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FRUIT CULTURE) 
.SEED 
PAtaloO' 
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RFIUJ I T. L1F.ST POTATO THIS 
|{ SEKJti Wilson'!* Forty lllooil Turnip 
II list Inti'** Winter lto*."U 'rst »m- 
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lOOYtOihcb per nor*. Oil** iiAcX«t 1 
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' i nu»W pickm of thi' AKLLl » 
; mi 1 >1 KOSF.VM. the ct*U- : 
fertilize 
Boston ami 
some have already sowed oats. The ground is 
very mellow and dry and the gentle south 
wind drifts it very much like snow where 
there is anything to catch it; a corn shook, for 
instance, is almost buried under fine dust. 
Cattle have wintered well. It costs about $5 
per head to winter stock properly nere, and 
from $1.50 to $2 to summer them in herds or 
pastures. About all the vacant prairie is 
fenced in and those who own it charge a fee 
for taking entire care of them for the season, 
which is from May to November. One man 
in this county has 10,000 acres in one ranch, 
4,000 of which are fenced for pasture; four 
acresare allowed foreaeh head,to insure plenty 
of feed. Three-year-old steers are turned off 
any time after July as fat as hogs. Hogs are 
now worth $5 per hundredweight on foot, 
and cholera is a thing almost unknown here, 
where good, pure well water is used instead of 
stagnant ponds. Corn is worth 35 cents; oats, 
30 cents; prairie hay, $0 per ton. The State 
is booming; railroads are extending their 
lines in all directions, and we are or should be 
the most couteuted people on earth. j. r. 
Indiana. 
Westchester, Jay Co., March 12.—Wheat 
and clover have been badly used up here in 
the east and west. p. w. 
AND OTHER SPRINGS- BULBS, etc. 
Our Descriptive List of above will be mailed, on application, to any of our 
friends who have not yet received it. 
All requiring High Oracle Vegetable or Flower Seeds, should not 
fail to have our priced General Catalogue. 
J.M. Thorburn <x Co..15 John Si NewYork. 
IT IS IMPORTANT 
That seeds should be new and true to name They should be bought of men who have had expedience in the 
the business. By sending to us you will get just what you order, and that which will give you -attraction. We 
are importers atid growers of Seed. Send for our Catalogue. 1*. G. SIl lilt >1A \ «fc CO., 
Mention this paper. Providerx-e. R. I. 
Piscellaitcouisi gtdmtijsinfl. 
Care for the Children 
Children feel the debility of the changing sea¬ 
sons, even more than adults, and they become 
cross, peevish and uncontrollable. The blood 
should be cleansed and the system invigorated 
by the use of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Givo it a trial. 
“ hast spring my two children were vaccinated. 
Soon after, they broke all out with running sores, 
so dreadful I thought I should lose them. Hood's 
Sarsaparilla cured them completely; and they 
have been h withy ever since. I do feel that 
Hood's Sarsaparilla saved my children to me.” 
Mrs. C. I*. Thompson-, West Warren, Mass. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Made 
only by 0.1. IlOOI) & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
t-i _ mow j? more elegant than ever. It is a book of over GO poses, illustrate' 1 w:th -200 engravings 
J. Ol loot !t n*l illuminated cover • giving plain, practical inr. ructions tor planting, pruning, and manage¬ 
ment or 1'Iff IT TRICE* nuil SHAM* FRUITS. Felt instruction* f.*r obtaining Fruit Tree-and Plants of 
all kinds hv mail on pre«s, ami freight. H* most descriptions of all vui table varieties, both new and old and low¬ 
est price*, lleadunarters tor F.ltlE HLiACKBF.lt R V. absolutely hardy, enormous size, very early most 
prolific, lie.ill hv and <d snpeiior quality. HO NMOT T II STUAWBIKKV nn tmprw<ed O vnit 
with a )>• ifrrt Mr>Mom: flftv per cent, larger, earlier, firmer, imd fill I v equal in all oilier pome. ties. 
