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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
4,81 
Table of Premiums 
For Subscribers to American Agriculturist. 
[In tlie following table Is given the price of each article, 
ami the number of subscribers required to get it free, at the 
regular rates of $1.00 a year, and also (with a part of the 
premiums), at the club rates of $1.10 a year, postage in¬ 
cluded, which is prepaid in all cases by the Publishers .] 
TABJlcE of Premiums and Terms ri || 
For Volume 37—(1878). °J 
Open to AH—No Competit ion. £; £ 
.$13 00 
.$ 7 SO 
.$10 00 
.$ 5 2.1 
.$ 7 =0 
.$10 50 
.$ G SO 
.$ 5 00 
2— Zee Pitcher (do. do. do.) . 
3— Cake Basket., (do. do. do.) . .... 
4— Cake Basket..(do. do. do.) . 
5— Casters.... (do. do. do.) . 
6— Casters_ (do. do. do.) . 
7— Casters.... (do. do. do,) . 
8— Butter Cooler(do„ do. do.) . 
9— Pickle Jar and Fork. (do.) . 
10 — Syrup Cup toith plate, (do.) . 
11— Child’s Cup (do.) . 
12— Twelve Teaspoons(Meriden Cutlery Cc 
13 —One Bozen Tablespoons (do. d'o.)..$i4 50l 
14— One Dozen Table Forks (do. do .)..$14 50; 
15— Ladies’ Folding Pocket Scissors, (do.)..% 1 50 
IS—Child’s Knife, Fork & Spoon... 1 do.)...$ 3 00 
17— French Cook's Knife, Fork, A Steel-do.$ 3 75 9 
18— Case o f Scissors (tl.S. Steel Shear Co.). $ 4 to 
19 —Portable Writing Desk,(C. W.F.Daret.% 1 75 
20— Walnut Work Box, (do.) ....$125 
HI—Buck-Saw for Boys, (do.) ....$ SO 
HH—Little Girl’s Wash Set, (do.) ....$ l 00' 
J3—Sied, (do.) ....$2 00 
oring Dorse, 
(do.) 
25 - Boy’s Wagon (C. W. F. Dare) .$ 5 
26- Boy's Tool Chest, (E. I. Horsman) .$ l uu 
27- Boy's Larger Tool Chest (do.) ....$2 10 
HS—Boy's Larger Tool Chest (do.) ....$5 00 
29 - Pat. Maaic Bellhead Pencil (Ludden A | 
Taylor) .$ 1 50 
30- Ladies' Magic Charm Pencil (do. do.).* 2 00 
31- Gents' Magic Charm Pencil (do. do.).$ 2 75 
32 - Gold Pen, Telescopic Case (do. do .>.$ 2 50 
33 —Gold Pen and Pencil.Elegant (do. do.)$ 5 50| 
34— Knives and Forks (Patterson Bros.) ..$14 75 
35— Knives and Forks (do. do.) ...$18 50 
36 — Carver and Fork (do. do.) ...$3 75 
37 — Pocket Knife (Meriden Cutlery Co.)..$ 1 50 
38 — Pocket Knife (do. do.).. $2 00 
39 —Pocket Knife (do. do.) . .$ 2 75 
40 — Ladies'Pocket Knife (do. do.) ..$2 00 
41 — Multum in Parvo Knife (do. do.) . .$ 8 50 
42— Crandall’s “John Gilpin’’.. .$ 1 00 
43 — Crandall’s "District School” .$ 1 00 
44— Crandall’s Masquerade Blocks . $ 75 
45— Crandall's “Acrobats" .$ 1 00 
46— Crandall's Building Blocks . $ 1 50 
47— Crandall’s “ Menagerie ” .$ 2 00 
48 — Pair of Skates (Patterson Bros.) .$ 3 50 
49 — Boudoir Clock (S. B. Jerome A Co. i...$ 8 50 
5(1— Wire Bed Mattress (H. Buckingham). .$12 00 
51 —Houchin's Patent Pocket Cook Stove ..$ 1 35 
52— Household Press, (W. A. Boardman).. $2 00 
53 —Aquapult, ( Force Pimp), ( W. A B. 
