150 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[Apkil, 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA 
COMPANY, 
Since their organization, have created a new era in the Tea 
Trade. They have introduced their selection of Teas and 
Coffees, and hare sold them at the smallest profits possible. 
They warrant all the goods they sell to be perfectly satis- 
factory. If they do not prove so, the purchaser has the 
privilege of returning them within 30 days at the expense of 
the Company, and have the money refunded. 
The Company have selected the following kinds from their 
stoek, which they recommend to meet the wants of Clubs. 
They are sold at Cargo Prices, the same as the Company sell 
them in New- York, as the list of prices will show. 
V PRICeT~LIST : 
YOTOTG HTSON (Green), SOc, 90c, $1, $1.10, best $1.23 St 6. 
GREEN TEAS, 80c.. 90c, $1, $1.10, best $1JS vl 2>. 
MIXED, 70c, SOc. 90c, best $1 ?) B. 
JAPAN, $1, $1.10, best S1.35 3 B. 
OOLONG (Black), T0c, 80c, 90c, beet $1 V ft. 
IMPERIAL (Green), best $153 ft B. 
ENGLISH BREAKFAST (Black), 80c, 90c, $1, $1.10, best 
$1.50 ?! B. 
GUNPOWDER (Green), $L25, best $1.50. 
COFFEE DEPARTMENT. 
Our Coffee Department is very extensive — the largest, per- 
haps in the country. We run three engines constantly, and 
sometimes four or five in roasting and grinding our Coffee. 
Our Coffee buyers are experts, who examine most of the 
Coffees imported, and select the best and finest flavors for 
our trade. "We employ the most experienced and skillful 
roasters, who exercise the greatest care that it shall be cook- 
ed in a perfect manner. It is always fresh, for our orders 
crowd our facilities to their utmost capacity. A considera- 
ble portion of the Coffee put upon the market of late years 
is picked while the pod3 are green, and subjected to artifi- 
cial heat to open the pods. This is not so good as that which 
ripens in the natural way upon the plant. Our Coffee buyer 
thoroughly understands this business, and can readily dis- 
tinguish the naturally ripened from the artificially cured ; 
and he only buys the Coffee which is naturally ripened. We 
examine the cargoes as soou as they arrive, and our trade 
is so large that it requires all the finest lots. This is what 
gives our Coffee a superior flavor to many others, and the 
same flavor it used to have in days long gone by. It is a com- 
mon saying that most Coffee does not taste as well as it 
formerly did. The reason for it is, that a considerable por- 
tion of it is picked before it is fully ripe. We sell none but 
the fully ripe, rich flavored Coffee. 
COFFEES ROASTED AND GROUND DAILY. 
GROUND COFFEE, 20c, 25c, SOc, S5c, best 40c per pound 
Hotels, Saloons, Boarding-house keepers, and Families who 
use large quantities of Coffee can economize in that article 
by using our FRENCH BREAKFAST AND DINNER COF- 
FEE, which we sell at the low price of SOc. per pound, and 
warrant to give perfect satisfaction. 
Consumers can save from SOc to 51 per pound by purchas- 
ing their Teas of 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY. 
Nos. 31 and 33 VESEY-ST. 
No. 640 BROADWAY, corner of Bleecker-st. 
No. 461 EIGHTH-AYE , north corner of Thirty-fourth-st. 
No. 299 SPRING-St. 
No. 205 FULTON-ST„ BROOKLYN, corner of Concord-st. 
No. 1S3 GRAND-ST., WILL1AMSBURGH. 
COUNTRY CLUBS, Hand and Wagon Pedlers, and small 
Btores (of which class we are supplying many thousands, all 
of which are doing well), can have their orders promptly 
and faithfully filled, and in case of Clubs can have each 
party's name marked on their package and directed by send- 
ing their orders to Nos. SI and 33 Yesey-st. r 
Our friends are getting up Clubs in most towns through- 
out the country, and for which we feel very grateful. Some 
of our Clubs send orders weekly, and some not so often; 
while others keep a standing order to be supplied with a 
given quantity each week, or stated periods. And in all 
cases (where sufficient time has elapsed) Clubs have repeat- 
ed their orders. 
Parties sending Club or other orders for less than $30 had 
better Bend Post-Office drafts, or money with their orders, 
to save the expense of collecting by express; but larger 
orders we will forward by express, to collect on delivery. 
We return thanks to parties who have taken an interest in 
getting up Clubs; and when any of them come to New- York 
we shall be happy to have them eall upon us and make 
themselves known. 
Hereafter we will send a complimentary package to tho 
party getting up the Club. Our profits are small, but we will 
be as liberal as we can afford. We send no complimentary 
package for Clubs of less than $S0. 
