AMERICAN AGRlCtrLTURIST 
[Jantjary, 
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A M E II I C A N AGRICULTURIST. 
Okange Judd & Co., Publishers, 41 Park liow, N. Y. City. 
Ai^xual SiiBSCEiPTion Tbrms (always iu advance): .$1.50. 
each for less than four copies: Four to nine copies, $1.25 
eacii: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, $1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
Our Excellent Premiums. 
EXPl.ANA’X'IO]^. ■ 
In invitin”; the special attention of all to the list of 
most yaluahlc premiums, offered in the accompanying 
table, a word of explanation may he needed by the many 
thousands of new snbscribers who now see this paper 
for the first time-: We employ no agents, traveling or 
otlierwise, to attend to the collection or renewing of sub¬ 
scriptions, or the securing of new snbscribers. As a rule, 
our old subscribers renew without solicitation, and they 
generally invite some of their neighbors and friends to 
join them. In this way our circulation is continually in¬ 
creasing. Wo bespeak the continuance of this good will 
and favor, and shall spare no effort to make the coming 
numbers increasingly valuable, and worthy the jUitronage 
of every man, woman and child in the entire country. 
Still, it is usually convenient and desirable to have 
some one or more persons at every Post-Office to gather 
up and forward renewals, and solicit now subscribers, and 
to those who do this we offer a choice of good articles, of 
a value proportioned to their cost, and to the number 
of names sent in. These premium articles are a token or 
acknowledgment on our part of favors received, to those 
who act from disinterested motives—though they also 
afford good pay in most cases for time expended. Hun¬ 
dreds of persons have written us that they have, by using a 
few evening hours or stormy days, secured without expense 
just the articles desired. Frequent cases are reported 
to us where premium canvassers have cleared from $10 to 
$30 a day, by earning the premiums and selling them. 
Any person so disposed can make up a premium list— 
the offers arc 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 own 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 tliem 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. The paper is 
supplied to subscribers at cost, or even less. The im¬ 
mense circulation gives great value to our advertising 
columns, to which only reliable parties are admitted, and 
these can well afford to supply all the funds needed to pay 
our premiums, and also a satisfactory profit. 
It will be seen then, that the premiums, by aiding to in¬ 
crease the circulation, thus enlarge our advertising re¬ 
ceipts, and these, in turn, furnish not only the means of 
paying for further premiums, but also enable us to supply 
a very valuable paper at less than its real cost, and still 
receive an ample remuneration for our Work. 
Wo 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. 
Wc often receive several different premium clubs from the 
same Post-Oflice_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.) 
Men and Women of various occupations, 
Farmers, Gardeners, Fost-masters, Mer- 
cliants, Meclianics, Clergymen, Teacliers, 
Soldiers, Boys, Girls, etc., can engage in the 
work of soliciting subscribers and secure good pay for it, 
an the excellent and desirable premium articles. 
Table of Fremlums and Terms, 
For Volume 26— (1867). 
Open to all—No Competition. 
o“i 
Nuiiiber 
of Sub¬ 
scribers 
required 
For Full I>escrli>tion of the several premiums 
see October Agriculturist, pages 349 to 351, or apply for 
a Descriptive List, wliich will be furnished free and jmst- 
paid. We have room here for only the following : 
JVo. Names of Premium Articles. 
