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creations and accomplishments which can be 
enjoyed only by the wealthy. 
All sentiment aside, the farmer’s lot with a 
big mortgage and exorbitant interest rates on 
one side and powerful and scheming transpor¬ 
tation companies, sharp middlemen and buy¬ 
ers on the other, is not an enviable one. Our 
agricultural classes are not being compensated 
for their labor. Something must be done or 
the average American farmer will be shoved 
to the wall. Many of the best farms in the 
East have already passed into the hands of 
foreigners, who because they are willing to 
live in the primitive way of our forefathers, 
manage to get money enough ahead to buy 
them in. But do we want American farmers 
reduced to the level of the peasant of Europe? 
It is not necessary that they should be so de¬ 
graded, and if our legislators were alive to the 
good of,not necessarily the agricultural classes 
only, but of the country at large, our laws 
would soon undergo such changes as would 
elevate farm labor and increase its compensa¬ 
tion. __ J- H. G. 
Caution About the Next Potato Crop. 
—I hear a good deal about the purchase of for¬ 
eign potatoes for seed. In the potato famine 
of 187T-8 I tried the experiment of planting 
genuine Irish potatoes. The result was a total 
failure. They were scarcely worth digging- 
small, knobby and insignificant. The expense 
for seed of any kind is an insignificant factor 
in estimating the profits of a crop and it al¬ 
ways pays to buy only the very best that can 
be obtained at current, not fancy, prices. It 
is evident that the price of first-class seed po¬ 
tatoes will not be high enough to warrant the 
experiment of using foreign-grown seed. 
Another thing everybody is saying—that since 
the potato crop was a failure last year and the 
prices have been so very high all the farmers 
will go into potato raising, consequently these 
people say they themselves will stay out of it. 
The result is likely to be another short potato 
crop and profitable prices. J. h. g. 
R. N.-Y.—We have repeatedly stated our 
opinion regarding the folly of planting foreign 
seed potatoes. Those who do it will regret 
their action. Experience has proved over and 
over again that whenever the price of any 
farm product is exceptionally high one year, 
owing to a shortage in the crop, there will be 
a superabundance next year unless the season 
turns out very unfavorable for that particu¬ 
lar crop. Farmers may talk as they like 
about keeping out of the rush, enough will be 
in it to raise an unusually large crop, weather 
permitting.__ 
Muslin For Hot-bed Frames —Those 
who desire early vegetables, and have not the 
time necessary to give to hot-beds covered 
with glass, should try covering with muslin. I 
make the frames of the usual size, and tack on 
common unbleached muslin. It gives plenty 
of light and air, but prevents the burning of 
the plants on bright, sunny days, making it 
unnecessary to raise the sashes should the sun 
unexpectedly come out warm, This destroys 
many plants belonging to those not profession¬ 
ally engaged in gardening. The muslin, too, 
is capable of affording considerable protection 
from the cold. Last, spring my plants es¬ 
caped injury when the thermometer regis¬ 
tered 10 degrees below zero, with no extra 
covering on the sashes. Muslin painted with 
linseed oil permits more solar heat to pass, 
but with it more attention is needed in airing 
and hardening the plants. R. J. C. 
Jonesville, Mich. 
“Nasal Voices, Ca tarrh and False Teeth.” 
A prominent English woman says the Amer¬ 
ican women all have high, shrill, nasal voices 
and false teeth. 
Americans don’t like the constant twitting 
they get about this nasal twang, and yet it is 
a fact caused by our dry stimulating atmos¬ 
phere, and the universal presence of catarrhal 
difficulties. 
But why should so many of our women have 
false teeth? 
That is more of a poser to the English. It 
is quite impossible to account for it except on 
the theory of deranged stomach action caused 
by imprudence in eating and by want of regu¬ 
lar exercise. 
Both conditions are unnatural. 
Catarrhal troubles everywhere prevail and 
end in cough and consumption, which are 
promoted by mal-nutrition induced by derang¬ 
ed stomach action. The condition is a modern 
one, unknown to our ancestors who pre¬ 
vented the catarrh, cold, cough and consump¬ 
tion by abundant and regular use of what is 
now known as Warner’s Log Cabin Cough and 
Consumption Remedy and Log Cabin Sarsa¬ 
parilla, two old fashioned standard remedies 
handed down from our ancestors, and now ex¬ 
clusively put forth under the strongest guar¬ 
antees of purity and efficacy by the world- 
famed makers of Warner’s safe cure. These 
two remedies plentifully used as the spring 
and summer seasons advance give a positive 
assurance of freedom, both from catarrh and 
those dreadful and if neglected, inevitable 
consequences, pneumonia, lung troubles and 
consumption, which so generally and fatally 
prevail among our people. 
Comrade Eli Fisher, of Salem, Henry Co., 
Iowa, served four years in the late war and 
contracted a disease called consumption by 
the doctors. He had frequent hemorrhages. 