N.B. — All Tillages and towns where a large number reside 
by dubbing together can reduce the cost of their Teas and 
Coffees about one-third by sending directly to the 
GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 
Nos. 31 and 33 VESEY-ST 
Po9tOflle« Box, No. 5,643, New- York City. 
GETTING TJ3P OX.TTBS. 
Some parties inquire of us how they shall proceed to get 
up a club. The ansTrer is simply this: Let each person 
wishing to join in a club, say how much tea or coffee he 
wants, and select the kind and price from our Price List, as 
published in the paper or in our circulars. Write the names, 
kinds, and amounts plainly on a list, and when the club is 
complete send it to us by mail, and we will put each party's 
goods in separate packages, and mark the name upon them, 
with the cost, so there need be no confusion in their distri- 
bution—each party getting exactly what he orders, and no 
more. The cost of transportation the members of the club 
can divide equitably among themselves. 
The funds to pay for the goods ordered can be sent by 
drafts on New York, by Post-Office money orders, or by Ex- 
press, as may suit the convenience of the club. Or, if the 
amount ordered exceeds thirty dollars, we Trill, if desired, 
send the goods by Express, to " collect on delivery" 
We publish some of our Club List3 to show how it is done 
and as matter of reference. 
After the first Club we send blanks. 
Direct your orders plainly, THE GREAT AMERICAN 
TEA COMPANY, Nos. 31 and 33 Yesey-st., Post-Office Box, 
5,643— as some parties imitate our name as near as they dare 
do. 
From, The Great Americau Tea Company's Advocate. 
A Word with Our Customers. 
We have no doubt that our customers, scattered through- 
out the length and breadth of the land, as they are, embrac- 
ing every State in the Union, except those on the Pacific 
shores, will be interested to learn how we have sneceededin 
our great enterprise of furnishing Teas and Coffees, to all, 
at the smallest possible profits. To afford them this infor- 
mation we propose to give a few facts connected with our 
business. 
Years ago, in the early stage of our enterprise, we based 
our calculations and graded our rates of profit upon the 
basis of a trade of $100,000 per week. This amount we ex- 
pected to reach by enterprise and fair dealing. We well 
knew that it could be accomplished only by filling every 
order promptly, and to the letter ; and at uniform prices. 
These principles we have adhered to strictly, and have car- 
ried ont the one peice system in all our transactions. 
After years of anxiety and incessant toil, we are enabled 
to say, without boasting, that our standard of sales, which 
we erected years ago, has been reached. The New Tork 
Tribune, in an editorial published iu their paper several 
months ago, placed the amount of our sales at that time at 
590,000 per week. Our business increases regularly and con- 
stantly, and never faster than at the present time. We there- 
fore look confidently forward to a large increase during the 
present year, over and above the average of $100,000 per 
week. At the present time our sales are fully equal to 2,000 
chests per week, which is equal to about one-fifth of all the 
Teas imported into this country. This we consider a great 
success for a specialty— probably the greatest ever achieved 
in this country, in any similar mercantile enterprise. 
With our increased trade we increase our facilities, so that 
all our orders will be filled as promptly and correctly as 
heretofore, and perhaps more so, because our system be- 
comes more and more perfect with time and practice. 
We employ at least two hundred persons constantly, and 
by our perfect system of division of labor into departments, 
we make a great saving of expense, of which we give con- 
sumers the benefit, by furnishing them with the great neces 
saries of life— Teas and Coffees— attheunprecedented low 
figures which we publish in oar Price List in another column. 
While we feel sure that we have given, and as we shall 
continue to give, our customers the fullest and amplest re- 
turn for their money, we thank them, one and all, for their 
patronage. 
COMPLEMENTARY LETTERS. 
In order to give our friends in the country an idea of tho 
magnitude of our business, we publish the following letters 
which we have received from two of the principal Express 
Companies of this country, and from other sources. The 
facts which they state show conclusively that no other Tea 
House in this city or country can compare with us in magni- 
tude of business. 
United States Expeess Office, No. 82 Buoadway, ) 
New-Yoee, Jan. 1, 1S67. J 
To the Great American Tea Company: 
Gentlemen : Accept the compliments of the season. 
We thank you for the patronage we have received from 
your houses. 
Perhaps you would be gratified to learn that wc have ex- 
pressed more goods from your Company during the past 
year than from any other Tea or Grocery House in this city 
during the same time. 
