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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
habit of observation and of scientific study, cultivated 
in children where a Barometer is used, is important. 
I^To.AS — BSwclceye Mowing rHaclslflae. 
— The gratification expressed by those who received this 
premium last year, and the request of others who wish 
to get it this year, lead us to continue it on the same 
terms. The Buckeye Mower is so widely and favorably 
known throughout the country that we need not describe 
it particularly. Any one writing to the Manufacturers, 
Messrs. Adriance, Piatt & Co., 165 Greeuwich-st., N. Y. 
City, will receive a circular giving full description, en- 
gravings, etc. The experience of last year showed that 
many a farmer can easily secure this premium by a very 
few days', or odd hours' and evenings', canvassing for sub- 
scribers. A few can unite their efforts, each getting a 
part of the subscribers, and then own the machine in 
common, if they do not each need the entire use of a mow- 
er. It would pay a man well to canvass for this pre- 
mium, and sell it afterward. Ten subscribers a day for 
15 days would secure the premium, which sells regularly 
for $125- — Many can, at town meetings, fairs, elections, 
and other gatherings, or during the evenings, secure this 
premium club without much, if any, loss of time. 
. PVo. SS— Cylinder l*l©w (Allen's Patent). 
— We hear very good reports from those who received 
this premium last year. It is named from the peculiar 
form of the mould-board. Several improvements have 
been made upon it within a year or two past. It is 
an Ohio invention, we believe, but is manufactured 
by the well known and reliable firm, R. H. Allen &> Co.. 
189 & 191 Water-st., New York City, to whom applica- 
tion may be made for further description, etc. There are 
several sizes and prices, with a greater or leas number of 
attachments. The kind we offer for premiums is the 
" Two-horse size, cutting a furrow 12 to 14 inches wide, 
and 5 to 8 inches deep." It is also provided with wheel, 
and with a " skim plow," that is, a smaller plow attached 
under the beam, like the double " Michigan plow." 
No. 44-Page's Patent JPnmp and 
Sprinkler. — This apparatus combines most of the 
advantages of a Hand Watering Pot, a Green-house Syr- 
inge, a light Force Pump, and Garden Engine. It is very 
simple in construction, light to carry, easy to operate, 
and adapted to a great variety of uses. In every house- 
hold it will be found most convenient for washing win- 
dows, or window blinds. It throws a small stream with 
considerable force about forty feet, and will be invalua- 
ble in case of fire, where places otherwise inaccessible 
can be easily reached. In the stable it will be valued for 
washing carriages, horses, etc. In the garden, it gives 
the readiest means for watering plants. By a very sim- 
ple arrangement, the stream can be instantly changed to 
drops, spray, or mist. It is manufactured by the New 
England Portable Pump Company, 11 Hanover-st., 
Boston, Mass. 
r¥o. 4=3 — Family Scales. — These scales 
combine the advantages of counter and platform scales, 
and are peculiarly adapted to household purposes. They 
weigh from one-half 'ounce to two hundred and forty jwunds. 
They are provided with a scoop or pan for weighing flour, 
sugar, and other house stores, and also with a platform for 
heavier articles, and are, in short, just such an apparatus 
as is needed for in-door or out-door use, occupying 
less than two feet square. The advantages of such 
an apparatus will be appreciated by every housekeeper. 
In cooking, preserving, keeping the weight »f the grocer, 
butcher, etc., up to its proper mark, and in weighing 
meats, butter, and other produce sold from the farm, they 
will save much more than the cost of obtaining them as a 
premium. These scales are manufactured at the well 
known establishment of Fairbanks & Co., whose weigh- 
ing apparatus has for many years been ranked as the 
standard, and to whom were awarded the highest pre- 
miums, two medals, at the Paris Exposition. 
No. 4© — CrandalFs Improved. 
Building Blocks furnish a most attractive amuse- 
ment for children. They are very simple in construction, 
will stand years of children's handling without breaking, 
and give renewed pleasure daily. Churches, Dwellings, 
Barns, Mills, Fences, Furniture, etc., in almost endless 
variety, can be built with them, and when finished, the 
structure remains firm so that it can be carried about 
without falling to pieces. For developing the ingenuity 
and taste of children they are uneqnaled. Having given 
these blocks a practical trial in our own families, we 
are so well pleased with them that we have placed them 
on the Premium List. The Blocks arc put up in neat 
boxes, each bos containing 130 pieces, and a card giving 
various designs of buildings. The sets used for this 
Premium are plain. The same blocks may be had 
painted red, white, and bine, by sending to us 3 more 
subscribers, at $1.50 each, or 10 more, at $1 each, than 
are required for the plain set. 
