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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[March, 1869.] 
(Advertisements on this page, $2.50 per Agate Line of Space.) 
ESTABLISHED 1361. 
GREATMERICffl 
TEA COMPANY 
RECEIVE THEIR 
TEAS BY THE CARGO 
FROM THE 
BEST TEA DISTRICTS 
of 
CHINA and JAPAN, 
and sell them in quantities to suit customers 
A'T CAKGO PRICES. 
To give our readers an idea of the profits which have been 
made in the Tea trade, we will start with the American 
houses, leaving out of the account entirely the profits of 
the Chinese factors. 
1st.—The American house in Chinn or Japan makes large 
profits on their sales or shipments—and some ®f the richest 
retired merchants in the country have made their immense 
fortunes through their houses in China. 
2d.—The Banker makes large profits upon the foreign 
exchange used in the purchase of Teas. 
3d.—Tlie Importer makes a profit of 30 to 50 per cent in 
many cases. 
4th.—On its arrival here it is sold by the cargo, and the 
Purchaser sells it to the Speculator in invoices of 1,000 to 
2,000 packages, at an average profit of about 10 per cent. 
5tli.—The Speculator sells it to the Wholesale Tea Dealer 
in lines at a profit of 10 to 15 per cent. 
0th.—The Wholesale Tea Dealer sells it to the Wholesale 
Grocer in lots to suit his trade, at a profit of about 10 per 
cent. 
7th.—The Wholesale Grocer sells it to the Itetail Dealer at 
a profit of 11 to 23 per cent. 
8th.—The Retailer sells it to the Consumer for all the 
rnOFIT TIE CAN GET. 
When you have added to these eight profits as many 
brokerages, cartages, storages, cooperages and wastes, and 
add the original cost of the Tea, it will be perceived what 
the consumer lias to pay. And now we propose to show why 
we can sell so very much lower than other dealers. 
Wo propose to do away with all these various profits and 
brokerages, cartages, storages, cooperages and wastes, with 
the exception of a small commission paid for purchasing to 
our correspondents in China and Japan, one cartage, and a 
small profit to ourselves—which, on our large sales, will 
amply pay us. 
By our System of supplying Clulis throughout the country, 
consumers in all parts of the United States can receive their 
Teas at the same price (with the small additional expense 
of transportation), as though they bought them at our 
warehouses in this city. 
For manner of getting up Clubs, see former advertisement 
in this paper. 
Parties sending Club or other orders for less than thirty 
dollars had better send a Post-ollice draft or money with 
their orders, to save the expense of collections by Express, 
but larger orders we will forward by express, “ to collect 
on delivery." 
Hereafter we will send a complimentary package to the 
party getting up the Club. Our profits are small, but we will 
be as liberal as we can afford. Wo send no complimentary 
packages for Clubs less titan $30. 
Parties getting their Tens of us may confidently rely upon 
getting litem pure and fresh, as they come direct from the 
Custom House stores to our Warehouses. 
We warrant all the goods we sell to give entire satisfac¬ 
tion. If they are not satisfactory, they can be returned at 
our expense within 30 days, and have the money refunded. 
The Companyhave selected the following kinds from their 
stock, which they recommend to meet the wants of clubs. 
They are sold at cargo prices, the same as the Company sell 
them in New York, as the list of prices will show. 
PRICE LIST OF TEAS: 
OOLONG (Black), 70c., 80c„ 90c„, best $1 ® ft. 
MIXED, (Green and Black), 70o„ 80c., Hue., best, $1 per ft 
ENGLISH BREAKFAST (Black), 80c., 90c., $ 1 , $1.10, best 
$1.20 per pound. 
IMPERIAL (Green). 80c., 90c.. $1, $1.10, best $1.25 per pound. 
YOUNG HYSON (Green), 80c„ 90c., $1, $1,10, best $1.25 per 
pound. 
UNCOLORED JAPAN. 90e„ $1, $1.10, best $1.25 per pound. 
GUNPOWDER, (Green), $1.25, best $1.50 per pound. 
Consumers can save front 50c. to $1 per pound by pur¬ 
chasing their Teas of this Company. 
