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sample copies and terms to agents.

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WILL YOU

Read about Patrick Barry,
about the corn-root worm,
about mistakes in drainage,
about the change in prize rings at the Fat Stock Show,
about improvement in horses,
about the value of 1883 corn for pork making,
about Fanny Field's Plymouth Rocks,
about the way to make the best bee hive,
about that eccentric old fellow Cavendish,
about the every day life of the great Darwin,
about making home ornaments and nice things for the little folks?
Will you

Read the poems, the jokes, the news, the markets, the editorials,
the answers to correspondents? In short, will you

Read the entire paper and then sit down and think it all over and
see if you do not conclude that this single number is worth what
the paper has cost you for the whole year? Then tell your neighbors
about it, show it to them and ask them to subscribe for it. Tell
them that they will also get for the $2 a copy of our superb map.
By doing this you can double our subscription list in a single
week.

WILL YOU?

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The Illinois State Board of Agriculture will hold a meeting at the
Sherman House in Chicago, on the 4th of March next. The principal
business of the meeting will be to complete arrangements for the next
State Fair and the Fat Stock Show.

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The annual meeting of the Northern Illinois Horticultural Society will
be held at Elgin Tuesday, January 22d and continuing three days. Kindred
societies are invited to send delegates, and a large general attendance
is solicited. Further particulars will be gladly received by S. M.
Slade, President, Elgin, or D. Wilmot Scott, Secretary, Galena.

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The Brooklyn Board of Health petitions Congress to appropriate a
sufficient amount of money to stamp out contagious pleuro-pneumonia and
provide for the appointment of a number of veterinarians to inspect all
herds in infected districts, to indemnify owners for cattle slaughtered
by the Government, and to forbid the movement of all cattle out of any
infected State which will not take measures to stamp out the disease.

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Secretary L. A. Goodman, of the Missouri State Horticultural Society
writes THE PRAIRIE FARMER that on