1876.1 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
4-73 
A II E R I C A M A G U I C U L T U R 1 S T. 
Ora-nok Judd Company, Publishers, 245 Broadway, N Y. 
Annual Subscription Terms (always in advance): 
$1.60 each for less than four copies: Four to nine copies, $1.35 
each: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.30 each: Twenty copies 
and upward, $1.10 each. These rates include Postage, in each 
case, which is pre-paid by the Publishers. Papers are ad¬ 
dressed to each name. 
Either English or German Edition, at these prices. 
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The Publishers of the American Agri¬ 
culturist take pleasure in presenting their 
new general Premium List for 1877. The 
Premiums which they have offered in 
past years have engaged the attention of 
a very large number of persons of all 
ages and both sexes. Many thousands 
have secured Premiums, and very many 
of these, who at first had small hopes of 
success, have been themselves astonished 
at the ease with which they have raised 
large clubs and secured one or more of 
the valuable articles here offered. 
[Read the Table of Premiums in next column and the notes 
below it:'] 
Expl'aointory Notes. 
Read and carefully W©te tlie 
following Steins: The next Table tells the name 
and cash price of each article, and, (in the last column 
hnt one), gives the number of names sent in at the regu¬ 
lar price of $t.f >0 a year that will secure any premium ar¬ 
ticle. (The last column gives the number of names at 
the lowest club price for 90 or more names, that is $ 1.10 
each. 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 thus get the premium 
articles very cheaply.) (a) All subscribers sent by 
one person count, though from several different Post- 
offices. But_ (b) 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. You can have any time you 
Wish up to next. July, to complete your list... .(d) Send 
the exact money with eacli list of names, so that there 
may be no confusion of money accounts....(«) Old and 
new subscribers all count in premium chibs, but a por¬ 
tion. at least, should be new names; it is partly to get 
these that we offer premiums to canvassers_(/) Spe¬ 
cimen Numbers, etc., will be supplied free, as needed by 
canvassers, (when 3 cents per copy is furnished to pre-pay 
postage), but they should be used carefully and eco¬ 
nomically, and where they will tell... .(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. 
TaWe of Premiums. 
[In the following table is given the price of each article, 
and the number of subscribers required lo get it free, at the 
regular rates of $1.60 a year, and also at the club rates of $1.10 
a year, postage included, which is prepaid in all cases by 
the Publishers .] 
TA 25 ILK of Premiums and Terms 
For Volume 3G—(1877). 
Open to all—No Compet.it ion. 
No. Names of Premium Articles. 
~L—Pat. Maalc Bellhead Pencil (Ludden dc 
Taylor ). * 
2— Ladies' Magic Charm Pencil ( do. do]’ $ 1 
3 -Gents' Magic Charm Pencil (do. do.S.S ; 
d,—Gold, Pen, Telescopic Case (clo. do > s 1 
5—Gold Pen and Pencil, Telescopic Case 
7— Patent Telescopic Gold Pen and Pen- 
S —Knives and Forks (Patterson Pros.) . 
H—Knives and Forks (do. do.) .. 
10 —Carver ancl Fork (do. do.) ...$375 
11 —French Cook’s Knife, Fork, and Steel $ 3 75 
-Pocket Knife (Meriden Cutlery Co.' - - - - 
_ -Pocket Knife (do. do.)' . $ 2 00 
l—Pocket Knife (do. do.) ..$2 75 
■ -Ladies' Pocket Knife (do. do.) . .$ 2 00 
„ -Mullum in Parvo Knife (do. do.) ..$3 50 
7— Boy’s Wagon (C. TP. F. Dare ).$ 5 00 
8 — Patent 4 -wheeled Propeller Velocipede, 
(C. W. F. Da/e.) .$ 8 00 
19— Crandall’s John Gilpin.$ 1 00 
29— Crandall’s Masquerade Blocks . $ 1 00 
21— Crandall's Alcrotmts. .$ 1 00 
Crandall’s Building Blocks . $ 2 00 
“IS—Crandall's Menagerie .$ 2 00 
'll—Case of Scissors (U.S. Steel Shear Co. ).$ 4 CO 
'lei-Terrestrial Globe [Schedler'sMSteiger)% 3 00 
26 —Combination Ten-pin Alley (Horsman)? 2 50 
'17—Pair of Skates (Patterson Bros.) .$ 3 50 
'l?,—Doll’s Cottage Chamber Set (Day e',...$ -1 00 
29— Child's Self-operating Swing (do. do.).? 4 00 
(IQ—Improved Table Croquet (Horsman)? 3 00 
31 — Utility Adj. Table (Lambie cfc Sargent) $ 8 00 
32— Boudoir Clock (S. D. Jerome A Co.)...? 3 50 
33 — Houchin’s Improved Patent Pocket 
Cook Stove . $ 1 50 
31— Self-adjusting Gold-plate Watch Key, 
(J. S. Birch.) .$100 
dei—Pocket Tool Holder ( Miller’s Falls Co.'S 1 00 
36— Piano,Splendid 1-oct,(Steinwayd-So's)?659 00 
3 7— Tea Set (Lucius Hart Man’fact’g Co.).$50 00 
38— Ice Pitcher . (do. do. do.) ....$10 00 
39— Casters . (do. do. do.) ....$9 00 
40— Cake Basket . (do. do. ‘ ' 
41— Revolving Butter Cooler (do. 
