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A NOTABLE EVENT.

The Semi - Cenennial of Agricultural Progress

AS RECORDED BY THE

AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST.

FIFTY years' advance in the farming of America and the present state of the industry will be celebrated by the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST in its issue for December, 1891. With that number the magazine will close its first half century of existence. This memorable event will be the occasion of an issue with several times the usual number of pages, [magnificently?] illustrated and superbly printed on fine paper, and with a handsome and durable cover for preserving the work. Aside from its rich setting [typograplically?], the contents of the Semi - Centennial AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST will be in the most complete sense worthy of the great accasion in celebrates. An illustrated description will be given of the past and present state of Agriculture in the United States and Canada. The progress and development of this vast industry will be clearly set forth. The methods in every department of Agriculture which have been proven best by the practice and science of all these years, will be succinctly stated.

A WEALTH OF IMPROVEMENTS

THE advance made in the manufacture of appliances and implements used in farming and the improvement in all kinds of live stock, and crops will be described by pen and picture. The prodigious strides in agricultural science, in agricultural exhibitions, farmers' institution agricultural colleges and experiment stations, and other institutions for ameliorating the farmers' condition will be not the least of the many highly interesting and liberally illustrated [word?] this Anniversary Number. The famers' home and family, past, present and future, will be treated with the originality and ability commensurate with the [word?] of this subject. The greatest minds and best experience of the entire continent will be drawn upon regardless of expense, so as to insure a worthy monument of the present state of the "most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man."