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The following are sample expressions of 
opinion regarding the American Agricultur¬ 
ist, which we are constantly receiving. 
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“Your paper is the best I liave ever read.” 
UllAYTON M. JOULD. 
Boston, Mass. 
“Your paper improves with each number.” 
Walter E. Thwing. 
Collins Centre, N. Y. 
“Have taken the American Agriculturist scYcraX years, 
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“I like your journal ever so much, and intend to be a 
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“ I have not missed a number since I commenced tak¬ 
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“Your worthy journal lias become quite a favorite in 
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“ I think the paper sufficiently worth the subscription 
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“ I intend to have the American Agriculturist as long 
as it or I continue to exist.” W. E. Alkirb. 
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“ Of all the Agricultural papers I have sampled, I 
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Oscar M. Phillips. 
Bloomington, Neb. 
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years.” R. S. Townsend. 
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“ I have received six numbers of your American Agri¬ 
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with it.” Martin McHalb. 
West New Brighton, S. I., July 12,1884. 
“ Tlie American Agriculturist, under tlie new manage¬ 
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iny papers I take. I would not do witlioiit it for ten 
times its cost.” T. S. Montgomery'. 
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“ I wish to say that iliis year (1884), is my first acquaint¬ 
ance with tlie Amei'ican Agriculturist, and that I am 
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“I paid for a subscription to your paper last year, for 
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ever read, and wants me to send it to him again.” 
John Morrison. 
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“ I was a subscriber for sixteen or eighteen years in 
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“The present volume, eight numbers of which have 
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