THRESHING MACHINE 
A New Orleans dispatch says heavy cannonad¬ 
ing was heard on the 31st near Mobile. 
Cotton, sugar, molasses aud flour are on the 
decline at New Orleans. The latter commodity 
has fallen to $S per barrel, for superfine. 
There are about seven hundred female clerks 
employed in the Treasury Department at Wash¬ 
ington. Their pay is $7120 per annum each, for 
about six hours close work per diem. 
Our Government has nowin the field an ar 
my of not less than five hundred and fifty thou¬ 
sand effective men—well equipped and supplied, 
officered well and commanded by Generals of 
first rate ability. 
Collector Simeon Draper has returned to 
New York from Savannah, having completed his 
duties there in regard to the superintendence of 
the cotton captured in that city by Gen. Sher¬ 
man, which it is now ascertained amounted to 
38,500 bales, the greater part of it being of the 
Sea Island kind, 
gutmti.scmcntisi 
A GREAT BATTLE BEFORE RICHMOND 
AND PETERSBURG! 
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A New Quarter of the Rural commences this 
week, (April 8,) and now is a favorable time to sub¬ 
scribe for single copies, make additions to clubs or 
form new ones. Subscriptions from now until the 
close of the volume (nine months) at the same pro¬ 
portionate rates as for a foil year. E3T" Back num¬ 
bers will be supplied when ordered, until otherwise 
announced. As our army has finally got “ On to Rich¬ 
mond," we propose to enter upon a grand Peaceful 
Campaign and make the Rural more valuable and 
interesting than ever. Shall we have 5,000 new sub¬ 
scribers to aid in lubricating the machinery ? ” 
From the West. 
The Missouri Constitutional Convention 
on the 29th ult, adopted an article providing 
that after the first, of January, 1S76, no person 
shall be allowed to vote in the State who is una¬ 
ble to read, except through physical causes. 
Another article adopted provides that foreign¬ 
ers may vote one year after declaring their inten¬ 
tion to become citizens. 
The effects of the. late storm in Missouri have 
been very severe. All the rivers are very high, 
and immense damage has been done to public 
and private property, 
Geu. Mitchell, in a dispatch dated Fort Kear¬ 
ney, March 28, reports that his command had 
captured 150 lodges of Sioux Indians, and 90 of 
another tribe, 150 miles from Fort Laramie. 
Petitions to the President are being exten¬ 
sively signed at Memphis that Tennessee be no 
longer considered an insurrectionary State, 
Major-General Pope and staff arrived at Mem¬ 
phis on the 81st ult., en route to Helena, Ark., 
on an inspection tour. 
The western mail train between W heeling and 
Baltimore was captured on the 30th ult. by guer¬ 
rillas, and the ears burned. The passengers were 
all robbed. 
The Richmond Sentinel of a late date has the 
following from East Tennessee; 
“Gen. Thomas having transferred n part of his 
army to Knoxville, and united it with Gillem, Is 
said to be moving in the direction of the Vir¬ 
ginia line. 
At last accounts the command had reached 
the vicinity of Greenville, a little over hair woy 
from Knoxville to Bristol. 
The expedition is accompanied by an engi¬ 
neer corps of 2,000 men, who are engaged in 
re-building the railroad as fast as the enemy 
marches. Communication with the base at 
Knoxville will be thus kept up. 
The object of the expqditton is, no donbt, to 
possess and hold South-Western Virginia, and, if 
practicable, to move on and capture Lynchburg, 
thus operating with Grunt in compelling the 
evacuation of Richmond. 
The scheme is well conceived, but it will he 
very apt to miscarry .in the execution just as 
others have.” 
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With thanksgiving and praise to that All 
Wise Ruler who upheld the arm of onr Wash¬ 
ington and gave us a name in the front ranks of 
the nations of the earth, do we announce to the 
readers of the Rural this week, that “the great 
Babylon” of rebellion has fallen, and that, the 
deluded army under Lee has been discomfited 
and is endeavoring to 11 flee from the wrath to 
come ” to a place of safety — some “ City of 
Refuge” where, perchance, justice for a little 
time may be stayed hi its certain strides of anni¬ 
hilation. 