We solicit a continuance of your patronage, and pledge 
ourselves to give your goods dispatch, careful attention, and 
we will do so at the very lowest rates. Tours, &c, 
C. P. THAYER, General Agent. 
Office of the American Expeess Company, ) 
Nos. 122 aud 124 Broadwav, cor. Cedar-st., > 
New- Yoke. J anuary 10, 1S6T. ) 
To the Great American Tea Company, Xos. SI dcS3 Yesey-st.: 
Gentlemen: We are pleased to acknowledge our in- 
debtedness to yon for the liberal patronage we have received 
at vour hands during the last year. 
We consider your business of as much importance to us as 
that of any other house in the cirv, and shall be happy in 
the future, as we have been in the past, to receive vour con- 
signments, hoping that by dealing out "safety and dispatch** 
we will merit them. 
With many thanks for past favors, we wish vou, gentlemen, 
"A Happy New-Year." Yours respectfully, 
JAS. C FARGO, 'Manager. 
New- York, Jan. 5, 1867. 
To the Great American Tea Co. : 
Gents: lam happy to say that your orders for packing 
boxes have increased more than two-hundred per cent, within 
the past year. I am now manufacturing more boxes for you 
than for any other concern, although I am supplying "the 
largest manufacturing establishments in this city. 
Hoping to receive a continuance of your patronaee, I am, 
Respectfully yours, J. H- SWIFT, 
Pocking Box Manufacturer, 
Nos. 92, 94, 9S, 9S, and 100 Norfolk-st., New-York City. 
Paper Warehouse, No. 29 Beeeman-st., ) 
Xew-Yoee, Dec. 24, 1SG6. J 
The Great American Tea Co.: 
Gentlemen: We can send you butfour hundred thousand 
paper bags to-day, and will endeavor to give vou seven 
hundred thousand more before the 3lst. After the 1st of 
January we shall increase our production so as to meet your 
laree orders more promptly. 
^Respectfully yours, WILLIAM H. AMES & CO. 
Complimentary Letters from Clubs. 
Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 12, 1867. 
Great American Tea Company, Xoa.Zlan&SZ Yesey-st^y.T. 
Gentlemen: The two boxes of Tea I ordered from vou 
were received yesterday by M. U. Express Co., and have 
been delivered to the subscribers. I was much pleased with 
the mauner in which you put up the packages with the sub- 
scriber's name on eacn. I would savthat the qualitv of your 
Tea is superior, giving entire satisfaction. "Some of* the 
club'* say that it is the finest flavored Tea they have ever 
tasted. Your Company deserve credit for their persever- 
ance in overcoming the" difficulties incurred in establishing 
such a trade, and in breaking down the monopolies that have 
so long kept the consumer paving such hish prices. With 
thanks forthe complimentary packase. I am most trnlv vours, 
DAYID carruthers. 
New-Hayex. Dec. 14, 1866. 
To the Great American Tea Company: 
Sins: This will convince you that your goods have given 
perfect satisfaction, as I have added somewhat to the Club. 
Please accept our especial thanks for the complimentary 
package, also for the nice manner in which the whole was 
put up. Yours trulv, Mrs. L. BLOSS. 
Please return as soon as convenient. Direct as before to 
Justin Bloss, New-Haven, Vermont. 
CLUB ORDERS. 
Lake Pleasant, Erie Co.. Pa., Jan. 12, 1667. 
Great American Tea Company, Xbs. 31 d 33 Yesey-st^ 2>\ T. 
Gentlemen: The Tea you sent me last month arrived 
safely and In good order, and gives good satisfaction. Please 
send the within order, the sixth I have sent within less than 
a year. The first order I sent last Spring was an experiment, 
to see if good tea could be sold at retail" in New-York for the 
low price of $1.25 per pound. We found the Tea to be of 
good quality, and since then we have continued to send to 
you for our Tea, and shall do so as long as you do as well by 
us aB you have in the past. 
Yours trulv, W. E. WILLIAMS. 
12 Its. Japan at $1.25 $15.00 
2 Gunpowder -..at 1.50 3.00 
5 Gunpowder at 3.25 6.25 
7 Imperial at 1.25 8.75 
$33-00 
Lakeyille, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1867. 
The Great American Tea Co.. SVos. 31 and S3 Yesey-H. : 
This is the third Club that has been sent from this place 
since about the 12th of December, 1S66. Your Teas have 
given universal satisfaction. 1 shall do mv best to keep the 
ball rolling. Yours respectfully, WILLIAM KIMBARK. 
