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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
PREMIUMS! 
We purpose to make the present volume of the Agricul¬ 
turist far superior even to the past one, in greater va¬ 
ne y of topics, in mote and better engravings, in short in 
evi -y respect. We also desire to extend its circulation 
mi , tens of thousands of families where it is still un¬ 
its .wn. To accomplish this, we offer to those who will 
as) ft in the work, the following piemiums, which are cer- 
tai )y liberal, if the cost of the paper, and the low price at 
wKch it is furnished be taken into account. 
It will be seen that the Premiums in each case 
(ex ept No. X) depend upon a given number of names, 
an( not upon competition between unknown persons ; so 
tha every person know s exactly what he or she is work¬ 
ing or. 
II rcmilim I.—A liberal distribution of valuable seeds 
w il be made during this Winter, to all regular subscri¬ 
ber-alike, whether single or in clubs, and whether re- 
oei ed from agents, or otherwise. 
f'remiiiin 51.— We have obtained more pieces of the 
genuine Atlantic Cable—each piece four inches in length, 
with the ends secured by brass ferules. When desired 
one of these will be presented to any club of six sub¬ 
scribers at $5 (N. B —Twenty-one cents extra must be 
sent to pre-pay postage on the Cable.) 
Premium SSI.— Any person sending in a club of 
10 subscribers at $8, may order a free copy of either Vol. 
XVI or Vol. XVII, which will be sent in numbers. 
Premium IV.—Any person sending 15 subscribers 
and $12, will be entitled to .16 copies (that is one extra 
copy), for the coming year. 
Premium T.—Any person sending 25 subscribers 
and $20, will be entitled to both Volumes XVI and XVII, 
sent in numbers post-paid. (N. B—If $21 be sent, the tw o 
Volumes will be bound neatly in one cover, and forward¬ 
ed post-paid.) 
Premium VI.—Any person sending in $24 for 30 
subscribers, one-third or more of them new ones, will be 
emitled to a silver cased Microscope, with the celebrated 
“Coddington lens”—the same as fig. 4. in July No., page 
219. Price $4. (It will be safely packed and sent by 
mail, post-paid.) 
Premium VII.— Any person sending $32 for 40 
subscribers, (one-half new names,) will be entitled to the 
large unabridged. Webster's Dictionary, containing 1,376 
3-column pages—the best and most complete work of the 
kind in the world. Price $6. It weighs 7 lbs , and can 
be sent by express or by mail ($1.12) at the expense of the 
recipient after leaving the city. 
Premium VIII.—Any person sending in $80 for 
100 subscribers, (one-half new) will be entitled to each of 
the six above premiums, numbered 1,2, 4, 5, 6 and 7. 
Premium IX—Important €!i;iuse.—In 
consequence of the reduction in the price of the Best 
Sewing Machines, we are able to reduce the terms of the 
premium materially. That is to say : Any person or com¬ 
pany of persons sending in 144 new subscribers at the low¬ 
est club price (80 cents each) or one hundred new sub¬ 
scribers at $1 00 each, will be presented with one 
of Wheeler & Wilson’s best $50 Sewing Machines, new 
from Ihe manufactory. These $50 machines are just as 
good for all working purposes as those recently sold at 
$100. No better working machines are made. We con¬ 
sider this an excellent chance for hundreds of ladies to 
secure an invaluable prize at a little outlay of time and 
effort. The names can be easily gathered in single towns 
or in two or three adjoining ones (they need not all be at 
the same Post office). A committee of ladies may unite 
their efforts and secure a Sewing Machine as common 
pioperty w-ith as little solicitation ortrouble as they could 
get up a Fair, and if they collect 144 names, all they get 
above 80 cents each will be clear gain. Perhaps they can 
enlist their brothers, husbands or other male relatives to 
aid them. Last year we received subscribers enough 
from single Post offices in Illinois, and elsewhere, to se¬ 
cure this premium. (See remarks below.)—As fast as 
these machines are secured by the requisite number of 
subscribers, they are selected at the manufactory by the 
Publisher, and securely packed and forwarded by any 
route or conveyance desired. There are no charges of 
any kind, except for transportation after leaving the city. 
