1867.1 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
853 
A 31 E K I C J ? AGRICULTURIST. 
Oeakqe Jcdd & Co., Publishers, 243 Broadway, H. Y. City. 
Axxtjal Subscript ion Teems ("always in advance) : $1.50 
each for less than four copies: Four to nino copies, $1.25 
each: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, $1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
EIGHTY-SIX 
Valuable Premiums. 
We Invite Everybody 
To secure one or more of tlie valnaljle arti- 
cles offered as Premiums on onr IJist. All of 
tliese Premiums are good and useful, and 
some are costly and elegant. 
ILooJa at the 3List 9 and make up 
your mind to obtain some 
o£* the Premiums. 
The American Agriculturist, Willi its 32 
to 40 large quarto pages, its profuse and costly illustrations, 
its practical, reliable, and condensed information, obtain- 
ed and prepared at great expense, is furnished to its sub- 
scribers at a price but very little above the cost of the 
paper on which it is printed. This can be accounted for, 
First, by the fact that but one corps of 
Editors, one set of Engravings, one setting of type, and 
one Publishing House managiug the business affaire of 
the paper, suffice for supplying its great army of sub- 
scribers; and 
Again : While the funds received for 
subscriptions are expended in preparing tie paper and 
delivering it to subscribers, its immense circulation 
secures a very large and valuable advertising patronage. 
For every premium obtained a list of new subscribers is 
sent in, and the more subscribers of course the more 
valuable our columns for advertisers. 
We are willing, therefore, to pay well, 
in good Premiums^ those who get up clubs for us. 
While it is true that many persons send to as the names 
of their friends and acquaintances without premiums, 
merely from good will and their confidence that they are 
♦nus cf nferring a favor upon their friends, it is also true 
that we most cheerfully bestow all premiums that are 
earned, and in every proper way encourage everybody to 
get up clubs, with the remuneration to be secured in view. 
Everybody may be an Agent.— We have 
no special agents. Instead of this we hare made up 
a list of valuable articles, many of which have been sug- 
gested by individuals who have worked for us, and all of 
which are good and useful ; and from this list any one 
who gets up a club can select the premium desired, and ob- 
tain it by sending us the required number of subscribers. 
"Wo can Pay much more in Premiums 
than in Cash.— Our purchases by Wholesale, our ar- 
rangements with Manufacturers and Dealers for advertis- 
ing, etc., enable us to do this. It will be noticed that we 
give each premium article at the regular price which the 
purchaser would pay for the same. 
Every Premium on our list Is to be se- 
cured by sending us a definite number of subscribers, 
Thcrunccd bo no mistake, therefore, on this point; and 
there can be no favoritism in (ho matter, since the same 
number of subscribers for any particular premium is re- 
quired from every one who secures it. 
No person need fail of obtaining some one 
of our many Premiums. Those who make the attempt 
to raise a club arc often surprised at the ease with which 
names of subscribers are secured. The paper is very at- 
tractive in appearance, (notice the groat number of beau- 
tiful and costly engravings in the Oct. paper, which 
is a fair specimen,) and the most hasty glance at its 
contents often satisfies one of its value. We have many 
timns received mbsoriptionc at our counter from persons 
who came in for books or on other business, and who, 
on looking over the paper for a few moments, have de- 
cided that they must have it. 
STou can make money in canvassing for 
the American Agriculturist. Many persons take hold of 
the work as a business. If you do not wish the Premium 
secured for your own use, it can always be eold ; and you 
will soe, upon looking over our Premium List, that but a 
small number of names obtained each day gives you good 
wages, while for 10 names or more a day, you will receive 
very handsome returns. A lady obtained subscribers 
enough in seven months to secure one of the magnificent 
Steinway Pianos, worth $650, and this, too, while attend- 
ing to the cares of a family. 
