1877.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
4r37 
A Favorite Youth’s Paper.— The Youth's Companion 
of Boston has steadily grown in public favor for more than 
fifty years, and is now one of the most admirably conducted 
papers in tile country. 
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or at its Laboratory, now in process of erection at Wellesley, 
Mass. Address, Committee's Secretary, IS West St., Boston. 
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A Series of Articles in tlie Colloquial 
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For Editorial Endorsement see American Agriculturist, 
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of same publication. 
THE HARVEST OF 1878. 
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