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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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CHEAP FARMS 
AND 
FREE HOMES 
IN THE 
GREAT PLATTE VALLEY, 
THE GARDEN OP THE WEST. 
A LAND GRANT OF 
12,000,000 ACRES 
OF. THE 
Best Farming, Grazing, and mineral 
Lands in America. 
THE 
Union Pacific Raiiroad Co. 
OFFER FOR SALE 
3,000,000 ACRES 
OF CHOICE 
FARMING and GRAZING LANDS 
ON THE LINE OF THE ROAD IN THE 
STATE OF NEBRASKA. 
ON TEN YEARS CREDIT, INTEREST 
ONLY 6 PER CENT. 
Cheaper in Frice, More favorable Terms 
given, than can be found Elsewhere. 
Convenient to Markets East and West. 
Now is the Time to Secure a Home!! 
FIRE PROTECTION 
For Cities & Towns. 
BABCOCK 
SELF-ACTING FIRE ENGINE. 
Adopted by New York, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, 
and One Hundred other Cities. 
THE BABCOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 
407 Broadway, New York. 
317 to 331 South Desplaines St., Chicago. 
Gardening for Profit. 
A Guide to tlie Successful Cultivation of 
tlie Market, and Family Garden. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 
Finely Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, SI.50. 
JUST OUT: 
The Second Number of 
THE PIONEER, 
A handsome Illustrated Paper, with Maps, etc., and 
containing tlie Homestead Law, also the new Timber 
Law. Mailed free to all applicants, by addressing 
o. u. DAVIS, 
Land Commissioner, IT. P. R. R. Co., 
OMAHA, NEB. 
CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN R’Y. 
THE TRANS-CONTINENTAL ROUTE. 
This is the Pioneer line between Chicago and the Pacific 
Coast, and was the first to connect with the great Pacific 
roads, and form the OVERLAND ROUTE. This line is 
tlie shortest rail line between Chicago and Omaha ; the track 
is of the best steel rail, and is well ballasted, and as free 
from dust as a road can be made ; the bridges are strong 
and durable; and all the appointments are first-class in 
every respect. The trains that run over this line are made 
up of elegant new Pullman Palace Drawing Room and 
Sleeping Coaches built express la for this line, luxurious, 
well lighted and well ventilated Day Coaches, and pleasant 
lounging and smoking cars; all built by this Company in 
their own shops. The cars are all equipped with the cele¬ 
brated Miller Safety Platform, and patent Buffers and Coup¬ 
lings, Westinghouse Safety Air Brakes, and every other ap¬ 
pliance that has been devised for the safety of passenger 
trains. All trains are run by telegraph. In a word, this 
GREAT CALIFORNIA LINE has the best and smoothest 
track, and tlie most elegant and comfortable equipment of 
any road in the West; and lias no superior in the country. 
It is eminently the favorite route with Chicagoans traveling 
west, and is acknowledge by the traveling public to be the 
popular line for all points in Western Iowa, Nebraska, Wy¬ 
oming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Califor¬ 
nia, and the Pacific Slope. 
All Coupon Ticket Agents sell tickets by this route. If 
you are going West, you should try this route. 
New York Office: No.229 Broadway. 
Boston Office: No. 5 State Street. 
CHICAGO TICKET OFFICES: 
62 Clark Street, under Sherman House. 
Corner Canal and Madison Streets. 
Kinzie Street Depot, cor. West Kinzie and Canal Streets. 
Wells Street Depot, corner Wells and Kinzie Streets. 
MARVIN HUGHITT, W. H. STENNETT, 
General Superintendent. General Passenger Agent. 
£xceIsioi*Do Your Own Printing 
^Portable <8iQ Press for cards, labels, envelopes 
roriduie etc. Largersizes forlargework. 
"Business Men do their printing and 
advertising, save money and increase 
trade. Amateur Printing, delight 
ful pastime for spare hours. BOYS 
have great fun and make money fast 
Printing atprinting. Send two stamps for full 
& o, catalogue presses type etc, to the Mfra 
1 TfiSSG 3 KELSEY & CO. Meriden, Conn. 
The following voluntary' notice of this book comes from 
a Western market gardener and shipper of vegetables, and 
is aspeeimen of similar testimony from very many quarters. 
