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AMEEI(JAN AG-RIC QLT UR I ST, 
July... 4... 1876. 
Last Gall. 
One Month and 4 Days. 
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o Centennial.,... Offering. ° 
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Of Interest to Two Classes. 
1st Class: Those who have sent in some 
names for Premiums. 
2d Class: All Others. 
1st.—Those who lmve sent in some names on premium 
lists should now fill up the lists, and send in for the de¬ 
sired premiums. The offers will be closed and with¬ 
drawn on July 4, 1876. There is plenty of time to do 
this during the next 34 days. 
2d.—There is plenty of time for any person desiring it, 
to show his (or her) paper to two, three, or more others, 
explain its value, ask and secure and forward their sub¬ 
scriptions, beginning now, or at the commencement of 
the volume, or any other time desired, and in return for 
tliis, the Publishers will make you a fine Centennial Gift 
of any of file good articles in the Premium List, corre¬ 
sponding to the number of names sent by you. Over 
2 5,000 such presents have bepn made by the Publish¬ 
ers in this way, and with almost universal gratification 
to the recipients. Any Person (YOU, READER) 
can easily get one or more of these fine articles free.—(If 
you have not the illustrated descriptions of the premiums, 
send for a copy at once, and it will be forwarded free.) 
A lady received one of Steinway’s splendid $650 
Pianos for subscribers collected mainly in June. 
Many others have obtained other valuable articles in 
return for names collected as late as this month. 
There is nothing fanciful, and no clap-trap at all in this 
matter. There are tens of thousands of persons, a few 
at least in every place in the country, who ought, for 
their own pleasure and profit, to have just the kind 
of information that is being given in this journal during 
this year. It would directly and indirectly pay them 
many times the cost, and if they knew about the matter 
they would certainly have it. The Publishers desire 
to reach such persons. They know that those who once 
begin to read the paper, usually continue to do so 
through a long series of years, and they intend to make 
the paper so valuable that no one will want to cease tak¬ 
ing it. But they cannot go and speak to them personally. 
So they (the Publishers) desire to have the Headers 
speak of the paper to their friends and neighbors, and 
explain its character and utility, so that they will desire 
to have it, and the Publishers are quite willing to pay 
all who do this, much more than the profit on the sub¬ 
scription for one or two years. 
Therefore they oiler valuable articles (of Hie 
best . quality and character) to each and every one 
who will take the little trouble required to ask two, 
or three, or more, neighbors to subscribe. These ar¬ 
ticles, bought for cash at wholesale, are more valuable 
and much better pay than could be given in money , hut are 
just as good, or hotter, than money ; they are carefully 
selected and warranted good. 
This plan works well all round, and lias done so for 
£05 
many years. The Publishers secure enlarged circulation. 
Those assisting in this, got the good premiums without 
money expenditure. Those induced to subscribe are 
made acquainted with a good paper, and are benefited. 
Now, READER, will you not join in the enterprise ? 
Can you not, this month , beginning to-day, speak of 
the paper to those you meet, or take an evening or 
rainy day to do it, and thus secure two, three, or more 
names, and send them in ? You can select any article 
yon desire from the Premium List, corresponding to the 
names you send, whether many or few. MANY have 
found this so profitable, that they have given up every¬ 
thing else, and gone into it as a business, and made 
large salaries by selling the articles they have obtained. 
Thousands of others have secured for themselves, free, 
such things as these: (Gold Pens ami Pencils— 
Watches—Fine 'Fable Cutlery — Elegant 
Silver-plated Articles—Scissors in Cases— 
Pocket E£»iives—Roy’s Wagons—Children’s 
Carriages—Flora! Scts-Microscopes—OTelo- 
deons—Pianos—Guns—Kitles—Books, etc. 
Try your hand at it now. In the next one month 
and 4 days, (June, and July 1-1), you can get one, per¬ 
haps several of the above articles, or others of the 100 
offered in the Premium List. If you have not kept your 
copy of the Premium List, send and get another at once. 
'Pry it for once, and see how it will work. A little 
practice now, may pave the way for you to get hundreds 
of dollar’s worth next year. 
YOU can do tills as successfully and 
satisfactorily to yourself, as the other 
15,000, who have already done so. 
containing a great variety of Items , including many 
good Wats and Suggestions which u % e throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of room elsewhere. 
Ugp” W.15.—'Flie Yew B®»s4atg;e Law. 
—On account of the new postal law, which requires 
pre-payment of postage by the publish¬ 
ers, each subscriber must remit, in addition to the reg¬ 
ular rates, ten cents for prepayment of yearly 
postage by the Publishers, at New York. 
Every subscriber, whether coming singly, or in clubs at 
club rates, will he particular to send to this office postage 
as above, with his subscription. Subscribers in British Am¬ 
erica will continue to send postage as heretofore, for 
pre-payment here. 
Remit i sets'- Money: — CSaedcs osa 
New York City Blanks or Rankers are best 
for large sums : make payable to the order of Orange 
Judd Company. Post-Office Money Orders 
for $50 or less, are cheap and safe also. When these are not 
obtainable, register letters, affixing stamps for post¬ 
age and registry ; put in the money and seal the letter in 
the presence of the postmaster, and tale his receipt for it. 
