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Worth Looking" Into 
By Every One. 
Please Examine Carefully and Thought- 
fully the Contents of this and next Pages ; 
see what is said, and what is offered; it 
is eminently worthy of your attention. 
To Do Good 
AND 
at the same time 
Make Money 
is certainly desirable. Mere money making is 
a low pursuit — especially when what you gain 
some one else must lose. But when your gain 
is also profitable to friends and neighbors with 
whom you deal, it is very pleasing. This 
Is Just What is Proposed 
to You in these Pages. 
Two men, equal in physical and mental 
power, with equal advantages, commence to- 
gether in any pursuit — in trade, commerce, 
manufactures, mechanics, farming, gardening, 
fruit-growing, stock-raising, or anything else. 
One uses what knowledge he has, and toils on 
early and late ; he is neither idle nor lazy, but 
he depends mainly upon work alone. The 
second man does all this, but, in addition, he 
keeps his ears and eyes open ; he picks up every 
item of information he can gather from the ex- 
perience and practice of others, learning quite 
as much perhaps from their failures as from 
their successes. He not only takes time to go 
and see what others do and how they do it, but 
he carefully studies every written or printed 
scrap, showing what others are doing, how 
they do it, how and when and why they suc- 
ceed, and how and when and why they fail. 
This knowledge he utilizes in his own business, 
and he prospers, because he constantly 
Makes the Brains 
Help the Hands. 
The brute animal uses his muscles only ; the 
human animal reasons and studies how he can 
use his muscles, his toil, to the best advantage. 
>y so much more as a man cultivates, develops 
ad uses his thinking power, by so much more 
oes he rise above not only the brutes, bu( 
above his fellows who depend almost entirely 
upon their physical efforts — their hard work. 
A Bit of History, 
and what came of it. 
Nearly 40 years ago, a Young Man, brought 
up to hard work on a Western stumpy farm, 
had finished sowing three of four adjoining 
10-acre wheat fields, all similar in soil, etc. 
While his team was resting at eventide, he 
pored over books and papers, and catching at 
an item, he took a lantern, went to the barn, 
made a solution of tar and water, wet the re- 
maining wheat seed in it, and the next morn- 
ing dried it off with slaked lime, and sowed it 
on the fourth field. The result was, an excess 
of over 5 bushels per acre of nice plump wheat 
on the last 10 acres, which sold at $1.12+ per 
bushel. The tar cost about 25 cts. This single 
hint, gathered from reading, gave him at least 
$56.25....for 25 Cents. 
This led him, to figuring upon the profit of 
studying into the experiences of other people. 
He reasoned that if two millions of the farmers 
of our country should read enough to each get 
and turn to account only one such hint, in the 
course of a year, there would be an aggregate 
Gain of $113,000,000 ! 
He saw at a glance that if every tiller of the 
soil, every mechanic, etc., would only be on 
the sharp lookout for information, and could 
directly or indirectly learn what others were 
doing, and how they were doing, it would add 
greatly to tlie profit of each one's labors. He 
further saw, that as few men have time or 
money to travel round, it would be of great ad- 
vantage if some one would gather up a mass of 
useful, practical information, print it, and scat- 
ter it among all others of like occupations. But 
to do this well, the person doing it must him- 
self be educated by work, by practice, by a 
good deal of observation, and by study and 
discipline of his own mind. — His ambition was 
stirred to do something in this direction, and 
he began studying night and day, as far as 
necessary farm work would allow ; he dis- 
ciplined his mind to right thinking and reason- 
ing, by hard stud}- of mathematics, languages, 
etc. ; he went through the best Seminary, and 
then the best College course he could ; he 
traveled many hundreds of miles on foot 
through different parts of the country, to see 
how different men practiced. He afterwards 
shut himself up in one of the best Laboratories 
in the country, to study out what aid could 
be got from chemistry and other sciences in re- 
gard to soils, manures, food of animals, etc., 
etc. He at the same time attended Medical 
and other lectures, to learn something of the use 
and misuse of medicines, etc. He had scarce- 
ly gone through this course of study, and 
learned enough to know that many of the pre- 
tended discoveries in agricultural science were 
unreliable, when he was earnestly invited to 
New York to help Edit a Journal that had been 
struggling along for ten years. This was over 
twenty one years ago. Shortly after he invest- 
ed his all in purchasing the Journal, so that he 
could manage it according to his own views of 
what was needed. He laid out his plans, and 
has since followed them, as detailed below : 
1st.— To popularize the Journal by adapting 
the reading to the wants of the entire family— in 
Country, Village and City. 
3d.— To print nothing that could lead anybodyi 
astray, even if he had to leave out nine-tenths of; 
the sensational items that so often filled newspaperl 
columns, and even if he should sometimes be styled 
" old fogy," as was done. 
3d. — To call to his aid the best practical nun and 
women, and to get the best sifted information, at 
any cost, not only that the Journal should have 
powerful aid, and iu great variety, but so that it 
would go on as a permanent institution, should he 
himself fail in health or life. In fact, the paper 
was organized to run independently of himself, if 
need be. At its helm was placed Dr. George 
Thurber, one of the most practical men of our 
country, thoroughly informed in all departments. 
As assistants were engaged such men as Joseph 
Harris, formerly editor of the Genesee Farmer, and 
the cultivator of a large farm in Western New-York, 
whose " Walks and Talks," detailing his own daily 
experiences, his successes and failures, have been 
everywhere useful ; George E. Waring, Jr. , whose 
works and writings are widely known, and who cul- 
tivates a large farm in Rhode Island. With these 
are the quaint and practical Timothy Bunker, Esq.. 
Henry Stewart; Peter Henderson, the eminent 
ly successful gardener ; Hon. Frederick Mdench, 
of Missouri, and many others whose teachings, given 
from their practical experience, are held in the 
highest esteem by all who know them. The House- 
keepers and Childrens' Department have the aid of 
Faith Rochester, Aunt Sue, and others. All 
these, and many others, including hundreds of cor- 
respondents all over the country, have long given 
their best thoughts to this Journal, and still do so. 
i I !i . — To edit the Advertising Columns as well as 
the reading matter, and shut out all advertisements! 
of Patent Medicines, all secret things of uncertain' 
value, all unreliable persons and dealers, etc., so' 
that the whole paper, even to its advertising 
columns, should be entirely trustworthy. 
5tta. — To investigate and expose the various 
Humbugs that prey upon the ignorance of country 
and city. This department has shown up 2,000 
swindles, and saved the people millions of dollars. 
Ctli. — To supply the Journal at the bare cost of 
printing paper and press-work, depending upon fu- 
ture good advertisements to pay other expenses, 
and supply any reasonable profit, etc. 
7tli. — To push the paper into the hands of 
the great mass who would be benefited by it.j 
|3p~ As experience, facilities, and means increas- 
ed, the scope of this paper has been further en- 
larged to meet the wants of the entire country, es- 
pecially as a Family Journal. The Engraver's art 
has been called in, and Illustrations which teach so 
much more and faster than mere printed words 
can do, have been largely introduced — not ink 
daubs, but finely cut, beautiful pictures, executed 
in the highest style of the art. 
The Result. 
The above Journal, still called by its original 
name, the " American Agriculturist" — though 
having now a far wider range than is implied 
in its mere name — has found a hearty welcome 
everywhere, not only in the Country, and Cities, 
and Villages of every part of the American 
Continent, but it circulates largely in Australia, 
and in the Islands of the Pacific, in distant 
Asia, along the coast and northern regions ol 
Africa, away in Russia, and elsewhere through- 
out Europe. For seventeen years it has been is- 