From what we can learn from the dispatches 
of the President, the Secretary of War, and 
the Commanding Generals to and from each 
other, the conflict must have raged for four or 
five d 3 y 6 in the Armies of the James and Pota- 
mae, resulting in the evacuation of Petersburg 
on Sunday night last, the 2d inst., and Rich¬ 
mond on Monday morning. We have but few 
details. While the battle was still in progress 
on Sunday, Gen. Grant telegraphed to the 
President that he had already captured 12,000 
prisoners! 
Gen. Weitzel telegraphed to the Secretary of 
War, April 3 —11 A. M., that “we took Rich¬ 
mond at 8:15 this A. M. I captured many 
guns. The enemy left in great haste. The city 
is on fire in one place, and I am making an effort 
to put it ont. The people received us with en¬ 
thusiastic expressions of joy. General Grunt 
started early this morning toward the Danville 
road to cut off Lee’s retreating array.” 
President Lincoln has been in the vicinity 
of the conflict since its commencement. 
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From the South. 
The rebels lost fully 4,000 men in prisoners 
in their recent attack on Fort Stedman. The 
Federals achieved a much more important vic¬ 
tory than was at first reported. 
The Herald’s correspondent of March 29,says:— 
Another engagement took place in the Army 
of the Potomac last Monday morning, which, 
though confined to a small portion of the line, 
was of q uite a severe character, at least for the reb¬ 
els. A party of them, who pretended that they 
wished to desert, were allowed to approach the 
national lines, when they made a fierce attack on 
the 1st Division of the 6 th Corps just before day¬ 
break for the purpose of recovering their ad¬ 
vance works, from which they were driven on 
Saturday. Onr forces were at first forced back, 
but they in 9 tanty rallied, repulsed the enemy at 
all points, and recovered and maintained their 
captured ground. 
The rebel loss during the short fight was 
heavy, while that of the 6 th Corps was very 
light. 
Finally the rebels massed for a last effort. 
This time they came up without their old, famil¬ 
iar yell, and marched steadily on Robiuson’s 
five batteries. They were met with the most 
terrific lire ever witnessed. Many of the gray 
mass raised their hands deprecatingly. Their 
oflicers, by great exertions and personal bravery, 
brought them on in some order until they reached 
a point where Hawley’s brigade brought to bear 
upon them a flank fire. This added to their mis¬ 
ery, yet they stood it bravely and came on. The 
five batteries then opened at a distance of less 
than 700 yards, throwing canister and spherical 
case into the wavering mass of rebels, the dis¬ 
charges being as rapid for a time as the ticks of 
a lever watch. The flashes of the guns seemed 
a steady blaze. The enemy at last broke and 
fled t in confusion, from the field. An hour later 
not a shot was heard along the line. 
The entire first line of rebel works captured 
by the 2d and 6 th Corps last Saturday is still 
held by them, and has been rendered so strong 
that any effort of the enemy for its recovery must 
prove futile. 
President Lincoln 
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From the South-west. 
Tub steamer Fung Shuey, from New Orleans 
25th, arrived at New York the 1st inst, 
A Fort Gaines letter of the 20th, states that 
transports and gunboats w r ere busily loading 
troops on tbe opposite side oi Mobile Bay. 
Gen. Granger left for his command on the 19tb. 
Gen. Thomas had been heard from all right. 
A Barrancas letter states that Steel’s army 
commenced their march, Ibe advance, on the 
16th, taking the road to Hindido river, eight miles 
from Pensacola. It is reported his army would 
move through Galdwin county, Alabama, strik¬ 
ing for Blakely Landing, 45 miles above Mobile, 
where they expect to form a junction with the 
column from Mobile Bay. Rebel cavalry had 
made some skirmishing with the advance. Piers 
and wharves have been rebuilt at Pensacola, 
Several reconuoissanees have been made in 
Mobile Bay, and an attack is soon expected to 
be made. 
A dispatch from Mobile Point to St. Louis, 
dated the 22d ult., says:—Moore’s Brigade landed 
near Navy Cove to-day and drove a portion of 
Gcb. Gardner’s command four miles, when the 
rebels being re-enforced from Mobile, and the 
Object of the recouDOissanee having been accom¬ 
plished, Col. Moore fell back without loss. 
Every preparation was made for heavy fight¬ 
ing on the 2 lst inst., and the sound of ar¬ 
tillery came down the bay yesterday, and was 
distinctly heard at Fort Gaines. High winds 
are prevailing to day, and the sound of artillery 
has ceased. The results remain yet to be learned. 
