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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[NoVEltBER, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Orange Judd & Co., Publishers, 345 Broadway, N. T. City. 
Annual Subscription Tkkms (always in advance) : $1.50 
rach for less than four copies: Four to nine copies, $1.25 
each: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and npwards, $1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
STILL BETTER! 
ONE HUNDRED 
AND FIVE 
Most Valuable 
PREMIUMS. 
Open to all the world. — Anybody may 
get one or more of them, — Premiums 
offered for a definite number of names, 
so that one's success does not hinder 
another. — No competition, except for the 
single animals, and for these only to see 
who shall call for them first. — Enough 
Premiums of each kind (except animals) 
to supply one or more to every neighbor- 
hood in the United States, JBritish 
America, and elsewhere. — Every article 
offered warranted of the very best kind, 
and true to the description. — Terms 
liberal, and conditions easy. — LARGE 
PAV for LITTLE WORK. Something 
for you, Reader I — Something useful and 
desirable for Farm, Garden, and House- 
hold — for Man, Woman, and Child. 
The election excitement being now 
about over, we can all turn our atten- 
tion to regular duties and business. 
The Publishers of this paper are at 
theirs. First, they are laying large 
plans for furnishing the best possible 
paper during 1869 — one that shall be 
valuable to everybody — valuable for its 
great amount of useful, reliable informa- 
tion on everything that pertains to in- 
door and out-door practical life — to the 
young as well as to the old. They will 
provide beautiful and instructive En- 
gravings, without limit as to number 
and cost; In short, they will — guided 
by long experience, and with uulimited 
resources — aim to supply the best paper 
possible to be made. — Second, they will 
seek to place this journal within the 
reach of everybody. The price will be 
kept down to the lowest possible limits 
— depending, as heretofore, upon in- 
creased circulation to meet increased 
expenses. — Third, they will try to have 
everybody take and read the paper who 
will be benefited by it, — and who will 
not? But this is a great country, and 
though almost everybody knows of the 
paper, not one in ten knows its value, 
and how cheap it is. The Publishers, 
therefore, solicit the kind words and 
deeds of the present readers in making 
the paper known in every household. 
As an incentive, or reward, or recognition 
for aid of this kind, the Publishers offer 
a great variety of valuable presents or 
Premiums to all those who will give a 
little time (but very little is required) to 
increasing the circulation of the paper. 
Please look over the table of Premium 
Articles, and the description of them 
published last month (another copy 
will be sent when desired,) select what- 
ever is most wanted, and you can get it. 
We know these articles are all good, and 
take great pleasure in sending them 
out, aside from any pecuniary advantage 
derived. Thousands of letters of thanks 
have been received from those who have 
hitherto secured our various premiums. 
Our list was very comprehensive last 
month, but we are now able to add 
some fine Devons (premiums 101 to 105 
— see descriptions) so that the list for 
1869 is quite complete. We are ready to 
begin sending these premiums out at once 
— indeed, many have already obtained 
them. A Western Lady has secured a 
8650 Piano since Sept. 1st for premium 
subscribers. All subscribers for 1869 can 
begin now, without additional expense. 
See page 394. Will you take one of these 
premiums, this year, Reader? Suppose 
you try and secure it during November. 
EXPLANATION.— Oar immense circulation en- 
ables us to do tilings on an extensive scale, and doing this, 
adds again to our circulation. We spend large sums for 
engravings, for collecting information, etc., and it costs 
no more for all these to supply half a million subscribers 
than it would half a thousand. There is but one office, 
one set of editors, engravers, etc., to be supported, and 
we can thus furnish a superior paper at an exceed- 
ingly low price — We expend all the subscription money, 
and tens of thousands of dollars more, in simply getting 
up and furnishing the paper itself, and yet make a satis- 
factory profit, besides paying all the premiums. Our un- 
precedented circulation makes every line very valuable to 
advertisers, who gladly pay a large price to reach so many 
people— especially as they know we shut out humbugs 
and unreliable parties from our advertising columns. 
So our advertisements furnish money to pay premiums : 
the premiums get more subscribers ; more subscribers 
add to the value of the advertisements, and thus we get 
more money for more premiums. The whole thing is 
simple, and only requires courage and enterprise to carry 
it out. Even-body gets a very good and very cheap paper ; 
and thousands of people get good premium articles— jtist 
such as they want — simply by making up clubs of sub- 
scribers. Your opportunity to do this. Reader, is ju-t :i- 
good as that of any other person in the world. What 
premium will you have ? Further on we tell how to get it. 
It Pays DOIBLT to try for our Pre- 
miums. A few odd hours' work, with a copy 
of the paper to show, will collect enough sub- 
scribers to secure one of the fine articles in 
our list. As a business, some Gentlemen, several 
boys, and many Ladies, canvassed for subscribers, 
received various premiums, sold them for cash, and 
made high wages. One Lady thus made $1,200 in 
less than 6 months the past year. Others made 
$150 to $250 each, in single months.— Again, Ev- 
erybody that circulates the Agriculturist, and thus 
gets more people to reading and thinking, is doing 
a good work for the country. Twenty -five copies 
circulating in a neighborhood will stimulate 
thought and enterprise that will soon increase 
tue value of all the property in the place. 
Presents. — Many persons make up clubs 
and secure onr premium articles, as sewing 
machines, silver sets, etc., lor presents to a 
wife or friend. Many neighborhoods make up 
clubs for sewing inachiues to be given to poor 
widows, or to a Pastor's wife. Scholars unite and 
get a Watch for a teacher, a Melodeon for their 
school room, and so on. 
Read and carefully note the fol- 
lowing: (a) Get subscribers anywhere ; all sent by one 
person count together, though from one or a dozen 
different Post-Offices. But (b) Say with each name 
or list of names sent, that it is for a premium list, and we 
will so record it (c) Send the names as fast as obtain- 
ed, that the subscribers may begin to receive the paper at 
once. Any time, from one to six months, will be allowed, 
to fill up your list as large as you may desire. The pre- 
mium will be paid whenei-er you call for it id) Send 
the exact money with each list of names, so that there 
may be no confusion of money accounts {e) Old and 
new subscribers all count in premium clubs, but a portion, 
at least, should be new names ; it is partly to get these 
that we offer premiums to canvassers. N. B. — The extra 
copy to clubs of ten or twenty is not given where pre- 
mium articles are called for (/) Specimen Numbers. 
Cards, and Show-bills, will be supplied free as needed by 
canvassers, but they should be used carefully and econom- 
ically, for every extra copy of the paper costs, with the 
2c. prepaid postage, about 12 cents.... (g) Remit money 
in Checks on New York Banks or Bankers payable to 
order of Orange Judd & Co., or send Post-Office Money 
Orders. If neither of these is obtainable, Register 
