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 PATKNTED 
 
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 Fira Extinguishers 
 
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 AGRICULTURAL SYRINGES. 
 
 .CATSKILL, N. Y. 
 
 CA.TSKILL: 
 
 'Beoobdeb" Pbikt. 
 
 1888. 
 
The proprietor of the Lewis Manufacturing Works would respectfully submit to you 
 this Illustrated and DescriptiTe Catalogue, hoping that it may lead to business relations 
 between us that shall be mutually beneficial. 
 
 The manufacturer wishes it distinctly understood that all that is said or implied 
 in this Catalogue is absolutely true. 
 
 The generous recognition by the public of the great excellence and superior qualities 
 Of these goods is manifest in the tens of thousands now in use, and in the splendid testi- 
 monials contained in this Catalogue. 
 
 Their great power, simplicity, diversity of use, ease of operation, cheapness and dtura- 
 bility place them pre-eminently above all others. 
 
 Their liability to derangement is very small, owing to the simplicity of the mechan- 
 ism. Their parts are all interchangeable, and in case of accident any part can be suppUed 
 in duplicate at small cost, and warranted to fit. 
 
 " Those wishing to buy a Pump for use simply, wiU find description and testimonials 
 on pages 4, etc. Description of Exterminator on pages 16, etc. Those thinking of selling 
 the goods or taking an agency will do well to read every word in this Catalogue, as they 
 will thus become acquainted with the many arguments that can be used in their favor, as 
 gleaned from the description of its uses and in testimonials. If our Price List and DiBopuut 
 Sheet is not inclosed with this Catalogue, write for it at once. We wish to secure good, 
 live agents everywhere, and we are satisfied that we can convince you that there is more 
 money to be made selling these goods than any other article now upon the market. Eead 
 terms to agents and see what our agents are doing. We have men of every profession and 
 trade (almost without exception), who are canvassing for us, and all doing well and 
 making money. Send for a sample machine and try selling them, the effort will cost you 
 nothing, as, should you have n® use for the Pump or Exterminator, you can sell it in less 
 than twenty minutes in any village for more than you paid. 
 
 Those wishing agencies should write immediately, as territory is being taken up very 
 fast. We often get letters from several parties from the same town, asking for the agency. , 
 Our motto is, first come, first served. We will give you the exclusive sale in all the terri- 
 tory you will thoroughly canvass, and for as long a time as you make a business of sell- 
 ing the goods. 
 
The Above Cut Shows the Three Combinations. 
 
 iiwii'i iimltMllii iiiii fmmf ^^ 
 
 The Pump is made of heayy, mandrel-drawn brass tubing, is 32 inches long, and 
 about 1| inches in diameter, weighing about 4J pounds. It is a combination of three very 
 useful instruments or machines (see out above) — a Force Pump, a Potato-Bug Extermin- 
 ator or Agricultural Syringe, and a Veterinary Syringe— at least $12 worth of instruments. 
 or machines combined for $6. 
 
 As a Force Pump, with its three feet of hose attached, it will throw a good-sized' 
 stream of water from fifty to sixty feet. For washing wagons, windows, floors, sides of 
 booses, gardens, sprinkling croquet grounds, lawns, etc., etc., or as an ener-ready Fire- 
 Extinguisher it is the best in use ; and its cost, including Exterminator and Veterinary 
 Syringe, is one-luxlf less than any other good pump in market. 
 
 To parties who are troubled by water or waste-pipes clogging up, it is worth the price 
 of the whole Combination, as you can clear water-pipes or logs in a few minutes that 
 might require several days' work to find the obstruction. (See page 11). There is not a 
 better Hand Pump made than ours. 
 
 OUE NEW SPBAT ATTACHMENT 
 
 is One of the finest attachments ever put upon a Pump. Being attached to the nozzle, a 
 single movement of the thumb produces a spray or solid stream instantly. The attach- 
 ment is made of brass, and cannot get out of order. 
 
 We also make an "Insect Spray Kozzle," which throws a very fine spray or mist. 
 Parties having a large amount of spraying of trees, etc., should not fail to order this noz- 
 zle. It will be sent extra, with three feet of hose, for only 50p. additional. No extra 
 charge if you do not want the regular nozzle for washing wagons and windows, putting 
 out fires, etc. , but parties having orchards to spray would advise you to buy both. Price 
 of Pump complete, with the extra hose and nozzle, express paid, $6. This includes both 
 sets of hose and rioz7!?'5. 
 
COMBINATION FORCE PUMP. 
 
 The pump pari unscrews near the base, opposite where the hose is attacl.<id, and the 
 perforated or syringenozzle is screwed on in its place. There is also an extra piston or 
 plunger which is fitted with Lewis's Patent Expansion Valve, used in connection with 
 the Exterminator, which holds the liquid at any point in the tube except on pressoie of 
 the handle. This extra handle and valTe will be sent for only 25o. extra ; with this yon 
 can convert the Agricultural Syringe into a Potato-Bug Exterminator. 
 ^ For a description of this part of the Combination, see pages 16, etc., and testimo- 
 nials. AU there said applies directly to. this, as they are exactly alike except that the 
 nose or nozzle to this screws on and the other is soldered on. 
 
 This is something every stockman in the country should possess. With this Combi- 
 nation you have it always at hand, and if your horse or cow is sick and needs it, you do 
 not have to run two or three miles for a Veterinary Syringe, as is often the case in the 
 country. The Injector can be gauged from one gill to one quart at a filling. 
 
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 In the make-up of the machine nothing but the most durable material is used. They 
 are simple in construction and easily operated — a child ten years old ' can operate any ol 
 them. The Force Pump is put up in a strong paper box holding the whole Combination, 
 with full directions on the inside of cover. Thus we furnish three complete machines, 
 that would cost you anywhere else $10 or $12, for $6. 
 
 In order to introduce these goods rapidly, we will for a limited period send a sample 
 Pump, express paid, to any express station, in the United States or Oanadas, upon receipt 
 of $5.50 for polished brass, or $1 for nickel-plated, with the understanding that the party 
 thus ordering will post or cause to be posted in a conspicuous place the large illustrated 
 circular sent with the pump. Thus parties anywhere in the United States or Canadas can 
 secure one of these Force Combination Pumps for less money than though they 
 were retailed at their door, and this for the little trouble of posting a handsome circular 
 conspicuously. 
 
 I TO PATBONS IN OAI-IFOENIA. AUD FLOErDA. 
 
 The Pump is used largely in orange and lemon groves, and to wash out the buds of 
 young pineapples when filled with sand. See testimonials from your State. 
 
 IN CASE OF riEE. 
 
 A very large percentage of all fires are discovered at a time when but a small stream 
 of water, if at hand, would extinguish them. That our Combination Force Pump is 
 valuable as a Fire-Extinguisher, see testimonials 61, 85, 109 and 72, on pages 5 and 6 ;' 
 also 302 and 296, on pages 14: and 15. 
 
 CATALOGUES PEEB TO ALL. 
 
 If you have any friends whom you think would li^e to receive our Catalogue, please 
 give us their names. If you have used our goods and found them as represented or if 
 you find any new use that they can be put to, we should be glad to hear from you. 
 
 When through with this Catalogue, we should esteem it a favor if you would hand it 
 to someone whom you think might be in need of some of our goods or would be likely to 
 take an agency. 
 
COMBINATION FOBCE PUMP. 
 
 /BURNED. NQllilPUMP. 
 
 ^ (No 85.) 
 
 ' 88000 to SIS.OOO Worth of Property Saved at Iiakewood, N. J. 
 
 Lakewood, K. J. 
 To P. C. Lewis, Catskill, N. T. : We, the undersigned, whose houses are shown in this 
 sketch, and were saved by your Combination Force Pump, realizing the important serv- 
 ice done in saving our houses from the fire fiend, tender you this sketch with appended 
 testimonials as to the efficiency of your Pump as a Fire-Extinguisher, and believing it to 
 be the best in use for its various uses. The fire came upon us suddenly, with a fierce 
 wind that carried the burning embers in showers over this group of apparently doomed 
 buildings, and in every case where Lewis's Combination Force Pump was used the fire 
 was speedily extinguished. The others could have been saved had there been more 
 pumps at hand. The buildfcgs burned were seen to catch fire, but in order to extin- 
 guish it the buildings that were bemg operated on would have been~bumed. The building 
 at the lower right-hand comer belonged to a New York party, and the house was closed ; 
 when it was discovered to be on fire no Pump could be spared, consequently the building 
 was consumed. In another part of the town, a man, in attempting to save his bom, 
 which was on fire, procured a ladder and with a pail of water attempted to ascend to the 
 roof, but when part way up the ladder broke, and fell to the ground, and the building 
 burned. It would have been but the work of a few minutes to extinguish the flames had 
 he had a pump at hand. It is also a noticeable fact that the buildings nearest the fire 
 were saved, while those remote were burned. We respectfully subscribe oufselves, very 
 
 truly yours. 
 
 CHAELES MEGILL, 
 S. F. KEABLES, 
 JOHN C. ASHLEY, 
 W. H. CADY. 
 
 (No. 16.) 
 Can Cheerfully Recommend It. 
 
 Cedak Geove, Indiana. 
 I have used your Pump in sprinkling potato vines and watering the garden, and find 
 it everything it is recommended to be, especially in sprinkling potatoes with Paris Green. 
 It is rapid and eflfeetive in its work. I can cheerfully recommend it to all having use for 
 it in any way. I think it would be a good thing in case of fire. M. HUBBELL. 
 
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 (No. 50.) 
 • Boss '* Thing. 
 
 I think they ar« the " boss " thing. 
 
 Obwell, Vt. 
 H. G. HIBBAED. 
 
COMBINATION FORCE PUMP. 
 
 (No. 61.) 
 House Saved Wlien tlie Koof was Partly Burjied Oflf, 
 
 Greenville, N. Y., July 16, 1880. 
 The Combination Force Pump your agent Bold my neighbor, Henry Botsford, a few 
 days since saved my house from being totally destroyed. The roof had been partly 
 burned and all other efforts failed to put it out. One of the neighbors here, thinlring of 
 your Force Pump, borrowed it, which was quickly brought, and by the use of only one 
 forty-gallon cask of water the fire was extinguished. I immediately bought a pump of 
 your agent, E. T. Howard, and would not part with it on any account, as I consider it • 
 invaluable, and every farmer or house-owner should have one. EDWIN EIDER. 
 
 (No. 72.) 
 
 Gakdineb, Maine, Jan. 13, 1881. 
 P. C. Lewis, Esq., Catskill, N. T. : Last Summer I bought of you a Combination 
 Force Pump, for use in my garden, where it gave full satisfaction, till the close of the 
 season and was then laid away. A few evenings since an alarm came that the house of 
 my next-door neighbor was on fire. I went in and found the house filled with dense 
 smoke, and the fire just bursting through the wainscoting and under good headway from 
 an overheatted chimney. A few minutes' work laid the wall open to the fire an^ feuflioed to 
 get it under control there, but it had got in between the timbers overhead where it was 
 impossible to throw water by hand. I thought of the Force Pump, got it, turned the 
 stream up through the opening and in less than two minutes had the fire extinguished, 
 and this without the least damage or wetting the carpets or furniture pf the parlor where 
 the fire originated. It was a cold. Winter night, and the house was in the center of a 
 group of fine residences which must have all been swept away had this house burnt before 
 the fire department could have saved them. Under such circumstances, your Pump 
 proves itself " worth its weight in gold," Truly yours, A. O. STILPHEN. 
 
 (No. 252.) 
 
 Beloit, Wis. 
 P. C. Lewis : I have been told there was a farmer living twenty-nine miles South of 
 here who brought a load of apples into the city of Eookford, lU., and there was not one 
 apple to be found in his load that was wormy. This is a big story, but he said he bought 
 one of your pumps and showered his trees with Paris Green and water, and for years oe- 
 fore this his npples were wormy. I wish to get one of the pumps. ALFRED HULL. 
 
COMnr.VA TION FORCE PUMP. 
 
 
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 (No. 69.) . 
 
