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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[February, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Otunge Judd & Co., Publishers, 245 Broadway, N. T. City. 
Annual Subscription Terms (always in advance) : $1.50 
ouch for less Mian four copies: Four to nine copies, $1.25 
each: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, $1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
GEEAT SUCCESS 
AMONG OUR 
Canvassers for Premiums. 
Unprecedented lumbers of Sub- 
scribers Received — CJrent Loads 
of* Premiums, large and small, 
sent out Daily — Our Canvassers 
unusualiy successful almost ev- 
cryvrlierc TIic Work still in 
rapid Progroos — Plenty of Room 
and Time tor tilling' up Premium 
Lists already begun, and for 
starting new Lists — Pine Premi- 
ums for Everybody, bis Wile, 
'• and (lie Rest of Mankind " 
(yourself included.) 
Though highly successful in past years, yet never be- 
fore has this Journal received such large daily accessions 
of subscribers as have poured in since last Christmas. 
For days together the mails o!each SM hours have brought 
in above 2000 subscribers, several times running up 
to over 2600 and 2S0O, and but once going so low as 
1600 per day. Seven days alone added 16, 2 7 -J names 
to our subscription books. Our premium clerks have 
had to work long after midnight to square up their accounts 
and prepare for dispatching, the next morning, the loads 
of Sewing Machines, Books, Back Volumes, Seeds, Clolhes- 
Wringers, Silver-ware, Meto&eom, Watches, Guns, Tool- 
chests, etc., etc., including all the articles down through 
the whole table of Premiums. (See next column). With 
a few exceptions the universal report is, that people 
were never more willing and anxious to supply them- 
selves with the Agriculturist, and thus the premiums 
have been secured with unusual ease by the great ma- 
jority of those who have begun to make up clubs. 
It may well be so, for the paper is certainly very cheap 
and very useful to every family in the land. Why, leav- 
ing out all the reading matter, the engravings would alone 
be worth far more than the subscription price ! Every 
intelligent person will notice that these engravings are, in 
character and workmanship, superior to those published 
In any other illustrated journal in the country — superior 
even to the illustrated journals printed abroad. At least 
SI 0,000 worth of engravings will be published in the 
Agriculturist this year alone. But these constitute only 
a small part of the value of the Agriculturist. 
Our friends everywhere may now start new pre- 
mium clubs, and secure valuable and very desirable articles 
in return for a few hours 1 or days 1 work. — In every town 
Of 500 families, at least 200 to 300 copies of this paper 
would be taken, if some persons would simply present it, 
show its advantages, and take the trouble to gather up 
and forward the subscriptions, in return for which they 
would secure valuable premiums. The exposures of 
Iliimbugs have saved in hundreds of towns far more 
than the cost of supplying a regular copy to every family. 
February and Mareli are first-rate months 
for canvassing. People are planning ahead for the work 
of the year, and they will be quite ready to secure the 
aid, the hints and suggestions afforded by the pages of 
this journal. In tens of thousands of cases, a single hint 
received from this paper has in the end proved of far 
more value than the cost of a dozen or twenty years 1 sub- 
scription. We invite all who have obtained premiums to 
strike for another one ; some have already taken tw« to 
five or more ; and let those who have not tried it, make 
the experiment this winter. Our premiums are standard 
articles, and a supply can be obtained for all who will 
call for them, during two or three months to come. 
Table of Premiums and Terms, v « ' Number 
For Volume 27-I1S6S). |§ "',-n',l% 
■£l required 
Open to all— \o Competition. r;j|| ,,, , „ ( 
No. Names nf Premium Articles. 
Family (40 kinds 
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.$211 III) 
.$18 nn 
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.$12 nn 
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$11:5 nn 
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(55 nn 
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.$60 00 
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.$11 nn 
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$1(1 nn 
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Tumminasd) MiUer's Architect. 
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S S $40 00 
~~ $45 00 
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:-• $1,1 II 
B $T5 00 
if(f lavrun-y . ) > $100 00 
80— .4 Choice of Good Books {See Terms below.) . 
so -.1 840 /><<, 
85— A £100 Library 
Only good articles.— We are careful not 
to place v]x>n our list anything for a Premium ivhich Is not 
the best, and-, in all respects, what is claimed for it. All, 
therefore, who secure premiums, may besure that they are 
not running the risk of getting poor or indifferent goods. 
J^"" No charge is made for packing or boxing any article 
in our Premium List. The forty four Premiums, viz., 
Nos. 1, 2, 6, and from 36 to 39, a nd from 50 to 
86 inclusive, will each be delivered FKEE of all charges. 
by mail or express, (at the Port-Office or express office nearest 
recipient), to any place in the United States or Territories, 
excepting those reached only by the Overland Mail.— The other 
articles cost the recipient only the freight after tearing the 
manufactory of each, by any conveyance that may be sped fed. 
It is Easier than one would suppose, to 
get tip a preminm list ! Hundreds have written thug, after 
a little experience. Take a copy of the paper, show what 
it is, how much it gives in a year for less than half 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 yon 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 may begin 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 bo 
sure to mark each list " Wor Premiums" if it is so de- 
signed, that you may be properly credited in our pre- 
niium record book. 
Sundries :— Specimen numbers, Show-bills, etc., fur- 
nished free, on application, but sparingly, as they are 
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 arc 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 $1.25 each, can, if preferred, add 
money enough to bring the names into the $1.50 column. 
Remit in drafts or checks on New-York City banks, 
payable to the order of the Publishers ; or in P. O. money 
orders'; or in registered letters, if money must be sent. 
Full Descriptions of tlie Premiums were 
published in October No., and also on a separate sheet, 
which will be sent free to any one desiring it. The ar- 
ticles named in the table are all very valuable. We can 
only spare room here for the few notes following : 
Nos. SO to GO — Volumes or 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 we 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 are put up in clean numbers, with the Index to each 
volume. They are profusely Illustrated, the Engravings 
used in them having alone cost above Twenty Thousand 
Dollars ! Those obtaining premiums for from one to ten 
volumes, can select any volumes desired, from XVI to 
XXVT, inclusive. For ordinary use, the sets of numbers 
unbound will answer quite well. —Many hundreds of 
these volumes are taken every year as premiums. 
E^F** In Nos. 61 to 71 we offer the bound volumes also. 
r*os.74to85— GOOD I.IBKAKIES. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of Books for 
the Farm, Garden, and Household. The per- 
son entitled to any one of the premiums 74 to 85, may 
select any books desired from the list below, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the books will be forward- 
ed, paid through to the nearest Post-Office, or Express 
office, as we may find it most convenient to send them. 
We need not enlarge upon these premiums ; every one 
knows the value of good books. Twenty-five or Fifty 
dollars' worth of books on subjects pertaining to the farm 
will give the boys new ideas, set them to thinking and 
observing, and thus enable them to make their heads 
help their hands. Any good book will, in the end. be of 
far more value to a youth than to have an extra acre of 
land, on coming to manhood. The thinking, reasoning, 
