5 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
1875.] 
To Ri>e. Maul witJaoiat Money.—There 
will be found upon our Premium List (see page 33) a 
large number of most useful and valuable articles, all of 
which are new and of the best manufacture, and any of 
which can be obtained without money and with but a lit¬ 
tle wed directed effort. Among these are: BeautJl nil 
Silver-Plated Articles — Fine Table-Cut¬ 
lery—Gold Fens with Silver Cases—Chil¬ 
dren’s Carriages, Swings, etc.—Watches— 
Pianos — Melodcons — Pocket-Knives — 
Guns—Cultivators—Sewing, Knitting, and 
Washing' Machines—Boohs, etc., etc.— 
Read all of page 33, and see how easy you can obtain one 
or more of these good and desirable articles. 
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containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of space elsewhere. 
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New York City Banks or Bankers are best 
for large sums ; make payable to the order of Orange 
Judd Company. Post-Office Money Orders 
for $50 or less, are cheap and safe also. When these are not 
obtainable, register letters, affixing stamps for post¬ 
age and registry; put in the money and seal the letter in 
the presence of the postmaster, and take his receipt for it. 
Money sent in the above three methods is safe against loss. 
(jgf= N.B.—'The New I^ostag-e Law. 
—On account of the new postal law, which requires 
pre-payment of postage by the publish¬ 
ers, after January -list, 1875, each subscriber 
must remit, in addition to the regular rates, ten cents 
for prepayment of postage by the Publish¬ 
ers, at New York, for the year 1875. Every 
subscriber, whether coming singly, or in clubs at club 
rates, will he particular to send to this office postage as 
above, with his subscription. Subscribers in British Am¬ 
erica will continue to send postage as heretofore, for 
pre-payment here. 
ISouiasul Copies of Toisaitae Tliivfy- 
three are now ready. Price, $2, at our office; or $2.50 
each, if sent by mail. Any of the last eighteen volumes 
(16 to 33) will also he forwarded at same price. Sets of 
numbers sent to our office will he neatly bound in our 
regular style, at75 cents per vol. (50 cents extra, if return¬ 
ed by mail.) Missing numbers supplied at 12 cents each. 
Our Western Office.— Our friends in 
the West are reminded that we have an office at Lake¬ 
side Building, Chicago, Ill., in charge of Mr. W. II. 
Busbey. Subscriptions to American Agriculturist are 
taken there, and sample copies of the paper and chromo 
are delivered, and orders received for advertising on the 
same terms as in New York. All our books arc on saie 
at the Western Office. Tlease call and examine, buy, 
subscribe, and advertise. 
Keauling" tine Auiverlisements JPays, 
whether one wants to buy anything or not. Every busi¬ 
ness man has his own way of setting forth his goods or 
wares, and studying those business announcements 
awakens new ideas in the mind of the reader. We have 
had some of our most valuable new business thoughts 
start up when running over advertisements on entirely 
different subjects... .There is one satisfaction in reading 
the advertisements in tlxis journal, that is afforded in few 
other papers, viz., that the editors and publishers aim 
to shut out all unreliable and deceptive persons and 
things, so that one may read the business pages with 
confidence.... The advertising pages are In one sense a 
“ Grand Bazaar,” where sellers and customers may meet 
for mutual acquaintance, and consultation and discussion. 
We introduce the dealers to the readers, and whenever ad¬ 
dressing these dealers, please let them know you formed 
their acquaintance in the American Agricultw'ist Bazaar. 
Speak a Word for tlae C*ei°3ianii 
Americas! Agriculturist. —For 16 years past an 
edition of this journal has been issued in the German 
language for the benefit of the large number of our citi¬ 
zens who read only the language of Vaterland. It con¬ 
tains the engravings and all the principal reading of the 
English edition. Several pages devoted to the adver¬ 
tisements in the English edition, are in the German 
edition occupied by a special extra Department edited by 
the Hon. Frederick Munch, a distinguished cultivator of 
Missouri, which gives it additional value to the German 
reader. The colored cover only is omitted from the 
German edition. Many of our subscribers take the Ger¬ 
man copy for their gardener or their workmen. Will our 
friends make this edition known to their German friends 
and neighbors. Having the advantage of the engravings 
of the English edition, it is larger, better, and cheaper, 
than it could he if published independently. Both edi¬ 
tions are issued on the same terms, and clubs may con¬ 
sist of either edition, or a part of both. 