4,'l—One Dozen Teaspoons (do. 
43 —One Dozen Tablespoons(do. 
44 —One Dozen Table ForksXdo. 
45 —Child’s Cup (do 
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46 —Child's Knife, Fork & Spoon (do.) 
47 — TP. S. Blunt’s" Universal ForcePump"%\'i 00 
48— Poore’s Floral Set (Moore Man’f’g Co)% 1 00 
49— Cahoon's Broadcast Seed-sower _$ 5 00 
59— Bracket Saw(Millers' Falls Man'f Co. $ 1 25 
51 —Payson’s Indelible Ink—Pen, etc . 75 
52 —Excelsior Pocket Microscope (Bausch 
<6 Lomb Optical Co.) .$2 75 
5,$-Abbott Pocket Microscope (L.G.Abbott)* 1 50 
54— Silver Watch (American TPcrfc/i Co .)..$30 00 
55— Garden Seeded Flower Bulbs(select’n) $ 2 00 
56— Planet Jr. Combined Drill & Hoe (S. L. 
Allen & Co.) .$15 00 
57— Breech-loading Pocket Rifle (Stevens) .$16 00 
US-Snorting & Hunting Rifle (Remington)$G2 00 
59 Double Barreled Breech-loading Gun 
1 E. Remington & Sons) .$50 00 
60 — Creedmoor Long Range Rifle (E. Rem¬ 
ington & Sons) .$100 00 
61 -Turn-table Apple Parer (Goodell Co.).? 1 00 
62— Climax Apple Corer & Slider (do.) $ 1 OOj 
63— Family Cherry Stoner (do.) $ 1 00 
64— Bay State Apple Paring and Slicing 
, Machine (Goodell Co.) .$ 1 50 
65— Sewing Machine (Remington) .$70 00 
6 Si—Reid’s Patent Butter Worker . $10 00. 
67 —Family Scales (Fairbanks & Co.) .$14 00 
68 — Washing Machine (Doty’s) .$14 00 
69 — Clothes Wringer (Best—Universal) $ 8 00 
70— Worcester’s Great Hlitst’ed Dictionary? 10 00 
7\—Any back Volume Agriculturist A $175 
72 —Any Two Back Volumes do. 
73 —Any Three do. do. do. 
74— Any Four do. do. do. 
7 5 —Any Five do. do. do. 
76 —Any Six do. do. do. 
77 —Any Seven do. do. do. 
75— Any Eight do. do. do. 
—(Each add’/ Vol. at same rate.) 
7 Q-Twenty Vols. XVI to YAWP. 
SO —Any Back Vol. Agriculturist 
81— Any Two Back Volumes do. 
82 — Any Three do. do. do. 
83 —Any Four do. do. do. 
84 —Any Five do. do. do. 
85 —Any Six do. do. do. 
86 — Any .Seven do. do. do. 
87— Any Eight do. do. do. 
—(Each ad'l volume at same rate) 
SB-Twenty Vols. XVT to XXXV. 
89— 4 810 Library (Your Choice.) 
90— 4 815 Library do. 
91— 4 §20 Library do. 
92— 4 §25 Library do. 
93— 4 830 Library do. 
94— 4 §35 Library do. 
95— 4 840 Library do. 
96— 4 845 Library do. 
97— 4 850 Library do. 
98— 4 860 Library do. 
99— 4 §75 Library do. 
100— 4 §100 Library do. 