1 lb Young Hvson C.R.Ames nt £1.10 $1.10 
1 YoungHyson J. N. Milliman....at 1.00.... 1.00 
1 Gunpowder J. N. Milliman at 1-25. . . . 1.25 
4 YoungHyson James Clark at 1.10 4.40 
1 Young Hyson James Clark at 1.25. . . . 1.25 
1 Young Hvson James K. Clark... at 1.00.... 1.00 
1 YoungHyson James H. Clark... at 1.10.... 1.10 
1 Imperial Wm. P. Wattle.... at 1.25.... 1.25 
1 G.andB.mixed Wm. P. Wattle.... at 1.00.... 1.00 
1 Young Hyson Ed ward Butler. . . .at 1.25. . . 1.25 
1 Young Hvson John Gardner at I/O. . . . 1.10 
1 Gunpowder John Gardner at 1.50. . . . 1 JO 
1 G.andB.mixed W. H. Kimbark...at 1.00.... 1.00 
1 G. audB. mixed Geo- Hillman at 1.00 3.00 
1 YoungHyson Geo. Hillman .at 1.25 1J25 
1 YoungHyson Geo. Hillman at 1.10 1.10 
1 Young Hyson N. W. Bearsley at 1 JO. . . . 1.10 
1 Young Hvson N. W. Bearsley. ...at 1-25.... 1.25 
1 Uncolored Japan N. W. Bearsley. . . .at 1.25. . . . 1J25 
1 YoungHvson Wm.Tavlor.. at 1.00.... 1.00 
1 Young Hvson Wm. Tavlor at 1.10 1.10 
1 YonnsHvson Revilo lii2:elow...at 1.25 1.25 
1 G.&B.Mix ReviloBigelow...nt 1.00.... 1.00 
1 Young Hyson B. Y. Ynlkenburg.at 1.10.... 1.10 
1 GuBpowder W. Eddy. at 1.50. . . . l JO 
6 Young Hyson Emerson Pease at 80. . . . 4.60 
1 Gunpowder David Alvord at 1.25 1.25 
1 Gunpowder David Alvord at 1.50. ... 1 JO 
2 Uncolored Japan David Alvord. .. .at 3.25.... 2.50 
1 Uncolored Japan Nelson Griswold. .at 1.23. . . . 3 J25 
1 Uncolored Japan James Hill at 1.25 1.25 
1 Young Hyson James Hill at 1.10. . . . 1.10 
1 Young Hvson Edward Saverv...at 1J0 1.10 
1 Green and Black Edward Savery...at 1.00 1.00 
1 Uncolored Japan C. Crossett at 1J0.... 1.10 
1 YoungHyson Wm. Radford at 1.10 1.10 
1 Young Hyson Wm. Radford... . . .at 1.25. . . . 1.25 
2 YoungHvson Wm. Drake at 1.10.... 2.20 
1 G.&B.Mix. Wm.Drake at 1.00.... 1.00 
1 Uncolored Japan Wm, Drake at 1.25.... 1.25 
1 Uncolored Japan James Hanua at 1.25.... 1.25 
1 YoungHyson IX. Gilbert at 1.00.... 1.00 
$58.08 
Willtamstown, Orange Co.. Yt„ Jan., 1867. 
To the Great American Tea Co., So*. 31 tfc 33 Yesey-st^ A* 7". 
Gentlemen: The Tea I ordered before gives good satis- 
faction, and I send you another order amounting to £41.60, 
which vou will please fill and send to my address by express. 
Many thanks for the complimentary package. 
Respectfully yours, ALEXANDER SMITH. 
4 E>. YoungHvson C. A. Earl at $1J25.... $5.C0 
1 Black, best E. B C. A. Earl at 1.20.... 1.20 
4 YoungHyson .John Clarke at 1.25.... 5.00 
3 YoungHyson J3. S. Harrir.gton..at 1-25 3.75 
2 Young Hvson D. D. Martin at 1.25 2 JO 
2 YoungHvson A.S.Martin at 1.25 2.50 
2 YoungHvson .Mrs. Wakefic-ld...at 1.25.... 2J0 
2 Young Hvson Walace Martin. . .at 1.25 2.50 
1 YoungHvson L.H.Merrill at 3.25.... 3.25 
1 Best Japan L.H.Merrill at 3-25.... 3.25 
2 Yonng Hvson J). M. Harrington. at 1.25 2 JO 
1 YoungHyson F. Goodrich at 1.25.... 1.25 
2 Japan F.Harrington at 1.25 2 JO 
2 Young Hvson S. B. Bohonon. . ..at 1.25 2J0 
2 Young Hyson J£nos Town at 1.25 2 JO 
2 YoungHyson Alex. Smith at 1.25 2J0 
1 Japan Alex. Smith at 1J25 1.25 
1 Coffee,best A.C.Boutwell....at 40.... 40 
$41.60 