Institution in Nebraska amtl Kan¬ 
sas.— The people in parts of Nebraska and Kansas are 
in terrible distress. The poorer of them, who are the 
newest settlers in the western parts of these States, have 
lost all their crops by grasshoppers, and arc entirely 
without food or clothing, except as they receive these 
necessaries from abroad. Ten thousand persons in 
Nebraska and twenty thousand in Kansas must be pro¬ 
vided for until spring, or they will die of cold and hun¬ 
ger. Money is needed to purchase food and fuel first. 
Donations of money may he sent by check or Post-office 
order to F. W. Giles, President Topeka National Bank, 
Topeka, Kansas, for the account of the Kansas Central 
Relief Association, and will he acknowledged and re¬ 
ceipt for the amount returned. Donations intended for 
Nebraska may he sent in the same manner to General 
Brisbin, Metropolitan Hotel, New York, or to Governor 
R. W. Furnas, at Lincoln, Nebraska. Packages of 
clothing for Kansas from New York or the vicinity 
should ho sent to G. Y. Riclcseclcer, Agent of the Kansas 
Relief Association, 317 Broadway, New York, and for 
Nebraska, to the Nebraska Relief Association, 11 Bar¬ 
clay street, Now York. Farmers generally have been 
this year sufficiently favored to enable them to afford 
some relief to their unfortunate brethren in these two 
States. Dollar subscriptions have been started in various 
parts of the country, and already some have responded. 
We will gladly receive and forward any subscriptions, 
large or small, that may bo entrusted to us, hut the 
sender must indicate which State his contribution is for. 
lEmlavg-e tlic Clulbs at llie §asiic 
Skates.—Any club of subscribers at the club rates can 
he increased at the same rates per subscriber, as was 
paid by the original members. Further, a club-gatherer 
can run his club up so as to get reduced rates on the 
whole. Thus any one having sent $5.40 for four sub¬ 
scribers and postage, can send 16 more names for $16.60, 
postage included; that is, $22 in all for 20 subscribers 
and postage. And the same for other club rates. Still 
further : Clubs need not be coiffined to one post-office, if 
all the names are sent by the same person. 
Western IPonltry Shows. —The North¬ 
ern Wisconsin Poultry Ass'n., will hold its 2nd Annual 
Exhibition, at Oshkosh, January 12 to 14. D. W. Fer¬ 
nandez, Sec’y, Oshkosh... .The Buckeye Union Poultry 
Ass'n., holds its 1st show at Springfield, O., January 19 
to 23d. Wm. Marot, Sec’y. 
The Christian Aulvocate is one of the 
largest religious journals in our country, and will enter 
upon its 49th year, with a bona fide circulation equaled 
by few other religious papers in the world. It is indus¬ 
triously and thoroughly edited, and contains a great 
amount and variety of good reading. Its fine premium 
picture will attract an immense circle of new subscribers. 
The writer spelled out the words of its first number, 
away in a Western log-cabin, and has missed reading 
very few of its 2,546 weekly numbers since issued. One 
of its present editors was his first seminary “chum,' 1 
when he left the farm to prepare for college. The terms 
of this journal are to be found in our advertising pages. 
Terms not Advanced,— The present 
subscription terms of the American Agricultw'ist are the 
same as hitherto, or a trifle less. Formerly the price 
was $1.50 a year; clubs of four copies for $5; of ten 
copies for $12; and of twenty or more copies for $1 
each—the subscribers paying 12 cents each postage. 
NOW the terms are $1.60 a year ; clubs of four copies, 
$5.40 ; of ten copies, $13, and of twenty or more, $1.10 
each, the Publishers prepaying the postage. That is, 
one to three copies, $1.60 each; four to nine copies, 
$1.35 eacli; ten to nineteen copies, $1.30 each ; and 
twenty or more copies, $1.10 each, postage prepaid by 
the Publishers in all cases. Some publishers of higher- 
priced papers announce that they will assume the post¬ 
age, hut in the case of the American Agriculturist , the 
price has always been down to nearly cost of printing 
paper, press-work, and mailing, and there was no mar¬ 
gin of profit out of which to prepay postage. 
4$nr CNatsiule lEiaterprlscs—Mr. Judd 
is receiving applications from various parties who “ wish 
to join a colony which he is said to be getting up to 
settle in Florida, Alabama, or some other Southern State.” 
