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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[November, 
A $5 PRESENT 
(WORTH $ 1 0) 
To Every Subscriber 
TO THE 
American Agriculturist 
I»or 1873, 
Eeceived Now and Hereafter. 
(Those subscribing now get the rest of this year Free.) 
A Splendid Ornament for every Home. 
The Publishers have received from the cele- 
brated American Painter, Mr. B. F. Reinhart, 
a fine Oil Painting, executed expressly for the 
American Agriculturist during the past summer, 
entitled " Mischief Brewing " — a beau- 
tiful Rural Scene, for which they paid S400. 
This Painting has for some time past been in 
the hands of the noted firm of Bencke & Scott, 
who are executing it in Chromo, on 16 stones 
(not on metal plates, or by any new uncertain 
process). From these stones each picture will 
receive at least 16 impressions in colors, 
thus producing a perfect copy of (lie original 
$400.00 painting, and scarcely to be distin- 
guished from it by one person in a thousand. 
At the usual charge for Chromos, the pictures 
•will be worth fully $5 each, and they will be 
sold at that price; while, taking into account 
the design, the character, and quality of the pic- 
tures, if valued at .$10 each, they would still 
be cheaper than most Chromos sejd or given. 
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ES 1 " SW The Picture will be given to every 
subscriber for 1S70 (new or old), whether com- 
ing singly at $1.50 each, or in Clubs r>f Four for 
$5, or Clubs of Ten at $1.20 each, or in Clubs 
of Twenty or more at $1 each. Subscribers in 
Premium Clubs will also be entitled to it. It 
will be delivered at the Office, unmounted, free 
of charge, or if mounted, for 15 cents extra. If 
to go by mail, unmounted, 10 cents must be 
sent to cover cost of packing and postage. 
It will be mounted on heavy binder's board, and 
Varnished, ready for use, even without any frame, 
or for putting into a frame, for 15 cents extra — 
that is, for 25 cents it will be 
IVIounted, Varnished, Packed, and 
sent Post-paid to subscribers (to /his Journal 
for 1873 only), who come in now, or hereafter. 
M. B.— The Chromo will be delivered : 
At the Office, Unmounted, Free. 
" " " Mounted, 15 cents extra. 
Sent by Mail, Unmounted, 10 cents extra. 
" " " Mounted, 25 cents extra. 
"We advise all to have them mounted be- 
fore leaving the office, as in the large quanti- 
ties we put up, we are able to mount them for 
a quarter of the cost of doing it singly, and 
better than it can usually be done elsewhere. 
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MANY DOLLAES For ONE. 
The American Agriculturist has long ex- 
celled in circulation any and every other sim- 
ilar journal, or any half-dozen others. This 
has resulted from the fact that, taking into ac- 
count its size, careful preparation, its very 
numerous fine Engravings, etc. , it has been fur- 
nished far cheaper than any otiier journal 
in the world. [Note. —The printed surface of the 
American Agriculturist is nearly equal to most 
of the $4 Magazines — the pages being 2* 
to 3 times the size of ordinary magazine pages, 
while not more than one other magazine in 
the country gives as many costly engravings.] 
The former and present character, quality, and 
value of every number will be maintained, and ma- 
terial improvements be introduced during 1873. 
A Splendid $5 PICTURE will be 
presented to Every subscriber. 
Every new subscription now re- 
ceived will be entered at once in the mail-books, 
and will be furnished with the paper from the 
time the name comes in until tlie end of 1873, 
at a single subscription price. (This applies to 
all new subscribers now received, whether 
singly at $1.50 each, or in clubs of four at $1.25 
each, or in clubs of ten at $1.20 each, or in 
clubs of twenty or more at $1 each. 
%MT Very Valuable Premiums are 
offered (see page 433) to those who take the 
trouble to gather up and forward clubs of sub- 
scribers. These Premiums are to pay for the 
time and trouble taken in gathering and for- 
warding the subscriptions (and good pay they 
are). The subscribers themselves will each get 
the $5 picture, and new ones coming in now 
will get the extra numbers free. 
A Good Paying Business— 
for Women as well as Men- 
Honorable and Useful. 
Several persons of both sexes, in different parts of the 
country, devote their chief time to gathering subscribers 
to the American Agriculturist and to Hearth and Borne, 
and to selling books on Agriculture, Horticulture, Garden- 
ing, Architecture, etc. (see list on third cover page, and 
notices of some of them in the advertising pages). For 
the subscribers obtained they take the Premium Articles 
offered on page 433, and sell them as they arc all very 
good, wanted generally, and are readily salable. These 
Premiums, obtained by the Publishers on special terms, 
are just as good as money, and give much better pay than 
could possibly be given in cash commissions. These can- 
vassers, who work during the most favorable seasons, real- 
ize from $300 to $3,50Oa year, according to their tact, 
experience, etc. Experience goes a great way. Some, 
who succeeded poorly at first, hardly paying their board, 
have by persevering practice come to be very successful. 
The success to he obtained is worthy of lon^ practice. 
It is certainly quite as honorable and useful to engage in 
urging people to supply themselves with good reading 
and useful information, as it is to stand behind a counter 
and show up, and persuade people to buy, silks, laces, or 
other goods, or to engage in any other work or business. 
$66.67 to $100.00 worth of Engravings 
for 
ONE CENT. 
At least $10,000 will be expended in pnoenring 
pleasing and instructive Engravings, of fine qnal i ty, for the 
American Agriculturist during 1 873. Every subscriber 
will have a neatly-printed copy of each of these in the 
pages of the paper, in addition to all the carefully pre- 
pared information given in the reading columns. This 
will give $06.6S?J worth of engravings for every cent of 
cost at $1.50 a year; or $S0 worlh to those in clubs of 
four to nine at $1.25 each ; or $S3.33M to those in clnbs 
often to nineteen at $1.20 each; or $100 worth for each 
Cent, to those in clubs of twenty or more at $1 each. In 
addition, every subscriber will be presented with a 
perfect copy of Reinhart's beautiful $400 painting, ".Wit- 
chief Brewing," which will be a charming ornament in 
any home — a picture so ranch like the original oil 
painting that none but experienced artists will be able 
to detect the difference. 
