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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[February, 
any indication of mould or rot, they must be re¬ 
moved to a dryer place to prevent deterioration. 
Trellises and all supports for plants may be made 
and neatly painted of some inconspicuous color. 
Oreen and Hot-Houses. 
No matter how variable the temperature is witb- 
oirt, the fires should be so managed that the inter¬ 
ior of the bouse is but little influenced. Water 
should be applied according to the wants of the 
plants, instead of giving an indiscriminate soaking 
alike to those at rest, and those that are making 
a rapid growth, as is often done. With 
Insects, as with other evils, success in overcoming 
them depends in a great measure on beginning in 
time. When a plant is found to have an insect 
upon it, then is the time to treat it. Much trouble 
may be crushed between the thumb and finger. 
Camellias that have done flowering, may be prun¬ 
ed into shape; shorten straggling branches to a 
good bud. A well shaped plant is too seldom seen, 
owing to crowding. Bring forward pots of 
Bulbs, and supply them with abundance of water. 
Seeds of tender annuals may be sown for early 
blooming, and a stock of all the needed kinds of 
Bedding Plants be propagated from cuttings. 
Apiary in February. 
If the weather continues wintry, follow the di¬ 
rections given last month, especially not forget¬ 
ting to screen the hives from the influence of the 
sun after snows, when the weather comes off mild 
and warm. Warm weather such as will thaw the 
ice in the hive (caused by the freezing of the 
breath of the bees) will tempt the bees to fly, and 
1 bey get little harm provided there is not soft snow 
lor them to fall into and become entangled in. 
When the frost in the hive melts, an opportunity 
is afforded to clear out dead bees, etc. Examine 
hives, whether housed or not, for mice depreda¬ 
tions, and take measures to abate them. This is a 
good time to shift hives to new stands, if desirable. 
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First-Rate Premiums. 
OPEIV TO AEL.. 
With the exception of five articles, which have been 
largely called for, and of which a new stock is not readily 
available, we continue the offer of our last month’s 
premium articles. (For full particulars seepage 2d of 
January Agriculturist, and e.specially a full Descrip¬ 
tive Slieet, which will be freely sent to all applicants.) 
Most of the premiums offered in the table below, and 
probably all, will be open for two or three months yet, at 
least, so that every one will have ample time to fill up 
lists of names in progress, or make up entirely new 
premium olul)s of .subscribers. The offers are for sub 
siultier.s for this full volume, whenever received. We 
have stereotype plates from which to supply the numbers 
complete from January 1st, to all new subscribers. 
Slany have received from one to four large premiums, 
and are getting new clubs, to secure still other articles. 
We are constantly receiving premium clubs from persons 
who say they found it quite ea.sy to get up a club when 
they took hold of the matter in earnest. Many have ob¬ 
tained S'J.j to $112 articles by three or four days’ work, 
and some in only a few evenings. It is only necessary 
to show a copy of the paper, and explain its leading 
features, its large amount of condensed information, its 
fine and valuable engravings, etc., to convince almost 
any man that it will pay him to take the paper a year. 
We have no special or traveling agents, but any one 
disposed to do so, can act as voluntary agent, and receive 
the premium as an acknowledgment of Ids efforts, 
and if it be an article he does not want, he can usually 
sell it for nearly or quite the regular price, and thus re¬ 
ceive a good compensation. 
men and Women of various occupations, 
Farmers, Gardeners, Fost-masters, mer¬ 
chants, mechanics. Clergymen, Teachers, 
Soldiers, Doys, Girls, etc., can engage in the 
work, and secure good pay for it, in the premium ar¬ 
ticles, which are all good and desirable. 
Ba 
Tableof Premiums and Terms, 
For Volume 25. I 
Open to all—iVo Competition. 
Names of Premium Articles. ~~ 
1— Good Books— 5ee terms below* . 
