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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
©el'erreil Ijetlers.— We have many such, which 
are too valuable for the kindling basket; but our time and 
room being used up. we must defer them for another month. 
Nebraska 'fferritory.—A business letter from 
Mr. Joseph Foster, of Otoe County, speaks encouragingly 
of agricultural prospects in that section, and in the Ter¬ 
ritory generally. Several Agricultural and Horticultural 
Societies are organized, and are already in a promising 
condition. The Agriculturist has found its way into 
many homes there, and is being awarded as premiums at 
the annual Fairs. The people are suffering from land 
speculators, to whom the badly managed and premature 
Government land sales afford peculiar facilities. 
Schools for Boys.— We know of no better one than 
the Middletown (Conn.) Institute. We have often visited 
this school, and have known the principal for the last four¬ 
teen years. He is one of our model teachers. His mode 
of teaching, and his really paternal care over his pupils, 
both in and out of school hours, are admirable. No boy 
or young man, not absolutely depraved previously, can 
fail to be benefited mentally, morally, and even physically, 
if placed under the guardianship of Mr. Chase. We take 
pleasure in offering this unsolicited and unexpected trib¬ 
ute to what we believe to be true merit, and in so doing, 
we would by no means disparage the claims of a multi¬ 
tude of other good schools—such, for example, as the 
Cream Hill School (semi-agricultural), at Cornwall, 
Conn., T. S. Gold, Principal; the Flushing (N. Y.) Insti¬ 
tute, E. A. Fairchild, Principal, etc. 
N. Y. Agricultural College.— The buildings 
for this Institution hive been contracted for, and the 
work of erection has commenced. 
New-York State anti Canada West Fairs. 
—One of our Associates has furnished lengthy reports of 
these exhibitions which we have not room for, nor time 
to condense for this number. Suffice it to say, that at 
the N. Y. Exhibition the display of animals, agricultural 
products and implements was quite as large and interest¬ 
ing as usual. 
The Canada Exhibition at Toronto was also success¬ 
ful, and showed a decided spirit of enterprise. 
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American Herd-Book—Fourtlx Volume. 
We have received a Circular from the Editor of this 
indispensable work to the breeders of Short-Horn Cattle, 
in which he proposes to issue a new volume in May next. 
Ail contributors are requested to send in the pedigrees of 
their Stock by the first day of December, that they may 
be compiled during the coming winter, so as to print the 
book promptly in the Spring. Circulars will be sent to 
all known Short-Horn breeders, and such as do not re¬ 
ceive them by mail without notice, may be supplied with 
one by writing to Lewis F. Allen, Black Rock, N. Y. 
J>oes it Pay I 
We could give hundreds of testimonials in regard to the 
actual profit of taking this journal, and there are doubt¬ 
less tens of thousands unwritten. We select a few as 
examples: 
A Western man says: “ I had just completed sowing 
a 10-acre field of wheat, and had another adjoining just 
like it. A hint in my Agricultural paper, read at night, 
led me to soak my seed in tar-water and roll it in lime for 
the second field. This was the only difference in the 
culture of the two fields. As the result, the second field 
yielded an average of 5 bushels per acre (50 bushels) more 
than the others, worth, even in these times, $30, with no 
extra expense for harvesting.... ” 
Another says: “ A caution in the Agriculturist pre¬ 
vented my expending $10 for a new and greatly praised 
but worthless plant. My neighbor, not a reader, invested 
his $10, and lost both that and his time, labor, and the ex¬ 
press charges....” 
Another says: “ A few hints in the Agriculturist on the 
treatment of butter enabled me to make 400 lbs. butter 
from the same cows worth 5 cents per lb. more than what 
I formerly put down—$20 saved_” 
Another says: “Though a shoe-maker, an Eastern 
friend compelled me to read the Agriculturist by sending 
it to me free one year. As the result of what I have read, 
I have this year raised $35 worth of garden stuff, on a 
village plot where before I did not get $ 10 worth ...” 
Another says: “ Though but a ‘limb of the Law,’ [ 
was induced by the representations of a lady who wished 
to finish up a club, to subscribe for the Agriculturist , not 
expecting to read it, but I looked into it on its first arrival, 
became interested, have grown my own garden truck—a 
thing I never did before—have beautified my home, and 
of so great intrinsic value do I consider this journal now 
that the first man I would ‘ prosecute,’ would be the one 
that should abstract my Agriculturist _” 
A clergyman writes : “ The plain, practical directions, 
hints and suggestions of the Agriculturist have enabled 
me to double the product of the half acre attached to the 
parsonage, and this has so far helped out my salary as 
pastor over a small prairie flock....I am also better foot¬ 
ed up in matters connected with farming and gardening, 
can talk with my parishoners about their occupation, and 
thus increase my influence with them ...” 
And so we could go on, and fill up this entire number 
with similar testimonies from letters now on our files. 
But the above will suffice for examples. We do not be¬ 
lieve there is a single family in the country who would 
not find the small subscription price of the Agriculturist, 
a paying investment 
©Mr Seed ©istrltoMtaoaa for 1859. 
As hitherto intimated, we are preparing a list of 50 to 
60 varieties of Field, Garden and Flower Seeds, which 
will be published soon—probably in our next number. 
From this list every regular subscriber to the Agriculturist 
for next year will be entitled to select at least three kinds 
or three parcels of any one kind, w hich will be forward¬ 
ed free of cost save the expense of carriage. To single 
subscribers they will best go by mail. Where there are 
clubs of six, ten, or more at one point, they will go cheap- 
es: in one package by express—except to remote points. 
The seeds will consist of several new varieties, to¬ 
gether with many well tried kinds which are not generally 
introduced, and therefore not accessible at the seed stores. 