 South DEBBixELr, N. H. 
 Force Pump received. In my opinion it is the very besfthing out. The Pump, *» 
 clearing water or drain-pipes and for washing windows and carriages, has proved very de- 
 sirable. With the accompanying Exterminator, its adaptability for watering shrubbery, 
 flowers and plants, or showering poisonous liquids for the destruction of the currant- 
 worm, pot.ato7bug and other insects, is self-evident. The Iiijector as a Veterinary Syr- 
 inge, can be used with ease, safety and neatness. In fact, its uses are innumerable. I 
 would not be without the Combination for double its cost. H. M. HOITT. 
 
 (No. 109.) 
 
 Invaluable as a Flre-Sxtingulsher. 
 
 Lakewood, N. J. 
 I Mr. P. C. Lewis, Catskill, N. Y. : Allow me to say in as few words as possible, 
 
 what I think of your Combination Force Pump. As a fire-extinguisher it cannot be 
 equaled by any portable hand-engine made ; so ligi t, so easy to operate, so reliable at all 
 times, that it is one of the necessary fixtures of every household. With your Combina- 
 tion Force Pump and a pail of water, a fire can be reached and extinguished that might 
 otherwise consume the building. I know whereof I speak. I have seen it thoroughly 
 tested during the past season, when we experienced one of the most terrible fires 
 that could be imagined, when vpluAes'of cinders (live coals of fire) were taken up and 
 carried one-fourth of a mile and deposited on the roofs of buildings, igniting them almost 
 immediately ; and I know that there was not a building consumed where they had one of 
 your Combination Force' Pumps to use. For Washing windows, carriages, etc., it cannot 
 be excelled. For showering fruit trees, currant bushes and grape vines, to destroy the 
 insects that gather upon them, it becomes indispensable to fruit-growers. For wetting 
 the lawn and the flower garden in time of drought, it keeps green the foliage, brightens 
 the blossoms and preserves the freshness of our lawns, which otherwise would be parched 
 and dried up. dviring our scorching Summer months. I cannot say half enough in its 
 praise, but what I do say is unsolicited. I say it because it is true and due the inventor. 
 
 JOHN C. ASBXEY. 
 (No. 154.) , 
 
 Des Moines, Iowa. 
 We have made use of your Force Pumpj and it seems to be all that you claim for it. 
 
 HOMESTEAD. 
 
COMBINATION FORCE PUMP. 
 
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 (No. 127.) 
 Eighty-Acre Orchard Saved from Destruction hy Cankcr-'Worms with the Force Pninp. 
 
 FEANKrOET, Ind. 
 
 Your Force Pump is the best I have eyer used. I have an apple orchard of eighty 
 acres, containing 3000 trees. Last Spring the whole of them were literally covered witti 
 canker-worms. On receipt of your Pump X got thirty pounds or so of Paris Green ; I 
 then put two hogsheads into my wagon, filled them with water and mixed a quart or so of 
 Paris Green in each one. In three days' time your pump had sprinkled the whole num- 
 ber, and in three days more there was not a worm to be seen, except in the nests, in which, 
 they were dead by the quai-t. My trees are looking green and thrifty, and I have bid the 
 canker-worm farewell. Respectfully, JOHN HABRYMAN. 
 
 (No. 223.) 
 
 Bat City, Mich. 
 I would like some good territory to sell your Pumps in. I bought one dozen of your 
 agents, Adams <fc Clifford, and went out and sold eight of them in four hours. 
 
 W. S. EVANS. 
 
 (No. 13.) 
 
 Its Cheapness and Darability Make It the Best Famp 1 Knovr Of. 
 
 , Putnam, Conn. 
 
 I am very much pleased with the Combination Pump which I purchased of you. Thft 
 ease vrith which it operates, its adaption to so many uses, cheapness and durability, maka 
 it the best pump I know of, and what every agriculturist and horticulturist needs. If I 
 had purchased it in season, I think I could have saved my apple orchards from the rav- 
 ages of the canker-worm, using London Purple in water. The Potato-Bug Exterminator 
 is just the thing for bugs and insects on vines, rose bushes, trees and shrubs. 
 
 Yours truly, J. E. GREENE. 
 
 (No. 193.) 
 
 EtLENBtTBGH DePOT, N. T. 
 
 P. 0. Lewis : Please send Pumps ordered by return express. I saved my honsefrom. 
 fire yesterday with my Combination Pump. Tluree houses were burned beside my place, 
 and there were eight bams burned. Now is the time to sell Pumps — several of these 
 are sold already. GEO. S. BATOHELOK. 
 
COMBINA TION FORCE P UMP. 9 
 
 (No. 140.) 
 
 Z^xtiMot from a Letter of C. Bower, Bakersfield, Cal.i to D. X. pllla, Agt., in Begard to 
 
 the Ijewls Combination Force Pump. 
 
 My only interest in the matter isthfit the farming interest might be served by the dis- 
 tribution of these instniments and instmbtions in their use ; and for the purpose of 
 aiding in the extermination of our insect pests, and keeping our fruit industries free from 
 the scourge which is afflicting them in other portions of the State. I shall use every en- 
 deavor to introduce, or at least to circulate information concerning your instrument, 
 (not in the interest of the instrument, or yourself, so you need consider yourself under no 
 obligations whatever to me), because I think it so convenient, useful and cheap in pro- 
 portion to its usefulness, that it would be apt to attract purchasers among the people gen- 
 erally, and the greater number of our people having such ready aid at hand the greater 
 
 and more general will be the onslaught upon our fruit-destroying pests. 
 
 Tours truly, 0. BOWER. 
 
 (No. 73.) 
 
 Van Meteb, la., July 5, 1880. 
 I received your Combination and like it splendidly. I have given the Pump a fair 
 trial and find that I can throw water from sixty to seventy feet. The main stream will go 
 sixty feet and then it will divide and fall like rain seventy feet. I have a cask that holds 
 a barrel of water and I can set it wherever I choose, and with your Pump I can water 
 trees, shrubbery, etc., and protect my buildings from fire. I would not do without my 
 Pump for $10. F. P. HAZEN. 
 
 (No. 253.) 
 
 Oak Halii, Va. 
 P. O. Lewis : Pump received all right ; am very mueh pleased with it. Please send 
 enclosed order by express, just as soon as possible. K. P. BEADLES. 
 
 (No. 11.) 
 FurcIiaseTS are Well Satisfied, 
 
 Hagaman's Miiii;B, July 13. 
 Have been waiting to hear how the men liked the Combination Pumps I sold them. 
 They say they are well satisfied, I will try half a dozen more at the same price I got the 
 first for. Find eheck inclosed. Send soon as possible. E. J. TITCOIO. 
 
 (No. 64.) 
 
 NoETON HuL, N. T., July 14. 
 We, the undersigned, have in use one of your Combination Force Pumps and would 
 not do without it for twice its cost. In case of fire it is unequaled and potato-bugs will 
 leave the lots at its approach, while for washing wagons and windows or irrigating gar- 
 dens one trial vrill satisfy the most skeptical of its efficiency. 
 
 LUMAN BAMSDELL, 
 GEO. MARSHALL, 
 ALONZO HUNT. 
 (No 267.) 
 
 Hudson, Mass. 
 P G. Lewis : I would not take $10 for my Combination Pump and do without it. 
 
 Yours, etc., B. F. BRYANT. 
 
 (No. 29.) 
 We Tliinic It Almost Indispensable. 
 
 NoBTH Plains, Mich. 
 I received your Combination Pump all in good shape, and after using it for some 
 time, we think it almost indispensable. It is just the thing for cleaning carriages and win- 
 dows, and the sprinkler cannot be beaten for killing vermin, sprinkling plants, etc. 
 
 P. L. CHARLES. 
 
 (No. 126.) 
 
 CiiAEKSBUBOH, West Va. 
 P. C. Lewis : Your Combination Force Pump arrived in good order. I am very 
 much pleased with it. Very respectfully, LEE HAMMOND. 
 
 (No. 111.) 
 
 Woodstock, 111. 
 P O Lewis • I have used your Combination Pump for some time. I am highly 
 pleased with it. H. P. WRIGHT. 
 
10 COMBINATION FORGE PUMP. 
 
 (No. 34.) 
 All Uke Tour Fumpg Beat. 
 
 "WEiiLFtKE7,Mass., May 20. 
 Inclosed -find cash; for one-quarter dozen Gombination Pumps, Tfrhich please send im- 
 mediately. The sample PTimp was duly receired and I hfeped-tohnre sent you a larger 
 order before this, bufcl have; beeu so bad! y poisoned by dogwood that I could hardly see, 
 . much less go about. The reason for -my sending this smAll order is that I engaged the 
 pumps before being poisoned and the parties are in a; hurry for them. All whom I have 
 ,, shown, the pumpito' think it very cheap, and the best they have seen. Sevei-al persons 
 have different kiiids of' pumps, but they cost more than yours and they are hot as good. 
 Your earlyLattention :w^l ^eatly obUge. VOLNKY P. JOHNSON. 
 
 (No. 97.) 
 
 GeeeiiEY, Co1o.# 
 Mr. P. C. Lewis : The Potato-Bug Exterminator I bought last season works so well 
 that a man who has used it wants one of them. Inclosed find M. 0.. for-$1.25, for which 
 ■ please send another one. Yours truly, 'O.H. GAUJIJP. 
 
 (Noi 237.) 
 
 .BBAlDENTOWir, Fla. 
 
 p. C. Lewis : The Combination. Force Pump received iiLgood condition. Am much 
 pleased with it. I think it will be just the thiug in an orange grove, or in. a garden. "- 
 
 ,Very respectfully, B. F. CARTER. 
 
 (No. 240.) ' 
 
 J HrLLgBOBo', Md.. 
 P. C. Lewis, Catskill, N. Y. : I am pleased with the Combination; it is certainly a 
 handy contrivance. S. C. HACKETT. 
 
 (No. 21.) 
 
 COLEBBOOKDALE, N. Y. 
 
 Sie: The Combination Force Pump you bhipped to me May 31st has been doing 
 good service. So far I am pleased vrith it. J.L.BAUER. 
 
 (No. 88. 
 Perfectly Satisfied. 
 
 JotLET, ni. 
 
 Have given your Combination Force Pump a fair trial and am^ perfectly satisfied with 
 it. I have used it with success as a potato-bug exterminator. FBANE JJfiWJfiTT. 
 
 (No. 251.) 
 
 HlOHSTOWN, N. J. 
 
 SrE : At a fire here last night at the fruit cannery, the comer of the main building 
 caught on fire and was put out by one of your Force Pumps. We had no ladders and 
 it would no doubt have burned but for your Pump. I have one of your Pumps myself. 
 
 Respectfully, etc., S. FEYER. 
 
 (No. 231.) 
 
 South Manchesteb, Mass. 
 The Pump I ordered of you arrived to-day aU right. Have been trying it, and find 
 that it works to a charm. I am very much pleased with it, and also your promptness in 
 sending it. Shall speak a good word for you and the Pv/mp with pleasure. 
 
 CLINTON iW. HOUSE. 
 (No. 78.) 
 
 Beatty'sP. O., ■Westmoreland Co., 'Pa. 
 Mr. P. C. Lewis: The Pump arrived safely, and I am very much pleased with it. 
 I am quite convinced that it will give general satisfaction I am going to go at it in 
 earnest to solicit orders, and as soon as possible shall send for at least a dozen. 
 
 Yours, very respectfully, F. L.NEWFIELD, M. D ' 
 
 (No. 105.) 
 
 Newpoet, N. H. 
 The Pump is a necessity with me. I use it in my garden, in my doOr-yard, on my 
 strawberries, to wash my carriages, to clear my water-pipes and as a syriiifee'to>wafih win- 
 dows and plants, sprinkle floors, flower-beds, etc. I find use for it every day,'tod \vtml4 
 not part with it for $10. JOHN A. MARSHALL. 
 
COMBINATION FORCE PUMP. 
 
 Clearing an Obstructed "Water-Pipe, 
 
 (Ko. 144.) 
 
 Would Not be Without It. 
 