From the number of letters in relation to this it would 
appear that either some Mr. Judd is getting up a colony, 
or some other person is making an unwarranted use of 
the name of our senior publisher to further his schemes. 
We take this method to inform inquirers that our Mr. 
Judd is not engaged in any such undertaking. Other 
cases have come to our knowledge in which Mr. Judd 
has been falsely claimed as a member of certain corpo¬ 
rations. Suffice it to say, that our Mr. Judd has no con¬ 
nection whatever with any business enterprise outside 
of the Orange Judd Company, and declines to sign 
recommendations of such, in order that the Agriculturist 
may ho free of all personal interest in any matter that 
may come up for editorial judgment or opinion. As the 
Publishers require the same course on the part of those 
engaged in directing this journal, our readers will know 
that the use of the names of either the publishers or the 
editors in furtherance of any outside operations is en¬ 
tirely without authority. The place to look for editorial 
opinions is in the editorial columns of the paper. 
FTattes-iBBg', ii’ssot Tala*.—“Jim,” said 
an acquaintance to a toper, “ what arc you doing now ? ” 
—“ I’m in the temp’rancc lectur bisness.”—“ You lec¬ 
ture on temperance! “N-no, my brother does the 
lectvin, and I go with him as the ’sample and warnin’.” 
—It is within the province of religious papers to teach 
and give warning, hut it is only recently that wo have 
learned that they sometimes furnished examples. A 
paper, which ranks itself with the religious weeklies, 
offers premiums, which it has a perfect right to do. It 
also follows and offers precisely the same things offered by 
the Agriculturist, against which we have nothing to say, 
but accept it as an acknowledgment of our good taste and 
judgment; and even when it issues a supplement as near 
as possible in form and style to ours, we remember the 
adage, “imitation is sincerest praise,” and smile at it But 
when we find that this supplement in many cases is an 
exact copy of ours, the very ideas—even the very words 
exactly copied—we then think of the case of the 
“ ’xample and warnin’.”—“ Thou shalt not steal” is en¬ 
forced in various eloquent forms in the paper, and the 
example—showing how very mean it looks—is in the 
supplement. This is a Union of opposites, which may 
he very striking, but can hardly be called Christian. If 
we must furnish brains for our neighbor—we must, but 
then what must the man who did this stealing think of 
his performance. 
“SUWBMKY BEITMIMJfSS ” has for a 
number of years stood at the head of an article of one or 
more columns, in each issue of iloa American Agricultur¬ 
ist. Beginning with an occasional exposure of the tricks 
and traps set for strangers visiting New York, its scope 
grew wider until it included every kind of minor fraud 
wherever practiced, and has become as much a regular 
department of the paper as any other. We hold it our 
duty not only to help the reader to make money, but to 
prevent him from being cheated out of it, if we can do 
so by warning him of the various swindling schemes. 
That we have saved the farmers and rural population of 
this country, not only thousands, hut millions of dollars , 
there is not the least doubt, and that we have broken up 
the business of many a scoundrel, the suits at law, and 
the personal abuse and threats of those who have been 
exposed, bear witness. With the first number of a 
volume, we address a great many new readers, and we 
would say a few words, especially to them. Thousands 
will learn for the first time, that there is a paper which 
will not. only refuse to publish advertisements of a 
doubtful kind, but which boldly exposes every kind of 
fraud under the comprehensive name of humbug. To 
these we would say we work for the general good, and 
can not use our columns as a medium to redress private 
griefs, nor our time to recover lost money. It is often 
the case that one thinks he has been defrauded by some 
dealer, and immediately writes to us to “ expose him as 
a humbug.” It will happen in every business that some 
accident or unexplained delay, may make an honest 
dealer appear in an unfavorable light. We have investi¬ 
gated so many complaints against dealers, that we are 
convinced that in the majority of cases the complainant 
is -himself to blame. There is scarcely a prominent 
seedsman whom wo have not been requested to show up 
as a swindler,—as money had been sent and no returns 
received. Upon inquiring we have found that the 
writer’s letter lacked signature, address, or some impor¬ 
tant clue to his identity or whereabouts. An astonish¬ 
ing number of people omit these particulars in writing. 
It is only where wc have proof of persistent fraudulent 
acts, that we can expose a person claiming to do a 
legitimate business. As to the other point. If any one 
nas lost his money by sending it to any humbug scheme, 
