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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
DON’T FORGET THE PREMIUMS. 
New-York, Wednesday, I6ec. 6. 
INTERESTING TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS- 
A CHANCE TO FILL YOUR LIBRARIES WITH VALU¬ 
ABLE BOOKS 
WITHOUT EXPENSE. 
Three numbers more will bring us to the 
commencement of a New Year, and although 
our volume does not begin at that time, it is 
a favorable season for enlisting new subscri¬ 
bers, and, as heretofore, we shall look for 
large accessions. Many of our present sub¬ 
scribers have promised us clubs of five, ten 
and twenty at that time. While our 
agents here and there can do something, our 
great reliance is upon the individual exer¬ 
tions of those who have read the American 
Agriculturist for a season, and can testify as 
to its merits. Every person can influence 
one or more of his friends and neighbors to 
subscribe; but as this takes some time and 
effort, we are willing to remunerate such 
effort, and we therefore make the following 
offer of premiums for obtaining new subscri¬ 
bers. 
N. B.—The books offered are not “old 
stock,” but are the latest editions of stan¬ 
dard works, fresh from the hands of the pub¬ 
lishers, and they will be delivered free 
OF POSTAGE OR OTHER EXPENSE. 
The premiums will be paid as fast as 
the subscriptions are received at any time 
before the first of January next. 
Subscriptions may begin at any time. 
It will be seen that this offer does 
away with all uncertain competition—every 
one will be thus paid for whatever success¬ 
ful effort he may make, if it be only the pro¬ 
curing of one new subscriber. 
PREMIUM NO. i. 
To every person forwarding us one new sub¬ 
scriber, with $2, we will send,post paid, any 
TWO copies of the following books in the 
first division : 
First Division.—1, The American Kitchen 
Gardener ; 2, Wilson on the Culture of Flax; 
3, Dana’s Prize Essay on Manures ; 4, Ele¬ 
ments of Agriculture, by Skinner; 5, Top- 
ham’s Chemistry Made Easy; 6, Leibig’s 
Agricultural Chemistry; 7, Leibig’s Animal 
Chemistry : 8, The Horse, by Richardson ; 
9, Horse’s Foot, and Howto Keep it Sound, 
by Miles ; 10, Milburne’s Cow: Dairy, Hus¬ 
bandry, and Cattle Breeding; 11, Knowl- 
son’s Cattle Doctor ; 12, Richardson on the 
R°g; 13, Domestic Fowls, by Richardson; 
14, the Poultry Breeder : 15, The American 
Fowl Breeder; 16, The Hive and Honey 
Bee, by Richardson ; 17, Phelp's Bee Keep¬ 
er’s Chart; 18, Every Lady her own Flower 
Gardener; 19, Richardson on Dogs; 20, 
Johnston’s Catechism, by Norton. 
Or one copy of any of the following: 
Second Division.—1, Bridgeman’s Kitchen 
Gardener’s Instructor ; 2, Schenck’s Garden¬ 
er’s Text Book ; 3, Hoare on the vine ; 4, 
Bridgeman’s Fruit Cultivator’s Manual ; 5, 
Chorlton’s Cold Grapery ; 6, Buchanan on 
Grape Culture ; 7, Pardee on the Strawber¬ 
ry; 8, Cole’s American Fruit Book ; 9, Ele¬ 
ments of Agriculture, by Skinner ; 10, Da¬ 
vis’s Text Book of Agriculture ; 11, Norton’s 
Scientific Agriculture; 12, The American 
Veterinarian, by Cole ; 13, American Pocket 
Farrier; 14, Guenon’s Milk Cows; 15, Nef- 
fin on Milk Cows ; 16, Weeks on the Honey 
Bee ; 17, The Cottage and Farm Bee Keeper; 
18, American Rose Culturist; 19, Browne’s 
American Bird Fancier. 
PREMIUM NO. II. 
To any person furnishing two new subscribers, 
with $4, we will send twice the amount named 
in No. 1, or, instead thereof, we will send 
free a copy of any of the following books : 
, American Farm Book; The American 
Poultry Yard; Buist’s Kitchen Gardener; 
Stockhart’s Chemical Field Lectures ; Beat¬ 
ty’s Southern Agriculture ; Allen on the 
Grape ; Thomas’s Fruit Culturist; Dana’s 
Muck Manual; Johnston’s Elements of Ag¬ 
ricultural Chemistry and Geology ; Blake’s 
Agriculture for Schools; Hind’s Farriery 
and Stud Book, by Skinner; Stuart’s Stable 
Economy; Practical Farrier, by Mason ; Al¬ 
len’s Domestic Animals ; Evan’s Dairyman’s 
Manual; Dadd’s American Cattle Doctor ; 
Youatt and Martin on the Hog ; Canfield on 
Sheep ; Youatt on Sheep ; Morell’s Ameri¬ 
can Shepherd; Miner’s Domestic Poultry 
Book; Bennett’s Poultry Book ; Quinby’s 
Mysteries of Bee Keeping Explained; Min¬ 
er’s American Bee Keeper’s Manual; The 
American Florist’s Guide ; Buists Rose Man¬ 
ual ; Breck’s Book of Flower’s ; Book of 
Caged Birds ; Marshall’s Emigrant’s Guide. 
