s are hereby constituted agents to solicit
subscriptions to THE PRAIRIE FARMER. If those who can not enlist in the
work will hand the PREMIUM LIST to some person who will do so, they will
confer a great favor upon the publishers and editors. What we all want
is to double our present list before the first day of April.

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RENEW! RENEW!!

Remember that every yearly subscriber, either new or renewing, sending
us $2, receives a splendid new map of the United States and
Canada--58 x 41 inches--FREE. Or, if preferred, one of the books offered
in another column. It is not necessary to wait until a subscription
expires before renewing.

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WE WANT AGENTS

in every locality. We offer very liberal terms and good pay. Send for
sample copies and terms to agents.

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The Adams County (Ill.) Fair at Camp Point will be held the first week
in September. The premium list is out.

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The seventh annual fair at Jerseyville, Ill., will be held commencing
Tuesday, October 14, 1884, and continue four days, with $5,000 premiums.

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At the Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society's trials, November 11,
1883, the Johnston Harvester Company were 1st in the trial field, and
also for the machine best adapted for the colony.

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The growth of the Western live stock business has stimulated parties to
organize a Union Stock Yards Company at Sioux City, Iowa. The company
has a capital of $100,000. The shipping of dressed beef may become a
branch of its business.

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One of the most popular and instructive essays at the late Wisconsin
Dairymen's Convention was entitled "THE FARMER'S GARDEN," contributed by
J. M. Smith, Esq., of Green Bay. This essay will appear, in full, in the
next issue of the PRAIRIE FARMER.

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French papers declare that the Government crop reports for 1883 are
exaggerations. If land has risen in value and stock doubled in price,
the extra cost of running a farm more than makes up for it. The impost
duty on all agricultural products has also alarmingly increased.

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Mr. Merritt, United States Consul General at London, directs attention
to the falling off in the