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AMERIOAl^ AGEIOULTUKIST. 
[OCTOBEE, 
Enlarging our Borders. 
As the prosperous farmer from time to time 
adds to his acres and enlarges his domain, so the 
American Agriciiliurist has annexed country after 
country until it has girdled the globe, and has its 
readers in the most distant lands and the “ isles of 
the sea.” Its subscription books show long lists 
from every country where there are English-speak¬ 
ing cultivators of the soil. The lists of subscribers 
at some post offices in Australia and Tasmania are 
as large as they are at some of our home post offi¬ 
ces in towns of similar population. English colon¬ 
ists everywhere find the American Agriculturist bet¬ 
ter suited to their circumstances and needs than are 
the agricultural papers published in their mother 
country. The number of subscribers in South 
America is large, and we are often solicited to 
issue an edition in the Spanish language. 
An Erroneous Report. 
In forwarding us a basket of fruit a New Jersey 
subscriber asks if Orange Judd is dead. This 
inquiry frequently made is doubtless due to a cur¬ 
rent rumor of his death, when he failed last year. 
In 1864, after returning from the army hospitals, 
Mr. Judd was afflicted with a severe attack of 
“malarial complaint.” Indeed the September 
culturist of that year said : “ his health continued to 
fail and all the usual remedies and the skill of physi¬ 
cians seemed to avail nothing.” Though he 
was subsequently relieved by “ a decoction of 
blackberry root, beef tea, and cream,” he has 
ever since complained of ill-health, with fre¬ 
quent sunstrokes. Indeed, indications of failing 
health appeared to increase as he approached 
the allotted threescore years and ten. Six years 
ago, the present managers were called to take 
charge of the business of the Company, Orange 
Judd having relinquished the Editorial manage¬ 
ment many years before. After his failure last year, 
the Company sent him up to their farm in Orange 
Co., N. T., where it was hoped that the quieting 
influences of country life would bring mental and 
physical restoration. The physician there, how¬ 
ever, Orange Judd stated, certified that he was still 
liable to sunstroke, and should keep aloof from 
his fellow men—which may in a measure account 
for these inquiries as to his decease. 
Profitable Employment. 
Persons having leisure time on their hands, or 
wishing profitable employment, should canvass for 
subscriptions to this journal. Special inducements 
presented on application to us. Many make very 
remunerative wages by securing the premiums we 
give for subscribers, and disposing of them for 
cash. One lady in particular has realized several 
hundred dollars monthly in this manner during the 
autumn and winter months, 
The Publishers and Editors will be excused if 
, they indulge in a little self congratulation over the 
, great variety of matter, general artistic appearance 
and generous advertising patronage of this Octo¬ 
ber number of the American Agriculturist. It sig¬ 
nally demonstrates that treachery and trickery are 
no more successful now than over-reaching and 
systematic rascality have been in the past. 
^ -A Our Great Special Present. 4^ 
^ It is not Appleton’s Cyclopedia, Price, - - $80.00 
g It is not Johnson’s Cyclopedia, Price, - - - $4100 
§ It is not Chamhers’ Cyclopedia, Price, - - $25.00 
^ It is not the Encyclopedia Britannica, Price, - $125.00 
^ the—--.—- 
I -^AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST4- 
I A-FAMILY GYGLOPA]DIA.4- 
f With over 700 Pages, 1,000 Engravings, and a copious 
5 Supplement hy the Editor-in-chief of this paper for near- 
*1^ ly a quarter of a century, which is PRESENTED to every 
f S u bsc r i be r, at $1.5 O, (old and new), to the American 
Agriculturist for 1885. More convenient for every-day 
practical purposes, than any one of the above expensive 
^ works. For full particulars see page 452, Premium List. 
The Forty-fourth Year. 
Beautiful Birthday Presents. 
Our superb Premium List presents marfy beauti¬ 
ful and appropriate articles for birthday gifts. 
There is a variety to suit every taste ; and there is 
no more pleasing custom than this annual presen¬ 
tation of birthday souvenirs to one’s kindred and 
friends. 
Remember Your Pastor. 
There are many articles in our Premium List 
this year, which make most appropriate gifts for 
your pastor ; and a very little effort on the part of 
a few members of the congregation will secure one 
or more of these presents for your minister, for 
his wife, and for his family. 
Two Engravings to Every Page. 
Nearly one hundred engravings are employed in 
each issue of the American Agriculturist to enforce 
and uKike clear the thoughts of the many writers. 
M’hen the monthly issues for a year are bound 
together, every subscriber has a large volume of 
more than five hundred pages, and overa thousand 
instructive engravings—or more than two pictures 
to each page. 
Our Great Ofier. 
Our presesent subscribers will please show to 
their friends and neighbors page 452 of the Sup¬ 
plement, describing the New Family Cyclopoedia, 
which every one of them can have who subscribes 
before December 1st, and pays the regular sub¬ 
scription price of $1..50 per year, and fifteen cents 
extra for packing and postage, making $1.65 in all. 
The Ameiican Agriculturist., after long years of 
successful growth, will soon begin its forty-fourth 
year like a strong man ready to run a race. More 
thoroughly equipped than ever before, it will be 
the aim of the Publishers to make each succeeding 
issue surpass the preceding in all its valuable fea¬ 
tures. We are in daily receipt of letters filled with 
wonder at the marvelous success of the American 
Agriculturist. They cannot see how so much can 
be furnished for so little. This surprise will be still 
greater in the years to come. 
TERMS TO CANVISSERS AND CLUB RAISERS 
We have to thank friends for forwarding us still 
another printed circular in the line of the Postal 
Card Album business, aiming at both the circula¬ 
tion and standing of this Journal. Further letters 
of the same character, marked “Private,” have like¬ 
wise been forwarded to us by the receivers, who 
are too honorable men to countenance tricky and 
underhanded operations. 
We renew our request that Editors, Club-Raisers, 
Canvassers, and Subscribers, will oblige us by con¬ 
tinuing to forward documents and letters, indica¬ 
ting that any suhscription lists, or lists of club- 
raisers belonging to this Establishment, may have 
been treacherously and surreptitiously made. The 
Postal Album scheme has been pretty thoroughly 
ventilated all over the country, and we shall thank 
all our friends to aid us in exposing each similar 
fresh scheme for either securing the subscribers of 
this journal or impairing the goodwill of this Com¬ 
pany. The very fact that letters are marked “ Pri¬ 
vate,” should not, when the purpose is so clearly 
transparent, deter the receiver from forwarding 
them to us if they are kindly disposed to do so. 
FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. 