2— Garden Seeds for a Family (40 kinds)...$5 00 
3— Flower Seeds for a Family (100 kinds).. $5 00 
4— Nursery Stock (any Kinds desired).$20 00 
5— Iona Grape Vines (12 of No. 1) .$18 00 
6— Concord Grape Vines (100 of No. 1) ..$12 00 
8— Japan Lilies (12 Bulb^. $6 00 
9— Downing’s Landscape Gardening.$6 50 
10— American Cyclopedia.$80 00 
12— Worcester’s Great Illustrat’d Dictionary$12 00 
13— Any back Volume .Ipn'ct/atwist, I — — 
14— Any Two back Volunies do 
15— Any Three do 
16— Any Four do 
17— Any Five do 
18— Any Six do 
19— Any Seven do 
20— Any Eiglit do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
10 50 
^ .S$12 25 
£§’’^$14 00 
fe, $15 75 
21-Vols. to XXIV . , 
23— Tiie County Election, Steel Plate Col’d.$10 00 
24— Halt in the Woods do do . $10 00 
2.5— Morton’s best No.o Gold Pen, Silver Case$4 50 
26—Case of Drawing Instruments. $8 00 
29— Best Family Clothes-Wringer. $10 00 
30— Doty’s Washing Macliine.$12 00 
31— Tea Set (Best Silver Plated).$50 00 
32— Sewing Machine, (Wheeler & Wilson)..$55 00 
33— Sewing Machine (Wilcox & Gibbs) . $55 00 
34— Sewing Machine (Elias Howe).$60 00 
3.5— Melodeon (Best Four Octave). $67 00 
36— Melodeon (Best Five Octave).$112 00 
37— Piano, 7-Octave (Steinway & Sons)....$600 00 
38— Barometer (Woodruff’s Mercurial).$12 00 
39— Barometer (WoodruiTs Mercurial).$18 00 
40— The Aquarius, or Water Tlirower.$11 00 
41— Buckeye Mowing Machine No. 2.$125 00 
42— Allen’s Patent Cylinder Plow.$20 50 
3 
35 
35 
100 
92 
65 
38 
40 
338 
65 
20 
26 
32 
38 
44 
50 
57 
64 
72 
60 
60 
32 
45 
58 
240 
270 
270 
290 
300 
450 
1500 
70 
95 
65 
480 
100 
No charge is made for packing or boxing any of the 
articles in this Premium List. The Premiums, 1,2, 3,7, 8, 
and 13 to 26, are DELivEnED to any part of the United 
States and Territories, free of all charges. The other 
articles cost the recipient only the freight after leaving 
the manufactory rf each, Every article offered is 
new and of the very best manufacture. 
In the above Table of Premiums, the 
First Column gives the Number of the Premium. The 
Second gives the lowest market price, or even less in 
some cases. The Third Column shows how many sub¬ 
scribers are required if sent at the regular price, $1.50 a 
year. The Fourth Column gives the number of sub¬ 
scribers required, if they are sent at the lowest Club 
price for twenty or more copies, that is $1 year. 
To avoid errors and save immense labor in looking over 
our. books, it is absolutely essential that every name design¬ 
ed for a premium list be so marked when sent in. (Such 
names are credited to the sender in a separate book, as 
fast as received—ready for instant reference.) 
" Premium l.—Good Books.—Any person sending 25 or 
more suliscribers, may select Books from the List on tins 
page, to tlie amount of 10 cents for eacli subscriber sent at 
$1: or to tlie amount of 30 cents for each name sent 
at the (ton) club price of $1.20 each: or to the amount of 60 
cents for each name at $1.50. This offer extends only to clubs 
of 25 or more names. The Books will be sent by mail or 
express, prepaid by tis.-Tiiis is a good opportunity for the 
formers of a neigliborhood to unite their efforts and get up 
an Agricultural Library for general use. 
Tlic otlicr Articles are fully set fortli in the De- 
sceiptive List referred to below, and briefly last month. 
Tltese Winter ITfontlis afford a very favorable 
opportunity for collecting premium lists. Last year we 
sent more premiums in Feb’ry and March than in Jan. 
