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FOREIGN.
YEGETINE
FOR DROPSY.
I never .hall
Forget the First Dose.
f'ieetcd
to die before morning. At last Vege
ine was sent me by a friend. I never shall
forget the llrst dose. I could realize its good
•fleets from day to day: I was getting better.
After
I had taken 5 or (I bottles 1 could sleep
luite well nights. I began to gain now quite
ast. After taking 10 bottles, I could walk
rom one part of my room to the other. My
ppetite was good the dropsy had at this
me
disappeared. I kept taking Vcgetine till
I regained my usual health. I heard of a great
inany cures by using Vegetine after I got out
and was able to attend to my work. lama
carpenter and builder. I will also say it has
cured
an aunt of my wife's of Neuralgia, who
liad
suffered
for more than 20 years. She says
Ahe lias not had any neuralgia 1'orS months. I
fiave given it to one of my children for Canker
flumor. 1 have no doubt in my mind it will
lure any humor it is a great cleanser of the
Idood it is safe to give a child. I will recom
mend it to the world. My father is 80 yeurs old
iind lie says there is nothing like it to give
Strength and lite to an aged person. 1 cannot
lie too thankful for the use of it. 1 am
Very grcatl'uliy yours, JOHN S. NOTTAGK.
ALI. DISEASES or THE BI,OOI. If Vegetine
will relieve pain cleanse, purify and cure such
diseases, and restoring the patient to perfect
health after trying different physicians, many
reuiedies and suffering for years, is it not con
clusive proof if you are a sufferer you eai: be
cured'/ Why is this
medicine
ALHEKT VON BOEDER.
It is unnecessary for me to enumerate the
diseases for which the Vegetine should be used,
I know of no disease which will not admit of
its use, with good results. Almost innumera
ble complaints are caused by poisonous score-
tion in the hood, which can bcentirely expelled
from the system by the use of Vegetine. When
the blood is perfectly cleansed, the disease rap
idly yields all pains cease healthy action is
promptly restored, and the patient is cured."
VEGETINE.
Cured me when the
DOCTORS FAILED.
CINCINNATI, O., Apr. 10,1877.
MB. H. It. STEVENS— Dear Sir:- 1 was serious
ly troubled with Kidney Complaint for a long
time. I have consulted the best doctors in this
city. I have used your. Vegetine for this dis
ease, and it has cured me when the doctors
failed to do so. Yours truly,
EKNEST DUK1GAN, KesideneeflSl RaceSt,
Place of business, 573 Cent. Ave.
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PROVIDENCE.
MR. H. K. STEVENS- Dear Sir:—
1 have been a
great sufferer from Dropsy. was confined to
my house more than a year. Six months of the
time I was entirely helpless. I was obliged to
have two men help me in and out of bed. I
was swollen 1!) inches larger than my natural
Size around my waist. 1 suffered all a man
couldand live. 1 tried all remedies for Dropsy.
1 had three clUVnnt doctors. My friends all
expected I would die: many nights I was ex-
performing such
great cures'/ It works in the blood, in the cir
culating tluid. It can truly be called the Great
Blood Purifyer. The great source of disease
originates in the blood: and no medicine that
does not act directly upon it to purify and ren
ovate. has any just claim upon public atten
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VEGETINE
I owe my Health
To Your Valuable
VEGETINE.
NEWPORT, Ky„ Apr. 2«, 1877.
MR. H. K. SREVKNS Dear Sir:—Having suf
fered from a breaking out of Cankerous Sores
for more than 5 years, caused by an accident of
a fractured bone, which fracture ran into a
running sore, and having used everything I
could think of and nothing helped me, until 1
had taken tl bottles of your valuable medicine
which Mr. Miller, the apothecary, recommend
ed very highly. The (ith bottle cured me, and
all 1 can say is, that 1 owe my health to your
valuable V egetine. Your most ob'dt servant,
A e s s i n
which is at once
a e e a e
healthy, and ef
fectual for pre
serving the
hair. Faded or
gray hair it toon
restored to itt
original color,
%vith the glost and freshnets of youth.
