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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
AMKRKAi\ AGRICHTDR1ST. 
OBA.NOB Judd & Co., Publishers, 245 Broadway, N. Y. City. 
Anxttal Subscription Te"Rms falways in advance): $1.50 
Bach for less than four copies: Four to nine copies, $1.25 
each: Ten to nineteen conies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, ?l each. Tapers are addressed to each name. 
HOW TO GET: 
A Good Wateh— Free of Cost — a gen- 
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3-ounce Hunting-case — a capital time-piece that 
will stand you through life : Send 50 subscribers 
for the American Agriculturist at SI. 50 each, or 
150 at ?1.00 each, and you will get the watch free. 
OR—: A F,ady*s Gold Watch Free— 
a splendid article of Waltham make, sold usually 
for SlOO or more, and beautiful as a present to 
your wife or any oneehe ; Send 110 subscribers at the 
regular price of S1.50 a year. Others have done so. 
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the best in the world — containing 1851 great 3- 
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Siring every word in our language, correctly divided 
and spelled, witli very much information : Send 
only IS subscribers at $1.50 each, or 58 at $1 each ! 
OR—: A Sewing- Machine Free— a 
first-rate one, your choice of three kinds ; the best 
wife-saver, health-saver, money-saver, board-saver 
—just what is wanted in excry house : send 60 to TO 
subscribers (see table) at SI. 50 each; or 340 to 275 
at 81 each — easily obtained in most neighborhoods. 
OR—: Good Seeds Free— forty varieties 
of first-rate garden .seed, enough for almost any 
garden, (or, 1©« kinds of beautiful flower seeds) 
delivered to you free : Only 13 subscribers at 
$1.50 each, or 37 at $1 each, will bring the seeds. 
OR—: A Washing- Machine Free— 
the best one yet made : Send 21 subscribers at $1.50 
each, or 70 at $1 each. Multitudes have secured this. 
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3>R— : Splendid Breetling Sheep 
Free— either Cotswold or Southdowns, thorough- 
bred, raised by the best breeders. These sheep will 
multiply and diffuse their excellent qualities very 
rapidly, and one or more of them should be intro- 
duced into every neighborhood raising sheep : A 
clnb of 100 to 210 subscribers will secure one of them 
free! (See Nos. 13 to 20 in Table of Premiums.) 
OR—: The newest and host Potato 
Free— two pounds of "Brcsee's King of the 
Earlies," which is promised to eclipse even the 
Early Rose ! Two pounds of these will soon multi- 
ply to a large stock. Only 5 subscribers will bring 
you a post-paid 2-lb. parcel of these new potatoes. 
OR-: The hest Figs and Ponltry 
Free— the best home-bred, and imported speci- 
mens ; warranted pure by the reliable breeders who 
supply them for these premiums. Clubs of sub- 
scribers, numbering 22 to 66 names, will secure 
these animals without charge, and they are worth 
securing! (See Nos. 21 to 28 in Premium Table.) 
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every few weeks, and keep on doing so — both in 
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(See Nos. 60, 61, in Table of Premiums, next page.) 
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pieces, of splendid pattern, real substantial, durable 
double silver-plated, — not dressed up silver-washed 
stuff: Only 66 subscribers will secure this free ! 
OR—: Good Tools Free— not poor-tem- 
pered, iron things, but of the very best quality — a 
whole assortment of more than fifty pieces, just 
such as are really useful for yourself, and your sons, 
on the farm, and everywhere else, all in a neat chest, 
the whole worth at the lowest rate S44.50: Send 
only 60|subscribers at $1.50 each, or 190 at SI each ! 
OR—: An Aldcrney or Bcron Ball 
Free — very fine thorough bred animals, profitable 
to the owners, and they will add many times their 
cost to the value of the stock where they are used. 
A Club of 120 to 365 subscribers will bring one of 
these animals. (?ee Nos. 7 to 12 in Premium Table.) 
