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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
Special Notes-to — Every Reader. 
I.—We invite every Reader of this Journal to 
turn to and carefully read through the descriptions 
of the useful and ornamental articles on page 401 
to 408 inclusive. Every article has been canvassed 
with care, during months past. Every article is a 
really good one, from trustworthy , reliable parties. 
Anything not of first quality and just as represent¬ 
ed, will be made so by the Publishers of this 
Journal. Every reader will be likely to find there 
something that will exactly meet a present want. 
The prices given are the regular selling prices. 
IS .—While many will desire to purchase through 
us some articles described, many others will feel 
that, however desirable a particular article may 
be, they must do without it this year. Every such 
reader will find an opportunity given to get one or 
more of these things wittaoist stsosiey cost, 
and very speedily. There are very few places where 
there are not three, four, five, and from that up to 
twenty, thirty, fifty or more, who would he bene¬ 
fited by reading this Journal for a year. Many of 
these would take it if some one acquainted with it 
would show them a copy, explain what it is, and 
receive their names and subscriptions and forward 
them to the Publishers. It would be a favor to 
them to do so, and usually before the year is out 
they would thank any one for having done so. 
HI.—Can not the Reader of this do so ? More 
than Eighteen Thousand others have 
done this, and what so many have done, others may 
do. It requires no great tact for one who knows 
what this paper is to tell others about it, and 
offer to send on their names. 
IV. —NOW is a good time to do this. The 
Publishers offer, to each new subscriber received 
hereafter, to send the paper from the receipt 
of his subscription to the end of 1878 for 
a single subscription rate. This will be a help 
to any one in making up a small or large club 
which will secure him or her, free, one or more 
of the articles described on pages 401—408. All 
New Subscribers coming now for 1878, whether 
in premium clubs or otherwise, get the paper for 
the rest of this year without charge. 
V. -WH¥ wc pay these Premiums. 
It is so much trouble for some persons to write that, 
on this account, they often neglect sending for what 
they desire. Again, there are multitudes who do 
not know fully about the paper. It is a great con¬ 
venience both to such people and to the publishers 
to have one or more persons at every Post Office 
who will give a little attention to the interests 
of this paper, let others know about it, and receive 
and forward subscriptions. But it would be an 
endless task to have a special agent at the multi¬ 
tude of Post Offices. To avoid all this, the pub¬ 
lishers select an assortment of first-rate articles as 
presents or premiums to be given to those who 
take any trouble to show the paper and receive and 
forward subscriptions, new and old. These premi¬ 
um offers are open to all alike. The paver is fully 
worth all that is asked for it. These articles are only 
offered for assistance rendered to the publishers. 
VI. —How can the Preniisims he 
Afforded ?—Eirst, every dollar received from 
subscribers is expended upon the paper—upon its 
quality engravings, getting information, etc., etc. 
When more comes in from subscribers, more is 
expended upon the paper. BUT the publishers 
receive considerable income from good Adver¬ 
tisers, and all the premiums are paid for out of such 
receipts. More subscribers make the advertising 
pages more valuable, and supply more funds to pay 
for premiums. Again. —The premium articles 
are purchased at the lowest cash wholesale rates, 
and while they are just as good as so much money 
to those who receive them, the publishers are able 
to give really much more in the form of these 
premiums than if they paid cash commissions. 
Many persons who need money, get these articles 
by gathering subscribers and then sell the articies 
at full price. (A good many persons do this as a 
regular business, and thus get a good income.) 
General Invitation. 
Via.— We invite every reader to favor himself 
or herself and the publishers, by making up a small 
or large list of names at once, and select such 
articles as may be most desirable. It is an honor¬ 
able enterprise, and also useful to others. All the 
Premiums are ready for prompt delivery, as soon 
as called for. Get some article now, for im¬ 
mediate use, and then try for another list to se¬ 
cure some valuable present to others at the Holi¬ 
days. The extra copies offered free to subscribers, 
will help in procuring a premium club easily now. 
containing a great variety of Items , including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of room elsewhere. 
Publishers’ Notices, Terms, etc. — The Annual 
Subscription Rates of the American Agriculturist, postage 
prepaid by the Publishers, are: One Copy, $1.60 a year; Two 
Copies, $3 ; Three Copies, $1.20 ($1.40 each) ; Four Copies, 
$5.TO ($1.30 each); Five to Nine Copies. $1.25 each; Ten to 
Nineteen Copies, $1.20 each; Twenty Copies and upwards, 
$1.10 each ; Single Numbers, 15 cents, post-paid—The above 
terms are for the United States and Territories, and British 
America. To the above add 11 cents extra per year for 
papers delivered by mail in N. Y. City, and for copies sent 
outside of the United States and British America, ex¬ 
cept to Africa, Brazil. British Honduras, the East Indies, 
and Mexico. For the last named five countries the extra 
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Numbers, 17 cents, post-paid. Remittances, payable to 
Order of Orange Judd Company, may be sent in form of 
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Money Orders; or in Registered Letters, such letters to 
have the money enclosed in the presence of the Postmaster, 
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to be put on in stamps. Money remitted in any one of the 
above three methods is safe against loss. Round Vol umes 
from Vol. 16 to 35 Inclusive, supplied at $2 each, or $2.30 if to 
be sent by mail. Sets of numbers sent to the office will be 
bound in our regular style for 75 cents (30 cents extra if to 
be returned by mail). Missing numbers for such volumes 
supplied at 12 cents each.— Any Numbers of the paper is¬ 
sued for 20 years past, sent postpaid for 15 cents each— 
Clubs of Subscribers can be increased at any time.at the club 
rates, if new members begin at same date as original club. 
