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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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INTERESTING 
Facts for Agriculturists m Dairymen. 
THE HUMISTON FOOD PRESERVATIVE, 
IS A PERFECT SUBSTITUTE FOR 
Ice, Heat, Smoke, Sugar, Salt, or Alcohol, 
And it Preserves Food with its Natural Flavor, 
and Enhances its Value 
®“IN ALL SEASONS and in ALL CLIMATES.!^; 
“Res Magnus." a term signifying the “Mighty 
King,” is the crowning triumph of the age. It is a 
combination of antiseptics; is harmless and healthful ; 
tasteless, cheap, and within the reach of all; is an en¬ 
tirely new and strictly scientific discovery. 
This preservative is, as its name signifies, a mighty 
king, a royal preservative, an invincible conqueror. Its 
special field of usefulness is the preservation of food in 
large or small quantities, which it keeps pure, and is 
therefore healthful. 
It is tlxe office of Res Magnus to oppose and prevent 
putrefaction by the utter destruction or holding at bay , 
those parasites that prey upon organic matter—and it 
does it. 
It is endorsed by Scientists, Physicians, Hotel and 
Restaurant Keepers, Market Men, Stock Raisers, 
Farmers, and Families. 
Intended for everteodt's use, it is so cheap 
THAT EVERYBODY CAN TRY IT. 
It has been demonstrated, again and again, that the 
■ claims of its proprietors are facts — 
STUBBORN AND INGONTESTIBLE TRUTHS. 
Cream, oysters, meats, etc., preserved by this method 
miy be carried across the continent, or shipped to Eu¬ 
rope, retaining their freshness and purity without the 
use of ice, or any refrigerating appliance ; or they may 
be kept at home for days and weeks even in the hottest 
weather, improving in taste , besides saving much time 
and expense in the cost of ice, and trouble in going to 
market. 
SCIENTIFIC ENDORSEMENT. 
-It is Safe, Tasteless, Pure, and Harmless.- 
“ So far as I have yet learned, ’’ says Prof. S. W. John¬ 
son, the well known chemist of Yale College, “ they are 
■ the only preparations that are effective, and at the same 
time practicable , for domestic use.” This language was 
used by Prof. Johnson in his written report relating to 
his severe and exhaustive experiments of 35 days (con¬ 
ducted in a warm room with an average temperature of 
70°) with Rex Magnus in all its,several brands, on 
meats, poultry, game, fish, oysters, cream, and milk, and 
he added, “ they do all that is claimed for them." 
“ So far as I have yet learned, they are the only prepara¬ 
tions that are effective , and at the same practicable , for 
domestic use.” It is safe, tasteless, pure, and Prof. 
Johnson says, “ isless harmful thancommon salt." 
Like the dressed meat transportation companies, our 
■country butchers must keep their meats with ice, whilst 
■ consumers must ultimately eat this frozen meat. A 
Cincinnati Judge has recently declared that all frozen 
meats are injurious to those who eat them. Every one 
will agree with the statement that frozen viands lose 
their natural flavor, aroma, and sweetness. 
WHAT IS THE REMEDY! 
There is but one agent, known now or ever known 
heretofore, which will give the people, everywhere, and 
in every climate and season, cheap, sweet, natural, ten¬ 
der, luscious, and healthful food, and that agent is 
“Rex Magnus.” 
Every statement made by its proprietors can be and 
has been positively proven. 
PHYSICIANS OF EMINENCE SAY, 
that Rex Magnus is healthful, and that its effects upon 
the human system tend to eradicate the germs of the 
most common diseases known to the human family. 
“I particularly endeavored to detect the taste of any 
foreign substance,” said Hr. C. A. Lindsley. Dean of the 
Medical Department of Yale College, and Health Officer 
of New Haven, at the New Haven House Dinner of 
“treated ” meats 17 days old, “ but could not do so. I 
know of no other agent that will do what Rex Magnus 
has done, i. e., save meats and still be harmless and 
tasteless. I thought I could detect the treated chicken, 
but I was mistaken." 