Thin hair is thickened, falling hair
checked, and baldness often, though
not always, cured by its use. Noth
ing can restore the hair where the
follicles are destroyed, or the glands
atrophied and decayed. But such as
remain can be saved for usefulness
by this application. Instead of foul
ing the hair with a pasty sediment, it
will keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent baldness. Free
from those deleterious substances
which make some preparations dan
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Vigor can only benefit but not harm
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HAIR DRESSING,
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Practical and Analytical Gh«mlata»
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BODHIHOU). The farmer readers of the BUL
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G-range Directory.
PRAIRIE GROVE GRANGE, No. 443. Meets
at the Sheridan School House, Monday even
ing, on or before the full moon, each month.
A. WROTEN,Soo'y.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 166.
Meets at
Winthrop on Friday, on or before-the full
moon of cach month.
S. G. PIERCE, Master,
fe. W. RICH,See'y.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 121«. -Meets
Tuesday, on or before fuli moon.
J. D. RUSSELL. Master.
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. 811.-Meets
on Friday evening, on or before full moon, at
Warehouse Hull.
W. DUNCE, Master.
P. B. SCHEMER HOHN.Sec'v.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE, No. 528.—Meet, on
Wednesday, on or before full moon.
,, B. DuBois, Master.
E. J. Wioo. Sec'v.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No. 353.—Meets Satur
day, on or before full moon, at No. 8 School
House, Hazlcton Township.
»_ T. MESHENOKK,Master.
G. M. NILI.ER.See'y.
BYON GRANGE, No. 367. -Meets at Justus
Durkee's, on Tuesday evening, on or after
full moon.
E. GLEASON, Master.
FRANK FOX Sec'v.
TRIUMPH GRANGE No. 1663,-Meets at the
Sill School House, on the first Thursday, on
or before the full moon of each month, also
in two weeks thereafter
O. S. PAINE. Master.
E. L. HOPKINS, See'y.
Farm Notes for July.
MAKING HAY.
The time to cut hay is a matter of
diversity of opinion among farmers, but
if one has not time to investigate scien
tifically, nor experience to determine
practically, it is wise to follow the prac
tices of sections where hay is the im
portant crop. In dairy districts, with
general accord, hay is made early, before
the seed has matured, the farmers
claiming that cattle like it better and it
does them more good. The time to se
cure the greatest nutrition, estimating
seed and stem, is to cut when the seed
is in the dough and if cut when this
state commences the hay will give the
highest satisfaction. Later, as the seed
matures, woody fiber is rapidly formed
in the lower portion of the stem and
earlier than the dough state the strong
er nutritive portions have not been de
veloped, while there is a liability to the
formation of acids. Commence early,
cure thoroughly and preserve carefully.
We are reminded that very few persons
know how to stack timotnv and clover
hay so as to preserve it. 'flie center is
not kept full enough, nor is it well
packed. Keep the stacker in the cen
ter, and the center well rounded unload
alternately from opposite sides of the
stack. Cap with slough grass, and at
tach plenty of hangers, are good rules
to observe. At best, stacking in the
prairie States, is but a choice of two
eyils, and as rapidly as the farmers can
provide barns it will be done.
BLOAT IN CATTLE.
More complaint has been made this
year of loss by clover bloat than for
many years past due, doubtless, to the
rapid growth of clover and almost con
stant rains. In extreme cases resort
has been had to the knife with good ef
fect. We do not recall an instance
where a knife or awl has been inserted,
allowing the gas to escape through the
opening, where the operation has not
been entirely successful.
A farmer in Benton county, Iowa,
read of the knife remedy, and not know
ing how large a knife was intended,used
a butcher knifo. Tho wound healed
without seeming injury to the cow.—
Most cases can be treated satisfactorily
by the use of salt and dry food.
