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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[June, 
Spread in a shed, and when the leaves are dry, re¬ 
move them, and store the bulbs in a cool, dry place 
until time to plant—September or October. 
Hoses .—Cut back the Remontants as soon as they 
have done flowering. Remove faded flowers from 
the Everblooming varieties. Kee^ the new shoots 
of the climbing varieties trained up to the trellis. 
See article on Roses on page 108, last month. 
Slicks and Strings will be in constant requisition 
if proper neatness is preserved. Manage to have 
supports of all kinds as inconspicuous as possible. 
Weeds should never appear in the flower garden. 
Use the bayonet or the lance-headed hoe and nar¬ 
row rake to work among the plants, and where very 
close together, a hand-weeder will be found useful. 
CJreeii-house and Window Plants. 
Every thing that is to come out at all will be 
placed outside this month, and the sooner repairs 
are made, the better. The plants left in the house 
should not suffer from neglect. Those outside will 
need care in watering. Some must have shade 
during the greater part of the day, and all should 
be so placed that they will not be injured by high 
winds. Provide for potting soil, which, for gen¬ 
eral purposes, is best when made of decayed sods 
and well-decomposed manure, or rotted refuse hops. 
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Slowing Machine Premium.— 
1,000 Acres of Grass Cut by the Buckeye.— 
Those who are getting subscriptions to the Agriculturist 
with a view to taking this splendid premium should fill 
them up and send them in as early in the month as possi¬ 
ble. For their encouragement, we give the following 
memorandum, received from Gen. N. N. Halsted, one of 
the largest and most influential farmers of New Jersey, 
and President of the State Agricultural' Society : “In 
May, 1859, I purchased a Buckeye mower of Adriance & 
Platt. It has cut on an average 100 acres of grass per 
year for my neighbors and myself, and has done its work 
well, though on stony ground. It has cost in repairs 
$ 5.87 (about 5S cents a year). This, I think, is a good 
record of this mower’s durability and economy.” So it 
is; and it is one of the reasons why we choose the 
Buckeye Mowing Machine to place upon our premium list. 
Tlao New England Agricmltnral 
Society announces that its next Fair will be held at 
Portland, Maine, on the 7th to the 10th of October. All 
entries must be made two weeks before the exhibition. 
Notice of intention to enter live-stock must be sent to 
S. L. Boardmann, Augusta, Me., prior to August 18th. 
The Secretary of the Society is Col. Daniel Needham, of 
Groton, Mass. A liberal list of premiums is issued. 
No prizes are offered for trotting horses; but this 
whole subject is left with the trustees of the Maine 
State Agricultural Society. We earnestly commend to 
these gentlemen the perusal of the retiring address of 
President Faile, of the N. Y. State Society. The induce¬ 
ments offered by the Society in the form of prizes will 
settle the question whether or not there will be a con¬ 
course of professional gamblers, drunken and “lewd 
fellows of the baser sort” drawn together, as to a 
regular horse-race, or whether the exhibition will be 
one beneficial to the agriculture and the people of the 
State, and of New England. The scenes enacted at the 
fair at New Haven last year should be a warning. 
Mole-plow B> raining;.— An Arkansas 
correspondent asks whether he can drain a wet clay cot¬ 
ton soil by using a mole-plow ?—Imperfectly, he can ; 
satisfactorily, he can not. If the clay is stiff enough to 
hold its form and keep the plow track open, it will be a 
very simple matter to mould it into draining tiles, burn¬ 
ing them in a cheap kiln, of the kind described in War¬ 
ing’* Book on Draining, and permanent benefit may be 
thus secured. The mole-plow is not a very cheap tool to 
work, and its effect is very temporary. The gullying of 
the hill-sides complained of by our correspondent would 
be vary greatly prevented by thorough underdraining, 
especially in connection with horizontal cultivation. 
rattening 1 Steers.—“C. S. Wilcox,” Ash¬ 
tabula Co., O. If your pasture is very good, you will not 
find it necessary to feed grain to your steers, but they 
must be kept gaining well all the time, and a moderate 
quantity of corn meal or oil-cake would push them 
ahead faster. Oats are too high to feed profitably to 
fattening stock. A pair of yearlings weighing 1,580 
pounds are remarkable, and it will pay to give them first- 
rate care and feed. It all depends on the quality of the 
pasture whether or not they Will need grain before autumn. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Oranob Junn & Co., Publishers, 245 Broadway, N. Y. City. 