FIFTY-TWO !-Interest- 
ing Figures.—To make room for the October des¬ 
criptive articles and business announcements, without 
curtailing the reading columns, the Publishers order 8 
extra pages, or 52 in all, making this the largest regular 
number of this paper ever issued. Printer’s work is 
almost always paid for “ by the piece,” that is so much 
per “ 1,000 ems,” varying from 25 to 50 cents per 1.000 in 
different places. An “ cm.” or m, is a square of type of a 
particular size, not of the letter m, and is used to measure 
type just as a foot sqnare is used in board measuring. As 
most letters are smaller than m. and many pieces of thin 
spacing are required, “1,000 ems” moans nearly 3.000 
pieces of type, which the printer “ distributes” in the 
case and picks up and arranges in words, to set 1.000 
ems. His right hand must therefore move hack and forth 
some 6,000 times to set 1,000 ems, or 60,000 times if he 
set 10.000 ems in a day of 10 hours, as many do, (18,000 
have been set in one day by one man). Our printers 
report 555.000 ems, (about, millions pieces of type), 
used on flic 51 pages of this paper (omitting the title 
page). An ordinary $1.50 hook of 250 pages contains 
275,000 ems of type (long primer). This one paper there¬ 
fore contains as much type (or words) as two such books 
costing $3.00. As ail the pages contain useful informa¬ 
tion, the reader will he likely to get his money’s worth, 
the paper being sent post paid to regular subscribers for 
13 cents per number, and much less to large clubs. 
One Good Evidence of Reviving 
Business is seen in the increased new space called 
for in our advertising columns—nearly double what it 
was in October 1876.—The advertisements are so varied 
that one can hardly fail to get some useful informal ion, 
some business hint, that wfill pay for reading all these 
pages carefully. To all, and especially to new readers, 
we desire to say that the rules of the Publishers shut out 
all patent medicines, all secret nostrums, all deceptive 
notices, and aim to admit only those advertisers who 
have the ability and the intention to do just what their 
advertisements promise. This cuts oft’a large income from 
those who, giving little if any return for much money, 
can and do afford to pay largely for advertising; but it is 
the only correct rule for those who would not he a party 
to fraud upon their readers.—And as our good advertisers 
come in under such strict rules, it will he pleasing to 
them and perhaps useful to their customers, if every one 
writing to them for circulars, for information, and to 
order from them, will mention that they found their ad¬ 
vertisement in this journal. 
Hints to Roys and Girls— to Cler¬ 
gymen— to €iiurchcs— to Farmers—to Farm¬ 
ers’ Clubs— to Ladies — to Merchants — to 
SSallroad Conductors, etc., etc., will be found 
on page 399. 
TWO MONTHS FREE. 
Every New Subscriber for 1878 sent in during 
October will receive the paper the remaining two 
months of this year without charge. This applies 
to ALL subscribers, whether coming singly at 
single rates, or in clubs at club rates, or in pre¬ 
mium clubs. 
Notices of Catalogues, of Books, of 
the Reports of various societies, the acknowledgment of 
many complimentary tickets to fairs, List of the October 
Fairs, and other matters prepared for this number must 
he omitted, on account of the great pressure on our 
columns. The favors referred to are not the less appreci¬ 
ated because they are not specified, and the acknowledg¬ 
ment of many of them will he made another month. 
Tlie Oclohci- Fail’s.— We have usually 
given a separate list of the fairs to he held this month, 
hut cannot do so this time, and reference must he made 
to the September list for these fairs. 
Farmers Swindled ia Cal»l»nge 
Seed.—Mr. Peter Henderson sends an article which we 
regret that, in the crowded state of our columns, we can 
not give entire. We must now present merely an out¬ 
line, or leave it until another month. According to an 
article in the “Brooklyn Eagle” of Aug. 25th, there visit¬ 
ed the L. I. cabbage growers, last winter, a man claiming 
that his name was Seymour, and that he had the best 
cabbage seed grown in the State of Connecticut; it was 
the same seed that seedsmen sold for $10 the lb., but he 
offered it at $5. His operations extended from one end 
of the island to the other. Some farmers bought from 
one up to 20 lbs., paying full price ; from the more timid 
Seymour took $1 per lb. down, the remaining $4 to he 
paid when the crop was harvested. The early crop turns 
out to he nearly worthless, and the late crop promises to 
be worse—and numerous farmers, who with the hope of 
saving something, bought this seed, have lost their 
whole crop. It seems strange that a cultivator, who 
knows the importance of good seed, especially in the 
cabbage and its relatives, should run the risk of purchas¬ 
ing from an unknown stranger; hut when money is 
scarce with a farmer, a glih-tongued swindler, who offers 
to save him half his outlay, is readily listened to. Be¬ 
sides the offer to take $1 down and the rest in the fall, 
went far to allay any doubts of the vender’s honesty—the 
victims not knowing that lie sold, even then, at a profit, 
as something that will pass for cabbage seed, may be 
imported for 25e. per ft>. It is a hard school to learn in, 
but we do not think that itinerant seed-venders will do 
a large business on Long Island for some years to come. 
Mr. Henderson thinks, that, as some-of the plants have 
grown 3 to 4 feet high, and many of them flowered, the 
seeds' may have been of the variety of non-heading cab¬ 
bage known as “ Southern Collard.” 
