AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[January, 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Orangk Judd & Co., Publishers, 245 Broadway, N. Y. City. 
Amnual Subscription Terms (always in advance): $1.50 
each for less than four conies: Four to nine copies, $1.25 
eacli: Ten to nineteen conies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, $1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
DID IT PAY? 
The other day we sent to one gentleman in 
Ohio: a beautiful $100 Lady's Gold Watch, a 
Splendid Tea Set of six pieces, a Great Diction¬ 
ary, and a Breach-Loading Pocket Rifle —all as a 
present in return for 274 subscribers for 1870 
which he had gathered in a brief time. Did it 
Pay him ? Whether or not it paid us is our 
look out. We are doing such things all the 
time, and shall keep on doing so.* Will it pay 
those who subscribed $1.50 each to have this 
journal before them all the year? They thought 
so, and we shall take good care that it does. 
This journal clashes with nothing else. It is all origin¬ 
al and valuable to every person in City, Village and 
Country—NORTH, SOUTH, EAST and WEST—yes, 
EVERYWHERE. An intelligent Louisiana gentleman 
called to see if we could not get up an edition for the far 
South , leaving out some articles and inserting others on 
Southern topics. But after looking through several back 
numbers he could not find anything he would omit. 
We’ll try and get in more special information for pecu¬ 
liar Southern crops, and modes of cultivation, as needed. 
But the above is only one case. Splendid 
Premiums are going out daily to all parts of 
this country, and to oilier lands. There are in 
this country 27,107 Post-Offices, and wherever 
there are people enough for a Post-Office, there 
are enough to make up a large or small Premium 
Club—people, too, who would be benefited far 
more than its cost. It only needs some enter¬ 
prising person to show and explain the paper, 
to get the names, and receive the premium free. 
Suppose YOU do it, reader. 
Lack of money is a standard excuse from those asked 
to subscribe. But the price of one egg or two a week, 
produced or saved, will pay for the paper. Less than a 
pound of meat per month , or a pound of sugar, saved or 
economized, will do the same, while the household hints 
will help to economize many pounds, and will give better 
and more healthful food at diminished cost. A cheap 
cigar saved weekly will pay for the paper, while the hints 
about culture, etc., will secure better crops, by many 
dollars in value. 
Reader, YOU can get a good premium for 
a little work. Try it. You may not get a 
large one at first, but you can “break ground” 
this year, and every copy now introduced will 
open the way for a great increase next year. 
* EXI*1L AS J’lON.—Paper, press-work, and mail¬ 
ing, cost about $1 for each subscriber. 20,000 circulation 
(a very large one) leaves only $5000 for office, editing, 
engravings, etc., if subscribers average $1.25 each, in¬ 
cluding clubs. OUR 100,000 to 290,000 circulation leaves 
us $40,000 to $50,000 for collecting information, engrav¬ 
ings, etc, and for increasing the size of the paper as we have 
done. We spend all the subscription money on the paper, 
and many thousand dollars more. The large circulation 
induces good advertisers to pay us enough to give the 
premiums, and have our profits left. More subscribers 
give us more advertising money, and thus we can give 
more premiums, and that gets more subscribers ; and so 
we go on, and every body is benefited. All expenses of 
getting up and carrying on the Journal, (aside from pa¬ 
per, press-work, and mailing.) are not greater for half a 
million, than for half a thousand subscribers ; so the 
larger the circulation, the more we can give for the money. 
YOU CM GET: 
A Good Watch—Free of Cost— a gen¬ 
time $40.00 American Waltham Watch, with heavy 
3-ounce Hunting-case—a capital time-piece that 
will last through life, by sending 50 subscribers for 
the American Agriculturist at $1.50 each, or 150 at 
$1 each. (See No. 04 in Premium list, next page.) 
016.—: A Lady’s «old Watch Free— 
a splendid article of Waltham make, sold usually 
for $100 or more, and beautiful as a present to 
any Lady, by sending 110 subscribers at the 
regular price of $1.50 a year. Others have done so. 
©16—: A threat IMctionary Free— 
the best in the world—containing 1854 great 3- 
column pages, with many hundred engravings, and 
giving every word in our language, correctly divided 
and spelled, with much information, by sending 
only 18 subscribers at $1.50 each, or 58 at $1 each ! 
OI6-: A Sewing' Machine Free— a 
first-rate one, your choice of three kinds; the best 
wife-saver, health-saver, money-saver, board-saver 
—much wanted in every house, by sending GO to 70 
subscribers (see table) at $1.50 each ; or 240 to 275 
at $1 each—easily obtained in most neighborhoods. 
