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63 N. Daeplainea St., Chicago., 
Lawn Mower 
JUNE i 
$mplmettt0 ami Pacltuury. 
^mptetnientsi an A pachiiuty. 
THE ORIGINAL 
Batavia Monitor Agricultur'l Engine 
Llghtetit of Us capacity of any Engine built. Bach 
Engine wurrunicti in evety respect. 
Send for f'utulogue. 
BATAVIA I'OIITABI.E ENGINE CO., 
Batavia, N. Y. 
FURST So BRADLEY MFC. CO..' 
b uiscr*<nrasR8 or 
Wnjueht Iron Prams. Wrought Couplings, Wrought Steel 
Shovel Blocks, and ALL the late Improvements. 
Wo-vi or tron Brum Plow*, *nd DouH.Todro. or Slncl. Tongue 
with Hounds, ten U inM on the some frimo, being InKrchangtHklo. 
They do J'MIFXGT IVOKK, df.w lightly, Hud O'. ««lly 
handlod. W« niu, tuiko a Comblard JUdla* or Waking Cui- 
M awd’for P.mublrt («a» fr*f), girls* full dftCTlpilon of our Wheel 
Culilv.lor*, Sulky Plow*,Sulky end Untur Plow*, lUrrowi, 
»W.; alio coriUKiir.tr rxJiMkle T*hl«e, Keclpes, Po»t»l luwi, I<.u* 
of Forclirti PuvUpif Hoiut Physician, ftc. 
FirUST Sc BRADLEY MFG, OO. t « 
G3 N. DcipLalaia Street, Chicago. 
STEAM ENGINES. 
The Cooley System of Butter-Making has been be¬ 
fore the public but one year, yet oyer 1 , 3 ( 4 } Dairies 
have Introduced it. Read for yourself what people 
say abuul it who urc using it: 
OGDBN FAii.M NkWPOBT, H. I., March 34.1878. 
Vermont Farm Machine co i 
Gentlemen .'—Wo are more and more pleased with 
the Cooley Creamer as we continue to use It, and we 
feel confident that we ahull produce a better quality 
of butter this summer by means of it than we ever 
had before. We are now netting ft a pound for our 
butter. Very truly yours, Mei.vii.le Bull. 
Send 3c. stamp for Circular to 
VT. FARM MACHINE Co., Bellows Falla, Vt. 
Bradley’s Self-Dumping 
SULKY HAY RAKE 
Has Twenty tempered steel teeth—every tooth test¬ 
ed. The best-made Bake, with the simplest, most 
durable and easiest operated dutnoiog device In the 
market. Circulars free. 
BRADLEY & COMPANY, 
Syracuse, N. V., or Chicago, ill. 
More effective and more complete, and more readily 
adapted to the various mechanical and agricultural 
uses Ilian any Other in the market. Practical Im¬ 
provements, accumulated from 20 years'manufact¬ 
uring experience, with repututloo maintained and 
success established. 
Send for Circulars, descriptive.and containing tes¬ 
timonials concerning our PORTABLE. STATION¬ 
ARY aud AGRICULTURAL STIC AM ENGINES. 
WOOD, TAUUK Sc MOICME, 
Eaton, Madison Co., N, Y, 
gr$ The THOM ASPQHTA 11 E 
W/ lHBINt8nreinadetomeet 
rjkMG- — V a want knig fell by Tbresh- 
IgWtxQfSAli ere, vlt. I, la It tn*«s of 
_ JY Tiirfrs ' weight, with strength and 
J jg TjT V- durability. They are the 
lightest tusde. and are 
guaranteed to do the-ame 
[ifamount of work *» those 
SOU to l.f CM pounds heavier. 
.stflJV’TTYitPc Y/l Jr and with niucli less fuel 
~*I> i 1 sndwaier and less amount 
of steam pressure. Noth¬ 
ing equals them. Send for Circu’ar. Made by 
J. H. THOMAS Si SONS, Sprinttleld, Ohl 
implements and Pachinery. 
Grain & Fertilizer Drill. 
The quantity is regulated with gear-wheels in a 
CONE, so there are no loose wheels or movable 
feeilertt, and it will sow any grain perfectly and 
accurately. 
It has the best Spring Hoe, and every Drill has 
a Force-Feed Grass-Seeder, Patent Philter, 
and Surveyor froe. 
Illustrated Catalogues, with description, prices, 
and a Full Centennial Report, sent on applica¬ 
tion. Agents wanted in unoccupied territory. Ad¬ 
dress, stating where you saw this notice, 
FARMERS’ FRIEND IVIF'Q CO., 
Dayton, Oliio. 