PREMIUM no. in. 
To any person forwarding us three new subscribers, 
with $6, we will furnish the Premiums No. 1 and 
2, or one copy of either of the following: 
Blake’s Farmer at Home; Bridgeman’s 
Young Gardener’s Assistant; Johnston’s 
Dictionary of Modern Gardening ; Elliott’s 
American Fruit Grower’s Guide ; Guide to 
the Orchard,by Lindley ; Neill’s Fruit, Flow¬ 
er and Kitchen Garden; Downing's Fruit 
and Fruit Trees of America; Barry's Fruit 
Garden ; Browne’s American Field Book of 
Manures; Ruffin’s Calcareous Manures ; 
Leibig’s Complete Works ; Youatt on the 
Structure and Disease of the Horse ; Youatt 
and Martin on Cattle, by Stephens; Farm¬ 
ers’ Barn Book ; Randall’ Sheep Husbandry; 
Langstrot honBees ; Buist’s American Flow¬ 
er Garden Directory ; American Rose Cultu¬ 
rist ; London’s Lady Companion to the Flow¬ 
er Garden ; Allen’s Rural Architecture ; 
Smith’s Landscape Gardening; Wheeler’s 
Rural Homes; Youatt on the Dog; Evan’s 
Sugar Planter’s Manual. 
PREMIUM NO. IV. 
To any one furnishing four new subsri- 
bers, witli $8, we will send Premiums No. 2 
and No. 3. 
PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. 
To any person forwarding a club of three, 
five, ten, or twenty subscribers, at the usual 
rates for clubs, we will, for each new subscri¬ 
ber ccntained in the club, send any one of 
the first 19 books named in Premium No. 1. 
The books in the First Division of Premi¬ 
um No. 1, are well bound in paper covers; 
the others are ill the usual style of binding 
books. 
Remember that with a trifling amount of 
exertion you can secure a number of valu¬ 
able books. By sending one or more new 
subscribers you will receive free of ex¬ 
pense your choice of the books named in 
our premium lists, in another column. In 
premium No. 1, the books in the first divi¬ 
sion cost 25 cents each, and in the second 
division 50 cents each. In premium No. 2, 
the books each cost $1. In premium No. 3, 
the books cost from $1 25 to $1 50 each. 
BOYS AND YOUNG MEN. 
It would give us great pleasure to put into 
your hands a good library of books. We 
offer you a chance to obtain some of the 
best books published, to be delivered to you 
free of expense. Just look over our premium 
list and select from the list such as you 
would like, and go to work and secure them 
at once by forwarding us a lot of new sub¬ 
scribers. You can do it if you will. 
SELECTING A RESIDENCE. 
In few things do men exercise so little 
reason and judgment as in the selection of a 
place of residence. Instead of raising the 
question, what kind of a place do I want ? 
for what purpose do I want it l and what are 
my tastes and capacity to take care of it 1 
they inquire, how great a bargain can I get 1 
how fine a place can I get l how much land 
can I get! how much money can I possibly 
put in a homestead! &c. 
Now, for a man, simply because he has 
money and can afford it, to buy a magnificent 
country seat, with extensive lawns, fruit 
yards, parks, &c., without he has taste and 
leisure to keep it in a fine condition is, to 
say the least, unwise. Many a man has dis¬ 
graced himself by purchasing such a resi¬ 
dence and then neglecting it; so that the 
finger of scorn and reproof was pointed at 
him from the hand of every neighbor. Some 
persons have so much knowledge, and taste 
adapted to it, that it is only a pastime and 
pleasure to keep their home in such a state 
that it is constantly to their credit, while 
others would make it the greatest, drudgery 
of life, and at last never succeed. Others, 
again, will buy a splendid city palace for 
their home, when neither themselves, wives, 
nor families have any use for more than just a 
good, comfortable dwelling. We knew a 
man who became suddenly rich and built him 
a stately mansion, furnishing it elegantly, 
and then—lived in the basement; and, it is 
said, only opened his parlors and used his 
furniture once in the year, and then a small, 
snug room to entertain a handful of friends, 
would have saved him from the mortification 
of being the talk of the neighborhood for a 
week. “ A little house well filled” is vastly 
more comfortable and convenient, and a 
great saving of care and labor, for multi¬ 
tudes of families who now live in the third 
or fourth story of palaces, simply because 
they can afford it, and because once a year 
they want—or think they want—to make a 
display on the first or second floor, which 
