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VOLUME FIFTY. SEE WITHIN AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST FOR THE FARM GARDEN & HOUSEHOLD AGRICULTURE IS THE MOST HEALTHFUL, MOST USEFUL, AND MOST NOBLE EMPLOYMENT OF MAN- WASHINGTON BY THE ORANGE JUDDD CO. Publishers of all books pertaining to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural Life. 52 & 54 Lafayette Place, New York, Mar. 6, 1891. Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, Lincoln, Nebr. My Dear Dr. Bessey: I am glad to learn that you will send me your photo graph for use in the American Agriculturist. On the inside page of this you will find a preliminary prospectus of how we in tend to celebrate the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the American Agriculturist. I am endeavoring to interest in this undertal ing all those who have been instrumental in developing this Jour nal, and would like very much to receive communications from all persons who have at any time been regular contributors. May I count on you for one? If so, on what subject would you prefer to write. Of course the scope of the entertainment excludes long magazine essays. Any suggestions in this regard will be thankfully received by Yours sincerely, 1 The Grasses and Forage Plants of the T.M. Heseamer Plains, fifty years ago, and today. 2. The Education open to yours[new], then and now. 3. The Agriculturist ... in 1841 and in 1891.
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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."
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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. j
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PLEASE ADDRESS REPLY TO DEPARTMENT No. 4, Philadelphia, 12.23 1890 PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY
Albert J. Woods
Dear Sir:
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