Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-01-25

TO the Agrscuttvsssf, Mr. WeO; o0eslt pay!
Mr.. West.-Pay, Yes. You know what
good cabbages and potatoes had laet 49,
sdn. WY, tie cabtages we're worth dou-
bic any otheD in town, Or market or for
home use had 40 heads, worth : cents
. piece, extra. and they enly cost 2ecents
extra for seed. ny ESQ bushels Of potatoes
are all engaged for seed at $50 a bushel,
when other kinds bring only so cents
That's $3.50 clear gain, for the "a extra
paid for seed, and the $3.50 paid for the
1srisulturist 1t was through this paper
that Learned about both the cabbagee and
potatoes. Its editors are careful, intelligent
men, on the constant lookout for anything
new that is really good, while the paper
abounds in cautions against the poor and
Improbable. stft
Mr.. Smith-What say you, Mr.. Taylor.
Does it pay to invest $l.5O in the Agrieut-
turaitnl
Mr.. Taylor.-A hint in the paper led me
to look after certain insects at the proper
time, and the result was, l had 100 barrels
Of splendid apples, Which brought me q
clean Is per barrel and this you know was
better by 81, than the average prices here
or $3.50 Then have read so much about
BoUA duA Uau uidpcs, INC HseSHou VI I1CSS'
ing them, etc, that can beat tho town
raising grapes profitably. Ny son, William,
got q kink in his head about Tomatoes,
from something the Editors said, and sent
for some seed. lie made more money on
the crop raised in his spare hours, than was
cleared by half the farmers fn this town.
Mr. Smith-Let's hear from Mr.. Crane.
Mr.. Crane.-I only read in the paper
what was said shout hogs kind paid
hest, how to feed them and the like; but if
you will call around and see my porkcrs,
and my expense account, III bet a pippin |
can show fifty dollars more Of pork for the
cost than anyothcr man here. And this comes
from reading what other men think and do.
But wife ought to be here to speak. She
and the girls read the Agriculturatist next
to the Bible. They think the household
department il worth more than all the
fashion magazines in the world. They
say, il is - full of good hints about all
kinds of house work. All can say is, that
We do have better bread and cake; and
wife says, the cake don't cost so much as it
used to. She has learned from the paper
how a hundred other house keepers dc
tlIeif work.
Crane and her daughters have added q
good many beautiful but cheap home made
fixtures to their parlor and sitting rooms
tractive. They told me, the other day, that
they got these up from pictures and de
ycriptions in the AgricuturaIiM.
Mr.. avis.-My salary has not allowed
me to take the paper; though must
squeeze out enough to do so this year. My
school have brought me some copies to look
at, the past year or two, and find the Boys
and Girls department of the agricultural
fa, the best thing ever saw. II is full OF
items etc, that amuse and At the same tim,
instruct the children Why, could pick
out the boys and girls in my school whose
parents take the Agriculturati1, just by
hearing them talk--thcy are so full of new
and good things they have learned from
the paper. The paper has many beautiful
cngravings.
Rev. Corey-As small as is my salary,
would have the paper if it cost S. year
instead of $3.50 The fact is, it helps out
my salary. My little garden plot at tn,
parsonage has yielded us almost all ON
table vcgct ablcs, besides many beautiful
flowers The Ayricuiturdiist has been my
constant erde knew but little Of gar
dening; but this paper is SO .tull Of III
formation about the best things to plan
and SOW, when to plant and how to cult
tc-all told in SD plain and practical
way, by men who seem to talk from thei
own experience, that know just what t.
do and how to d. it we'll. The high mora
tone of the paper, its common sense, tn
care it takes of all parts of the Farm, tn
Gar,icnthc Orchard-the Household work
and the Children as well, with its hundred
/ of beautiful and instructive engravings-
make it the most valuable periodical hav
: ever seen. heartily wish every one of IN
parishioners would take it for himself an
2 family II would awaken thought and CT
I torpr,sc, give interest to tho town an
t ncig hborhood talk. stimulate improvement
, introduce new and profitable crops, an
$ mails and implements and add to our wealth
papera year. The $3.50 it costs, is onl
three cents week and 1t worth that an
way Why the large and beautiful cngra,
ngs are worth many times that.
r Mr. Davis-l took the Gtnesee Farme
last year. and as that has stopped, though
{ would take a new paper.
Mr. Smith-Thc "Gcnesce Farmer" wa
not really stopped The Publishers of tn
5 AgricuuuriA invited Mr. Harris to join tn
, Farmer to the -igricultwist, and put hi
whole force into the latter paper. The
paid him Il large price for his office, ant
moved it with everything connected wit
1t to their office. So the Agricuturist
really two papers joined into one, and q
, course better think we better go wit
+ Mr.. Harris to the .agviculturist that ha
been published for % years, and has hur
dred thousand circulation, which, AS Nj
' Knox has told us, supplies the means an,
facilities for giving us great deal NOR
, for the same money. Mr.. Harris carries o.
his large farm, and in his walks m,
Talks on the Farm" and other things h
5 writes for the Agriculturist, he tells us
great deal about all kinds Of farm work.
| Mr. Davis.-Put me down for the AR,
culturiM
Mr. SMITH am glad TO do so. Iknoy
, you will like it. The January number
which has Just come to hand, is alone wort
the cost of year. See here, Showing it,
there are 40 pages, twice as large as tn
magazine pages, and there are thirty fiv
engravings in it, two of them full pag
size, and see how beautifuls Why, II
: give any man who takes the papers year
a dollar and half in goods out of M
store, if he says at the end Of a year he ha
: not got many times his moneys worth
. Mr.. Butlcr-Put me in your club
f Mr.. Grcene.-And me too.
/, Mr.. Brown.-And me.
Mr.. Smith, have no interest in tn
matter, except to do good thing for tn
place. You can join our club, or anv on
who desires can get the Agricultural 70
all Of 1866 Volume 25) by simply enclos
ing $3.50, with his name and postoffice ad
dress. and sending it to Orange Judd