FARM MACHINERY, Etc.
NICHOLS'
CENTENNIAL WIND MILL.
Contains all the valuable features of his old "Nichols' Mills" with none of their defects. This is the only balanced mill without a vane. It is the only mill balanced on its center. It is the only mill built on correct scientific principles so as to govern perfectly.
ALL VANES
Are mechanical devices used to overcome the mechanical defect of forcing the wheel to run out of its natural position.
A wind wheel becomes its own vane if no vane is used, hence, vanes—save only to balance the wheel—are useless for good, and are only useful to help blow the mill down.
This mill will stand a heavier wind, run steadier, last longer, and crow louder than any other mill built. Our confidence in the mill warrants us in offering the first mill in each county where we have no agent, at agents' prices and on 30 days' trial.
Our power mills have 25 per cent more power than any mill with a vane. We have also a superior feed mill adapted to wind or other power. It is cheap, durable, efficient. For circulars, mills, and agencies, address
NICHOLS & DAGGETT, Elgin, Ill.
(Successors to the Batavia Manf. Co., of Batavia, Ill.)
CHICAGO SCALE CO.
2 TON WAGON SCALE, $40. 3 TON, $50.
4 Ton $60, Beam Box Included.
240 lb. FARMER'S SCALE, $5.
The "Little Detective," ¼ oz. to 25 lb. $3.
300 OTHER SIZES. Reduced PRICE LIST FREE.
FORGES, TOOLS, &c.
BEST FORGE MADE FOR LIGHT WORK, $10,
40 lb. Anvil and Kit of Tools. $10.
Farmers save time and money doing odd jobs.
Blowers, Anvils, Vices & Other Articles
AT LOWEST PRICES, WHOLESALE & RETAIL.
THE PROFIT FARM BOILER
is simple, perfect, and cheap; the BEST FEED COOKER; the only dumping boiler; empties its kettle in a minute. Over 5,000 in use; Cook your corn and potatoes, and save one-half the cost of pork Send for circular. D.R. SPERRY & CO., Batavia, Illinois.
EVAPORATING FRUIT
Full treatise on improved methods, yields, profits, prices and general statistics, free.
AMERICAN M'FG CO.
WAYNESBORO
FRANKLIN COUNTY, PA.
HOOSIER AUGER TILE MILL.
Mills on hand.
Prompt delivery.
FOR PRICES AND CIRCULARS, ADDRESS
NOLAN, MADDEN & CO., Rushville, Ind.
"THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST."
ENGINES, SAW MILLS, THRESHERS, HORSE POWERS,
(For all sections and purposes.) Write for Free Pamphlet and Prices to The Aultman & Taylor Co., Mansfield, Ohio.
THE MODERN HORSE DOCTOR.
CONTAINING Practical Observations on the Causes Nature and Treatment of Diseases and Lameness in Horses, by Geo. H. Dadd, M.D. Will be sent upon receipt of price, $1.50; or free to any sender of three subscribers to this paper, at $2 each, by
PRAIRIE FARMER PUBLISHING CO., Chicago.
MAPS.
RAND, McNALLY & CO.'S
NEW RAILROAD
—AND—
COUNTY MAP
—OF THE—
UNITED STATES
—AND—
DOMINION OF CANADA.
Size, 4 × 2½ feet, mounted on rollers to hang on the wall. This is an
ENTIRELY NEW MAP,
Constructed from the most recent and authentic sources.
—IT SHOWS—
ALL THE RAILROADS,
—AND—
Every County and Principal Town
—IN THE—
UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
A useful Map in every one's home, and place of business. Price, $2.00.
Agents wanted, to whom liberal inducements will be given. Address
RAND, McNALLY & CO.,
Chicago, Ill.
By arrangements with the publishers of this Map we are enabled to make the following liberal offer: To each person who will remit us $2.25 we will send copy of The Prairie Farmer One Year and THIS MAP POSTPAID. Address
PRAIRIE FARMER PUBLISHING CO.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
DRAINAGE.
PRACTICAL
FARM DRAINAGE.
WHY, WHEN, and HOW TO TILE-DRAIN
—AND THE—
MANUFACTURE OF DRAIN-TILE.
By C.G. ELLOITT and J.J.W. BILLINGSLEY
PRICE, ONE DOLLAR.
For sale by
THE PRAIRIE FARMER PUBLISHING CO.,
150 Monroe St., Chicago, Ill.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Will be mailed FREE to all applicants and to customers of last year without ordering it. It contains illustrations, prices, descriptions and directions for planting all Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Plants, etc. Invaluable to all.