Full instructions for setting up and using go wilh each 
machine. 
Premium X.—The Lady or company of Ladies 
sending the largest list of names above 144 will be pre¬ 
sented wilh a higher priced machine, that is one put up 
in an extra case. 
Remarks.—It will be noticed that any person trying 
lor one of the higher premiums, and failing to get names 
enough, can still take one of the lower ones, according to 
the number of names obtained. 
Every person collecting names for premiums can send 
them in with the money as fast as received ; but if de¬ 
signed for premiums, a double list of the names should be 
sent, one of them marked at the top, “ For premiums,” 
and with the name of the sender. These duplicate lists 
will be kept on file by themselves to be referred to in 
making up the premium when any person has completed 
sending in names for Volume XVIII. 
We do not set any time for the completion of the lisl s 
it being understood that these premiums are only for sub¬ 
scriptions for volume XVIII (1859), whenever received. 
The premiums willbe paid as soon as the names are in. 
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Tile Sewing Machines 
Are really going at a rapid rate. (See addition to Prem. 
IX.) When first offering them, we supposed that ten or a 
dozen would he all that would be required. But from 
what has already been done and is still doing, we begin 
to calculate upon giving out over one hundred Sewing 
Machines before the close of February. Our offer is not 
limited by time. The only requisite is that 144 sub¬ 
scribers (or 100) be procured to begin with the present 
Volume. Those who have already secured only forty, 
fifty, sixty, or more names, have still ample time to fill 
up their lists. And the same may be said to those who 
have hardly commenced as yet. This and the follow¬ 
ing month will furnish leisure for canvasing two or 
three towns, or more, at odd spells. 
SEWING MACHINE GIFT TO A WORTHY POOR WOMAN. 
Two gentlemen, living widely separated, write nearly 
the same words. Here is w hat the one in Ohio says : 
“.... We have in our neighborhood a very poor but very 
worthy woman, who is disposed to help herself. In look 
ing over the Agriculturist at our Farmers’ Club room we 
noticed your offer of a Sewing Machine, and six of us at 
once agreed to try to raise a couple of dozen subscribers 
each, to secure this premium and present it to the lady 
above referred to. Well, we have partly succeeded, 
having obtained nearly 100 subscribers in one town. But 
we may not get the 144, and as every one who has 
subscribed would willingly pay the full price to help an 
enterprise, I write to ask how many names at $1 each 
will bring us the machine.” 
Answer. —To meet this and other similar cases, we 
have introduced a new proposition in Premium IX— 
viz : to give the sewing machine when 100 names are 
sent at the full price ($1 each.) 
^Business Strikes. 
Fifty Cents a Line • 
Wlieeler aaatl Wilson’s Sewing Mil* 
climes. 
“ None are better adapted to Family Use.” 
American Agriculturist. Dec. 1858 
PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. 
Office 505 Broadway, New-York. 
Send for a Circular. 
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GROVER & BAKER’S 
CELEBRATED 
FAMILY SEWING MACHINES, 
A New Style. Fi’ice #50. 
495 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK. 
18 SUMMER-STREET, BOSTON. 
730 CHESTNUT-STREET, PHILADELPHIA. 
For our own family use, became fully satisfied that Grover 
& Baker’s machine is the best, and we accordingly purchased 
it.”— American Agriculturist. 
Agencies in all the principal Cities and Towns in the 
United States. 
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“OLD DOMINION” COFFEE POT 
AN© 
©U© DOMINION TEA POT. 
E- P. T0RREY, Manufacturer’s Depot. 
9 Platt-si*eet, N. Y. 
Stocks and Seedling Trees for Nurseries, Ever¬ 
green Tree and other Ornamental Tree Seeds. Chinese 
Potato or Yam, $3 per 109, $20 per 1009. Hardy Native 
Grapes, 140 varieties, 100 Foreign varieties. Priced Ca¬ 
talogues gratis, if stamps s ent. 
WM. R. PRINCE & CO., Flushing, N. Y. 
Catalogue of Seeds for Eree Distribution 
in 1859 
Each person whose subscription to the American Agricul¬ 
turist is paid beyond February , 1859, will be entitled to 
select three parcels of seeds from the general list given 
m the next column. (If only flower seeds are chosen, five 
parcels may be selected by each person—or three of flowers, 
and one other kind.) 
