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ARrHuR's LADIES MAoAzINE.-Tho JAM

ARrHUR's LADIES' MAGAzINE.-The January
number-the first OF neg volume-of this re-
putablo Magazine has made its appearance. 1t
ia embelshed with two elegant and spirited
plates, Joan of Arc and The Bridge of Doom
The literary contents will compare favorably with
those Oft any other similar work. The Editor and
Publishers have evidently done their best to de-
serve the patronage of the public. We notice
contributors from the Editor, Mrs. Hale, Mary
.Davenant, John l.. Carey, Mary C. Denver, and
Others. 1.-THE subsequent Numbers Of the volume
fulfil the expectations excited by this the Ladies'
Magazine will acquire even higher rank among,
the lovers light literature than it has heretofore
held.
The CULTIvAroR.-Tae December number
closes Vol. of the New Series. Its contents are
valuable as usual As we turn over it's well filled
pages, pausing here and there to examine some
article Of peculiar interest or to look at its useful
engruvipgs struck with surprise at the relec-
ton that after all that has been done 10 elevate the
pursuits of tho Farmer, the great mass of those
who till the soil do not even read an Agricultural
paper! This ought not so to be. Farmers! ifyou
would cherish in your own breasts and in che minds
ofyour families just views your high and honora-
BILE calling, begin the year 1915 by subscribing for
The Guilty ator or some other CT the many useful
periodicals devoted 10 the discussion Of she various
topics pertaining TO Scientific and Practical Agrcul
ture II you hesitate, just read tho following story
from sThe Cultivator':
BooK-FARMiNG-h FAcT-"l want 10 know If
you believe in this book farming said ncighbor,
az he walked into the room, where sat reacing The
Cultirator.
:. BE surc do" " as tue reply.
"Well don't; never took an agricultural pa
per ia my life. There is b. $. of w, who came
into this country, fifteen years ago, and had TO buy
fifty acres Of land on credit. He has cleared that
up, and added from time to time, I'LL he owns
two hundred acres-has good buildings, and money
at interest. He always has good crops. He has
averaged ssreaty foe bushels Of wheat 10 the acre
for several years it is the same with all his other
crops While his neighbor r. w. has not raised
more than screen bushels Of wheat TO the acre, and
some OF his other crops he never harvests. would
give more for the experience ot Is. >. than for al.
the book farming and farming by rule in the world
ayery well, sir, now let me have a word This
seYperience' of B. 5. OF which you speak, H. e..
tho method he adopts raise twenty FIVE where his
nsiqhbor raises seven bushels OF wheat, and other
CROPS in proportion If written our and published.
would be- the very essence OF book farming, which
you 50 much despise, and might benefit Others as
well "a YOU. And then, secondly, know this b s.
also and il gives me pleasure TO inform you that he
ia a regular subscriber 10. and constant reader OF
three standard agricultural papers--,he 'Cul,iva
tor the New Gsnesee Farmer and the Western
Farmer while this same Is. w. will no, have an
agricultural paper in his house, partly because he
does NOT sbefiepe fa book farming and partly be-
cause be cannot a ford to take sueh a paper"
Here the man suddenly remembered his erran6,
which was TO borrow an improved harrow, plan OF
which had found ia my pepper, and which bs was
pleased TO say, did the work SO much better than
iniue," this)-so the subject was dropped. intend
10 speak 10 him again, ere long.
Oaio, Oct. 1874
The cultiyator' is published by Luther Tuck
or, 1919 Roadway, Albany.