Beautiful and valuable Presents maybe 
secured by working for us. Ton will find on our Premium 
List many articles which are most useful in a family ; ar- 
ticles suitable for presents from husband to wife, brother 
to sister, children to parents, scholars to teachers. Here 
are opportunities for giving a pleasant surprise to your 
pastor and his wife, by sending them a handsome tea set, 
a valuable library, or a sewing machine. Sunday school 
classes, or scholars in other schools, may secure a beau- 
tiful present for their teachers in this way, or a good 
melodeon for their school room. Several Agricultural 
Societies have paid for a large club of subscribers, given 
away the subscriptions as prizes at their exhibitions, or 
supplied them to members, and sold the premium ar- 
ticles, at auction, for the benefit of the treasury. 
Only good articles. — We are careful not 
io place ujx>n oitr list any tiling for a Premium which is not 
the best, and, in all respects, what is claimed for it. All, 
therefore, who secure premiums, may be sure that they are 
not running the lisk of getting poor or indifferent goods. 
Send in the names of subscribers as fast 
as yon obtain them, not waiting to complete your list ; 
and to save mistakes in accounts, send the exact subscrip- 
tion money with each list ; and every name designed 
for a premium list, must be so marked when sent in. 
Begin Now to raise yonr clubs. It is not 
necessary tliat all the papers of Premium Clubs should 
go Io one office. You can get them anywhere. 
Old and New Subscribers will be counted 
in premium lists, but some should be new names, as it 
Is to obtain such that premiums are in part offered. The 
extra copy, usually offered to clubs of ten or twenty, will 
not be furnished when a premium ia called for. 
H©w to Remit : — Cheeks on Ufew- 
X»rk Banks or Bankers are best for large sums ; 
make them payable to the order of Orange Judd & Ce. 
Post Office Money Orders may be obtain- 
ed at nearly every county seat, in all the cities, and i» 
many of the large towns. Wo consider them perfectly 
safe, and the best means of remitting fifty dollars or less, 
as many hundreds have been sent to us without any loss. 
Beglstered Letters, under the new system, 
which went into effect June 1st, are a very safe 
means of sending small sums of money where P. O. Mon- 
ey Orders cannot be easily obtained. Observe, the Reg- 
istry fee, as well as postage, must be paid in stamps at 
the office where the letter is mailed, or it will be liable 
to bo sent to the Dead Letter Office. Buy and ajjix the 
stamps both for postage and registry, put in the money and 
teal the letter in the presence of the postmaster, and tak* his 
receipt for it. Letters sent In this way to us are at our risk. 
Specimen Numbers of the Agriculturist, 
Cards, and Showbills, as may be needed, will be supplied 
to canvassers. These should bo economically used, as 
each extra copy of the paper, with postage, (2c.,) which 
must be pre-paid, costs about 12 cents. 
15^ Every Premium article is new and of the very best 
manufacture. No charge U made for packing or boxing 
any of the articles in our Premium List. The forty- 
four Premiums. Nos. 1, 2, 6, and from 36 to 39, 
and from 50 to 86 inclusive, will each be delivered 
FltEE of all charges, by mail or express, (ai the Post- 
Office or express office nearest recipient), to any place in 
the United States or Territories, excepting those reached 
only by the Overland Mail.— The other articles cost the 
recipient only tht freight qftcr leaving the manufactory 
eif each, >y any conveyance that may b» specified. 
Table of Premiums and Terms, ^J 
For Volume 27— <1S68). ?l 
Open to all— \"o Competition. Sjg 
No* Names of Premium Articles. 