SAVE THE CALVES.
In dairy sections the destruction of
calves is immense, because it is claimed
that it does not pay to raise them. In
a present sense that may be true, but
the loss of calves involves a loss of
grass, grain and hay, for thousands of
fanners have not stock enough to eat
up tho coarse food produced upon the
farm. The calves might be sold at a
profit to such farmers. The time is not
•distant when good beef will find a ready
market at remunerative prices, as all
must admit, after examining tho reports
of our export trade in beef. The veter
inary department of the Imperial Privy
Council of Great Britain publishes a
report in which it appears that during
1877 the supplies of cattle from the
continent of Europe to the British
market fell off to the extent of 87,(KM)
head. The total number imported from
these countries during that year was
179,2*33. On the other hand the total
number received from the United States
and Canada during the same period was
19,180, an increase ovor the import of
187(5 of 10,000. The sheep imported
from European counties during 1877
amounted to 848,315—a decrease on
that of the previous year-of 194,000.—
The import of sheep on the other hand
from the United States and Canada
amounted to 23,395, an increase of 21,
000. The report notices that the con
signments of fresh meat from this side
of the Atlantic saved the people of
Britain from considerable embarrass
ment, and prevented any inconvenience
arising from the falling off of foreign
stock. It is further noticed that while
the care shown in ti.e transport of fresh
meat across the ocean has been admira
ble, so that in general it qrrived in ex
cellent condition, tho same oare has not
always been shown by consignees, who,
in distributing what came into their
hands in first rate coudition, have too
often treated what was entrusted to
them as if it had been an indestructible
commodity. This lias resulted in the
quite unnecessary destruction of tons of
meat."
The history of the exportation of live
stock has but opened its first paragraph.
Thus far the cattle exported nave been
mainly for the shambles, bxit a new
trade has just opened in swine, the ship
ment of hogs to be fed in England, and
it may be extended to cattle. Should
this be the case we may look for a rapid
increase and an intensified interest in
the cattle business throughout the Uni
ted States. We repeat save the calves.
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
We should have suggested in our
June notes some points in orchard man
agement. The time of greatest growth
is a time when wounds will heal rapidly:
hence it is a good time to cut out de
cayed places in the bark and body and
to prune. The worm if not cheeked
will make rapid destruction of the foli
age.
People do many foolish ways to de
stroy the worm, sometimes using pow
der and sometimes fire, to the great in
jury of trees. Winding the nests upon
a stick, on a rainy day, and burning up
on the ground will answer a good pur
pose for the destruction of the apple
tree worm. On currant and gooseberry
bushes the use of powdered Hellebore
will stop the ravages of the worm. Pas
sing through the small fruit yards we
are reminded that grapes and raspber
ries should be pinched back sufficiently
to give them growth and throw out Int
terals.— Western Stork Journal.
Bust in Wheat.
Rust is a fungus that is propagated
by spores that are always present in the
air, and that as soon as they find a suit
able home, germinate and send forth
millions of other spores. They are not
more prevalent in the air in wet than in
dry seasons, but it is in the wet seasons
that the most damage is done to the
winter wheat. When wheat plants are
in a perfectly healthy state they are
proof against the attacks of rust, the
flinty coating of the stem presenting no
resting place for the fungus. But when
the plants are weakened through being
grown on land that has been overcrop
ped, or over-manured, or through seed
of some womout variety being sown,
they become a ready prey to the rust.
A shower passing over the crop on a
warm day will leave it iu just such eon-1
ditions that the rust spores can attach I
themselves and thrive.
The farmer must recollect that his
sons will learn by example and not by
precept. If he spends his days iu torn)
1
Ids boys will follow bis example.
What Shall We Do to be Saved?
