(Established in 1866.) 
This water-proof material, resembling 
fine leather, is used for roofs, outside 
walls of buildings, and inside in place 
of plaster. Made also into carpets and 
rugs._ Samples and Catalogue free. 
' «fe CO., Camden, N. J. 
--■-■if 
lii'll 
”1 
■ 
W. H. 
have a new and rich work of rare attraction and 
A value. Over 2.000 illustrations, nearly 1,200 pages in a 
volume— never before equalled for the FARMER, 
STOCK-RAISER, or GARDENER. 40 Colleges 
ItElin WIHIED 
STOCK-RAISER, or GARDENER, 40 Colleges 
and Specialists have contributed to this Great Work. 
I think the endorse¬ 
ments are unparal¬ 
leled and that its s.ale 
offers capable men 
a chance to make 
money not equalled elsewhere in the book-line to-day. In¬ 
vestigation solicited! A valuable pamphlet free! Aconfiden- 
tial proposition to those open for an engagement. Address 
W. H. THOMPSON, PuBLisHEK, 404 Arch St., Phila., Pa. 
Books on Hygiene, Physical Culture, Sociology, 
Government of Children, etc. 
THE HERALD OF HEALTH. Monthly. $1 per year. 
HYGIENE OF THE BRAIN AND THE CURE OF 
NERVOUSNESS. BvM. L. Holbrook, M. D. $1.50. 
EATING FOR STRENGTH. By M. L. Holbrook, M. D. $1. 
LIVER COMPLAINT, MENTAL DYSPEPSIA, AND 
HEADACHE. Their (jure by Home Treatment. By M. L. 
Holbrook, M. D. $1. Be sure and get our Catalogue. 
Sample of Herald of Health free. 
M. L, Holbrook, Nos. 13 and 15 Laight Street, N. Y. 
FOR lO OEJN^TS. 
The St. Louis Magazine, edited by Alexander N. De Menll. 
now in Its fifteenth year, is brilliantly illustrated, purely 
Western in make-up, replete with stories, poems, timely 
reading and humor, $1.50 a year. Sample copy and a set of 
gold colored picture cards sent for ten cents. Address, 
A. J. GILMORE, 213 North Eighth Street, St. Louis. The 
Amebioan Ageiculturist and St. Lopia Magazine, sent 
one year for $1.75. _ 
SiOU'D?jGD;l;QM 
THIS soup COLO BAND RINQ> 
I ranUid bolla Gold or money roiuudi 
war- 
[• money refunded, In 
I an elegant vclvetdlned casket* a case 
j| of sampleaofour lieautiful Cards* and 
_ our newi llustratedPremium Listwithagt’s’ 
terms, &c.,ali sen tposUpaid for 45c., 3 for $1.25. Offer made to se¬ 
cure new agents for 1884. We will print your name in new type on 
50 Kcautics* 50a11new ChromoR*10c* 11 packs for £1.00, 
and the above ring FREE to sender of club. NewSampleBook25c. 
post-paid. CAPITOL CABD CO., HABTPOBI), CONIT. 
^ Large, New, Embossed border Chromo Cards, all gold, 
silver,motto and hand, name on, 10c., 13 pks. $1. Agts’ 
latest samples, 10 cts. L. JONES & CO., Nassau, N. Y. 
PC A style Chromos, EVERT CARD EMBOSSED. 
• Moss Rose. Bird Mottoes, Hand Mottoes, Golden 
Beauties, &c., name on, 10c. -^tna Ptg. Co., Northford, Ct. 
40 
(1884) CHROMO CARDS, no 2 alike, with 
name, 10c., 13 pks., $1. 
GE(). I. 
REED & CO., Nassau, N. Y. 
OLEGANT pack of 30 Floral Beauties, Mottoes, Verses, 
.&c.. name on, 10c. 10 pks. & Silver Napkin Ringor Ag’ts’ 
“Sample Book, $1.00. TODD & Co., Cllntonville, Conn. 
Anvil, Vise, Cut off Tool for Farm and 
House use. 3 sizes, ^.50, $5.50, $6.50. 
Sold by hardware dealers. To intro¬ 
duce, one free to first person who 
gets up club of four. Agents wanted. 
Write for particulars. 
CHENEY ANVIL & VISE CO., 
Detroit, Mich. 
HEADQUARTERS FOR 
The “Standard” Oalvanized Wire Nettings. 
for Garden 
Poultry 
Euns. 
Fish 
Ponds. 
Aviaries. 
Fencing. 
Vine 
Training. 
Lawn 
Fencing. 
Illustrated Catalogue containing Plans of Poultry Houses, 
and Runs, Pigeon Houses, Aviaries, Dog Kennels, Garden 
Seats, Summer Houses, &c., togetlicr with valuable infor¬ 
mation about keeping Poultry, Pigeons, Birds and Dogs, and 
how to make it profitable, sent on receipt of 10c. to cover 
postage. 
