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AS A PERMANENT RECORD

OF the present state of Agriculture, the value of the Semi-Centennial Number of the AMERICAN AGRICULTURE will be immediately enhanced by containing a complete directory of the men, enterprises, corporations and institutions that minister to the wants of Agriculture at home and abroad. The breeders of all varieties of improved live stock --- cattle, horses, sheep, swine, poultry, dogs, etc., etc.; the manufacturers of implements and agricultural supplies of every description; the importers of and dealers in whatever foreign appliances or stores are used by American farmers, and in fact the individuals in every branch of the Agricultural Supply Trade will be invited to put on record in the Directory Department of our Anniversary Number a complete statement of their wares, prices, etc.

Likewise the great buyers of farm produce, the reputable dealers in all the staples and specialties of American farms, at home and abroad will be enumerated. Not only that, but how to reach and trade with these parties in the principal domestic and foreign markets will be described by merchants and others of large and successful experience in the respective lines of trade.

A directory of agricultural literature --- all books and publications now extant pertaining to the industry, in home or foreign lands; an index to the educational institutions devoted to Agriculture --- schools and colleges, experiment stations and farms, exhibition societies, and the leading secret and open farmers' associations; and an epitome of other facts, will make this directory department a complete encyclopedia and ready reference of the American Agricultural Trade, Institutions and Literature.

NATONAL PRIDE AND PATRIOTISM.

THE Semi-Centennial Number of the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, for December, 1891, will therefore not only describe the development of our Agriculture and its present condition, with the practical lessons deduced therefrom as to crop production and farm management; but will state where and how to buy and sell whatever the farmer requires to obtain or dispose of. The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST will thus be most the useful, the largest and in every way the grandest periodical publicatoin in the history of the World's Agriculture. It will bring within two covers, in convenient form for immediate use as well as for permanent reference, more facts of direct money value to all engaged in Agriculture than were ever before collected, and will probably never be surpassed or even attempted. The work may thus be recognized as one in which every American can take a National and patriotic pride.

THE STANDARD AUTHORITY.

ABOVE all, the position of the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST at home and in foreign lands as the standard authority on all matters pertaining to Agriculture, Horticulture, and rural home life --- a position gained by fifty years of devotion to its constituents, --- warrants the grateful acceptance of this stupendous effort by all interested in Agriculture throughout the entire World.
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