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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[May, 
(his integrity, who lives cleanly and purely, who never gets 
an debt, who gains friends by deserving them, and puts his 
money into a savings bank. There are some ways to 
(fortune that look shorter than this old dusty highway. But 
(the staunch men of the community, the men who achieve 
•something really worth having, good fortune, good name, 
•and a serene old age, all go this road. 
Model Manner of Settling a Large Estate. —Seth 
'Thomas, of Hallow, Connecticut, left at the time of his 
■decease, eighteen months ago, property worth from 
$400,000 to $600,000, and six children, who were his heirs. 
There was no will, and the estate descended in the legal 
manner to the children equally. They consulted no law¬ 
yers, began no scramble, but mutually agreed upon two 
judicious men, and employed them to divide the property 
into six portions as nearly equal in value as could be. 
This done, the portions were put up at auction among 
them, each buying a portion, and the premiums again 
were equally divided. In this way the lawyers got no fee, 
the community no scandal, the peace of the family circle 
was preserved, and an end arrived at,which gratifies every 
pure sentiment. 
To Cure a Fit of Ennui.—G o into the attic and look 
over all the old rubbish. You will be sure to find some¬ 
thing interesting and something to do. 
Good for the Blues. —Go and see the poorest and 
sickest families within your knowledge. 
What to do in a Fit of the Sulks.— Think over all 
the kindnesses you have received, and the manner in 
which you have repaid them. 
To Make Children Mind. —First consider them as 
children and not as old folks. Second, never command 
ahem to do anything unreasonable. 
A Physican at Cincinnati, had for some time been an¬ 
noyed by depredators who drank up the milk left at his 
door, at an early hour. One day recently, he put an emet 
ic in the pitcher, and soon after the milkman had passed, 
the doctor found a policeman in a neighboring alley, 
making his returns.” 
*• Don’t cry, little boy. Did he hit you on purpose ?” 
“ No sir—he hit me on the head.” 
Why is a room full of married people empty ? Because 
there is not a single person present. 
Value the friendship of him who stands by you in the 
storm; swarms of insects will surround you in sunshine. 
A sermon in four words on the vanity of earthly pos¬ 
sessions : “ Shrouds have no pockets.” 
“ Pete, how does your father hamper his sheep, to pre¬ 
vent them from jumping over the fences ?” “ Oh ! that’s 
easy enough ; he just cuts a ho’.e through one hind leg, 
and sticks the other one through it, and then puts the fore 
legs through that for a pin.” 
At a late trial, the defendant, who was not familiar with 
the number of words which the law employs to make a 
trifling charge, after listening awhile to the reading of the 
Indictment, jumped up and said : “ Them ’ere allegations 
are false, and that ere alligator knows it.” 
STAWBITO PREMIUMS 
For 1861. Vol, XX. 
J3P = Tn selecting articles for premiums, we have aimed 
to get such as are useful and as iiave been most fre¬ 
quently called for by our readers. USp’We wish it 
distinctly understood that these premiums are offer¬ 
ed in good faith—no cheap, trashy, imperfect, poorly made 
or second-hand thing, will be $tnt out, but each article 
offered, is the. best of its kind, and every one will be selected 
by the publisher from the very best manufactured. They 
will be the best sold in the market at the prices named. 
|S* We offer nothing for competition. Each premium is 
for a specified number of subscribers, and no one’s remuner¬ 
ation will depend upon what other unknown persons are do¬ 
ing. Every one aiming for a premium, knows just what he 
or she, is working for; and also that if a higher premium is 
not secured, a lower one can he taken. 
S3T The premiums are offered for subscribers for Volume 
XX (1861), whenever received. Canvassers will have time 
for completing their lists, but the premium will be paid as 
soon as any list is made up—if duplicate lists are sent, to refer 
to at once. 83?” Clubs need not be confined to one P. O. 
Premium A. 