We live iu an age momentous for its
advancement. The extension of the
railroads and of the steamboats which
ever bring new areas into communica
tion with the markets, are affecting pri
ces and supplies with a suddenness that
is disheartening to many an old-time
farmer who has adapted his meth
ods and his crops to old-time circum
stances. The telegraph regulates al
most instantaneously the prices of
staple's at widely different points of dis
tribution. The price of corn at Chica
go, telegraphed to Boston or New York,
regulates the price that the fanner in
close vicinity is to receive. A shipment
of early produce from Norfolk, or even
further south, fills the markets and sa
tiates the tastes of the consumer, while
the crops of the vicinity are hardly in
bloom. There is a wider-spread compe
tition the farmer has to meet than for
merly, and with increased sources of
supply there is a decrease in the prices
offered. This is unfavorable to a local
ized class, but beneficent to the com
munity for cheap food, the necessity of
life, must ever be considered advantage
ous. It is an age of advance, because
every movement of the time seems to
favor increased comforts and increased
opportunities and lessened priccs to the
community at large but, we must say
it, like the car of Juggernaut, progress
crushes all who stand in her way and
the farmer is often found among the
mass of struggling humanity which sac
rifices itself needlessly under its re
morseless wheels.
There is but one hope we can see for
the suburban farmer, and that is to meet
change with change, to educate himself
to keep abreast of the times, and by the
increased exercise of his intelligence
make more of his land than has been
his previous habit, diminish the wastes,
and use the capital that he has. If corn
is bringing but fifty cents in the market,
the farmer who raises corn must raise
it at a small enough cost to allow of a
profit at this price, through cultivation of
larger areas, the use of machinery, and
the purchase—judicious this must be—
of fertilizers. If corn costs a dollar a
bushel as raised on small areas by hand
labor^ it is but folly to continue its cul
ture in such a manner as does not re
duce this cost, when the market-price is
less. If an acre in wheat is more pro
ductive of profit than the acre iu grass,
it is unwise to continue the growing of
grass. If corn-stover will replace the
nigh-cost hay in feeding cattle through
the winter season, then it must be made
to do so, so as to admit of the hay being
sold. If strawberries are cheap, then
through the cultivation of selected
areas with irrigation must the crop be
increased.
Ilow can this be done, and what con
nection with the times? may be asked.
We reply that modern science has told
us certain truths that must be applied.
It has shown us that fertilizer will re
place farm manure, and so the farmer
has but to calculate the cost in order to
decide upon more intensive culture or
more extended fields, being certain of
the crop as from the use of manure. It
has tolu us of the qualities of our land,
which reduce the waste of fertile ele
ments, and thus enables us to apply fer
tilizer with reference to future needs.
It has told us of the character of certain
of our agricultural plants, so that by
forethought we can plow deep for some
crops, and shallow for others as needed,
and thus save the expense which comes
from a routine system for all crops
alike. It has unlocked the principles of
cultivation, so that crops can be increas
ed by judicious application of the im
plements which mechanical invention
nas secured for us. It has unraveled
many of the principles of feeding and
breeding, so that by careful thought we
can econnuze material for food which
the unreflecting use for bedding, and
through selection can increase the value
in product of such food as is fed. It
has furnished new crops, which, like
Hungarian grass, fill out the failures of
the early season, and serve as an insur
ance crop or as fodder corn, which sup
plements the deficiencies of the pasture
the droughts of summer and autumn
or as fodder rye or oats, which supply
an early feed before the grasses nave
become in vigorous growth.
Let farming methods keep in the line
of advance, and abreast of the times,
and relatively to the cost of production
will the profits remain the same but
the profits may not come from the same
crops as formerly, and certainly will not
come from the same methods which for
merly •were adequate. The hoc must
cease to be the stand-by for the farmer
and must be replaced by the cultivator
and horse-hoe in most instances. Hand
labor must give place to machine-labor
wherever advisable. 1 jurse-labor must
take tho placo of the man to as great an
extent as is admissible. Large areas
must be gone over, and larger crops
must be harvested per acre than from
the single acre system. Idle land must
be brought into usefulness. In a word,
the principles of the manufacturer must
find place on the farm sufficiently to
make of opportunities and reduce
wastes.—Scientific Farmer.