The Richmond papers of the 29th, have the 
following:—“ Advices from Mobile to the 26th, 
say preparations for the defense arc very com¬ 
plete, and provisions to last six months are in the 
city.” 
One of onr monitors made an important re- 
conndistance of the rebel works recently, and 
was allowed to move about without being fired 
upon. 
The authorities of the city appear to be de¬ 
termined to make a strong resistance. 
The Herald’s correspondence from Mobile, 
23d, says: —Smith’s Sixteenth Corps, accom¬ 
panied by Gen. Canby and staff, that day arrived 
at Dflnby ’6 Mills, on Fish river, on the east side 
of Mobile Bay and ten miles distant from it ancl 
twenty-six miles from Mobile city. 
The entire Thirteenth Corps, under command 
of Gen. Gordon Granger, was expected to join 
the Sixteenth at Dabby’s Mills, during the eve¬ 
ning of the 23d. Tills corps moved by land from 
Navy Cove, at the lower end of (lie bay, a dis¬ 
tance of 45 miles; aud in ail this march not 
more than fifty rebel soldiers were encountered. 
In fact, no opposition worthy of the name was 
made to the advance of either corps, and no 
rebel works were encountered, showing that the 
movement, was a complete surprise. Ilia rea¬ 
son for not expecting an advance in this direc¬ 
tion was probably the almost impassable nature 
of the country. Gen. Ouuby’s movement on 
the west side of the Mobile Bay is probably a 
feint. 
Heavy firing in the direction of Mobile had 
been heard for twenty-four hours previous to 
the 23d, and was supposed to proceed from an 
engagement between monitors and rebel shore 
batteries. 
The advance upon that city commenced upon 
the 17th. Very little opposition was met with. 
The Thirteenth and Sixteenth Corps compose 
the army of advance, and Gens. Canby, Granger, 
and A. J. Smith are in the field. The navy are 
fully prepared to co-operate. 
No serious opposition was anticipated until 
reaching the works about the city, which are 
I said to be garrisoned by 15,000 rebels who will 
I make a stubborn resistance. 
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Geneva, N. Y., March 27,1S65. 191-It 
Flood in Oil City. —The loss in the late flood 
in Oil City and vicinity, is estimated at $5,000,000. 
And to replace everything as it was before the 
disaster would require a Etill larger sum. Fully 
CO,000 barrels of oil were lost, and the number 
of empty barrels will net Fall short of 20,000; 
the number of boats not less than 150 ; the num¬ 
ber of horses drowned^ver 100. The destruc¬ 
tion to otner properimmense. 
Parhet.s, tfommmc, 
Rural New-Yorker Office, {. 
Uooukbtks, April 4, 1865. 1 
Still the market, in all departments, Is dull. Buyers 
only purchase to supply Immediate wants, and holders 
hesitate to sell as the prices go down. 
TTtoi»r UV**n Mv»r *tp—TVM ti* vhmf fl-tnr «1*> » 
red wheat, $10 bbL Coarse mill teed, $12; tine, 153 ¥ 
tun. Corn meal, $2,70 iR 100 Its. 
Gears.—W hile wheat, $1,50(3.2,50; red wheat, $1,50. 
Coru, $1,30(21.35. Burley. $1(21.25. Oats, ?0®75c. 
Fokagb.—H ay Is plenty at $16(226, and going down 
rapidly. Straw, $10. 
Seeds.— Tbi)othy$l(&5j>0. Clover, $13@15,00. Beans, $1 
<§,2. I’eiia, $1,50. Flux, $2,50(23. 
Fruits. — ,Vo green apples In market ; dried 10<211c. 
Meats.—F rc6h pork $15(216. Beef, $151216. MuttOD, 12 
@14 ¥ 100 tbs. Hams, 20c. Bhoalders, 16@18c. Chickens 
20@22c. Turkeys, 23c. Tallow, rough 7c Lard, 24@25c. 
Vegetaulks.— Potatoes, 50@63c. Onions, $1,75. Hops, 
30@S3c. Carrots, 85c, 
Dairy, cm — Butter, 20@20c. Cheese, l6@iSc. Eggs, 
10@17e. Suit, $3.45 i- bbl. 
