_THE PRAIRIE FARMER is printed and published by The Prairie Farmer Publishing Company, every Saturday, at No. 150 Monroe Street._ _Subscription, $2.00 per year, in advance, postage prepaid. Subscribers wishing their addresses changed should give their old as well as new addresses._ _Advertising, 25 cents per line on inside pages; 30 cents per line on last page--agate measure; 14 lines to the inch. No less charge than $2.00._ _All Communications, Remittances, etc., should be addressed to_ THE PRAIRIE FARMER PUBLISHING COMPANY, _Chicago, Ill._ * * * * * The Prairie Farmer ENTERED AT THE CHICAGO OFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER. CHICAGO, JANUARY 26, 1884. * * * * * WHEN SUBSCRIPTIONS EXPIRE. We have several calls for an explanation of the figures following the name of subscribers as printed upon this paper each week. The first two figures indicate the volume, and the last figure or figures the number of the last paper of that volume for which the subscriber has paid: EXAMPLE: John Smith, 56-26. John has paid for THE PRAIRIE FARMER to the first of July of the present year, volume 56. Any subscriber can at once tell when his subscription expires by referring to volume and number as given on first page of the paper. * * * * * [Transcriber's Note: Original location of Table of Contents.] * * * * * 1841. 1884. THE PRAIRIE FARMER PROSPECTUS FOR 1884. SEE INDUCEMENTS OFFERED SUBSCRIBE NOW. For forty-three years THE PRAIRIE FARMER has stood at the front in agricultural journalism. It has kept pace with the progress and development of the country, holding its steady course through all these forty-three years, encouraging, counseling, and educating its thousands of readers. It has labored earnestly in the interest of all who are engaged in the rural industries of the country, and that it has labored successfully is abundantly shown by the prominence and prestige it has achieved, and the hold it has upon the agricultural classes. Its managers are conscious from comparison with other journals of its class, and from the uniform testimony of its readers, that it is foremost among the farm and home papers of the country. It will not be permitted to lose this proud position; we shall spare no efforts to maintain its usefulness and make it indispensable to farmers, stock-raisers, feeders, dairymen, horticulturalists, gardeners, and all others engaged in rural pursuits. It will enter upon its forty-fourth year under auspices, in every point of view, more encouraging than ever before in its history. Its mission has always been, and will continue to be-- To discuss the most approved practices in all agricultural and horticultural pursuits. To set forth the merits of the best breeds of domestic animals, and to elucidate the principles of correct breeding and management.