Every housekeeper ought to have this very useful scale. The weight of article bought or sold may readily be known. Required proportions in culinary operations are accurately ascertained. We have furnished hundreds of them to subscribers, and they give entire satisfaction. During January, 1884, to any person sending us THREE SUBSCRIBERS, at $2.00 each, we will give one of these scales, and to each of the three subscribers Ropp's Calculator, No. 1. * * * * * OUR PREMIUM LIST. Revised, extended, and properly illustrated will this week be sent to every subscriber. There must be something offered in it that every one needs or would like to have. The terms are the most liberal ever offered. All readers are hereby constituted agents to solicit subscriptions to THE PRAIRIE FARMER. If those who can not enlist in the work will hand the PREMIUM LIST to some person who will do so, they will confer a great favor upon the publishers and editors. What we all want is to double our present list before the first day of April. * * * * * RENEW! RENEW!! Remember that every yearly subscriber, either new or renewing, sending us $2, receives a splendid new map of the United States and Canada--58 × 41 inches--FREE. Or, if preferred, one of the books offered in another column. It is not necessary to wait until a subscription expires before renewing. * * * * * WE WANT AGENTS in every locality. We offer very liberal terms and good pay. Send for sample copies and terms to agents. * * * * * The Adams County (Ill.) Fair at Camp Point will be held the first week in September. The premium list is out. * * * * * The seventh annual fair at Jerseyville, Ill., will be held commencing Tuesday, October 14, 1884, and continue four days, with $5,000 premiums. * * * * * At the Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society's trials, November 11, 1883, the Johnston Harvester Company were 1st in the trial field, and also for the machine best adapted for the colony. * * * * * The growth of the Western live stock business has stimulated parties to organize a Union Stock Yards Company at Sioux City, Iowa. The company has a capital of $100,000. The shipping of dressed beef may become a branch of its business. * * * * * One of the most popular and instructive essays at the late Wisconsin Dairymen's Convention was entitled "THE FARMER'S GARDEN," contributed by J. M. Smith, Esq., of Green Bay. This essay will appear, in full, in the next issue of the PRAIRIE FARMER. * * * * *