THE PRAIRIE FARMER will discuss, without fear or favor, all topics of interest properly belonging to a Farm and Fireside Paper, treat of the most approved practices in AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, BREEDING, ETC.; the varied Machinery, Implements, and improvements in same, for use both in Field and House; and, in fact, everything of interest to the Agricultural community, whether in FIELD, MARKET, OR HOME CIRCLE.

IT WILL GIVE INFORMATION UPON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, WESTERN SOILS, CLIMATE, ETC.; ANSWER INQUIRIES on all manner of subjects which come within its sphere; GIVE each week, full and RELIABLE MARKET, CROP, AND WEATHER REPORTS; PRESENT the family with choice and INTERESTING LITERATURE; amuse and INSTRUCT THE YOUNG FOLKS:  AND, in a word, aim to be, in every respect, AN INDISPENSABLE AND UNEXCEPTIONABLE FARM and fireside COMPANION.

Terms of Subscription and ‘Club Rates’: 

ONE COPY, 1 YEAR, postage paid $ 2.00

TWO COPIES, " " " 3.75

FIVE " " sent at one time 8.75

TEN " " sent at one time, and
        one to Club getter 16.00

TWENTY " " sent at one time, and
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Address

The Prairie Farmer Publishing Co.,
Chicago.  Ill.

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OUR YOUNG FOLKS

A TALK ABOUT THE LION.

We wonder how many of THE PRAIRIE FARMER boys and girls have seen the lion, “king of beasts,” as he is called.  Perhaps not all of you as yet, though many of you doubtless will as the years roll on—­and, by the way, you will find that the older you grow the more quickly will they speed away.  So be careful in this, the beautiful springtime of your lives, to so cultivate and make ready the garden of your minds that the coming manhood and womanhood may not only find you with well developed arms and limbs and muscles, ready to face the world and to help lift some of its burdens, but also with a mind that has kept even pace with the body—­because of constant growth.

We think we will have to depart from our usual natural history articles some day, and have a talk with the boys and girls on this subject of growth—­growth in its largest, broadest sense, the mind, soul, and body all growing together into the stature of a perfect man.