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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[February, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
OisANGK Judd & Co., Publishers, 41 Park Row, N. Y. City. 
Annual Subscbiption Teems (always in advance): Sl.no 
each for less than four copies: Four to nine copies, $1.25 
each; Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, $1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
DO YOU WANT, 
Without Expense : 
Do You Want a fine assortment of 40 kinds of first- 
rate Garden Seeds for spring use—enough for any family ? 
Do You Want 100 papers of Flower Seeds, of choice 
kinds—just such as will beautifully adorn your homestead ? 
Do You Want a good lot of Nursery Stock, your own 
selection from the best nurseries in the country, such as 
Fruit Trees, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Plants, etc. ? 
Do You Want a dozen No. 1 Iona Grape Vines ; or 
100 No. 1 Concord Vines which arc good everywhere? 
Do You Want a dozen bulbs of the beautiful Japan 
Lillies, which you can plant for bloom next spring ? 
Do You W'ant for your wife, or a friend, a first-rate 
Sewing Machine, your choice from the seven best kinds ? 
Do You Want one of the Best Washing Machines ? 
Do You Want one of the.Best Clothes-Wringers? 
Do You Want a splendid. Silver-plated Tea-Set, of 
beautiful form—heavily plated on the best white metal ? 
Do Y'ou Want a best Silver-plated Castor and Fruit 
Basket combined, one of the most beautiful ever made ? 
Do You Want a dozen of the best Silver-plated Tea¬ 
spoons, or a dozen Tablespoons, or Dining Forks? 
Do You Want one of Steinway & Sons most excellent 
,$(125 Pianos, an instrument—commended by everybody ? 
Do You Want one of Geo. A. Prince & Co.’s first-rate 
Portable Melodcons, 4 or 5 octave, sold at $67 and $113 ? 
Do You Want a most beautiful and valuable Lady’s 
Gold Watch—one warranted by Benedict Brothers? 
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case, of excellent make, and a correct Time-keeper? 
Do You Want a really first-rate Double Barrel Gun ? 
Do You Want one of Spencer’s Breech-loading, Hunt¬ 
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Do You Want a chest of the very best Tools made ? 
Do You Want a very excellent set of Mathe¬ 
matical Instruments for drawing plans, sketches, etc. ? 
Do You Want one of Morton’s Gold Pens,the best made? 
Do You Want one of Woodruff’s Improved Barome¬ 
ters—the best weather prophet, or guide, we know of? 
Do You Want a first-rate Premium Buckeye Mower? 
Do You Want one of Allen’s excellent Cylinder Plows ? 
Do You Want an Aquarius or Water Thrower? 
Do You Want a set of 1 G great Volumes of Appleton’s 
New Cyclopedia, which is a whole library in itself? 
Do You Want one of Worcester’s Great Dictionaries ? 
Do You Want from one to ten of the past valuable Vol¬ 
umes of the American Agriculturist^ bound or unbound ? 
Do You Want from one to eight of the Volumes 
of the valuable old Genesee Farmer, neatly bound? 
Do You Want Downing’s Splendid Work on Landscape 
Gardening and Rural Architectur^a beautiful volume ? 
Do You Want from $10 to $100 worth of Good Books ? 
Do You Want, for yourself and friends, a dozen of the 
most ingenious portable Pocket Lanterns ever made? 
Well, all these good articles are offered in our Premium 
List to any and all persons who make up clubs of sub¬ 
scribers to the A^ficuliurist, according to the table in the 
next column. Thousands of persons have already re¬ 
ceived from one to half a dozen of these premiums, and 
in most cases by only a few evenings in eanvassing. 
Frequent cases are reported to us where premium can¬ 
vassers have cleared from $10 to $30 a day, by earning the 
premiums and selling them.—There are in our country 
more than five million families, and single persons, who 
ought to have the Agriculturist^ and who would be greatly 
benefited by reading it. A good many such persons live 
in your neighborhood. It only needs you or some other 
enterprising person to call upon them, show a copy 
of the paper and ask them to join a club. There is 
plenty of time to do this—five months if you desire. In 
more than two thousand places such clubs have already 
been made up, but there are more than 20,000 other 
Post-offices in the United States arrtl British America, 
where clubs can just as easily be raised, and the premiums 
secured without expense. Human nature, and the people 
are about the same everywhere; it only needs the same 
enterprising person in each town to get up the desired 
club. Who will do it in your town. Can not xjou do it ? 