 NoETH Bboadaibin, Fulton Co., N. Y. 
 P. C. Lewis : In your Circular that I received I saw a testimonial from your agent 
 at Haganian's Mills. As the distance is short, I got one of him. My water-pipe is sixty 
 rods long, fifteen feet fall. We forced the water through that distance, a full stream (the 
 pipe full). lam highly pleased with it; would not be without it if I could not get 
 another, for any price. Thanks for prompt anawer to my letter. 
 
 GEO. H. HILLMAK. 
 (No. 206.) 
 
 West Milton, Saratoga Co. 
 Mr. P. C. Lewis : The first day I went out I cleaned out a pipe that carried the wa- 
 ter from a spring to the West Milton Hotel, a distance of about three-fourths of a mile, 
 and the pipe was of various sizes, from one-half to one inch ; thereupon I sold a Combi- 
 nation immediately. , CHAS. A. CLUTE. 
 
 (No. 20.) 
 Water-Pipes Cleaned of Sediment in I^esa Than Ten Minutes. 
 
 , Stookbbidge, Mass. 
 
 When my Pump came the pipe conducting water to my barn was obstructed bo as to 
 , render it useless. I applied the Force Pump and in less than ten minutes had a full 
 stream of water running to my bam, having cleared the pipe of the sediment which had 
 collected. I have shown my Pump to others, who have bought force pumps at $10 each, 
 and'they all say they like yours the best and would rather have yours, at the same price, 
 for washing wagons and windows, watering gardens and rinsing out bottles, jars and milk 
 cans. O. H. MUNSON. 
 
 (No. 249.) 
 
 EOSOOE, 111. 
 
 >I have been very snooessful the past year. On three different trips I sold the entire 
 
 ' lot I started with, vrithout missing a single man from first to last pump. There ?i as been 
 
 several days I have sold to every house without a miss. I find no trouble to sell the 
 
 pumps. They are the l>est-8elliiig article I ever saw. I average selling from 3 to 8 Pumpa 
 
 > per day. A. H. YOUNG. 
 
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 COMBINATION FORCE PUMP. 
 
 Controlling Bees While Swarming and Making Them 
 Seelc the Hive. 
 
 (No. 12.) 
 Examined by a Master Mechanic. 
 
 Lakewood, N. J. 
 Please ship immediately sixteen Combination Force Pumps. These are all sold. I 
 went out and sold twelve in about eight hours the other day. Will soon be through with 
 my strawberries and will tfeen go to work with a will and will send a large order. The 
 pump I find is the "boss" for controlling bees, as well as for sudden fires ; also for 
 throwing soap-suds and other alkalies upon large trees which cannot be reached by the 
 Exterminator nozzle. I had it examined by an old master mechanic, and he was so well 
 pleased with its construction that he ordered one. No well-regulated family can afford 
 to be without one or more about the premises. WILLIAM CABT, Jr. 
 
 (No. 184.)" 
 
 WiNOHESTEB, Ind. 
 
 Inclosed find money for five (5) Combination Pumps, result of about three hours' 
 work. After receiving sample I came here from Greenville, Ohio, to visit my brother and 
 brought sample along, just to try it. Send pumps here to J. T. CHEKOWETH. 
 
 (No. 3.) 
 Couldn't Be Bought for SIO. 
 
 Albuboh Centse, Vt. 
 It is just the article I have long wanted. Am very much pleased with it for the short 
 time I have had it. It came just in time for use. The only objection that could be made 
 to it would be made by a potato-bug. It works well and will do all that it is recommend- 
 ed to do — and it is worth all you ask for it. Mine couldn't be bought for 5f 10 if I could 
 not get another. For washing wagons and windows and for the garden they cannot be 
 excelled. The best of all is, my wife is very much pleased with it. 
 
 WILLIAM BRATTON, P. M. 
 (No. 133.) 
 
 SOBBENTO, Fla. 
 Mr. P. 0. Lewis ; Your Exterminator received and works well. I use it for exter- 
 minating^ scale-bugs on the orange tree. Orange-growers are in need of a good instru- 
 ment to throw a liquid decoction upon the tree, and your Syringe appears to answer the 
 purpose, and to clean the buds of small pineapple plants of sand. Small plants just sei, 
 out and not mulched, when it rains become filled with sand and will not grow until 
 washed out. Yours respectfully, H. B. PAXTON< 
 
COMBINATION FORCE PUMP. 
 
 13 
 
 ^ I Have the Best Spray Nozzle in the World for Syringing 
 Fruit Trees, Vines, etc. 
 
 Terr Much Pleased with It. 
 
 ' (No. 120.) 
 Perfectly Satisfied. 
 
 Good for GrHpe Tines. 
 
 Eabns Citt, Butler Co., Pa. 
 I am Tery much pleased witli your Combination Force Pump. Have used it for 
 throwing cool water upon the roof of our house upon very warm evenings, in order to 
 make the house more pleasant during the night. The sprinkler is No. 1. We used it 
 with good effect on our grape-vines to destroy bugs and inslcts. It is all you claim for 
 it and even more. Yours, etc., D. O. MoLAUGHLIN. 
 
 (No. 172.) 
 
 Dbpaetment op Agbiottltttbe, Washington, D. 0. 
 Tour letter of February 15th is received. My report will not be out for several weeks 
 to come. I shall take pleasure in recommending your pumps as working well, and as one 
 of the simplest and cheapest now manufactured. I expect to illustrate and describe your 
 pump anoto favor you with a copy of the report. Tours truly, 
 
 C. V. KILET, Entomologist. 
 
 (No. 13i.) 
 The King of Hand Fmnps. 
 
 Lakewood, N. J. 
 Having used Lewis's Combination Pump on my place, I can say that I consider it 
 a very useful article as an ever-ready fire-extinguisher; also for other purposes a'^ont 
 a farm too numerous to mention. In short, it will do all you claim for it, and its am- 
 plioity recommends it to all. as being the king of all hand pumps. You may safely chal- 
 lenge the world. S. F. KEABLES. 
 
 (No. 122.) 
 
 Greenville, N. T. 
 Mr. P. C. Lewis ; The undersigned have each in use one of your Combination Force 
 Pumps, which at once combines a fire-extinguisher, carriage and window-washer, potato- 
 bug exterminator, injector and garden-irrigator, and has never been equaled. For clean- 
 ing out old water-pipes it is just the thing ; and we have no doubt that in the near future 
 it will come into universal use. HENEY T. BOTSFOED, 
 
 M. P. BLENIS, 
 WM. SMITH. 
 
COMBINATION FORCE PUMP. 
 
 (No. 28.) 
 
 For Shampooing Horses in Summer. 
 
 Bethlehem, Conn. 
 I reoeiyed your pump all right. I tried it in every conceivable way and found it all 
 yon claimed, for it, and even more. Could throjv.a stream of wftter oyer the ridge of the 
 house and hit any place I wished ; so it is invaluable in time of fire. I find it a good 
 thing to clean or shampoo a horse in the Summer'timej aa.they will stand, the heat better 
 and not sweat as much. It is valuable in every case. C. BLOSS. 
 
 (No. 302.) 
 
 Bio Spbikgs, O. 
 P. C. Lewis : I have used your Combination Pump for three years for aU purposes, 
 and money could not buy it if I couldn't get another. Tliree years ago February I saved 
 my house by ita use, and now again on the 25th of August our little town was f pr the 
 third.time alarmed by the cry of " Fire! " from the same building (evidently the work of 
 an incendiary). I brought my pump to bear on the flames, but there being coal oil in the 
 garret, could not save it but kept the flames in check so that they saved aU the dry goods, 
 and also saved a new building just finished as a wagon and blacksmith shop, with five 
 new buggies. Two or three more of the pumps would have saved the building that 
 burned. Please send me seven pumps, for which I inclose cash. I had applications 
 for five yesterday. Send by express to Rushsylvania, Ohio. I send you the names 
 of four persons who will testify to the truth of the statement above : David P. Kerr, 
 merchant; Barnard Cox; Geo. Yarwood, timber-dealer; E. Muirle, farmer. 
 
 , Kespeotfully yours, B. KICKEY. 
 
 (No. 112.) 
 It Works Splendidly. 
 
 New England Village, Mass. 
 I received my pump in good shape. It works splendidly and is good for many uses. 
 Would recommend it to fanners and others. It is not expensive, and is useful-many 
 times. ALBEET GLEASON. 
 
 (No. 129.) 
 
 NoECEOss, Ga. 
 Pump received, and I must say I never bought anything that so fully realized its 
 promises. M. I. NISBET. 
 
COMBINA TION FORCE P VMP. 15 
 
 From a Iiccter to American Agriculturist. 
 
 Analomink, Monroe Co. , Pa. 
 In your last I noticed an adTertisement of Lewis's Combination Force Pump. I' 
 ordered one, and I must say I was never so much pleased with anything I bought as I am 
 with this exceedingly useful yet simple machine. If I could not get another I would not - 
 part with it for flte times its cost. K. y, SOHWABZ. 
 
 (No. 131.) 
 
 Deeb Lodge, Montana, Aug. 12, 1880. 
 The Combination Force Pump arrived safely. I am very much pleased with it. It 
 is all you claim for it, and more too. It is No. 1 for washing carriages, etc. Would not- 
 be without one in the house. Expect soon to send you an order for a few dozen. 
 
 GBOEGE COe^ELL. 
 
 (No. ^0.) 
 
 Long Plain, Mass. 
 I receiyed your pump all right and like it very much. Find inclosed cash for one 
 dozen. Inform me on what terms I can have the counties of Bristol and Plymouth, Mass., 
 for the coming season. G. L. BENNETT. 
 
 (No. 171.) 
 
 Southampton, Mass. 
 The Combination I ordered of you is received, and I am well pleased with it. Think 
 it is the best of four different kinds I have used. E. H. BKONSON. 
 
 (No. 33.) 
 
 Orders Four Dozen at Otice. Has Sold Twenty. 
 
 Saiem, Oregon. 
 The sample pump sent me came to hand last week in good order. The pump is all 
 that you claiiji for it, and is a cheap, beautiful and practical force pump. No household, 
 shop or mill can afford to be without one. Have orders for twenty already. We inclose 
 cash for four dozen. A. PBESCOTT. 
 
 (No. 300.) 
 
 Baltimoee, Md. 
 P. C. Lewis : Your machine is a good one. I used it all last Summer, and hope to 
 test it on my large orchard this Summer. ALEX. J. WEDDEBBUEN, 
 
 Editor of National Farm and Fireside. 
 
 (No. 298.) 
 
 Hyde Paek, Pa. 
 Mr. Lewis : I saved my greenhouse from being destroyed by fire the same day that 
 the pump arrived. It caught fire that morning, and if it had not been for the pump 
 I should have lost all. Rev. M. PAEKS. 
 
 (No. 236.) 
 
 Delton, Wis. 
 P. C. Lewis: Pump received. I have shown it to the people here, and they like it 
 better than any pump they ever saw. There was an agent through here for another kind 
 of pump, but did not sell many, as I had shown my pump, and those who wanted, all 
 wanted your pump. Are the counties of Sauk and Columbia disposed of? If they are, 
 let me Imow who the agents are, and I will tell them, as they can sell quite a number here 
 in this town. Yours, F. L. ADAMS. 
 
 (No. 245,) 
 
 Wattsau, Wis. 
 P. C. Lewis : I have been selling your pumps for Adams & Clifford, your agents for 
 Northern Wisconsin. They sell well. I average selling six pumps per day, etc. , istc. 
 
 T. H. LYNON. 
 
 We have very many more testimonials, but space prevents our giving them. Eemem- 
 ber that these testimonials are unsolicited, which, from their unqualified praise, speaks 
 Tolumps for the Pump. 
 
ic^s^id'd Improved gotato-Jug Jxtcrminator 
 
 -A.-n(a. -A-gxic-CLlt-aral S3rxin.gre. 
 