8^ See Descriptive Notes on pages 3 and 18. 
lEF" Two or three typographical errors, by some inex¬ 
plicable blunder, crept into our list as given in December. 
They are here corrected- Thus ; No. 73 is changed to 
No. 93—No. 24 to No. 34—No. 80 to No. 81. In part of 
our last edition No. 12 was omitted, and in part No. 21. 
The list now appears correct. 
A. It is of absolute importance that the following direc¬ 
tions be strictly followed, even to the minutest particu¬ 
lars, We have 73 distinct varieties of seeds, to be dis¬ 
tributed among 50,000 or more persons scattered all over 
the country, which, at the best, will involve immense 
labor; and some mistakes must unavoidably occur, unless 
each subscriber take special pains to facilitate the work. 
B. The seeds can be called for at the office, or be sent 
by express, or in ready prepared envelopes to be fur¬ 
nished by the subscriber, as described below. 
C. Subscribers at different points can estimate whether 
they can receive their seeds cheapest by Mail to separate 
individuals, or in a package by Express. 
D. If to go by Express, no envelopes will be needed. 
In that case, simply send us a written list of the names, 
marking against each name the kinds of seed desired, 
using the numbers in the Catalogue. Keep a duplicate of 
the list sent, and give particular directions, on the list, 
how the packages are to be forwarded, and to whom 
directed. 
E. If to go by mail, the applicant will (of course) fur¬ 
nish prepaid envelopes, of ordinary size, which should be 
prepared as in the engraving here given—that is: Put the 
figures corresponding 
to the Catalogue plainly 
on the upper left hand 
of the envelope, and 
put all the postage 
stamps upon the right 
side of'the envelope— 
one above the other 
when two or more are heeded, as shown in this pat¬ 
tern. This will prevent the seeds being crushed in 
the stamping process, in the Post-Office. One ordinary 
envelope will generally hold the amount of seed-packages 
carried by two or three stamps. J6ST The amount of 
stamps can be calculated from the Catalogue. Single 1-cent 
stamps on letters are of no value, unless there be even 
threes of them, as letter postage is rated by the half ounce. 
F. Let letters referring to seeds be as brief as possible, 
and yet plain. All such communications are referred 
directly to the clerk superintending that department. It 
is especially desirable that whatever relates to seeds 
should be on a separate slip of paper. (We shajl probably 
distribute over two hundred thousand packages, and a min¬ 
ute’s time saved on each of these would amount to 333 
working days of 10 hours each—more than a whole 
year!) 
G. Canada, California and Oregon subscribers will 
need to substitute 10-cent stamps in all cases where 
3-cent stamps are nam'ed in the catalogue. When several 
send together from Canada, it will usually be cheaper 
to receive the seeds by Express. (Postage need not 
necessarily be prepaid here, on Canada letters.) 
H. Always put the stamps upon the envelopes, and 
not drop them loosely into the enclosing letter. 
I. It is always better to send envelopes of the ordinary 
size, and made after what is called the “ Government 
pattern’’—that is, those in which the back comes under 
the piece lapping over ; these seal up more firmly. This 
point is not essential, however. 
J. Usually, the lighter the envelope the better, that 
more seeds may go under the same stamps. 
K. Send only the number of stamps required for post¬ 
age on the seed. We have no seeds of any kind to sell. 
la. Those forwarding unpaid envelopes will of course 
not be disappointed if they do not return. We offer seeds 
free, but cannot, in addition, afford t-o pay postage also. 
R5. All seeds sent by mail are put up at our country 
residence, and each package is there mailed direct, to 
avoid its being overhauled at the Distributing Offices. 
N. We shall take time to mail all the seeds care¬ 
fully and regularly. This will occupy the entire months 
of January and February. Those going to subscribers on 
the Pacific Coast, and in Southern States where the sea¬ 
sons are earlier, will be mailed first, and with dispatch. 
To others they will go as fast as the putting up and mai 
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JOHN JONES. 
BARRY 
DANE CO. 
WIS. 
