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AMERICAN AG-RIGULTURIST, 
385 
QUESTION SIXTH.— The paper is good ; the 
people are to be found who want it; somebody can get 
the splendid premiums for finding them. May it not as 
welt be you, as any one else ? 
MORE THAN 8000 Persons have obtained good 
premiums, in past years, and hundreds have already se¬ 
cured them this year. There is plenty of room for 
others to do the same thing. We are ready to send one 
or more premiums to each of the 25,000 Post-Offices In 
tlie United States and British America, if called for. 
Will you get one of theml It is easy to do so. Try it. 
Table of Fremiums and Terms, 
For Volume 26. 
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Open to all—No Competition. 
No. Names of Premium Articles. 
1— Garden Seeds for a Family (AO kinds). $5 00 
a—Flower Seeds for a Family (100 00 
a—Nursery Stock {Any kinds desired) .$20 00 
i—Iona Grape Vines (12 01 No. 1) .$18 00 
5 —Concord Grape Vines (100o/No. 1)...$12 00 
a—Japan Lilies (13 Stilbs) ..$G 00 
7—Seioing Machine (Wheeler & 1Fe7.soa)... $55 00 
S—Sewing Machine (.Grover c6 Baker) .$55 00 
9—Seioing Machine (Singer's Tailoring) ..$80 00 
X9—Sewing Machine (Florence) .$C3 00 
XX—Sewing Machine (Willcoxdc Gibbs) .$55 00 
12—Sewing Machine (Howe's) ...$60 00 
x:i—Washing Machine (Doty's) .$14 00 
IX—Clothes Wringer (Best—Universal) .$10 00 
XU—Tea Set (Hart's best Silver Plated) .$50 00 
ICi—Castors and Fruit Basket (do. do.) _$30 00 
XT—Ice or Water Pilcher (do. do.) _$18 00 
XH—One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. do.) _ $7 50 
X9—One Dozen Table Spoons (do. do.) _$15 00 
20—One Dozen Dining Forks (do. do.) _$15 00 
2X—Piano (Best Steinway dbSon's I-octavel^S'ii 00 
22— Melodeon (Bestb-octave) .$112 00 
23— Melodeon (Best i-octave) .$67 00 
34— Ladies' Gold Watch (Beautiful) .$100 00 
2ii—Silver Watch (Valuable Time Keeper). .%9l 50 
20—DoxCble Barrel Gun (Verygood) .$30 00 
27—fencer'sBreach-loadlngBifle(Hunting)%v,b 00 
38— Tool (Chest (First Quality of Tools) _$44 SO 
39— Case of Mathematical Instruments .$0 00 
30—Case of Mathematical Instruments .$15 00 
SX—Morton's Best No. 6 Gold Pen (Silver Case)$5 75 
'J2—Morton's Best No. 5 Gold PenlSilver Case)$i 50 
'S3—Barometer (Woodru/f '’ Mercurial) .$18 00 
ZX—Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) $12 00 
30—Buckeye Mowing Machine, No. 2 .$125 00 
30—Allen's Patent Cylinder Plow, etc .$20 50 
37—The Aquarius or Water Thrower .$11 00 
3^—American Cyclopedia (Appleton's) .$80 00 
39— Worce.sler's Great Illustrated Dictionary%\2 00 
40— Any Back Volume Agriculturist) 
XX—Any Two Back Volirmes do 
43—Any Three do. 
43— Any Four do. 
44— Any Five do. 
XO—Any Six do. 
46— Any Seven do. 
47— Any Fight do. 
XS—Any Nine do. 
49- Vols. XVI to XXV 
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50— Any Back Volume Agriculturist' 
51— Any Two Back Volumes 
52—Any Three do. 
53—Any Foxir 
5 X—Any Five 
55—Any Six 
55—Any Seven 
57— Any Eight 
58 — Any Nine 
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59-Vols. XVI to XXV 
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at at 
$1.50 $1. 