CD 
Will pulverise and leave ground smoother and in 
better condition and cover seed better, by onceguimt 
over, than twice with ordinary Harrow. Acknowl¬ 
edged the best in use. Being Jointed in the center, 
It accommodates Itself to uneven surfaces, sucb as 
dead lurrows, ridges, Ac. Made with both Chilled 
Metal aud Cast-Steel Discs. 
Responsible agents wanted wbeie we have none. 
Manufactured by WHEELER <V MF.L1CK t 
Albany, N. Y,, for the United Suites, except New 
England States. EVERETT x SMALL, Boston, 
Muss.. Manufacturers for the New England States. 
Price SI0. 
“ Every owner Of a Mow¬ 
ing Machine should 
have ono. 
They pay for them¬ 
selves In u single 
season, 
N. B.-The first, 600 
machines will be sold 
at $7.50 each. 
tSf Order early. 
Send for Descriptive Circulars. Agents wanted. 
LIVINGSTON & CO., Iron Founders, Pittsburgh, Pn. 
DOUBLE HARPOON 
HORSE HAY-FORK. 
BEST IN THE WORLD. 
Descriptive Catalogue sent free. 
Pcnnock .llanutucturiug Company, 
Kknxkit Squabe, Chester Co., Pa. 
THE OLD, RELIABLE 
HAY LOADER. 
A perfect machine for rapidly pitching hay. barley 
and all long,, grain on the vr.won in tho field. Saves 
as much time and money as the mower and horse 
rake. Thousands lu use bv the best funner* in the 
country. Prices reduced. Send for Circulars to the 
manufacturers, STRATTON A CULLIM. 
MeudrlUe, Pa. 
TAYLOR RAKES. 
Five Different Styles, includingIFoot, 
Hand and Self-Dump. 
Taylor's Self-Dumping Bake (No Dims been great¬ 
ly inproved for 1878, This Bake made a great suc¬ 
cess last season, and la now the beat Self-Dump Bake 
iu tlie market. 
These are the only Rakes ever offered the farming 
community that have proved a Complete Success, in 
all kluus of Bakings, lu the United Stales, Canadas, 
British AnierLa, and In Europe aud Australia. 
Illustrated ami Descriptive Circulars freo. Ad¬ 
dress II. C, TAYLOR, Duyton, Ohio. 
If you want to buy a 
Sulky Rake this season, 
do not buy uu old-fash¬ 
ioned Hand-lever Bake t 
they have had their day 
and are behind the times. 
The self-operat Ing rakes 
nr Horse Dumpers." as 
they are called, are nose 
acknowledged to be a 
great improvement over 
the old method >>t com¬ 
pelling the man Instead 
of tbo horse to do the 
bard work. 
THXl TI&EK. KAY HAHB 
is admitted by all to be the Standard Sell-operating 
Rake. It is no experiment but a PROVED SUCCESS, 
and nus double the sale of any other Sulk; Rake in 
the United States. Send for Circulars. 
J. W. STODDARD A Co., Dayton, O. 
Sole Manu tacturet*. 
It In a mtetnRe to aupposc that any depart¬ 
ment of a paper tnay be alighted. The most im¬ 
portant information is to be found, at times, under 
the guise of an advertisement; and It la agreeable 
to the advertiser and a courtesy to the publisher 
to mention, the source of your information-In 
ther words, to mention the paper. 
Patent Road Machine 
Keeps the road In fur better condition, und at ball 
the present cost. Circulars free. 
SAMUEL PENNOCK, Ithaca, N. Y. 
HORSE- 
the PLOW, CULTIVATOR, and WHEEL- 
[I OK. It is invaluuble to Brnom-CornGrnwers, 
iu Small Fruit Culture, and in the Potato and Corn 
Fields. DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS FREE. 
S. L. ALLEN Sc CO., Patentees. 
5J29 MARKET STREET. Philadelphia, Pn. 
Gakhen Knoi.vb and 
FI H K EXTINGUISH ITH. 
For Washing Windows, 
Carriages, etc. Protects 
Buildings from Fire, 
and Trees, Tines, etc., 
froui Insects. Throws 
water 60 font. Easily 
curried. No Dwelling, 
Country Home or Fac¬ 
tory should bo without 
, the Fountain Pump. 
Send for large Illustrated Circular. J. A. WHIT¬ 
MAN, Sole Proprietor and Mxnuf’r, Providence, IL I. 
HE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
355 
S3" IMcnse mention Rural, when address ; 
ing Advertisers. 