130 Subscribers at 80 cents each, (or 90 at $1 each,) will 
entitle the person getting up the club to one of Wheeler & 
Wilson's best 845 Sewing Machines, (including 
Hemmers) new from the factory, and of the very best 
make. There is no better family machine than this made, 
as we have proved by three years’ use in our own 
family. We want no better.—The machines will be selected 
new at the manufactory, be well boxed, and forwarded with, 
out expense to the recipient, except for freight charges after 
leaving the city. Full instructions for setting up and using, 
go with each machine. 
Premium IS. 
130 Subscribers at 80 cents each, (or 90 at $1 each,) will 
entitle the person getting up the club to a set of Appleton's 
New American Cyclopaedia, now in course of 
publication, consisting of.fifteen large volumes of 770 pages 
each. This is a magnificent work, forming a whole library 
embracing every topic of human knowledge. Eleven vol¬ 
umes are now ready, and the remaining four will be fur¬ 
nished as fast as issued. Price, $45. 
Premium C. 
98 Subscribers at 80 cents each, (or 69 at $1 each,) will 
ent.itleithe person getting up the club to one of Willcox dk 
Gibbs' 835 Sewing Machines, including a set of 
Hummers. This is the best machine of its kind, (sewing 
with one thread), and has several points superior to others. 
It is neat, well made, simple in its operation; and having test¬ 
ed one for some time past in our own family, we can recom¬ 
mend it to those who can not afford to buy the higher priced 
double-thread machines. (The regular price of this machine 
is $30, but we have included in our offer $5 extra for the set 
of Semmers, because those used with this machine are very 
simple and effective, and should go with every one sent out.) 
The machines given as premiums, will be selected new at the 
factory, be well boxed, and will be forwarded to the recip¬ 
ient free of expense, except for freight after leaving the 
city. They will go out set up ready for use, with printed 
directions for operating. 
Premium ©. 
65 Subscribers at 80 cents each, (or 33 at $1 each,) will 
entitle the person getting up the club to one of the New 
$10 Wringing Machines, described on page 247 of the 
August Agriculturist. This is one of the best labor-saving 
inventions of the day, and we unhesitatingly spy that it will 
pay to have one to assist in the washing of every family, 
even if of only moderate size. We would nut take $50 for 
omr machine, if another could not be purchased. 
Premium IS. 
45 Subscribers at 80 cents each, (or 20 at $1 each,) will 
entitle the person getting up the club to one of Kendall's 
Aneroid Barometers, described on page 232 of the 
August Agriculturist. This is a good portable instrument, 
and valuable to every person as a weather guide, as well as 
for scientific purposes. (New price $7.50.) 
Premium IF. 
50 Subscribers at 80 cents each, (or 26 at $1 each,) will 
(.■ntitle the person getting up the club to one of the best 
88 Straw and Hay Csitters. [If preferred, the best 
§8 Subsoil Plow (two-horse) will be given.] 
Premium M. 
40 Subscribers at 80 cents each, (or 21 at $i each,) will 
entitle the person getting up the club to one of the best 
S6X Hand Coras. Sliellers—a convenient, effective, and 
useful implement. 
Premium j[. 
30 Subscribers at 80 cents each, (or 16 at $1 each,) will 
entitle the person getting up the club to one extra copy of 
Vol. XX, and also to the 4 previous unbound Volumes 
of the American Agriculturist, (1C, 17, 18, 19,) sent post-paid. 
Premium K. 
25 Subscribers at 80 cents each, will entitle the person 
getting up the club to an extra copy of Vol. XX, and also to 
any three of the unbound volumes 10, 17,18, and 19 sent post 
paid. 83?”20 Subscribers at SO cents each to an extra copy 
of vol. XX, and two of those volumes. 15 Subscribers 
at 80 cent each, to an extra copy of Vol. XX, and one of the 
previous volumes. 
Premium i,. 
20 Subscribers at 80 cents each, will entitle the person get¬ 
ting up the club to an assortment of Windsor <k Newton's 
Water Color Paints—consisting of 12 colors, put up in 
a neat mahogany case, with brushes, etc. These Paints are 
imported from London, and are by all considered the best 
in the world. They are adapted to the finest work, or they 
will make a neat and appropriate present to any of our young¬ 
er readers. They will be sent post-paid any where within 
3000 miles. (If to go to the British Provinces or to the Pa¬ 
cific Coast, the recipient will need to send 84 cents for extra 
postage above the 6 cents per ounce which we pay.) 