Annual Subscription Terms (always in advance): $1.50 
each for less than four copies: Four to nine copies, $1.25 
each: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, $1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
AN EARTHQUAKE 
would hardly awaken some people out of the drowsy 
dream-life they have always lived, or stir them from the 
“ easy-go-along ” gait they have always traveled. But 
these are not the sort of people that are found among the 
thousands upon thousands of wide-awake folks, who have 
helped send the American Agriculturist all over the land, 
from Nova Scotia to Darien, from Lower California to 
Alaska, all through the great Mississippi Valley, and 
to many foreign lands. And a large number of these 
wide-awake people are enjoying the reward of their 
efforts, in the form of splendid and valuable Premiums 
which they have received from this Office. (See list 
in next column.) Well, the year is nearly half gone, and 
ON JUNE 30 TH 
we shall close up our general premium offers for this 
year, except for localities too distant to forward names 
by that time. As all our present readers, of course, bo- 
long to the wide-awake class, and as not quite all of 
them have yet obtained premiums, we write this to pri¬ 
vately (very privately) remind them that there is ample 
time during the next thirty days to finish up all partially 
completed premium lists, and draw on ns for the premi¬ 
ums offered. And those who have no partial lists begun 
can start and fill up new ones. We have a good supply 
of the excellent things named in the table in next 
column. They are easily obtained ! Large numbers 
jPW of Men, Women, and Children, have gathered „g35 
{CsP” names enough in a day or two, often by a few 
hours’ effort, to secure an article for which they „£S3J 
CS7" would gladly have worked weeks. Try it with 
£5?” a will and determination to succeed, and in 
cs- nine cases out of ten you will be successful. 
J2T" Take a copy of the paper, exhibit it among _^ !1 
neighbors and friends, in your own neighbor- 
hood and elsewhere, (for premium clubs need 
£2?“ not be all at one jiost-office,) show what the paper 
is, what it is worth, how cheap it is, and in a _g£} 
UST- brief time the desired number of subscribers 
tW can be gathered, and the premium secured. 
£3sF” Just to help the matter along, and to accom- 
£Y 7 “ modate those who wish to try the paper for 
six months, at 75 cents, we will count two 
£* 7 ™ subscribers for half a year as equal to one 
£57” subscriber for the whole year, in supplying „jg£j 
£35“ the premiums—that is, we will now make 
Two Halves equal One Whole One. 
[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 the lowest club rate of $1 a year. For 
full descriptions of the articles see extra sheets, sent free.] 
Table of Premiums and 'Terms, 
For Volume 2S—USG9). 2 = 
Open to all—No Competition. 
No. Names of Premium Articles. 
13 —Alclerney Bull, “ W ’achusett," .$.100 00 
\T>—Alderney Bull, "Alleghany," .$200 00 
1 7—Cotswold Bam .'. $200 00 
19— Cotswold Bam .$100 00 
31 — Cotswold Bu-e .$100 00 
HO—Brahmas, Light, one Bair .$15 00 
3 9— Early Bose Potato, (Three lb. parcel )..00 
.30 -Garden Seeds for a Family (40 kinds). .$5 00 
31 —Blower Seeds for a Family (100 finds)... $5 00 
33 —Nursery Stock (any kinds desired) .$20 00 
33 —Set of Field Croquet .$g 00 
35 —Sewing Machine (Grover A Baker) .$55 00 
3 0— Sewing Machine (Howe Machine Co.) ..$60 00 
3 1— Seicing Machine (Florence) .$03 00 
US—Sewing Machine (Singer's Tailoring) ..$80 00 
30 —Sewing Machine (Willcoxit Gibbs) .$55 00 
40— Sewing Machine (Fini te Lyon) .$00 00 
41— Washing Machine (Doty's ).$14 00 
4-3 —Clothes Wringer (Best—Universal) . $10 00 
43 —Tea Set ( Van's best Silver Plated) .$50 00 
44 —Castor and Fruit Basket (do. .do.) _$30 00 
45 —Lee or Water Pitcher (do. do.) _$18 00 
4 (i—One Posen 'Pea Spoons (do. do.) _$0 00 
47— One Posen Table Spoons (do. do.) _$12 00 
48— One Pozen Dining Forks (do. do.) _$12 00 
40— Tea Fnires and Forks (Patterson Bros.) $20 00 
50— Table Knives and Forks (do. do.) _$24 00 
51— Carving Knife and Fork (do. do.) _ $5 00 
53 —Melodeon, 4-oc/ave( G.A.lb'ince it Co.’s). $07 00 
53— Melodeon, D-oHave (do. do.) .$112 00 
54— Piano, Splendid I-oct.(Steinu'ay<bSons)$(X>0 00 
55— Colibri Piano (Barlow, Poehler it Co .,)$450 00 
DC,—Silver Watch (American Watch Co.) _$40 00 
57— Ladies' Fine Gold WatcIKAm. Watch Co) $100 00 
58— Poable Bbl. Gun ( Cooper, Harris it II .,)$30 00 
hfl—Bepeating Shot Gun (Boper Bifle Co.)..$00 00 
00— Tool Chest (Patterson Bros.) ..$14 50 
OI — Case, o f Mathematical Instruments .$9 00 
03 —Case if Mathematical Instruments. ...$15 00 
(Wt—GoldPen, Sit.Case,EfWarrendkSpadone) $4 50 
04 —Gold Pen and Silver Case, F, (do. do.). $5 50 
05 —Barometer ( Woodruff’s Mercurial) _$10 00 
(Mi—Barometer (Woodruff’s Mercurial) .$15 00 
til—Buckeye Mowing Machine, No.‘I . $125 00 
08—Allen’s Patent Cylinder Plate, etc .$19 50 
OO— Collins it Co.'s Oast Cast-Steel Plow _$25 00 
70— Pump and Sprinkler (Page's) . $5 00 
71— Family Scales (Fairbanks' it Co.) .$14 00 
73 —Building Blocks ( Crandall ). $2 00 
73 — Pocket Lanterns, One.Pnsen .$9 00 
74 — American Cyclopedia ( Appleton's ). ...$80 00 
75— Worcester's Great Illustrated Dictionary's?)') 00 
■k Volume Agriculturist ] . . $1 75 
70 —Any Back 
77— Any Tiro Back Volumes do. 