It is not a medicine, but a food preservative, and com¬ 
bines, in its effects upon meats and viands treated with 
■it, all of the desiderata of the physicians’ most trusted 
•agents in materia medica , whilst it also gives to man¬ 
kind the luxuries of pure, cheap, tender, fresh, and 
healthful food. Such characteristics ( and they are 
truths, which you can yourself prove, and at a trifling ex¬ 
penditure) entitle Rex Magnus to the proud title given 
•to it by its proprietors. 
Rex Magnus is not the “ accidental discovery of 
some phantom Missionary (?),” but is the outgrowth Of 
intelligent, exhaustive scientific research and labor. 
TEN THOUSAND EXPERIMENTS FAILED, 
Yet the constant drippings of truths, evolved during 
these trials and failures, finally wore away the rock of 
difficulties— and Rex Magnus is the result; as one editor 
put it—an American King. 
The kind words of the press, and the unstinted praise 
of scientific men. soldiers, and civilians, would fill 
many pages of this journal. Everybody is interested in 
the results and effects secured by the use of Rex 
Magnus. 
You do not have to buy a State or County right, in order 
to test its merits. 
Grocers, druggists, and genera] store-keepers will sell 
you a pound of Rex Magnus, of any brand desired. If 
they should not have it on hand, however, send the 
price to the Humiston Food Preserving Co., 77 Kelly 
St., Boston, Mass., and they will supply you. This offer 
entails a loss to the proprietors, but it ensures a sample to 
everyone who may desire to use this “greatest discov¬ 
ery of this or any other age.” 
Long series of experiments have shown that it was 
necessary to have 
THE DRIVE WELL PATENT. 
The American Agriculturist 
Sustained. 
Our advice to the readers of the American Agri¬ 
culturist, to isg'lit and resist the validity of the 
famous Drive Well Patent is now triumph¬ 
antly sustained. 
In the United States Circuit Court, at Des 
BRANDS FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES. 
“ Yiandine ” is for preserving all meats, 
poultry, fish, and game.Price 50c. per lb. 
“Ocean Wave” is for preserving oys¬ 
ters, clams, lobsters, and fish. “ 50c. “ 
“.Pearl” is for preserving cream. “ $1.00 “ 
" Snow Flake ” is for preserving butter, 
cheese, and milk. “ 50c. “ 
“Queen” is for preserving eggs, and 
green corn on the ear. “ $1.00 “ 
“ Aqua Vitse ” is for medical purposes, 
and for the keeping of all kinds of 
fluid extracts without the use of al¬ 
cohol, glycerine, or sugar, and at less 
than one-twentieth the cost of alcohol. “ $1.00 “ 
“Anti Ferment,” “Anti Mold,” and “Anti Fly”are 
special preparations, whose names explain their uses 
and functions. 50 cts. per lb. 
Let everybody send the price for a sample box, if your 
grocer or druggist does not yet keep it. He will soon. 
Designate the particular brand you want, and address 
the proprietors. Send money order or registered letter. 
The llimiiston Food Presenilis Co., 
72 KILBY ST., BOSTON, MASS. 
Circulars containing Prof. Johnson's report in 
full, and a mass of testimony about it, will be sent on 
application. 
A few Press Notices are given, as showiug how 
it is received in dili’ereut parts 
of the country. 
Mr. George B. James, of the American Cultivator , says; 
“There is no man in America who stands so high in the 
estimation of agriculturists as Prof. Samuel W. Johnson, 
of Yale College. The endorsement which he gives Rex 
Magnus settles its merits, gentlemen, both for me and 
the farming interests of the country.” 
“ Rex Magnus is destined to he of great value in our 
export trade, since it is evident that cream, oysters and 
fresh meats can be shipped abroad without the use of 
ice.”—Springfield, Mass. Republican, April 8, 1883. 
“By its use fresh cream, fine raw oysters, brook trout, 
and many other delicate and perishable articles of food 
are being enjoyed on the ocean steamers without the use 
of ice, while eggs are preserved indefinitely, in fine 
flavor, by its use. It will effect a revolution in food.” — 
St. Paul Pioneer Press, April 7, 1883. 
“Thirty of the forty guests present at the Chicago 
banquet were compelled to admit the perfect success of 
every test made. ****** The result of the tests, and 
they were of the severest nature, are overwhelmingly an 
indorsement of the wonderful qualities of this great dis¬ 
covery, which cannot but revolutionize all present modes 
of supply of animal food, and demonstrate quite absolute¬ 
ly that its universal introduction will double in saving 
and preserving the meat and food supply of the civilized 
world.”— Courier-Journal , Louisville, Ky., April 10,1883. 
