April, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[1873. 
To Investors. 
To those who wish to REINVEST 
COUPONS OR DIVIDENDS, and 
those who wish to INCIEEASE i'HEBK 
INCOME fi •om means already invested in 
other less profitable securities, we recommend the 
Seven-Thirty Gold Bonds of the Northern Pacific 
Kailroad Company as well secured and unusually 
productive. 
The Bonds are always convertible at Ten per 
cent premium (1.10) into the Company’s Lands 
at Market Prices. The rate of interest (seven and 
three-tenths per cent gold) is equal now to about 
8 1-4 currency—yielding an income more than one 
third greater than IJ. 8. 5-30*. Gold Checks 
for the semi-annual interest on the Registered 
Bonds are mailed to the Post-Office address of the 
owner. All marketable stocks and bonds are re¬ 
ceived in exchange for Northern Pacifies Oil 
MOST EAVOKAMEE TERMS. 
JAY COOKE & CO., 
New York, Philadelphia, & Washington, 
Financial Agents Northern Pacific R.R. Co. 
** Absolutely the best protection against fire ” Send for 
" Its Record." 
F. W. FARWELL, Secretary, 
407 Broadway, New York. 
Orient Safety Lamps, 
Entirely of mctnl, are the only 
lamps in use which can neither 
break, leak, nor explode. Are or¬ 
namental and cheap. Adapted to 
all household uses; also to stores, 
factories, churches, etc. 
Apnts Male $10 a Day 
Selling these Lamps. 
For an agency address 
WALLACE & SOWS, 
89 Chambers St., New York. 
For E. M. BOYNTON’S PAT. LIGHT¬ 
NING SAWS, address 80 Beekman Street, N.Y» 
Beware of infringements. Genuino will cut three times 
as fast os an axe. A 6-ft. cross cut, $6. bend for aa 
Illustrated Catalogue, mailed free. 
See advt. •• DOUBLE TUBEROSE," $1 per d oz., inside. 
Gardening for Profit. 
A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of 
the Market and Family Garden. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 
Finely Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, SI.50. 
The success of this hook has probably not been equaled 
by that of any horticultural work of the present, day. Its 
popularity is due to the fact that It tells just what people 
wish to know—the way in which the author made money by 
gardening—and puts in a plain, striking light all the requi¬ 
sites to success. The writer was not afraid to have people 
know that he cultivated his land for profit, and. more than 
that, he was quite willing that all should know and practice, 
tl ihey chose, the very processes which lie had found most 
conducive to the desired end. The late Horace Greeley said 
of this book: “There are marvels of transformation and 
rapid reproduction recorded therein which might well 
shame the dnll fancy of the author of Aladdin or of Ivaloolah. 
There Is no theory about it; a man who has made himself 
rich liy market-gardening plainly tells our young men how 
they can get rich as easily as lie did, and without wandering 
to California or Montana for it either." And tens of thou- 
sands who have read and profited by the work could give 
similar testimony. It is unquestionably the most thorough 
and the best book of its kind that lias yet come from the 
hand of an American author. 
ORANGE JUDD & GO., 345 Broadway, New York. 
THE 
Wheat Field of America, 
Healthful Climate, Free Homes, Good Markets. 
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC 
RAILROAD offers for sale its Lands in Cen¬ 
tral and Western Minnesota, embracing: 
1. The best of Wheat. Land ; 2. Excellent Timber for the 
Mill, the Farm, and the Fire ; 3. Rich Prairie Pasturage 
and Natural Meadow, watered by clear lakes and running 
streams—in a Healthful Climate, where Fever and Ague 
is unknown. 
Grain can be shipped hence by lake to market as 
cheaply as from Eastern Iowa or Central Illinois. Cars 
now run through these Lauds from Lake Superior to 
Dakota. Price of land close to track $4.00 to $8.00 per 
acre : further away, $2.50 to $4.00. Seven Years’ 
Credit; Warrantee Deeds; Northern Pacific 7-30 
Bonds, now selling at par, received for land at $1.10. 
No other unoccupied Lands present such advantages to 
settlers. 
SOLDIERS under the New Law (March, 1872) get 
lfiO acres FREE, near the railroad, hy one and two 
years’ residence. 
TRANSPORTATION AT RE¬ 
DUCED BATES furnished from all principal points 
East to purchasers of Railroad Lands, and to Settlers on 
Government Homesteads. Purchasers, theii-wives and 
children carried free over the Northern Pacific Road. 
Now is the time for Settlers and Colonies to get Railroad 
Lands and Government Homesteads close to the track. 
Send for Pamphlet containing full information, 
map, and copy of New Homestead Law. Address 
Land Department Northern Pacific P.R., 
ST. PAUL, MINN., 
Or. 23 Fifth Ave., Cor. Ninth St., New York. 
THE BECKWITH 
SEWING-MACHINE IMPROVED. 
