1879.] 
AMERICAN AG-RIC [JET UR I ST. 
331 
Announcement! 
The tide has turned. The 
waves of Prosperity are again roll¬ 
ing in, and spreading over the en¬ 
tire land. The good old Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist Ship will 
maintain its accustomed place 
upon the Crest of the highest 
wave, bearing its most valuable 
freight of good things to all our 
own domains, and to many other 
lands.The Publishers propose 
to take the tide at its flood, and 
Begin to-day. Sept, 1,1879, 
to receive passengers for the year 
1880, giving to all equal ad¬ 
vantages, Cabin, State Room, 
first-rate fare, etc, etc., etc. 
VOLUME XXXIX, 
covering the entire year 1880, 
will be of unprecedented value 
and usefulness to all classes. 
The Terms will remain at the 
present very low Rates, viz., 
$1.50 a year for single subscrib¬ 
ers, with postage prepaid by the 
Publishers to any part of the Unit¬ 
ed States and British America. 
Good Everywhere! 
The American Agriculturist is valu¬ 
able everywhere, in City, Village, and 
Country. It competes with nothing 
else. It differs from and surpasses all 
other similar journals, in the number- 
and variety of its Engravings, illustrat¬ 
ing a thousand aud one useful labor- 
saving, labor-helping, contrivances and 
conveniences. No matter how many 
other local journals one has—the more 
the better—he wants the American Ag¬ 
riculturist in addition, if not first of 
all.—Volume 39 (for 1880) will sur¬ 
pass all previous volumes in utility, in 
variety, in value. Taking into account 
its size, its beauty, its multitude of En¬ 
gravings, its careful Editing, its reli¬ 
ability, its exposure of Humbugs, etc., 
it is the cheapest journal in the world! 
Why Subscribe Now? 
The Subscription Books for 1880 open 
now. The Entries and Terms are for 
volume 39 (the entire year 1880). 
BUT it will cost mo more 
for Mew Subscribers to 
BEGIN NOW, 
for 1880, and receive the Am¬ 
erican Agriculturist for the rest 
of this year without extra charge. 
To aid our Friends in securing sub¬ 
scribers not now on our Books, and to 
assist them in the early and rapid for¬ 
mation of Premium Clubs, so that they 
may obtain their premiums in advance 
of the Holidays, the Publishers will be¬ 
gin at once to receive subscriptions for 
1880, and enter the names as fast as re¬ 
ceived ; and they will send to the New 
Subscribers for 1880 all numbers of this 
year published after such names come to 
hand, without extra charge. 
A Great Premium List, 
A splendid assortment, including: 
HUNDREDS of Valuable Articles, 
Useful, Interesting:, Amusing', for 
sill classes, old and young, to lie 
I’RESE^'TKD to those >vlio send 
new subscribers to the American Agricul¬ 
turist— for clubs of two, three, four, 
and up to hundreds. Most valu¬ 
able returns for smalt efforts. 
The Publishers take pleasure in an¬ 
nouncing that they have prepared by far 
the largest, best, and most varied as¬ 
sortment of excellent Premiums, that 
they have ever offered to the public. 
These articles are selected to meet the 
wants and wishes of all, and will be 
suited to all the members of the family. 
They will be offered on far more liberal 
terms than ever before , in accordance 
with the times. Engravings and descrip¬ 
tions of these articles are prepared, 
and will he issued on a large, beautiful 
sheet of 20 or more pages, with fine 
cover, early in September. As soon as 
ready, copies will be sent free to all 
previous applicants (and future ones 
thereafter). A specimen copy of the 
American Agriculturist, when desired 
for securing Subscribers, with a copy 
of the Premium List also, will be sent 
on receipt of two three-cent Postage- 
Stamps, and the address of the applicant. 
Begin SesicliBig Mubucs fur 
the Premiums at ©nee. 
The Fairs are now being held, and these fur¬ 
nish a capital opportunity to make up premium 
clubs. There will be good premiums for two, 
three, or four names, and upwards to any number. 
Please state it when any name is designed for the 
premium list, and give your own name and address, 
and it will be entered to your credit in the Premium 
Record. You can then, at any time, select any pre¬ 
mium desired in accordance with the number of 
subscribers sent in up to any date. 
A Great Help 
to forming Premium Clubs NOW will 
be found in the above offer to enter the 
neiv names at once without extra charge. 
containing a great variety of Items , inc’ucling many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of room elsewhere. 
Clubs can at any time be increased by remitting for 
each addition, tbe price paid by the original members; 
or a small club may be made a larger one at reduced rates, 
tlins: One having sent 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. 
Bound Copies of volume 37, and of every pre¬ 
vious volume back to Vol. XVI. (1857), neatly bound, with 
gilt backs, Index, etc., are supplied at $2 each (or $2.30 
if to be sent by mail). See Publishers’ Notes,2d cover page. 
Rend the Advcriising: Columns.— 
Letters are daily received by the editors, asking where 
pigs, fowls, seeds, fertilizers, machinery, etc., can be 
procured. We consider all the information of this kind 
that is given in the advertising pages sufficient, if those 
needing anything will only look there ; and can not find 
room to repeat what is already plainly told elsewhere. 
Every page of the American Agriculturist , including the 
covers, is interesting reading, and should all be carefully 
examined every month. In addition to looking after what 
one may want, the reading of wtiat others have to say, in 
offering their wares, etc., starts up some new idea in the 
mind of the reader.—When writing to any advertiser, al¬ 
ways tell him in what paper his advertisement was seen. 
The German Edition,—All the principal arti¬ 
cles and engravings that appear in th e American Agricul¬ 
turist are reproduced in the German edition. Besides 
these, there is a special department, edited by an eminent 
German cultivator. Our friends can do us a good service 
by calling the attention of their German neighbors and 
friends to the fact that they can have the paper in their 
own language, and those who employ Germans will 
find this Journal a most useful and acceptable present. 
The “ School-master is Abroad.”—In re¬ 
cent travels through several'Western Stales, we were 
struck with the fact that in cities and villages the most 
imposing, well constructed, attractive buildings that 
meet the eye are the Public Schools. This is the case 
generally from Wyoming and Colorado eastward. Few 
villages of 2,000 to 3,000 population, in the older States, 
have as fine public school structures as that seen in Lar¬ 
amie, almost on the summit of the Rocky Mountain range 
(at an elevation of over 7,000 feet), and like Institutions 
everywhere abound all over the West—showing unmis¬ 
takably that the enterprising people who have swarmed 
from the parent hives have carried with them a full ap¬ 
preciation of the benefits of education. It argues well 
for the future of our free government to see such ample 
provisions for making the next generation of future 
governors of the country—the people —intelligent voters. 
