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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[March. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Orvnge Judd & Co., Publishers. 2J5 Broadway, N. Y. City. 
. Annual Subscription Terms (always in advance") : $l.r>0 
each for less than four copies: Four to nine copies, $J.-5 
each: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
mid upwards, $1 each. Papers arc addressed to each name. 
ISScS ~~onT 
March is an excellent month for goin^ forward with 
the premium lists. Many thousands of these clubs are 
In progress all over the continent, and beyond, and one 
or more instalments of names have already come in. 
These may all be filled during March, and the premiums 
obtained. So also may thousands of new clubs be started 
and quickly tilled. Our premiums named in the next 
column arc splendid articles, worth working hard for, yet 
many get them with very little work or trouble. Very many 
have earned from one to five dollars an hour for all their 
time actually spent in canvassing. A clergyman brought 
ns on Thursday a list of ninety-six subscribers, gathered 
in his country village parish since Monday morning, 
and took home the $S0 Cyclopedia, which was just what 
his library needed A little country school-boy obtained 
a $1* Worcester Dictionary in two days of Holiday 
Week, by obtaining nineteen subscribers. He will make 
his way in the world, and so will a good many others of 
these active boys who exercise their business tact and 
cultivate their talents for persuading, while gathering up 
these premium lists. It would be a good business exer- 
cise and a development of tact, even were there no pe- 
cuniary reward for it. One of the most successful news- 
paper Publishers in New York, once a farmer boy, says he 
learned the secret of his success and acquired the mental 
and business training that has made him successful, by 
canvassing for subscribers to a newspaper as a means of 
paying his way at school. It would be a useful exercise 
for every boy in the country to take a little practice in 
the kind of business exercise required to tdl the good 
qualities of a newspaper, magazine, or book, and show 
how much one subscribing for and reading it would be 
benefited And it would do the Girls good to cultivate 
a little of the same business talent. Many girls, some of 
them quite young, are the happy possessors of a pair of 
fowls, a lot of flower seeds, a set of spoons for mother's 
table, a dictionary, etc., etc., received from this office for 
lists of subscribers they have themselves gathered 
Hundreds of acres of grass will be cut next season with 
Mowers secured by a few days' time spent in getting up 
subscription lists. Had we space, we could go through 
the whole table in the next column, and tell interesting 
incidents concerning the various articles — how they have 
been obtained by those who desired them, without money 
nud with no real loss of time. Those ladies who are 
earning from $300 to $-2,500 each, in canvassingfor premi- 
ums and selling them this year, don't permit us to pub- 
lish their names. They are doing a good work for them- 
selves, and for the sluggish people they arc getting to 
read and think Well, we would like to stir up a few 
thousand more to go and do likewise. There ought to 
be one in every neighborhood, at every Tost-office, who 
will raise a larger or smaller premium list. TTe Jcnoiv it 
can be done at every Post-office. Suppose, Reader, that 
you attend to the work in your neighborhood. No mat- 
ter if some one has made up a list, there are plenty more 
people who need the paper, and would take it if it were 
properly shown. Pick out some article in the table, a 
small one first, perhaps, and by the time you get names 
enough for that, you will be likely to choose a larger ar- 
ticle instead, and get it. So it has worked in hundreds 
of instances. This month, people are waking up from 
the sleep of winter, and casting about for the summer 
work. The Agriculturist will give them many hints and 
suggestions that will put them on the road to better field 
crops, better garden plots, finer flowers, and better house- 
keeping. Get them to try it this year; you will receive 
their future thanks, and your present reward from the 
Publishers in the premium article you maybe able to call 
for. Try it this first week in March. MARCH ON! 
[In this table are given the regular casli prices of each 
article, and the number of subscribers required at $1.50 a year, 
to get it free, also at the lowest club rate of $1 a year. For 
full descriptions of the articles see extra sheets, sent free.] 
Tabic of Premiums ami Terms, 
For Volume S8— (1869). 
Open to all— No Competition. 
*I 
Karnes of Premium Articles. 