 The efforts that ha-ve been put forth in the last ten or twelve years, among inventors 
 and fanners, to invent a machine or apparatus that would exterminate the potato-bug or- 
 effectually check the ravages of each succeeding generation of the pest, have in almost 
 every case proved failures, until farmers have become shy in accepting any new cures of 
 preventives, and have, generally speaking, settled back on the old back-aching watering- 
 pot or a pail and whisk broom, using a solution of Paris Green or London Purple and 
 water, it having become an established fact that London Purple and Paris Green are the 
 only sure remedies, and mixing with water the only safe way of applying them. Hith- 
 erto, in using it in water, the process has been slow and laborious, necessitating the 
 carrying of large quantities of water and the wasting of a good share of the mixture, for the 
 lack of a proper instrument for applying it. Now that lack has been fully supplied in 
 Lewis's Improved Potato-Bug Exterminator, an instrument for the mixing and applying 
 of London Purple or Paris Green with water in right quantities, the quantity being regu- 
 lated, almost to a drop, by the operator. The Exterminator is simple in its construction, 
 can be worked by a boy ten years old with ease, convenient to handle, weighiug only 
 IJ lbs. Proportion, one rounded teaspoonful of best Paris Green or one tablespoonf ul 
 of London Purple to two gallons of water. The mixing is thoroughly done in a moment. 
 A. light tap on the handle discharges from 3000 to 5000 fine drops on each hill, and one 
 pint of the mixture will do from thirty to forty hills. Its advantages over all others : 
 
 1. Its (Cheapness. — That an instrument of this kind can be retailed at $1.25 each is 
 certainly a wonder to most people ; or one of polished brass for $1.75, while other brass 
 springes of about half the size of this cost from $3 to f 6 each, and none of them can do 
 the work of this one. 
 
 2. Its Eaonomical Use of Material. — From one-half to three-fourths of a pound of 
 Paris Green or from one to one and a haU pounds of London Purple will give an acre 
 three separate dressings, every drop being utilized. The force of the stroke drives the 
 mixture into the top of the leaf, and nothing but a severe rain-storm will remove it, 
 while with the watering-pot it runs on in streams and runs off in streams. 
 
 3. In Quickness of Application. — A smart man can do four to six acres a day thor- 
 oughly. {.See directions for use.) 
 
 4. The saving of carrying three-fourths of the water over the old way, which is no 
 small item, especially in a dry time, when water has to be carried from one-fourth to 
 one-half a mile, and for perhaps five to thirty acres of potatoes. 
 
AOBICULTUBAL SYRIJS^GE. IT 
 
 5. lU Adaptability to Various Other Uses. — For STiinging fmit or ornamental trees, 
 shrubs or bushes it stands unriyaled, as the spray is so fine that it touches every portion 
 of whatever is operated on, with the least possible quantity of whatever solution is used. 
 Many use the Exterminator to syringe the inside of hen-houses and for throwing spray 
 upon bees while swarming, to make them seek the hive. It is one of the finest things 
 imaginable for sprinkling flowers, using it as you would on potatoes, with clear water ; 
 or for sprinkling floors, as it wets the floor down just enough to sweep up nicely and 
 have no dust. 
 
 It is the Only Potato-Bug Exterminator that Stands the Test. 
 
 The Exterminator is 26 inches long by 1| inches in diameter. They are made of 
 mandrel-drawn brass and zinc tubing, and consequently cannot rust. 
 
 The piston is fitted with Lewis's Patent Expansion Valve, which holds the liquid 
 at any point in the tube, except on pressure of the handle, when it discbarges the liquid 
 on each hill, "without waste and just where it is wanted." 
 
 They are recommended by leading Entomologists, Agriculturists and Practical 
 Farmers throughout the country; many would not take $10 for theirs if they could 
 not get another. The directions given in this Catalogue are on each Exterminator. 
 Head the testimonials following: 
 
 1'BSTrLviEOXTT.A.T ■■<?. 
 
 (No 35.) 
 From The Cultivator and Country OenUeman. 
 
 It is the most effective, as it is also the cheapest, contrivance of the kind we have ever 
 seen. The tube is of brass, with a piston-valve of rubber which retains the contents 
 except on pressure of the handle, so that as the operator walks along the row a slight tap 
 on the handle discharges the liquid on each hill, without waste and just where it is 
 wanted. And we cannot see why, for sprinkling trees or the interior of greenhouses, 
 it should not be equally good. 
 
 (No. 36.) 
 Shall Save Several Times Its Cost This Season, 
 
 Gbeelet, Col. 
 Tour Exterminator, sent the 22d ult., came in good order, and proves to be all you 
 claim for it. Am satisfied we shall save several times its cost this season on twenty acres 
 of potatoes, in amount of poison used and time in putting it on. One of my neighbors 
 (Mr. FuUerton) saw it work a little while, and took your address and sent for one. You 
 have doubtless got the order before this. O. H. GALLUP. 
 
 (No. 137.) 
 
 Iietter Referred to Above. 
 
 Enclosed you will find P.-O. order for $1.25. Please forward immediately one of 
 your Bug Exterminators, the same as you sent Mr. O. H. £rallup, which gives good satis- 
 faction. L S. FULLEETON, Box 267, Greeley, Col. 
 
 (No. 18.) 
 
 SOEEBNTO, Fla. 
 Your Exterminator is just the thing to syringe orange trees covered with the scale- 
 bug. With it one can throw any kind of solution all over and into the tree attacked. 
 
 0. G. ADAMS 
 
 (No. 296.) 
 
 Uhioni)ai.e, Pa. 
 I went out and sold 50 Exterminators in one haU-day. They all want them at once. 
 I have also sold i dozen at wholesale, and have names for 5 of your Fire Pumps. They 
 seUgood. A. J. BUBDICE. 
 
18 AGRICULTURAL SYRINGE. 
 
 (No. 58.) 
 
 From Frof. A. J. Cook, MJchlgan State Kntomoloslst and President Michigan State 
 
 Agricultural AsBociatlon. 
 
 I have found your Syringe a valuable aid ia the work of insect-destruction, and have 
 recommended it highly to the farmers of our State, in a lecture given at the large Insti- 
 tutes of the past Winter. The lecture -will appear in the next report of our Board of 
 Agriculture. I showed in my lecture how to work the Exterminator. 
 
 (No. 52.) 
 People are Well Pleased with the Manner in which the Exterminator Does the Work 
 
 West Teot, Me. 
 I received Exterminator all right. I went out awhile yesterday, and people are well 
 pleased with the manner in which the inatrument does the business. Enclosed please 
 find money-order for fifteen zinc-tube Exterminators. Fill this order just as soon as you 
 receive this, and oblige C. 0. GEKKISfl. 
 
 (No. 284.) 
 
 Lake Como, Wayne Co., Pa. 
 The Exterminator works nicely A. K. STARBrRD. 
 
 (No. 53.) 
 Would Mot Take S5 for His- Exterminator, 
 
 CATSKTLIi, N. Y. 
 
 Would not take $5 for mine if I could not get another, for syringing fruit trees 
 infested with codling moth or lice. J. R. CLOW, Nurseryman. 
 
 (No. 289.) 
 
 Gbeelet, Col. 
 I have read your advertisement in The Fruit Recorder, and also used one of your 
 Potato-Bug Exterminators, and know them to be good. Enclosed please find cash for 
 more Exterminators. GEO. W. BUELL. 
 
 (No. 43.) 
 Wouldn't lake 810 for It If He Couldn't Get Another, 
 
 Fbanelin, Mass. 
 I received the brass Exterminators all tight. I have not used mine yet, but bugs 
 are getting thick and I shall have to soon. When I ordered the two, one was for a 
 neighbor. He has used his, and he told me he would not take $5 for it—wouldn't take 
 $10 if he could not get another. Tours, etc., N. M. FISHER. 
 
 (No. 154.) 
 
 Fbankunville, N.J. 
 I have been using your otato-Bug Exterminator this week, and would say it "'can't 
 be beat." I would like to have the agency for Cumberland, Salem and Gloucester 
 comities, if they are not taken. Please send terms to agents to me. 
 
 JAMES L. LEONARD. 
 
 (No. 86.) 
 
 South Poetsmoxtth, R. I. 
 Your Syringe received, and gives satisfaction. Think it will prove very useful. 
 
 ELBERT A. SISSON. 
 (No. 158.) 
 Went Over Six Acrea in One and a Half Days, 
 
 South Lincoln, Mass. 
 I went over six acres of potatoes with one of your Exterminators in one and a half 
 days, and did not have any bugs to trouble me afterwards — had a first-class piece of 
 potatoes. I find them to be a perfect success over anything I have ever tried. 
 
 EDWIN CHARLES LEWIS. 
 
 (No. 341.) 
 
 SOBBEKTO, Fla. 
 ) The Syringe is just the thing for syringing orange trees. E. G. ADAMS. 
 
AGMICULTURAL SYBINOE. , 19 
 
 (No. 39.) 
 From J. T. Iiovet, Editor Orchard and Garden, Tlee-Presldent of the American Nursery- 
 men'* Amoolatlon, Ploilat and Reedsmnn, Little Silver, N. J. 
 
 Lewis's Stkinoe. — I have found it a superior and durable Syringe for applying com- 
 pounds in solution, for the destruction of all sorts of insects, such as the currant-worm, 
 canker-worm, codling-moth, potato-bug, army-worm, lice on trees and shrubs, etc. It ia 
 also an excellent greenhouse Syringe. Its poiiits of merit are: 1, Cheapness; 2, Econ- 
 omy of material (it wastes none at all) ; 3, Quickness of application ; 4, Ease of application 
 (weighing but 1 J lbs. , a boy of ten years can werk it). It is so simple that it cannot get 
 out of order, and on this account only could it be sold at the price charged. 
 
 (No. 40.) 
 
 BeBt-SelUng Thtns He Ever Sold. 
 
 Bbownfield, Me. 
 Will you please send me five dozen Potato-Bug Exterminators ? I sold 19 yesterday. 
 Best-selling thing I ever sold. A. C. PEBKINS. 
 
 (Mr. Perkins's orders amounted to over $240 in two weeks.) 
 
 (No. 318.) 
 
 They Sell Like Hot Cakes. 
 
 Glenville, Ohio. 
 They sell like hot cakes. I sold 43 in eight hours. Farmers who hear about them 
 come three and four miles after them, and sometimes buy half a dozen for their neigh- 
 bors. KOBEKT FOSTER. 
 
 (No. 142.) 
 
 PiTTsriELD, Mass. 
 Enclosed find order for one dozen Potato-Bug Exterminators. I think they will sell 
 well here. It is a good Syringe to put soap-suds on currant-bushes and flowers. Please 
 ship at once by express. H. H. LUCAS. 
 
 (No. 319.) 
 
 Greenwood, Del. 
 Exterminators received all right. I never saw anything so complete for the business. 
 I have been showing it to the people around here, and they all think it complete. En- 
 closed find cash for one dozen. Please do not delay one moment in fining this order. 
 
 E. J. SMULLIN. 
 (No. 145.) 
 
 A Good Thins. 
 
 Derby, N. Y. 
 I received the Exterminator, and think it a good thing. Thanks for promptness. 
 
 J. E. JUDSON. 
 (No. 46.) 
 
 The Exterminator Doea the Work Quicker and More EOectually Than Any Other 
 Method 1 Have Ever Tried. 
 
 Stockbkidoe, Mass. 
 The Potato-Bug Exterminator purchased of you was duly received. I have used the 
 Exterminator to apply Paris Green t« potatoes, and it does the work more effectually 
 than anything I have ever seen, using less time and poison than any other method I have 
 ever tried. The greatest objection to using Paris Green in liquid form is a tendency to 
 settle at the bottom, thereby causing one to apply it too weak at first and too strong 
 toward the last ; but the Exterminator is such a rapid and perfect mixer that there is no 
 necessity for putting it on unevenly with that. Yours, etc., O. H. MUNSON. 
 
 (No. 344.) 
 