Money sent in the above three methods is safe against loss. 
Round Copies of Volume Thirty- 
four are now ready. Price, $2, at our office; or $2.50 
each, if sent, by mail. Any of the last nineteen volumes 
(1G to 34) will also he forwarded at same price. Sets of 
numbers sent to our office will he neatly bound in our 
regular style, at75 cents per vol. (50 cents extra, if return¬ 
ed by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12 cents each. 
Sjsealk a Word for 45ae CSersmaBB. 
American Agriculturist.—For 17 years past an 
edition of this journal lias been issued in the German 
language for Hie benefit of the large number of our citi¬ 
zens who read only the language of Vaterland. It con¬ 
tains the engravings and all the principal reading of the 
English edition. Several pages devoted to the adver¬ 
tisements in tiie English edition, are in the German 
edition occupied by a special extra Department, edited by 
the Hon. Frederick Munch, a distinguished cultivator of 
Missouri, which gives it additional value to the German 
reader. The colored cover only is omitted from the 
German edition. Many of our subscribers take the Ger¬ 
man copy for their gardener or their workmen. Will our 
friends make tliis edition known to their German friends 
and neighbors ? Having the advantage of the engravings 
ol the English edition, it is larger, better, and cheaper, 
than it could he if published independently. Both edi¬ 
tions are issued on the same terms, and clubs may con¬ 
sist of either edition, or a part of both. 
'File If ouse-BSii tiding- chapters and il¬ 
lustrations given in every number of the American Ag¬ 
riculturist now, as for 18 months past, and to he contin¬ 
ued, are of great value. They are new, the information 
is of the practical, common-sense order, and the cost of 
each plan is of great convenience, as it is carefully esti¬ 
mated. These articles are alone worth more than the 
cost of the paper to half the families of the country—to 
those hoping to build in the future, those planning to 
build soon, and as an aid in changing houses already 
erected. 
Osar Y'nlioiial 15A5ZAAI& this month, 
contains the usual assortment of good things, advertised 
by trustworthy men. It will always pay any one to look 
all through the advertisements, and see what is offered, 
by whom, at what price, etc. Many a man has got a val¬ 
uable new idea from seeing what others say about busi¬ 
ness matters, which has started his own thought in a 
profitable direction. When writing to any of our ad¬ 
vertisers, for information, catalogues, etc., or sending 
orders to them, please let them know that you belong to 
the great Agriculturist family, and you may expect and 
will receive good treatment. Our advertisers know that 
we carefully exclude any one who does not promptly 
perform what he promises in his advertisement. 
BSr , oom=CJ<>s‘si :&n<l SSrooms, is the title 
of a work of about 60 pages, in which the editors of the 
American Agriculturist have brought together from va¬ 
rious sources all the available information upon these 
subjects. It gives the various methods of treating the 
crop in different parts of the country, from preparing the 
soil and planting the seed, to baling the crop and send¬ 
ing it to market, and includes an account of the man¬ 
agement on the great Broom-corn farms of Illinois. The 
methods by which the farmer can make brooms for home 
use, and those followed in manufacturing for market, are 
given in detail, and as also other parts of the work, 
abundantly illustrated, the whole forming the most com¬ 
plete treatise on this increasingly important crop in 
print. Published by the Orange Judd Company, New 
York. Sent post-paid, in paper 50c, in cloth 75c. 
!M«l 14 I B ay ?—Thirty-three years ago two 
farmers settled side by side, with about equal advantages 
as to soil, markets, etc. One of them subscribed for the 
American Agriculturist, and occasionally bought a book 
or two about his business, the whole costing him only 
$6 a year. Ilis boys read and thought about their work, 
became interested in and respected it, and were happy in 
their toil, because they had something to think about. 
They grew up intelligent, and settled as good prosperous 
farmers, respected and influential....The other farmer 
“ couldn’t afford papers and hooks ” ; (he could afford G 
cents a day, or $20 a year, for tobacco, beer, etc.) His 
boys worked sullenly by day, and “ skylarked ” at night; 
they despised and hated their work, which for them was 
o«ly exercising brute force, with little mind applied. 
When old enough to escape parential restraint, they quit 
the farm, one for tliis, and another for that, and none of 
them ever amounted to anything. Six dollars a year, or 
even $1 .50 a year, would have made a wonderful differ¬ 
ence—would have changed their whole course of life. 
Would it have paid ?....Please show tliis item to some 
of your neighbors, who have perhaps not thought of 
this matter, and invite them to try this or some other 
good journal for the present year. You may do them a 
positive good by such a hint. 
Frauds in Fertilizers. —There is un¬ 
doubtedly much profit to he gained In using good arti¬ 
ficial fertilizers of the right kinds, hut from the nature of 
the case, it is difficult to detect frauds. It. is so easy to 
color, and compound worthless materials, that one is on¬ 
ly safe when buying of thoroughly known and entirely 
trustworthy manufacturers, and with a guarantee as to 
the composition. An “Agricultural Experiment. Sta¬ 
tion,” with a “ Fertilizer Control System ” is needed in 
every State, almost in every county. Connecticut lias 
made a beginning, and the saving to that State will be 