Swindler^.
We now-a-dnys can scarcely scan the
columns of a Western paper without
seeing a notice of a swindle or some
swindler.
1st. The cloth peddlers,
3d, We hoar of the lightning-rod
vagabonds.
3d. The tree and shrubbery men,
who have new varieties that never ex
isted.
4th. The vampires who offer new in
ventions just patented.
All of these villians have had their
day, and we would naturally suppose,
judging from the many notices publish
ed, setting forth and explaining their
various rascally schemes (and from the
intelligence of the people), that their
day was indeed pust. But not ao it
seems as though tho knowledge had by
the people has only prepared them the
more readily to bite at the bait and get
robbed.
The noxt we hear of are patent wire
fence men, and the wind-mill manufac
turers. Their games are the same as
the others, and that is to induce the
farmers to take the agency, under the
promise that they can soon make
enough on sales to pay for their own
fence or wind-mill. But the first con
dition to be complied with is, that he
must purchase so much, or so many,
and givo his note therefor, on which all
his commissions are to be credited when
the note matures. Now this all looks
fair, and so it might be, if the transac
tion was carried out honestly but we
have never heard of one that was. The
first thing done by the agent is to trans
fer the note, put the money in his
ized swindle, instead of being a regular
corporation, with a capital as represent
ed, and conducted by honest men as
claimed.
Dock
et and let tho farmer whistle. When
the note matures, instead of getting a
discount or having an amount credited
on it as a draw-back, he finds it iu the
hands of some shark, who if responsible,
transfers it to some tool who is irre
sponsible, or places in an attorney's
hands, who brings suit at once, and has
ten or fifteen per cent, taxed up as at
torney's fops. \ow what are the facts
in this case? We answer, it is a swin
dle from the beginning, and every man
who had anything to do with it knew it
was a fraud, and was therefore a party
to the fraud. Such transactions are no
better than robbery, and in some civil
ized countries the participants would
all be either transported or hung.
We now again advise the farmers (as
has been done hundreds of times be
fore) Buy no cloths from peddlers
buy no trees or shrubbery from stran
gers take your chances against light
ning, unless you know of an honest man
in the business.
Never touch a patent right you know
nothing about it, hence, if it is ever so
good, you can make uothing out of it.
If you want wire for a fence, get it of a
hardware merchant he is posted, and
can always get you the best.
If you need a wind-mill, go to some
responsible agricultural implement deal
er and give him your order his advan
tages are sucli that he can furnish the
best article made, and at a much less
price than the traveling agent can, who
assumes to represent some tremendous
large manufacturing company, with an
angelic name, which, in nine cases out
«f ten, is nothing but a regularly organ
Wc might add to this other and fur
ther advice, to-wit: Stick to your reg
ular business, and don't embark in any
business that you are not familiar with
buy nothing of strangers, give po notes
to any person, and never run in debt,
with the insane idea that you can make
money by so doing.— Wentern Stock
Journal.
The reaction in favor of farming, as
against ventures in city life and mercan
tile business, is becoming so marked as
to attract attention from the press all
over the country. The overflowing cities
with their starving thousands, and the
appalling list of business failures begin
to teach young men (and old ones also)
that it is safer to invest in a small farm
which will surely bring a subsistance,
even if it be a frugal one, than to peril
all in the one-chance-in-five-thousand
lottery of city life. And so far as
health and happiness are concerned, the
balance on the farmer's side is almost
invariably heayily in favor. Says the
Boston Journal: (Jreat changes have
been made in the methods of farming.
It is no longer a life of drudgery, and it
has been demonstrated in a thousand of
instances that high intelligence and rare
judgment have produced no more satis
factory or real results than when em
ployed in New England agriculture.
