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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[May, 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA 
COMPANY, 
Since Ihelr organization, liave created a new era in the Tea 
Trade. They have introduced their selection of Teas and 
Coffees, and have sold them at tlie smallest profits possible. 
They warrant all the goods tliey sell to be perfectly satis¬ 
factory. If they do not prove so, the purchaser has the 
privilege of returning tliem within 80 days at the expense of 
the Company, and have the money refunded. 
The Company liave selected the following kinds from their 
stock, which they recommend, to meet the wants of Clubs. 
They are sold at Cargo Prices, the same as the Company sell 
them in New York, as the list of prices will show. 
PRICE LIST: 
YOUNG HYSON (Green), 80c., 90c., $1, $1.10, best $1.55 13 ft. 
GHEEN TEAS, 80c., 90c., $1, $1.10, best $1.25 ? ft. 
MIXED, 70c., 80c., 90c., best $1 ^ ft. 
JAPAN, $1, $1.10, best $1.25 13 ft. 
OOLONG (Black), 70c., 80c., 90c., best $1 ft. 
IMPEKIAL (Green), best $1.25 11 ft. 
ENGLISH BREAKFAST (Black), 80c., 90c., $1, $1.10, best 
$1.20 13 ft. 
GUNPOWDER (Green), $1.25, best $1.50. 
COFFEE DEPARTMENT. 
Our Coffee Department is very extensive—the largest, per¬ 
haps, in the country. We run three engines constantly, and 
sometimes four or five in roasting and grinding our Coffee. 
Our Coffee buyers are experts, who examine most of the 
Coffees imported, and select the best and finest flavors for 
our trade. We employ the most experienced and skillful 
roasters, who exercise the greatest care that it shall be cook¬ 
ed in a perfect manner. It is always fresh, ^'or our orders 
crowd our facilities to their utmost capacity. A considera¬ 
ble portion of the Coffee put upon the market of late years 
is picked while the pods are green, and subjected to artifi¬ 
cial heat to open the pods. This is not so good as that which 
ripens in the natural way upon tlie plant. Our Coffee buyer 
thoroughly understands tliis business, and can readily dis¬ 
tinguish the naturally ripened from the artificially cured; 
and he only buys the Coffee which is naturally ripened. We 
examine the cargoes as soon as they arrive, and our trade 
is so large that it requires all the finest lots. This is W'hat 
gives our Coffee a superior flavor to many others, and the 
same flavor it used to have in days long gone by. It is a com¬ 
mon saj ing that most Coffee does not taste as well as it 
foi merly did. The reason for it is, that a considerable por¬ 
tion of it is picked before it is fully ripe. We sell none but 
the fully ripe, rich flavored Coffee. 
COFFEES ROASTEDAND GROUND DAILY. 
GROUND COFFEE, 20c., 25c., 30c., 35c., best 40c. per pound. 
Hotels, Saloons, Boarding-house keepers, and Families who 
use large quantities of Coffee can economize in that article 
by using our FRENCH BREAKFAST AND DINNER COF¬ 
FEE, which we sell at the low price of 30c. per pound, and 
warrant to give perfect satisfaction. 
G-IETTIIVG}- UP CUUBS. 
Some parties inquire of us now they shall proceed to get 
up a club. The answer is simply this: Let each person 
wishing to join in a club, say how much tea or coffee he 
wants, and select the kind and price from our Price List, as 
published in the paperorln our circulars. "Write the names, 
kinds, and amounts plainly on a list, and when the club is 
complete send it to us by mail, and we will put each party’s 
goods in separate packages, and mark the name upon them, 
with the cost, so there need be no confusion in their distri¬ 
bution-each party getting exactly what he orders, and no 
more. The cost of transportation the members of the club 
can divide equitably among themselves. 
The funds to pay for tlie goods ordered can be sent by 
drafts on New York, by Post-Office money orders, or by Ex¬ 
press, as may suit the convenience of the club. Or, if the 
amount ordered exceeds thirty dollars, we will, if desired, 
send the goods by Express, to “ collect on delivery:' 
We publish some of our Club Lists to show how it is done 
and as a matter of reference. 