Premium M. 
15 Subscribers at 80 cents each, will entitle the person get¬ 
ting up the club to an Assortment of Osborne AHodgkinson's 
Water Color Paints, consisting of 24 colors or shades, 
put up in a mahogany case witji brushes, cups, etc. These 
are of American manufacture, and though not so fine as the 
above, they will answer for ordinary practice by children or 
beginners, and for common sketching. They will also be 
sent by mail, post-paid. (If to go to the British Provinces, 
or to the Pacific Coast, $1,05 will need to be sent by the re¬ 
cipient to pay the extra postage above C cents per ounce.) 
Premium N. 
10 Subscribers at 80 cents each, will entitle the person get¬ 
ting up the club to any one of the four previous unbound 
volumes (16,17,18, or 19,) sent post-paid. 
Premium O. 
237 Subscribers at 80 cents each (or 125 at $1 each) will 
entitle the person getting up the club to one of Geo. A. 
Prince & Co.'s $75 Mclotleons (5 octaves)! These Melo- 
deons are of very superior tone and finish. 4Ve have our¬ 
selves used one (costing $150) for two years past, and it has 
given the highest satisfaction, and is pronounced by ail who 
have heard it, as one of the very best. The different priced 
instruments ape of equally good tone—the price varying with 
the size and style of finish. The size, prices, etc., of these in 
struments can he learned particularly by sending a stamp to 
Geo. A. Prince & Co., Buffalo, N. Y., for ail illustrated de¬ 
scriptive catalogue. The instruments given as Premiums, will 
be sent new directly from the factory at Buffalo, ready box 
ed, and without extra expense to the recipient, except for 
freight after leaving the factory. 
83?” The above premium list may he made up by the 
members of a congregation, or Sabbath School, and an in 
strument thus secured for a church or school-room. 
Premium P. 
182 Subscribers at 80 cents each (or 105 at $1 each) will 
entitle the person getting up the club to one of Geo. A. 
Prince dk Co.’s $60 Melodcons octaves.) See re¬ 
marks above. 
Premium tj. 
130 Subscribers at80 eents each (or 90 at $1 each), will 
entitle the person getting up the club to one of Geo. A. 
Prince & Co.'s $45 Meloilcons (4 octaves.) See remarks 
above. N. IS.—Higher priced Melodeons will be given r or 
larger lists, in the same proportion. 
Bools Premiums. 
Valuable Book Premiums.—Instead of the above 
premiums, any person getting up a club of 20 or more names 
may choose any desired Books from the list (advertised on 
page 350 of Nov. No.) to the amount of 12K cents for each 
name forwarded at 80 cents, (or 32K cents for each name sent 
at $1,) and the books will be sent post-paid. (If to go over 
3000 miles, the recipient will need to send 20 cents for extra 
postage on each dollar’s worth of books.) eyPersons mak¬ 
ing up a club for any of the above premiums, and getting 
some names over the required amount, will be entitled to 
books for the surplus names. 
Seeds for Free Distribution in 1881. 
POSTAGE REDUCED. 
We have yet on hand moderate supplies of the seeds 
named in the revised list below; any subscribers not hav¬ 
ing already received seeds, can still select four or five 
parcels. Owing to the reduction of the postage on seeds 
and cuttings, from six cents, to one cent per ounce, when 
under 1,500 miles, and two cents per ounce when over 1,500 
miles, we have changed the mode of estimating postage. 
Subscribers, therefore, who send for seeds hereafter, 
will furnish envelopes refRly directed to themselves, and 
put on a separate slip of paper (inside the envelope) the 
numbers referring to such seeds in the catalogue below, 
as they may desire to receive. Also enclose a one- 
cent postage stamp for each ounce or under of seed re¬ 
quired, If under 1,500 miles, and two cents if to go ovei 
1,500 miles. (Most places west of the Mississippi River 
are over 1,500 miies from New-York.) 
