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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
Biark all subscriptions sent in as New or Old. 
How to SSeniit :— CUecfcs on New- 
York: Banlts or Bankers are best for large sums; 
make tliem payable to the order of Orange Judd & Co. 
Post-Office Honey Orders may be obtain- 
ed at nearly every county seat, in all the cities, and iu 
many of the large towns. We 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. 
Registered letters, under tlie new system, 
which went into effect June 1st, are a very safe 
means of sending small sums of money where P. 0. 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 be sent to the Dead Letter Office. Buy and affix the 
stamps both for postage and registry, put in the money and 
seal the letter in the presence of the jmtmmter, and tale his 
receipt for it. Letters sent in this way to us are at our risk. 
Now increase Clubs begun early in 
the autumn. This may be done at any time by sending 
with each new name the club price. If any reader started 
with the intention of getting a particular premium, and 
he has obtained it, lie may still go on, and add to his 
club at the same rates as before, and secure another pre- 
mium. All names sent by one person, though at different 
times, and from different places, are counted in the pre- 
mium club if for the same volume of the paper, and if 
each list of names is marked " for premium," when sent 
in ; or the rates may be decreased. Tor example : Any 
one having sent 10 subscribers for $12, may afterwards 
add 10 names more for $S, making a club of 20 sub- 
scribers for §20, and so of other club rates. 
Profitable Investments. — Good 
Books.— The books which are to be found upon our 
list, (see advertisements in this and other numbers,) are 
such as pay tlie reader. They have been prepared with 
great care, and by men who understand what they write 
about. It is easy to convince any one that expenditure 
in this direction must prove a profitable investment. 
Take, for example, the work entitled " Gardening for 
Profit." It was written by a practical, successful gar- 
dener, who gives, in detail, the results of many years' ex- 
perience in his business, and iu a clear, common sense 
way which all can understand. The cost of this book, 
$1.50, is a mere trifle when compared with the valuable 
information received. Mr. Henderson, the author, is not 
satisfied unless his gross receipts are $1000 from an acre 
on the average, and this amount, he informs us, he 
often receives. Take another, "Draining for Profit 
and Health," a book which fully explains the sub- 
ject of Land Drainage ; telling what land should be 
drained ; bow to do it ; what it costs ; what it pays, etc., 
etc.,— a book costing only $1.50, and which ought to be 
in every farmer's hands. Take the " Small Fruit Cultur- 
ist," or the Lt Grape Culturist," costing $1.50 each ; or the 
larger book, "American Pomology," for $3.00. No one 
interested in Fruit Culture, cau read these works with- 
out getting hiuts or information which he will value far 
beyond their cost. Here, too, are works on the manage- 
ment of Stock of all kinds, on Architecture, Chemistry, 
Plants, Flowers, Trees, and many other subjects con- 
nected with work on the Farm, and in the Garden and 
Household. This is a kind of reading that not only puts 
money in a man's pocket, but makes him and bis family 
wiser, happier, and better. These are books that pay. 
(tood Papers. — Money paid for a good fam- 
ily paper is well invested. In what way could the 
small sum of $1.50 be made to return so much as to in- 
vest it in a periodical, as richly freighted with valuable 
information, fresh every month, as is the American Agri- 
culturist ? — designed for every member of the Household. 
Bonn ill Volumes — Covers. — Now that 
the last number of Volume 26 is out, we shall bind up a 
supply of this volume in our regular style, neat black 
cloth covers, with gilt title on back, complete index, 
etc. Price, per volume, $2, at our store, or $2.50, if to 
be sent by mail. We can furnish any of the previous 
ten volumes, (1G to 25,) at the same rate , or we will 
supply them -unbound for $1.50, at the store, 24 cents 
extra if to be sent by mail. Volumes sent to the office 
are bound in our uniform style for 75 cents each, and 
missing numbers will be supplied at 12 cents each. We 
keep the covers or "jackets" on hand, into which any 
bookbinder can easil; insert the numbers. Price of covers, 
50 cents each ; or 60 cents, if sent by mail 
Save Your Index Slieet. — The Index 
and Title page of this volume will be found in this num- 
ber, put in loose to save cutting the threads. It is thus 
all ready to be placed in front of the January, (1S67.) num- 
ber in stitching or binding the volume, 
NOW 
Your subscription ends, 
if it is one of those that 
were given for Volume 26, 
1867, as this number for 
December is the last of 
that volume. Our friends 
can all tell whether this 
is so; and if so, we 
earnestly invite you all 
To renew your sub- 
scription at once, thus 
securing a prompt deliv- 
ery of the January num- 
ber, the first of Volume 
27. We have already re- 
ceived thousands of new 
subscribers, and we hope 
also to retain the oldones. 
NOW 
It is as easy, no doubt, 
for our readers to renew 
subscriptions to-day as at 
a later date, and it will 
be a very great conve- 
nience to us if they will 
please attend to this the 
First of this present 
month of December. 