FTJIil^ PARTlClJIiARS about each pre¬ 
mium article, etc., are given in a “DESCKIPTIVE 
EIST,” which we mail to any one desiring it. Send 
for it. The premiums are of a standard class, and enoiigli 
of each can be obtained to supply all entilled to them. 
Each premium is for a specified number of names, as 
given in tlie Table, and any one knows just what lie or 
slie is working for, vvitliout regard to any higlier num¬ 
ber that otliers may obtain, 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS and OTHERS. 
[Any of the following books can be obtained at the Of¬ 
fice of the Agriculturist at the prices named, or they will be 
forwarded by mail, post-paid, on receipt of the price. These 
prices are positively good only to March Igt.] 
Allen’s (L. F.) Rural Architecture.$ i 50 
Allen’s (K. L.) American Farm Book. 1 50 
Allen's Diseases of Domestic Animals. l 00 
American Bird Fancier.. 80 
American Rose Culturlst. so 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. l 75 
Art of Saw Filing _ (Holly). 75 
Barry’s Fruit Garden. 1 75 
Bement’s Poulterer’s Companion. 2 00 
Bement’s Rabbit Fancier. SO 
Blake’s Farmer’s Encyclopedia. 1 50 
Bonssingault’s Rural Economy. 1 60 
Biidgeman’s Fruit Cultivator’s Manual.. 75 
Bridgeman’s Young Gardener’s Assistant.. 2 00 
Bridgeman’s Kitchen Garden Instructor. 75 
Bridgeman’s Florist’s Guide. 75 
Brandt’s Age of Horses (English and German). 50 
Brack’s Book of Flowers. 1 50 
Browne’s Field Book of Manures . 1 50 
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory. 1 50 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener. 1 00 
Bun’s Vegetables of America. 5 00 
Carpenters and Joiners’ Hand Book. .(Holly). 75 
Chorlton’s Grape-Grower’s Guide. 75 
Cobbett’s American Gardener. 75 
Cole’s (S. W.) American Fruit Book. 75 
Cole’s Veterinarian . 75 
Colman’s Agriculture.. 5 OO 
Copeland’s Country Life. 4 50 
Cottage Bee-Keeper. 75 
Cotton Planters’ Manual (Turner). 1 50 
Dadd’s Modern Horse Doctor. 1 50 
Dadd’s (Geo. H.) American Cattle Doctor. 1 50 
Dana’s Muck Manual. 1 25 
Dog and Gun (Hooper’s). 80 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening (new Edition). 6 50 
Downing’s Cottage Residences. 2 50 
Downing’s Emits and Fruit Trees of America. 8 00 
Downing’s Rural Essays. 5 00 
Eastwood on Cranberry. 75 
Elliott’s Western Fruit Grower’s Guide. 1 50 
Employment of Women—By Virginia Penny. 1 50 
Flax Culture. 50 
French’s Farm Drainage. 1 50 
Field’s (Tliomas W.) Pear Culture. 1 25 
Fish Culture. 1 25 
Flint (Charles L.) on Grasses. 2 00 
Flint’s Milcli Cows and Dairy Farming. 2 00 
Fuller’s Grape Culturist. 1 51 
Fuller’s Strawberry Culturist. 20 
Goodale.’s Principles of Breeding.. 1 25 
Gray’s Manual of Botany and Lessons in one Vol. 4 00 
Gray’s How Plants Grow. 1 25 
Guenon on Milcli Cows. 75 
Hall’s (Miss) American Cookery.... 1 ^ 
Haraszthy’s Grape Culture, &c. . 5 00 
Harris’ Insects Injurions to Vegetation, plain. 4 .50 
Harris’ Insects Injurious to Vegetation, colored plates. 5 00 
Herbert’s Hints to Horsekeepers. 1 75 