There is good reason to believe the
movement has begun which in ten or
twenty years will restore to the agricul
tural portions of New England nearly as
large a population as they maintained
before the era of manufacturing enter
prise, with greater prosperity. It may
not be amiss in this connection to sug
gest to boards of agriculture in New
England that they could do their States
no better service than to collect infor
mation of the location and value of
farms for sale in order that hundreds of
inquirers may know where to look for
accurate and satisfactory intelligence.
Farm Hints.
Nothing," says Reynolds, "is denied
well-directed labor, and nothing is to be
attained without it."
Kverything on a farm should be done
well, and for this purpose the owner
must give it his personal supervision.
Stock a farm according to its produc
tion. Have stock enough to consume
all rough food, but not enough to be
come rough without food.
Nature above us is setting examples
every day, by freshness order and beau
ty. The 'pure in heart" take thought
for the beautiful.
The farmer who will now keep his
plows running in his corn fields, wet or
dry, will be rewarded in the autumn by
a good yield of corn.
Horses are better than men, they do
not hate their enemies as relentlessly,
but they always know their friends from
their enemies.
The poorest girls, in the various ap
plications of the term, are those who
have never been taught to work. There
are thousands of them, as useless as
last year's almanacs.
We hold it to be the duty of every
good farmer to render his home as hap
py and agreeable as possible to com
bine the solid comforts of life with the
elegant pleasures of taste.
The profits on the farm are small, and
economy iu all proper and legitimate
methods needs to be practiced in order
to provide a comfortable living and pay
100 cents on the dollar.
Men who have farmed for eighty
years, almost universally testify that
they learned more of the business in the
last forty than iu the first forty of their
In
res.
And yet many think it is easy to
learn farming.
Cases frequently occur where a luan
who is too lazy to farm quits and be
comes a very successful preacher. But
it never occurs where he is too indolent
to preach that he ever becomes a suc
cessful farmer. That rule will not work
both ways.
Hone dust, wood ashes and such-like
fertilizers are best for grape vines in low
ground. Stable manure applied in large
ouantities on damp soil will produce
diseased vines. On dry ground the ef
fect is beneficial. The best soil for
grapes is dry, light, warm and rich. On
such a soil apply top-dressings of well
rotted manure, alternating every third
year with a dressing of slacked lin^e.
Where grapes are being raised on dump
ground care must be taken to koep the
roots near the surface.— Western Ru
ral.
Over 1,800 head of cattle are said to
have been entered at the cattle show at
the French exposition. England sup
plies the principal part. Sheep and
nogs will also be fully represented. The
entries in the horse department at the
Palais de l'lndustrie, consisted of 28
3-year-old stallions, 239 animals of four,
and 175 of five and six years of age.
It should be born in mind that every
farmer who will take the trouble to keep
up a tasteful appearance about his
house, not only perforins a good work
for his own family, but stimulates his
neighbors to imitate him. Nothing is
more contagious than the desire for gar
dening when once it gets a footing.
The white petunia is death to the
potato bug. I. P. Allen, of Elk Falls,
Kansas, writes us this strange and real
ly important fact, if it is really so: "We
were troubled with potato bugs very
much when living in Illinois, and acci
dentally heard that the fragrance of the
white petunia was a deadly poison to
them, for when they came near it they
would drop dead, and we could gather
them up by the shovelful. My idea is
to plant the white petunia around the
potato patch and scatter through it,
and it will settlo the bugs."— Vick's
MONTHLY
Some of us fret inwardly, and some
fret outwardly. The latter is the bet
ter plan for our friends, but the worse
for ourselves.
SEWING MACHINES.
BUT THE
Matohless
DAUNTLESS.
USES.
Beside Its Light Running, Quietness, and 8te*
I plielty of Construction, and Durability*
i (as ALL its working parts arc made
of Steel,)—It has—
i Beautiful cabinet work, and the best stand.
I Best Shuttle- the bobbin holding 100 yards of
thread.
i Best Bobbin Winder, used without running
the Machine.
