Xcw Advertisement*,
UISf^ED
IvithoutMedicine
THIS MAGNETIC CELT I >
WARRANTED TO CURE:^
without mrdlrlni* I*iln In the buck, h!|. h< d, >r
I tut Nrrtitu* debt lit j ,lunttmgn. generul &l 11113 ,
rhffumitlUm, purul)U, lirtirulglu, •elwtlcn, dla<
••at thr LI J net • .•ptnul ill< uh-i. torpid lit rf, u< .1%
• rmtnnl -mD*lin*. fuinoG nry, u|hmn, lieur* dl<*-
• ■•IS lj•i pl. *ntt*tlpotlotl* • rjuli" !, lunljjr*-
tloo. hi rnlo r rupture, rulurrk, pile#, cylb ;*t ,
•lamh ••*"' rIP.
|\ hen any ilrti tr of th* I.TMHATI V rnllli \
Ikrr*..'4, lut • Itnllt r, IniL if m r\• lino and t Igur,
u tlng wrnLnriM . omJ nil lhoti> ilUt uic* of 111 -r
-•onnl nature. rrotli WDAtovor . t t
• ttemu i'f Magnet Lmi |>-rtn• ' 1 h rough the 1 *r
muM restore thi iw to n health/ %> tluu. I'Uvtu I* u-j
mltake about thta a|>pliaus*.
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ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER, L
TO THE LADIES:
f xhauvtton, I>r ■prncla.or wit h IM*ru*t- of the l.lv*
cr. kidney*. lli ••if••• lio or< vl't I nt. '•wollt n or
It nk Ankle*, or Swollen Peel, rft At*-' :• i ■ I I • t
•11(1 apntr of Mnjrn.f -I tjltitt-rl. liu*.-r • U| r
In thn r• f | | • r
-*rry a j>owrtrful lUAguetij f 'uo to ; toft o
tllM-nAe.
for f.ame Hark, Wruknraaof the Betne. Fnll*
• n^of the womb, l.ctirorrhii u, I hronL
II nn and I'leeratlon oftho II ouih, lucid* otal 11 ui.
1 rrhugr or t loud! ug. I'ulnful, butpr 'I wnd Ir.
regular IVrnatruntlon, Itnrrrnnraa, and rhnn< % of
1.1 lis flit* la the Ileal A ppUanco uuilturutliv Agiut
It nowti.
t*<>r all forma of Krmnlr DKH.nltl. •11 |tunnr
pn*rd by anything 1m ' rn|nvi' •!. 1 *U t\ •a v uaU%o
Yrr.taral a < .'ms..f H.fr,-ra I TlUltuiti<>*>.
rlooofalthrrlll It -• Mt. • 1 • •
ftentbyaspr tC.O 1 nn lis 1 1 •. nn n. <iiy
tnall oblfcrlptofprto I
walat and-'2O ,>f' l: oc.ui bu tnadvl;. _ar>
faory, nrnt Inlet* rat 1 •• r k.
TboJlagnet' ti Oat ti n .11 ■ lapb 't u" it**
worn over th# under cl -thing, mot i *t i< t)<o
L<dy like the munjr tin!*nnb and I'D i tHe II um
bug* Rdvertltril • ritrnl*i<li> ft 1 la
taken off at night. They I I their pomrf* mrcrr, and
•rn worn at ail wooon* . f th>'jrrtr.
Send •Uni|) for thr "snt tui irttiralnMrdl *1 T
inrtit \% Ithuul Medicine," tllU U*vU*aHd of loU'ue
nlala
TliE MAGNKTON AmXINCKC 0..
dIM htato BU, Chlcafv, ILL
PAYNE'S I 0 Horso Spark A-rosting
formbU* Ktis'itif bit** ut 10.00U ft. >f Michigan I'lne
li irl- in lu hoQn*, burutn.; elabs from tbc MW iu
-it,* 4 '* 3-
o*ft Tlone tr# Ounrnn' vto fnmi"h ivwrr to
oasr 8400 f- lof Bet i i la 1 ( nv
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GREAT WESTtRNjnidC^GUNI WOPKB. 2
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109 Smilltficld street, Pittsburgh, I'u
Wilnnn Mr Fortune C Co.. Hardware Healer*.
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WILSON, McFAHLANE CO.
