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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[March, 
GREAT DEDUCTION. 
DUTY OFF 
TEAS AND COFFEES. 
Increased Fa< il i; i< -a to Club Organizers. 
Send for New Price-List. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 
(P. O. Box 5613.) 
SI and 33 Vcsey St., New Tork. 
WOOD, TABEK & MORSE, 
Eaton, Madison Co. 
w. y. 
MANUFACTURERS OF 
Steam-Engines, 
Portable, Stationary, and 
Agricultural. 
Hundreds in use in Shops, Print- 
ing Rooms, Mills, Mines, and on 
Farms and Plantations for Grain 
Threshing; Food Cooking for 
Stock.Cotton Ginning, Sawing, etc. 
Circulars sent on application. 
In the Fields again with Prof. Gray ! 
STANDARD 
Botanical Text-Books 
By ASA GRAY, M.D., Fisher Prof. Harvard University. 
More Exteasively in Use than all Others Combined. 
Thin justl// celebrated series of Text- Boots prwiits the 
latest and most accurate Principles of 
Botanical Science. 
HOW PLANTS GKOW.— The most charming Elementary 
Scientific Text-Boob ever published. Fully illustrated. 
Price. 81.13. 
THE SCHOOL AND FIELD BOOK.-The most thorough, 
practical, and best adapted work- for class use published. 
Peeommfiided by the most eminent Professors and Teach- 
ers in the country. Price. Si. 50. 
Lessons and Manual $3.00 
Structural Rotany 3.50 
Liberal Terms offered for Introduction. Samples of any 
of the awove, for examination, will be forwarded by mail oh 
receipt of price. 
Send for full descriptive circulars. 
IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR & CO., 
138 & HO Grand Street, New York. 
THE FLOWER-GARDEN. 
A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF FLORAL PROGRESS. 
TERMS— One Dollar a Year. Every subscriber entitled to 
a dollar's worth of flower seeds or bulbs from our catalogue. 
BEACH, SON & CO., late C. L. Allen & Co., 
Seedsmen, Bulb Merchants, and Florists, 76 Fulton Street, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Eg* - Send for sample. 
FENCE! 
The most complete aud cheapest ever contrived. "Wire 
and wood. Permanent or movable. See illustration 
in this paper. For circulars, address Patentee, 
THOS. H, SPEAKMAN, 
No. 26 N. 7th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
£F~ Ajrents wanted. 
T 
BIB: I>IIIiJ,Al>ELI>EIIA LAW.\. 
MOWF.ltS. 
Power Required. Width of Cut. Wright. 
o. no. A LnclY 
'• 1, Jr.. A Youth 
" 1, One Man 
" 2, Jr. One .Man 
" 2. One or Two Men 
" Z%, A liKlit Horse (Draft Pole) 
•' 254 
l'l inches, '..'S lb; 
14 " 31 - 
15 " 6! '• 
16 " 42 •• 
20 ■• 7:, '• 
30 •■ 275 " 
(Driver's Seat an<l 
Shafts), . 30 " 315 •• 
"We recommend oar 14-incH and 16-inch Machines as being 
only about one half the weight considered necessary by 
other manufacturers, and on this account they are much 
easier worked, are stronger and more durable, and do their 
work in the most perfect manner. 
Try " The Philadelphia " and you will buy no other. 
Sold wholesale and retnil by 
GKAHAM, E.MLETS & PASSJIOIIE. 
Patentees and Manufacturers, 631 Market St., Philadelphia. 
10,000 GRAPE VIM, 
Cheaper than anywhere else, for sale. Concord, 1 year old, 
onlv $30 per 1,000; 2 years, $40. Catawba, Delaware, Norton, 
Virginia, Martha, Eu'melan, Hartford, and any other variety, 
cheap. Also, all kinds of Small-Fruit Plants, Asparagus, 
Roses, and Fruit Trees. Address 
Dr. H. SCHRODEH, Blooraincton. Illinois. 
IMPROVE!) FOOT LATHES, 
"With Slide Beet and Fittings. Just the thing 
for the Artisan or Amateur Turner. 
ALSO HAND PLJVNERS. 
Many a reader of this paper has one of them. 
sellina In all parts of the country, Canada, Cuba, Europe, 
jtc. Send for descriptive Caraloiue. 
Address N. H. BALDWIN'. Lnconia. X. H. 
See Advertisement of American Fruit-Drier) 
pnge!13 In this number, 
THE BEOKWITH 
SEWING-MACHINE IMPROVED. 
PRICE, $12. 
With Xew Braiding-Foot and other 
Valuable Improvements. 
We have been offering as a Premium, for a year past, 
the 
Beck wish §eiving-3Iachine, 
which was fully described in the American Agriculturist 
for March and April, 1872. We have already given and 
sold some hundreds of these machines, and testimonials 
of satisfaction have come from every quarter. 
We now offer the Reckwith Sewing-Ma- 
chine, Improved, price $J2. A new and very 
simple braiding-foot has been made, by which a child can 
sew on braid without the least trouble, following any de- 
sired pattern with ease ; also a new arm. spiral spring 
and lever for raising the presser-foot, all of which are 
now set inn position that leaves the needle free to be 
threaded. The joint is much enlarged, and the machine 
is otherwise greatly strengthened and improved. The 
use of the braider- foot alone will be valued more than 
the cost of the machine. This, with the uther improve- 
ments, i* considered so important, that the Beckwith 
Sewing-Machine Company will make no more of the $10 
style. The improved machine is japanned and tastefully 
ornamented with gold ; cloth-plate and trimmings are 
plated. 
Read what the People Say. 
