AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
f January, 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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is looking after, and this is just what we offer to 
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every neighborhood in the United States and Ter¬ 
ritories, in British America, and in other countries. 
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great many thousands have done so during the 
past half dozen years, and what has been done by 
these can just as easily be done by at least eighty 
thousand people this very year. 
Slow ?—Answer.—Here is a good paper, full of 
carefully prepared, practical information, and con¬ 
taining at least $12,000 worth of fine engravings 
during the year. It is useful to everybody. 
Everybody who takes it, besides the pleasure de¬ 
rived, will be pretty sure to get from the thousand 
columns of reading matter some hints, some sug¬ 
gestions, or some trains of thought started, that 
will in the end repay him tenfold, very often a 
thousand fold, for the small subscription price. 
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paper and show it, and explain its value, in order 
to get a large number of people to subscribe for and 
receive it regularly.—To every person who does so, 
and forwards to us a dozen or more subscriptions, 
we present a first-rate article from our premium list, 
(see table in 3rd column) just such an article as 
he or she may desire, either for personal use or for 
sale. (Many persons canvass as a business , receive 
the premiums, sell them for cash, and thus secure a 
large salary.) By large cash purchases, at wholesale 
prices and less,and by advertising arrangements with 
manufacturers, etc., we are able to pay much larger 
commissions to canvassers in the form of premiums, 
than we could possibly give in cash, while the pre¬ 
mium articles are fully worth the prices named for 
each. Indeed, they are often worth more, for we 
carefully select them, guarantee their quality, and 
those getting them through us as premiums, avoid 
all risks of dealing with unreliable parties, or of get¬ 
ting poor articles. To understand how wc can af¬ 
ford such large premiums, and why we give them, 
read the “EXPLANATION” in the next column. 
Who Cxet tile Premiums ?— Answer .— 
Men, women, and children, in every station. Our 
books show that many Latlies have secured sew¬ 
ing machines etc., for their own use, while others 
support their families by the sale of articles they 
receive as premiums from us for clubs of subscribers. 
In this way, by two or three months’ work they have 
realized from $250 to $700 each. One lady canvassed 
in Western New York and Ohio last year, and made 
about $1,500 in six or seven months ; and she has 
secured about that amount for subscribers already 
sent in for 1869. These are large sums, easily at¬ 
tainable by those having tact, energy, and perse¬ 
verance; but smaller sums of $20 to $500 are very 
easily secured by a large multitude of people. 
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people enough to furnish a club of a dozen or more, 
while, in a large majority of neighborhoods and 
towns, there is abundant room for two, three, four, 
or five premium clubs of twenty to fifty or more 
names. We have received from 500 to 1,100 sub¬ 
scribers from single post-offices in larger towns 
and cities, and 50 to 500 from single country offices. 
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TeacSaers, Clerics, Post - Masters, 
BBoys and Ciirls, all have special facilities 
for gathering Premium Clubs of subscribers, 
and securing our Premiums. Schools sismI 
Cluaarclieg often unite and get the Melodeons 
for the Church, Sunday or Week-day School Rooms, 
or the Cyclopedia, or Sewing Machines, or Watches, 
etc., for their Pastor or a Teacher. Many BBoys 
and CSIrls get the Dictionaries, and other ar¬ 
ticles for themselves. LOOK all through the 
Table, and you will see there is something provided 
for everybody. There is enough of ail these 
articles (except the animals) to supply everybody. 
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to make so good an investment. They will thus be 
benefited, and you will soon have names enough to secure 
the premium for your trouble.—TRY IT!.To-day. 
jHW* See Premium Regulations on next Page. 
EXPLANATION.—Our immense circulation en¬ 
ables us to do things on an extensive scale, and doing this, 
adds again to our circulation. We spend large sums for 
engravings, for collecting information, etc., and it costs 
no more for all these to supply half a million subscribers 
than it would half a thousand. There is but one office, 
one set of editors, engravers, etc., to be supported, and 
we can thus furnish a superior paper at an exceed¬ 
ingly low price.... We expend all the subscription money, 
and tens of thousands of dollars more, in simply getting 
up and furnishing the paper itself, and yet make a satis¬ 
factory profit, besides paying all the premiums. Our un¬ 
precedented circulation makes every line very valuable to 
advertisers, who gladly pay a large price to reach so many 
people—especially as they know we shut out humbugs 
and unreliable partios from our advertising columns. 