Douglas, Middletown, Conn.)..% 9 00 
54— Self-adjusting Gold-plate Watch Key, 
(J. S. Birch.) .$ 1 00 
53— Pocket Tool Holder IMiller's Falls Co. >$ 1 00 
56— Piano.Splendid q-oct.(SteinwayASo’s)t 650 00| 
57— W.S. Blunt’s “ Universal Force Fump’% 12 00 
58 — Silver Watch (American Watch Co .)..$30 00 
59— Bracket Saw(Millers' Falls Man'fCo. % 1 25! 
60— Payson's Indelible Ink—Pen, etc . 75 
61— Excelsior Pocket Microscope (Bausch 
ALombOptical Co.) .$2 75 
62— Abbott Pocket Microscope (L.G.Abbott)* 1 50 
63— Cahoon's Broadcast Seed-sower .$ 5 00 
64 — Moore’s Floral Set (Moore Man\f'gCo)% 1 00! 
65— Garden SeedsA Flower Bulbs(select'n) $ 2 
66— Planet Jr. Combined Drill A Hoe (S. L. 
Allen A Co.) .$12 00 
67— Breech-loading Pocket Bifle (Stevens ).$16 00 
68 Double Barreled Breech-loading Gun.fSO 00 
69 — Shot Gun (E. Remington A Sons) .$ 6 
70— Shot Gun.breech-loader, (do. do.) _$23 
71— Creedmoor Long Range Rifle No.V do.)tl00 
72— Creedmoor Long Range Rifle No. 2 (do) j)85 00 
73 - Creedmoor Long Range Rifle No. 3 (do)$60 00 
74— Hunting & Target Rifle (Remington )..%22 00 
75— Vest Pocket Pistol (Remington) .$ 3 75 
76— Revolver ( Remington) .$ 9 00 
77 — Turn-table Apple Parer (Goodell Co.) ~ " "" 
78— Climax Apple Corer A Slicer (do.) 
79— Family Cherry Stoner (do.) 
50— Bay State Apple Parer A Slicer (do.) $ 
81— “ Saratoga” Potato Peeler A Slicer (do.* 
82— Sewing Machine (Remington) .$50 00 
S3—Family Scales (Fairbanks A Co.) .$14 00 
84 —Clothes Wringer (Best—Universal) _$ 8 00 
85— Worcester's Great Hlust’ed Dictionary* 10 00 
86— Any back Volume Agriculturist 1 . $ 1 75 
87— Any Tico Back Volumes do. ’g;e$ 3 50 
88— Any Three do. do. do. b o$ 5 25 
89— Any Four do. do. do. t o <?.$ 7 00 
90— Any Five do. do. do. ■§«$ 8 75 
-(Each ad’l Vol. at same rate.)__ i bg 
.$ 1 l 
$ 1 i 
$ 1 i 
91— Twenty-one Vols. XVI to XXXVI.J 
92— Any Back Vol. Agriculturist 
93— Any r - - 
S $3G 75 
13—Any Two Back Volumes do. I .isl 4 60 
94—Any Three do. do. do. I 13 «$ 6 90 
95 —Any Four do. do. do. ) S?’$ 9 “ 
96— Any Five do. do. do. o g$ll 
—(Each ad’l volume at same rate) \ fi,_ 
97— Twenty-one Vols. XVI to XXXVI J $48 
98— A 810 Library (your choi’e.) 1 ;g:s »$10 oo 
99— A SI5 Library do. ~ §SP$15 00 
100— A S20 Library do. (^§^*^$20 00 
101— A S25 Library do. ) &$25 00 
102— A Choice of Good Books. (See Description, p. 408., 
Every P-emium article is new and of the very 
best manufacture. No charge is made for packing or 
boxing any article in. our Premium List. The Premiums, 
Nos. 1 5, 18, 29 to 33, 37 to 41, 49, 51. 54, 
55, 59 to 62, 65, 75, 76, 86 to 102, inclusive, 
will each be delivered FREE of all charges, by mail or ex¬ 
press (at the Post-office or express office nearest the recipient) 
to any place in the United States or Territories.—The other 
articles cost the recipient only the freight after leaving the 
manufactory of each, by any conveyance desired. See Des¬ 
criptions on the foUon-ing seven pages, 402 to 40R in¬ 
clusive. Illustrated 1,1st sent tree to applicants. 