■Ayrshire Hull, " Werner." $550 00 
-Ayrshire Hull. "Duke of Hartford," . .$200 00 
■Ayrshire Hull, "McKeown," $'00 oo 
■Ayrshire Hull, '•Malvern," $:oo oo 
■Ayrshire Bull Citif $80 00 
-Alderney Hull, "waehnsett," $300 00 
Alderney Bull, " Alleghany," $'00 00 
Colswnld Ham S-'OO 00 
■ CotSWOld Bam $200 00 
■ Colswnld Ram $100 00 
. CotSWOld Eire $100 00 
Cotswold Bice $ioo oo 
-La Fleche Fowls, one Pair $40 00 
■HotuUni Fowls, one Pair $10 00 
-Crevecatur Fowls, one Pair $40 00 
■Black Spanish Fowls, one Pair £25 00 
■Hrahmas, Light, one Pair $15 00 
Early Base Potato, I Three lb. parcel). .$3 00 
Garden Seeds for a Familu (40 Aim's). .$5 00 
Flower Seeds for a Family (100 kinds)., .fe oo 
■Nursery Stork (any kinds desired) $30 00 
Set of Field Croquet $8 00 
■Sewing 
Sruiinf 
Saving 
Sewing 
Sewing 
Sewing 
Machine ( Wlieeler it ll'!tom)..$55 00 
Machine (Grover A Baker).. $.v, M 
Machine (Howe Machine Co.). .$60 00 
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59- 
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63 
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64 
65 
66- 
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68 
69 
711 
71 
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75- 
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77 
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7'.( 
80 
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84 
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86 
87- 
88- 
89- 
911- 
91- 
9'i- 
93- 
94- 
95- 
90- 
97- 
98- 
00- 
1011 
101 
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103 
100 
Machine ( Florence) $03 00 
Machine (Singer's Tailoring) ..$80 00 
Machine (WlScoxd) Gibb.t)... .$55 00 
Sewing Machine (Finkle d- Lyon) $00 00 
Washing Machine (Doty's) ' $14 00 
■ Clothes Wringer {.Best—Universal) $10 00 
Tea Set ( Harts best Silrer Plated) $50 00 
■ Castor and Fruit Basket (do. do.) $30 00 
-Ice.or Water Pitcher (do. do.). ...$18 00 
■One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. do.) $0 00 
■ One Dozen Tablespoons (do. do.) $12 00 
One Dozen Dining Forks (do. do.) $12 00 
Tea Knives and Forks (Patterson Bros.)§'20 00 
Table TCnires and Forks (do. do.) ... .$•>.) 00 
Carring Knife and Fork (do. do.) $5 00 
Melodeon, i-octave( a. A. Prince <t Co.'s) $o; on 
Melodeon, S-octave (do. do.) $113 00 
■Piano, Splendid 7-OCt.(SteinwayitSons)t650 00 
Colibri Piano (Harlow, Dochler <(■ Co..)$150 00 
Silver Watch (American Watch Co.)... .$40 00 
Ladies Fine Gold Watch I Am. Watch Co) $100 00 
Doable. Bbl. Gun ( Cooper, Harris tt //..)$30 00 
Repealing Shot Gun (Roper Rifle Co.). .$60 00 
Tool Chest ( Patterson Bros.) $14 50 
Case of Mathematical Instruments $9 00 
Case, of Mathematical Instruments $15 00 
■ Gold L'en.Sil. Case, E.(WurrriniSpadnne) Hi 50! 
Gold Pen and Silrer Case, F. (do. do.). $5 50, 
1 . . $1 ' 
I sa $3 ! 
Barometer ( Woodruff's Mercurial) $12 00 
Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) $18 00 
Buckeye Mowing Machine. Ko.'i. ,. $125 00 
■Allen's Potent Cylinder /'low, etc $10 50 
Collins it Co.'s Cast Cast-Steel Plow... .$25 oo 
Pump and Sprinkler (Page's) $5 oo 
Family Scabs- (Fairbanks' <t Co.) $11 On 
Building Blocks (Craudall) $2 oo 
Pocket Lanterns, One Dozen $0 00 
■American Cyclopedia (Appleton's) $80 00 
Worcester's Great Illustrated LHctionaryiii 00 
-Any Back Volume Agriculturist 
-Any Too Back Volumes do. 
-Any Three do. do. do. 
-Any Four do. do. do. 
Any Ftre do. do. do. 
(Bach added Vol. at same rale) 
Twelve Vols. XVI to XXVII 
Any Hack Volume Agriculturist 
Any Two Hark Volumes do. 
iny Three do. do. do. 
Any Four do. do. do. 
Any Fire do. do. do. 
t Each added Vol. at same rate) 
Twelve IV*'. XVIto XXVII 
A SIO Library ( )'o icr Choice) . . 
A SI.", Library 
A S<£0 library 
.1 $'25 Library 
A 830 Library 
.1 S35 Library 
A 840 Library 
.1 S4 5 Library 
.1 §50 Library 
.1 $00 Library 
.1 $7 5 Library 
A SlOO Library 
do. 
do. 
do. 
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do. 
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Choice of Good Banks (See Terms below. )\ 
•Devon Bull" Gen. Lyon" $250 00 
Heron Bull "Jack" $150 00, 
Devon Hull " Bloodgood" $125 00 
Breech-loading Pocket Blfle $ 16 001 
$21 00 
. $2 50 
."2 $5 oo 
"=■-$" 50 
5 ^$io oo 
fgS*U 50 
I "^ $30 00 
•a -$10 00 
S«$15 00 
J S$30 00 1 
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R '~$15 00 
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Xumber 
of .sub- 
scribers 
required 
til I fit 
$1.50 [ $1. 