After using Warner’s Log Cabin Cough and 
Consumption remedy, he says, under date of 
Jan. 19th, 1888: “I do not bleed at the lungs 
any more, my cough does not bother me, and 
I do not have any more smothering spells.” 
Warner’s Log Cabin Rose Cream cured his 
wife of cartarrh and she is “sound and well.” 
Of course we do not like to have our women 
called nose talkers and false teeth owners, but 
these conditions can be readily overcome in 
the manner indicated. 
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 
FOR ONE POTATO! 
I have a small quantity of very choice Hybridized 
Potato seed, which was produced by selecting for one 
parent a variety which Is a good seed-ball bearing 
kind, and planting it In every third hill with over one 
hundred and forty two other kinds. The different 
blossoms of the seed bearing oarenc are, therefore, 
probably fertilized by pollen from many different 
kinds, and the p ogeny should show a great variety of 
forms and colors. I nave put this seed in packets 
which I shall sell at 20 cents each, and will pay $100 
in cash for the most promising variety which Is 
produced from it. Each person who plants a packet 
Is to send me what they consider the most promising 
tuber they produce. These will be carefully planted 
by a committee who will give each an equal chance, 
and on November 1st. 1S89, will award a cash prize of 
$100 to the person who shall have furnished the 
tuber which produces the best crop, quality and 
quantity both to be considered. Per packet 20 cents. 
ISAAC F. T1LLINGI1AST, lm Pin me, Fa. 
SEVEN VARIETIES 
8UPURB 
GERMAN PANSIES, 
and a COLORED PL ATE showing the same, with 
our valuable Catalogue sent for 50 cts. and 2c. stamps 
with 10 names of seed-buyers. Retail value $1.10. 
This offer for this month only. 
THE N. Y. FLORAL CO., Springfield.Mns*. 
The Largest Creamery inthe United States 
The Big Foot, I1L, Creamery Is claimed to be the largest Creamery in 
this country or the world. THE PRODUCT OF 1887 WILL REACH 
$ 200 , 000 . 00 . 
The patrons are Paid 27 Cen ti for cream equal to a pound of butter. It 
Cooley System of Cream Gathering. 
The Largest Creamery in New England Is run by D. Whiting & Son, 
Wilton, N. H. 
Patrons receive 
for Cooley Cream 
equal to a pound of butter 
29 CENTS 
The Largest Creamer!! in Penn., 28 CENTS p “ *•»»*• 
A full line of Butter Factory Supplies, Including Engines, Boii.ers, Cream Vats, Churns, 
Workers Ac. Send for Illustrated circulars. Plans and Estimates furnished free to purchasers. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vermont. 
THE STODDARD CREAMERY 
WITH SURFACE SKIIVIIVIINC ATTACHMENT. • 
"refui^rTt'oT 1 - THE MOST POPULAR. 
HAS MORE GOOD POINTS THAN ANY ON 
THE MARKET. Send for description. 
STODDARD CHURN 
Made of White Oak, without Floats or Dashers. 
NINE SIZES for Dairy and Factory. 
FOB CIRCULARS OF THE 
Best line of Dairy and Factory Goods made, 
MOSELEY & STODDARD ItlFG. CO., POULTNEY, VT. 
Address 
PERFECTION IN BUTTER MAKING. 
I £ OUTFIT 
if 1 Kd EXCELS 
m them ai 
O. K. CREAMERY 
Has the largest cooling surface, takes less 
cooling material, less labor, and gives best 
results. All cream raised between miik- <j 
ings IKf'Skimming glass whole depth of ^si- - -i p v 
can, showing condition of milk without touching creamery; 
O. K. CHURN g“'l 
Made of White Oak. Cover Cm 
O lf BIITTCD UIDDIf CD Made on scientific principles, 
• IV • DU I I tn YYUulMli Adjustable bed. Preserves 
| the grain of the butter. Solid wood roller. THE MOST 
PERFECT Butter Worker ever put on the market,: 
JOHN S. CARTER, Sole Manufacturer, SYRACUSE, N. Y 
A. H. 
Absolute Perfection 
for Best Quality Butter. 
R UTTER W ORKER 
MOST EFFECTIVE and CONVENIENT. 
Also CHURNS, POWER BUTTER W 
E?S, PRINTERS, SHIPPINC BO 
Send for my Bins. Catalogue, containing 
information for Creamery men and Butter 
CREAMERY SUPPLIES. 
* 30th and Market Streets, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
^THEOUTSlOt 
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• LIK EI r T H E N 0 5 E ' 
AYRES * o E i^ C R MT& Co. 
•KEOKUK. I0WA.U.S A 1 
Farmers Read this 
This is the only Hog 
Ring on the market 
that closes with the 
joint on the outside of 
the nose. One Ring is 
equal to two wire 
rings. They are made 
of Oval steel wire. 
If your Hardware 
Stores do not keep 
them, send 50 Cents 
to us by Postal Note 
or Express Order, and 
we will send you 100 
Rings and a Ringer 
free of any other 
charges. Send us a 
Postal Card with your 
address and we will 
mail you one of our 
Illustrated Catalogues 
and a few Sample 
Rings. 
