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THE BEST SEASON IS NOW ON FOR 
AGENTS^ 
and I'armm to make£20 to £50 per U, dur 
ing spare time, selling New Patent I ire 1 root 
Safe*; size 28x18x18; weight 500 lbs.; retail price 
(KM; others in proportion. Highest award, Cen¬ 
tennial Exposition, 1888. Rare chance; perma¬ 
nent business. Our prices the lowest. We are not 
in the Safe Pool. Exclusive territory given. 
Catalogue and full particulars free. Address 
ALPINE SAFE CO. CINCINNATI, O. 
15 CtS. per Foot, material 3 feet wide. 
Adapted for Residences, Churches, Cemete¬ 
ries, Farms, Cardens, Sec. 
All needing Fences, Gates. Arbors, Window Guards, 
Trellises, etc., write for our illns. price list.mailed free. 
THE NEWEST THINC AND THE BEST. 
Central Expanded Metal Co. I S. W. Expanded Metal Co. 
Pittsburgh. I Chicago. 
St. Louis Expanded Metal Co., St. Louis. 
Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, York, Pa. 
Farqahar’s Standard Engines and Saw Mills. 
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gineaaipeclaltj. Warranted cqualar 
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EXTRA! 
THE 
'‘ACME” HAY STACKER AND SWEEP RAKES. 
Repays cost price on 40 acres of ilay. 
White for Posters, Circulars, Full Particulars. 
Special Price for Introduction, Address, 
Gathers hay 
CLEAN from 
swath, 800 lbs. 
at a load. 
Enables 1 man and 
2 boys to put 
up 20 tons of 
hay a day. 
Our Rakes, GUARANTEED superior to any other 
Hay Rakes made.—Do not gather the dirt, dust 
and manure as spring tooth rakes do. Over 
40,000 SOLD TO THE BEST FARMERS 
in the land. 
ACME HAY HARVESTER CO Manufacturers, PEORIA, ILLS 
THE WORCESTER BUCKEYE MOWER. 
This cut shows a Guard Finger with Knife Section, held’up to placeflby the Patented 
Hardened Steel Chafe Plates, maintaining the Perfect Shear Cut. 
This cut shows a Guard Finger and without Chafe Plates, worn down at heel and 
the Shear Cut lost. 
The Patented Chafe Plates are found on no other machine. 
Don’t fail to see the 
AVitli Its Latest Improvements. 
The Richardson Manufacturing Comp’y, 
Worcester, TVIass. 
EERLESS 
LEADS THE WORLD. 
PI 
^TRACTION* PORTABLE 
|“DOIYIESTIC”&CREAIYIERYl 
Steam Gang Plows, Threshers and Cleaners. 
andCHB? PEST SAW MILL 
PATENT VARIABLE FRICTION FEED. 
PATENT DOGS, SET WORKS, and 
SAW GUIDE. 
Send for Catalogue to the 
CEISER MFC. 
Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pa 
WANT ACENTS. 
Invite correspondence. Mention this paper. 
NEW YORK WEEKLY WORLD, 
12 Broad pages and 84 Long Columns, Pub¬ 
lishing each week a COMPLETE NOVEL by 
a Popular Author, and the 
N.-Y., 
BUCKEYE 
HAY RAKES 
PRACTICALLY 
A Self-Dump Rake 
HIGH WHEELS with 
Tires bolted on. TEETH 
Ions and adjustable. Made 
of Crucible Steel with Oil 
per. Has a Lock l,eYer 
Swinging Cleaner-Bar. 
e make both the COIL and 
DROP TOOT11. 
NOT EXCELLED 
BY ANY RAKE IN THE MARKET 
We also manufacture Buckeye 
Grain Drills, Buckeye Cider 
Hills. Buekeye Riding and 
Walking Cultivators,.Buck- 
eye Seeders, Eubiu Pulver¬ 
izer and Clod Gruskers. 
Branch Houses: Philadelphia. 
Pa.; Peoria, Ills.; St. Paul. Tlinu.; 
Kansas City Mo.; amt San Fran- 
ciseo. Cal. tNCSend for Circular to 
either of the above firms or to 
P.P.MAST&CO. Springfield, 0. 
FOR ONE YEAR, 
ONLY 
S2.25. 
WITH SURFACE SKIMMER. M C) 
Superior to all Others. Private Dairies and Factories. 
MOSELEY & STODDARD MANUFACT’G CO., Rutland, Vt* 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
84 Park Row, N. Y. 
A 
WET 
HEN 
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The man who lias invested from three 
to live dollars in a Rubber Coat, and 
at his first half hour's experience in 
a storm finds to his sorrow that it is 
hardly a better protection than a mos¬ 
quito netting, not only feels chagrined 
at being so badly taken in, but also 
Li - if he does not look exactly like 
Uktorttn ” FISH BRAND” 8 uckk& ■ I HHB I Ml and take no other. If your storekeeper 
does not have the fish brand, send for descriptive catalogue. A. J. Tower. 20 Simmons s't., Boston, Mass. 
We otfer tile man who wants service 
(not style) a garment that will keep 
him dry in the hardest storm. It is 
called TOWER'S KISH BRAND 
“ SUCKER," a name familiar to every 
Cow-boy all over the land. With them 
the only perfect Wind and Waterproof 
Coat is “ Tower’s Kish Brand Slicker." 
S. R. NYE’S 
ITS LEADING MERITS ARE 
That it will not scratch your ground. Needs no ad¬ 
justment, but will rake clean on all surfaces. Will 
not scatter at the ends. Will form a windrow in 
heavy or green grass. Is easily held down while at 
work.* It has the simplest, most durable, as well 
as convenient dumping device of any rake in the field. 
BELCHER & TAYLOR AGR’L TOOL CO. 
BOX 75. CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. 
ITHACA PORTABLE ENGINE 
Economical, Strong, and Safe. 
ITHACA BROADCAST SOWER 
COMPLETE in itself, or as Attachment to Bake. 
SUPERIOR GOODS at Low Prices. 
f r AGENTS WANTED in unoccupied territory. 
Address the Manufacturers. (Mention this paper.) 
WILLIAMS BROTHERS, 
ITHACA, NEW YORK. 
GRINDER 
Machine Knife 
Grinder. 
PerfectMowing 
25,000 
Machines in actual 
use testifying to its 
merits. 
Can be carried into the field and attached to Mowing 
Machine Wheel. Send for new Descriptive Catalogue. 
H1GGANUM MANDF’G CORPORATION. 
Main Office: HIGGANUM. CONN. 
Successors to R. H. Allen & CO- 189 Water St.. N. Y. 
RAPE VINES! 
G i H 
My specialty for 32 years. Over 1OO best new and 
old kinds: Empire State, Diamond. Jewel, Eaton, 
Moyer. Niagara, Witt, Woodruff Red. Moore's Ear- 
Nectar. Brighton, Pocklington, Delaware, Catawba, 
vira, Ives, etc. Nice, medium 1 year Concords, £10 per 
lOOO. Also, Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, 
Gooseberries and Currants. Best Plants. Loir Prices. 
Catalogues free. GEO. W. CAMPBELL, Delaware, O. 
& 
New Model | Mudg-ett 
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1809 HAY TEHHBH. 1889 
Greatly improved and simplified and at a price that 
any farmer can afford. Send for circulars and price. 
B. & J. W. BELCHER,* - 
Box 75. Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
Great Improvement in Presses 
For Baling Hav, 
Straw ,xc. Superior 
to all others, so 
claimed by those 
using them. Over 20 
in use within eight 
miles of factory. 
Manufactured by 
D. B. HENDRICKS, 
Kingston. N. Y. 
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