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AMEEIOAlSr AGEIOULTURIST. 
[August, 
The Agriculturist’s Microscopes. 
They are still Coming—the most gratifying com¬ 
pliments as to the superior quality and handsome 
appearance of the New American AyricuUurist Mi¬ 
croscope, which we have had expressly manufac¬ 
tured for the friends and workers of the American 
Aijrkulturist. Here are some sample replies : 
New Smyrna, Fla.. April :10, 1884. 
“I have received my Microscope, and I am more than 
paid for the money that I gave for it. It is just what I 
have been wanting for some time, and it is just what 
every one needs.” J. E. TiioiirsoN. 
Wetubrspibli), Ct., May 20, 1884. 
“I would also acknowledge the receipt of the Micro¬ 
scope, which came safely to hand, and is a very neat, 
tasty little instrument.” J. W. Griswold. 
Ithaca, N, Y., May 19, 1884. 
“I received the Compound Microscope to-day, and 
after a careful examination, I can cheerfully say it is bet¬ 
ter than my highest expectations. As to the quality of 
work on it, the makers’ name is a suffici ent guarantee for 
that. Please therefor, accept my thanks.” 
II. W. Smith. 
Ypsilanti, Mich., May 19, 1884. 
“The instrument exceeds anything I ever saw for the 
amount of money invested in it. It is certainly a mar¬ 
vel.” Prof. J. II. Hopkins. 
Farmi and, Ind., June 4, 1884. 
”The Microscope sent by mail fully meets my expec¬ 
tations.” N. W. Wright. 
Ewart, Iowa, April 9, 1884. 
‘‘Please find enclosed $1.‘25 for one of your SimpleMi- 
croscopes. I am a subscriber to your good old journal, 
and have the some confidence in you that I would have 
in a iirolher. I will got up a club for your paper in some 
future time.” Daniel F. White. 
This is the season of the year when these Micro¬ 
scopes can be empioyed to a great advantage by 
farmers, in very many ways. In fact, one of these 
Microscopes ought to pay a farmer ten times its 
cost every year, in the examination of bugs and in¬ 
sects of various kinds, which are injurious to vege¬ 
tation. 
The American Agriculturist for March, contains 
a full description of this new and beautiful Mi¬ 
croscope. 
If you have not this number of the paper, and 
would like to see the description, write to us, and 
we wili forward it to you. This Microscope is sent, 
delivered free, by us, to any part of the United 
States and Territories for $2—and delivered free to 
any actual subscriber of the Amei-ican AgriculturUt 
for 1884, for |!l.25. Furthermore, we wili present 
one, delivered free, and send the American Agricul¬ 
turist to any new subscriber, post-paid, for $2. Still 
further, we will present this Microscope to any 
present subscriber, delivered free to him, if he 
sends us two new subscribers to the A7neriean Agri¬ 
culturist for one year, at $1 50 each. 
How it is Regarded Abroad. 
“ The London Morning Post,” No. 34,94", over a 
century old, and one of the leading papers of the 
Old World, thus pleasantly alludes to this journal: 
“ We learn that with the July part of the American 
Agnculturist, Mr. Joseph Harris will attach himself 
to the editorial staff of that journal. One of the 
pleasantest of agricultural writers, and with the 
knowledge that an education at Eothamsted must 
give, this gentleman is to be congratulated on re¬ 
newing his connection with the journal that has 
more of the ring of the domestic hearth than amj 
other Agricultural Journal in the ivorld." 
“ The Frome (England) Times and Agricultural 
Journal” for the Counties of Somerset, Wilts, and 
Dorset, says: ‘‘The American Agriculturist for 
July, 1884, is the most superb number of that 
periodical issued in its 43 years of existence. 
This is the best and most horne-like agrictdtural 
2 M 2 )er published, and ought to have a large sale in 
this country ” (England). 
Mr. Henry F. Moore, F. C. S., the agricultural 
editor of the “Times,” in a congratulatory com¬ 
munication to the Publishers of the American Agri- 
culturist, says : “ It is a capital paper.” 