“March 23 d , 1874. 
“ If this should go to Mr. Henderson, I would'say that I 
believe tlie gardeners of this country would gladly hail an¬ 
other edition of ‘ Gardening for Profit;’.at. least, I thank 
him for that little work. Through, its influence I left a pay¬ 
ing manufacturing business and began to follow its teach¬ 
ings. This was three years ago. Now I have a market 
garden of thirty acres and 400 four-feet sash, and- enjoy my¬ 
self as I never did before. Again I thank him.” 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
READ A STORY 
ABOUT 
CEANDALL’S ACROBATS. 
We lately carried home a box of these amusing toys. A 
deeply interested audience awaited the opening of the ex¬ 
hibition. There were three little children, aged seven, five, 
and two, respectively, and four big children, ranging from 
twenty-nine to forty years of age. Little seven-year-old put 
the acrobats together, aided by little five-year-old, while 
little two-years gazed in wrapt admiration and enjoyment. 
The excitement grew as the queer figures took shape and 
assumed fantastic postures. Then big thirty-seven-year-old 
tried his hand at the amusement, and very soon the merry 
voices of old and young joined in a hearty laughing chorus 
over the oddities of one of the most laughable and enter¬ 
taining toys that we have Been for many years. It is a hap¬ 
py hit, which will make the inventor’s fortune, and is 
nothing more nor less than wooden men in detail, the 
bodies, heads, legs, and arms, separate, and so grooved that 
they can he readily put together in an almost endless va¬ 
riety of fantastic shapes and figures. They are colored as 
acrobats, and as they perform feats never even attempted 
at Barnum’s, are fully entitled to their name. A plesant 
feature is their cheapness. The Orange Judd Publishing 
Company, No. 245 Broadway, in this city, are the proprietors 
of this “ Great Show,” which may he exhibited in every 
home, and “ no postponement on account of the weather.”— 
From “ The Christian at Work." 
Price of “ Crandall’s Acrobats”—$1 per box at 245 Broad¬ 
way, or $1.15 if sent post-paid. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
CRANDALL’S IMPROVED 
BUILDING - BLOCKS 
FOR 
OHILDEEN. 
BEAUTIFUL, AMUSING, IHSTEUCTIVE. 
CRANDALL’S 
Building-Blocks 
Can be made into forms of almost endless variety. 
The blocks are put up in neat, strong boxes, and 
a large sheet giving various designs of buildings, 
etc., accompanies each box. 
Frice—No. 1, $2.00; by mail, prepaid, $2.25. 
No. 3, $1.00; by mail , prepaid, $1.10. 
No. 4, $1.00; by mail, prepaid , $1.10. 
CRANDALL’S 
Masquerade-Blocks, 
Making 300 different and beautiful Combinations 
of Pictures, which are in very brilliant colors. 
They are not injured by washing, do not wear out, 
and afford endless amusement. 
Price $1.00; by mail, prepaid, $1.10. 
CRANDALL’S 
Expression-Blocks, 
With Letters on one side, Picture on the other. 
The Alphabet is the key to the picture which, when 
complete, represents the inventor in Dream Land. 
These Blocks are water-proof, and can be washed 
if soiled. 
Frice 50 Cts.; by mail, prepaid, 60 Cts. 
CRANDALL’S 
Alphabet-Blocks. 
Red, "White, and Blue. 
Tasteless, odorless, and water-proof. The letters 
are on red, white, and blue ground. All children 
are pleased with them. 
Price 75 Cts.; by mail, prepaid, 8 5 Cts. 
Crandall’s Acrobats. 
Pull of fun and frolic, and most brilliant in costume. 
These are among the most fascinating and ingeni¬ 
ous toys ever invented. The number of figures 
which can he made with the pieces in a single box 
is limited only by the ingenuity of the operator. 
Price $1.00; by mail, prepaid, $1.15. 
N.B. — If postage is not remitted with the prices, as above, 
the blocks will be sent by express at purchaser's expense. 
Orders from the trade will he supplied on liberal terms. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