COFFEES ROASTED AND GROUND DAILY. 
GROUND COFFEE.20c., 25c., 30c., 35c.,best 40c. per pound. 
Hotels, Saloons. Boarding-house keepers, and Families who 
use large quantities of Coffee, can economize in that article 
by using our FRENCH BREAKFAST AND DINNER COF¬ 
FEE, which we sell at the low price of 30c. per pound, and 
warrant to give perfect satisfaction. ROASTED (Unground), 
30c., 35c., best 40c. per lb. GREEN (Unroasted), 25c„ S0c„ 
S8c., best S5c. per lb. 
NOTICE OF THE PRESS. 
From the American Agriculturist. 
The Great American Tea Company—To Queries,— 
Before admitting their advertisement, we learned that a 
large number of our clerks and otliersbad for several months 
been buying their Tea and Coffee from this Company, with¬ 
out its being known who they were, and that they had been 
highly pleased with their purchases, both as to quality and 
price, and were all recommending their friends to the same 
course. As we have published the advertisement for many 
months, and received no complaints, we conclude “ there is 
no humbug about the establishment.” 
N. B.— INHABITANTS OP VILLAGES AND 
TOWNS WHERE A LARGE NUM¬ 
BER RESIDE, BY CLUBBING TO¬ 
GETHER, CAN REDUCE THE COST 
OP THEIR TEAS AND COPPEES 
ABOUT ONE-THIRD, (BESIDESTHE 
EXPRESS CHARGES), BY SENDING 
DIRECTLY to “THE GREAT AMER¬ 
ICAN TEA COMPANY.” 
CLUB ORDER. 
Springfield, Ill., Sept. 16, 1867. 
To the Great American Tea Company', 
31 and 33 Vesey Street, New York. 
Please send me by Mercliants’Union Express the following 
bill of Tea, &c. 
1 ft. 
Imperial.... 
..$1.25 
1 
Black. 
. “ . 
1.00., 
... 1.00 
10 
Java Coffee, 
raw. “ . 
...at 
35., 
... 3.50 
1 
Imperial. 
.H. M. Lanpliear... 
1.25., 
... 1.25 
1 
Black . 
...at 
1.00., 
... 1.00 
10 
Java Coffee, 
raw. “ 
35., 
... 3.50 
3 
Imperial. 
.B. B. Lloyd. 
1.25., 
... 3.75 
1 
Imperial. 
1.25., 
... 1.25 
1 
U 
1.25., 
1 25 
2 
Imperial. 
1.25., 
... 2.50 
5 
Black. 
1.00., 
... 5.00 
3 
Uneolored Japan.J. Marr. 
1.25 . 
... 3.75 
8 
Java Coffee, 
raw.L. A. Allen. 
35.. 
... 2.80 
4 
Imperial. 
1.25.. 
... 5.00 
IX 
Imperial. 
1.25., 
... 1.88 
IX 
Black. 
“ _ 
1.00.. 
... 1.50 
5 
Black. 
.A. Hickox. 
1.00.. 
... 5.00 
8 
Black. 
. ..at 
1.00.. 
... 3.00 
2 
« 
1.00.. 
.. 2.00 
IX 
Imperial. 
1.23., 
.. 1.87 
1V£ 
■R1rp.1t. 
1.00.. 
.. 1 50 
ib 
English Breakfast.T. Hudson. 
1.20.. 
..12.00 
$65.55 
Gents :—Above I send my fourth order. Your Teas have 
given good satisfaction, and those who have used them will 
have no other, hut induce their friends to send also. To 
prove this; I had made up my order and got a Post-Office 
Money Order, when others came in and nearly doubled the 
amount, as you will see by second money order, botli of 
which I enclose. 
The last order came safely to hand by Merchants’ Union 
Express. Accept thanks for complimentary package. 
Very respectfully, 
S. LANPHEAR. 
Caution,—As some concerns, in this city and other 
places, imitate our name and style of advertising and doing 
business, it is important that our friends should lie very 
careful to write our address in full, and also to put on the 
number of our Post-Office Box, as appears in this advertise¬ 
ment. Tliis will prevent their orders from getting into 
the hands of these bogus imitators. 