All correspondence will receive prompt attention. Address 
BROCKNER «& EVANS. Manufacturers & Importers, 
Mention paper. 4‘W West St., N. V. City. 
^DS| 
SPECIAL OFFER 
To Actual Settlers 
open only between the 1 st 
doyof MarchandtheSlst 
day of Dec., 1884. 
The lands in- 
eluded in this offer are 
the most productive and, consid¬ 
ering locality, the cheapest of any 
unoccupied lands 
I the United 
Write to 
States now 
open forsale. 
First appli¬ 
cants will 
have first 
chance. 
Home seekers j 
' catch on." 
4@^For Maps, 
Illustrated 
Papers 
''Br j f 
^'Ormation 
J- 33- 
Xjand and Immigration Commissioner, 
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba R’y, 
ST. PAUL, MINN. 
$500 TO $2,000. 
H LAi a B I ■ Terms Easy, Profitable and 
Productive. Eggs, Poultry, Fruit, Milk, Best of Markets. 
I’rosperous Place. New Land, $20 per acre. 
C. K. LANDIS, Vineland, N, J. 
SEND FOR REASONS WHY 
the Eastern Shore of Maryland offers more advantages than 
BENJ. ~ ■ ■ 
elsewhere. 
HOUSE, Greensborough, Md. 
Maps and Newspaper, 
three months for 25 
cents. Address, 
FARRELL’S LAND OFFICE. Waldo, Florida. 
FLORIDA.: 
A 150 Delaware Fruit and Grain Farms 
I* 14 Ivi I'i cheap. Catalogues free. 
A A. P. GRIFFITH, Smyrna, Del. 
A Profitable Investment! 
Each S5 doubled within 30 days, and 
loss rendered impossible. 
A MEW CITY LOCATED?^ ^ 
Hindsdale City, adjoining beautiful Garden City — the 
“ loveliest village of the plain"—and Creedmoor Rifle Range, 
N. Y. Several thousand building lots, surrounding Hins¬ 
dale depot, $180 each, selling on monthly payments of $5 per 
lot; four lots, $10 per month. Prices advanced $5 per lot 
montlily until present prices are at least doubled. Cottages 
$10 monthly for each $1,000 of cost. Nuisances and shanties 
prohibited; no malaria, chills, fevers or mosquitoes; cli¬ 
mate, soil, drives and surroundings unsurpassed. Building 
optional with purchaser; fair dealing guaranteed; nothing 
over-colored. Buy for investment, residence or Summer 
home. New York will be 
THE FUTTKE CITY OF THE WORLD. 
Property around it is rapidly increasing in value, and must 
continue to do so. You enter no uncertain venture by in¬ 
vesting in Hinsdale. Prices are low compared with all 
other New York surroundings ; increase certain ; prospec¬ 
tive value greater than any property equi-distant. Hinsdale 
is 13 miles from New Y'ork—35 minutes by rail, and 5 minutes 
additional by Brooklyn Bridge or Ferry : and the commuta¬ 
tion averages 10 cents per trip. It is on the main line of the 
Long Island Raili’oad, and is the junction for both Garden 
City and Creedmoor Rifle Range. Improvements proposed, 
etc., will render Hinsdale an attractive place of abode. 
Agents wanted of either sex. Circulars, etc., of 
R. WII.SOIV, Attorney, 335 Broadway, New York. 
MIXED FARMING 
IN NEBRASKA. 
Crain, Corn, and Live Stock Crowing 
Combined. 
Tlie most Profitable and agreeable of any occupation. 
1883 
Reports prove the agriculturists of Nebraska, to have 
been the most successful of any people in the West. 
Write for information about the above matters—also 
about U. P. Ry. lands in tliis State, which will be sent Free, 
in great variety, by LEAVITT BURNHAM, 
Laud Commissioner U. P. Ry. Co., 
Omalia, Neb. 
Refer to tliis advertisement. £Fn 
^ A I I Cr/\ D Al I A Full description by coun- 
I—I r Iv IM I/A. ties; 200-page pamphlet 
and map; price 50 cents, postage paid. 
MoAFEE BROTHERS, Land Agents, 
234 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. 
G li Austlnburg, Ohio. 52 yrs. of great 
« mi., success. Academic, Normal,Music, 
ComT. and Telegraphy. Board and Tuition, $35 for 3 mos. 
“IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD.” 
The Chickerings have always led in the march 
of improvement in Piano making. Hence their 
various styles of 
GRAND, SQUARE, and UPRIGHT 
Pianos have rapidly grown in public estima¬ 
tion, as is evinced by the number of Chickering 
Pianos sold since the foundation of the house, 
which already exceeds 
SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND. 
The highest musical authorities in all lands 
indorse the Chickering Piano. 
Write for their new Illustrated Catalogue. 
CHICKERING & SONS, 
WABEROOMS: 
130 Fifth Avenue, I 1B2 Tremont St., 
NKW YORK. BOSTON. 
American Agriculturist 
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