P¥o. iy—Pocket liamtei'Eas. — This new 
premium is a very ingenious as well as valuable Yankee 
invention. It is a complete Lantern, large enough to 
afford light for walking or other purposes, and yet in half 
a minute it can be folded into a parcel 3 by 4 inches long, 
and % of an inch in thickness, or small enough to set into 
the vest pocket, and yet contain 3 little sperm candles, 
matches, etc. We have used one for twelve mouths, car- 
rying it in the pocket whenever going out at night, ready 
for use at any moment. It is manufactured by the Mer- 
riam Manufacturing Company, (Julius Ives & Co., Agents, 
49 Maiden Lane, N. Y. City.) The manufacturers enable 
us to make the special offer in our Premium List, in order 
to introduce specimens of these lanterns to general use. 
A dozen pack in a box Zy % by 514 by Sy s inches. 
No, JLS — American Cyclopedia. — Ajp- 
fleton's New. — "We can hardly commend this great 
work too highly. We wish it could be placed in every 
family in the country. Several were fortunate in secur- 
ing it through our premium list last year, and we hope 
many more will do so this. Scholars at our Academies 
and Seminaries, and members of Library Associations, 
can easily unite their efforts and secure this important 
work for their Libraries. Many young men ought to de- 
vote their evenings and spare hours to canvassing, and 
obtain this magnificent and useful work for their own 
use. g^°" The Cyclopedia is a whole Library of itself 
consisting of sixteen very large octavo volumes, well 
bound, averaging 800 large two-column pages in each 
book, or in the whole, 12,804 pages I They treat upoa 
over 25,000 different subjects. It is hardly possible to 
name any subject, any country, any persau of note, in 
past or recent time, concerning which pretty full inform- 
ation may not be found in the Cyclopedia. It embraces 
every topic of human knowledge, alphabetically arranged 
for convenient reference. The British Cyclopedia, 
though less comprehensive, and not coming down to 
recent dates, costs more than twice as much as our better 
American Cyclopedia. This premium is worth a year's 
effort in raising subscribers. The lowest price is $S0. 
No. 49— The Great Dictionary.— 
Worcester's Large Pictorial, Unabridged Edition, 
containing 1854 three-column pages, with a multitude 
of illustrative engravings. (The work is 12 inches long, 
10 inches wide, and nearly 4 inches thick, and weighs 
about 10 lbs.!) Many of the most thoroughly educated 
men of the country consider this as far the best Diction- 
ary in the English Language. It gives the spelling and 
pronunciation of every word in the language with full 
explanations, and as a source of general information 
stands nest to the Cyclopedia. The Dictionary can be 
called for at our Offlce,or be sent by express or otherwise, 
to any part of the country. We have given away hun- 
dreds of copies as premiums, many of them obtained by 
quite young boys and girls. It should be in every family. 
It is published by Brewer & Tileston, Boston. 
Wos. 50 to CO — Volumes of the 
American Agriculturist (Unbound). — These 
amount to a large and valuable Library on all matters 
pertaining to the Farm, Garden, and Household, and con- 
tain more varied information on these subjects than can 
be obtained in books costing threG times the money. We 
have stereotype plates from the Sixteenth to the Twenty- 
fifth Volume complete, and will have Volume 26 soon 
after Dec. 1st. From these plates we print as needed. 
The price of the volumes is $1.50 each, at the office, or 
$1.75 if sent by mail, as they must be post-paid. They are 
put up in clean numbers, with the Index to each volumes 
They are profusely Illustrated, the Engravings 
used in them having alone cost about Twenty Thousand 
Dollars I Those obtaining premiums for from one to ten 
volumes, can select any volumes desired, from XVI to 
XXVI, inclusive. For ordinary use, the sets of numbers 
unbound will answer quite well. — Many hundreds of 
these volumes are taken every year as premiums. 
Nos. ©1 to 71 — Bonnd Tolnmes of 
Agriculturist.— These are the same as Nos. 50 to 60 
above, but are neatly bound in uniform style, and cost 
extra for binding and postage. Sent post-paid. 
No. 73 — Downin^sLandscapeGar- 
dening, and Rural Architecture.— This is a 
most beautiful Octavo volume, in extra binding, and will 
be an ornament to the best center table in the land, as 
well as be practically useful. It contains 10S fine engrav- 
ings on Wood, Steel, and Stone. It will be sout post-paid. 
No. 73 — Architectures A New ant> 
Practical Work on Architecture, containing De- 
signs for Street Fronts, Suburban Houses, and Cottages, 
etc., etc., giving in detail Designs and "Working Drawings 
for both the exterior and interior of buildings; also a great 
variety of Details not in the Designs. It is 11 by 14 inches 
in size, and contains engravings of 3S2 Designs, and 
71 4 Illustrations, that would separately cost Hundreds 
of Dollars. By Cummings & Miller. Sent post-paid. 
Nos.74to 85— GOOD MBRAKFES. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of Books for 
the Farm, Garden, and Household. The per- 
son entitled to any one of the premiums 74 to 85, may 
select any books desired from the list below, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the books will be forward- 
ed, paid through to the nearest Post Office, or Express 
office, as we may find it most convenient to send them. 