Or—s CSoml Seeds Free —forty varieties 
of first-rate garden seed, enough for almost any 
warden, (or, lOO kinds of beautiful flower seeds) 
delivered to you free: Only 13 _ subscribers at 
$1.50 each, or 37 at $1 each, will bring the seeds. 
016—: Splendid BSreeding Sheep 
Free —either Cotswold or Soutlidowns, thorough¬ 
bred, raised by the best breeders. These sheep will 
multiply and diffuse their excellent qualities very 
rapidly, and one or more of them should be intro¬ 
duced into every neighborhood raising sheep : A 
club of 100 to 210 subscribers will secure one of them 
free! (See Nos. 13 to 20 in Table of Premiums.) 
OE6—: Tlie newest and best Potato 
Free —two pounds of “Bresee’s King of the 
Earlies,” which is promised to eclipse even the 
Early Rose! Two pounds of these will soon multi¬ 
ply to a large stock. Only 5 subscribers will bring 
you a post-paid 2-lb. parcel of these new potatoes. 
©B8—: The best Fig’s and Poultry 
Free —the best home-bred, and imported speci¬ 
mens ; warranted pure by the reliable breeders who 
supply them for these premiums. Chibs of sub¬ 
scribers, numbering 22 to GG names, will secure 
these animals without charge, and they are worth 
securing! (See No. 21 to 28 in Premium Table.) 
Or—: A Washijig Machine Free— 
the best one yet made : Send 21 subscribers at $1.50 
each, or 70 at $1 each. Multitudes have secured this. 
006—: A $500 to $700 Shorthorn 
Stull Free— a superb,thorough-bred animal,from 
Jas. O. Sheldon’s Herd, the finest one in the world 
—an animal that will soon increase the value of the 
stock in a neighborhood to the amount of many 
thousands of dollars. Let the farmers of any neigh¬ 
borhood combine and raise 425 to 580 subscribers, 
and own the bull in common : Or one person may 
raise the Club and lie will soon derive a fine in¬ 
come from the animal. (See Premiums 1 to 3.) 
OH6 —: Am Ayrshire BBtull Free —aline 
thorough-bred animal raised by Win. Birnie, which 
will soon show marked results in the improvement 
of the stock in a neighborhood : Send 120 to 210 sub¬ 
scribers at $1.50, all of which may be easily gathered. 
OI6-: Tine BBest Clotbes Wringer 
Free —one of the most valuable Housekeepers’ 
Helps ever invented—one which will repay its cost 
every few weeks, and keep on doing so—both in 
saving labor and saving garments: Only 18 sub¬ 
scribers are needed to get this Clothes wringer free! 
©B6—: A Melosleom Free —one of the 
best made in the world, one of long-proved excel¬ 
lence—a delightful thing to have in the house, in 
the school-room, and in the church where an organ 
can not be afforded: Send 78 or 138 subscribers. 
(See Nos. 60, Gl, in Table of Premiums, next page.) 
©16—: A Superb Tea Set Free— six 
pieces, of splendid pattern, real substantial, durable 
double silver-plated,—not dressed up silver-washed 
stuff: Only GG subscribers will secure this free ! 
OS6-: Am Alderney or Devon ISuII 
Free —very fine thorough-bred animals, profitable 
to the owners, and they will add many times their 
cost to the value of the stock where they are used. 
A club of 120 to 365 subscribers will bring one of 
these animals. (See Nos. 7 to 12 in Premium Table.) 
016—: The I*iamo that SBeats the 
World—(Steinway’s of course.) One Lady se¬ 
cured Five of these, worth $3,250.00, between 
Sept., 1SG8, and July last, by sending subscribers 
to the American Agriculturist. Hundreds of other 
ladies may easily secure at least one. Hundreds of 
others may secure the lower-priced hut excellent 
Colibri Piano. (See Nos. 62, 63, in Premium Table.) 
OBB — : Cwood Tools Free —not poor-tem¬ 
pered, iron things, but of the very best quality—a 
whole assortment of more titan fifty pieces, just 
such as are really useful for yourself, and your sons, 
on the farm, and everywhere else, all in a neat chest, 
worth at the lowest rate $44.50 (No. GO): Send 
only 60 subscribers at $1.50 each, or 100 at $1 each ! 
OR —: Excellent BBoolts Free —those 
for the Farm, Garden, and Household, your choice 
out of more than a hundred. A very little time in 
gathering subscribers will bring you several of 
these volumes delivered free. (See Nos. 100 to 112.) 
OR—: Very Fine Table Furniture 
Free— Casters, Fruit Baskets, the best plated 
large and small Spoons, Knives and Forks, etc.,—• 
all of extra make and quality, useful, ornamental, 
and durable. The Premium Table, Nos. 43 to 55, 