 Callicoon Depot, SuUivan Co., N. Y. 
 Mr. P. O. Lewih, GaUkill, N. T. : 
 
 Deab Sib: Enclosed find $1.15 for your improved Potato-Bug Exterminator. Will 
 you please send it at once, as I want to use it immediately. I had one, but it has been 
 damaged ^o that 'i cannot be used any longer. I would not be without one if they cost 
 $5 apiece. Your early attention will gi'eatly oblige 
 
 Yours, etc., W. H. DEMOBEST. ' 
 
20 AOBlvULTURAL SYRINGE. 
 
 ■»■ ..111 '■- " ■■■ — I II. I. — .1-., — III... I — ■■ — -■ ■ .. .1,. 
 
 (No. 193.) 
 
 From Peter Henderson. 
 
 Tour Agiioultural Syringe is the best thing I hare yet seen for its price. It not only 
 answers well for throwing on Paris Green and other compounds in solution, but it is an 
 excellent greenhouse Syringe. 
 
 (No. 55.) 
 
 Patchogue, L. I. 
 I received the Exterminator, and am very much pleased with it. 
 
 C. H. TERRELL.' 
 (No. 148.) 
 Entire Satisfaction. 
 
 ASHLAHD, In. Y. 
 
 Have used your Exterminator with entire satisfaction the past season. 
 
 EeBpeitfuUy yours, O. B. HITCHCOCK. 
 
 (No. 331.) 
 
 Leveeett, Mass. 
 P. C. Lewis : The Exterminator received all right. It works to a charm. 
 
 S. K. FIELD. 
 (No. 48.) 
 
 It Proves Satisfactory. 
 
 Bahe Fi^ains, Mass. 
 The Potato-Bug Exterminator received, and like it. 
 
 EespectfuUy, WM. EOBINSON. 
 
 (No. 160.) 
 
 liAPATETTE, Ind. 
 
 Exterminator came this morning. I have used it on an acre of potatoes. Some of 
 my neighbors want one ; therefore, I send draft for one dozen. Send at once. 
 
 C. H. JENNE. 
 (No. 312.) 
 
 Hablem, O. 
 Beceived Bug Exterminator, also your postal. I will take general agency of my 
 county, which is Delaware. I think I can sell them. I would not take five dollars for 
 mine if I could not get another. JAMES WELCH. 
 
 (No. 111.) 
 
 Extrmct from a Letter Sent to Me by The Tribune and Farmer of Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 ■Walwoeth, "Wis. 
 Editor Tribune and Farmer, Philadelphia, Pa. : 
 
 Have been looking for remedy for cabbage-worms and potato-bugs, from T. and F. 
 It came in last issue ; but, instead of the sprinkle-pot, use P. C. Lewis's (Catskill, N. T.) 
 Potato-Bug Exterminator, worth half a dozen pots. Cheap and most economical. Will 
 say it is the most desirable and reliable I huve ever known. 
 
 Yours, etc., E. B. COON. 
 
 (No. 321.) 
 
 SORBENTO, Fla. 
 p. C. Lewis : Tour Exterminator receiyed, and works well. I use it for exterminating 
 ecale-bngs on orange trees. Orange-growers are in nefed of a good instrument to throw 
 liquid decoctions upon the trees, and your Syringe appears to answer the purpose ; also 
 to clear the buds of young pineapple pbiute of sand. Small plants just set out, and not 
 mulched, when it rains become filled with sand and will not grow until washed out. 
 
 "''ours, H. B. PAXTON. 
 
 (No. 141.) 
 
 Bret We Have Ever Seen* 
 
 Cabveb, Mass. 
 The Combination Force Pump and Potato-Bug Exterminator received, and has proved 
 satisfactory. We think the Exterminator the best thing we have ever seen for putting on 
 Paris Green. Tours, etc., J. A. VAUGHAN & CO. 
 
<3"ni£ following Label is attached to each Exterminator: 
 
 LEWIS'S IMPROVED 
 
 ?sltli--li| lElsialatli^ 
 
 AND AGRICULTUEAL SYEINGE. 
 
 Patented January 15, 1878, and March 11, 1870. 
 
 Ilannfactured by P. C. LEWIS, Corner of North and High Streets, CetskiU, N. Y. 
 
 -P Up I O Ei , ^ 
 
 Remove Plunger with a Twist, Follow Directions Carefully. 
 
 Fob Potatoes. — Use one tablespoonfal of London Purple or one teaspoonlul of best 
 Paris Green to two gallons of vater free from sediment. The London Purple will dis* 
 solve with thorough mixing ; the Paris Green will settle at the bottom of the vessel in a 
 lump. To mix, insert the " Exterminator," holding the rose about three inches from 
 the bottom and directly over the lump, draw full and eject with force ; repeat as often as 
 necessary to keep well mixed. Have two pails of the mixture, and place thirty or forty 
 hills apart on the same row. As you pass each hill strike the plunger a light, quick blow, 
 driving it about half an inch. When you reach the other pail, draw full and return. 
 When you have done four to six rows, set your pails over. When the vines are small, 
 after drawing the "Exterminator" full, grasp it near the middle with your right hand, 
 raise it even with your shoulder, then with a quick drop and jerk over each hill it will do 
 the work equally well and will not cover half the space as when operated by a blow 
 on the handle. If the weight of water causes the plunger to draw down and leak, place 
 the thumb of the hand with which you hold the "Exterminator" 'against the rod above 
 chuck. To oil, insert plunger and Jill upper cup ofvdhe with oil. This will oil perma- 
 nently, and only nse as lubrication requires. Use La/rd Oil. Rernove the plunger uhen 
 not in use, to prevent the valve from beeoming gummed and adhering to the tube, and 
 clean the valve. 
 
 Fob SiBiHorNO Fbtjit Tbeeb. — Use one and a half teaspoonfuls of Paris Green, or 
 one and a half tablespooufuls of Iiondon Purple (the latter is preferable), to two gallons 
 of water, and from one to one and a half gallons per tree, according to size, etc. The 
 showering should be done soon after blossoming. In using the "Exterminator" in this 
 way, oil edges of valve thoroughly when it works hard. Bemove plunger and clean 
 valve when not in use. Adapted also to throwing whale-oil soap, liquid tobacco, etc. > 
 
OPIISFIOI^rS OF THE HPRESS. 
 
 From The American Agrioiiltnristi New York. 
 
 A few years ago we knew not the potato-bug, and the makers of hand water-engines 
 of all kinds could make their squirts to clean carriages, wash windows, put out fires and 
 do various other feats in hydraulics, without regard to bug-killing. Now a pump that 
 does not provide for the potato is not complete. Such was our thought as we unpacked 
 the parts of Lewis's Combination Force Pump. It must not be thought from this that 
 the pump is complicated, as it requires but a single change to convert a regular force- 
 pump, with its short hose, into a garden syringe; another slight change and there you 
 are — a Paris-Greener or a London-Purpler — the potato-bugs are provided for and the 
 combination is complete. The thing is a perfect arsenal of water-guns, each serviceable 
 in its way and made for use rather than show. 
 
 From The Ne\r York Independent, New York. 
 
 Combination Fobce Pump. — An ingenious combination of machines is found in the 
 Force Pump manufactured by P. C. Lewis of Catskill, N. Y. , for which there is more 
 room in the farm and garden than has yet been occupied by machines for like use. It 
 supplies a farmer's needs in a hundred ways, and it is astonishing the many uses it can 
 be put to. The machine is simple in construction, very stoutly made and not liable to 
 get out of order, and the changes are made by simply substituting a different nozzle for 
 the work required of it. As a Potato-Bug Exterminator, an Injector or a Force Pump 
 it is all that is required. Its cost wUl be one of its best recommendations to the farmer. 
 
 From The Nebraska Farmer, Iiincoln, Neb. 
 
 We have received the P. C. Lewis Combination Force Pump and the Potato-Bug 
 Exterminator, advertised in The Farmer. Our experience justifies us in saying that We 
 have found them in all respects what he claims for them. The Potato-Bug Exterminator 
 is particularly valuable. By using Paris Green or London Purple there need be but little 
 if any trouble with the insects that usually attack and destroy plants. 
 
 From The CnltlvatDr and Country Gentleman, Albany, N. T. 
 
 Force Pump and Stbinoe. — The claims set forth in the advertisement of Lewis's Com- 
 bination Force Pump and Potato-Bug Exterminator may seem large, but from personal 
 trial we do not think them to be overstated. 
 
 From 'The Farm and Fireside, Spring fleld, Ohio. 
 
 Save Your Potatoes. — One of the handiest things to have around the house that 
 we know of is the Combination Force Pump and Insect or PotatOTBug Exterminator. It 
 vrill prove invaluable when fires are just starting, as it will throw a stream with great 
 force fifty or sixty feet ; and it can be changed instantly so as to throw tliousands of small 
 drops qf liquid inseet-poison on plants, trees or shrubs. The Force Pump, which goes 
 with each Bug Exterminator, is alone worth more than the price- of both, and is the best 
 and handiest pump we have ever seen for washing carriages, windows, etc. We have one 
 in daily use at our house, and would not part with it for many times its cost. It is an 
 article we can heartily recommend to both our city and country readers, and advise all to 
 send for circulars and price-list to P. C. Lewis, Catskill, N. Y. 
 
 From The Iowa Farmer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
 
 P. C. Lewis. — Our readers should not fail to notice tie advertisement of this gentle- 
 man's Combination Force Pump. The advertisement and the illustrations therewith show 
 better than we could explain just what it is. All we ask is for the reader to peruse it ; we 
 ■will only add that we have one in use in our garden and have thoroughly tried it forall 
 the uses it is recommended for, and can but say it is far Tnore than what the advertise- 
 ment claims for it, and we would not do without it for three times its cost. We have 
 made arrangements with Mr. Lewis whereby we can furnish them, express paid, from this 
 office, on receipt of pri<!e. See advertisement for prices, etc. 
 
 From The Farm Journal, Fblladelphia. 
 
 A very handy instrument, which every live farmer and fruit-grower onght to possess, 
 is Lewis's, Force Pump, advertised in this paper in July. For spraying suds or poison 
 upon fruit trees and bushes, and for washing carriages, windows, etc., it is just the thing. 
 A full descriptive circiilai can be obtained by wiitiag to P. C. Lewis, Catskill, N. Y. 
 
PRESS NOTICES. 23 
 
 From The RnrnI New-Yorker, New York. 
 
 A Handy and Efticient Insteument. — An excellent thing about a farm-house is an 
 ordinary force pump ; but still more desirable is one like the Lewis Combination Force 
 Pump, made to meet all the requirements of the country homestead. Besides washing 
 windows and carriages, extinguishing fires, watering the lawn or the flower-beds, and 
 performing all the other duties of the common force pump, this unique contrivance can 
 be promptly metamorphosed into a Paris-G-reeu or London-Purple sprinkler, scattering 
 sure death among the potato-beetles, or it can be used to spray hellebore on currant- 
 bushes, or, in fact, to pour liquid death on noxious insects of all kinds on the farm or 
 in the garden. Try it once, and you won't afterwards rest comfortably without one. 
 
 From The WiHcoDHin Tobacco Ki'porter, Etferton, Wiscousin. 
 
 The Lewis Combination Force Pump is oue of the neatest and handiest contrivances 
 we have ever seen, as its advantages aie so vuried and many. It can be utilized in extin- 
 guishing fires, watering tobacco-beds, washing buggies and windows, sprinkling lawns 
 and flower-beds, besides a thousand and one other purposes which will suggest them- 
 selves to the reader, and is without an equal as regards portability and ease of operation. 
 There is also an attachment for converting it into a Veterinary Syringe, and another one 
 for distributing 'Paris Green upon potato-vines, which is a very ingenious and useful 
 contrivance. The price, $6, is remarkably cheap for so effective a machine, and it should 
 be in the hands of every farmer, tobacco-grower, gardener and stockman. 
 
 From The New EnglaDd Farmer, Boston, AlasB. 
 
 Lewis's Combination Force Pump is a simple and inexpensive article for the many 
 uses to which it is applied. Especially for sprinkling poisonous solutions on plants it is 
 unexcelled, as the valve retains the liquid until the operator is ready to discharge it just 
 where it is needed and in exactly the required quantity. It can also be readily changed 
 to a force pump for washing windows, carriages, etc. 
 
 From The Rural Nebraska, Omaha, Neb. 
 