So our advertisements furnish money to pay premiums ; 
the premiums get more subscribers; more subscribers 
add to the value of the advertisements, and that brings us 
more money for more premiums. The whole thing is 
simple, and only requires courage and enterprise to carry 
it out. Everybody gets a very good and very cheap paper; 
and thousands of people get good premium articles—jwi 
such as they want for themselves or for sale—simply by 
making up clubs of subscribers. It is easily done by 
those who take hold of the work with courage and de¬ 
termination to succeed. Some have had poor success at 
the first trial, and afterwards became very successful 
and realized large sums. Your opportunity to do this, 
Reader, is just as good as that of any other person. 
[In this table are given the regular cash prices of each 
article, and the number of subscribers required at $1.50 a year, 
to get it free, also at ttie lowest club rate of $1 a year. For 
fuli descriptions of the articles see extra sheets, sent free.] 
Table of Premiums and Terms, 
For Volume 28 —(1869). 
Open to all—No Competition. 
No. Names of Premium Articles. 
1— Short-horn Bull , “ Clansman ,",,.......$500 00 
‘4—Short-horn Bull, “ Malcolm" .. .$500 00 
3— Ayrshire Bull, “ Werner .......$250 00 
4— Ayrshire Bull, “ Duke of Hartford "..$200 00 
5 — Ayrshire Bull, " McKeown," . .$200 00 
O —Ayrshire Bull, "Malvern." .$200 00 
7—Ayrshire Bull, “ Dugal Grant,". .$150 00 
Ayrshire Bull, “ Johnny Groat,"... _$150 00 
9 —Ayrshire Bull, “ John Brown ,"150 00 
10 — Ayrshire Bull Calf. . ..$80 00 
11 — Ayrshire Bull Calf. ...SSI) 00 
12 — Alderney Bull, “ll ’achusett,". ...$200 00 
13— Alderney Bull, “ Ascutney,"... .....$200 00 
14— Alderney Bull, “ Ossipee," ...$200 00 
15— Alderney Bull, “ Alleghany .$200 00 
10— Cotswohl Bam...... . $200 00 
\7—Cotswold Bam. ...$200 00 
19— Cotswohl Ram.. . $100 00 
20 —Cotswohl Ewe . $100 00 
3! — Cotswohl Eire .$100 00 
32—An Fleche Fowls, one Pair......... .$10 00 
23 —Houdan Fowls, one Pair .$40 00 
24 —CrevecoeurFowls,one Pair ...$40 00 
25 —Black Spanish Fowls, one Pair .....$25 00 
20— Brahmas, Light, one Pair.......... .$15 00 
27— Bralnnas, Dark, one Pair ...$15 00 
2 d—Gold Laced Sebright Bantams, one Pairi 15 00 
29 — Early Bose Potato, (Three lb. parcel )..$2 00 
30 --Garden Seeds fora Family (40 kinds). .$5 00 
31 — Flower Seeds for a Family (100 kinds)... $5 00 
32— Nursery Stock (any kinds desired) .$20 00 
33— Set of Field Croquet. .....$S 00 
34 — Sewing Machine (Wheeler A Wilson )..$55 00 
35 — Sewing Machine (Grover A Baker) _$55 00 
30— Sewing Machine (LLoive Machine Co.)..$00 00 
37— Saving Machine ( Florence ).$03 00 
38— Sewing Machine (Singer's Tailoring )..%80 00 
39 — Sewing Machine (WillcoxA Gibbs) .$55 00 
40— Saving Machine (Finkle A Lyon) .$60 00 
41— Washing Machine (Doty's) ..$14 00 
42 —Clothes Wringer (Best—Universal) . $10 00 
43 —Tea Set (Hart's best Silver Plated) .$50 00 
44— Castor and Fruit Basket (do. do.) _$30 00 
45— Lee or Water Pitcher (do. do.) _$18 00 
40— One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. do.) _ $6 00 
47— One Dozen Table Spoons (do. do.) _$12 00 
48— One Dozen Dining Forks (do. do.) _$12 00 
49— Tea Knives and Forks (Patterson Bros.) $20 00 
50— Table Knives and Forks (do. do.) _$24 00 
51 — Carving Linife and Fork (do. do.) _ $5 00 
52 — Melodeon, 4-octave(G. A.Prince ACo.'s ).$07 0(1 