Put no figures or other marks on the envelopes, 
except your address, or it will be subject to letter post 
age. Enclose the list of seeds and the stamps carefully, 
so that they will not fall out of the directed envelope. 
[Descriptive Notes upon the following seeds are given 
on pages 3, 4, and 5, of J anuary number.] 
Field Seeds. 
No. 
140— Imported Giant Wheat. 
2— Improved King Philip Corn. 
3— Stowell’s Sweet Corn...._ 
141— Darling’s Early Sweet Corn...... 
142— Yellow Stone Turnip . 
143— Waite’s Eclipse Turnip . 
98—Long Red Mangel Wurzel _ 
101—Improved Long Orange Carrot... 
Weight of package 
.One-quarter ounce 
,. One-half ounce. 
.One-half ounce. 
.One-half ounce. 
.One-quarter ounce 
.One-quarter ounce 
.One-half ounce. 
One quarter ounce 
Vegetable or Garden Seeds. 
8— Daniel O’Rourke Pea.......One-half ounce. 
9— Champion of England Pea.One-half ounce. 
58 —Napoleon Pea. One-half ounce. 
13 ( 1 —Great Eastern Pea.One-lialf ounce. 
12— Green Kohl Rabi.. . One-fifth ounce. 
13 — Enfield Market Cabbage.One-fifth ounce. 
145 —Flat Dutch (Winter) Cabbage..... .One-fifth ounce. 
14«—Early Battersea Cabbage. One-fifth ounce. 
147— Neapolitan Cabbage Lettuce.One-fifth ounce. 
148— Long dark Blood Beet. One-filth ounce. 
149— Extra early Bassano Beet.One-fifth ounce 
74—Solid White Celery. .One-fifth ounce. 
151— Yellow Danvers Onion...One-fifili ounce. 
95—‘True Hubbard Squash.One-fifth ounce. 
152— Fine large Cheese Pumpkin.One-fifth ounce. 
153— Large Red Tomato.One-fifth ounce. 
154— Ice-cream Water Melon. One-fifth ounce. 
76—Skillman’s Netted Musk Melon.One-fifth ounce. 
103—Sage.One-fifth ounce. 
155— Long Cayenne Pepper.One-fifth ounce. 
156— Summer Savory.One-fift.li ounce. 
17—Red Strap-Leaf Turnip.One-half ounce. 
71—Long White French Turnip.One-half ounce. 
107 —Giant Asparagus.One-quarter ounce. 
Flower, Fruit, and Ornamental Seeds. 
89—Cottou Plant (2 kinds, mixed).One-half ounce 
111 — Castor Oil Bean (Ornamental).One-fifth ounce. 
ties will go under a 1-cent stamp. 
23—Mignonette, («.) 
25—Mixed Nasturtium, (a.) 
30 — Tassel Flower, (a.) 
31— Chinese Pink, (a.) 
33—Cypress Vine, («.) 
42—Foxglove, (6.) 
49—Candytuft, (a) 
87—Coreopsis, (a.) 
122— Mixed Canterbury 
Bells, (6) 
123— Gilia nivalis, (a.) 
134—Wliitlavia, (a.) 
126—Long-tubed Centran- 
thus, (a.) 
164—Swpet Ageratum, (a.) 
a, annual— b, biennial— p, perennial. 
1106 — Lobelia gracilis, (a.) 
|167—Malope Grandiflora, (a.) 
169— Ciarkia pulchella, (a.) 
170— Evening primrose. (6.) 
172— Lunaria biennis, (o.) 
173— Mixed branching Lark¬ 
spur, (a.) 
175—Mixed Salpiglossis (a.) 
177— Ornamental Grass, (a.) 
178— Lathyrus latifolius, (p .) 
180 — Cent;! urea Americana (a) 
182— Sweet Alyssum, (a.) 
183— Mixed French and Ger¬ 
man Asters, (a.) 