 The editor of the horticultural department has used for years the Lewis Combination 
 Force Pump and Insect Exterminator. They are both in(Uspensable. The pump will 
 throw water over a three-story house ; is a valuable protection against fire. 'The garden 
 syringe is useful in exterminating all noxious insects. 
 
 From The AerlcnltnrfBt, Covington, Ky. 
 
 Lewis's Combination Force Pump is the most complete arrangement that has been 
 invented for washing a buggy, the house windows, sprinkling the flowers and watering 
 vegetables and grass lawns. It throws the water with great force either in a solid stream 
 or spray, and is so easily worked that it is sport for the children to wash the mud from 
 a carriage. This pump,in three minutes can be converted into a Potato-Bug Extermin- 
 ator, and Paris Green or London Purple can be easily and evenly applied to the vines, 
 and the bugs destroyed. B^ mixing one heaping teaspoonful of London Purple or Paris 
 Green with two gallons of water, one pint of this will exterminate the insects on 30 or 40 
 potato hiUs, and an acre can be gone over in a short time. We have tried the Lewis 
 Pump and can commend it to the florist, gardener and farmer. For particulars, see 
 advertisement in this paper.. 
 
 From The Boston Joarnal of Commeroe, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Lewis's Combination Foece Pump. — This Combination Force Pump, introduced by 
 Mr. P. C. Lewis of Catskill, N. Y., is one of the most useful and, when once put in 
 service, one of the most indispensable implements to which the attention of progressive 
 agrionlturists has been called for a long time. The pump is exactly what is claimed for 
 it — a "combination " of a most thorough and staple order. 
 
 From The Farminston (Maine) Chronicle. 
 
 The subscribers, having bought and used Lewis's Combination Force Pump, can 
 heartily recommend it as doing all that is claimed for it as a fire-extinguisher, garden - 
 syringe, potato-bug exterminator, etc. ; and for the above purposes we consider it 
 unrivaled in convenience, efficiency and cheapness. Qr. Brake, postmaster ; I. K. Eus- 
 gell, station agent ; A. Hobbs &, Son, hand-rake manufacturers ; Benj. Lowell, carriage- 
 maker, and C. D. Sewell, carriagemaker, West Farmington. O. P. Whittier, merchant, 
 Faarmington Falls. Morrison & Sewadl, miUcmen, and J. K. Lovejoy, carriagemaker, 
 North Chesterfield, Me. 
 
 We would say to our readers that, from personal examination of the above-mentioned 
 machines, we do not hesitate to indorse the foregoing statement and add our testimony 
 to that of others in regard to this valuable combination. 
 
21 PllSSS NOTICES. 
 
 From The American Asricnltnrlat. 
 
 A Combination Foeoe Pump. — Some handy- contrivance for throwing water is almost 
 a nocesaity upon a farm or other country place. We must use poison or have no potatoes, 
 and this makes a syringe a necessity ; besides this, the application of other poisons, the 
 washing of windows and carriages, the watering of flower-beds and Tarious other uses 
 bring such a pump into frequent demand. Moreoyer, the having at hand such an imple- 
 ment in case of fire is a great satisfaction. Lewis's Combination Force Pump is readily 
 adapted to meet all these uses, its changes are easily made, and its moderate price is not 
 the least commendation. 
 
 From The Independent, New Tork. 
 
 Death to Potato-Bcos. — The offer made, on the opposite page, by Mr. P. C. Lewis 
 of Catskill, N. Y., is in no wise like the exaggerated inducements that are generally put 
 forth in advertisements ; but it will repay our readers to read it carefully. The Combi- 
 nation Force Pump is an ingenious and simple machine, which can Ue iised as a pump, 
 a potato-bug exterminator and an injector, by very slight alterations. 
 
 From The Prairie Farmer, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Lewis's Combination Force Pump is a most valuable implement for throwing water for 
 all purposes, such as watering greenhouses and gardens, carriage-washing, etc. An 
 attachment for spraying trees and plants, with bug-exterminator, is furnished with the 
 pump and will be found useful by horticulturists, market gardeners and farmers for this 
 work. This pump has been tested by thousands and found good. It is manufactured by 
 P. C. Lewis, Catskill, N. Y. 
 
 From The Fennaylvanla Farmer, IMereer, Fa. 
 
 We wish to call the attention of our readers to the "ad." of Lewis's Combination 
 Force Pump and Potato-Bug Exterminator. We received one neatly packed and took it 
 out to our farm, and after a fair trial in various ways, such as washing windows and 
 buggies, watering plants or throwing water on the roof in case of fire, we think it is a 
 success, and we expect equally as good results when we change it into a potato-bug 
 exterminator. , 
 
 . C. Lewis : A few years ago, while editor of The Nebraska Farmer, we received in 
 trade for advertising one of your Combination Force Puinps. It worked like a charm. 
 As good a thing of the kind as I ever saw. I am now editor of The Bural Nebraska, and 
 would like again to m^ke the same kind of trade with you. The Kural is of very large 
 circulation. I would like the Force Pump and Potato-Bug Exterminator both. If you 
 will be pleased to make such an exchange, send the implements and copy for advertise- 
 ment. Yours, KOBT. W. FUBNAS, Bbownsville, Neb., Feb. 20. 
 
 Westebn Horticulture and Forestry. — The American Cattle Journal is publishing 
 a series of valuable articles from the pen of ex-Govemor Bobt. W. Furnas, so prominently 
 mentioned for Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington. Gov. Furnas has had twenty- 
 five years of experience in the West as a practical farmer, as governor of Nebraska, us 
 president of the State Horticultural Society, as a member of the Bctard of Agriculture, jetc. , 
 and is now the editor of the Department of Horticultiire, Forestry, etc., in The Sural 
 Nebraska, Omaha. 
 
 The Lewis Combination Force Pump was recently offered as a premium to the 
 subscribers of The Indiana Farmer, one of the best of agricultural papers. ..The fol- 
 lowing are clipped from its columns : - , 
 
 Editors Indiana Farmer: I received the Lewis Combination Force Pump from 
 P. C. Lewis, CatskiU, N. Y., and am very well pleased with it. I had one of another 
 make in use, but the Lewis Pump is by far the best, and I think every family should have 
 one in their house. I can throw water on my house and barn very easily, and wash the 
 windows and sprinkle the lawn or garden. I can recommend the Pump as doing' all that 
 is claimed by Mr. Lewis, and I thank him very kindly for the present. 
 
 H. BEMENDOBFEB, Elkhart' Co., Ind. 
 
 Editors Indiana Farmer: I received the premium awarded by The Farmer Co., 
 one of P. 0. Lewis's Combination Force Pumps, manufactured at Catskill, N. Y. I could 
 not be better pleased. I consider it a very useful article as an ever-ready fire-extinguisher, 
 also for washing windows. My boy, ten years old, can stand on the ground and throw 
 a stream of water sufficient to wash the windows. I have not used it for washing buggies 
 yet, but am satisfied it will do all that is claimed for it. In fact, its uses are innumer- 
 able. G. S. DUBHAM, Putnam Co , Ind. 
 
COM BIN A TION FORCE P UMP. 25 
 
 M. GuELiT of Marquette, Mich., says: "I have received your Combined Ferce- 
 Pump and am very well pleased with it." 
 
 J. V. GoDDABD of Marlboro, Mass., writes : " I would not give a button on a hen- 
 bouse door for a load of those tin pumps for my use. Tour pump is the best I can 
 find, and I can say I would not take ten dollars for it." 
 
 John Smith of Fond du Lao,'Wis. , writes : "I have received the Combination Force- 
 Pump and am well pleased with it." 
 
 Wm. H. Stephens of Grass Valley, Nevada Co., Cal., says : " The sample Combina- 
 tion Force-Pump came to hand all right. I find it to be all you represent it to be. It is 
 the handsomest pump I ever saw. Enclosed find cash for three more." 
 
 H. C. Keaknet, Franklinton, N. C, says : " Enclosed find check on State National 
 Bank of Ealeigh, N. C, for $171, in payment for 5 dozen Combination Force-Pumps, 
 which you will please ship at once by freight, per Old Dominion Steamship Line to 
 Franklinton, N. C. I received the dozen by express ; have sold them out and engaged 21 
 more yesterday. I think I can have 1000 sold before Spring, and shall want more terri- 
 tory. I want Wake, Durham and Warren cotmties now." * 
 
 J. S. JoiNEE of Franklinton, N. C, writes: "Please send we your catalogue and 
 best terms to the trade. I saw your advmt. in The American Liveryman, and think I 
 saw an agent of yours at the North Carolina State Fair a few weeks ago. The sheriff of 
 the county bought one of the pumps at the fair, and I came near doing so. That night 
 we had a big fire in our town, and but for the use of the Lewis Pump bought by the 
 sheriff there would have been 8 or 10 other buildings burned that were not burned. 
 Two buildings belonging to me were saved with their contents, several thousand dollars. 
 Everybody ought to have them." 
 
 H. C. Keaenet writes from Franklinton, N. C. : " Enclosed find cashier's check for 
 $36 on New York City National Park Bank, for which please ship me a dozen Lewis's 
 Combination Force-Pumps by express to Franklinton. I desire to secure the agency for 
 Franklin, Granville, Vance and Nash counties, and will have t^iem thoroughly can- 
 vassed. We recently had a fire in town, and by the work of your pump I bought in 
 Ealeigh at the State Fair $10,000 worth of property was saved. I think I can sell 50 
 here. I will order a large lot in a few days by freight." 
 
 [Notice that these three letters above are from the same place and were all written 
 within a few days of each other. Notice also that Mr. Kearney took orders for 21 Pumps 
 in one day. If you have my price-list you can figure the profits.] 
 
 J. C. Palmer of No. 600 Lafayette avenue, St. Paul, Minn., writes: " Your letter 
 was duly received, also my order of three Combination Force-Pjimps in good shape. I 
 Btftyed with a well-to-do farmer one day and helped him to kill bugs with the Extermin- 
 ator. He said when I was showing him the pump, that it was only for children to play 
 with and ' not for me, as I have got over 10 acres of potatoes.' I said to him, ' Well, 
 I'll tell you what I will do : I'll stay here to-morrow and help you to poison the bugs, 
 and if you then don't like it you need not take it and I will not charge you a cent for my 
 work.' 'All right,' he said ; ' I am sure I will beat you.' ' Well, we will find out to- 
 morrow.' He had a pail and brush, and, of course, took two rows at a time. I had two 
 pails, as by your direction, and took 27 rows. When I was through he had 12 rows and 
 was half on the 14th. I took 27 more, and he found I had done twice as much as he had. 
 At noon he asked me to let him take a machine, too, in the afternoon, and I let him have 
 one. By night we bad gone over about five acres together. I then sold him a pump, 
 and I sold one to bis neighbor for potato-bugs alone, on bis recommendation. I have 
 orders for 6 more, and will try to sell two dozen. I enclose cash for two dozen ; please 
 ship at once. Next year I will commence in May, with horse and buggy, and order more, 
 as the demand is great for them." 
 
 Hubs Adaib of Woodland, Iowa, says : "I received my Force-Pump Sept. 29 and 
 am well pleased with it. Have just received orders for two more. If you have no agent 
 in Decatur Co., I will take the agency, and Wayne Co., also." 
 
•26 COMBINA TION FORCE P UMP. 
 
 Adam Geeneb of Doimellson, Montgomery Co., Dls., writes: " Send me one dozen 
 pumps by express. These are mostly all sold. Every person I showed them to liked 
 them very much. I went to see a man the other day who had just been taken m with 
 the promissory note swindle. He was in the yard and halted me at the gate and said, 
 ' Don't you come one step further, but get into the big road. No agents wanted m here. 
 I said I only wanted t6 show him my sample. ' I don't want to sell you anything : ]ust 
 show it to you.' He made no reply, but went and untied a big dog that wouldn't have 
 left a grease-spot of me if he had caught me. I climbed the fence and from that into a 
 cherry tree. The man let me roost there all of half an hour. I called liim up finally 
 and pledged myself not to ask him to buy of me if he would permit me to show him .and 
 the family the pump. The dog was taken away and I crawled down, picked up my sam- 
 ple and with a bucket of water went to washing the windows, and lafter that washed 
 a wagon until it looked like a new one. "When I got through I put up my pump and, 
 true to my promise, was going off, when the old man said, ' Come, let us have a drink 
 of cider ; and the old woman has some good cake.' After this treat I departed. Two 
 dj^ys later the farmer came 8 miles and ordered one of the pumps. He explained that he 
 had signed a $5 order for a patent well -bucket and in a short time was informed by the 
 Bank that there was a note for $50 to be paid right away, and that he then declared war 
 on all agents.i' 
 
 The Kev. Samuel C. Stump of Verdon, Neb., says : "I consider your pump of 
 great value. It is all and even more than could be asked for the price." 
 
