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The handles can be taken off, and the machines packed in a small box for safe and cheap transportation. The combined implement weighs about 20 pounds. These implements are all metal but the handles, light, neat, and durable, and are made to a standard, so that any of the parts can be duplicated. They will prove to be all claimed for them. Full instructions for using the implements will be sent with every machine. Complete illustrated circular sent on application. EXTRA ATTACHMENTS. To make up the price of any combined implement, add the price of the attachment wanted to $7, the price of the Cultivator and weeder - thus, for a Verge Cutter add $1.25, making... $8.25. Hopper and Cover to make a Seed Sower of a Cultivator... 5.00. Set of 2 rakes and 3 teeth to make a Cultivator and Weeder of a Seed Sower... 3.75. Wheel and Knife to be fixed to the Cultivator to make a Strawberry Runner Cutter... 2.00. Extra Steel Plates, for replating teeth when worn, each... .17. Shovel Plows, the set of three... 1.50. Mole Plow... .75. Verge or Turf Cutter... 1.25. Scuffle Hoe - This is by far the most important of any of the extra attachments. It thoroughly clears the ground of weeds, and loosens up the soil. Price... 1.25. [?missing part of page?] RUHLMANN'S WHEEL HOE. Ruhlmann's Wheel Hoe will do the work of eight men with the common hoe; embraces all points requisite to make a capital tool. The handles can be raised to suit. Knife blades set to any pitch and from seven to sixteen inches in width, and when in working order is firm and strong, with nothing to become loose or shaky. This implement has given entire satisfaction, It is particularly valuable on hard ground where it takes hold of the weeds, better than most other wheel hoes. Price boxed and delivered at freight or express office... 5.50. Matthew's Seed Drill - Price... $13.00. [image: reel mower] The Philadelphia Lawn Mower The Philadelphia Lawn Mower is the lightest running, and decidedly the best Lawn Mower in use We have tested many styles of mowers, but none equal this. Illustrated and priced circular sent on application.

30. SEED AND PLANT CATALOGUE.

WATTER'S IMPROVED TREE PRUNER. This Pruner is unsurpassed by any made. It has many point of superiority, a few only of which we will enumerate; Lightness, simplicity, durability, interchangeable parts, and cheapness. It is constructed of the very best steel; the blade is constructed with the lever at the lower end in such a manner as to give great power. It cuts the smallest twig perfectly and a larger limb better than any other pruner, always making a very smooth cut. These Pruners can only be sent by express, purchaser paying charges. Prices, delivered free at express office here, as follows: Length of pole - 4 feet; weight - 2 1/4 pounds... $2.00. [Length of pole] - 6 [feet; weight] - 2 3/4 [pounds] ... 2.25. [Length of pole] - 8 [feet; weight] - 3 1/2 [pounds] ... 2.50. [Length of pole] - 10 [feet; weight] - 4 1/4 [pounds] ... 2.75. Extra knives each, prepaid ... .35.

[image] WATERS IMPROVED TREE PRUNER.

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Flower Pot Brackets- Each 25 cts. to 2.00. Bird Cage Hooks-Each 15 cts. to... .75. Wire Plant Stands-Our wire stands are of superior strength and extra finish; they are all painted bright green and bronzed with gold bronze, making them very attractive and ornamental. They are mounted on substantial castors [casters] for convenience in moving about the house. They can be shipped with but trifling expense to all parts of the country as freight. Three or four stands can often be sent a long distance as cheaply as one. Swiss Moss Baskets-Each, 5 cts. to... .30. Ornamental Straw Baskets-Each, 50 cts. to... 5.00. Dried Grasses, Everlasting Flowers, Winter Bouquets, Pampas Plumes, etc., prices on application. French Green Moss-Large size packages by mail, each... .30.

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strong, all sizes for pots and out-door running plants; 10 cts. to... 3.00. Tin Foil- Pound by mail... .50. Wire Designs-For cut flowers, of these we have a good assortment, which we offer at reasonable prices. Price of any kind of design given on application. We keep a good supply of the best kinds of fertilizers, but have only room to speak of a few in this list. Guano-By mail, lb. 30 cts.; by express, lb. .15. Bowker's Food for Flowers-A fertilizer made especially for plants grown in the house, garden, or conservatory; clean, free from offensive odor, largely soluble in water, and producing healthy plants, free from vermin, and early and abundant blossoms to which it imparts a rich and brilliant color. Large sized package by mail for... .50. Persian Insect Powder- 1/4 lb. 50 cts.; lb.... 1.50.

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[Start of left column] Cole's Insect Destroyer-The best insecticide in use. Per bottle. 75 cts.; qt.... 2.75. Atomizer-For applying same... .75. Palmer's Plant and Vine Protector - Specially [Especially] good for use on cabbages and other vegetable plants. Warranted nonpoisonous. By mail, 1 lb. box... .45.

Plain and Ornamental Flower Pots, Hanging Baskets, Vases, etc.

We keep a fall assortment of these. Write for prices, sending list of what is wanted. Fruit Boxes - These are put up flat to ship, but are all ready to put together, which can be done very rapidly. Price $1 per 100. Special quotations by the 1,000 on application. Annealed tacks, for putting up fruit boxees, 10 cents per oz.; $1 per lb. One ounce of tacks will make up 150 boxes.

