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1864. 



THE ILLmOIS FAKMEE. 



187 



Agents. — We do not appoint any agents — all are 

 voluntary. Any person so disposed, can actasagen 

 in^any place. 



Enlarge Your Club. — "Will not the friends of 

 the Illinois Farmer inquire how many copies of 

 the Farmer are taken in their respective oflSces, 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 m^e 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 sub- 

 scribers, without any trouble ? Try. Sample num- 

 bers, etc., sent free. 



Drafts. — Those remitting us large amounts of 

 money, will please send us drafts on Springfield or 

 Chicago, less they exchange. If you send cash in a 

 letter, be sure that it is well sealed and well directed, 

 to Baker & Phillips, Springfield, Illinois. 



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

 bers who wish to make a present of the Illinois 

 Farmer for 1863, can have it at the lowest club rates, 

 when out of the State. For fifty cents you can treat 

 your Eastern friends to a Western Agricultural Pa- 

 per. In no way can you invest that amount to so 

 good advantage to emigration. 



Send Now. — Any person who remits pay for a club 

 of ten or fifteen, or any othernumber at the specified 

 rates for such clubs, can afterwards add to the clubs, 

 and take advantage of the reduction. Thus a person 

 sending us five subscribers and three dollars, can af- 

 terwards send us three dollars more and receive six 

 copies. 



To The Casual Reader. — This and other num- 

 ners of the Illinois Farmer will be sent to many 

 persons who now use it for the first time. Will they 

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

 and ask their neighbors to subscribe ? Sample num- 

 erbs, prospectuses, 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 can- 

 vassing his neighborhood, can easily make up a club 

 of five, ten or twenty, but no time should be lost in 

 doingjso, for your neighbors may send east for their 



paper which, though valuable 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 Far- 

 mer 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 Farmer to those who are unacquaint- 

 ed with it, and tell them what you think of it. 



2. Send for prospectuses, and put them into the 

 hands of those who will use them, and place posters 

 where farmers will see them. 



3. Get post masters interested. They see every- 

 body, and are efficient workers. 



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

 whom we can send prospectuses and sample num- 

 bers. 



5. Begin now, before the agents of Eastern pa- 

 pers get up their clubs. 



This last hint is especially important, 

 hear from you soon. See terms elsewhere. 



Let us 



^^^* 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 & hund- 

 red post offices. Additions made at any time at club 

 rates. We mail by printed slips, which are so cheaply 

 placed on the papers, that it matters little whether 

 they go to one or a dozen offices. 



^^^ Correspondents will please be particular to 

 give the name of the post office, county and State. 



^^^*"Specimen numbers will be sent gratis, upon 

 application. 



^^^Address 



BAKER & PHILLIPS, 



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, Illinois. Electrotypes and 

 business matters, and subscriptions, to the publishers, 

 Springfield, Illinois. Implements and models for ex- 

 amination should be sent to the editor. The editor 

 will, so far as it can be done personally, test and ex- 

 amine 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 Illinois Central Railroad will 

 let off passengers at his place, which is directly •n 

 the road, three and a half miles south of the Urbara 

 Station, now the city of Champaign. 