700 
G50 
050 
050 
325 
840 
050 
650 
050 
a5o 
350 
350 
150 
150 
150 
120 
75 
25 
37 
37 
97 
53 
2'lii 
310 
270 
275 
320 
210 
370 
70 
53 
235 
110 
90 
45 
05 
G5 
97 
116 
37 
295 
400 
1600 
1150 
150 
330 
150 
270 
190 
12! 
58 
65 
100 
as 125 
44 111 
50 1(3 
177 
192 
ISF'Erery Premium article is new and of the very best 
manufacture. No charge is made far packing or boxing 
any article in our Premium list. The thirty-two Premiums, 
Nos. 29, 30, 31, 61, 02, 63, 61, and 76 to 
1 OO inclusive, will each be delivered FREE of all charges, 
by vutil or express, {at the Post-office or express office nearest 
recipient), to any place in the United States or 7* rri lories. 
— Tlte other articles cost the recipient only the freight after 
leaving Vie manufactory of each, by any conveyance specified. 
It end and carefully Note (He fol- 
lowing : (a) Get subscribers anywhere ; all sent by one 
person count together, though from one or a dozen 
different Post-offices. But... (6) Say with each name 
cr 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 three months, will be allowed 
to fill up your list as lai'ge as you may desire. The pre- 
mium will be paid whenever you call for it (77) 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 the premiums (/) 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 
Money Letters, affixing stamps both for the postage and 
registry ; put in the money and seal the letter in the pres- 
ence of the Postmaster, and take his receipt for it. 
Money sent in any of the above ways is at our risk. 
If from any Cause one fails to get. the larger pre- 
mium desired, the names can be used for a smaller one. 
A Full Description of the Premiums is 
given on an extra sheet; a copy will be sent free to every 
one desiring it. For Xew Premium 100, sec page 32, 
January No. We have only room here for the following : 
No. 43— Oloiiltes-Wi-iiiig'iBis-^Baolhiuo. 
—A very useful, time-saving, strength-saving, clothes- 
saving implement, that should be in every family. The 
wringing of clothes by hand is hard upon the hands, 
arms, and chest, and the twisting stretches and breaks 
the fibres with lever power. With the Wringing Ma- 
chine, the garments are passed rapidly between elastic 
rollers, which press the water out better than hand wring- 
ing, and as fast as one can pick up the garments. 
Nos. 76 to SI — Volumes of llie 
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. Wo 
have stereotype plates from the Sixteenth to the Twenty- 
seventh Volume complete, from which we print numbers 
as needed. The price of the volumes is $1.50 each, at the 
Oflice, or $1.75 if sent by mail, as they must be post-paid. 
They arc put up in clean numbers, with full Index to 
each volume. They are profusely Illustrated, the 
Engravings used in them having alone cost about 
$40,000. Those obtaining premiums for less than twelve 
volumes can select any volumes desired, from 10 to 27. 
Nos. 82 to S7 — IBoiodkiI VoJstines of 
Agriculturist.— These are the same as Xos. 76 to SI 
above, but are neatly boundin uniform style, and cost 
us more for the binding aud postage. Sent post-paid. 
Nos.SSiio 9«>-«(JMl>El> n.UBBBS ABSIES. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of B ooks for 
the Farm, Garden, and frSouscho'cl. The per- 
son entitled to any of the premiums SS to 00 may select 
any books desired from the list on 3d cover page, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the bonks will be forward- 
ed, paid through to the nearest Post-Otlice, or Express 
office, as we may find it most convenient to send them. 
No. lOO — <T»<'Jieifail ItooTk Pi-eisiioniii : 
Any one not desiring the specific Book premiums, KS to 00, 
may select Books from list on cover, to the amount of 
10 cents' worth for each subscriber sent at $1: or 30 
cents for each name sent at the (ten) club price of $1.20 
each: or CO cents' worth for each name at $1.50. 
Tliis offer is only for clubs of 23 or more. The books 
will be sent by mail or express, prepaid through by us. 
A Few B>ollai-s* worth of books 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 tho 
end, be of far more value to a youth than to have an ex- 
tra acre of land on coming to manhood. The thinking, 
reasoning, observing man, will certainly make more oft* 
from 40 acres than he would offfroni DO acres without the 
mental ability which reading will give him. Far better 
to sell the acre of land, thau do without the books. 
Several good books arc announced in the Advertising 
columns, and in the list on the 3d cover page. 
No. IOC— Poelset ISiflle.— (Breech Load- 
ing).— A full description of this beautiful implement, with 
illustrations, was given on page 32, of Jan. No. No one 
who enjoys shooting, or who has occasion to carry a light 
but effective weapon in traveling or while at work, will 
regret the trouble required to gather the 24 (oris) subscrib- 
ers required to secure this weapon free. ZWlt any one 
docs not care for the mahogany case, wo will present the 
weapon all complete, with extension breech and 100 car- 
tridges, on receipt of 18 subscribers for 1S09 at $1 .50 each, 
all packed in a strong pasteboard box, neatly papered, 