Hints to Riflemen, by Cleveland. 1 50 
Holly’s Country Seats. 4 50 
Hop Culture. 40 
How to Buy a Farm and Where to Find One. 1 75 
Insect Enemies of Frnlt Trees, (Trimble). 8 00 
Jaques’ Fruits and Fruit Trees. 60 
Jennings on Cattle. 2 00 
.Jennings on Swine and Poultry. 2 00 
Jenning’s on the Hoi-ae and his Diseases. 2 00 
Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistry. 1 75 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 1 25 
Kemp’s Landscape Gardening. 2 00 
Laiigstrotli on tlie Honey Bee . 2 OO 
Loudon’s (_Downing’s) Ladies’Flower Garden. 2 00 
Leiichar’s Howto Build Hot-houses. 1 50 
Liebig's Familiar Letters on Clieiiiistry. 50 
Liebig’s Modern Agriculture. 1 25 
Liebig’s Natural Laws of Husbandry. 1 50 
Linsley’s (D. C.) Morgan Horses .. 1 .50 
Manual of Agriculture by G. Emerson and C. L. Flint. 1 50 
Mavliew’s Illustrated Horse Doctor . 3. 50 
Mayhew’s Hlustrated Horse JIanagement. 3 .50 
McMahon’s American Gardener... . 2 .50 
Miles on the Horse’s foot. 75 
Morrell’s American Shepherd.. 1 75 
My Farm of Edgewood. 1 75 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture. 75 
Onion Culture . 20 
Our Farm of Four Acres (bound) 60c.(paper) SO 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 75 
Parsons on the Rose. 1 50 
Phantom Bouquet, or Skeleton Leaves. 2 00 
Pedder’s Land Measurer. 60 
Quiiiby’s Mysteries of Bee keeping. 175 
Rabbit Fancier. SO 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry. 1 50 
RandaU’s Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry. 1 00 
Rand’s Flowers for Parlor and Garden. 3 00 
Ricliardson on the Dog. 30 
Rural Affairs_(bound)_4Vols. . .each. 1.50 
Rural Annual (by Joseph Harris). 25 
Rural Register (by ,1. J. Thomas). 30 
Saunder’s Domestic Poultry_paper, 30 cts. ..bound.. 60 
Saxton’s Farmers’ Library, .set of3 Vols. morocco. 9 50 
Saxton’s Farmers’ Library, .set of 3 Vols. .cloth. 8 50 
Sclienck’s Gardener's Text Book. 75 
Slieplierd’s own Book. 2 25 
Skillful Housewife . 75 
Smith’s Landscape Gardening. 1 50 
Spencer’s Education of Children. 1 50 
Stewart’s (Jolm) Stable Book . . 1 50 
Templeton’s Mechanic’s Pocket Companion. 1 50 
Ten Acres Enougli. 1 50 
Tenny’s Natural History and Zoology. S 00 
Thaer’s (A. D.) Principles of Agriculfme. 2 50 
The Great West, hound. 1 On 
Tliompson’s Food of Animals. 1 00 
Tobacco Culture . 25 
Todd’s (S. E.) Young Farmer’s Manual. 1 50 
Tucker’s Register Rural Affairs. 30 
Vaux’s Villas and Cottages. 3 00 
'Villas and Farm Cottages. (Cleaveland and Backus)... 8 00 
Warder’s Hedges and Evergreens. 1 50 
Watson’s American Home Garden. 2 00 
Wax Flowers (Art of Making). 2 00 
Wet Davs at Edgewood. 1 75 
Wetlierill on the Manufacture of Vinegar. 1 50 
Wlieat Plant (John Kllppart’s).. 1 50 
Woodward’s Country Homes. 1 60 
Woodward’s Graperies.. 1 50 
rouatt and Spooner on the Horse.. 1 50 
Youatt and lifartin on Cattle. 1 50 
Youatt on tlie Hog. 1 00 
Yoiiiitt on Slieep. 100 
Yoiimans’ Household Science. 2 00 
Youmans’ New Chemistry....,.. . 3 00 