37 
37 
97 
90 
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45 
210 
240 
320 
270 
240 
270 
70 
58 
225 
140 
90 
50 
60—ffene-see Farmer, 1853-1805,8 Vols.,Bound$I4 00, 
GX—Downing'sLandscapeGardeni'g^ ^ 
63 —Cummings <k Miller's Architect. 
63—A $10 Library (Your Choice).. 
1550 
400 
295 
400 
158 
150 
275 
190 
42 
35 
90 
65 
450 
100 
65 
325 
65 
20 
29 
88 
47 
54 
61 
68 
74 
80 
86 
24 
36 
48 
60 
71 
82 
92 
102 
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116 
70 
46 
60 
58 
85 
106 
125 
144 
162 
177 
192 
207 
237 
282 
360 
75—A Choice of Good Books (See Terms below.) 
17^ Every article offered is new and of the very best 
manufacture. No charge is made for,packing or boxing 
any of the articles in this Premium List. The forty- 
three Premiums,'Nos. 1, 2, 6, and from 29 to 3^9 
and from 40 to '7 o inclusive^ will each he delivered 
TREE of all charges^ by mail or express^ to the Post- 
Office or express office nearest recipient, to any place in 
the United States or Territories, excepting those reached 
only by the Overland Mail,—The other articles cost the 
recipient only the freight after leaving the manufactory 
of each, by any conveyance that may be specified, 
SI^By Wholesale purchases, by advertising arrange¬ 
ments, etc., we can pay njucA more in premiums than in 
cash. Every article is given at the regular price which 
it would cost any purchaser. 
Eacli article offered is for a definite number of 
subscribers; every one thus knows just what is re¬ 
quired. A premium is not dependent upon favoritism, 
or upon what some unknown person elsewhere is doing. 
Over Eiglit Tliousand Fersons liave hith¬ 
erto received our premiums with great satisfaction ; we 
have not heard of one in a thousand who has not been 
highly pleased.-It is a good work. The tens of thou¬ 
sands of persons persuaded by our canvassers to take 
and read the paper, have been benefited by so doing. 
Many Clergymen are receiving the Cyclopedia, 
Sewing Machines, Melodeons, etc., as premiums. Some 
make up the subscription lists themselves, with the freely 
rendered aid of their congregations. Others receive the 
ariicles from their Parishioners who unite their efforts 
and make up a premium club for the paper. 
|^“We take so much pains to procure only good 
articles in all cases, that any one securing anything from 
OUT premium list, saves the risk usually run of getting 
poor or indifferent goods, when buying of unknown or 
irresponsible parties. Every thing we send out as a 
premium is guaranteed to be the best of its kind and price. 
Our premiums are standard articles, and enough 
can be obtained to supply all calls for premiums for six 
montlis. Every canvasser can take abundant time, but 
As fast as subscriptions are obtained, send them 
along, tliat the subscribers may begin to receive the 
paper; and when all the names that can be obtained are 
forwarded, select the premium, and it will be promptly 
furnished. To save mistakes and keeping accounts, send 
with each list of names, the exact subscription money 
(in Post Office money orders, drafts or checks on N. Y. 
City; or, if these can not be had, registered money letters.) 
Every name designed for a premium list must 
be so marked when sent in, 
NOW is the best time to begin to raise a club, as every 
new subscriber for 1867, received in November, gets the 
December number of this year free, as noted elsewhere. 
Old. and new subscribers count in premium lists, 
but a part should be new names, ^or it is to obtain 
such that the premiums are in part offered. Papers to Pre¬ 
mium clubs need not all go to one Post Office. Of course 
Nos. 63 to 74—©OOH MBRAKIES. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of Rooks, for 
the Farm, Oarden, and Household. The per¬ 
son entitled to any one of the premiums 63 to 74, may 
select any hooks desired from the list below, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the books will be forward¬ 
ed, paid through to the nearest Post Office, or Express 
office, as we may find it most convenient to send them. 
