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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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a host of subscribers that it amounts to but a trifle to each 
above the cost of the white paper on which it is printed. 
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and others,— have not only subscribed for the first time, 
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A finely assorted lot of Garden 
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Table of Premiums aud Terms, .% 
For Volume 27— (1868). £g 
Open to all— No Competition 
No. Karnes of Premium Articles. 
1— Garden Seerls for a Family (40 kinds) S5 oo! 
ii— Flower Seeds for a Family (100 kinds). S5 00' 
3— Nursery .Stock (Any kinds desired) $20 00 
4 — Iona Grape Vines (la of No. 11 $18 00' 
5— Concord Grape Vines (100 of JS 7 o . 1) . . ,%l-} 001 
6— Japan Lilies (Vi Bulbs) $6 00' 
7— Sewing Machine ( Grover & Baker) $55 00 
8— Sewing Machine (Howe Machine Co.L.SGO 00 
9— Sewing Machine (Singer's Tailoring) ..$80 00 
10 —Sewing Machine ( Florence) KG3 00 
11— Selling Machine (Willcoxib Gihl/s) $55 00 
13— Sewing Machine (Finkle <fc Lyon) §00 00 
13— Sewing Machine ( Mlieeter tO Wilson) . . $55 00 
14— Washing Machine (I'oti/'s) $14 00 
IS— Clothes Wringer (Best— Universal) $10 00 
16—7*a Set (Bart's best Silrer Plated) $50 00 
17— Castor and Fruit Basket (do. (Jo.).... $30 00 
IS— Ice or Water Pitcher (do. do.) $18 00 
19 — One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. do.) $6 00 
20— One Dozen Table Spoons (do. do.) $12 00 
HI— One Dozen Dining Forks (do. do.) $12 001 
22 — Tea Kn ires and For ks( Patterson Bros.)H20 00; 
23— Table Knives and Forks (do. do.).. ..$24 00 
34— Carving Knife and Fork (do. do.) SS 50 
25— Musical L'ox\Shell Case) $15 COj 
26— Melodeon, i-octare(G.A.Prlnce it Co.'s) . $67 00 
27— Melodeon, 5-octare (do, do.) $112 oo! 
US— Colibri Piano (Harlow. Doehler &• C'o.)$150 OOi 
29— Piano, Splendid 1-ocl.i Sleiiiicayi&Sons)$S5f> 00 
30— Ladies' Gold Watch (Beautiful) $100 00 
31— Silver Watch (Valuable Time-Keeper) ..$S2 50 
33— Double Barrel Gnu (Cooper d- i J o«rt)..$30 00 
33— Repeating Shot Gun (Paper Kifte Co.). .$00 00 
34— Spencer'sBn echloading IHrleiJIiintiugW,-, 00 
35— Tool Chest (Patterson JJroi.) $44 50 
36— Case of Mathematical Instruments $9 00 
37— Case, of Mathematical instruments $15 00 
35— Gold Pat, Sil.('asr.F,(W,trrend-Spa<lone)!H 50 
39— Gold Pen and Silver Case, F. (do. do.) $5 50 
40— Barometer ( Woodruff's Mercurial) $12 00 
41— Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) $18 00 
42— Buckei/e Mowing Machine, Ko. 2 $125 00 
43— Allen's Patent Cnliuder Plow, etc $20 50 
4 1 Pump and Sprinkler (Page's) $5 00 
4:5—Famili/ Scales 1 Fairbanks' t£ Co.) $10 00 
46— Building Blocks (Crandall) _ 
47— Pocket Lanterns, OneDozen $9 00 
48— American Cyclopedia (Appletou's) $S0 00 
49— Worcester'sGreat Illustrated Dictionarj/$12 00 
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86— A Choice of Good Books (See Terms below.) 
Only good articles.— AVe are careful not 
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the lest, and, in all respects, what is claimed foi' it. All, 
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Old and New Subscribers will be counted 
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is to obtain such that premiums are in part offered. The 
extra copy, usually offered to clubs of ten or twenty, will 
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