“ Meats preserved by this method may be carried 
across the continent, or shipped to Europe, retaining 
their freshness and purity without the use of ice or any 
refrigeratory appliance.” — Kansas Farmer , Topeka, 
Kas., March 14, 1883. 
“ The most testhetic gentleman could not tell (at the 
Chicago banquet) which of the meats had been treated 
with ltex Magnus, and which had not. The assembly 
broke up, feeling that they had learned something that 
might be, not only useful ” to themselves, but to all man¬ 
kind.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 11, 1883. 
“ But the use to which it is put, and the severe tests 
through which it has passed, triumphantly, by the lead¬ 
ing chemists of the country, is in preserving all kinds of 
meats in carcass, or in pieces : fish, cream, milk, oysters, 
&c.” In speaking of the Chicage banquet; “Some 
thought they could detect a difference, but it was slight 
and in favor of the preserved meats, as they were tenderer. 
Oysters received from Boston, treated with Rex 17 days 
before, were, when sampled, as sweet and natural as 
when taken first from the shell of the oyster. If it is as 
triumphant in the West as in the East it will be a 
“ Mighty King ” indeed. — The Drovers Journal , Chicago, 
April 11, 1883. 
Moines, Iowa, a decision was rendered May 9th, in 
the long-contested drive-well cases of Green 
against several hundred defendants in that State. 
The Court holds that the patent is entirely null 
and void; first, for abandonment to the pub¬ 
lic for several years before Green applied for a 
patent; second, for priority of use ; and third, for 
want of novelty. The Court also holds that the 
velssne of the patent is void for the reason 
that it grants more and broader claims 
than (lie original patent. 
We shall have more to say on this subject in the 
July American Agriculturist. 
Improve tlie Sweet-Corn. —It is a 
great mistake to take such sweet-corn ears for seed as 
by accident have been left until too old for table use. 
If one raises much sweet-corn, it will pay to grow a 
patch or a row especially for seed. This should have 
extra culture, and the select ears reserved for seed. 
Take seed only from stalks with two or more ears, and 
save only those ears that are well filled out at the tip. 
If field corn is grown near by, there is a great danger 
that the sweet-corn may be cross-fertilized and “ mixed.” 
Regard should be had to earliness. In a planting, there 
will be a difference of several days in the earliness. It 
is only by saving the earliest ears that a kind can he 
kept improving. Cut up the seed-bearing stalks as soon 
as the corn is ripe. 
Green Food for Young- Cliiekens. 
—Poultrymen who have plenty of room, and can put 
down a coop of chickens amid springing grass, of course 
need no other provision for the young broods in the way 
of green food. But there are many villagers, with nar¬ 
row quarters, who are compelled to keep their few hens 
in small yards, and their chickens away from the grass 
plot. Green food, so eagerly sought by the chickens, 
should be furnished by the breeder. Nothing is more 
easily grown than lettuce, and it is quite as good for 
them as grass. A few rows of lettuce can be started in 
the hot-bed for the earliest broods, and cut as wanted. 
If not cut too closely, the roots will send up a second 
and third crop of leaves. Succession crops should be 
started for chicken feed through the spring months. 
A small bed will furnish a large amount of feed. Onion 
tops make another excellent feed for chickens, and if 
taken from large bulbs set out for the purpose, they can 
be had quite as early as the lettuce. Whatever vegeta¬ 
ble is used, it should be cut very fine, and given in lim¬ 
ited quantities, with the other feed, so as not to induce 
diarrheea. 
Epsom Ssilts is a simple remedy for scours 
in calves, recommended as usually effectual by a corres¬ 
pondent of an English journal. He gives an ounce, 
more or less, according to the age of the calf, repeated 
every twelve hours until the scours begin to diminish ; 
then once a day until they cease, which is usually in 
three to five days. During this time the calf's diet must 
be carefully attended to. Let it suck its dam, or feed 
it with milk fresh drawn and still warm from the cow. 
Perhaps a little boiled wheat flour might be advantage¬ 
ously stirred into the milk, but no other medicine should 
be given at the same time in addition to the salts. 