After the first Club we send blanks. 
Direct your orders plainly, THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA 
COMPANY", Nos. 31 and 33 "Yesey-st., Post-Office Box, 5,643— 
as some parties imitate our name as near as they dai’e do. 
Consumers can save from 50c. to $1 per pound by purchas¬ 
ing their Teas of 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY. 
Nos. 31 and 33 VESEY-ST. 
No. 640 BROADWAY, corner of Bleecker-st- 
No. 461 EIGHTH-A"VE, north corner of Thirty-fourth-st 
No. 299 SPRING-ST. 
No. 205 FGLTON ST., BROOKLYN, corner of Concord-st 
No. 133 GRAND-ST., WILLIAMSBURGH, 
COUNTRY CLUBS, Hand and Wagon Pedlers, and small 
stores (of which class we are supplying many tliousands all 
of which are doing well), can have their orders promptly 
and faithfully filled, and in case of Clubs can have each 
party’s name marked on their package and directed by send¬ 
ing tlieir orders to Nos. 31 and 33 "Yesey-st 
Our friends are getting up Clubs in most towns through- 
iTouv 1 grateful. Some 
of oui Clubs send orders weekly, and some not so often- 
while otliers keep a standing order to be supplied with a 
given quantity each week, or stated, periods. And in all 
cases (where sufficient time has elapsed) Clubs have re¬ 
peated their orders. 
Parties Clubs or other orders for less than $3D had 
better send Post-Ofhee drafts, or money with their orders 
to save the expense of collecting by express; but larger 
orders we will forward by express, to collect on delivery' 
Wo return thanks to parties wlio have taken an interest in 
getting up Clubs; and when any of them come to New Y’ork 
we shall be liappy to have them call upon us and make 
tiiemselves known. 
^ complimentary package to the 
1 . ty getting up the Club. Our profits are small, but we will 
.'I? send no complimentary 
package for Clubs of less than $30. 
^ number reside, 
hyclicbbmg together, can reduce the cost of their Teas and 
Coffees about one-third by sending directly to the 
Gf?EAT AiViERiCAl^ TEA COMPANY, 
Nos. 31 and 33 VESEY-SJT 
Post-Office Box, No. 5,643, New York City. 
lYom The Great American Tea Company's Advocate. 
A Word with Our Customers. 
We have no doubt that our customers, scattered through¬ 
out the length and breadth of the land, as they are, embrac¬ 
ing every State in the Union, except those on the Pacific 
shores, will be interested to learn how we liave succeeded in 
our great enterprise of furnishing Teas and Coffees, to all, 
at the smallest possible profits. To afford them this infor¬ 
mation we propose to give a few facts connected with our 
business. 
Y'ears ago, in tlie early stage of our enterprise, we based 
our calculations and graded our rates of profit upon the 
basis of a trade of $100,000 per week. This amount we ex¬ 
pected to reach by enterprise and fair dealing. We well 
knew that it could be accomplished only by filling every 
order promptly, and to the letter; and at uniform”prices. 
These principles we have adhered to strictly, and-have car¬ 
ried out the oxs PEICB SYSTEM in all our transactions. 
After years of anxiety and incessant toil, we are enabled 
to say, without boasting, that our standard of sales, which 
we erected years ago, has been reached. The JSfew York 
Tribune, in an editorial published in their paper several 
months ago, placed the amount of our sales at that time at 
$90,000 per week. Our business Increases regularly and con¬ 
stantly, and never faster than at the present time. We there¬ 
fore look confidently forward to a large Increase during the 
present year, oyer and above the average of $100,000 per 
week. At the present time our sales are fully equal to 2,000 
chests per week, which is equal to about one-fifth of all the 
Teas imported into this country. This we consider a great 
success for a specialty —probably the greatest ever achieved 
iu this country, in any similar mercantile enterprise. 