D.M. FERRY & CO. DETROIT, Mich.
AGENTS make over ONE hundred per cent. profit selling the
Reflecting Safety Lamp
which can be sold in every family. Gives more light than three ordinary lamps. Sample lamp sent for fifty cents in stamps. We have other household articles. Send for circulars.
FORSEE & McMAKIN, Cincinnati, O.
MISCELLANEOUS
SEED CORN
FOR SALE.
A large quantity of first-class, selected Iowa seed corn, in large or small quantities. Address
MITCHELL VINCENT,
Onawa, Iowa.
Please state you saw ad in this paper.
The Great Musical Wonder of the Age.
A STEM-WINDING MUSICAL WATCH.
Each Watch is finely made, silver plated, and a complete and sweet-toned Musical Instrument. Size and shape of an ordinary Watch, and has a Music Box attachment concealed within, so arranged that when wound at the stem plays one of the following tunes: "Wait till the Clouds Roll By," "Carnival of Venice," "Blue Bells of Scotland," "Home, Sweet Home," "Coming Through the Rye," "Swanee River," Waltz, Polka, Schottische, etc. The notes, time, and tones are correct. It will please both old and young, and is truly the Greatest Novelty ever offered to the American public.
Our Special Offer. In order to introduce our large Illustrated Family Story Paper entitled YOUTH into every home in the Union where it is not a visitor, we are making this extraordinary offer: Upon receipt of 40 cents (or 20 two-cent postage stamps), we will send our paper for the next THREE MONTHS on trial, and this Musical Watch as an absolute Free Gift. Just think of it! A Music Box and our large 16 page paper three months for only 40 cents. For a club of 3 and $1.00 will send three subscriptions and three Musical Watches. This is a chance of a life-time. Write to-day.
Address, YOUTH PUBLISHING CO., 27 Doane St., Boston, Mass.
HOPE FOR THE DEAF.
Peck's Patent Tubular Cushioned Ear Drums cure Deafness in all stages. Recommended by scientific men of Europe and America. Write for illustrated descriptive book and testimonials from doctors, judges, ministers and prominent men and women who have been cured, and who take pleasure in recommending them. They are unseen while in use, comfortable to wear, and make a permanent cure. Address.—WEST & CO., 7 Murray St., New-York, Agents for South and West.
FAY GRAPES
CURRANT HEADQUARTERS ALL BEST NEW AND OLD.
SMALL FRUITS AND TREES. LOW TO DEALERS AND PLANTERS. STOCK First-Class. Free Catalogues. GEO. S. JOSSELYN, Fredonia, N.Y.
Remember that $2.00 pays for The Prairie Farmer from this date to January 1, 1885: For $2.00 you get it for one year and a copy of The Prairie Farmer County Map of the United States, free! This is the most liberal offer ever made by any first-class weekly agricultural paper in this country.
Hon. A.M. Garland is expected home from Australia about the first of February.
Col. J.W. Judy & Son, the popular thoroughbred cattle auctioneers of Tallula, Ill., last year sold 2,057 head of cattle for $500,620.
Ohio Jersey cattle-breeders will hold a convention at Columbus, on the 15th. The Short-horn breeders of the State will meet at the same city on the same day.
Mr. C. Huston, Blandinsville, Ill., has gone to Scotland to purchase Clydesdale horses. He expects to be gone about half the year, and will make several shipments.
Wm. Yule, Esq., the well-known Short-horn breeder, of Somers, Kenosha county, Wisconsin, names, through The Prairie Farmer, March 19th prox., for his public sale for 1884.
At the annual meeting of the American Guernsey Cattle Club, held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, December 20th, Dr. J. Nelson Borland, New London, Conn., was re-elected President; Edward Norton was chosen Secretary and Treasurer.
Three new cases of pleuro-pneumonia were recently discovered near West Chester, Penn. Thus far the disease has been confined to three dairy herds. All infected animals are promptly appraised, condemned, killed and paid for by the State. The disease was introduced there by cows purchased at Baltimore.
The twenty-ninth volume of the new series of Coates' Short-horn Herd-Book has just been published by the English Short-horn Society. It contains the pedigrees of bulls ranging from (47311) to (48978). The larger half of the volume is devoted to the entry of cows with their produce. Each breeder's entries of females are recorded together under his own name. Her Majesty the Queen heads the list, followed by the Prince of Wales.
