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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[December, 
Pleasant Announcement, 
A Magnificent Steel Plate 5 Line 
!MHS4¥ISi, 
MARSHALL’S GREAT WORK, 
THE 
Farmer’s Pride, 
For Every Subscriber to 
American Agriculturist for 1879. 
Fine Pictures add greatly to the attractiveness 
and cheerfulness of every home, however lowly 
it may be. More than £50,000 excel¬ 
lent Chromes, almost equal to Oil Paintings, 
such as the “ Strawberry Girl,” “ Mischief Brew¬ 
ing,” etc., now adorn the dwellings of the readers of 
the American Agriculturist, to whom they were sent 
exclusively. These are vastly superior to the 
eheap, dauby pictures subsequently scattered 
through the country, and which led us to cease 
distributing Chromos altogether. 
We are happy to announce, however, that we 
have now completed arrangements for supplying 
all the bona-fide subscribers of the American Agri¬ 
culturist for 1S79 with Marshall’s Superb Steel Plate, 
Line Engraving, entitled “The Farmer's Pride.” 
Mr. Marshall’s great portraits of Washington, Lin¬ 
coln, and others, have achieved for him A world 
WIDE REPUTATION. 
The eminent French artist, Gustave Dore, styles 
him “ the Master of Art in America,” and Euro¬ 
pean critics have united in pronouncing his portrait 
of Mr. Lincoln the finest specimen of 
lineal art produced in this century. 
Mr. Marshall regards this last work, “ The Farmer’s 
Pride,” equal to any of liis previous 
efforts, and it will unquestionably be so re¬ 
garded by judges. The cost for engraving a steel 
plate ranges from One Hundred Dollars upward, 
according to the artistic execution, fineness, and 
size. Mr. Marshall receives 
Three Thousand Dollars 
for engraving this picture, which of itself indicates 
the excellence and value of the work. 
The usual price of steel-plate line engravings of 
the size and character of “The Fanner’s Pride,” 
is Ten Dollars. To other than subscribers, 
we will supply the picture, postage prepaid, 
for Five Dollars. To all bona-fide sub¬ 
scribers of the American Agriculturist for 1879, 
however, we will supply tlie picture at 
our office, together with the Paper, 
one year, post-paid, for $1.03, or 
$1.70 when the picture is forwarded by mail, 
securely rolled and protected in a mailing-tube, 
free of any extra charge. 
That is to say, we will send the American Agri¬ 
culturist for 1879 to bona-fide subscribers, together 
with Marshall’s elegant Steel Plate, Line Engraving, 
“ The Farmer’s Pride ” (price $5.00), for $1.70, all 
postage prepaid. ©E5., 
When the engraving is delivered at our office, 245 
Broadway, we will funish the paper and the engrav¬ 
ing for $1.63, postage for the year prepaid on the 
paper. We make this 
EXTRAORDINARY OFFER, 
because of our desire to place this beautiful pic¬ 
ture in the homes of all our subscribers, and at the 
same time to increase the number of these sub¬ 
scribers for 1879 to a round 
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND. 
We are enabled to afford our readers this 
unparalleled opportunity for obtaining 
a master work of art, through our having sole pos¬ 
session of the plate, and our iinequaled fa¬ 
cilities for issuing the large number required. 
Though the American Agriculturist at the reduced 
price ($1.50 per annum), is cheaper than any similar 
journal in the world, and richly worth treble the 
price of the subscription, we cheerfully supply this 
magnificent engraving at a great expense 
to ourselves, believing that we shall he re¬ 
compensed for so doing in the satisfaction afford¬ 
ed, and in the increased interest and efforts for the 
paper, of those subscribers who share in the dis¬ 
tribution. 
“THE FARMER’S PRIDE” 
is executed in the Highest style of art on 
fine plate-psiper, Twenty-Two Inches by 
Twenty-Eight Inches. Some idea of the estimation 
in which the artist and the picture are held, may be 
had from the fact that thirty artist proofs of the 
engraving we offer, with the signature of the 
Artist, have been subscribed for at Twenty- 
five Dollars each. 
RECAPITULATION. 
The American Agriculturist for 1879 post¬ 
age prepaid, (14c. extra iu New York City). §1.50 
“The Farmer’s Pride” to other than 
Subscribers (postage prepaid)... $5.00 
The American Agriculturist and “ The Farm¬ 
er’s Pride” to one address, (postage 
prepaid on both). ..$1.70 
The two, when the picture is delivered at 
our office, 245 Broadway,. $1.03 
No person other than a Subscriber can procure 
this picture at less than $5.00. It is now on exhi¬ 
bition at the reception rooms of the American Agri¬ 
culturist, 245 Broadway. 
The Engravings will be issued as rapidly as 
possible, and subscribers will be supplied in the 
order of their application. 
The Steel-Plate to Subscribers in Clubs. 
To accommodate our subscribers who have already sent 
in their names In clubs, at club rates, and those who may 
hereafter do so, we subjoin the following offers: 
Four Subscribers for 1819, and Four Engravings, all 
post-paid, for..... 5 : 5.80 
Six Subscribers for 1879, and Six Engravings, all post¬ 
paid, for................ 8.20 
Ten Subscribers for 1879, and Ten Engravings, all post¬ 
paid, for...... 12.00 
To Clubs of Ten Subscribers, post-paid, and Ten En¬ 
gravings taken at the Office, or forwarded by Express 
In one package, expressage unpaid.....$11.80 
Clubs above Ten at the same proportionate rates. 