DEALERS; IN
STOVES, RANGES * HEATERS;
ALSO
I'ainls, Oils, (Jlass and Varnishes,
AND
BTJIX-IDEE/S' HARDWARE
ALLmiIKT ITRKCT, .... llt.'Mr.R' HMK.'K, .... It KI.I.KI' NTK, PA . j
jyCLARK JOHNSON'S
Indian Blood Syrup
SraCures all diseases of the Stomach, Liver,
smMm Bowels, Kidney Skin and Blood.
I Millions testify to its effioacy in heal
jKHUtging the above named diseases, and pro-
MOmX*/ nounoe it to be the
BEST REMEDY KNOWN TO MAN.
TBAi>E uabk. Guaranteed to cure Dyspepsia.
ITAOENTSiWANTED.iI
Laboratory 77 W. 3d St, New York City. Druggists sell it
TRAVELER'S GUIDE.
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Wtltiomaport on Niagara Kspr#w Waat Eria Kspraoi
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PIIILADELPIIIA
SINGER
nth" nrsT BUILT.
FINEST FINISHED,
EASIEST RUNNING
SINGER MACHINE ever offered the public.
Th* B*T. i-.il r I " r. t f |*:Ur f-V ■ 1 r
t Og i*"*, ' whi iwa 8h v e Aaf the tery I *i • •
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| if ft t* not all * r*jjv-*e t. return it %>■ *.• *t r
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mar# th * ■ ur v a ttot to tha bnataeaa
v .1 (*> pm oaorly m wall. Ha
ooeran fail h make .n rm- • ;ay. 1 r vngagit g at
oK*. Coolly ' Utbt and t-rm free Money maite (a*t,
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I I. FKKDLKK KS.
Repairer of Sewing Machines,
BKLMirnSTK, I A.
l . int own mil#anal • f Mlaf i-t'. •ntl *•' t
• Mill* r id, with Mr. Chtiatian I bl, u lara. ' D
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TUTTS
PILLS
• if- virfrnmi
' A NOTES DIVINE SAYS:
]>iu TITT: —/> at -ft I r t<N )sr i htvn
butt A martyr to J . i i , I i
i ilea. l.mt, I ; i
to raS 1 " Oil fI • (Uifc r.!• little faith). J Mil
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1 i' ■ , : l i i' i, and i bin
U XIIIIM1 (orty touti : boiid il- h. 'i hy am v.orth
ill .i irtifhti
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SYMPTOMS OF
;; A TORPID LIVER.
, Loss of Anpot itr\Nau*Cfi,Div."ls(oiitlv6,
7 Vain m tlm If<■ n.I, with a .lull niinmilion
in the buck part, I'lilmind'rthnßhouhlpr
• himl.', I'tilln' BM i, ft or fiitlntri withjailm
u Inclination I i cx'-rUoil r.f Ivxlyor mind,
~ IriitiOnlltV of leuipnr, Lew ;uritH, L'>M|
ii .f in' mot v, with ii f ■ linn _ot luivmif nr
■ 1/Tted Momndnty.
■J Fluttering of the heart, Dotw t • Tore tho
tiymi, Yollow Sit in, H'-i'lurlio, ilcNtlpfui-
J ticna ut Mirht, hltrluy colored t/rine,
IF THESE WAftNINOS AKK UNHEEDED!
l SERIOUS DISEASES Will BE DEVELOPED.
TUii BPiLLti nra.infrlnll}' mUiit.it in
.in- Ii rn *r *, inir it o*e r rtfrt - ,i Ii u r hit ago
of fi-rliilu lit In it nli, ill ill t lie anfTr ret.
Try till, remedy fntrly, nuil vim will
unlit at luitliliy Vlg uruii.
' It inly, I'urr llloint, Mtronu IVrre it, nmt
nVoiiinl l.lrer. I'rlee. 'J ft cut*.
fitttrr, :t.-, Mnimy SI.. X. V.
I TUTT'S HAIR DYE.
i <*i y II .t irnntl Ii i <k rm r tin ton
<.Ttht Hint L hyn Hinulr npplii Minn of
•til* l*vr. M linpni IM u tiftlurnl color,
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IcUfa.oi k. Nt # t|itr<iM)ii i r • ipt offl.
I tinier, ar Ultirrny St.. \t w \ ork.
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I RIMCDY SUCi , A9 DISEASES)
VIITTCIUTCH.SORCS. PIMPICS./
WRING wormY
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I THE FOR
miHEPHES
Ariorti.m*rmM.tiir,tlntinc,llih.rr,w l ,r.t
HUM; i~wul( plii-wornn. *r- imwlia, tl-ut
th.i.fliim,th|i.it.|rt.r>. fl.n.fl. inl A*.
