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AMERICAN - A GRICTJLTUR1ET. 
December.] 
CSOOD NEWS 
LAPSES? 
Now’s your time to get 
up O r<lers for our CE LEBltA- 
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secure a beautiful MOSS 
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for .$25. This is the greatest inducement ever offered. 
Send in your orders and enjoy a cup of GOOD TEA 
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■Coffee orders of $40 and upwards, tor full particulars, 
address THE OIOT MiERJGflSS TEA GO. 
P. O. Box 289. 81 and S3 Vesey St.. New York. 
MIXED FARMING 
IN NEBRASKA. 
Crain. Corn, and Live Stock Crowing 
Combined. 
The most Profitable and agreeable of any occupation. 
1883 
Reports prove the agriculturists of Nebraska to have 
been the most successful of any people in the West. 
Write for information about the above matters—also 
about. U. P. Ry. lands in this State, which will be sent Free, 
in great variety, by LEAVITT BURNHAM. 
Land Commissioner II. P. Ry. Co.. 
Omaha, \eb. 
9y Refer to this advertisement. jg& 
Land of Plenty. 
FARMS, 4 
FREE. 
Hltie Earth. Brown, Watonwan, Martin, Cotton wood, 
Jackson, Nobles and Murray Counties, in Southwestern 
Minnesota, now have an assured Wheat crop of over 20 
bushels per acre, with Corn, Rye, Oats, Barley, Flax, etc., 
promising abundance sncli as never before known. Now is 
the time to buy lands in this most, fertile, beautiful and 
healthful region, which has competing railways, abundant 
meadows, cheap fuel, spring wafer lakes and cheap lands. 
Apply to J. H. DRAKE. 
Land Commissioner, Drake Block, St. Paul, Minn. 
rTTTTTp AGGGs 
NEAR MARKETS. 
The State of Michigan has more than 4,500 miles of rail¬ 
road and 1,600 miles of Lake transportation, schools and 
churches in every county, public buildings all paid for, and 
no debt. Its soil and climate combine to produce large 
crops, and it Is the best fruit State in the Northwest. Sev¬ 
eral million acres of unoccupied and fertile lauds are yet 
in the tnarke 1- at .low prices. The State has issued a NEW 
PAMPHLET containing a map and descriptions of the 
soil, crops and general resources of every county in the 
State, which may be had free of charge by writing to the 
Comsi’k of Immigration, Detroit, Mich. 
•50 Delaware Fruit and Grain Farms 
cheap. Catalogue's free. 
P. GRIFFITH, Smyrna, Del. 
L OOOjOOO acres 
on the line of the 
JEk WISCONSIN CENTRAL R. R. 
Address, US? Full particulars 
CHARLES L. COLBY, 
Land Commiss’ner® 
MILWAUKEE,WIS. 
22KT WISOOKTSTKT. 1 
C ““”oME TO MARYLAND !-Improved Farms, $10 
to $25 per acre. Descriptive Catalogues sent free. 
H. P. CHAMBERS, Federalsburgh, Md. 
I I ARMS.-Mild climate; profitable and productive; 
4 $500 to $2,0110. Best of markets. New land, $20 per 
■ acre. Terms easy. C. K. LANDIS, Vineland, N. J. 
COME TO FLORIDA! 
-AND- 
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Florida. 
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THE YOUTH’S COMPANION 
FOR 1884. 
■ HE COMPANION gives more than two hundred stories yearly, by the 
most noted authors. The next volume will he unequalled ill its variety of 
entertaining and instructive matter. The Companion is published every 
week, is handsomely illustrated, and is a paper for the'whole family. 
Illy strafed Serial Stories 
The Foundling of Paris, by 
The Covenanter’s Daughter, by 
A Boys’ Story, by 
A Story of English Rustic Life. 
A Story of Adventure, by 
Alphonse Daudet 
Mrs. Oliphant 
J. T. Trowbridge 
Thomas Hardy 
Co A. Stephens 
Adventure and Travel., 
Shark-Hunting, by 
Among tho Moonshiners, by j 
Outwitted. An Indian Adventure, 
Wrecked Upon a Volcanic Island, 
Stories of the Cabins in the West, 
Adventures in the Mining Districts, 
Breaking in the Reindeer, and Other Sketches of Tolar 
adventure, by 
Stories Of Menageries. Incidents connected with Men¬ 
agerie Life, and the Capture and Taming of Wild Beasts 
for Exhibition, by 
Boys Afoot in Italy and Switzerland. The Adven¬ 
tures of two English boys travelling abroad at an expense 
of one dollar a day, by 
T. B. Luce 
. Chandler Harris 
Lieut. A. Chapin 
Richard Heath 
E. J. Marston 
H. Fillmore 
W. H. Gilder 
S. S. Cairns 
Nugent Robinson 
Original Poems*, 
The greatest living poets of ENGLAND, FRANCE and AMERICA will 
contribute original poems written expressly for Companion readers. 
ASfred Tennyson, 
Victor Hugo, 
The EarS of Lyttors, 
J. G. Whittier, 
T. B. Aldrich. 
A 
Reminiscences and Anecdotes* 
Stage-Driver Stories, by 
Stories of Saddle-Bag Preachers, 
The Last Days of Women, of Fashion, by 
My First Visit to a Newspaper Office, 
My Pine-Apple Farm, with Incidents 
of Florida Life, by 
Queen Victoria’s Household and Drawing- 
Rooms, by 
Child Friendships of Charles Dickens, by his 
Daughter, 
Student Waiters, Some Humorous Incidents 
of a Summer Vacation in the White Moun¬ 
tains, bv 
Rose Terry Cooke 
H. L. Winckley 
James Parton 
Murat Halstead 
C. H. Pattee 
H. W. Lucy 
Mamie Dickens 
Child McPherson 
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Tst, 1884, and a full year’s subscription from that date. 
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