ALWAYS PAYS OUT We challenge the whole list of farm The Prairie Farmer During 1903-04. With the right rate and with both quan- If you want to put your advertise- Ask any good agency about it The Prairie Farmer Pub. Co., Chicago, Ill. "All the papers" referred to in the above are the twelve supposedly leading agricultural papers in the United States. ...The... Southern Planter was the thirteenth and last paper on the list, covered by the appropriation, and was only included after some urging on our part. Another thing: the other twelve had larger copy, and the ad appeared in them about four times as often. COLMAN'S RURAL is the leader in its territory in influence and results to the best advertisers, as it has been for half a century. Its territory, the great Mississippi Valley, is the richest in the world. It will not fail to receive your copy, if you really think it worth while to reach a class of farmers who always have money, and who never before had so much as they have now. ral Society, the American Association of Nurserymen and the Exchange and Savings Bank of Berlin, and a director in the Berlin Building and Loan Association, also one of the Maryland commissioners to the St. Louis fair. Recently he was elected president of the Eastern Shore Produce Exchange. All these duties he gives the required attention besides doing his part in the extensive nursery business in which he is engaged in company with his father and brother. H. G. Sommerman, special representative, announces that Home and Flowers has been purchased by Success With Flowers. The combined circulation of the two is given as being in excess of 80,000. Ullery & Co., publishers of the New England Farmer, Brattleboro, Vt., write to say in regard to the division of opinion between Mr. Gilbert Tucker, of the Country Gentleman and Mr. B. Morgan, of the Southern Planter, that both fail to note the fact that the New England Farmer ante-dates either of them by several years, having been founded in 1822, complete files, except for a few years, being now preserved in the office of that paper. Henry Wallace recently took strong ground in Wallaces' Farmer against buying stock in "wild cat" schemes, such as oil companies, mining companies and land companies. He says he has been informed by reliable authority that about $1,000,000 has gone out of Des Moines and that but one man had made any money, and he lost in a second deal all he made in the first. Wallaces' Farmer does not accept advertisements for stock companies offering to sell stock, and Mr. Wallace warns his readers against all schemes that promise great returns. The congressional committee from the river and harbor committee which visited Dallas, Texas, recently to examine into the needs of Dallas in the way of being put in water communication with the world was given a good time. A banquet was given at which Col. Frank P. Holland was toastmaster and a trip was taken down on the Trinity river the steamer Frank P. Holland. Mr. A. F. Cooper, whose name brings to mind the Prairie State incubator, with which he has been identified for so many The Farmers Voice The following letter shows what an advertiser thinks of the paper. It was written of his own volition, without prompting of any kind: My attention has been called by the checking clerk to an article on page two of your issue of April 30, entitled "As to Whiskey Advertisements," which so fully and thoroughly agrees with our views on the matter in question that we cannot refrain from expressing our appreciation and approval of the stand that you take in the matter. We have been reading with much satisfaction the editorials in the Farmers Voice and have been much pleased with the high moral tone, the apparent reliability of the information and the good boiled down facts contained THE FOUR-TRACK NEWS An Illustrated Magazine A Journey Among the Stars...... Frank W. Mack Where Pilgrim and Puritan Met.. Hezekiah Butterworth Nature's Chronometer... The Three Oregons.. Ancient Prophecies Fulfilled... .H. M. Albaugh ..Howard W. Coggeshall ..Alfred Holman .George H. Daniels ..Luther L. Holden Kathleen L. Greig Will G. Steel When Mother Goes Away-Poem.Joe Cone A Little Bit of Holland.. The Romance of Reality. The War Eagle...... Under Mexican Skies.. Nagara in Winter.. Little Histories Old Fort Putnam.. Charter Oak Chair. ..Charles B. Wells William J. Lampton The Confederate White House. Herbert Brooks SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS, or 50 CENTS A YEAR Can be had of newsdealers, or by addressing GEORGE H. DANIELS, Publisher Lands You - at the Gate. All the most important trains of the Wabash Railroad now run into St. Louis by way of World's Fair Grounds, stopping at Wabash World's Fair Station, located at the Main Entrance. The Wabash is the only line that sells tickets and Excursion tickets on sale daily Very low rate coach tickets sold twice F. A. PALMER, Assistant Genl. Pass. Agent, 311 Marquette Bldg. Chicago. Room 53, 7 East 42nd Street, New York years, announces his retirement from the Prairie State Incubator Company, to take effect July 1. The company will continue business at Homer City under the same name. In retiring Mr. Cooper expresses his appreciation of the many favors he has received from the farm and poultry press of the country and asks the continued friendship of his editorial friends for the new company. Mr. Cooper is probably personally acquainted with a larger number of the poultrymen of this country than any other man who has been identified with the incubator business. He is one of the oldest manufacturers of incubators and built up a large trade in them, extending his operations to foreign countries. The accompanying cover design by the Barnes-Crosby Co., is a fine example of work of this kind. The effect is particularly natural, the whole work a credit to artists and engravers. The St. Louis Republic for May 15, had a two-page illustrated article describing the buildings and equipment of the Lewis Publishing Co., publishers of Woman's Farm Journal and Woman's Magazine. As showing the high standing this company has at home the article is worth much to Mr. Lewis and his associates. One reason why The National Stockman and Farmer, Pittsburg, Pa., gives good returns for its advertising and is one of the most convincing propositions for profitable publicity to the general advertiser is the fact that it keeps up its subscription list in a most legitimate way. 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