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REMEMBER that $2.00 pays for THE PRAIRIE FARMER one year, and the subscriber gets 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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Stockmen, Write for Your Paper.

Hon. A.M.  Garland is expected home from Australia about the first of
February.

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Col.  J.W.  Judy & Son, the popular thoroughbred cattle auctioneers of
Tallula, Ill., last year sold 2,057 head of cattle for $500,620.

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Ohio Jersey cattle-breeders will hold a convention at Columbus, on the 15th.  The Short-horn breeders of the State will meet at the same city on the same day.

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Mr. C. Huston, Blandinsville, Ill., has gone to Scotland to purchase Clydesdale horses.  He expects to be gone about half the year, and will make several shipments.

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Wm. Yule, Esq., the well-known Short-horn breeder, of Somers, Kenosha county, Wisconsin, names, through THE PRAIRIE FARMER, March 19th prox., for his public sale for 1884.

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At the annual meeting of the American Guernsey Cattle Club, held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, December 20th, Dr. J. Nelson Borland, New London, Conn., was re-elected President; Edward Norton was chosen Secretary and Treasurer.

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Three new cases of pleuro-pneumonia were recently discovered near West Chester, Penn.  Thus far the disease has been confined to three dairy herds.  All infected animals are promptly appraised, condemned, killed and paid for by the State.  The disease was introduced there by cows purchased at Baltimore.