Btst Tensions, and the easiest regulat&i.
Best Hinges, giving solid support and pecfaet
Insulation.
Best Lock Stitch, each complete before anoth
er is made.
Best patent cone for balance wheel and treadle.
The Largest family machine, having most room
under the arm.
Correspondence solicited for terms.
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AGBICXJIiTTTBAIji
Good, Better and Best! "The Proof of the Pudding Ulfc
the Eating,"
GAMMON & DEERING'S
MARSH HARVESTER!
-AND-
Is found to be the
Only Reliable and Successful One
-IN THE-
Harvest Fields of 1878.
Oux -A.gren.ts
A Few Specinen Reports from Hundreds already Received*
H. C. Happerfield,
JEWELER
AND DEALER IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS,
JEWELRY. SILVER and
PLATED WARE,
SPECTACLES and
CUTLERY, d-c.
NO. 3H MAIN STRKET,
And I an now doing business alone, and my un
divided attention will tie paid to my business,
and all work left with me will be carefully and
promptly done and
WARRANTED!
P. S.—Do not be misled as to where I am now
re-lecated.
C. F. HERRICK,
tioi*
J*0"*®
Watch-Maker and Jeweler
[Established in Independence in 185C.]
HAVING
'CMI
IT. IS THE ONLY MACHINE IN THE
WORLD THAT COMBINES ALL OF
THOSE GOOD QUALITIES SO
i ESSENTIAL FOB GENERAL
the experience ot Twenty-Seven
Years in the business, (twenty years in this
city,) I feel confident in giving entire satisfac
tion.
All work entrusted to my care will receive
my personal attention. Thanking the public
for their liberal patronage in tho past, I shall
•ndeavor to merit a continuance of the same.
M4tf C. F. HEKH1CK.
POULTRY.
DARK BRAHMA EGGS
For Hatching —75 Cts. per 13.
la&Mi A* LITTLEJOHN.
WICHITA, Kansas, June 5,1878.
The eighty Binders that you shipped to Wichita are every one running and
giving perfect satisfaction. Have put a number in place of Wood's and Elward's
returned.
All the Harvesters and Binders we have started are working finely. We
have been in some twenty trials and can say what competitors cannot, that we
have never had a break down. We had a trial at Elkton yesterday, and beat the
McCormick badly. DICKEY & BRO.
Dickey & Brother have had sold between one and two hundred this year.
G. & D.
We are happy over the grand success of the Crand-Binder. It works like a
charm. I could have sold many more if I could have gotten them. The Marsh,
with the Crane-Binder, takes the front seat. The Wood and McCormick take a
back seat. The Elward and Massillon Binder are a complete failure. The Ad
ams & French almost as bad. The Wood and McCormick have been doing badly,
and working badly in many places. The Marsh is going far beyond the expecta
tions of all who are working them.
JUNE 7,1878.—In field trial to-day at Shabonier, 111., the Marsh was the only
machine that cut its piece without a stop or break. The Marsh cut one-thira
acre in 17 minutes McCormick, 40 minutes the Wood broke down. The Marsh
cut smooth and with case to the team. Account of this record from
We started a Marsh Harvester with Self-Binder on Saturday, the 1st day of
June, 1878, in a piece of wheat a half mile long: cut three times around the
piece. The Binder worked to perfection it never missed tying a single bundle
in all the three times round the piece. The distance cut in going round was
three rnUes.
CHICAGO, June 8th, 1878.
M. J. LYNCH.
SPARTA, IU, June 6,1878.
OXFORTO, Kansas, June 2,1878.
far bevond the expect:
W. B.* COLD WELL.
W. B. EAGAN,
DIECKMAN k ERNST.
LINCOLN CENTER, Kan., June 3, 1878,
II. HSLCOMB.
R. BARTLE, Agent,
MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE, IOWA
JEWELERS. C. & X.-W. It. R.
