AMERICAN AGEICULTURIST. 
[January, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Ora-NQE Judd & Co., Publishers, 245 Broadway, N. T. City. 
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each for less than four copies: Four to nine copies, $1.25 
each: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, $1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
DID IT PAY? 
The other day we sent to one gentleman in 
Ohio : a beautiful $100 Lady's Gold Watch, a 
Splendid Tea Set of six pieces, a Great Diction- 
ary, and a Breach-Loading Pocket J&jle — all as a 
present in return for 274 subscribers for 1870 
which he had gathered in a brief time. Did it 
Pay him ? Whether or not it paid us is our 
look out. We are doing such things all the 
time, and shall keep on doing so.* Will it pay 
those who subscribed $1.50 each to have this 
journal before them all the year? They thought 
so, and we shall take good care that it does. 
This journal clashes with nothing else. It is all origin- 
al and valuable to every person in City, Village and 
Country— NORTH, SOUTH, EAST and WEST— yes, 
EVERYWHERE. An intelligent Louisiana gentleman 
called to see if we could not get up an edition for the far 
South, leaving out some articles and inserting <;'iers on 
Southern topics. But after looking through seve al hack 
numbers he could not And anything he wor.'.d omit. 
We'll try and get in more special information for pecu- 
liar Southern crops, and modes of cultivation, as needed. 
But the above is only one case. Splendid 
Premiums are going out daily to all parts of 
this country, and to other lands. There are in 
this country 27,107 Post-Offices, and wherever 
there are people enough for a Post-Office, there 
are enough to make up a large orsmall Premium 
Club — people, too, who would be benefited far 
more than its cost. It only needs some enter- 
prising person to show and explain the paper, 
to get the names, and receive the premium free. 
Suppose YOU do it, reader. 
Lack of money is a standard excuse from those asked 
to subscribe. But the price of one egg or two a week, 
produced or saved, will pay for the paper. Less than a 
pound of meat per month, or a pound of sugar, saved or 
economized, will do the same, while the household hints 
will help to economize many pounds, and will give better 
and moi-e healthful food at diminished cost-. A cheap 
cigar saved weekly will pay for the paper, while the hints 
about culture, etc., will secure better crops, by many 
dollars in value. 
Reader, YOU can get a good premium for 
a' little work. Try it. You may not get a 
large one at first, but you can " break ground " 
this year, and every cop3 r now introduced will 
open the way for a great increase next year. 
* EXPl AN ATIOJf .— Paper, press-work, and mail- 
ing, cost about $1 for each subscriber. 20,000 circulation 
(a very large one) leaves only $5000 for office, editing, 
engravings, etc., if subscribers average $1.25 each, in- 
cluding clubs. OUR 100,000 to 200,000 circulation leaves 
us $40,000 to $50,000 for collecting information, engrav- 
ings, etc, and for increasing the size of the paper as we hare 
done. We spend all the subscription money on the paper, 
and many thousand dollars more. The large circulation 
induces good advertisers to pay us enough to give the 
premiums, and have our profits left. More subscribers 
give us more advertising money, and thus we can give 
more premiums, and that gets more subscribers ; and so 
we go on, and every body is benefited. All expenses of 
getting up and carrying on the Journal, (aside from, pa- 
per, press-work, and mailing. 1 are not greater- for half a 
million, than for half a thousand subscribers; so the 
larger the circulation, the more we can give for the money. 
YOU CAN GET: 
A Good Watch — Free of Cost — a gen- 
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will last through life, by sending 50 subscribers for 
the American Agriculturist at $1.50 each, or 150 at 
$1 each. (See No. 64 in Premium list, next page.) 
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OR — : A Sewing' Machine Free — a 
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at $1 each — easily obtained in most neighborhoods. 
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duced into every neighborhood raising sheep : A 
club of 100 to 210 subscribers will secure one of them 
free! (See Nos. 13 to 20 in Table of Premiums.) 
OR—: The newest and best Potato 
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thousands of dollars. Let the farmers of any neigh- 
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come from the animal. (See Premiums 1 to 3. i 
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stuff: Only 66 subscribers will secure this free ! 
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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. (See Nos. 7 to 12 in Premium Table. ) 
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World — (Steinway's of course.) One Lady se- 
cured Five of these, worth $3,350.06, between 
Sept., 1868, and July last, by sending subscribers 
to the American Agriculturist. Hundreds of other 
ladies may easily secure at least one. Hundreds of 
others may secure the lower-priced but excellent 
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Free— Casters, Fruit Baskets, the best plated 
large and small Spoons, Knives and Forks, etc.,-- 
all of extra make and quality, useful, ornamental. 
j and durable. The Premium Table, Nos. 43 to 55, 