78— Any Three do. do. do. 
79— Any Four do. do. do. 
80— Any Fire do. do. do. 
- —( Each, added Vnl. at same rale) 
81 —(twelve Vols.XVIlo XXVII 
8 'l—Any Back Volume Agriculturist 
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-A n y 
Two i 
’lack 1 
Volumes 
do. 
8£- 
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Three do. 
do. 
do. 
85- 
-Any 
Four 
do. 
do. 
do. 
80- 
-A net 
Five 
do. 
do. 
do. 
—(Each added Yol. at same rate) 
87- Twelve T bis. XVI to XXVII 
88— A 810 Library (Your Choice).. 
80 —A 815 Library 
OO—A 830 Library 
01—A $35 Library 
03—A 830 Library 
03—A S-T5 Library 
94 —A 840 library 
05—A §45 Library 
90—A 850 Library 
07—A 800 library 
08—A 87 5 Library 
09—A $100 Library 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
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do. 
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I 'HS $3 no 
3 S $5 25 
^S 1 $7 00 
31875 
j _$21 00 
. $2 50 
■ S $5 00 
g g $? no 
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$12 50 
I ** $30 00 
.-•$10 00 
$*$15 00 
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SS$30 00 
5. $35 00 
e o$J0 00 
a «$45 00 
s£$50 00 
g ^$00 00 
a £-.$75 00 
^•“100 00 
100—A Choice of Good Books (See Terms below.) 
100— Breech-loading Pocket Bifle .$ 10 00 
Number 
of Sub¬ 
scribers 
required 
at I at 
$1.501 $1. 
840 
050 
650 
350 
850 
75 
25 
37 
37 
97 
52 
240 
270 
275 
320 
Ito 
70 
58 
225 
140 
90 
45 
65 
65 
97 
116 
37 
295 
400 
1600 
1150 
150 
850 
150 
270 
190 
55 
75 
35 
42 
65 
75 
450 
97 
120 
37 
70 
20 
48 
325 
65 
20 
29 
33 
47 
54 
98 
24 
56 
48 
60 
71 
123 
58 
85 
106 
125 
144 
162 
177 
192 
207 
237 
282 
300 
21' 80 
l®" 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 thirty two Premiums , 
Nos. 29, 30, 31, Gl, G2, G3, G4, and 76 to 
1 OO inclusive, will each be delivered FREE of all charges, 
by mail or eapress, (at the Post-oflice or express office nearest 
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 specified. 
susd cure fully Wole Hie fol¬ 
lowing 4 : (a) Get subscribers anywhere ; all sent by one 
person count together, though from one or a dozen 
different Post-oflices. But_ (b) Say with each name 
or list of names sent, that it is for a premium list, and we 
will so record it_(c) Send the names as fast as obtain¬ 
ed, that the subscribers may begin to receive the paper at 
once. Any time, from now to June 30th, will he allowed 
to fill up your list as large as you may desire. The pre¬ 
mium will he paid ichencser you call for it.... (c7) Send 
the exact money with each list of names, so that there 
may he no confusion of money accounts. ...(e) Old and 
new subscribers all count in premium clubs, but a portion, 
at least, should be new names; it is partly to get these 
that we offer the premiums_(/) Specimen Numbers, 
Cards, and Show-bills, will be supplied free as needed by 
canvassers, but they should be used carefully and econom¬ 
ically, for every extra copy of the paper costs, with the 
