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VALUE OF A PURE-BRED BULL. 
TAYLOR’S , 
Boss cU 
Will it pay a farmer to keep pure-bred 
stock? The reply to this depends upon a very 
simple questiou, viz., are pure-bred animals 
better than good grades and are not high and 
well-bred grades quite os productive as the 
pure-bred ones, figuring from a strict money 
point of view? A pure-bred cow is too costly 
to be kept merely for the sake of her milk and 
butter. A pure-bred bull is worth more 
than any cow in the ratio of his increase of 
stock. And it is a well-known fact that a very 
large proportion of the grade cows that have 
been sired by good pure-bred bulls are 
equally valuable for a dairyman, and the 
grade Short-horn and other steers are as good 
beeves as the pure bred animals. This is a 
matter of experience. Then, what can a few 
associated farmers afford to pay for a n ex¬ 
cellent thoroughbred bull for the improve¬ 
ment of their herds? This is bringing the 
question down to a practical business point. 
I judge from my own point of view, of course, 
but that is precisely the same as auy other 
farmer’s who owns and breeds stock. A good 
Short bora or Hereford bull will sire 50 calves 
a year for 10 years. A common scrub steer 
four years old, will make 1,000 pounds, live 
weight, Wurth three cents a pound, or $30. 
A half-bred Short- Lora or Hereford grade steer 
three years old, will make 1,400pounds, live 
weight, and sell for fi^e cents a pound or $70. It 
costs something less for one year’s less feeding 
and herding, say $5. The difference in value, 
then, is $45; and. multiplying the annual prod¬ 
uce of 50 by 45 we get $2,250 as the yearly gain 
or 500 in 10 years. If the stockman is satis¬ 
fied with 50 percent, on his investment, he can 
afford to give exactly 83,750 for hia hull. This 
sum produces $1,875 every year, or $18,750 
in 10 years, and this with the price of the bull 
makes the total sum mentioned. The owner 
can very well afford to bun - the profitable 
animal at the end of bis term and put a mar¬ 
ble monument over him, or stuff his hide 
and mount it in a glass case and sacrifice the 
actual value of his carcass. The profit for a 
good Ayrshire, Dutch or Jersey bull in a 
dairy would be still more. STOCKMAN. 
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WOODWORTH 
ONE CENT 
ON A WAGON. 
THE RICHMOND CHAMPION 
CORN PLANTER 
TAYLOR MFG. CO 
Mr. W. B. Gill, of Selma, Alabama, 
while recently on a visit to the noted 
wagon and carriage works of the Stude¬ 
baker Bros. Manufacturing Company, at 
South Bend, Indiana, said to the treasurer 
of the company; 
“.Mr. Studebaker what do you suppose 
I paid out for repairs last year on the 
Studebaker Wagons sold by me?” 
Mr. Studebaker: “How many wagons 
did you sell, Mr. Gill?” 
Mr. Gill; “Five hundred, in all.” 
Mr. btudebaker: “Oh, perhaps your re¬ 
pairs were fifty dollars.” 
Mr. Gill: “Just five dollars —one cent 
FOR EACH VVAOON SOLD DURING THE YEAH !” 
Such a record, for the Studebaker 
goods, tells its own story, and fully sus¬ 
tains the claim of its makers, that their 
wagon is “The Best on Wheels.” 
For catalogue and price list address, 
mentioning tins paper, 
Studebaker Bros., M’f’g. Co. 
SOUTH BEND, Ind. 
Chambersburg, Pa, 
C Please Mention this Paper.) 
Women’s Work Enlarged. 
When a women can drive well, her 
sphere of usefulness may be very much en¬ 
larged. In the country she can do a thousand 
errands and.a large amount of business which 
otherwise men would have to do. The wife of 
afarmerofmy acquaintance does all of the 
'work which would take him upon the road, ex¬ 
cept marketing, and she does a considerable 
amount of this as the marketing consists in 
simply delivering things at the railroad sta¬ 
tion. They are prepared for shipment at 
home and loaded by the men and unloaded at 
the depot by the same sort of help. Some one 
may say, “How can a woman do her husband’s 
riding around aud her own work at the same 
timeT’ Here the ledger may be balanced. 
The time of the man is worth twice as much 
as the woman’s, on the basis of wages, and 
more too in this case, as the man is taken 
away from home and the oversight of the farm 
and other meu. After this column is footed, 
then add up the benefit to the wife or daugh¬ 
ter hi getting a chauge of fresh air, and grow¬ 
ing up to be able to help herself instead of 
being the helpless thing a woman too often is. 
Give the wife and daughter this change and 
chance, and hire some one to take the helm in 
the kitchen. Thus is good sense. c” 
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lafilT nary person. Every engine com 
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received, aud warranted as 
—— represented. 
5 Horse Power, 9*250 I 7 Horse Power. 8375 
5 “ “ 300 110 “ “ 500 
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202, 204, 200 Jackson St.. 
PAINESVILLE, OHIO. 
Platform and Three Spring 
WAGONS AND BUGGIES, 
PAYNE’S FARM ENGINES 
Every Wagon is Fully Warranted. 
Tlicsc are (lie handsomest, tightest nnd strongest 
wagons of their kind In the market. Every Farmer 
and Dairyman should have one. Correspondence so¬ 
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Watertown, N. Y. 
Wholesale agencies. 
Trumhull. Reynolds & Allen, Kansas City, Mo. 
Deere Wells & Co., Council Bluffs, In. 
HorsforiDs Acid Phosphate. 
In Liver and Kidney Troubles.* 
Dr. O. G. Gilley, Boston, says: “I have 
used it with the most remarkable success in 
dyspepsia, and derangement of the liver and 
kidneys. ”— Ado. 
Our 10-Ilorse Spark Arresting Threshing 
Engine lias cut 10,(100 feel Pine Lumber In 10 hour" 
Will burn wood 6 feet long, coal, straw and corn 
stalks, bend for Price List and Catalogue “ v." 
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841. Corning, N. Y. 
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HAY TEDDER 
Corn Shellcr. 
Cheap, Durable and Effec¬ 
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bushels per hour. 
St is the hext hand Shelter 
mailt and I warrant It for 
5 urars. 
Price 85, or handsomely 
nlckel-piated $i;. 
p sent a Wanted 
If no agent. In your vicini¬ 
ty. 1 will send uhtdler, ex¬ 
press paid, on receipt of 
price, bend for Circular. 
Manufactured by the 
SANDWICH, ILL., 
UanFrs for Illinois and Territory West. 1 
The Rest Plow on Wheel*. Patented August 13 
1879. It Is made of Iron nnd Steel, with Removable 
Hub Boxes nnd Wrought Iron Turned Axles, We fur¬ 
nish with this Halky either our celebrated Steel Scotch 
man or Chill, d Bottoms, Rolling Coulter or Jointers. 
Made only by the jj* i( MtN’IlKAC- 
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Cultivators, Shore] Plows, Seed Mills Se 
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F. PORTER THAYER. Eastern Manager 
79 AND 81 READE STREET, NEW YORK. 
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DRILL 
Belcher & Taylo 
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AGRICULTURAL TOOL CO., 
Chicopee Fulls, Mama. 
Has received First Premiums from American Insti¬ 
tute, New England, nnd ull State and County Agrl 
cultural Societies where exhibited. 
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