th.--_Herald_, Norristown, Pa.

It is SPARKLING and PURE, interesting and HIGH-TONED. The best authors
in America contribute to its columns.--_Journal_, Lewistown, Me.

Parents and guardians who would place fascinating as well as
instructive, reading before their children, WOULD DO WELL TO SUBSCRIBE
TO IT.--_Church Union_, N. Y.

THE GOLDEN ARGOSY has ECLIPSED, in EVERY respect, its older but less
enterprising contemporaries.--_Daily Transcript_, Peoria, Ill.

Full of LIFE and VIM, it commends itself to those desiring to be
entertained and instructed. The illustrations are SUPERB. We commend it
to the reading public.--_Vanity Fair_, San Francisco, Cal.

It has taken a LEADING PLACE among the best papers of its class. The
publisher EVIDENTLY UNDERSTANDS boys' tastes.--_Times_, Indianapolis,
Ind.

THE GOLDEN ARGOSY is a BRIGHT, SPARKLING paper for boys and girls;
NEITHER SENSATIONAL ON THE ONE HAND NOR DULL ON THE OTHER.--_Press_,
Philadelphia, Pa.

THE GOLDEN ARGOSY is a youths' paper, and CONTAINS MORE INTERESTING
READING MATTER than any other similar publication in the
country.--_Telegraph_, Dubuque, Iowa.

IT IS A FIRST-CLASS PAPER, FULLY EQUALLING THE _Youth's Companion_, and,
being once introduced into the home, will be sure to remain.--_Herald_,
Camden, Me.

THE GOLDEN ARGOSY is AS FAR REMOVED FROM THE PROSY INANITY OF
SUNDAY-SCHOOL LITERATURE AS IT IS FROM THE DEMORALIZING SENSATIONALISM
OF THE HALF-DIME DREADFULS.--_N. Y. World._

THE GOLDEN ARGOSY is not only BEAUTIFUL IN APPEARANCE, but every way
COMMENDABLE IN the CHARACTER OF ITS CONTENTS. IT IS ONE OF THE FEW
PAPERS for young people that JUDICIOUS FATHERS AND MOTHERS care to put
in the hands of their children.--_Detroit Free Press._

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REMEMBER _that $2.00 pays for_ THE PRAIRIE FARMER _from this
date to January 1, 1885; For $2.00 you get it for one year and a
copy of_ THE PRAIRIE FARMER COUNTY MAP OF THE UNITED STATES,
FREE! _This is the most liberal offer ever made by any first-class
weekly agricultural paper in this country._

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FORESTRY.

Henry Stuart writes the New York Times: A wise and careful system of
agriculture might have left our fields still fertile and productive, so
an economical use of the forests might have made them a perennial source
of wealth. Fortunately the injury is not beyond a remedy, for it is
easier to restore a growth of timb