We need not enlarge upon these premiums: everyone 
knows the value of good books. Twenty-five or Fifty 
dollars’ worth of books on subjects pertaining to llie farm 
will give the boys new ideas, set them to thinking and 
observing, and thus enable them to make the'r heads 
help their hands. Any good book will, in the end, be of 
far more value to a youtli, than to liave an extra acre of 
land, on coming to maturity. Tlie tliinking, reasoning, 
observing man, will certainly make more off from 49 
acres, than he would off from 50 acres without the men¬ 
tal ability which reading will give him.-Onr premiums 
will enable many a family to secure a larger or smaller Li¬ 
brary. This is a good opportunity for the farmers 
of a neighborhood to unite their efforts and get up an 
Agricultural Library for general use. 
No. ys—CJeiaeral Hook 
Any one not desiring the specific. Book premiums, 63 to 74, 
on sending any number of names above 25, may select 
Books from tlie list below, to the amount of 10 cents 
for each subscriber sent at $1: or to tlie amount of 30 
cents for each name sent at the (ten) club price of $1.20 
each: or to the amount of 60 cents for eacli name at 
$1.50. This offer is only for clubs of 25 or more. The 
books will be sent by mail or express, prepaid by «s. 
-e g I -ga w . - I -- 
the extra copy, usually offered to clubs of ten or twen¬ 
ty. will not be furnished when a premium is called for. 
Specimen Numbers of the Agriculturist, Cards, 
and Showbills, as maybe needed, will be supplied lo Can¬ 
vassers. These should be used carefully and economi¬ 
cally, as each extra copy of the paper with postage (2c.), 
which must be pre-paid, costs about 12 cents. 
For Full Beseription of the several premiums 
see October Agriculturist, pages 349 to 352, or apply for 
a Descriptive List, which will be furnislied free. We 
have room here for only the following: 
No. 14—ClotSaes-'^VrisiS'img’ Ma-claine. 
—A very useful, time-saving, strength-saving, clothes- 
saving implement, that should be in every family. The 
wringing of clothes by hand, is hard upon the hands, 
arms and chest, and the twisting stretches and breaks 
the fibres witli lever power. Wiih the Wringing Ma¬ 
chine, tiie garments are passed between two elastic roll¬ 
ers which press the water out better than hand wringing, 
and witli no wrenching of the fibres. It is done as fast as 
the left hand can pickup the garments, while the riglit 
hand turns the crank. It is so easily done that a child of 10 
or 12 years can quickly wring out a tub-full of clothes, 
dropping them from the macliine set upon the side of 
the wash-tub directly into a clothes basket, ready to liang 
out. We offer the family size, “Universal Wringer,” 
provided witli Cogs which make the rollers turn together, 
and •wliich we consider essential to prevent injury to the 
fabrics, loosening of the rubber, etc. We used a single 
one of these Wringers, one of the first make, several 
years witliout any repairs, and with tlie greatest satisfac¬ 
tion.—It weighs only 15 lbs., and can be readily carried 
by hand, or sent by express, or freight, to any part of 
the country, ready to be set upon any form of tub, and 
used at once. We have given over a thousand of these as 
premiums, with almost universal satisfaction. At least 
a thousand families may get one tliis year as a premium. 
N«s. 4© t« 49 — Aoliinies of tlie 
American Agriculturist (Unbound). — These 
amount to a large and valuable Library on ail matters 
pertaining to the Farm, Garden, and Household, and con¬ 
tain more varied information on these subjects than can 
be obtained in books costing three times the money. We 
have stereotype plates from the Sixteenth to the Twenty- 
fourth Volume complete, and will have Vol. 25, soon 
after Dec. 1st. From these plates we print as needed. 
The price of the volumes is $1.50 each, at the office, or 
$1.75 if sent by mail, as they must be post-paid. They are 
put up in clean numbers, with the Index to each volume. 
-They are pi'ofusely Illustrated, the Engravings 
used in tliem having alone cost about Twenty Thousand 
Dollars ! Those obtaining premiums for from one to nine 
volumes, can select any volumes desired, from XVI to 
XXV, inclusive. For ordinary use, the sets of numbers 
unbound will answer quite well.—Many hundreds of 
these volumes are taken every year as premiums. 