GOLDEN OI'ICEN. the most b.atuini, prod (aide and best of n'l Raspberries. JAPAN I'Ll VIS. and 
the great cu *nlio plum spi I' 1,111 NG. LAWSON or COMET PEAR. >11-1 ECU’* Ql VKCR.&c. 
SMALL FRUITS, APPLE, PEACH,'AND NUT TREES SPECIALTIES- 
Trees and Plants by mail a leading feature. Guide with numert us artistic eolnr.'d plates, 10 ets.: -s *hant 
plales, 5 ets. Pi ii-e-lisi free. All who M~niion Hus paper will r ••uve a copy of Orchard in l jTiirdo*. ,.leReat 
Horticultural Monthly, grails. J. T. LOVETT, LITTLE SILVER. NEW JERSEY. 
tl'fffjs, perils and giants* 
ASPARAGUS-ROOTS. 
Extra hoaw, 1 yr.Couover’s CoUosal Asparagus roots, 
$1 for AX), J.' for *00, bv mail, prepaid, nr 8H.5U per 1,000, 
*1N for &W, bv Ex trees or Freight. Address 
The Oakiaxu Nt itsKBV Co., Forgy P. O., Clark Co., O. 
\EW Catalogue of 8 elect Fruits, ornamental Trees, 
tA Flowering Sltrubs. Vines ete., N'ow ready. 
New Brunswick Nt usekiks, N. J. EDWIN ALLEN. 
(SlH'njwl)flT. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Kanaaa. 
White City, Morris Co. March 8.—Spring 
opened on March 1 in earnest; mercury 74 de¬ 
grees in the shade, Many are plowing (Uid 
OFF WITH THE TARIFF ON SEEDS. 
RELIEF FOR THE PEOPLE. SEEDS IT YOUR DOOR 
v it WHOLESALE PRICES."-; SE - rrsrf i“-£ 
the 
(EARLIEST POflfil! 
•THIS WORLD HAS EVE: 
v VERY- FROLIFIC. EXCELLE N T Q’OA'- 1 ^ 
to inifiHiort tU*m 
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all w inter* ^haLer** hnrly 
SB Sugur torn. - ^ 1 * 1 nCH DllHLILIMIl I, LUUll 
r»r DU »>•*’> bread •mxi to Vo: d.ar Niehol* Karly Green 
1 J N?I LUnPI I'ueumUi-r. Xh*.i ,r mr ir , Improved l.oug l-ree» Flek- 
^3 ling Cue umber. Improved Early V\ Innlu g»tudi I ubbuge. I re- 
mlnmlTui l*utch Ciibhug *. tw-l w .i r xrlviy Header**** « W bite 
Plume*belf-Blunebla* Celery, ww-ll.-nt gro-a.oret.oo 
■ bank:utf up. hurl) SI*»>rihorn Carrot- New I crpi lnul IjrttuWy • 
I^BLW nod crlxn all uioinv r. KolbVGcm W ulerosclon. earffr -1 *n.l s«e«e>t. 
■ BaiutnH Mu«ki»elon. ' i. v J. ti l Impruv t-d A ellow I>an- 
TFMlInlun. Mum moth Silver King Onion, pow* Umw-.toiltei ouieM 
from s*-nl rirvt v »r. Improvi'd €«ucrn»oy I ur»nlp. Itli*n ». fcveir* 
Retiring Be*. v-»r» n -1 uUe... r, Kubr King I’epper, non vw-.vt [upper 
ev. r Now Jupune*** I'umnkln, b*• ooilne --mven over 
W th v - ..vionir. Kxlru Kurly Bound I ted Kudl.h. New < h artier Kad 1 *h, 
be.t summer » aru-cy. liruxll *ugur Kquuk. ton tor Kiimmer cr nttuvr. > utpu- 
N E W BRAZILIAN FLOUR 
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u «tw crown ia 
Mayflower Totualo. l.e*t «»rir variety. L 
buiru. tiwilin i int tiiMe ti-e. Eurly «▼ n 1 
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PANSIKS. One aplendld elliublug pluUU Ofl CT111 |NCI7L pArKLlN NV IIOI.F. POTATO bv mait. 
