ons are accurately ascertained. We have furnished
hundreds of them to subscribers, and they give entire satisfaction.
During January, 1884, to any person sending us THREE SUBSCRIBERS, at
$2.00 each, we will give one of these scales, and to each of the three
subscribers Ropp's Calculator, No. 1.

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A meeting of farmers interested in ensilage will be held at 55
Beekman street, New York, Wednesday, January 23, at 12 o'clock. All
interested in the subject are invited to attend.

The Iowa State Horticultural Society will hold its annual
meeting at Des Moines, January 15-18. Prof. J.L. Budd, Ames, will
forward programmes on application. The usual reductions in railway and
hotel fares are expected.

Professor S.R. Thompson, Superintendent of the Nebraska
Agricultural College farm, has been chosen to represent Nebraska at the
meeting to be held at Washington, D.C., next week, for the purpose of
taking action in regard to contagious diseases of cattle. He requests
stock men and all others interested in the cattle industries of his
State to correspond with him, and make such suggestions as they may
think proper for guidance at the meeting.

Since its organization in 1853 to 1882 inclusive, the managers
of the Illinois State Fair have offered the following amounts in
premiums for live stock: Cattle, $70,406; horses and mules, $81,825;
sheep, $24,450; swine, $25,320; poultry, $8,214;--total $210,215, which
must be considered pretty substantial encouragement. The total offered
in premiums for all classes of exhibits has been $303,961. Thus a little
more than two thirds of the entire amount has been given to the breeders
and importers of stock.

The officers of the Northwestern Dairymen's Association say
that every indication warrants the conclusion that the coming convention
at Mankato, Minn., commencing February 12, will prove the grandest
success in the history of the association. A full array of the best
dairy talent of the entire Northwest will be present. The purpose is
both in the arrangement of the programme and in the conduct of the
discussions, to make of the coming convention an institute for study and
instruction which no intelligent and progressive farmer can afford to
miss.

The Missouri State Board of Agriculture asks the aid of one
competent man in every township in the State to give it estimates of
crops, etc., in his vicinity. The aim is to give as full and