PRICE, SI2. 
With New Braiding-Foot and other 
Valuable Improvements. 
the 
Beckwith Sewingr-Machine, 
which was fully described in the American Agriculturist 
for March and April, 1872. We have already given and 
sold more than one thousand of these machines, and tes¬ 
timonials of satisfaction have come from every quarter. 
We now offer the Beckwith Sewing-Ma¬ 
chine, Improved, price $12. A new and very 
simple braiding-foot has been made, by which a child can 
sew on braid without the least trouble, following any de¬ 
sired pattern with,ease ; also a new arm, spiral spring 
and lever for raising the presser-foot, all of which are 
now set. in a position that, leaves the needle free to he 
threaded. The joint Is much enlarged, and the machine 
is otherwise greatly strengthened and improved. The 
use of the braider-foot alone will be valued more than 
the cost of the machine. This, with the other improve¬ 
ments, is considered so important, that the Beckwith 
Sewing-Machine Company will make no more of the $10 
style. The.improved machine is japanned and tastefully 
ornamented with gold; cloth-plate and trimmings are 
plated. - - 
Bead what the People Say. 
Hundreds of letters have been received hy us and by the 
Beckwith Sewing Machine Co., extracts from a few of which 
are given below. Some of them were written with 
reference to the $10 Machine, but are appropriate .to the 
Improved Machine, as that comprises all the excellencies 
oi the former, with the additions already noted. 
Plymouth, Wrs., Jan. 29tli, 1873. 
Dear Sir: I have had the Machine nearly a year, I think, 
and this is the only accident (breaking one needle) that, has 
occurred to it. I have used it a great deal, and like it very 
much. Yours respectfully, 
Mrs S, C. WILLEY. 
Laclede, Mo., Jan., 1873. 
Dear Sirs: Please send amount, inclosed in No. 1 and 2 
needles for Beckwith $10 Sewing-Machine. The little thing 
works like a charm. Truly yours. 
S. A. HENLEY. 
Churchvillk, Va., Feh. 22d, 1873. 
Gentlemen : The three Machines came safely to hand, ] 
and I have sold two of them to my nearest neighbors, who ] 
are much pleased with them. 
Yours, etc., J. H. HEIZER. 
Kylekstown, Pa., Eeb. 13th, 1873. 
Gentlemen : The Machine works with perfect satisfaction 1 
to all. I am young, and never sewed on a machine until I i 
got the Beckwith, but by closely following directions on '-i 
the lid of the box, I got along without any trouble. 
A. F. HOOVER. 
Clinton Hollow, N. Y., Feb. 9tli, 18.73. . 
Gentlemen: I received the Improved Beekwitii Sewing- 3 
Machine yesterday. Words, will.fail to express my admira¬ 
tion of it. I had never seen one—never used any machine I 
much—and had not the.slightest' trouble in immediately I 
sewing with yours. Truly yours, 
A. F. OOOKTNHAM. 
' ! 
Blue Springs, Ga., Oct. fith, 187'. 
Dear Sirs: As this Machine that I ordered from you lias | 
proved such a wonder to the people to see it work and 
trouble me so little to start it, they all seem to want it, and ! 
want me to take the agency and send for inabilities. Please 
let me know all particulars. 
Respectfully, A. G. HOLCOMB. 
Newport, October 10th, 1872. 
Grnti.kmen: The Machine 1 bought of you September ' 
21st gives great satisfaction. Wife says she would not, give ‘ 
it for a $100 machine, it is so nice and handy. 
Respectfully, CHARLES ALMY. 
We have contracted with the Beck with Sewing Machine j 
Company for a large number of them to supply our own ! 
friends, and as Premiums. Each machine is pul i 
in a neat, compact box, with hemmer and guide, oil-can 
with oil, thread, different-sized needles, etc., with full 
Printed Directions for using, and delivered to any express ’ 
office in this city, without extra charge above the $12. 1 
A6 we buy the machines at wholesale price, we have de¬ 
cided to give our readers some advantage of this, and we 
therefore propose to make a present for himself or 
herself, of for any friend, of one copy of Hearth and 
Home for six months, or one copy of the American 
Agriculturist for one year, to those persons who 
send us $12 for one of the machines while this offer 
is continued. 
Tlie New Sewing Machine as a 
PREMIUM without Money. 
To enable those to get this machine who can not, raise 
even the $12 to buy at, we make the following offer : 
We will send the Machine free to any¬ 
one who will collect and forward EIGHT 
subscribers fdr HEARTH AND HOME 
one year at $3 each ; or SIXTEEN sub¬ 
scribers to AMERICAN AGRICULTUR¬ 
IST for one year, at $1.50 each. 
Almost any lady can readily secure this small 
number of subscribers and get a machine free ; or 
some friend can thus obtain it for iter, us a present. 
Address 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 245 Broadway, N. Y. 