One b. uutllul everbwtlug flower. P --V V-oPu fir olt.oo. Tbl« offer XRVEtt made before. 
paid. FOR SI.OO. 0“ I>wu t” fe,* r i mid * - rh.i y v -* ‘rmridYV orilllA 
SAMUEL" WILSON. Seed Grower, MECHANICSVILLE, BUCKS COUNTY. PENNA. 
,l„mh p, »|l lns.Mt tir* but LarBUMS to maa or !■'a?; 
GIANT GERMAN 
ulii* .t: !: r. and ONr. 
POTATO by mail. 
:VEli uintle before. 
nn! >T. Address 
SCOTT 
^^38 Years’ Experience m 
i Me our strong and reliaDli) 
■V38 Years’ Experience in ^ OSESn £ r |L.Ow| e R SEE e DS of ^hra^choiceEquality. 
^S^SSa^nmirmv«e«^K 
Abo other SMALL 
FRUITS, and uli 
old and cow ta rielioa 
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true. Choap by rniul. 
Low ratea to dealer!. 
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Catalogue 1 fi LLi 
_ Hi WMl ■■■ Catalogue I IIU M _ “T" T” STf , 
rudqimrtcrsaudlowv^t rates lor ■! | A ^ ADA T. S. HUBBARD ’ 
MPIRE STATE & IM1AL<A»\A ^na tor i 
FRKDONIA 
New York 
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IM I /\ V 4 cmrinc I ■ c neiv mill old. Vines stored in Mamni oth 
Stone Cellar* with roots In tine sand. Trees and Small Fruit Plants. By mail, express or 
freight Lowest prices for Dealers. Agents, Planters and Everybody. In every respect a Model and 
First-class Establishment. Accurate naming and highest grading. Free Illustrated Catalogue, 
pirate write uit* bef'ppr yUB hipy, EEB* 8 JOS8ELA A, Frsdoula, 51. Y, 
1 r appears, from n communication of D. 13. 
Harrington of Mason, Mich., to the Farmer 
of that State, that the disease there known as 
“ Red Streak’ 1 is again prevalent. The dis¬ 
ease was described by Professor Real iu the 
R. N.-Y.of January 1 ti, 1 SSG.aud he said it was 
up to that time confined to the Early and 
Late Rose. Mr. Harrington advises farmers 
to give up the Rose entirely, as the disease 
may bo communicated to other varieties. 
says that not one missed a meal. He grants 
that the “operation is painful” and that “they 
lose some blood.” He saws the horns off close 
to the head “talcing a little hair and skin.” 
He says he would not take $50 and have the 
horns back. 
A writer in the above paper says that the 
reasons why so many farmers are disappointed 
in regard to the winter laying qualities of 
their fowls are that the pullets are not hatched 
early enough to mature before cold weather; 
they are not kept growing from the start; and, 
finally, they are not half taken cure of after 
winter sets in... 
Prepare for an asparagus bed. Dig the 
soil as deep as you will and give it all the ma¬ 
nure you will. Set the roots so that the 
crowns shall be four inches deep. Lot them 
be at least one foot apart in the rows and the 
rows four feet apart. 
Asparagus seeds should be sown as early 
as the soil can be worked. One ounce of seeds 
will serve to sow 50 feet of drill. The differ¬ 
ence between sowing seeds and planting roots 
is simply that one has to wait a year longer 
for his asparagus if raised from seeds than 
from roots—or three years instead of two. 
Mr. W. W. Raws ON', in bis book just pub¬ 
lished, “Success in Market Gardening,” says 
that in his experience (and there are few mar¬ 
ket gardeners who have had more; the use of 
stable manure or of wood ashes somewhat 
promotes "scab;” commercial fertilizers have 
given him the smoothest crops. On some 
lauds, he says, which are light and dry, level 
culture will prove the best; but on his land 
moderate h filing up is preferred. 
For digging the crop, Mr. Rawson says, 
there is at present no sure and satisfactory 
implement but the four-tined digging-fork. 