Ti-y it. If yon chance to fail in getting a large club this 
year, even a few subscribers will open the way for many 
more next year, and every subscriber you get will help 
develop taste, good culture, and increased comfort and 
interest in the Household. Try it this month. 
Men and Women of various occupations, 
Farmers, Oardeners, Post-masters, Mer¬ 
chants, Mechanics, Clergymen, Teachers, 
Soldiers, Boys, Girls, etc., can engage in the 
■work of soliciting subscribers and secure good pay for it, 
in the excellent and desirable premium articles. 
Any person so disposed can make up a premium list— 
the offers are open to all. It is a pleasant work. Any 
one who persuades a dozen, or twenty, or more of his 
neighbors to read about their business, does much to im¬ 
prove and elevate the character of the people, and to bring 
increased value to his o-wn homestead, and to every other 
homestead around him. 
Our premiums are all really valuable articles, such as 
we can cheerfully recommend to our friends. By whole¬ 
sale purchases, by advertising arrangements, etc., 'we are 
able to supply them as premiums on far better terms than 
we could sell them, and we thus pay our canvassers much 
more than we could possibly do in cash. 
We invite every reader who lives where no one is al¬ 
ready actively engaged in raising a premium club, to take 
hold in these leisure winter days, and secure such a club. 
W^e often receive several different premium clubs from the 
same Post-Office_The last column in the table shows 
how many subscribers are required when they are sent 
at the lowest club price of $1 a year for 20 or more. The 
next column shows the number required at the regular 
price of $1.50 a year. (See notes following the table.) 
Our premiumsi are standard articles, and enough 
can be obtained to supply all calls for premiums for six 
montlis. Eveivy canvasser can take abundant time, but 
As fast .as subscriptions are obtained, send tliem 
along, tliat tlie 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 
xvith each list of names, the exact sxibscription money. 
Remit in Post Office money orders, drafts or checks on 
N. Y. City, if these can not be had, register money letters. 
Evefy name designed for a premium list must 
be so marked when sent in, (We can not count others.) 
Old and new subscribers count in premium lists, 
but a p.art should be new names, for 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. 
Table of Premiums and Terms, 
For Volume 26—(1867). 
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Open to all—No Competition 
No. Names of Px-emmm Articles. 
1—Garden Seeds.for a Family (40 kinds) $5^ 
‘A—Flower Seeds, for a Family (lOOWatis) $5 00 
a—Nursery Stock (.Any kinds desired) $20 00 
4:—Iona Ox'ape Vines ll'HofNo. 1)...‘.'.‘.‘.‘.$18 00 
5— Concord Grape Vines (lOO o/Ao. 1)...$12 00 
6— Japan Lilies (153 Bulbs) .’ $6 00 
7— Sewing Machine ( Wheeler A, M(«on). ..$55 00 
S—Seioing Machine (Grover & Baker) .$55 00 
O—Sewing Machine (Sixtger's Tailoring) ..$80 00 
10— Sewing Machine (.Florence) .$63 00 
11— Sewing Machine (Willcoxd: Gibbs) .$55 00 
Vi—Seroing Machine (Hoxce's) . ..$60 00 
Vi—Washing Machine (Doty's) .$14 00 
14— Clothes Wringer (Best—UniversaT) .$10 00 
15— Tea Set (Hart's best Silver Plated) .$50 00 
16— Castors and Fruit Basket (do. do.) _$30 00 
V7—Ice or Water Pitcher (d«. do.)....$18 00 
XS— One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. do.) _$7 50 
One Dozen Table Spoons (do. do.) _$15 00 