Books.

Uncle Charlie's Language of Flowers - A neat little work of 142 pages, printed in fine style, on beautiful tinted [Start of right column] paper, and contains several fine engravings. It not only gives the language, but the poetry of flowers, and clear and practical suggestions in reference to Floral Decoration and Floral Conversation. It is so arranged that the common or botanical name of the flower may be referred to. This work should be in the possession of every lover of flowers. Price by mail, postpaid, bound in paper, 25 cents; bound in cloth... .50. How to Destroy Insects-This is one of the most valuable little books for every one who has a flower or vegetable garden, or keeps plants in the house. It is a very neat 100 page book which is thoroughly practical in its statements, and treats in a clear and consise [concise] manner all branches of this subject, and gives the results of many experiments on house plants, vegetable plants and trees. Price by mail, each... .30. Henderson's Practical Floriculture (In cloth, Illustrated)-Price... 1.50. Henderson's Handbook of Plants- Is a condensed Encyclopedia of 412 pages, giving botanical classification, propagation and culture of nearly every known plant in cultivation, either useful or ornamental. Invaluable as a book of referance [reference] (In cloth)- Price... 3.00. Henderson's Gardening for Pleasure (In cloth, Illustrated) -Price... 1.50. Henderson's Gardening for Profit (In cloth, Illustrated)-Price... 1.50. Henderson's Garden and Farm Topics (In cloth, Illustrated)-Price... 1.50.

[No columns for rest of page] DAWSON, GARVER & MILLER, DEALERS IN HARDWARE, Mechanics' Tools, Paints, Oils and Glass, Carry the most complete stock to be found in the city, and give especial attention to a complete line of CARPENTERS' TOOLS, of the very best to be had. AGENTS FOR JEFFERSONVILLE POLISHED PLATE GLASS. 619 WALNUT STREET, DES MOINES, IOWA.

[image] THE STROWBRIDGE [left column] BROADCAST [right column] SOWER.

The Strowbridge Broad Cast Seed Sower is a practical machine that commends itself to every thorough going farmer, as a common sense labor saving invention, fully up with the most practical implements for other branches of farm work, in this advanced age, and well worthy of a place on every farm. It is a well known fact that thousands of dollars are annually expended for reaping machinery of the most approved patterns, while on many of the same farms the grain is planted year after year by the tiresome, slow and unsatisfactory method of seeding by hand; while many other farmers being disgusted with the old burdensome manner of tramping day after day over the newly plowed ground, with a sack of grain swung around their shoulders, have been tempted to purchase expensive drills and do away with broadcasting, from the fact that they were unable to find the necessary implement for this sort of seeding. A perfect broadcast seeder never having been offered to the public before. As the crop depends more largely on the seed and seeding than any other elements; and as the harvest comes after and depends on the seeding, which must always be done before the reaping, it stands to reason that there is more gain and saving in using our perfect seed sower than there is in the use of the improved harvesting machinery, in fact there is a greater saving to every farmer by the use of our improved seeder, over the old manner of sowing, than there is by using the wonderfully perfect harvesting machines over the old cradle and sickle. Our seeder is a perfect success for sowing all kinds of Wheat, Rye, Oats, Flax, Barley, Buckwheat, Hungarian, Millet, Clover, Timothy, Peas, Corn and all other varieties of seed or grain; also, Plaster, Lime, Salt, Gauno, Ashes, all the various phosphates used for fertillizers - in fact everything requiring broadcasting, any quantity per acre, and better and faster than by any other method. The seeder is well and strongly built of good material and is not liable to get out of repair. Its operation is so simple that anyone can use it, and with good care it will last a life time. It is light, weighing only 75 pounds. Can be readily attached to any wagon or cart in a few moments, without the slightest injury to it, as shown in the cut. The seeder fits in any wagon in the place of the end-gate; it is driven by a large drive wheel attached to the rear wagon wheel. The quantity of seed is regulated by gauge plates, fully described under directions for operation later in this circular. The seeder can be used in the corn field, and wherever the wagon can be driven, as well as on even ground.

THE WIND. The operation of our seeder is not effected by any ordinary wind. This is a most valuable feature, and one that recommends it over any seeder that throws its seed into the air. With the Strowbridge, the grain is not thrown at any point higher than the wagon bed, and is delivered to the ground where it is wanted, with great force, which can be readily understood, when it is known that it finishes a cast of wheat 40 feet wide. In comparing the delivery with any seeder that throws the grain up into the air to be drived at the pleasure of the wind, the great superiority of our invention can be readily understood in this respect. This point alone renders it a valuable and reliable seeder in territory subject to spring winds, as all of the Great North-west especially is, where other seeders are practically useless.

THE CAST. The Strowbridge delivers a single cast, all on either side of the wagon; or a double one, evenly distributed on both sides, as desired. The cast is regulated by a simple device for shifting the grain from one side to the other or discharging it on both sides. The single cast is a convenient feature, for finishing up lands, or running near fences, thus saving the waste of grain, and lapping.

PRICE, $25.00.

MANUFACTURED BY THE RACINE SEEDER COMPANY, (INCORPORATED.)

Address all Correspondence to C. W. DORR, Treasurer, DES MOINES, IOWA.

1865. Assets $25,000.

1884. Assets $704,731.92.

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