F'.N.itnt, prxitutnl-al .nit cur*, IHWAT.C'<
OitT I. i.i|-it .t in njr artlcl. in th.
(t'ld l'F<lniiffirt,of londMKI. In :i-i t Atamia- I
baXM,lin A.)4,-rti|l>s. >WAtaiilfa,lliihL,it,
11M (I n 1 *^' 1 '* I'ket t"f
I\l INPJ 1 """**" "'" r .•"no.,aH la
|] IMWtim. l. orni wwllhy . tbrt aim <ln nnt
impriin lliHf [■■'lniitli'. rntintim In
W.nfT.r (tr.t. lI.IIM tn
mntirjr. Wa r.l mnny m.n.wnm.n, lj unl ,Jli
In work fir ii. rI,M In thrlr nan | Any una
ran do th. a.ak fmm I),* fn.i trt. Ttia
hnliiai ait) |aymit. than |.n tini^nrillnnry angia.
Rtp.Mli*oaim fnrn I*l.'-1 If**. Ne mi* aho .npta
fll to nMk mmi.y rtpMly. ton r*, ,)„*,u yaw
ah"l Ilm* torh. work, of only j nr #,* m . ."m.nt*
full InluraMlloa Mnl *ll Out I* umM **nt fr... Ad
lr*a* lrtf,t * Co, I'wtUi.: J4*l,. IT-ly.
tilif iCcivtrt ;Timotral.
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BKLLKKONTK, l'A.
AaniCXTLTtTBiLL.
NKWH, FALTB AND BL'tJOIiiTIONS.
run TIHT or TB* nT|o**L a*LriK* 111 Til* INTILtI
U*.HC r. AXIA PIMNIT.VIT r or TIIU r AUMKH.
hnry fnrmrr in /it* annual er/nrumcf.
UtHcarrrß Aomrfltitir/ oj ra'.ne. Write it and
send it tn the u Agricultural Kditor <>f the
I)KM"< HAT, Jlellefutite, t'erin'u," that nth* r
/tffwifi //<'/>/ havo th* benefit oj j. I.*i
cnnmunieatiotiH tie timely, and b* sure that
they are. brief and well pointed.
IT is Hsiid that in J'olaml, where
ventilation anil drying are continued
for home time, wheat has been kept
sound and good for half a century.
Its age never injures it, and KUCII
wheat is said to yield much hand
somer and better Hour than that
which is obtained from grain more
recently harvested. *
C vrn K injure pasture in many
I ways, the chief of which are by walk-
I ing or running over it, by lying down,
by breathing upon it and by the dis
| charge of excrements. In these ways
j much more is destroyed or wasted
than is eaten. The voiding of the
; excrements in an open field is an ad
ditional) waste, amounting probably
to nine-tenths of the whole.
I' AitMEKs should experiment with
all kinds of fertilizers within their
rcaeh. ignite often there is found on
some farms muck that can !• prolit
ably drawn to land adjoining or in
the near m ighborhood. The quality
j of muck varies so widely that lack
| of success with it in any place is no
; evidence that other muck will fail
j elsewhere. The best muck contains
j lime and phosphoric acid.
\\ 11 E it E \ i i: wood ashes can be had
1 an excellent fertilizer may be made
Ii by any farmer. I,et him purchase
pure ground bone; mix with its
weight of ashes and saturate with
! water. The alkali in the ashes laki s
i hold of tie- grea e in the hours, and
i the mixture is a valuable one for any
grain crop. When dried with fine
ground gypsum it can Is- drilled in
with the seed.
Tin cvidi ncc recently supplied by
the S. i>tti-h Chamber of Agriculture
nM rts that tie- • !li ct r f lime is most
durable on pastures that are grazed.
It l ist* longer upon g- otl than upon
1 ad land, and longer upon lays an 1
heavy land than on light land. A
good dressing of lime lasts for a
number of y<ar. Kxccpt an old,
mossy land, lime is l>ost used upon
gra-i land in the form of compost.