"We need not enlarge upon these premiums ; every one 
knows the valne of good books. Twenty-five or Fifty 
dollars worth of books on subjects pertaining te the farm 
■will give the boys new ideas, set them to thinking and 
observing, and thus enable them to make their heads 
help their hands. Any good book will, in the end, be of 
far more value to a youth than to have an extra acre of 
land, on coming to maturity. The thinking, reasoning, 
observing man, will certainly make more off from 49 
acres, than he would off from 50 acres without the men- 
tal ability which reading will give him. Our premiums 
will enable many a family to secure a larger or smaller Li- 
brary. £3^° This is a good opportunity for the farmers 
of a neighborhood to unite their efforts and get up an 
Agricultural Library for general use. 
No. SO — General Boole Premium. — 
Any one not desiring the specific Book premiums, 74 to 85, 
on sending any number of names above 25, may select 
Books from the list below, to the amount of 10 cents 
for each subscriber sent at $1 : or to the amount of 30 
eents for each name sent at the (ten) club price of $1.20 
each : or to the amount of 60 cents for each name at 
$1.50. This offer is only for clubs of 25 or more. The 
boolcs wiU be sent by mail or esqiress, prepaid by us. 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS AND OTHERS. 
[For sale at the office of the Agriculturist, or they will be 
forwarded by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. J5T" All 
these are included in our Premiums, Xos. 74 to 86, above.'] 
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Allen's (L. F.) Rural Architecture $1 
Allen's (R. L.) American Farm Book 1 
American Agricultural Annual. 1807, paper, 50c; cloth 
Allen's Diseases of Domestic Animals 1 
American Horticultural Annual, 1S67, paper, 50c; cluth 
American Bird Fancier - 
American Pomology— Apples— By Dr. John A. Warder. 3 
American Rose Culturist 
American "Weeds and Useful Plants 1 
Architecture, bv Cummings & Miller 10 
Barry's Fruit Garden 1 
Bement's Poulterer's Companion ... 2 
Bement's Rabbit Fancier - 
Bommer's Method of Making Manure 25 
Boussin fault's Rural Economy 1 60 
Breck'sNew Book of Flowers 1 75 
Baist's Flower Garden Directory l 50 
Bulst's Family Kitchen Gardener 1 00 
Cborlton's Grape Grower's Guide 75 
Cobbett's American Gardener • 75 
Cole's (S. W.) American Fruit Book 75 
Cole's Veterinarian 75 
Copeland's Country Life .$3.00 cloth,.. 5 00 
Cotton Planter's Manual, (Turner) 1 50 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) Modern Horso Doctor 150 
Dadd's American Cattle Doctor 1 50 
Dana's Muck Manual 1 25 
Dog and Gun (Hooper's) paper. 30c cloth.. 60 
Downlng's Landscape Gardening (new Edition) 6 50 
Draining for Profit and Health, by G. E. Waring, Jr.. 1 50 
Eastwood on Cranberry 75 
Elliott's Western Fruit Grower's Guide 1 50 
Flax Culture .. 50 
Field's (Thomas W.) Pear Culture 1 25 
French's Farm Drainage 1 50 
Fuller's Grape Culturist, (Revised Edition) 1 50 
Fuller's Strawberry Culturist 20 
Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist 1 50 
Gardening for Profit, by Peter Henderson 1 50 
Gregory on Squashes paper. . SO 
Guwnon on Milch Cows 75 
Harris' Rural Annual. Bound, 8 Xos., In 3 Vols. Each 1 50 
Herbert's Hints to Horsekeepers 1 75 
Hop Culture 40 
Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry 175 
Johnston's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry 1 50 
Leuchar'B How to Bnild Hot-Houses 1 50 
Mohr on the Grape Vine 1 00 
My Vineyard at Lakeview 1 5n 
Norton's" Scientific Agriculture 75 
Onion Culture 20 
Our Farm of Four Acres (bound) 60c paper. . SO 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture 75 
Peat audits Uses, bv Prof. S. W. Johnson 1 25 
Pedder's Land Measurer 60 
Qninbv's Mysteries of Bee Keeping (sew) 1 50 
Randall's Sheep Husbandry 1 50 
liaudall's Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry 1 00 
Rivers' Miniature Fruit Garden 1 00 
Richardson on the Dog. paper 30c cloth.. 60 
Saunders' Domestic Poultry (xewj, paper, 40c, bound 75 
Schenck's Gardener's Text Book 75 
Skillful Housewife 75 
Stewart's (John) Stable Book 1 5C 
Thompson s Food of Animals 1 00 
Tobacco Culture 25 
Todd's (S. E.) Toting Farmer's Manual 1 50 
Warder's Hedges and Evergreens 1 50 
Youatt and Spoon er on the Horse 1 50 
Youatt and Martin ou Cuttle 1 50 
Youatt on the Hog 1 00 
Youatt ou Sheep 1 00 