Hundreds of letters have been received by us and by tha 
Beckwith Sewing Machine Co.. extracts from a few of which 
are given below. They were most of them written with 
reference to the $!0 Machine, but are appropriate to the 
Improve! Machine, as that comprises all the excellencies 
ol the former, with the additions already noted. 
Hamilton, Locdocn Co., Va. 
Gentitemen: Please send me your terms to agents for the 
Beekwith Sewing Machine. Wa are much pleased with 
ours. I would like to have the agency of this county, If 
term3 are satisfactory. 
Very respectfully, WM. H. BALL. 
Washington. D. C, March, 1ST2. 
Gentlemen: Received the machine and letter sent by 
you on the Sth inn. After an examination and trial of the 
former, sewing with it nearly the whole of several gar- 
ments, including ©ne of cloth, I can say that it gives entire 
satisfaction. Tery respectfully yomrs, etc., 
H. L. CLARK. 
Brunswick, Maine, Mar»h, 1318. 
Gentlemen: Tour machine was received in good order, 
and I tliiuk very highly of it, and they will find a ready sale. 
Should be very happy To take the agency or buy machia.es 
of you to sell again. Tours truly, 
B. L. DENNISON. 
West Chester, August 15th, 1S72. 
•ehslmen : ki answer to inquiry about Boakwlth Sew- 
ing Machine, I can say that it has proved satisfactory. Our 
physician having forbidden a treadle machine to come Into 
the house, for fear of my wife, who is in delicate health, being 
tempted to use it. I was induced to order a Beckwith. My 
wife, besides making up female wear of different materials, 
recently finished for me, in a moBt workmanlike manner, on 
the Beckwith, a whole suit, coat, vest, and pants, of French 
habit-cloth, which Is equal, if not superior, to any I have 
had made in your city or elsewhere. It, like all other 
machines, requires some common-sense application, and a 
little patience, until ene fully understands It, and then there 
is little or no trouble. My wife, without any other guide 
than a careful observation of the rules contained in the lid 
of the box, has bean able to run it successfully. "We value 
it highly. W. P. TOWNSEND. 
Lookout, W. Texx., August 3d. 1872. 
Gentlemen: We received the Beckwith Machine safely 
the evening of August 1st, and, as this is probably the high- 
est testimonial you will ever receive, we have duly felt ..he 
responsibility of writing to you how the little wonder works 
** above the clouds." We have taken t*o days to test its 
powers, and are most agreeably surprised. We expected 
nothing half so small, so pretty, or so useful 
Yowr friend, MART J. CHAPMAN'. 
Ludlow, Mass., August 26th. 1372. 
Gentlemen : 1 received your machine in good order, and 
after using it fonr months, trying It on all goods, I can say- 
that it far exceeds my expectation. To say that I am well 
pleased with It would be bnt saying little. I am satisfied. 
Tours truly, Mrs. A. L. BENNETT. 
Welborn, Fla., September 20th, 1872. 
Gentlemhn: The sewing-machine came safely to hand, 
and on trial I find it complete. My wile says It is the dear- 
est little machine that ever was made, and she would rather 
sew on it than to eat— would not take f";0 for it if she could 
not get another 
Respectfully yours, W. CLAT MALLORY. 
Defiance. Ohio, September "th, 1872. 
Sib: We received your letter and machine In good time. 
We are perfectly satisfied. They will give universal satis- 
faction. I am a German; I landed in New Tork in 1S52 ; 
been in Defiance County sixteen years. 
Tours respectfully, JOHN HEILSHORN. 
Mansfield. Tioga Co., Pa., September 27th, 1872. 
Gentlemen: Tour machine is tne most perfect piece of 
simplicity that I ever saw, and ours works, as those say who 
run it. *' splendidly." Tours truly, 
JOHN H- Pt'TXAM. 
Fremont, Dodok Co., Neb,, September 21st, 1S72. 
Gextlemex: I received the Beckwith Sewing Ma- 
chine August 17th, since which time I have sewed gar- 
ments from a French lawn to a cloth, and it gives entire 
satisfaction ■ . 
Respectfully, ANNA C. WATT. 
Churchill. Kan., Dec. 2Sth. 1872. 
Messrs. Orange Judd & Co.: I wrote you the other day 
inquiring for a Beckwith Sewing Machine which was to be 
sent to me. Since then, I have received It in good order, 
and my wife is more than pleased with Its performance. 
Tours truly. THOS. B. SEARS, P.M. 
We have contracted with the Becksvith Sewing Machine 
Compauy for a large number of them to supply our own 
friends, and as Premiums. Each machine is put 
in a neat, compact box, with henmier and guide, oil-can 
with oil. thread, different-fixed needles, etc., with full 
Printed Directions for using, and delivered to any express 
office in this city, without extra charge above the $12. 
As we bay the machines at wholesale price, we have de- 
cided to give our readers some advantage of this, and we 
therefore propose to make a present for himself or 
herself, or for any friend, of one copy of Hearth and 
Eome for six months, or one copy of the American 
Agriculturist for one year, to those persons who 
send us $12 for one of the machines while this offer 
is continued. 
The New Sewing Machine as a 
PREMli'M witliout Money. 
To enable those to get Ibis machine who can not raise 
even the $12 to buy it, we make the following offer: 
We will send the Machine free to any 
one who will collect and forward EIGHT 
subscribers for HEARTH AND HOME 
one year at $3 each ; or SIXTEEN sub- 
scribers to AMERICAN AGKICl'LTC'R* 
1ST for one year, at $1.50 each. 
^"Almost any lady can readily eeenre this small 
number of subscribers and get a machine free ; or 
some friend can thus obtain it for her, as a present. 
Address 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 245 Broadway, N. Y. 