The Stcel»S*late Engravings for 
Premium Clubs.— The above offer of En¬ 
gravings will in no way interfere with the General 
Premium List, but all subscribers, from whatever 
source received, will have equal privileges. For 
particulars, see page 481. 
A NEW PREMIUM—Or a Pocket Revol¬ 
ver, Cheap.—So many write ns for good, low-priced 
revolvers, that we have arranged to supply those who 
specially want them, thus: 1st—A very good, steel-bar¬ 
rel and lock, nickel-plated, 7-shooter Revolver, Cali¬ 
bre 22-100. Made at tlie celebrated Remington Arms 
Works, weight 7 ounces. It is as good as any made for 
anything like the money, and good enough for anybody 
who wants such an implement. We have just fired one 
100 times, and found it work very well. It will be sent 
free to any part of the United States, post-paid, by mail, 
to any one sending only 5 subscribers to the American 
Agriculturist, at $1.50 a year, or 10 subscribers at the 4- 
clnb rate of $1.25 a year. [Or it will be delivered free as 
above, on receipt of $2 50. It is as good for use as any 
$5 or $10 revolver of like calibre.] 2d.—A larger 5- 
shooter Revolver, nickel-plated, calibre 32-100, weight 
11 ounces will be presented for 7 subscribers, at $1.5© 
each, or 12 at $1.25 each, delivered free, as above. [Or 
it will be forwarded free, as above, on receipt of $4.J 
A PREMIUM AVAILABLE 
to Nearly Every Subscriber. 
Except in some small places, where nearly everybody 
already takes this paper, there are very few of onr read¬ 
ers who do not each know at least two otiiers who would 
he profited by the perusal of such a paper, and who would 
take it if its merits were explained to them. The Table, 
page 481, names 20 desirable articles, one of which will 
he presented to any one sending his own and two other 
subscriptions at $1.50 each a year. It is very easy for a 
multitude of people to each make up a larger list and get 
a more costly Premium. The articles are described and 
illustrated in the November number. A separate Illus¬ 
trated Descriptive Sheet will be sent to anyone desiring it. 
An Important Enterprise Pro¬ 
posed. 
The Rest Possible Investment of a small 
sum that can he made by tlie farmers of any neigborhood,. 
is to secure a few good books, and pass them around 
from one to another during this and the next three- 
months, until all have read them. We firmly believe that 
$10 to $20 thus invested, amounting to but a trifle each r 
if a considerable number unite, will, in the end, he worth 
many hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, to that neigh¬ 
borhood. It only needs some public-spirited man, young 
or old, to take hold as a leader in the enterprise, and it 
will be quickly consummated.—Better still, to unite in 
forming a club of subscribers large enough to secure a 
number of volumes/m. Thus: Fifteen persons clubbing 
together and paying only $1.50 apiece, will not only each 
have the American Agriculturist post-paid for a year, but 
they will also receive, delivered free, SI 0.00 worth of 
good hooks, which all can read in turn. Twenty persons- 
get $15.00 worth of books; Twenty-six persons thus- 
uniting, will get $ 20.00 worth of books, or quite a 
library. C?™ By this arrangement, each member of the 
club will, by the payment of $1.50, not only have 
the paper all the year, but a joint ownership in $20.00- 
worth of valuable books,and a perpetual right to nse them. 
One of the club may he appointed as keeper, or librarian, 
to take charge of the books, and give them out as desired. 
There ought to be 50,000 such library clubs in as many 
different neighborhoods, this very winter, this month even. 
Who will be the first enteiprising, public-spirited man in 
each place to start such an enterprise ?—Here are some 
BOOKS TO SELECT FROM.—These may he of many 
kinds for the above. Wo suggest the following as mak¬ 
ing up a good assortment to start with: Allen’s New 
American Farm Book, $2.50; Barry’s Fruit Garden, 
$2.50 ; Henderson’s Gardening for Profit, $1.50; Stewart’s 
Irrigation, $1.50; Thomas’ Farm Implements, 1.50; 
Tim. Bunkers Papers, or Yankee Farming, $1.50; 
Johnson’s Winter Greeneries at Home, $1.00; Dadd’s 
American Reformed Horse Book, $2.50, or, Dadd’s 
norse Doctor, $1 .50; Herbert’s Hints to Horse- 
Keeper’s, $1.75; The Percheron Horse, $1.00; Coburn’s 
Swine Husbandry, $1.75; Harris on the Pig, $1.50; 
Dadd’s Cattle Doctor, $1.50 ; Stewart’s Shepherd’s Man¬ 
ual, $1.50; Wright’s Practical Poultry-Keeper, $2.00; 
Reed’s House-Plans for Everybody, $1.50 ; Harris’s Talks 
on Manures, $1 .50; Quinby’s Mysteries of Bee-Keeping, 
$1.50. All the above books wonld cost only $30.00, if 
purchased, or nothing but a little effort, if obtained by a 
club; but any portion of them can be used in the start, 
and there are many others that may he preferred for a 
particular purpose in any locality. 
A “Baker’s Dozen” for IO Days.— To all 
new subscribers for 1879, received prior to December 10, 
we will send this number without extra charge ; this is 
13 months for the price of 12. 
Cltilbs can at any time be increased by remitting for 
each addition, the price paid by the original members; 
or a small club may he made a larger one at reduced rates, 
thus: One having seut 6 subscribers and $7, may after¬ 
wards send 4 names more and $3, making 10 subscribers 
for $10.00; and so for the various other club rates. 