POST-OFFICE orders and Drafts, make payable to the 
order of “ The Great American Tea Company." 
Direct letters and orders (as below, no more, no less) 
; Great American Tea Company, j 
Nos. 3 j and 33 VESEY-ST., 
: Post-Office Box, 5,G43, New York City. 
p O W W E R Oil,. 
In consequence of the vast number of fatal accidents re¬ 
sulting from the use of inferior qualities of oil, the subscrlb. 
ers would offer to the public their superior article 
Tlao Downer 
ILLUMINATING OIL. 
Among the eighty samples of Oil offered for sale in this 
city and tested by Dr. Chandler, under Instructions of the 
Board of Health, 
The Downer Oil 
WAS 
The Only One Safe and Reliable. 
We have been LARGE MANUFACTURERS FOR THE 
PAST ELEVEN YEARS, and during this whole period it 
has never been the cause of a single accident. 
DOWNER KEROSENE OIL CO., 
113 Maiden Lane, Cor® Pearl St®, N. Y. 
Office in Boston, 108 Water St® 
HOME 
Insurance Company of New York, 
Office, No. 135 BROADWAY. 
Cash Capital.83,000,000.00 
Assets, 1st JTan., 18G9,. 3,900,383.30 
Liabilities,. 100,837.48 
EIRE AND INLAND INSURANCE. 
Charles J. Martin, President. 
A. F. Willmarth, V.-Pres. D. A. Heald.IM Vice-Pres. 
J. H. Washburn, Secretary. 
Geo. M. Lyon, Ass’t Sec. T. B. Greene, 2d Ass’t See, 
E ARLY ROSE POTATOES.—Grape Vines, &e. 
I will sell a few barrels of Early Rose Potatoes at $30 
perbbl.; $12 per bushel; $7 per hall bushel; $4 per peck, 
and 4 lbs. by mail, post-paid, for $2.50. Warranted genuine. 
Also a fine assortment of Concord, and other Grape Vines, 
by the thousand, hundred, or dozen, at very lowest rates. 
Send for Circular with full details to 
E. B. WICKS, New Brunswick, N. J. 
PLANT’S 
WARRANTED 
GARDEN SEEDS. 
T he vegetable seeds offered by us 
are raised expressly for our establishment from stock se¬ 
lected by us, and by careful and trustworthy growers who 
make it their business; and these seeds have maintained for 
twenty-four years an enviable reputation for general purity 
and for the quality of tire vegetables produced from them. 
Our selection of seeds is made with the wants of our soil and 
climate expressly in view. 
Send for Seed List or Gardener’s Almanac. 
PLANT BROS.. PRATT & CO., St. Louis, Mo. 
MEW ©R®P ONION §11®. 
(By Mail—Postage Paid.) 
Large Red Wethersfield, per Pound, $5.00 
Yellow Danvers, “ “ $5.00 
Yellow Du tell or Strasburg, “ “ $5.00 
Address JAMES SHEPPARD, 
P. O. Box 2,972. 249 Peavl-st„ New York. 
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H ORSFORD’S SELF-RAISING BREAD prep¬ 
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Send to II. T. Love, No.~5 James Slip, New York, for “The 
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No. 11 Old Slip, New York. 
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For Farm, Mining, or Mechanical purposes. These 
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Rural New-Yorker of August 15th, 1868, first page. 
pmrculars with description and prices furnished on ap¬ 
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SEWELL & CO., Publisher of The Little Corporal, Chicago, 
Ill., and the book will come post-paid. Circulars sent free. 
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Our New Catalogue of Improved 
STENCIL DIES. MOBET THAN 
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S. M. SPENCER & CO., BratHeboro, Vt. 
ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL. 
BUY ONLY 
SILVER-TIPPED SHOES 
For Children. Will outwear three pairs without tips. 
JOHN S. COLLINS, Moorestown, N. J. has 175 acres 
planted In Berries. Send for his low prices of plants, some 
of them on another page of this paper. 