X—Garden Seeds for a Family (4rD kinds) 09; 
‘A—Flower Seeds for a Family (100 kinds). $5 00 
‘A—Nursery Stock (Any kinds desired) .$20 00, 
4k:—Iona Grape Vines (VAof No. I)..-..$18 OO; 
5— Concord Grape Vines (XOO of No.l).. .%Vi OOi 
6— Japan Lilies (1(3 Bulbsi .$6 00' 
7— Sewing Machine ( Wheeler <6 Wilson)... $55 CO' 
H—Sewing Machine (Grover Baker) .$55 O'); 
9—Seioing Machine (Singer's Tailoring) ..$80 00 
10— Sewing Machine (Florence) .$03 00 
11— Sewing Machine (Willcoxtb Gibbs) .$55 00, 
\-i—Sewing Machine (Howe's) .$60 00 
13 —Washing Afachine (Doty's) .$14 00 
Xii:—Clothes Wringer (Best—Universal) .$10 00 
Xry—Tea Set (Hart's best Silver Plated) .$50 00 
IQ —Castors and Fruit Basket (do. do.) _.$30 00 
17 —Ice or Water Pitcher (do. do.) _$18 00 
XU—One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. do .)— $7 50 
X9—One Dozen Table SiMons (do. do.) _$15 00 
(iXX—One Dozen Dining Forks (do. do.) — $15 00 
ax—Plano (Best Steinway dk Son's'J-octave)%^2o 00 
a'i—Melodeo7i (BestS-ociave) .$112 00; 
aA—Melodeon (Best i-octave) .$67 00; 
aiX—Ladies' Gold Watch (Beautiful) .$100 00; 
atk—Silver Watch ( Valuable lime Keeper).. 50! 
aWi—Double Barrel Gun (Veriigood) .$30 OOj 
a7—Spencer'sBreach-loadingRifle(HHnting)%V) 00 
a^—Tool Chest (First Quality of Tools) — $44 .501 
a9—Case of Mathematical Instruments .$9 00 
30 ■ .. 
31 
\—Case of Mathematical Instruments .$15 00; 
— Morton's Best No.GGold Pen (Silver Case)$5 75 
:ia—Morton's Best No. 5 Gold Pen(SilverCase)i(,X 50; 
AA—Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) .$18 00, 
A4t—Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) — $13 00 
35 —Buckeye Mowing Machine, No. 3..$125 00 
3(5— Allen's Patent Cylinder Plow, etc .$20 50! 
A’i—The Aquarius or Water Thrower .$11 00' 
38— American Cyclopedia (Appleto^i's) .$80 00! 
39— Worcester's Great Illustrated Dictionary 00; 
4:0—A»?/ Back Volume Agriculturist 1 » $1 75; 
4:1 —Any Two Back Volnones do. 
4:2—Aliy Three do. do. do. 
4:3—Any Four do. do. do. 
4-4 —Atiy Five do. do. do. 
4.5 —Any Six do. do. do. 
1X9—Any Seven do. do. do. 
X7—Atiy Eight do. do. do. 
XS—Any Nine do. do. do. 
49- Vols. XVI to XXV do. 
5()—-Any Back Volume Agriculturist 
5X—Any Two Back Volumes do. 
a'A-Aiiy Three do. do. 
,53 —Any Four do. do. 
54: —Any Five do. do. 
.5-5 —Any Six do. do. 
,5S—.4«V Seven do. do. 
.57 —Any Eight do. do. 
.58—A)i?/ Nine do. do. 
ri9—Vo'ls. XVI to XXV 
(MX—Genesee Farmer. 1858-1865,8Fb7,s.,i?u?«id$ 14 00 
01— DnwninrffsLnndscapeGardeni'g' 
(>•3— Cummings dk Miller's Architect. 
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66- 
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68- 
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75—A Choice of Good Books (See Terms below.), 
70— Seivinq Machine (Flnkle <6 Lyon) .$60 00 
77—One liozen Pocket Lanterns .$9 00, 
.$1.50 
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13 
30 
27 
19 
15 
60 
60 
86 
70 
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67 
21 
18 
66 
44 
27 
17 
22 
22 
520 
138 
78 
130 
48 
46 
70 
60 
18 
22 
14 
11 
27 
19 
150 
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96 
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400 
295 
400 
158 
150 
275 
190 
55 
75 
42 
35 
90 
65 
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100 
65 
325 
65 
20 
29 
38 
4'7 
54 
61 
68 
71 
80 
86 
24 
36 
48 
60 
71 
82 
92 
102 
110 
116 
70 
46 
60 
58 
85 
106 
125 
114 
162 
177 
192 
307 
237 
282 
360 
210 
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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, G, and from 29 to 32, 
and from 40 to 7o inclusive, will each be delivered 
FREE of all charges, by mail or express, to 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 talte so much pains to procure only good 
articles in all cases, that any one securing anything from 
our premium 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. 
