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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
ORS.SSE Jcdd di Co., Publishers, 245 Broadway, X. T. City. 
Asxdai, SrcscnipTiox Terms (always in advance) : §1.50 
each for less than fonr copies: Four to nine copies. 81.25 
each: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
anil upwards, f 1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
A Genuine "Gift Enterprise." 
Eighty Thousand 
Valuable Articles. 
Worth from £5 to $650 Each, 
OFFERED TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS, 
FREE of CHARGE. 
The above, if unexplained, would appear a little 
startling, in a journal that constantly exposes the 
frauds of " Qift Enterprises" but tliis is agi n uin> 
affair, meaning just what is announced, as ex- 
plained below. Please examine it carefully. 
Our circulation is so large, and the cost 
of providing an office', editors, engravers, 
printers, stereotypers, and of collecting in- 
formation, etc., etc., is divided among so 
many, that we can furnish a paper uu- 
equaled for size, beauty, and real value, 
at a very low price. Then, the great cir- 
culation makes our advertising pages so 
valuable that we have a large surplus to 
give in good premiums to those who aid 
in keeping up and increasing the number 
of subscribers from year to year. There 
are tens of thousands of people who 
gladly subscribe for a journal of this 
kind, when saved the trouble of annually 
writing and remitting money for it, by 
some one who acts as " agent." 
We therefore wish, in some way, to re- 
munerate one or more persons at < very 
post-office for collecting and forwarding 
the names and money of old subscribers 
and enlisting new ones. To save im- 
mense correspondence, and obviate in- 
quiry about the responsibility of local 
agents, we simply offer definite premiums, 
open to all alike, so that everybody de- 
siring to do so can gather a list of names 
where he or she is acquainted, and thus 
secure the premiums. By large cash pur- 
chases, at wholesale prices or less, and 
by special advertising arrangements, we 
are able to select first-class articles, such 
as are everywhere wanted, and offer far 
larger- remuneration than we could pos- 
sibly pay in cash, while the premiums are 
equal to cash. Many persons canvass as 
a business, receive and sell the premiums 
at the regular price, and thus obtain 
much higher wages or salary than they 
could obtain in any other way. Some per- 
sons (including several ladies) have thus 
realized §200 to $800 each, during the 
past three months ! There is abundant 
room for many thousands of others to 
engage in the same business, though our 
general aim is to enlist one to five residents 
near each post-office, who will work from 
year to year, and receive some premium 
article each year that may be a useful 
keepsake. So much for the general aim 
and results of our premium scheme. 
Now about the heading of this article : 
There are over 30,000 post-offices with- 
in the bounds of our circulation in the 
United States and Territories, the Do- 
minion, etc., having around them an 
average of about "200 families each, some 
much more, and others much less than 
this. At many of these offices we have 
two, three, four, and five premium clubs, 
numbering from a dozen to five hundred 
in a club, and averaging about thirty. 
From our premium books we estimate 
that one premium club of a dozen or 
more could easily be gathered at every 
one of the 30,000 post-offices. There 
is that number of families or persons 
who would be benefited by the paper 
far beyond its cost, and who would 
take it if properly presented by a home 
canvasser. Judging from what has been 
done in many places, which are fair ex- 
amples of all others, there can be two pre- 
mium clubs, at one-sixth of these offices ; 
at another sixth, three clubs ; at another 
sixth, four clubs; and at another sixth, 
five such clubs, leaving 10,000 to have 
only one club each. This gives a total 
of 80,000 premium lists to be easily 
gathered, if enterprising persons simply 
take the work in hand. (This, at an 
average of thirty to a club, would sup- 
ply less than one family in six with the 
paper.) Now we offer one of our premi- 
ums for every club that shall be forward- 
ed, even up to 80,000 ! Our premiums are 
standard articles, of which any required 
supply can be furnished (excepting only 
the animals), and we have the facilities for 
giving 80, or 80,000 premiums, or more ! 
Well, friends, the object of the above 
is to show that there is an almost un- 
limited field for us and for you. One- 
half of all our present subscribers, on an 
average, may each get a premium. We 
are ready to do our part well and 
promptly. It gives us great pleasure 
to send oft' load after load of these fine 
premium articles, and, as we know by 
thousands of letters from those who have 
had them, they give great satisfaction and 
pleasure on their arrival. We have been 
sending them oft* daily for nearly three 
months past, in return for subscribers 
sent in for next year. This month of 
DECEMBER 
is a Harvest Month — the best of the year 
for raising large as well as small premium 
lists rapidly. The Editors are hard at 
work getting up a valuable and beautiful 
number for January 1st, and those whose 
names come in soon will have it in hand 
before New Year's Day. Send names in 
as fast as secured, so that the paper may 
be promptly received by each, and at 
any time within six months, (when the 
list is as large as you can make it), choose 
the premium and it will be promptly 
sent. The Table of Premiums and notes 
accompanying, give all needed particu- 
lars. For full description of each Pre- 
mium, see October number, with addi- 
tions in November ; or send for an extra 
copy of the Descriptive List, which is 
furnished free to any one desiring it. 
Now, Friends, one and all, we respect- 
fully solicit your earnest and immediate 
co-operation in swelling our roll of readers, 
far beyond all former years, not only for 
the good the paper will do those who 
receive and read it, but for the pleasure 