Hides and Belts— Green hides Cc. V tb. Green calf 
skins 12c. Belts, $1@2 each. 
Wool.—M ay he qnoted at 40@50c, there having been a 
few sales at these figures. It is dull however. 
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Leaf Tobacco anil High wines, direct to manufacturers. 
The usual attention given to Baiter. Cheese, Bork, Beef, 
Flour, Grain, Beans, Peas, Dried aud Green Fruits, 
Needs, Kggs, &r.„ &c. 
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. 
The St. Albans Raiders.— The rebel raiders 
who robbed the St. Albans Bank, and commit¬ 
ted other depredations, and who have been on 
trial at Montreal for the offences for so long a 
time, have been discharged from custody. We 
learn, however, that the? have been re-arrested 
on other charges. 
T30ULTHY, PIGEONS AND EGGS for 
J SALK. — White Fared Black SpBllIsti, Black lted, 
I'yle, Irish Gray and English I'hr.asant Game and Brnlima 
I'ootrus. Each $. ,00 lu $10,00 per pair, $10,00 to $15,00 per 
trio, according to age and size. 
Also. 25 varieties of Btgcous from $S,00 to $5,00 per pair, 
accor ILng to kind. 
I will safely pack and forward ns directed, the follow¬ 
ing kind* warranted pure Eggs tor selling, v f. 
White Faced Black Spanish, Gray Dorkings, Bolton 
Grave. White anil Dominique Leghorns, Brahma I’oo- 
triiis White Shanghai*, Golden, Silver and Black Boland 
Earl Derby, Blocs Red, Byleanil Gray Game. Black. Gold 
Lace. Silver 1 ace. and Java Bantams. Aylesbury and 
Black Cayuga Ducks- One down of any of the above, 
$3,00: two do $5,00; five do, $10,00. All over that num¬ 
ber $2,00 per dozen. 
All orders booked and sent In tlieir lam. 1 Irsf. come 
first served,” They can be sent with safety by Express, 
by tnv manner of packing. Address 
TOl-3tj K. A. WENDELL. Box 11(4 B. (>., Albany,N.Y, 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
The Legislature of Vermont recently rati" 
fied the Amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States abolishing slavery. 
Bennet Benson of St. Paul, enlisted as a 
soldier twd*years ago, aits been in twelve bat¬ 
tles and wounded twice, yet is only fifteen years 
old. 
General Stoneman and his cavalry are on the 
war path again. They have destroyed over one 
hundred miles of rebel railroad communica¬ 
tions. 
More than thirty patents were issued in the 
last six months of 1864 for inventions relating to 
petroleum. So petroleum is a lubricator of invent¬ 
ive genins. 
Gen. Lew Wallace lias gone to Matamoras, 
Mexico, by order of the Government, to inquire 
into the recent unfriendly acts of Maximilian’s 
officers there. 
There are now, in the vast pineries of the 
Upper Mississippi, not far from three hutldred 
and fifty million feet of logs cut and ready for 
the spring “ drive.” 
A court in New Orleans has condemned the 
immense estates of Slidel^ and Benjamin in 
Louisiana, and they will be sold for the benefit 
of the Government. 
A party of rebel deserters who had taken the 
oath of allegiance, were arrested at a Washing¬ 
ton restaurant on Monday night, while cheering 
lustily for Jeff. Datls. 
Horse flesh is lecomiug popular on the con¬ 
tinent. In Denmlrk it is publicly sold, and at 
Vienna there are slven butcheries where, in 1S62, 
1,654 horses were retailed. 
At u public mealing at Toronto last Tuesday 
evening, by requistlon of tbe Mayor, it was re¬ 
solved that traders and others should continue 
to take American silver at par. 
The proposition Introduced into the Georgia 
Legislature to call a convention to decide as to 
the further connection of that State with the 
Confederacy, has >eeu defeated. 
The 6 th corps tf the army of the Potomac are 
going to raise lit,000 for a monument to Gen. 
Sedgwick. The [privates are to give 50 to 75 
cents, and officer! from $2 to $ 10 . 
Letters from Charleston, 8 . C., state that 
the work of regeneration has already begun in 
that city. By thepower of the sword that drove 
out, rebellion, frw schools are established, and 
the triumphs of war are made to minister to the 
perpetuation of peace. 
