AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[January, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Obange JUDI) & Co., Publishers, ','15 ttroutHv^v, X. T. City. 
Ankttal Subscription Tkf.ms (always in advance) : $1.50 
oach for less than four copies: Four to nine copies. $153 
each: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, $1 each. Papers arc addressed to each name. 
READ THIS! 
We are this year going to give, for the subscription 
money asked, a wonderful amount of good, reliable infor- 
mation, beautiful and instructive engravings, pleasant 
and useful reading not only for the Farm and Garden, but 
for the Household— Ladies and Children— so that the 
paper will be desirable for all rlasses. in Cities and Vil- 
lages as well as in the country. (Mr. Judd has arrived 
home much improved in health and vigor, and will begin 
to aid us by next month, devoting his time and atten- 
tion mainly to the Agriculturist. The business de- 
partments are now so fully manned by others, that he 
will have far more time to devote to the reading columns 
of the paper than has been the case for some years past. I 
All the subscription money received, and considera- 
ble extra from advertising receipts, will tie expended on 
tiie paper ; our readers will get back more than they pay. 
The subscription list is already so enormously large, 
and the expense of editing, euLrravimr^, type-setting, 
vlectrotyping, etc., is divided among so many, that we 
are able to give a great dual for the money. C^T Every 
added subscriber merely requires printing paper, fold- 
ing, and mailing; so each addition benefits all others. 
The larger the list of readers the more valuable the 
advertising space (which is kept limit/ il to the last quarter 
of the paper). So after setting aside from the advertising 
receipts a portion towards getting up a good paper, 
another moderate portion for their own labor and profit, 
the Publishers devote the rest to paying those who use 
time and exertion in extending the subscription list, and 
this amounts to a very liberal sum ... Experience has 
proved that the best way of paying canvassers is to offer 
premiums, open to all alike. We select good articles, 
such a- appear to be most generally wanted, and by buying 
them direct of the manufacturers, at first cost, and often 
by paying part in advertising, we are able to give much 
more liberal commissions for obtaining subscribers than 
we could give in money, while the articles furnished, all 
warranted first-rate, are worth to the recipients the regu- 
lar market price, either for their own use, or for sale. 
Many thousands of persons in all parts of the 
ci inntry have obtained from our office, needed or desirable 
articles, with little or no money expense ; and many others 
have canvassed as a business, received the premiums, 
and sold them, thus Realizing very handsome pay for their 
work. A good many persons have thus cleared #3 to 
$10 a day, and some have made more than f 40 a day ! 
Otir business books, if we had room, or were at 
liberty to publish names, would show wonil,rful results. 
obtained by many individuals during the past year. We 
could tell of Ladies, who have cleared over $1000 
each by the sale of premium articles secured from this 
Office; of Students, who have thus procured the 
means of educating themselves: of Teachers, who 
have doubled their salaries by a few evenings' canvas- 
if Postmasters, or their clerks, who have done 
the same; of Churches and Schools supplied with 
musical instruments by the united efforts of a few of 
the members ; of Pastors, supplied with desirable ar- 
ticles by their own exertions, or those of their parishion- 
ers : of multitude- of Families supplied, without cost, 
wilti Sowing Machines, Clothes Wringers, Washing Ma- 
chines, etc.: of many Gardens, planted with good vege- 
tables and beautiful flower seeds obtained from our pre- 
miums : of dozens of excellent gold and silver Watch- 
es, sent out warranted ; of numerous Farm Shops, 
and young Mechanics, supplied witli chests of the 
best Tools ; of very many tables adorned by our superb 
Tea Setts, Castors, etc.: of hundreds of first qual- 
ity Gold Pens; of Orchards, set with our Nursery 
Stock premium : of large numbers of superior Guns 
of different sorts: of Barometers and Mathematical 
Instruments : of Mowing Machines, Flows, and the 
like, obtained for lists of subscribers; of thousands of 
useful Books and Volumes, all sent free toourwork- 
iug friend-: of a great number of Boys and Girls, 
who are the happy owners of a good Dictionary, or other 
useful article, earned all by their own canvassing efforts. 
Plenty of all these good things remain 
for YOt', and all other- desiring them, which the Pub- 
lishers will be happy to distribute to those who will simply 
take the little time and trouble required to collect lisls of 
names. Look over what follows : See tin' list of articles; 
send for the full description, if yon have it not: choose 
the articles most desired, and they can soon be o 
without money cost.— (Sec October Agriculturist for de- 
scription of articles, or send for a printed Premium 
List, which will be forwarded live to all applicants.) 
