1872.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
159 
Empire Mutual 
Life Insurance Company 
OF 
NEW YORK. 
Offloe, - - - - 139 Broadway. 
Success the Criterion of Excellence. 
Compared with the following 
well-known Companies, the 
prosperity of the EMPIRE 
MUTUAL LIFE has 
been most remarkable. 
The average .Number of Policies issued by the 
Empire Mutual In the first 2 years was 4,016 
21 " " 1,463 
New England Mutual. ...... ' 
Hi '■ ■• gi2 
IS " " 1,098 
IS " " 1,019 
16 " " 1,733 
13 *' " 1,027 
Massachusetts Mutual . " 
17 " " 1,033 
The ratio of Policies Issued in 1S70 by the Empire over 
those issued in 1SG9 was in; per cent, and of Receipts, 600 
per cent. 
Number of Policies issued in first two years, - - 8,032 
Annual Premium thereou, $793,712.-15 
Amount Insured thereby, ? 17,286,406.00 
Average Amount of Policies, $2,152.00 
Total Assets at the end of two years, above - $700,000.00 
Notice the following Liberal Features : 
Ordinary "Whole Life Policies absolutely Non-For- 
fcitable from payment of the first annual premium. 
All other Policies Non-Forfei table after two annual 
payments. 
All Policies incontestable for usual causes, and abso- 
lutely incontestable after two annual premiums. 
All restriction upon travel and residence removed 
and no permits required. 
One third of all premiums loaned to the Insured, if 
desired, and no notes required. 
No accumulation of Interest on Deferred Premi- 
ums, and no Increase of annual payment on any class of 
policies. 
Dividends Accumulative, the surplus being re- 
turned to the Policy-holder, equitably In proportion to his 
contribution thereto. 
The business of the Company conducted upon the Mutual 
Plan, 
G. HILTON SCBIBNER, President. 
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, Vice-President. 
SMALL FRUIT, 
INSTRUCTOR. 
Sixty-four pages, price 2^t eta., post-paid. Tells how to 
plant and grow all kinds of Small Fruit successfully, both 
for market and home garden. John J. Thomas, Henry "Ward 
Beecher, Judge 1 S. Harris, of Ga.. and others, say it Is one. 
of the most complete and practical works ever printed. 
fcy Price-List of Plants, retail or wholesale, Free to all 
applicants. Address 
A. M. PURDY, Palmyra, S. Y., 
Or, PURDY d£ HABTCE, South Bend, Iml. 
P. S.— Specimen copies of the Fruit Recorder and 
Cottage Gardener, a dollar monthly (A. M. 1'tjrdy, 
Editor)^ Free to all applicants. It speaks for itself. To sec 
a copy is equivalent to subscribing. 
"M^LRST Premiums awarded by Ainer. Inst., 1870. 
MICROSCOPES. 
Illustrated Price-List sent free on application. 
MAGIC LANTERNS. 
Catalogue, priced and illustrated, sent free. 
T. H. McAUISTER, Optician, 49 Nassau-st., Jf. Y. 
wlilfl -frfk *Jr»ft per month guaranteed 
«(PJi.W 1/V «W sure to Agents every- 
where selling our new seven-strand White Tlatin.v 
Clothss-Lines. Sells readily at every house. Samples 
tree. Address the Giraed Wire Mills, Philadelphia, Pa. 
A f~ 1 TTTVTW WANTED— For nnr new Book. THE 
-iivIJCill A C5 BP.IGHTSIDE OF KEWTOIIK. By 
a City Mlsstonarv. 200 Engravings. Agents sell -10 a tlav. 
E. B. TKEAT, Pnblisher, 8)5 Broadway, New Tort. 
SIXTY PER CE^'T allowed canvassers 
for the best work on Carpe ntrv for Farmers. HO I7AP.D 
CHALLEN, Publisher, 931 Minor St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
The New Haven Patent Whip, 
g 
With acljmtable top and socket-guard. The most economi- 
cal whip made. Broken whips instantly repaired. Horse- 
men use no others. Choice wnalebone whip, with one exn a 
top, sent on receipt of three dollars. For sale by all dealers. 
Circulars and Price-list furnished on application to 
THE NEW HAVEN WHIP CO., 
New Haven, Ct. 
B 
ROKEN NATIONAL MAJVK 
NOTES bought. Four (4) per cent premium. 
Full minted list furnished. 
DE HAVEN & Br.O.. Bankers, 
40 South 3d St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
AGENTS Wanted.— Agents make more money at 
work for us than at anything else. Particulars free. 
G. STINSON & CO., Fine Art Publishers, Portland, Maine. 
IF YOU "WANT AN 
AUCTIONEER 
TO SELL REAL ESTATE, 
Stocks, Furniture, or Merchandise, 
CALL ON 
JERE. JOHNSON, Jr., 
Succeuor <<> JOHNSON & MILLER, 
S43 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK, 
AGENTS, LOOK !— $12 a day made selling 
Bcissor.s Shaupexer and othernew wares. Samplc25c. 
Catalogue free. T. J. HASTINGS & CO., Worcester, Maes. 
i HICEZL, {TJOgTED, OB PimsaB, 
PA1IASKE1SN OR TBOSXQl 
mmiwmmmm 
(United States Watch (Jo., Marion, N.J.) 
Watch No7 10^584, Stem-Winder— Beaiv 
ing Trade-Mark " Frederic Atherton & Co., 
Marion, N. J.," manufactured by the United 
States Watch Co., has been "carried by me 
twenty months ; its total variation from 
mean time being- five seconds per month. 
Z. C. PRIEST, 
Ass't Sup't N. Y. C. & H. R. R. 
BEWARE of worthless imitations with which the country in flooded. To avoid impd- 
tition, see that the words MARION, N. J., are engraved on the plate over the Main-Spring 
Barrel. All others are spurious. 
Forsala 
Price-Lists furnished the trade on application, inclosing business card, 
by the trade generally. Ask your Jeweler to see the MARION ■watches. 
SALESROOM 
OF THE 
UNITED STATES WATCH CO., 
GILES, WALES & CO., 13 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK* 
And GILES, B20THEB & 00., 83 & 85 State St,, Chicago, HI, 