THE PROVISION MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, April I.—Cotton, 48®ttic for middlings. 
Flonr dull, arul I.VaJOc lower; Superfine State $H.53@8,60; 
extra State, $S,Wats,80: choice State, $S,K5@0,00; super¬ 
fine Western, $8,55(28.60: common to medium extra do. 
$8,80@0,15; common to good shipping brand* extra round 
hoop Ohio, $9.10669,35; tnulr. brand*, $9,8Q@I0,25. Cana¬ 
dian dull, at $8,80(210,75. Wheat, Chicago spring, $1.70; 
winter red Western $ 1 , 32 . Rye quiet and declining. Bar¬ 
ley, declining and no sales. Corn dull ami drooping, 
with sale* hIS5@90c. Petroleum, 33(273e. Bork, $26,25@ 
27,50 for new taros; #236524 lor mesa. Shoulder*. 1IK@ 
15)4('• Hums, IDI-piSlOIAC. l.ard, 15YW18C, Butter, 12@2lc 
for Ohio, and 30@25u lor State. Cheese, 14@33c. 
BUFF ALO, April i.—Hour dull, with sale* A Canada 
spring at7Ji7Vj, Wheat, $1,62H for white Canada. Corn 
dull (tats, ire. Bailey, $1.®!-. I’ve dull. Clover seed, 
$13(913,50. Timothy seed, fn. Boric. $2S6tSO for hicks.— 
Hums. 82c. Shoulders, 17c. Dried and smoked beef, 18e. 
Lard, 80c. Salt, $2,00(28,23. 
TORONTO. March 30.-Floor. $ DOS® 1,75. Fall wheat, 
at 8S*t’.aic ff bushel; spring (lo. P0&93c. Barley, ?0<277c. 
Pea*. rb&KSc. Oats, fiiis-Se. Uye, tioc. Buckwheat, 10@ 
45c. Tares, 80c@$l,U>. Hotter, I.V221U. Ciieese. I0X@11W. 
Eggs, 32S4St7e. Hum. lOKClllAC. Bacon. ftjfiOC. Laid, 
Uji&lfiKC. Apple*, $l,75iiu2,50 V bbl. Potatoes. 3l!@S8c 
$i btl. Carrot*, 30c. Turnips, 50e. Beef, 6@Te. Dressed 
hogs. 6 u@ 7 qc.. Huy, $16vilu. Straw, $8@U. Clover seed 
$6,7567. Timothy s- ed, *2 m h, 8hc» psklns. fl@l,«0. Calf 
skins, ?®Sc. Hides. $a :s3,M P PXi ft Oioac, 
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cording to the depth aud umouul to be planted or sown. 
We also invite attention to our 
Changeable Fnitlrs * Chain llailrway Uorsc- 
/‘ower 
a few days since, had an 
interview with several Generals at Fortress Mon¬ 
roe ancl at Gen. Grant’s headquarters. 
The Herald’s Washington special says in refer¬ 
ence to it, that the visit of Mr. Lincoln to For¬ 
tress Monroe and Gen. Grant’s headquarters is 
now Relieved here to have much more signifi¬ 
cance than was at first supposed. It has been 
the occasion of a personal interview between 
him and Generals Sherman and Sheridan. This 
conference was evidently in regard to pending 
military operations, as immediately after the 
counsel broke up, a general movement of the 
army of General Grant in front of Richmond 
was begun. 
We learn from Richmond (the 29th) that the 
business ofrecrultlngnegroes works very slowly. 
The darkies do not come forward willingly them¬ 
selves, nor are their masters disposed as a gen¬ 
eral thing to put them in the ranks. Less than 
one regimeut has been secured in Richmond so 
far. A parude of about six hundred of them 
took place on Thursday last. The Examiner 
says that the spectacle which vast crowds had 
assembled to witness, was a very sorry one. 
The blacks were habited in every sort of incon¬ 
gruous garments, carried their muskets as they 
would so many hoes, and slouched and shuffled 
in their march, as though doing the last steps in 
“ the Essence of Ole Virginny,” (as no doubt 
they were,) looking like so many sheep-stealers. 
Sambo realizes a painful consciousness that lie 
is on the wrong side, when enlisted to tight 
for the enslavement and degradation of his race. 