1— Garden Seeds for a Family (40 Kinds) $5 
2— Flower Seeds for a Family (100 kinds).%5> 
3— Nursery Stock (Any kinds desired) $00 
4^-Iona Grape Tine* (1% qf No. 1) SIS 
5— Concord Grape line* (100 of No. 1)...$12 
6— Japan Lilies (i'Z Bulbs • $6 
7—Seicing Machine < Grorer A Baker) $55 
8— Sewing Machine (Howe Machine Co.)..?r>o 
9— Sewing Machine {Singer's Tailoring) ..*80 
10— Sewing Machine (Florence) $t^3 
11— Sewing Machine tWillcoxdc Gibbs) $55 
13— Sewing Machine (Finkle d: L?/on) $60 
13 — Sewing Machine (W&Belerdi Wilson).. 955 
14^-Waxhing Machine (Dotrf*) $14 
lo— Clothes Wringer (Best— CnirersaT) $10 
16— 7V« Set (Mart's best Stiver pt.ited) $50 
17— Castor and Fruit Basket (do. do.) $30 
18 —Ice or Water Pitcher (do. do.) $18 
19 — One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. do.) $6 
20— One Dozen Tablespoons (do. rfo.)....$12 
21— One Dozen Dining Forks (do. do.) $V2 
22— Tea Knives and Forks (Patterson Bros.) £20 
23— Table Knires and Forks (do. rfo.)....$'.»4 
24r— Carving Knife and Fork (do. do.) $S 
2.1— Musical Box'( Shell Case) $15 
2(t— Melodeon. 4-octare(Q.A.Prtnce dcCo.'s) $67 
27— Melodeon. b-nemve (do, do.) $112 
38— Colibri Piano ( Harlow, Doe/tier d- Co.) $450 
29— Piano, Splendid 1-ocl.( Stein way d- Sons i^'-'O 
30— Ladies' Gold Watch (Beautiful) $100 
31— ■Silver Watch (Valuable Time-Keeper) ..$3-2 
32— Double Barrel Gun (Cooper if- Pond). .$30 
33— Repeating Shot Gun (Roper fiijle Cb.)..$60 
3-±—Speiicer'sBreech-k>adiiig Bij1e(Muutiui/}i-r<> 
3.1— Tool Chest (Patterson Bros.) $44 
3*\— Case of Mathematical Instruments $0 
37— Case of Mathematical Instruments $13 
SS—GoldPen.SH.Case.Ej Warren d-Spadone) $4 
39— Gold Pen and Silver Case. F, (do. do.). $5 
40— Barometer ( Woodruffs Mercurial) $i 2 
41— Barometer (Woodruffs Mercurial) $18 
42— Buckei/e Mowing Machine. No. 2 $125 
43— Allen's Patent Cylinder Plow, etc $20 
44 — Fump and Sprinkler (Page's) $5 
45— Family Scales {Fairbanks <.£ Co.) $10 
46— Building Blocks (Crandall) $2 
47— Pocket Lanterns, One Dozen $9 
4J8— American Cyclopedia (Appieton's) $so 
49— Worcester's Great Illustrated Dictionary^ 
oO—Ajiy Back Volume Agriculturist) _. $1 
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86 —^1 Choice of Odotl Books (See Terms below.) 
Description or tlie Premiums. 
HIo. 1 — Garden Seeds. — A valuable selec- 
tion of 40 varieties of tlie best seeds for a family sarden, 
each parcel larije enough for a garden of ordinary size. 
This premium and the next arc put up for us by Mesara. 
B. K. Bliss & Son, Seed and Horticultural Warehouse, 
41 Park Row, (old Agriculturist office, ) whoso seed 
establishment is well known as one of the best in the 
couutry. This premium will be of great value and con- 
venience to many, especially to those distant from good 
seed stores, as wo shall send the seeds post-paid to any 
part of the United Slates (JS~ except to those points 
reached only by the Overland Mail.)— In many cases the 
recipient will have enough in each pac&age (or his own 
use, and some to sparo to members of the club, or others. 
rVo. *— Flower Seeds.— Like Xo. 1, this 
is a valuable premium. It consists of 1(10 different 
kinds of beautiful (lower seeds, all in separate papers, 
and includes not only the liner common varieties, but 
many of the newer and rarer kinds that are costly when 
bought by the single paper. Each parcel contains the usual 
amount, and they are delivered free, the same as No. 1. 
!>'o. S-!>'nrsery SHoelc— Plants. e«c. 
— This premium can bo selected in anything tfesi 
from the Catalogues of Parsons & Co., Flashing, x. Y., 
or of F. K. Phoenix, Bloomtngtou, 111. Both are 
Wei) known, very reliable parlies, having extensive 
Nurseries, QrSen-HbuSOS, Ornamental Trees and Plants, 
drape Vinos, Shrubs, etc., etc Send a stamp direct 
to either of them, for their regular catalogues, stating 
that it is to look Into tho, value of this premium, and 
they will he fnrmnhod free. Any one choosing this 