J HE MAUD S. 
CURRY COMB 
A 
1 JIOMB 
\made> 
Has no equal as 
a Cleaner of all 
kinds of Dirt. 
If not in your 
town send 25 cents 
and we will send 
you one free. 
The “Cinnamon Vine.”— I lately read an 
article in the Rural on the Cinnamon Vine, 
explaining what it is, and that many are be¬ 
ing deceived by the attractive advertisements 
appearing in different papers, in which the 
parties offer two tubers for 50 cents, or five 
tubers for $1. I was just going to send in an 
order for a dozen tubers, when I fortunately 
came across this item. I didn’t do so; nor 
will I, so the Rural has saved me that 
much. A - K - 
Zoar, Ohio. 
A Caution. —In a late issue the Rural 
says it never saw Australian millet. I 
send it a head. I planted a small package 
last season and only a part came up. It 
stooled out wonderfully—grew about five feet 
high on quite thin land. I think it would 
make good hay if cut at the right time. 
Cumberland Co., Va. c. a. durkee. 
R. N.-Y.—The sample sent to us is Johnson 
Grass—Sorghum halapense. If seedsmen are 
selling this for “Australian Millet” it is time 
farmers knew about it. 
The Cowboy of the Wild West 
lives In the open air and has no trouble with his lungs 
or liver. The bank Cashier lives a sedentary life In a 
close atmosphere, and has bronchitis! liver complaint 
and piles. Cashier needs Perfected Oxygen to restore 
him to health. Wonderful and complete remedy. 
Full information free by mall. Address Walter C. 
Browning, M.D., 1285 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
nrrn| CO© HVCC Arw the 
rEXItLCOO III CO Sold by Druggists. 
nREER’S 
|| CARDEN 
CALENDAR 
Jubilee Edition, 1888. 
Established 1838. In cele- 
i brating our golden anniver¬ 
sary, we will make a present 
of one packet of Dreer’u 
Gulden Cluster Wax 
liean to every one who 
mentions this paper and re¬ 
mits 1 5c. in stamps to cover 
cost of finest catalogue ever 
|issued of Seeds, Plants, 
Bulbs, and every garden 
requisite, containing two 
colored plates and hundreds 
of engravings. Concise direc¬ 
tions for cultivation. Valu¬ 
able to all who plant seeds. 
HENRY A. DREEK, 
714 GuMtnnt St.. Philada. 
New Spring-Tooth Harrow. 
Thomas Reversible Harrow. 
ALSO OUR OLD AND RELIABLE 
Thomas Smoothing Harrow. 
Address for Special VTerms.'aiid Prices 
Herendeen M’f’g Co., 
Geneva, N.jY. 
ng 1 
you see It; Wisdom Is getting It. 
A, Nail Puller: B, Monkey 
Wrench and Vise; C, Hammer ; A 
D, large Gas Pliers; E, Pincers; 
F, Wire Cutter; G .small Gas Pliers; 
11, Nut Cracker. For fanners, doc¬ 
tors, horsemen. Every family needs 
it—city or country. Sold by hard¬ 
ware trade. If your dealer is out, 
we will send direct on receipt of pnee. ^ 
Tools, 10 inch, weight 1% lbs., $ 1.25 __ 
13 in., weight 2 hi lbs. »1.50. Polished, 25 cents extra. 
MODEL MFG. CO. 195 Huntingdon St. pbilu. Pa 
BEST CAST STEEL, 
Patent Applied for. F_ 
AGENTS 
WANTED 
E 
Every part 
a Strong 
Practical 
Tool. 
IS SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHER POWERS. 
I Has LEVEL TREAD. DOUBLE GEARED. 
Largttt Track Wheels and No Cross Rods. 
UNION THRESHER AND CLEANER. 
FARM MILLS, FEED CUTTERS, 
CIRCULAR SAW MACHINES, Ac. 
W.l.BOYER & BRO.^.tSsa a P n ffix:^ 
PLftNET JR. CARD a 
Each one of these 
POPULAR TOOLS 
has been either 
REMODELED 
or IMPROVED. 
They are more com- 
S lete, simple, prac- 
cal and *trong| 
than you can imag¬ 
ine; so look them 
over carefully. 
HEW STYLES. NEW 
HORSE HOES. FIRE FLY. 
Those who saw them 
at the test trial in 
actual work say they 
Are THE BEST 
yet. You will find 
them so. Our ’88 
Catalog ue, with 
4<)Woodeiits.will 
give you a fair idea 
of the new points 
and better money 
_values we now offer. 
27-12!) Catharine St.. Philadelphia, Pa. 
RUSTLESS 
IRON WATER PIPE 
lend for catalogue. 
Brainan, Dow 
TilE ^VELLS RUSTLESS IRON C 
Co., Boston AgHVto^jfew England. Taiid 9 CliiPstrect, New York 