The offices of the American Short-horn Breeders' Association in Chicago were badly damaged by fire on Sunday, December 30. Some 1,500 pedigrees were destroyed and many others partially destroyed. Pedigrees received previous to December 20th, were saved. It will take time and work to restore these pedigrees and the loss must cause some delay in the work of the office. It will be remembered that the records of the association had a narrow escape at the time the Evening Journal office burned.
The following are the officers of the National Chester-White Swine Record Co. for 1883: Hon. Jack Hardin, Pleasureville, Ky., President; H.W. Tonkins, Fenton, Mo., Vice-President; W.B. Wilson, Eminence, Ky., Treasurer; E.R. Moody, Eminence, K., Secretary. The capital stock of the company is $5,000, in shares of $10 each. Fees are charged as follows: Book of 100 blank pedigrees, with stub for private record and instructions for filling, $1; for entry in Record, each pedigree, $1; stockholders, 75 cents; Record will be furnished at cost of publication.
At the late meeting of the American Merino Sheep Register Association at Burlington, Wis., the following officers were chosen: President, C.S. Miller, Caldwell, Wis.; First Vice-President, Daniel Kelly, Wheaton, Ill.; Second Vice-President, F.C. Gault, East Hubbardton, Vt.; Secretary, A.H. Craig, Caldwell, Wis.; Treasurer, George Andrews, Mukwonago, Wis.; Directors, C.A. Dingman, Troy Center, Wis.; G.B. Rhead, Norvell, Mich.; George Peck, Geneva, Ill.; E. Campbell, Pittsfield, Ohio; S.D. Short, Honeoye, N.Y.; John S. Goe, Brownsville. Pa.; F.C. Gault, East Hubbardton, Vt.; E.F. Gilman, Farmington, Me.; Ward Kennedy, Butler, Ind.; A. Wilson, Richfield, Minn.; Fayette Holmes, Russell, Kan.; H.J. Chamberlain, Davilla, Tex. Registering committee, T.W. Gault, Waterford, Wis.; C.A. Dingman, Troy Center, Wis.; Perry Craig, Caldwell, Wis.
Here is an excellent prize winning record: S.H. Todd, of Wakeman, Ohio, won on Chester-Whites and Poland-Chinas in 1883 as follows: At the Tri-State Fair, at Toledo, O., sweepstakes for best herd of Poland-Chinas, and the same on Chester-Whites. At the Michigan State Fair he took sweepstakes on Chester-White boar; at the Illinois State Fair, sweepstakes, for best Poland-China sow; do. for Chester-White sow, and the grand sweepstakes of $50 for the best herd on the ground regardless of breed. He also won in breeders' ring the prize for best herd of Chesters, and the prize for best boar with five of his get; also first and second prizes for sow with five of her pigs. Besides these notable premiums Mr. Todd's stock won for him nearly 100 class prizes at various leading fairs.
Swine Statistics.
One of the Chicago dailies recently made the point that this city should be the center of the swine and pork statistics of the country on the ground that here is the center of trade in these products. The point is a good one. Some years ago the bulk of the hogs of the West was marketed at Cincinnati. At that time the Price Current of Cincinnati with commendable enterprize established itself as an authority in swine and pork statistics, and it has held the position from that day to this, despite the fact that Chicago has for several years received and packed several times as many hogs annually as has the original porkopolis. And this year, as usual, the Chicago press is dependent upon Cincinnati for packing statistics throughout the extensive swine-growing regions of the country. Of course it makes no real difference to merchants or producers where the figures emanate from so that they are comprehensive and reliable. It is only a bit of local pride that suggests the idea that here should the records be kept and the statistics compiled. If there is not sufficient enterprize here to capture the business, there is no ground for complaint. We should not have alluded to the matter, probably, but for the fact that the Cincinnati Price Current, with its hog-packing statistics, for the season of 1883 has just brought it to notice. Here the figures are compared with those of last year:
| Cities. | 1883-84. | 1882-83. |
| Chicago, packed | 1,405,000 | 1,500,000 |
| Kansas City | 254,059 | 233,336 |
| Cincinnati | 301,000 | 300,000 |
| St. Louis | 200,000 | 207,000 |
| Indianapolis | 181,700 | 183,000 |
| Milwaukee | 185,000 | 197,000 |
| Louisville, Ky. | 142,000 | 118,000 |
| Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 91,618 | 86,965 |
| Cleveland, O. | 62,280 | 42,352 |
| Keokuk, Iowa | 28,601 | 31,411 |
Iowa Stock Breeders.
The Iowa State Improved Stock Breeders' Association had a good attendance at its annual meeting at Ames, last month.