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Free — Castors, Fruit Baskets, the best plated 
large and small Spoons, Knives and Forks, etc., — 
all of extra make and quality, useful, ornamental, 
and durable. The Premium Table, Nos. 43 to 55, 
will show how few subscribers will secure these 
valuable articles. Any Lady can get these subscrib- 
ers almost anywhere ! Or Gentlemen, or Boys can 
get the premiums to give as presents to others. 
OR—: A §500 to £700 Shorthorn 
Bull Free — a superb, thoroughbred animal, from 
Jas. O. Sheldon's Herd, the finest one in the world 
— an animal that will soon increase the value of the 
stock in a neighborhood to the amount of many 
thousands of dollars. Let the farmers of any neigh- 
borhood combine and raise 425 to 580 subscribers, 
and own the bull in common : Or one person may 
raise the Club and he will soou derive a fine in- 
come from the animal. (See Premiums 1 to 3.) 
OR—: An Ayrsliire Bull Free— a fine 
thorough-bred animal raised by Wm. Birnic, which 
will soon show marked results in the improvement 
of the stock in a neighbood : Send 120 to 210 sub- 
scribers at $1.50, all of which may be easily gathered. 
OR—: A Magnificent Cyclopedia 
Free — of sixteen great volumes, giving compre- 
hensive descriptions of over 35,000 subjects, in- 
cluding every topic, person, place, and thing, you 
can think of, past and present — in short, a most 
complete and extensive Library in itself: All this 
will be presented in return for 96 subscribers ! 
OR—: S30 worth of Xnrsery Stock: 
Free— whatever you may choose to select from 
Eastern and Western growers of positive relia- 
bility: Send 30 subscribers at SL50, or 97 at SI each. 
OR — : Valuable Volumes of tlie 
American Agriculturist Free— for any 
year from 1857 to 1869. Each of these contain a 
great amount of information for the Farm, Garden,, 
and Household. 13 or 16 subscribers secure 3 vol- 
umes in numbers, or bound, sent post-paid. (See 
Nos. 8S to 99 in Premium Table.) 
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OR—: Excellent Boohs Free— those 
for the Farm, Garden, and Household, your choice 
out of more than a hundred. A very little time in 
gathering subscribers will bring you several of 
these volumes delivered free. (See Nos. 100 to 112. ) 
OR— i The Piano that Beats the 
World— (Steinway's of course.) One Lady se- 
cured Five of these, worth $3,250.00, between 
Sept., 1868, and July last, by sending subscribers 
to the American Agriculturist. Hundreds of other 
ladies may easily secure at least one. Hundred.; of 
others may secure the lower-priced but excellent 
Colibri Piano. (See Nos. 62, 63 in Premium Tal : I 
OR—: A Free Pocket Knife— just the 
one you want, or your Boy, or your Girl wants— 
not a wrought or cast-iron affair, but a tip-top steel 
blade and beautiful handle " better than the 
'Best!'" — Only 4-5, or 6 subscribers will secure 
one ! (See Nos. 56-7-S in Premium Table.) 
OR—: First-rate Family Scales— 
(Fairbanks' of course,) delicate enough to weigh 
half an ounce, and large enough to weigh yourself 
if you don't exceed 240 lbs ! "A very handy thing 
about the house " is such a pair of scales. Only 21 
subscribers will secure the scales! (Premium 83.) 
OR—: A Free Gold Feu— that will write 
beautifully for years — a genuine one in a real coin- 
silver case for the pocket, with ever-pointed pencil. 
Only 11 to 14 subscribers needed to get one of these 
fine pens. (See Nos. 73, 73 in Premium Table.) 
OR-: OR-: OR-: A Great Jlauj 
Other Good Things Free — "too numer- 
ous to mention," such as are named in the Premi- 
um Table, Nos. SO, 35, 39, 78, 79, 80, 81, 88; and 
last, not least, No. 85, to light your way ! 
SEE "Special Notes" on Next Page. 
