Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — THE “PRAIRIE EARMER” BOOM ING, [ARTICLE]

THE “PRAIRIE EARMER” BOOM ING,

The Old Friends of the Prairie Farmer, and many farmers all over the West, and East, too, will bo glad to learn of the good fortune that has come to this time-honored Journal, for nearly half a century (43 years) has been doing good service to and for the agricultural interests of this country. The number of May 3d announces that, henceforth, The Prairie Farmer will be under the Editorial Direction and Business Management of Mr. ORANGE JUDD, who, after more thai. a quarter century of service at the head of the American Agriculturist, has left his former field to other hands, and removed to near Chicago, a thousand milts nearer to hundred of thousands of his older enterprising readers who have preceded him to the West. Tne number before us gives evidence of the vigor and*experience he brings to his new field of work. All who want specimens of the paper as it is, and it o be, and to enjoy its advantages, can have The Prairie Farmer, weekly, from May Ist, up to 1885, by sending a single dollar to the Prairie Farmer Publishing Company 150 Monroe St Chicago, 111.

Radical Congressional aspirants Wolcott, of White county, a„d Johnston, of PulasKicounty,,visited Rensselaer tiiis week. They are evidently ut a loss to understand our SimonV designs. They regard his card in the Republican as an i timatiou that he will control the Judicial nomination, aQd t en enter the Congressiona field as a “dark horse.”