THRESHING MACHINES 
Farm Engines, 
MOUNTED' and DOWN HORSE POWERS, 
Clover Threshers and Hullers, 
The Best Manufactured — Write to 
RUSSELL 6 l CO., Massillon, Ohio. 
Vff~ Send for Illustrated Circular. 
SEVEN SIXES FOR HAND USE. 
Wclithiiur from 32 to 51 lbs. 
THltlCIi SIXES tor HOUSE POWER. 
These Machine- did an amount of work on the 
t’eutunulal (.round*, equal to II) year* of ordinary 
use. without loss or time for sharpening or repairs— 
completely distancing all competitors lu that cele¬ 
brated trial of 8 months' duration. 
G U A11 A 111. KM LKN »V PASSMORE, 
Patentees and MamifTs, l»U Market St., Philo.., Pa. 
Send for Descriptive Catalogue with prices. 
PERSONAL ITEMS. 
BRADLEY’S 
CHANGEABLE SPEED MOWER 
lias more good points, less complication, more 
adaptability ana less parts than any other 
Mower in the world. 
Til? A TIT TV’S 
AMERICAN HARVESTER, NO. 2 
The lightest, strongest and most durable single 
Reaper in the market. 
For simplicity, durability and quality, these ma¬ 
chines cannot be excelled. Every machine fully 
warranted to be as represented. 
At the Great Mower and Reaper Trial, held at 
Watertown. N. Y , July 8-7-90th arid Aug. 8 th, these 
maonines carried oil ttie Highest Prltes, vlx., Two 
Grand Silver Medals, . ver the Wood, Buckeye, 
Wood’s Eagle, Meadow King, Warrior. Eureka. Ac. 
Circulars, descriptive of these machines, sent tree 
by addressing BRADLEY & CO., 
Syracuse, N. Y., or Chicago, III. 
Dion Levvl3 Is suffering from congestion of the 
brain and paralysis, at Oakland, Cal, 
Colonel Robert Ingersoll denies that he Is a 
Communist,. He la making too much money as a 
lecturer to believe In dividing It, 
if the National party should ever gain (he 
ascendancy In this country, Benjamin F. Butler 
would he President of the United 8fat.es. 
“ I mean business," suld a burglar who entered 
Mr. Patterson’s house, In Sterling, Ill. “ So do 1," 
said Mr. Patterson, and shot him through the 
head. 
J. Milton Turner, our colored Minister to Libe¬ 
ria, wants to come home because lie believes he 
has beeu lo cilice long enough to deserve a good 
office somewhere else. 
The late W. 8. O’Brien, one of the California 
Bonanza Kings, a year before bis death, settled 
$1,000,000 on a woman who now claims to have 
been his wife, and entitled therefore to a third 
of the *20,000,000 he left behind him. 
Victoria C, Wood hull has met with considera¬ 
ble success In London, where she Is living quietly 
and modestly, and will not return to America. 
The hard knocks she lias sustained have driven 
a great many “ isms” out of her head. 
Last summer. Master Jesse Grant was present, 
as he often was, at a great party lu a great Lon¬ 
don house, aud found it dull. Complaining to a 
friend that tho entertainment did not meet hla 
views, he was reminded that it was open to him 
to go away. “Yes," responded tho young heir 
to the White House, “ I know Lime, but you soo I 
don’t want to break up Iho party so early,” 
The Duke do Blron, when condemned to death 
during the French ltclgn of Terror In ITUS, 
ordered, on returning to prison, oysters and 
cliablis. Tho executioner entered as Ills Grace 
was enjoying the repast. "Just let mo finish my 
oysters,’’ said the Duke, “and meanwhile take a 
glass of wine with me, my friend; you'll need a 
a fillip for your workand then he filled a bum¬ 
per for the turnkey and himself, and presently 
went off to be guillotined. 
The most venerable couple in Texas, perhaps In 
the country, are Mr. aud Mrs. Robinson of Moun¬ 
tain City, lie Is reputed to bo 103 and she ion 
years old, and they were married In Kentucky 
eighty-two years ago. Mr. Robinson says he 
never swore but one oath, has never borrowed 
but fifty cents, and never gave a note. !lo and 
Uls wife are like children in their devotion to 
each other, and after any separation shed tears 
on meeting. Recently they were presented with 
a comfortable bouse by a generous neighbor. 
The Duke or Aosta, ex-King of Spain, will spend 
a month viewing tho Paris Exhibition. There 
are at present In Paris alone, three ex-Q,ueens of 
Spain: Isabella, Christina and the wife of Don 
Carlos. Tho ex-Klnga aud Queens seem to be on 
the best of terms, as the papers dally announce 
visits of one to the other. 