What I Don't Know of Corn
Dr. siort.r*r.l. |iirl<* . I N V Jul- Kv Put t,
If you had asked me questions
about corn a year ago you would
have found mc po-s-ssjng very po-i
-life opinions. One year's < xpcrience
in accurate questioning at the State
L'xperiim-ntal Station lias given rue
more moelesty. I am lieginning to
feel tliat I know but little. In the
present aspect of agriculture, opinion
has got to balance opinion until wc
can weigh down the scale with more
faets. To separate the influence of
climate from the influence of selec
tion is a difficult one, ami I have
brought myself into a position of
doubting everything, as in that way
the labor of convincing myself is to
make me more cautious and more
judicious. And so at present I am
doubting all my early In-licfs about
corn, and aui endeavoring to form
ncwr opinions for which I can give
absolute data to justify my state
ment-. As aid in this direction I
have planted 140 different kinds of j
seed for the study of corn, the seed '
collected under various circumstan- :
ces, and I hope by careful study to !
develop sotue truths of observation.
Variability is what must furnish us
olews for ascertaining causes, and
this hybridized lot will doubtless sug
gest many more questions than I now
have in mind, nnd may, perhaps, set
tle some. I also have verification
plats which will doubtless prove of
some interest.
Eternal Vigilance.
Dr. Htnr|.rol.
The protection of insect-eating
birds should be considered a duty by
all, but whatever course may be
adopted, and whatever Remedies may
be applied the (armer must ever re
member, that in dealing with most
insects, eternal vigilance is the only
safety,
How I Killed Canada Thistlon.
Col. f*urll, lii N *\ Trunin*.
I have tried ull kinds of experi
ments in killing daiiada (hid let.
Seeding heavily with clover and mow
ing it, is one of the best. The poor
est way to kill thorn, and the best
way to spread tlicm, is to put the
land in hood crops. Every little
broken joint makes a new thistles and
starts a new bed. llencc the less
they aie disturbed the better, unless
the ground is ploughed so frequently
that they cannot grow nt all, and
this extra labor is HO out of joint
with one's inclination that it LK sel
dom done. A bed of thistles which
had exhausted all elforta to kill tlicm,
have be< n finished effectually. They
wi re allowed to grow without any
j disturbance until August. IJy this
, time they had headed out and just
j before the seed was ready to fly, they
I were mowed, and when the tops were
dry enough, they were gathered in
piles and burned. The ground was
then ploughed. This treatment seems
to lmvc exhausted the thistles and
killed them all. The ground was
sown with wheat in the autumn,
which is now very rank and not a
thistle to be seen. For twenty-nine
years I have worked at this batch of
thistles without getting rid of them,
for there would always be enough
left for renewal.
Livo Stock Exhibitions.
An.fd ran A/ri bit"!
Luring the coming three months,
there will he continual exhibitions cf
our domestic animals at the numerous
Fairs and Shows over the whole
country. In order to judge fairly as
to the merits of these, it is highly
important that tliey should be ex
; hi hi ted in proper condition—that is,
being neither too fat nor too lear.*
A - fat hides many bad points of ani
mal", they arc very frequently exhib
ited by owners in a superabundant
state of grossnt in order to covi r
fault--, and blind the eyes of the ex
atning judges. Here a distinction
should t- made in accordance with
the dith-nnt breeds of animals, and
the j irpoo - for which they are kept.
The Jersey, (u< rnsey, Ayrshire, and
1 bitch, (HoMein and cows
• curpas-i in the dairy; these, then,
should be judged mainly as to their
(merits In yielding an extra large
I quantity ol milk or butter f.r t!
'■ i consumed, while a harmonious
! form and line points, though desir
, a! le to accompany these extra yields.
, should IJC aEI con lary consideration.
As the Shorthorn cow is a general
purpose animal, its form and disposi
tion to take on an excellent quality
of flesh when dried off for fattening,
should IK-equally considered with its
dairy qualities: and the same is re
quired of any other breed for which
a gent ral purpose is claimed, as is
the case with the lb von, although a
' much smaller animal than the Short
' horn.
Cultivation as a Mulch.
i C*>r. X K r*ni-r.
Last spring 1 set out about two
acres of small fruit, planting vegeta
bles between the rows. I kept my
cultivator at work three and lour
times a week, keeping the ground
j broken up as fine as an ash heap, and
j though my land is naturally very dryi
there was no time during the season
i when the removal of two inches of
this fine dust would not show damp,
brown earth underneath, and while
some of my neighbors were obliged
to cut their corn for fodder, not get
ting back their seed even, the growth
of my trees, bushes and vegetables
continued fine throughout the entire
( season.