A M EKIC A J? AGK1CULTUK1ST. 
Oranok Judd Company, Publishers, 245 Broadway, N. Y. 
Annual Subscription Terms (always in advance): 
$1.60 each for single copies: Four copies, $1.30 each: Ten 
copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies and upward, $1.10 each. 
These rates include Postage, in each case, which is pre-paid 
by the Publishers. Papers are addressed to each name. 
The full Descriptions and Illustra¬ 
tions of the Premiums, with various 
Notes and, Explanations, were published 
in 8 extra pages of our October number, 
which can not be repeated for want of 
space. Any one not having that number, 
can have one mailed, post-paid, for 10 
cents ; or a Premium Sheet only, will be 
mailed to any address without charge. 
PREMIUM 
Explanatory Notes. 
N. B. 
Read and carefully Note tlie 
following Items: The Table, on page 401, tells the 
name and cash price of each article, and (in last column 
hut one), gives the number of names sent in at the regu¬ 
lar price of $1.60 a year that will secure any premium ar¬ 
ticle. (The last column gives the number of names at 
the lowest club price for 20 or more names, that is $1.10 
each, hut only a part of the premiums come under this 
head. Some persons quickly raise large clubs by taking 
all the names at $1.10 each, and themselves pay the 
difference, 50 cents each, and even tlms get the premium 
articles very cheaply.)_(a) All subscribers sent by 
one person count, though from several different Post- 
offices. But_(6) Tell us with each name or list of 
names sent, that it is for a premium....(c) Send the 
names as fast as obtained , that the subscribers may begin 
to receive the paper at once. Any one can have any time 
desired, up to next July, to complete any list, but every 
premium desired will be sent as soon as earned and or¬ 
dered....^) Send the exact money with each list of 
names, so that there may he no confusion of money ac¬ 
counts ( e ) Old and new subscribers all count in pre¬ 
mium clubs, but a portion at least should be new names ; 
it is partly to get these that we offer premiums to canvas¬ 
sers_(/) One or two Specimen Numbers, etc., will be 
supplied free, as needed by canvassers, (when 3 cents per 
copy is furnished to pre-pay postage), hut they are ex¬ 
pensive, and should he used carefully and economical¬ 
ly, and where they will tell. Other specimen numbers 
will be sent, post-paid, to canvassers only, for 10 cents 
each. The price to others is 15 cents_ (g) Remit money 
in Checks on New York Banks or Bankers, payable to 
order of Orange Judd Company, or send Post-office Money 
Orders. If neither of these is obtainable, Register Money 
Letters, affixing stamps both for the postage and registry; 
put in the money and seal the letter in the presence of 
the Post-master, and take his receipt for it. Money sent 
in any of the above ways is at our risk; otherwise it is not. 
U3T Premium Articles for Sale. 
It often happens that persons, who have not time to se¬ 
cure these valuable and useful premium articles by rais¬ 
ing clubs of subscribers, are desirous of purchasing one 
or more of them, and wish ns to procure or select them. 
For the accommodation of such, we will supply and send 
most of these premiums for cash, at the prices in the 
Descriptive List, and prepaid or otherwise, as stated. 
containing a great variety of Items, including' many 
good Hints and Suggestions which, we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
Continued from p. 457. 
