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AS A PERMANENT RECORD
OF the present state of Agriculture, the value of the Semi-Centennial Number of the AMERICAN
AGRICULTURIST will be immensely 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.; 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 trade 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 ency-
clopedia and ready reference of the American Agricultural Trade, Institutions and Literature.
NATIONAL PRIDE AND PATRIOTISM.
THE Semi-Centennial Number of the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, for December, 1891, will there-
fore 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 the most useful, the largest and in every
way the grandest periodical publication in the history of the World's Agriculture. It will bring within
two covers, in convenient form of 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 sur-
passed or even attempted. The work may thus be recogized 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 postion fained by fifty years of devotion to its constituents,-warrants the grateful accept-
ance of this stupendous effort by all interested in Agriculture throughout the entire World.