Do Not Fail 
to immediately inform us if your paper does not 
promptly reach you. Postmasters generally through 
the country are friends of the American Agi-icidtur- 
ist, and will be glad to aid you and us is discover¬ 
ing the cause of any miscarriage, whereby your 
cojiy fails to reach you on time. The American 
Agricidturist is now mailed as regularly as clock 
work to all subscribers. 
Kind Words. 
At no time has the American Agi'iculturist received 
so many flattering notices from the press and from 
its subscribers, as now. We thank our cotem- 
poraiies for their kind words, and our subscribers 
and friends for their appreciative letters. We have 
simply to say to one and all, that we shall continue 
to improve the paper with every issue. The May, 
June, July and August issues are an earnest of 
what it is to be in the future. To the old 
staff of editors and writers who have been with us 
so many years, we are making accessions, so that 
the American Agriculturist is now stronger editori¬ 
ally than at any former period of its existence. Mr. 
Allen, the founder of the paper, and for so many 
years its publisher, may well feel a pride in the 
success, which this journal, started over 40 years 
ago, has now attained. 
Hon. W. I. Chamberlain, Secretary of the Ohio 
State Board of Agriculture, writes: “lam glad 
to learn that Mr. Harris has begun to write for the 
Ameidcan Agriculturist. I shall begin to take tlie 
paper again at once, as will very many others.” 
Illustrations. 
Will contributors invariably bear in mind our re¬ 
quest to forward plain and simple sketches and 
designs with their manuscript. Our artists will 
make the engravings. The June, July and the cur¬ 
rent numbers, indicate what the illustrated features 
of the Anierican Agricidturist will be hereafter. 
To-Day. 
Now is the time to subscribe for the Amerkarh. 
Agriculturist. 
You may be busy on the farm, in the garden, or 
in the household, during July, August, and Sep-^ 
tember. 
But those are the months when you may require 
hints and suggestions, more than ever. 
You will find them in the American Agricidturist. 
Then the beautiful pictures in each number will 
interest you when you come in tired from a hard 
day’s work. 
They will both instruct and entertain your wife 
and little ones. 
We propose to make the department for the 
children more interesting than ever. We want 
every boy and girl in the land, who reads the 
American Agriculturist, to look forward anxiously 
every month for its appearance. 
And then, when you have read all the interesting 
things in the Children’s Department, we want you 
to suggest to us anything more that you would 
like to see there. 
Several juvenile subscribers have told us re¬ 
cently that they would like to have the Puzzles 
and Charades which were formerly in this depart¬ 
ment. 
Well—we are going to oblige you in this respect, 
and have some more of them from time to time, in 
the future. 
Old Subscribers. 
We are now classifying by States, counties and 
towns, all the vast army of subscribers to the Amer¬ 
ican Agriculturist during the past ten years. We 
expect that every one now living, who is not now 
a subscriber, will hear from us soon. To this end, 
will every subscriber within ten years, who is not 
now a subscriber, and who has within that period 
changed his post office address, immediately notify 
us of the fact. The names will then be properly 
classified under the right Post Offices. 
Westward, Ho’! j 
Very many of our readers arc writing, thanking ; 
us for what they esteem as valuable information, ! 
regarding the Far-West. | 
One of our editors will make his extensive annual i 
tour through the Western States and Territories, ^ 
in quest of information for those of our readers j 
who are seeking Western Homes, and wish to know ; 
the best locality in w'hich to settle. 
During the last eigth months we have given a i 
good deal of information regarding Dakota. We ! 
propose to give much more. 
We invite our readers in that Territory, also I 
in Minnesota, in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, j 
and other Western States and Territories, to send 
us any information about their localities, of inter¬ 
est. Let it be very brief, however. 
Tell us what land is worth per acre in your re¬ 
gion, and what the inducements are for settlers. 
There is a good deal of Government land in some 
regions of the Far-West, which has not yet been 
settled. But such portions are growing rapidly in 
population ; and those who wish to obtain a farm 
of Uncle Sam should not wait too long. The 
first to come are the best served. 
If R. D. Buchanan, formerly of Saginaw, Mich., 
and for many years a subscriber of the American 
Agricxdtunst, will send his present address to us, 
he will confer a great favor upon his devoted 
daughter, Mrs, Alice Webster. 