 D. M. Campbell of London, Ont., says : " The Force-Pump I bought of you three 
 years ago I find a most useful and I may say indispensable instrument, filling the bill in 
 every particular for everything it is claimed to do. I saw another force-pump the other 
 day ; it is nothing when compared with yours. I would not give the one I bought of 
 you for a dozen of the others. Send one dozen by Amer. Exp. and find P. O. order for 
 same enclosed." 
 
 W. A. Kankin, Bergholz, Jefferson Co., Ohio, says: "I received your pump and 
 Bke it very much. I have shown it to some of the people here and they like it better 
 than any pump they ever saw. Enclosed find cash for one dozen Combination Pumps, 
 which please send to Salineville, Ohio. Please send promptly and oblige." 
 
 E. P. CoTiEB, Melrose, Kla., writes : "I have been taking orders for the pump the 
 past four days and will say that I am much better pleased with the business than I thought 
 I would be, and shall make a permanent business of it. I am satisfied that I can make 
 more money at it than any agency I ever tried. I have now orders for 19 pumps and 
 have not been over two miles from home. The pump is absolutely a success in an 
 
 orange grove. Five of the 19 who bought were using ■ Pump, which I believe is 
 
 the most extensively used in the orange groves at present, but after a thorough test they 
 decided it would be much cheaper to buy the Combination Pump, as it would do the 
 work more thoroughly, easier and quicker. Please ship them as early as possible. Hope 
 I will soon be able to order in larger lots." 
 
 LowEET BeOS, of Flora, 111., say : "We sprayed 40 acres of orchard with the pump 
 we bought of you. It does the worj splendidly." 
 
 W. A. Beown, Inspector of Michigan Fruit Exchange, Benton Harbor, Mich. , writes 
 ' ' I am well pleased with the pump you sent me, and so are others in this vicinity who 
 have used them for spraying apple trees for the destruction of the codling-moth and 
 other insects injurious to fruits and flowers. I have recently taken first premiums for 
 display of Berrien County fruits at Michigan Stiite and distiict fairs. I find that in 
 orchards where a solution of Paris Green was applied with your pump the fruit is nearly 
 all perfect, while in orchards neglected it is very difficult to select perfect specimens. 
 I believe your pump is invaluable to the farmer and fruit-grower, and better adaptedjio 
 the many purposes for which it is recommended than any other hand-pump manufact- 
 ured or invented." 
 
The universal testimony of agents handling these goods (Pumps and 
 Exterminators) is that they are the best-selling articles now upon the 
 market. They are proving perfect "bonanzas" for agents. Very many 
 of our agents have given up other business to engage in this. We have 
 large farmers who have rented their farm^ and made a business of selling 
 these goods with splendid results. Our agents embrace every class, 
 including doctors, lawyers, ministers, postmasters, farmers, merchants, 
 etc., etc. These goods have the elements of success — something that is 
 practical and cheap, and universally needed. They are the best and 
 cheapest' goods of the kind in the world. Other hand pumps cost from 
 $8 to $12 each ; we furnish three machines, pump included, made of pol- 
 ished brass, for $6. The cheapest agricultural syriage made and known 
 to the trade (except ours) costs $3 at retail, made of unpolished brass ; 
 we furnish a polished brass one for $1.75 at retail that will do all that the 
 other will, besides being the best Potato-Bug Exterminator in use, and 
 still give about the same margin of profit to the dealer. You can convince 
 ani/ man that he is losing money just so long as he does his potatoes in 
 any other way, both in material used and labor saved. No farmer who 
 has an acre of potatoes can afford to do without the Exterminator. k 
 
 Our agents make from $8 to $15 per day, with frequently a day in 
 which they make a profit of from $10 to $30 in a single day's sales. (See 
 agents' testimonials on pages 29 and 30.) 
 
 On page 31 we give a long list of our customers who have each ordered 
 from $60 to $2000 worth of these goods in from one to three weeks' time. 
 Remarks on the salableness of these goods are superfluous. They have 
 been on the market but a short time, yet the sales amount to tens oj 
 thousands, and we are receiving orders from every State and Territory in 
 the United States, also from Canada, England, New Zealand, Austria, 
 Australia, etc. They meet with ready sale everywhere. ® 
 
 Our terms are strictly cash. This becomes necessary, as we are ship- 
 ping to strangers all over the coimtry and of course can have no immediate 
 proof of their responsibility. We put the wholesale price at a slight 
 advance on cost, and by so doing give the agent a per cent, of profit given 
 by no other manufacturer of this class of goods in the world. 
 
 0"U.r ISespoiisnoilit37-. 
 
 As to whether we always do as we agree, we refer to any of the parties 
 mentioned in this Catalogue, or to Tanners' National Bank, American 
 Express Co., or Postmaster at Catskill, N. Y. 
 
 O. O. ID. 
 
 If parties prefer, we wUl send goods C. 0. D., upon receipt of 20 per 
 cent, of order, as a guarantee of the good faith of the parties so ordering. 
 
28 TERMS TO AOENTS. 
 
 ''^T^Tla.&n. Ord-eriaag- in Xjargr© Xjots. 
 
 To save our customers excessive charges on express shipments in 
 large lots, we will on receipt of 20 per cent, send goods C. O. D. by 
 freight, marked P. C Lewis, the bill of lading for which, indorsed to your 
 order and accompanied by a draft on you for the amoulit due, will be sent 
 to your nearest bank for collection, upon payment of which you can secure 
 the goods from railroad agent. No charge for cartage. 
 
 To Tliose B-a^riaag" Singrle :M:acla.in.es 
 
 We would say, show it to your neighbors, take their orders for them, 
 and, when you have from half a dozen to a dozen ordered, send on for 
 them. It costs you nothing for the trial, and will put dollars in your 
 pocket. If the first party asked does not buy one, try the next, until you 
 have visited at least twenty-five. You wUl be sui-prised at the results. 
 
 ISLo-^TT to Senci Hs^oaaey. 
 
 The safest way to send money is by Postoffice Order, Eegistered Letter 
 Express or Draft on New York. Be sure and write name, town, county and 
 State plainly, and write your fuU address each time, as we receive so 
 many letters that it is impossible for us to remember your address or to 
 look up any previous letter you may have written in order to obtain it. 
 
 Esccl-asive Sale. 
 
 Where parties who have never canvassed for us wish exclusive sale in 
 any particular territory, we will hold the territory for them until they can 
 send for a sample or a small order and try then- hand at selling the goods. 
 If they succeed, then upon a smaU order and their promise to canvass the 
 territory asked for we will give them the exclusive sale of these goods 
 in said territory for that season, and wUl continue the agency as long as 
 they will canvass the territory thereafter. When a paily has thoroughly 
 canvassed the territory assigned him, let him apply for more. 
 
 "^^riiolesale .^g-eaats. 
 
 We vrill give you 10 per cent, in cash or in goods on all orders for 
 our goods secured by you, or through you, for other parties at regular 
 rates, and will secure to said parties the exclusive sale on same terms as 
 above. Will also give you 10 per cent, on all orders received from such 
 parties, at regular rates, to the close of the season, making a permanent 
 business without work. By taking a little pains to get good, live agents 
 in other towns or counties interested, you can in many cases pocket from 
 $50 to $100 for your trouble. Our order book in aiways open to agents. 
 They have also the agents secured to refer to as to the correctness of our 
 report. Send for a sample machine, and a few hours' canvassing will 
 satisfy you that there is money in it for you. 
 
 I^romptness in Sliipping-. 
 
 We claim to ship goods within twenty-four hours of the receipt of 
 order, and scarcely ever fail to do so. We carry a large sLock of these 
 
TERMS TO AGENTS. 29 
 
 goods, and our facilities for manufacturing are such that it is almost an 
 impossibility for orders to increase above our capacity for manufacturing. 
 
 'V^T'rite Sliort Letters. 
 
 State what you want in as few words as possible. Be short and to 
 the point. Our correspondence ia very large, and we cannot give long 
 letters the prompt attention we can short ones. Eemember to sign your 
 name and address in full to each letter. We sometimes receive letters 
 not registered, with money inclosed and not a word from the writer. 
 In such cases we have to wait until the party ,gets tired of waiting for his 
 goods, and writes us to find out."wAa« is the matter^ We then learn his 
 address and ship the goods. Others forget to give their address. In case 
 the postmark is plain we have to write and find out if the latter was mailed 
 from their home of&ce or not, before sending the goods. Other do- not 
 sign name, but give their address at top of letter. If they happen to 
 remit by postoffice order we can gbt their name of the postmaster from 
 the advice sent with the order ; if they remit in any other form we have 
 ao other alternative but to wait until they get impatient and write to us 
 again, as in the first case. We are constantly bothered in all of these 
 ways. Correspondents are particularly requested to vmte their name and 
 address plainly. Do not use any fancy or peculiar mode of signature. 
 We receive some letters that would tax a "Philadelphia lawyer" to decipher 
 who wrote them or where they came from. 
 
 The following are extracts from letters lately received from our agents 
 who have happened in writing to mention, unsolicited, the number sold in 
 a single day. We have agents who have done much better than anything 
 here told, without doubt, as these are small orders mostly, while n,umbers 
 ©f our agents buy from 50 to 100 Pumps at a time, and would naturally 
 withhold the fact of making large sales from us. Our limited space pre- 
 vents our giving the experience of many others who have done equally well. 
 
 Lewiston, N. Y. 
 P. C. Lewis : Ship eighteen Pumps at once. I have sold fourteen in the past two 
 days. PRED. 0. MoCONKEY. 
 
 (Profit, over $40 in two days.) 
 
 COEXMANS, N. Y. 
 Have sold ten dozen Exterminators at wholesale and two dozen at retail in a single 
 day. EDGAB POWELL. 
 
 (Profit, over $25.) 
 
 Edgebton, Bock Co., Wis. 
 Please ship at once iwo dozen Pumps. I have taken orders for twenty-four of them 
 in the past five days without going out of town. JOHN E. HYNES. 
 
 (Profit, $72 in five days.) 
 
 SiooKSBisoE, Mass. 
 P. C. Lewis : Please ship five dozen Exterminators and one dozen Pumps. I sold 
 ten Exterminators and four Pflmps yesterday. O. H. MUNSON. 
 
 BoscoE, 111. 
 P. C. Lewis : Please ship at once by express two dozen Pumps. I average from 
 three to eight per day. I have sold ten in a single day. I have sold by order and then 
 delivered seventy-five in about three weeks. Have sold to farmers exclusively. 
 
 A. H. YOUNG. 
 
 (The above shows a profit of $30 on a single day's sale and a profit of $225 in three- 
 weeks' steady work. Mr. Young has now rented his large farm and makes a business of 
 selling my Pumps. He has sold about three hundred at retail within a short time.) 
 
30 TERMS TO AGENTS. 
 
 Lakbwood, N. 3. 
 P.|0. Lewis: Please, ship immediately eixteen Combination Pumps. These are all 
 sold. I went out the other day and sold twelve in about eight hours, at retail. 
 
 WM. CADY. 
 (Profit on twelve Pumps, |36. 
 
 Pbterbobo, N. H. 
 Make our order of last Saturday seventy dozen brass Exterminators and thirty dozen 
 zinc. Sold four dozen from the Court House steps in one day, at retail. 
 
 JAQUITH & NAY 
 (Profit on day's sales at retail, $25.) 
 
