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THE ILLIITOIS FARMEE. 



April 



Publishers' Special Notices. 



Agento — We do not appoint any agents; all 

 are voluntarj. Any person so disposed, can act 

 as agent in any place. 



Enlarge Your Club. — Will not the friends of 

 the Illinois Farmer inquire how many copies of 

 the Farmer ar.* taken at their respective offices, 

 and pass around among those who ought to have 

 their names added to the list? Our terms are so 

 low to clubs of ten and twenty that we ought to 

 have one or the other made up at every office in 

 the State, and at every office in Central Illinois, 

 one of twenty or more. Will our friends, and 

 the friends of practical agriculture see to it, and 

 thus lay us under renewed obligations ? 



To Single Subscribers. — You receive the only 

 copy of the Farmer that goes to your post office. 

 Can you not send one, two, three or more new 

 subscribers, without any trouble? Try. Sam- 

 ple numbers, &c., sent free. 



Drafts. — Those remitting us large amounts of 

 money, will pleape send us drafts on Springfield 

 or Chicago, less the exchange. If you send cash 

 in a letter, be sure that is well sealed and well 

 directed, to Bailhache & Baker, Springfield, 

 Illinois. 



The Farmer as a Present. — Any of our sub- 

 scribers who wish to make a present of the Illi- 

 nois Farmer for 1861, can have it at the lowest 

 club rates, when sent out of the State. For 

 fifty cents you can treat your eastern friends to 

 a western agricultural paper. In no way can 

 you invest that amount to so good advantage to 

 emigration. 



Send Now. — Any person who remHs pay for a 

 club of ten or fifteen, or any other number at the 

 specified rates for such clubs, can afterwards 

 add to the clubs, and take advantage of the re- 

 duction. Thus a person sending us five subscri- 

 bers and three dollars, can afterwards send us 

 three dollars more and receive six copies. 



To the Casual reader. — This and other num- 

 bers of the Illinois Farmer will be sent to many 

 persons who now see it for the firs* time. Will 

 they not examine it, and if they like it, subscribe 

 for it, and ask their neighbors to subscribe? 

 Sample numbers, pronpectuses, etc., sent free to 

 all applicants. See terms elsewhere. 



How to Obtain Subscribers. — The best way 

 is to send for sample numbers. Any young man 

 by canvassing his neighborhood, can easily make 

 up a club of five, ten or twenty, but no time 

 hould be lost in doing so, for your neighbors 



may send east for their paper which, though val- 

 uable there, is much less so here, the difference 

 of soil and climate putting them out of their 

 reckoning when attempting to teach us western 

 farming. 



How TO Help. — The friends of the Illinois 

 Farmer will find a prospectus in another column. 

 We desire to. suggest a few ways in which they 

 can use it to advantage. 1. Show the Fabmer 

 to those who are unacquainted with it, and tell 

 them what you think of it. 2. Send for pros- 

 pectuses, and put them into the hands of those 

 who will use them, and place posters where farm- 

 ers will see them. 3. Get postmasters interested. 

 They see everybody, and are efficient workers. 

 4. (Send us the names of persons in your town 

 to whom we can send prospectuses and sample 

 numbers. 5. Begin now, before the agents of 

 eastern papers get up their clubs. This last hint 

 is especially important. Let us hear from you 

 soon. See terms elsewhere. 



B^^Clubs may be composed of persons in all 

 parts of the United States. It will be the same 

 to the publishers if they send papers to one or a 

 hundred post offices. Additions luade at any 

 time at club rates. We mail by printed slips, 

 which are so cheaply placed on the papers, that 

 it matters little whether thpy go to one or a 

 dozen offices. 



^^ Correspondents will please be particular 

 to give the name of the post office, county and 

 State. 



jg@°"Specimen numbers will be sent gratis, 

 upon application 

 jg^°Addres3 



bailh\che & baker, 



Springfield, Illinois. 



Special Notice. — For terms see prospectus on 

 last page. All exchanges and communications 

 for the eye of the editor should be directed to 

 Illinois Farmer, Champaign, 111. Electrotypes 

 and business matters, and subscriptions, to the 

 publishers, Springfield, 111. Implements and 

 models for examination should be sent to the edi- 

 tor. The editor will, so far as it can be done 

 personally test and examine all new machines and 

 improvements submitted to his inspection. He 

 will be found at home, on his farm, nearly all of 

 the time. So far as it is possible the conductors 

 on the I. C. R. R. will let off passengers at his 

 place, which is directly on the road, three and a 

 half miles south of the Urbana station, now the 

 city of Champaign, tf 