O. & N. -W\
LI1TES.
THK CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAT
Embraces under one management the Great
Trunk Hailwa.v Lines of the West and North
west, and with its numerous branches and con
I neetious forms the shortest and quickest route
between Chicago and all points in Illinois, Wis
consin, Northern Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa,
Nebraska, California, and the Western Terri
torics. Its
OMAHA & CALIFORNIA LINE.
is the shortest and best route between Chicago
and all points in Northern Illinois, Iowa, Dako
ta, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorailo, Utah, Neva
da, California. Oregon, China, Japan and Aus
tralia. Its
CHICAGO, ST. P. & MINNEAPOLIS LINE
Is the shortest line between Chicago and all
points in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and for Madison, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth
and all points in the great Northwest. Its
LACROSSE, WINONA DT ST. PETER LINE
Is the best route between Chicago and La
Crosse, Winona, Rochester, Owatonna, Manka
to, St. Peter, New I'ltn and and all points in
Southern aud Central Minnesota. Its
GREEN BAY & MARQUETTE LINE
Is the only Line between Chicago and Janes
ville, Watertown, Fond du Lae. Oshkosh, Ap
plet on, Green Bay, Escanaba, Negaunee, Mar
quette, Houghton, Hancock and the Lake Su
perior country. Its
FREEPORT & DUBUQUE LINE
Is the only route between Chicago and Elgin,
Kockford, Freeport and all points via. Free
port. Its
CHICAGO & MILWAUKEE LINE
la the old Lake Shore route,
and Is the only one
passing between Chicago and Evanston, Lake
Forest, Highland Park, Waukegan, Racine,
Kenosha and Milwaukee.
PULLMAN PALACE DRAWING BOOM CARS
are running on all througb trains ot this road.
This is the ONLY LINE running these cars be
tween Chicago and St. Paul and Minneapolis,
Chicago and Milwaukee, Chicago and Winona,
or Chicago and Green Bay.
Close connections are made at Chicago witU
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Michigan
Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne
A Chicago, Kankakee Line and Pan Handle
Routes for all points East and South-East, andl
with the Chicago & Alton and Illinois Central
for all points South.
Close connections are also made with the
Union Pacific It. It. at Omaha for all far West
points.
Close connections made at junction point#
with trains of all cross" points.
Tickets over this route are sold by all Coupon
Ticket Agents in the United States and Cana
das. Remember, yoi. ask for your Tickets via.
Hie Chicago & North-Western Railway and take
none other.
New York otlice, 415 Broadway Boston offlce.
No. 5 State street Omaha office, 245 Farnham
street San Francisco otlice, 123 Montgomery
street: Chicago Ticket offices, ffiJ Clark street,
under Sherman House 75 Canal, corner Madi
son Street Kenzie Street Depot, corner West
Kinzie and Canal streets Wells Street Depot,
corner Wells and Kinzie streets.
For rates or information not attainable from
your home ticket agents, apply to
W. H. STENNETT, MARVIN HITOHITT,
C»OI. IV.IX. Aa't, ChictITFO. Gen. Man. Chicago
MILLINERY.
MILLINERY AND DRESS-MAKING.
Hiss L. V. Raymond
Would be pleased to see her Old Custodian,
and the Ladles generally, at her
MILLINERY PARLORS,
In Xuu' Block, Up Bttim.
She is confident that in the Variety, Quality
and Prices of her goods, as well as the excel
lence aud taste of her work, she can give
ENTIRE SATISFACTION.
She has the Latest Styles and Patters, and
guarantees to give good bargains to all who
may favor her with a visit.
Independence, May 24,1878. 13-44tf
IJ 1
BOOK BINDERY.
JULIUS J. BOETTCHER,
B00K
BINDER,
All styles of Binding executed In the beat and
promptest manner. Orders solicited.
%r Rooms next the river, over Vinm'i
Bestaunmt, Independence, Iow§. Wlrl