53 — Melodeon, 5-octave (do. do.) .$112 00 
54— Piano, Splendid L-oct.(SteinwayA-Sons)$Cu0 00 
55— Colibri Piano (Barlow, Doehler A Co .,)$ 150 00 
50 —Silver Watch (American Watch Co.) _$40 00 
57— Ladies' Fine Gold Watch (Ain. Watch Co) $100 00 
58— Double Bbl. Gun (Cooper, Llarvis A //.,)$30 00 
59— Repealing Shot Gun (Roper Rife Co .)..$60 00 
OO— Tool Chest ( Patterson Bros.) .$41 50 
OS — Case of Mathematical Instruments _..$0 00 
0 3 — Case of Mathematical Lnstruments .$15 00 
63 — GoldPen. Sil.Case,E,(WarrenASpadone) $4 50 
04— Gold Pen and Silver Case, F, (do. do.). $5 50 
05 —Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) _$12 00 
GO —Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) .$18 00 
67— Buckeye Mowing Machine, No. 2. $125 00 
68 — Allen's Patent Cylinder Plow, etc .$19 50 
69— Collins A Co.'s Cast Cast-Steel Ploiv _$25 00 
70— Pump and Sprinkler (Page's) . $5 00 
71— Family Scales (Fairbanks' A Co.) .$14 00 
72— Building Blocks (Crandall) . $2 00 
73— Pocket Lanterns. One. Dozen .$9 00 
74— American Cyclopedia (Appleton's) .$80 00 
75— Worcester's Great Illustrated Dictionary $12 00 
70 —Any Back Volume Agriculturist 
77—Any Two Back Volumes do. 
78 —Any Three do. do. do. 
79—Any Four do. do. do. 
80 —Any Five do. do. do. 
—(Each added 1 T ol. at same rate) 
81 -Twelve Vols.XVL to XXI'LL 
8‘4—Any Llack Volume Agriculturist 
83— An)/ Tiro Back Volumes do. 
84— Any Three do. do. do. 
85 — Any Four do. do. do. 
86— Any Five do. do. do. 
—(Each added Vol. at same rate) 
87 — Twelve Vols. XVltoXXVLl 
88 — A SIO Library (Your Choice).. 
89— A SI 5 Library do. 
90— A $ 20 Library do. 
91— A $25 Library do. 
92— A 830 Library do. 
93— A $35 Library do. 
94— A $40 Library do. 
95— A $45 Library do. 
90—A 850 Library do. 
97— A $00 Library do. 
98— A $75 Library do. 
99— A.$100 Library do. 
100— A Choice of Good Books (See Terms below.) 
101 —Devon Bull “ Gen. Lyon" .$250 00 
102 — Devon Bull “ Jack " .. $150 00 
103— Devon Bull " Bloodgood" .$125 00 
104— Devon Bull " Pocasset . $ 15 00 
105— Devon Bull “ Coliasset" .50 00 
10G— Breech-loading Pocket Rifle .$ 16 00 
Number 
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required 
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$1.501 $1. 
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700 
650 
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525 
525 
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825 
325 
840 
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75 
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60 240 
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07 270 
70 275 
90 320 
60 240 
67 270 
21 70 
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44 140 
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78 295 
138 400 
540 1600 
880 1250 
50 150 
110 350 
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67 270 
190 
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65 
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450 
97 
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48 
325 
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frWSce Premium. 106 on page 38. 
tWEvery Premium article is new and of the venj best 
manufacture. No charge is made for packing w' boxing 
any article in our Premium List. The thirty-two Premiums , 
Nos. 29, 30, 31, 61, 62, 63, 64, and 76 to 
100 inclusive , will each be delivered FREE of all charges. 