Our object is, not to take the place of the regular trade 
in seeds, but to distribute and introduce widely small par¬ 
cels of valuable new seeds which may become the 
germs of future abundance. 
A little parcel of corn or other grain planted at any 
point, may soon multiply so as to become widely dissem¬ 
inated. Especially is this the case with garden and flow¬ 
er seeds. 
Though the wet weather destroyed a large number of 
the 1 35,000 parcels of seed distributed free by us last 
Winter, yet we know there will next year be millions of 
plots of plaiils growing from seed produced from these 
parcels. As one example of very many, a lady in West¬ 
ern Illinois, writes: “The five papers of flower seeds 
(new to us) received from you last Spring, all came up 
and grew beautifully, and I shall have seed for all my 
neighbors next Spring. They will be a ‘ bloom of beauty,- 
in our neighborhood, and many of us will be often remind¬ 
ed of you when we see them growing—just as I have 
been a hundred times the past Summer.” 
Such pleasant responses are gratifying indeed, and we 
can not forego the pleasure thus given. We get our 
seeds in large quantities, of pure quality, and though the 
cost in the aggregate amounts to a large sum. it is, when 
done by the wholesale, but trifling in each case, and no 
part of our next year’s work will be more pleasing than 
that of scattering a hundred and fifty or two hundred, 
thousand, or more, parcels of seed broad-cast over the 
land, among our multitude of subscribers. 
The particulars of the kinds of seed and mode of dis¬ 
tribution will be announced as soon as we can complete 
the list of those desirable to send out. We have grown 
several sorts, and shall receive a large amount from 
Europe, and from various parts of this country. 
MmsiSsaag-s uaot Adveirtise«t Blere. 
Reader, if you are offered from this region a splendid 
“Wine Grape,” a Wonderful Japan Potato, a super¬ 
human manure, a magnificent chance to buy good land 
for less than nothing, employment at tempting wages for 
a 3-cent stamp, or any other thing of that kind, it will be 
well before investing in the enterprise to see if it is an¬ 
nounced in the advertising columns of the Agriculturist, 
or “ blown up,” in its reading columns. Everbody, at 
least every body hereabouts, reads thisjournal and knows 
its straight forward course in regard to all hnrnbugs, and 
any person having a good and reliable enterprize or thing 
of special interest to farmers, gardeners, etc , will as a 
matter of course advertise it in the largest circulated pa¬ 
per in the country ; while humbugs knowing they can not 
find admittance, avoid recognition, and steer clear of this 
office. We will not knowingly admit any advertisement 
which we deem a humbug, though there are some things, 
such for example as some varieties of guano, superphos¬ 
phates, etc, which are “ believed in,” or esteemed good 
by many people, independently of what we have written, 
and in such cases the advertisements are admitted. We 
have this very Autumn turned away hundreds of dollars 
worth of advertisements of Patent medicines, schemes to 
get [lostage stamps, etc., which we could not conscien¬ 
tiously admit Mr. Greely, in speaking in the Tribune, 
of the Agriculturist, said: “Th-e Editor don’t mean to be 
humbugged himself nor let any body else be, if he can 
help it.” That sentence, though appearing in connection 
with a commendatory notice, as an added criticism, we 
consider as good a recommendation as the Agriculturist 
could receive. 
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This is the only stitch that can no’ be raveled, and that 
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It is made with two threads, one upon each side of the fa¬ 
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GOO© NEWS.-A reduction in the pricesof Sewing 
Machines is announced in our advertising columns. We 
have heretofore expressed the opinion that the prices of 
this invention have been too high—so high as to place 
them beyond the reach of many whom they would most 
benefit. Their utility is established beyond question, and 
at the present prices we see no reason why they should 
not be found, as they ought to be, in every household. 
Several varieties are manufactured adapted to various 
purposes. So far as public opinion has been formed and 
uttered, the preference is emphatically accorded to the 
Wheeler and Wilson machine for family use, and for 
manufactures in the same range of purpose and material. 
During the present Autumn the trials have been numer¬ 
ous. and all the patents of any pretension have been 
brought fairly into competition. In every case, the 
Wheeler and Wilson machine has won the highest pre¬ 
mium We may instance the State Fairs of New-York, 
New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, Wiscon¬ 
sin and California, and the fairs of the Cincinnati, De 
troit, Chicago and St. Louis, Institutes, already held. At- 
the fair of the St. Louis Mechanical Association the com¬ 
mittee consisted of twenty-five ladies of the highest social 
standing, who without a dissenting voice awarded for 
the Wheeier and Wilson machine the highest and only 
premium, a silver pitcher valued at $75. If these facts 
do not establish a reputation, we know not what can.— 
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TRUE TIME ! ! ! 
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NEW YORK. 
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The movements are simple, tasteful and substantial, 
and are mainly produoed by the aid of a system of ma¬ 
chinery of the most exacting nicety from crude materials 
in a single establishment, by connected and uniform pro 
cesses, and are sold at about half the prices of imported 
watches of a similar grade. 
All Foreign Watches are made by hand at dif¬ 
ferent times and places, the American watches being 
the only ones made by machinery upon a uniform system 
Each watch is examined and tested, and is warranted 
by certificate for ten years They are especially adapted 
for railroads, as they are not affected by the constant jar 
of the trains. 
There is no article in common use which is so little 
understood as this watch, and about which so much char 
latanism and swindling is continually practiced. 
Nearly all hand-made watches are defective, and are 
continually getting out of order. In many parts of the 
country it is impossible to find good watch repairers, and 
watch repairing is always uncertain and expensive. The 
introduction of American watches disposes of this diffi¬ 
culty. 
Liberal credit given to trustworthy dealers in all parti 
of the United States and Canada. 
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