Wo Cannot Afford It.
———
Our. of Practical P*rni*r.
No farmer, no matter how strong
the soil nor how much dressing is ap
plied to it, can cx|>ccL to raise a full
crop of corn and allow the weeds to
grow as high as the corn. It cannot
be expected that good crops can be
realized grown under such adverse
circumstances. Hut plenty of ma
nure and clean cultivation will give
us good crops aimoat every year.
No farmer can afford to feed his stock
six months in the yeaa and then put
the dressing on hi* land to grow
weeds, for it takes as much strength
of soil and of the manure to grow
worthies* weeds M it does to grow
his crops.
A Primitive Traveling Machine.
It. H. Klliolt, in "Sotrt ou l'*nn*. Farimi.,-
When very young, I Haw a priori
. tivc horse-power threshing "machine"
- —a conical shaped log from the
- largest tree to be had, with wooden
t pegs projecting from its surface ; the
small end held by a ring on a frost
L ' in the middle of the Iloor, and a hor <•
' to the large end to pull it around on
B the grain.
B
Twenty Miilions of Dolln.ru Worlli
in One Day.
Myn.ii 1). JUltted.
The value of the entire corn crop
of the I'nitcd States i not less than
u
seven hundred million dollars' worth
for each of the hundred days of its
1
growth, though as corn grows but
s little during cold spells, the money
, value is increased most rapiiily dur
ing the hotest days just succeeding
showers, when there must at times be
twenty or more millions of dollars'
s worth grown in a single twenty-four
hours."
s
1 Profit of Mulching Potatoes.
A correspoudent of the A'fw
' Yorl T, who had exhibited at his
county fair eighteen kinds of pota-
toes last year and took first premiums
on seventeen, and this "over the man
' who swept everything at the Ohio
State l air," gives this a- his mode of
culture under straw : "Plant the JK>-
tatocs the same depth in the ground
as though no straw were to be put
over them. When they are "begin
j. ning to come through the ground run
through with a big shovel-plow and
h 11 up. as flat culture will not do
e .
when one wants to'straw potatoes.
Then put the straw four or five inches
deep on the ground." ilis recom
mendation is not given for the culti
' vation of early potatoes, as the
writer thinks the straw a disadvan
tage to these, by its keeping the
ground too cool as well as 'oo moist.
r 'A Little Farm Well Tilled."
i 'I here is scarcely a farmer who
IJ does not plant a larger acreage than
j he can profitably attend to. and the
result is that three acres hardly crop
] out so much as one ought to: and
8 i! hear of twenty, thirty or forty
lt bushels of corn to the acre where it
r ought to lie sixty to one hundred
, bushels, and if the time spent on
'.wenty acres was spent on ten. and
• • manure dribbled on twenty were
i liciously use! on the ten, there
, w >uld be ten acres to put in grass,
. si •„ to enriching itself and at the
] same time making splendid pastur
. age for a half score of yearlings, lie
sides realizing fully as much corn as
, in the old-style way, and instead of
. plowing the corn only two or three
times we had lctter plow it six times,
i Now I know whereof 1 speak. Jur
. ing a drought several years ago a
i certain farmer bade bis boys plow
the corn seven times that summer,
and while the neighbors' cribs were
very lean that year his crop was the
largest ever gathered on that farm.
Increase in Stock Breeding.
Srwvt<i° 0r-r..
Wc iave never known so general
an interest in live-stock breeding as is
now to be found over most of the
country. This interest is not confined
to class. It would seem that eight
years from now the old joke about a
wonderful crop of colts "seven years
ago" would lose its force, for there
seems conclusive evidence that more
marcs arc Incoming bred this spring
than in any former jear. In cattle
there is increased interest in all the
improved breeds, and a larger de
mand for them ; while there is an un
precedented demand for young heif
ers of fair quality of almost any
breed. Throughout the central West
and the further West prices for this
class of slock arc exceptionally high
—as for that matter arc the prices
for store cattle. Perhaps there is
not equal increase in sheep and pig
breeding, but wc are not sure of this.
SSome are fearful stock breeding is to
be overdone. Hut wc must remem
ber the country is an enormously
largo one ; the jtopulation is rapidly
increasing ; tho habitual use of meat
as s part of the daily food is becom
ing almost universal; tho facilities
for exportation are good, ami the for
eign demand will almost certainly
increase. All these things make it
improbable there will toon be an over
supply of good stock of any class.