It Is Easier than you would suppose, to 
get up a premium li-t ! Hundred- havewrittcn thus, after 
a little experience. Take a copy of the paper, show what 
il is, how much it gives in a year for less than hall a cent 
a day, or less than three cents a week, and few will fail 
to make so good an investment. They will thus be 
benefited, and you will soon have names enough to secure 
the premium for your trouble.— TRY IT!. ...To-day. 
If from any cause one fails to get the larger pre- 
mium desired, the names can be used for a smaller one. 
As fast as obtained send us the. names, that each 
subscriber maybegin to receive the paper, and when done 
canvassing, choose the premium, and it will be promptly 
furnished. Send the exact money with each list, and be 
sure to mark each list " For Premiums," W it is sode- 
signed, that you may be properly credited in our pre- 
mium record book. 
NOTE THE FOLLOWING 
Sundries :— Specimen numbers. Show-bills, etc., fur- 
nished free, on application, but sparingly, as they arc 
costly. . . NOW. in this winter season, is the best canvas- 
sing period, but three or four months can be taken to ex- 
tend clubs begun now Premium Clubs may contain 
names from different post-offices, if all are sent by one 
person Old and new subscribers are counted, but part 
should be new subscribers In the Table the regular 
cash price of each article is given ; and in the next column 
the number of names required at $1.50 each; and in the 
last column the number required at the lowest club price 
(of $1 a year, for twenty or more names.) Any one get- 
ting up a club at $1 or $1.35 each, can, if preferred, add 
money enough, to bring the names into the $1.50 column. 
— Remit in drafts or cheeks on New- York City banks, 
payable to the order of the Publishers ; or in Post-office 
money orders ; or in registered letters, if money must he 
sent Sec the Basket item about "lost letters,'' etc. 
Table of Premiums and Terms, 
For Volume 27— (1868). 
Open to all— No Competition. C 5 
.Ye. Names of Premium Articles. 
7— Sewing Machine (Ortmer t&Bakerl. 155 i 
8— Sewing Machine I Howe 31,,, hi „ i ... , 
9 — leiriug Machine iSiim/er's Tailoring) ..?S0 ( 
10 — Seicing Machine ( Florence, £(!:i ( 
11— Sewing Machine (WiuCoxch Qibbs) *:.-, i 
13— Sewing Machine t Finite d- Limn, . .SiJii 
IS-Seirino Machine I Wheel, r .[- Wilson 1 ..*:..-, I 
14— Washing Machine ilioiu* \ siti 
15— Clotlum Wringer (Best— Fui,e,s„i, , . sio ( 
16— Ten Set (Mart's best Silver Plated) S50 ( 
17— Castor and Fruit Basket (do. do.) S30 ( 
18— Iceor Water Pitcher (do. do.) J18 I 
19 — One Dawn Teaspoons "'". .»".'.... .-li I 
Table Spoons (do. do.). ..$121 
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77— A S-ir, library da. 
78-.1 830 Library do. 
79- I $35 Library do. 
80— .1 840 Library do. 
Rl-.l 845 Library do. 
H'i-A 850 Library do. 
S3— A §60 Library do. 
Hi— A 875 Library do. 
85— .t SlOO Library do, 
86— A Choice of Good Books (See Teems below.) ...•., 
Only good articles.— We are careful not 
to place "Jim, our list anything for 'i Premium which is nat 
11, ■ 1,,'t. ami. in all respects, what is claimed for it. All, 
tier, fme. aim secure premiums, may besun that they are 
,„„■ running th. risk of getting j><*u or indifferent goods. 
pg" No charge is made fur packing m boxing any of the 
a tide I,, inn Premium List. Tim forty-four Premiums, 
Nos. 1, 2, 6, and from 36 to 39, ami from 50 to 
86 inclusive, will each be delivered FREE of all charges, 
by mail or express, (at the Post-Qffic, o, ,.,/,,,■• attic, mm; i 
recipient), to any pkta in tin United Stateso) Territories, 
, cc, jiiim/lhas, leached only by the Oca-land Mail.— Tin other 
articles cent the recipient only the freight aft, r lacing the 
manufactory of each, by any conveyance that may be specified. 
>os. SO to CO — Volumes of the 
American Agriculturist (Unbound). — These 
amount to a large and valuable Library on all matters 
pertaining to the Farm, Garden, and Household, and con- 
tain more varied information on these subjects than can 
be obtained in books costing three times as much. We 
have stereotype plates from the Sixteenth to the Twenty- 
sixth Volume complete, from which wc print numbers as 
needed. The price of the volumes is $1.50 each, at the 
Office, or $1.75 if sent by mail, as they must be post-paid. 
They arc put up in clean numbers, with the Index to each 