101— 4 Choice of Good Books. (See 
Every Premium 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 to 7, 12 to 16. 19 to 22, 24, 32 to 35, 
50 t<> 5 3, 55, 71 to 101, inclusive, will each be deliv¬ 
ered F St 1353 of all charges, by mail or express (at the Post- 
oflke 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 desire/1. An SlEustrated SSe- 
scriptive Premium S.ist sent free to applicants. 
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containing a great variety of Rems, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for leant of space elsewhere. 
Continued from p, 449. 
A Staying Business for IBoys, 
sj si<5 Girls Too. 
All grown up people like to get hold of a business that 
will pay, that is, if it is respectable and honest— some, we 
arc sorry to say, don’t look so much after the last named 
two items, if they think the paying part is pretty certain. 
Young people as well as older ones like good business. 
Now we have a business that does pay, in two ways, and 
it is honorable and useful to others also, and it is one that 
a great many of our young readers have gone into quite 
successfully during twenty years past.—Did you see that 
beautiful “Premium Supplement” sent out iu the Octo¬ 
ber American Agriculturist 1 If not, send to us right off 
and get one free of cost, except the 1 -cent postal card to 
write the request and your address on.—On that sheet are 
pictures of a great many things that every Boy and Girl 
would like to get, if it could be afforded. Well, Ten Thou¬ 
sand Boys and Girls can each get one or more of those 
fine things this month, without spending money. Here 
is how to do it: You can take a copy of the American 
Agriculturist, and show it to tliepeople in your neighbor¬ 
hood and town, and tell them all about its pictures, its 
useful reading, its size and beauty, etc. Then ask them 
to let yon get it for them for the year 1877. Tell them it 
will only cost the price of 2 or 3 eggs a week, or half-a- 
cent a day. You can think of a great many ways that 
even a poor or economical family can manage to pay for it. 
Such talk will be a capital exercise of your tact and per¬ 
suasion, and be the best possible discipline and busi¬ 
ness experience, just the thing that will help you 
in many ways when you grow up. By persistence you. 
can thus easily persuade three, four, five, or even more 
people to take the paper, and we (editors) promise to 
make the paper so good and useful that they will get 
many limes the worth of their subscription during the 
next year. Then when you get what names you can, 
look down the table, on page 2 of the premium sheet, 
and find which article you want most for the number of 
names you have sent, and the Publishers will present it 
to you. Multitudes, of boys and a good many girls have 
done this and obtained many fine things free, at the same 
time learning business methods, learning to help them¬ 
selves, getting what they could not otherwise obtain 
without begging father to buy it, and they have scattered 
many copies of this paper where it has done good. Try it 
this month and next, beginning at once. Don’t be discour¬ 
aged if you don’t succeed right away, but keep at it, de¬ 
termined to succeed any way, and get what you started 
for. Most people will listen to the arguments and 
requests of boys and girls, modestly and courteous- 
I ly presented, who would turn older people away. Aside 
from the things they get, we encourage our children to 
get up premium lists for good periodicals, just for the 
experience it gives them. Mr. Judd has often said that 
canvassing for newspapers, when a student, did more 
than anything else to teach him what people wanted, 
and how to supyly their wants,—that thus it helped him 
greatly towards beiug a successful editor and publisher, 
The same exercise will help yon in any other calling. 
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Braying tSnt B®laces. —It happens a num¬ 
ber of times every year that our friends wiio desire to im¬ 
prove their old places, or who propose to establish new 
ones, sen'd a sketch of their grounds as they are, and ask 
us to give a plan for laying them out, some going so far 
as to ask us to designate every tree and shrub, and where 
they are to be planted. Take these plans on the average, 
it would need at least a whole working day (10 hours) to 
each, if we were to give the study and care necessary 
to do the work properly, and this is much more time 
than we can devote to any one person. Taking this view 
of the matter, our friends will see that we decline, not 
from any unwillingness to he of aid to them, hut because 
they ask that which we have not to give—time. In our 
book-list will be found several hooks on the subject of 
landscape gardening, including Weidenmann’s “Beauti¬ 
fying Country Homes,” which, though somewhat expen¬ 
sive, would be a good investment for any one intending 
to reconstruct ail old place or construct a new. 
Sheep sat line Vienna Exposition.— 
We have received a copy of the report on Sheep and 
Wool at the Vienna International Exposition, by J. R. 
Dodge, which, although its appearance is somewhat 
tardy, is of great interest to sheep breeders and others 