Our premiums are standard articles, and enough 
can be obtained to supply all calls for premiums for si.x 
months. Every canvasser can take abundant time, but 
As fast as subscriptions are obtained, send liiem 
along, that the sniiscribers may begin to receive the 
paper ; and when all the names that can be obtained are 
forwarded, select the premium. an<! it will be promptly 
furnished. To save mistakes and keeping accounts, send 
tvilh each list of names, the exact subscription money 
(in Post Office money orders, or drafts or checks on N. Y. 
City, or, if these can not be had, register money letters.) 
Every name designed for a premium list must 
be so inarked wuE's sent in. ( We can not count otliers.) 
Old and new subscribers count in premium lists, 
but a jiart should be new names, for it is to obtain 
such tliat the premiums are in part offered. Papers to Pre¬ 
mium clubs need not all go to one Post Office. Of course 
the extra copy, nsnally offered to clubs of ten or twen¬ 
ty, will not be furnished w hen a premium is called for. 
Specimen Numbers of the 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. 
I¥o. 63 to 7-A—twooftl Din>i*a,i*ies.—These 
can be selected by the reciinents, fi’om any of the books 
in the list below. The books will be delivered free of 
cost, by mail or express. 
X’o. yf;— Hxiiiiix’ixl ISoolc —• 
Any one not desiring the specific Book premiums. 63 to 74, 
on sending any number of names above 25, may select 
Books from the list below^ to the amount of 10 cents 
for each subscriber sent at $1: or to tlie amount of 30 
cents for each name sent at the (ten) club price of $1.20 
eacli: or to the amount of GO cents for each name at 
$1.50. This offer is only for clubs of 25 or more. The 
books will be sent by mail or express, prepaid by us. 
i^^o. 77 (New) — l®ocIcet lAa,5a4ei'iis. — 
This new premium is a very ingenious as well as valuable 
Yankee invention. It is a complete Lantern, large enough 
to afford light for walking or other purposes, and yet in 
less than half a minute it can he folded into a parcel 3 by 
4 inches and % inch in thickness, or small enough to 
set into the vest pocket, and yet contain 3 little sperm 
candles, matches, etc. We have used one for several 
months, carrying it in the pocket whenever going out at 
night, ready for use at any moment. It is mannfiicturcd 
by the Mcrriam Manufacturing Company, (Julius Ives & 
Co., Agents, 49 Maiden Lane, N. Y. City). The few sold 
thus far have been retailed at ,$1 each (we thonght our first 
one purchased at that price a good investment;) hut iu or¬ 
der to introduce specimen samples generally, the manufac¬ 
turers enable us to make a special offer of One Dozen of 
the Lanterns, for a clnh of 12 subscribers at $1.50 each. 
For larger clubs, at the same rate, or a lantern for each 
member. A dozen pack in a box 314 by 514 by 8(4 inches, 
and ■will go anywhere cheaply hy express. It is de¬ 
scribed in our advertising columns. 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS AND OTHERS. 
[For sale at the office of the Agriculturist, or they will he 
forwarded by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. AU 
these are included in Our Premiums, Nos. 63 to 75, above. 