“There is a fortune awaiting the man who in¬ 
vents a completely successful machine- 
Tue Conn. Farmer says that no other oil 
penetrates wood so well, none is so cheap and 
none so effective as crude petroleum. Satur¬ 
ate the bottoms of baskets or wicker demi¬ 
johns with it..... 
How many “Bohemiain” Oats will farmers 
sow this spring?. 
In one of the last articles Henry Ward 
Beecher wrote for the press, there is one, pub¬ 
lished in several papers two weeks ago, 
entitled “A discourse to parents on the train¬ 
ing of children,” in which the following 
paragraph occurs: “Let me refer to the 
practice of allowing children to go out at. 
night iuto the streets, if in cities; or, if in the 
country, allowing children to find their com¬ 
panions at night, and their pleasures at night, 
away from parental inspection. If I wanted 
to make the destruction of a child sure, I 
would give him unwatched liberty after dark. 
You cau not do a thiug that will be so nearly 
a guarantee of a child's damnation as to let 
him have the liberty of the streets at night... 
Again Mr. Beecher says: “I thank God for 
two things—yes, for a thousand; but for 
two among many: that I was born and bred 
in the country, of parents that gave me a 
sound constitution and a noble example. 
E. Moonv, a nursery man of Lockport, N. 
Y., tells the N. Y. World that he has used a 
wash of lime and sulphur upon his fruit trees 
and has had no blight for years. Others in 
his neighborhood are troubled with blight.... 
Mu. PLUMB, of the N. Y. Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, plowed anti harrowed a plot thoroughly. 
On oue part the soil was compacted as much 
as possible by a heavy iron roller. Another 
part was treated just tile reverse. The soil 
was hoed ami loosened as much as possible. 
Oats were drilled in and the toil rolled firmly 
ou the first, but laid loosely upon the seed of 
the second. The oats of both plots sprouted 
at the same time. On July 22 the oats of the 
first plot were erect and ripe enough to cut, 
while those iu the second (loose soil) plot had 
been leveled by the wind and ram and were a 
tangled mass and not ripe enough to cut until 
a week after ... 
.You Will Not Find 
^SKand greater travellers than Stanley; seed saved bum the odds 
ends o£ various crops; ’seed raised from unsalable 
l ' > 3aw onions, headless cabbages, spranpiiu.i carrots, or refuse 
/---_beets. (/,t m aiwuysha.ipy tosAoWmy seedstoek.) But 
I* you want Northern seed, honest!v raised, home 
t grown (not more than two other catalogues contain as 
Maw many\ seed warranted (see the cover), valuable novelties, some 
KT of which ate lo be found in no other, send for my vegetable and 
By flower-seed catalogue for 1887 , FREE to all. It contains to varte- 
r ties of Beans, 43 of Pears, 41 of Labbages, 53 of Melons, 44 of 
Corn, etc., etc., besides a large and choice variety of flower seed. 
JAMES J. II. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
KOKTHKUN G Rflll N Soe«! Potatoes nud Spring 
f* Wheat- Price List Free, somt for it. Address 
S. FROG N Ell. mCBXAN. V/VV. 
■ti *•“ n a p u but strong, well-grown 
I tfl I n *1 O »■ Flams. Vinos, etc, of all 
the Host Fruits at reasonable prices, can be lutd of 
K. iS. J. C. WILLIAMS Montelnir. N.J. 
The \ i:\V BLACK GRAPE 
“EATON,’' 
HARDY. VIGOROUS, AND PRODUCTIVE. 
BUNCHES FROM ONE POUND TO THIRTY OUNCES. 
Awarded Two First-class Cert ificutcs of Merit 
John B. Moore & Son, 
CONCORD. MASS. 
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ff'J \t Farm »*>ut lor 6c. in simupe. 
«/Srt'(l Catalogue F liKK . 
/HENRY A l>KEER,Sr.<ism*n 
714 ChetlnulSit. Philadelphia. 
OO ACRES. 1.3 vnctnnvvoiio. 
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Po offer for the Spring tredo a Urge and line stock 
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ts. Use our Hill ami Drill Phosphate or the 
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