A Consumptive Cow. — “C. M. B.,’ r 
Norfolk Co.,Va. Cows are subject to consumption of 
the lungs, or as it is called tuberculosis. The symptoms 
are a deep cough, dry, hot muzzle, heaving at tlie chest, 
bright glassy eye, with pale membranes around this 
organ. When thus diseased the milk is not fit for use, as 
the whole system with the blood is diseased. This is 
a blood disease which finds its development in the lungs,, 
and not precisely a disease of the lungs. 
Western Virginia.—“ E. J. S.,” Allen¬ 
town, Pa. There are many tracts of good farming land 
in West Virginia suitable for colonies, qr a number of 
persons emigrating from the same locality, that may he 
bought for four or five dollars per acre. These tracts are 
now covered with fine timber, but partly cleared land 
can be procured for $10 to $20 an acre. Mr. A. J. Vos- 
burg, of Red House Shoals, Putnam .Co., W. Va., would 
give information without charge, to parties wishing it. 
Indigestion in I,aimll»s .—“ D.,” Tehua- 
cana Hills, Tex. When lambs are suffering from indi¬ 
gestion, the contents of the rumen often regurgitate 
through the gullet into the mouth in the form of a green 
semi-liquid substance. If this is tested with soda, it is 
found to possess considerable acidity, which is probably 
the reason why the stomach is thus disturbed. As a 
remedy, give the lambs a teaspoonful of powdered chalk 
or a tablespoonful of a mixture of equal bulks of pow¬ 
dered chalk, ground ginger, and peppermint water, add¬ 
ing enough water to make it fluid. This is useful to 
keep on hand for this oommon ailment of lambs. 
Fertilizer for Wheat.—“ J. T. B.,” Mt. 
Sterling, Ky. As an artificial fertilizer for wheat, the 
formula of Prof. Ville, or that of Prof. Stockbridge, might 
he usefully applied. That of Prof. Ville, as prepared by the 
Mapes Formula Co., contains 7.69 percent, of ammonia; 
5 per cent, of phosphoric acid, and 7.59 per cent, of pot¬ 
ash, all in an immediately available and active condition. 
This costs $2.75 per 100 pounds. Where the winter is 
open, as at the South, this may be used now with benefit- 
Spring- Rye.— “ J. W.,” Vermontsville, 
Mich. It being too late to sow fall rye, tlie only substi¬ 
tute that would give a supply of straw for binding fodder 
would lie spring rye. Seed can he procured of any dealer 
in grain seeds. Sow as early as possible in spring. 
Value of Slaughter Blouse Re¬ 
fuse.—“ P. A.W.,” Fiskville, R. I. The refuse of slaugh¬ 
ter houses and blood are valuable fertilizers, worth more 
per ton than barn-yard manure. To keep them at this 
time for use in the spring, mix them with earth. 
Cow'-Pox.— “W. E. L.,” Gardiner, Me. Cow- 
pox is known by the appearance of sores like boils upon 
the cow’s udder, teats, and insides of the thighs and fore¬ 
legs. These sores are covered with brownish crusts, de¬ 
pressed in the center, and surrounded with a reddish 
circle. They break and crack open when rubbed or 
squeezed in milking. This disease unfits milk for use. 
Emigration of American Worlc- 
mcn.—A statement to the eff-ct that the services of 
workmen and mechanics were in demand in England, 
and that many men had left this country to seek work 
there, has been made much of to the disadvantage of busi¬ 
ness in this country. It turns out that those men who 
left here for England were engaged by employers whose 
men where on a strike, as a means of influencing their 
workmen to make terms. The contracts under which 
the American workmen were hired contained no notice 
of the situation of matters in England, and also obliged 
the men to hypothecate their tools as security that they 
would fulfil their engagement. The whole business has 
turned out disastrously. The men either cannot or have 
not worked, have lost their tools, and are in distress. 
Moral: it is generally safe to slay at home and “ bear the 
ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.” 
A Case of Fistula, in Amo.—“ S. L. 
H.,” Chester, N. J. When a fistula in ano is well estab¬ 
lished, it simply amounts to a double passage and no 
harm or difficulty occurs. Everything may go on per¬ 
fectly well, and probably will if the fistula is let alone. 