There is a large amount 
of work to be done in ar- 
ranging names in the 
entry and mail books, 
and we wish to do this as 
early as possible, so as to 
send off the New- Year's 
number in good season. 
NOW 
Please send In your own 
names, and any others 
that you may have se- 
cured. We point to the 
beautiful and valuable 
volume closing with this 
number as an indication 
of what the next will be. 
Here are between 400 
and 500 large pages 
crowded full of valuable 
articles, illustrated by 
hundreds of costly en- 
gravings, and providing 
reading for all the mem- 
bers of the family. 
The American Agriculturists 
A Home Paper, 
AND THE 
BEST PAPER 
FOR THE 
GABDEN, and 
HOUSEHOLD. 
For S1.50 
A TEAK. 
4, Copies, . . . $5 
10 Copies, . . . 13 
30 or more Cop- 
ies, . $1 each, 
N O W 
Is the Time to 
RENEW. 
A New Year's Present for tlie 
Boys and Girls. — We ask all fathers and mothers to 
notice that the American Agriculturist is a paper for the 
Farm, Garden, and Household, and that it contains a 
special and interesting Department for Children and 
Youth. What more pleasing or useful present could a 
father, mother, or other friend give to the boys and girls 
than a copy of this paper, "with its beautiful engravings 
and instructive articles ? Said a father to us, " My child- 
ren watch eagerly eveiy month for the coming of the 
Agriculturist, and 1 turver have to look that paper over before 
putting it into their hands for fear it will contain something 
I would not have them read." This would be a New Tear's 
gift received each month. 
Clubs of Subscribers Meed not all 
be at one I?ost-Offlee. — We wish to encourage the 
getting up of large lists, and it costs much less to mail a 
large number in one package than separately. This in- 
duces us to make the reductions in our terms to clubs of 
four or more names. But we are quite willing to receive 
names from several post-offices, if sent by the same 
canvasser ; for such names often become tie centers of 
new clubs. 
A Good Dictionary should be in every 
household, and he kept where it is always readily accessi- 
ble. Although not as costly as some of our premiums, we 
consider it one of the most valuable, because ti is one of 
the most useful. It can be obtained by procuring nineteen 
subscribers to the Agriculturist, at the regular rates, or 
sixty-five at the club rates. The dictionary we oiler is 
Worcester's Large Illustrated, and this was selected 
because it is the one we should choose for ourselves 
if we were limited to a single dictionary. This Is one 
of our popular premiums, and we should be glad to 
send out a great many more of them. 
Cnromo-iiitliograpliy.— This is a term 
applied to a process of printing in colors which has with- 
in a few years been brought to great perfection. We have 
seen some specimens from the New York Chromo-litho- 
graphic Company which in color and execution so closely 
resemble oil paintings, that an unskilled person would 
never suppose them to be produced by any process of 
printing. We would suggest to the publishers that as 
this process is intended to popularize works of art, they 
give us subjects that are not so purely foreign as those 
they have thus far brought out. 
Send us tl»e Specimens. -Benjamin Mize 
—locality not given— writes that " We have perfect wheat 
and chess on the same head." This is just one of the 
things that we have long wanted to see, and will thank 
Mr. M. if he will allow us the opportunity of doing so. 
Tlie Newsboys' JLodginug- House. 
— If a New York newsboy should make his appearance 
in a country village he would be as much of a curiosity 
as an elephant. Ragged and dirty, yet bright and shrewd, 
an infant in years, but old in experience — homeless, and 
often friendless, he is altogether a character the like of 
which is only found in large cities, and nowhere of the 
genuine type save in New York. Several years ago, the 
Children's Aid Society did a good thing in establishing a 
lodging house, where these homeless boys could get a 
good meal and a lodging for a small sum, and those who 
wished to, could save their earnings. This has been it 
most useful institution, and now the Society, feeling the 
need of a permanent location, wish to procure a bui Iding. 
We have not room for their appeal for aid in this work, 
bnt we commend this charity to those who are looking 
for some way in which to do good. Mr. C. L. Brace, at 
the office of the Children's Aid Society, No. 8 East 4th 
street, will give all information concerning it. 
Bottling; Cider.— R. H. E., Lafayette, Iud. 
Cider for bottling should be fermented at a low tempera- 
ture, and racked off from the sediment after it is clear. 
Hanging" Baskets. — "Minnie," Gram- 
pion Hills. The hanging baskets sold in the city are 
mainly of three kinds : those made of pottery, those of 
wire, to be lined with moss, and what are called rustic 
baskets, which are made of wooden bowls, ornamented 
by tacking on bits of vines, knots, burs, cones, etc. A 
deep wooden bowl, an old oyster keg cut down, a child's 
toy pail, or some similar receptacle may be used— any- 
thing that will hold enough earth. Those sold are gen- 
erally too shallow. The vessel need not he water-tight ; 
a little moss put over the cracks will make all right. The 
outside may be " rusticated " by tacking on split twigs, 
pieces of bark, vines, or whatever suits the fancy. These 
may be left of their natural color, or painted brown aw! 
varnished. Handles may be of willow or rattan. 