30— One Dozen Dixiing Forks (do. do.) _$15 00 
31— Piano (Best Steinway dc Son's 't-octave)ttS%5 00 
Hd—Melodeon, ?>-octave(G.A.Prince cOCo.’s)$112 00 
di—Melodeon. i-octave (do, do.) .$67 00 
34— Ladies' Gold Watch (Beautiful). .$100 00 
3.5 —Silver Watch (Valuable Time Keeper). .%Si 50 
dG—Double Barrel Gun (Verx/ good) .$30 00 
37— Spencer'sBreach-loadingRifie(IIunting)%7a 00 
38— Tool Chest (First Quality of Tools) _$44 50 
39— Case o.f Mathematical Instruments .$9 00 
30— Cfise of Mathematical Instrximents .$15 00 
31— Morton's Best No. 6 Gold Pen (Silver Case) $5 75 
'•id—Morton's Best No.5Gold Pen(Silver Case) $4 50 
‘H—Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) .$18 00 
34— Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) _$12 00 
3I>—Buckeye Mowing Machine, Ao. 2.$125 00 
3G—Allen's Patent Cylinder Plow, etc.- .$20 50 
37—The Aquarius or Water Thrower .$11 00 
35— American Cyclopedia (Appleton's) .$80 00 
39— Worcester's Great Illustrated Dicti07iarij%Vi 00 
4G—Any Back Volume Agriculturist) 
4A—Any Two Back- Volumes do. 
Vd-Axixj Three do." do. do. 
43— Any Four do. do. do. 
44 — Any Five do. do. do. 
45— Any Six do. do. do. 
4G—Any Seven do. do. do. 
47— Axiy Fight do. do. do. 
48— Any Nine do. do. do. 
4G—Vols. XVIto XXV do. , 
50— Any Back Volume Agriculturist) 
51— Amj Two Back Volumes do. 
53 —Any Three do. dol 
53—A712/ Foxir do. 
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Number 
of Sub¬ 
scribers 
required 
at 
$1.50 
13 
13 
30 
27 
19 
15 
60 
60 
86 
70 
60 
67 
21 
18 
66 
44 
27 
17 
22 
22 
520 
138 
54— Axiy Five 
55— Any Six 
56— A 712/ Seven 
57 — Any Eight 
5S—Axiy Nine 
59— Voh. XVI to XXV 
60— Gejiesee Farmer, 1858-1865,8Fo(s.,jBo7<7id: 
61 — Doio ning's Landscape Gardeni'g 
63— Cum mings dt Miller's A x'chitect. 
6.3—A $10 Library (Yow'Choice).. 
64— A $15 Library 
G5 —A $30 Library 
66— A $25 Librarxj 
67 — A $30 Library 
68 — A $35 Library 
69 — A $40 Library 
70 — A $45 Library 
71 — A $50 Library 
73— A $60 Library 
73— A $7.5 Library 
74 — A $100 Libi'ary 
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75 — A Choice of Good Books (See Terms below.)\ 
76— Sewing Mcichine (Finkle A Lyon) .$60 00 
77— One Dozen Pocket Lanterns . $9 OOi 
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 32, 
and from 40 to 7 a inchisive, will each be delivered 
FREE of all charges, by mail or express, (at 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. 
We talce so much pains to procure only good 
articles in all cases, that any one securing anything from 
our premiuxn 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. 
Specimen Numbers of tlie Agriculturist, Cards, 
and Showbills, as maybe needed, will be supplied to Can¬ 
vassers. These should be used carefully and economi¬ 
cally, as each extra copy of the paper, with postage 
(2c.) which must be prepaid, costs about 12 cents. 
For Full Bescrlption of the several premiums 
see October Agriculturist, pages 349 to 352, or apply for 
a Descriptive List, which will be furnished free and post¬ 
paid. We have room here for only the following : 
]\o. 63 to 74—Oood Ijibraries.— These 
can be selected by the recipients, from any of the book.s 
in the list in the next column. The books will bo 
delivered free of cost, by mail or express. 
No. 75—General Kook Premium.— 
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 (next page), to the amount of 10 cents 
for each subscriber sent at $1: or to the 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 each name at 