Stonernan’s cavalry is heard from at Boone, 
Ashe county, N. C., which is lu the extreme 
northwest corner of the State, 172 miles from 
Raleigh. 
The steamer General Lyon was burned off 
Hatteras on the 31st ult. She had on board 400 
or 500 60 ldicrs and refugees, some of them be- 
longing to the 6th, 89th and 99th New York re¬ 
giments. 
CATTLE MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, Miircti 29. —BeiiVfs received, 8,STO against 
2,372 Inst week. Halos range at u@24c. The bulk bro’t 
2nc#23c. (Jour, received. 176, Sale*, at $30(ail00 each. 
Veal calves, received, IA12 against 759 lost week. Hales 
runge ut 6(®15He. Hlseep and Lambs, received. 7,723 
against <U>il last wco’i. r.»n >pit IDtl-h'. Swine, received, 
4,(Ml against 1,908 lout week. Hales at $l3®lo,(A ?• cwt. 
BRIGHTON AND CAMBRIDGE. Match 29.-Beeves, 
range at, $10018. Oxen. $:3(Ks335$' pair. Milch Lows, $45 
w/jO. Handy Stems. $IO.Yai!5o. Veal Galvc», $8(.#15 each. 
Shoals, ileilOe. No taiiiog* in market. Slicep. U014C. 
TORONTO. March Sl-Flret claw Cattle, from f<i®7 00 * 
100 tts, dressed weight; 2nd do, $-1 . g t,<5; Inferior, $8<tfi 
3,50. Calves, $4@5 each, hut very few in market. Sheep, 
$1(8)5 each per car loud. Yearlings $3qi8,50.- Globe. 
WOOL MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, Market.—The N. Y. Shipping List of 25th 
in*t., report* the market for domestic itcece extremely 
dull, and prices have ben rendered still more uncertain 
hy the violent tlucUuiltons In gold. Foreign Is also ex¬ 
ceedingly dull and the sales at both Imported aud na¬ 
tive have been very light, the manftfaeaurrr* cotiffnlng 
their purchase* to their most pressing wants. At the am- 
tiou sail of damaged Cape on Wednesday, ufi bate* were 
knocked down ai prices ranging from 30 totte, averaging 
about SKC V tb , the damage wa* estimated at balls pei 
cent. Safe* domestic fleeces 10,000 tbs, w csteni at iUC; 
32,000 do. Ohio, 72 '-.(aiTO 50,000 do. CulUbmia, iWoV-f'C. In 
gold, lor super, and 15(fl)19e for slightly burred; HU bags 
tub wushed, fiOGfikk:. 
PniLADELI'IIIA, Market.—At Philadelphia buyers 
are holding off, and the market Is unsettled and lower, 
w ith utile or no disposition to operate to any extent at 
the decline, and a lew small sales only are reported at 80 
<ai90c for fleece, mostly at 86c, and the tub lit DfitgjlOSc lb. 
BOSTON. March 30—The following are the Adver¬ 
tiser's quotations: — Saxony choice, 90oy95c; Saxony 
tleece stHjiiUOe; foil-blood Merino, SO@i37c; three-quarter* 
do, tciust; half do, 80&82C, common, I.V&18 ; Western 
mixed, TOtiJsUe: California, 30«J*)c; Canada, !tfc^»$l,30; 
Combined Threuhers amt Cleaners, Threshers, 
Separators Fanning Mitts, Hood Saws, Ac., 
the bust In market, l’loaso send tn your orders early, as 
we record in turn, and uru governed by “ first come, 
first served." 
For further Information send for Circular. 
Address If. A >1. HARDER. . 
784-3t Coblt-nkili, Scholinrte Co.. N. A . 
rro COKN AND COTTON GROWERS 
STAFFORDS CULTIVATOR 
Is offered by the subscriber* to fanners a* the best two- 
tvheeled Cultivator In use. Two rows cun be plowed »t 
one time, and the ground thoroughly loosened and 
thrown either to or from the plant*, Sample machine* 
will be sent to purchasers In auy locality when- they 
have not been Introduced, Off receipt ot tno wholesale 
price. OverS,000 have already been sold for lliO coming 
Ki-uson. t *T Send for pamphlet, eoptulhlng lull descrip¬ 
tion. WAltDKH, MITCH EL I a CO.. 
703-5t Bpritigticld, Ohio. 
