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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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A Splendid Ornament for every Home. 
The above fine gift is completed, and is 
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the names have been received for 1873. It is a 
beautiful ornament that will greatly please 
everybody. It is printed in 16 colors, which 
give the exact shading of the original painting, 
so perfectly that it is just as good for all prac- 
tical purposes, and few persons can tell the 
copy from the original. The last printing 
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Chromo has all the appearance of an oil paint- 
ing on canvas. 
The cost of putting this on 16 stones has 
been large, but this being done, by printing 
200,000 copies, the Publishers are able to 
present a copy to every subscriber for 1873. It is 
a perfect Gem, 11 by 13 inches inside the frame. 
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$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. Any 
and every subscriber for all of 1873, whenever 
received, will be entitled to this picture, on re- 
mitting the 25 cents to pay for mounting, pack- 
ing, and postage. The picture will be deliver- 
ed 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 — 
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We advise all to have them mounted be- 
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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. 
GET The CHROMO By EXPRESS. 
While we can mail the Chromo put up in 
extra pasteboard cases with safety, it will 
be better where half a dozen or more go to the 
same place to have them put in one parcel and 
sent by express, one person receiving the pack- 
age and distributing them to others. The cost 
to each will seldom be more than the postage 
(10 cents each), and where there are hirgc clubs, 
the express charges will amount to only a few 
cents each. Where this is done, only the 15 
cents for Mounting will be required. 
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READ THIS. 
While the old American Agriculturist is their " first 
and best love," as it has b2en for many years past, 
and while it will still continue to receive the most 
earnest attention and care of the Publishers, they 
arc, in addition to this, in conjunction with au able 
corps of assistants, supplying in Hearth and 
Home a first-class Weekly Journal, entirely different 
from the American Agriculturist. It is beautifully 
Illustrated, and filled with a high order of useful 
aud interesting reading matter for all classes, in- 
cluding a special department for HOUSE. 
KEEPERS, aud a most entertaining, instruc- 
tive CHILDREN'S Department, filling two 
Illustrated pages or more, and which in its extent 
and quality stands unrivaled, aud forms a distinc- 
tive feature of Hearth and Home. (This is under 
the special care of Mrs. Mary E. Mapes Dodge, the 
authoress of "Hans Brinker," etc., and one of 
the most popular writers of the time.) That the 
Publishers arc meeting a public want is evidenced 
by the fact that Hearth and Home has already 
risen to a circulation equaled by very few other 
Weekly Journals in the entire country, aud it has 
for some time past increased more than twice as 
fa6t as at any previous period — and this, too, in the 
midst of the absorbing presidential campaign. 
Edward Eg'glcston, whose American 
Stories of the " Soosier School- Master'" and " The 
End of the World " have been so popular that tens 
of thousands of copies in book form have been de- 
manded by the public, has a JVew American Story 
far advanced, the first chapters of which will appear 
in Hearth and Home the first of this month 
(December), and be continued iu that Journal. It 
promises to far surpass Mr. Eggleston's previous 
popular stories. It is founded on facts, and its 
scene is laid iu one of the newer North-western 
States, during the Immigration fever and Land 
Speculation of a dozen years ago, and aptly illus- 
trates Western life and society in some of its 
■striking phases. — It will be finely Illustrated. 
But, while Hearth and Home itself, as large, 
valuable, and as finely Illustrated as it is, is sup- 
plied at the too rate of ?3 a year, the Publishers are 