Nos. 5© to 59—Bound Voliinaes of 
Agriculturist. —These are the same as Nos. 40 to 49 
above, but are neatly bound in uniform style, and cost 
extra for binding and postage. All are sent post-paid. . 
BOOKS FOK FABMEBS and OTHEBS. 
[For sale at the Office of tlie Agriculturist, or they will be 
forwarded by mail, qwst-paid, on receipt of price. All 
these are included in Om- Premiums 63 to 75 above.] 
Allen’s (L. F.) Rural Architecture. 
,$ 1 50 
Allen’s (U. L.) American Farm Book. 
Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals. 
American Bird Fancier. 
American Rose Culturlst. 
American Weeds and Useful Plants.. 
Architecture, by Cummings & Miller. 
Barry’s Fruit Garden. 
Bement’s Poulterer’s Companion... . 
Bement’s Rabbit Fancier. 
Breck’s New Book of Flowers. 
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory. 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener. 
Burr’s Vegetables of America. 
Cliorlton’s Grape-Grower’s Guide. 
Cobbett’s American Gardener. 
Cole’s (S. W.) American Fruit Book. 
Cole’s Veterinarian . 
Dadd’s irodern Dorse Doctor. 
Dadd’s (Geo. H.) American Cattle Doctor.. 
Dana’s Muck Manual. 
Dog and Gun (Hooper’s).paper, 30e....cloth.. 
Downings’s Country Houses . 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening (new Edition). 
Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 
Downing’s Rural Essays. 
Eastwood on Cranherry. 
Elliott's Western Fruit Grower’s Guide. 
Field’s (Thomas W.) Pear Culture. 
Flax Culture... 
Flint’s Milch Cows and Dairy Farming. 
French’s Farm Drainage ... 
Fuller's Grape Culturist. 
Fuller’s Strawberry Culturist. 
Gray’s How Plants Grow. 
Gray’sMannal of Botany and Lessons in one Vol. 
Guenon on Milch Cows. 
Harris’ Insects In.inrious to Vegetation, plain. 
Harris’ Insects Injurious to Vegetation, colored plates. 
Herhevt's Hints to Horsekeepers. 
Hop Culture. 
Husmann’s Grapes & Wine. 
Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistry. 
■lohnston’s Elements of Agricultural Clieniistry. 
.Johnson’s (Prof. S. W.) Essays on Manures. 
Laiigstroth on the Honey Bee . 
Leuchar’s Howto Build Hot-houses. 
Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Doctor. 
Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Management. 
Mayhew's Practical Book-Keeping for Farmers. 
Blanks for do. do. . 
Miles on the Horse’s foot. 
My Farm of Edgewood. 
My Vineyard at Lakeview. 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture. 
Onion Culture . 
Oiir Farm of Four Acres (bound) 60c.(paper) 
Pardee on Strawlierry Culture. 
Peat and Its Uses, by Prof. S. W. .Tohnson. 
Pedder’s Land Measurer. 
Quinby’s Mysteries ofBee keeping_ (new.) . 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry. 
Randall’s Fine Wool Sheep Hnshandry. 
Rivers’ Miniature Fruit Garden. 
Richardson on the Dog.paper 30 cents.cloth 
Rural Annual (by Joseph Harris). 
Saunder’s Domestic Poultry (new), .paper, 40 c..hound 
Sohenck’s Gardener’s Text'Book. 
Scribner’s Ready Reckcher. 
Skillful Housewife . 
Stewart’s (John) Stable Book. 
Thompson’?. Food of Animals. 
Tobacco Culture . 
Todd’s IS. E.) i'oiing Favniers Manual. 
Warder's Hedges arid Evergreens. . 
Watson’s American Homo Garden. 
Woodward’s Country Homes. 
Vouatt and Spooner on the Horse. 
Youatt and Martin on Cattle... 
Youatt on the Hog. 
Youatt on Sheep. 
Youmans’ Household Science. 
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