 Glenviixe, Ohio. 
 Express eight dozen Exterminators at once. I sold forty-three in eight hours. 
 Farmers who hear of them come three or four miles after them, and sometimes buy 
 half a dozen for their neighbors. EOBEKT FOSTER. 
 
 (Profit on forty-three Exterminators, over $25.) 
 
 Ephratah, N. Y. 
 P. 0. Lewis : Force Pump received last night. / sold two before I left the post- 
 office. ERVIN SMITH. 
 
 , Deokeetown, N. J. 
 
 P. C. Lewis : Please ship one dozen Pumps. I sold nine Pumps on Thursday after 
 i o'clock p. M. L. H. DECKER. 
 
 (Profit, $27 in about three hours.) 
 
 KEELEESviLiiE, Van Buren Co. , Mich. 
 P. C. Lewis : Your Exterminator is the best machine that I ever saw for destroying 
 the bugs. I sold the two dozen that I bought of you in one day. 
 
 ISAAC S. ROSEVELT. 
 
 RoscoE, Til. 
 I have been very successful the past year. On three different trips I have sold the 
 entire lot I started with, without missing a single man from first to last pump. There 
 have been several days I have sold to every house stopped at, without a miss. I find 
 no trouble to sell the pumps. They are the best-selling article I ever saw. I average 
 selling from 3 to 8 per day. I have ordered in lots of 2 dozen and sold them in 4 to 5 
 days, averaging $50 to $75 per week profit. Yours truly, A. H. YOUNG. 
 
 Wausatt, 'Wis. - 
 P. C. Lewis : I have been selling your pumps for Adams & Clifford, your agents for 
 Northern Wisconsin. They sell well. I average selling six pumps per day, etc. , etc. 
 
 T. H. LYNON. 
 (Showing an average profit of $24 per day.) 
 
 Bat City, Mich. 
 I sold eight of your Combination Pumps in four hours. W. S. EVANS. 
 
 (This shows a profit of $24 in four hours.) 
 
 Peanklin, Vt., June 6. 
 P. C. Lewis : I have now canvassed nine days and have made $180. I sold five doJSen 
 pumps on about five square mUes of farming country. Please ship three dozen pumps 
 to Richford, Vt., at once. Respectfully yours, M. S. HUNGERFORD. 
 
 ($180 made in nine days.) 
 
 Madison, Wis. , June 29. 
 "We have one man working who sold 33 Pumps last week and 28 this week. Please 
 ship us 12 dozen per week until further orders. ADAMS & CLIFFORD. 
 
 (Adams & Clifford's orders amounted to somewhere between 700 and 1000 Pumps for ' 
 the season of 1882. The agent spoken of in above letter made a profit of $182 in two 
 weeks. Comment is unnecessary. ) 
 
 Salem, Oregon. 
 
 P. C. Lewis: The sample pump came to hand in good order. Have orders for 20 
 already. I inclose cash for four dozen. Pump is all that you claim for it, and is a 
 cheap, beautiful and practical Force Pump. No household, shop or mill can afford to be 
 without one. I find them eagerly sought after, and am satisfied that we can sell a large 
 quantity of them in connection with our own pump. Send by express. 
 
 Yours respectfully, A. PRESCOTT. 
 
TEBMH TO AGENTS. 
 
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 Oak Hall, Va. 
 
 P. C. Lewis: Pump received all right, and am ttfry mmh pleased with it. Please 
 send the inoloaed order by express just as soon as possible. E. P. BEADLES. 
 
 The order spoken of above ■was for $72 worth of goods ; all he had had up to this 
 order was his sample. Also G. M. Tuttle of Beloit, Wis., who obtained a sample Pump 
 of an agent, started out and, finding they sold rapidly, immediately sent a draft for ^100, 
 not even knowing the wholesale price, and said : ' ' Send me one hundred dollars' worth 
 of Pumps at your best cash rates at wholesale, etc." The greater portion of our iigeuta 
 have commenced in the same way. They obtain a sample and also terms to agents. They 
 are convinced from the working of the machines that they ought to sell; and after a few 
 hours' canvassing they find that they will sell — and that rapidly. They then, having 
 taken orders for quite a number, send for a small lot, generally from one to three dozen. 
 These orders soon increase in size as they become familiar with the machine and devote 
 more time to it, until some of them order Pumps by the hundred and Exterminators 
 as high in one case as one hundred dozen per shipment. 
 
 > The parties mentioned below have each ordered from $50 to $2000 
 •worth of my goods in from one to three weeks' time. Many of them are 
 farmers who spent spare days in canvassing, and made in many cases from 
 $8 to $25 in a single day. For want of space we can give the names of 
 but a few of our many good customers : 
 
 W. A. Schmidt, Hannibal, Mo. 
 Geo. Blanchard&Brother, Portland, Me. 
 Joseph Hagenbuck, La Forte, Ind. 
 Lester Barnes, North Abbington, Mads. 
 
 B. K. Bliss & Sons, New York City. 
 Price & Knickerbocker, Albany, N. Y. 
 George M. Way, Hartford, Ooiin, 
 
 a; B. Cohn, 197 Water st.. New York. 
 O. H. MuDBon, Stockbridge, Mass. 
 J. K. Sterling, East Warren, Vt. 
 William Oady, jr., Lakewood, N. J. 
 
 C. H. Oakes, West Farmington, Me. 
 A. H. Young, BoBcoe, 111. 
 
 C. F. Waldron, Welaka, Fla. 
 
 Carlo May, Putnam, Conn. 
 
 L. H. Decker, Deckertown, N. J. 
 
 H. B. Baker, Lowell, Mass. 
 
 G. M. Tuttle, Beloit, Wis. 
 
 William Prescott, New Boston, N. H. 
 
 J. B. Shannon, Philadelphia, Fa. 
 
 O. W. Bliss, West Fairlee, Vt. 
 
 G. L. Bennett, New Bedford, Mass. 
 
 James Breek & Sons, Boston, Masts. 
 
 O. T. Morrill, Stowe, Vt. 
 
 J. 0. Kelly, Newport, N. H. 
 
 Elliott P. House, Oolebrook, N. H. 
 
 L. M. .Nickell, Coxsackie, N. Y. 
 
 John Adams, West Plattsburgh, N. Y. _ 
 
 W. H. Onmmings, J'lantsville, Conn. 
 Jerome Taylor, Woodstock, Vt. 
 H. Longly, Shirley, Mass. 
 J. W. Cornell, Trenton, N. J. 
 H. J. Long, Eeistertown, Md. 
 Horatio Howes, Chatham, Mass. 
 O. W. Grnndstein, Worthington, Minn. 
 Charles L, Peck, Ooopersville, Mich. 
 Clifford & Adams, Madison, Wis. 
 R. T. Howard, Coxsackie, N. Y. 
 J. E. Hynes, Egerton, Wis. 
 Marvin Baker, Lewiston, N. Y. 
 A. C. Perkins, Broomfield, Me. 
 George D. Stookwell, Bangor, Me. 
 Jaqnith & Nay, Peterboro, N. H. 
 Charles Lee Murray, Marion, Iowa. 
 A. Prescott, Salem, Oregon. 
 Eobert Foster, Glenville, Ohio. 
 E. B. Crofut & Co., Syracuse, N. Y. 
 G. B. Grey, North Anson, Me. 
 Edward Proctor, Spencer, Mass. 
 S. J. Long, Eeistertown, Md. 
 Edgar Powell, Ooeymans, N. Y. 
 James Campbell, Pasadena, Cal. 
 D. N. Delia, Oakland, Cal. 
 Wiggins & Euss, Skowhegan, Me. 
 J. H. Stewart, St. George, Del. 
 George W. Speucer, Bradford, Vt. 
 
 G. B. Landon, Milton, Vt. 
 
 And more than 100 others whose names we have not space for. 
 
 You 
 
 Parties in doubt are respectfully referred to any of the above, 
 can do just as well as they did. 
 
 These parties are from all parts of the United States, showing that 
 the goods will sell anywhere. 
 
 Territory is being taken up very fast. If you wish territory reserved 
 write at once, as we often receive two or three letters from the same town 
 in the space of a day or two. Our motto in such cases is, " First come, 
 first served." 
 
Jceipcd for Exterminating |ndect gedtd. 
 
 For destroying insects the following recipes will be found excellent. 
 I would advise those having a large amount of fruit trees to spray, to 
 order the " Insect Spray Nozzle " with their Pump, as it throws a very fine 
 spray and is very economical, and is the best spray nozzle in the world. 
 I make a special nozzle for spraying trees (see page 3), which should be 
 used for this work. Parties when ordering a Pump should specify if they 
 wish this nozzle. For 50c. additional I will send an extra length of hose 
 with the insect spray nozzle attached. 
 
 FoK Caterpillars. — Use soft soap and water. Proportions, one quart 
 of soap to six or seven gallons of water. Apply with either the Combi- 
 nation Pump, using spray attachment or with syringe attachment or 
 " Exterminator." k. 
 
 For Cabbage- Worms. — ^Add one pound of Whale-Oil Soap to six gallons 
 of water. Apply with spray attachment to Pump or syringe attachment 
 or "Exterminator." 
 
 Prof. A. J. Cook of Lansing, Mich., says that Pyrithrum is sure death 
 to .caterpillars and cabbage-worms when sprayed over them in liquid mix- 
 ture. 
 
 For Potato-Bugs. — See, directions on page 21. 
 
 Cotton-worms, cabbage-worms, etc., can be kijled by 200 grains of 
 Pyrithrum stirred up in two gallons of water. Apply with fine spray 
 attachment to Combination Pump or with syringe attachment or "Exter- 
 minator." 
 
 For currant bushes, raspberry and gooseberry bushes, use pure White 
 Hellebore, one ounce to two gallons of water. Apply as above. ' 
 
 For Scale Insects on Orange Trees, etc. — ^Use Concentrated Lye, 
 one pound to one gallon of water, to spray trees in a dormant condition. 
 It will not destroy the fruit buds. In May and June, when the trees are 
 in full foliage, use one pound of Whale-Oil Soap and half a pound of 
 Sulphur, mixed with two gallons of water. The lye to be used when the 
 tree is dormant and to be supplemented by, if needed, the whale-GU and 
 sulphur mixture in the Spring and Summer. These, if persistently and 
 carefully attended to, will clean your orchards of the dreaded Scale insect. 
 » Another recipe highly recommended is one pound of Whale-Oil Soap 
 to five gallons of boUing water, let it cool, and to each gallon of the soap 
 solution add one gill of kerosene and mix it thoroughly. Apply the wash 
 to the body and branches of the tree with a brush, shower the leaves and 
 foliage with spray attachment to Combinationt Pump or with syi'inge 
 attachment. This is recommended as sure death to the Scale insect, but 
 requires two or three thorough applications at intervals of three or four 
 weeks. 
 
 The solution should be frequently stirred when using. This is done 
 by pumping back into the pail. This wash is highly recommended for 
 almost any kind of plant attacked by scale, red spiders, aphides. The 
 sooty appeai-anoe will soon slough off in scales upon getting rid of the 
 insects ' 
 
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 It is readily adjusted into a Platform Kocker, with Ottoman separate, as in cut No. 2. 
 Or by folding up the legs to the Ottoman and unfolding the ratchet and attaching it to 
 the Chair it makes a Beclining Rooking Chair, as shown in cut No. 3 ; in this position a 
 person can sit in the Chair with his feet on the foot-rest and rock himself and it is im- 
 possible for a beholder to tell what makes him rock. As an Invalid's Chair, in position 
 No. 3, you can recline the back by quarter- inches until you lie out straight, and without 
 taking your weight from the back of the Chair in the least ; and you can rook yourself 
 just as well lying down as sitting up. It is the most perfect and easily-controlled luTal- 
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 You can lower the foot-rest, tilt the seat and recline the back, giving your body three 
 different inclines, as shown in cut No. 4. You can reiidily adjust it into a couch, as 
 shown in out No. 5, or into the Smoker's Easy Chair No. 1, besides making over 20 
 othei' combinations. 
 
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