Allen’s (L. F.) Rural Architecture .$1 50 
Allen’s (R. L.) American Farm Book. 1 .50 
Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals. 1 09 
American Bird Fancier. 30 
American Rose Culturlst. 30 
American IVeeds and Useful Plants. 1 75 
Architecture, by Cummings & Miller. 10 00 
Barry’s Fruit Garden. 1 75 
Bement’s Poulterer’s Companion.— 2 00 
Bement’s Rabbit Fancier. 30 
Breck’s Ne^v Book of Flowers. 1 75 
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory. 1 59 
Bnist’s Faiiiily Kitcben Gardener. 1 00 
Burr’s Vegetables of America. 5 00 
Chorlton’s Grape-Grower’s Guide. 75 
Cobbett’s American Gardener. 75 
Cole’s (S. XV.) American Fruit Book. 75 
Cole’s Veterinarian. 75 
Dadd's Modern Morse Doctor. 1 50 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) American Cattle Doctor. 1 50 
Dana’s Muck Manual. 1 25 
Dog and Gun (Hooper’s).paper,30c—cloth.. 60 
Dowming’s Country Houses.. . 8 09 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening (nevv Edition). 6 50 
Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 3 00 
Downing’s Rural Essays. 5 00 
Eastwood on Cranberry. 75 
Elliott’s IVesteni Fruit Grower’s Guide. 1 50 
Flax Culture. 50 
Field’s (Tliomas W.) Pear Culture. 1 la 
Flint’s Milch Cows and Dairy Farming. 2 50 
French’s Farm Drainage. 1 50 
Fuller's Grape Cultnrist. 1 50 
Fuller’s Strawberry Culturist. 20 
Grav’s How Plants Grow. . 1 23 
Gray’s Manual of Botany and Lessons in one Vol. 4 00 
Guenon on Milch Cows. 75 
Harris’ Insects Injurious to Vegetatioiij plain4.00, col’d 5 00 
Harris’ Rural Annual. Bound, 8 Nos., m 2 Vols. Each 1 50 
Herbert’s Hints to Horsekeepers.. 1 75 
Hop Culture. 40 
Hnsmann’s Grapes and ‘VVlne. 1 59 
Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistrj'^. 1 <5 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 1 50 
Johnson’s (Prof. S. W.) Essays on Manures. 1 25 
Laiigstroth on Honey Bee. 2 00 
Leuehar’s How to Build Hot-Houses. 1 oO 
Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Doctor. 3 oO 
Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Management. ■ 
Mayhew’s Practical Bookkeeping lor Farmers.... 
Blanks for do. do. — 
Miles on the Horse’s Foot. m 
My Farm of Edgewood. 1 ‘o 
My Vineyard at Lakeview. 1 2a 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture. m 
Onion Culture. 20 
Our Farm of Four Acres (hound) GOc.paper.. du 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 
Peat and Its Uses, bv Prof. S. N. Johnson. 1 23 
Pedder’s Land Measurer. 60 
(Juiuhy’s Mysteries of Bee Keeping (xew) . . . 1 [>0 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry.■ 1 50 
Randall’s Fine fVool Sheep Hnsbandry.. 1 01) 
Rivers’ Miniature Frnit Gardou. 1 09 
Richardson on the Dog, paper 30c.cloth.. 60 
Rural Annual, bv Josenh Harris. 25 
Saunders’Domestic Ponltrv (jstrw), paper, 40c., bound i3 
Schenok’s Gardener’s Text Book. 7.5 
Scribner’s Roadv Reckoner.; . 30 
Skillful Housewife . w 
Stewart’s (John) Stable Book. 1 a() 
Thompson’s Food of Animals. . . 1 00 
Tobacco Culture. « 
Todd’s (S. E.) Young Farmer’s Jlamial. 1 50 
AVarder’s Hedges and Evergreens. 1 50 
AVatson’s American Home Garden. 2,00 
AA’'oodward’s Country Homes. 1 50 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse.. 1 50 
Youatt and Alartin on Cattle.. 1 ^ 
Youatt on the Hog. 100 
Youatt on Sheep...' • J 00 
Youmans’ Household Science. .. « 29 
,50 
90 
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