With our increased trade we increase our facilities, so that 
all our orders will be filled as promptly and correctly as 
heretofore, and perhaps more so, because our system be¬ 
comes more and more perfect’with time and practice. 
We employ at least two hundred persons constantly, and 
by our perfect system of division of labor into departments, 
we make a great saving of expense, of which we give con¬ 
sumers the benefit, by furnishing them with the great neces¬ 
saries of life— Teas and Coffees— at tlie unprecedented low 
flguies which we publish in our Price List in another column. 
While we feel sure that we have given, and as we shall 
continue to give, our customers the fullest and amplest 
return for tlieir money, we thank them, one and all for 
their patronage. 
harmless. We congratulate you on the general successor 
your enterprise, hoping the liltherto pleasant relations which 
have existed, may continue between yourselves and 
Y’ours respectfully, LUM & SON. 
Angola, N. Y., Feb. 16, 1866. 
The Great American Tea Company. 
Gents : Y our Box sent me by Express has been received. 
Your bill was paid on delivery. I found no mistakes, and I 
am glad to inform you tliat the Tea is giving good satisfac¬ 
tion. I had to make some effort to raise the club I sent you. 
but as the ice is broken, and nobody drowned, you may ex¬ 
pect soon to receive a much larger club order from tills place. 
Yours truly, JOHN M. SLATER. 
Stoughton, Dane Co., Wis., Feb. 25tli, 1867. 
To the Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 aud33 Vcsey-st.,N.Y'. 
Gentlemen: The Tea I ordered came to hand all right, 
and gives general satisfaction. Please accept my tlianks for 
the complimentary package. 
Some of my neighbors that appeared to be afraid of being 
humbugged when I got up the club, are now forming a club, 
and you will probably liear from them soon. The ball is 
now started in this vicinity, and will probably turn tlio Tea 
trade in a new cliannel. I expect to send anotlier club order 
before the Tea that we now have is all consumed. 
Tours truly, E. E. ROBERTS. 
Second National Bank of Detroit, 
Detroit, Feb. 2Sth, 1867. 
To the Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 and33"Yesey-st., N. Y”. 
Gentlemen: I received in good order Box of Teas and 
Coffees from your House yesterday. They are quite satis¬ 
factory to all parties. For the complimentary package of 
Tea please acceptmy thanks. I shallsendyou in future with 
all future orders, a draft on the Mercantile National Bank, 
N. Y., and thus save for myself 75 cents for return of money. 
I hope to send you another order in ten days. 
Y^ours truly, R. WATSON LEAGE. 
Office of the Northwestern Record, 
Sheboygan Falls, Wis., Feb. 28tb, 1867. 
Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 and 33 Y’esey-st., N. Y. 
Gents: The last order I sent you for Teas was on my own 
responsibilit}^, but I Incurred no risk, as it all went ofl' in a 
very short time to members of former clubs. There are 
three clubs now forming in this county. All who purchase 
once are sure to keep doing so, and the trade is increasing 
here. Another order from this place soon. 
Y^ours trul.v, S. D. LITTLEFIELD, 
Editor Record. 
Treasury Department, Tliird Auditor's Office, 
Marcli 2, 1861. 
Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 and 33 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gentlemen ; I have tlie pleasure of enclosing you our 
second order, $130.13, which is more than double the first 
one, and the next one may Increase proportionately if these 
give as much satisfaction as the first. 
Y*ou will please forward as before, by The Adams Express 
Company, C. O. D. Y'ery respectfully, 
Y’our obedient servant, 
H. C. HILL. 
CLUB ORDERS. 
Homer, Winona Co., Minn., Feb., 1867. 
To the Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 and 33 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gentlemen : Tlie Box of Tea came to hand all right, and 
has given general satisfaction as the accompanying order 
will show. I hope the next time to increase tlie list still more. 
Very respectfully, C. W. MERRITT. * 
2 fts. Best Green.E. B. Hoffm; 
2 Best Y'oung Hyson.Patrick Mav 
Complimentary Letters from Clubs. 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 12,1867. 
Great American Tea Co., 31 and 33 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gentlemen: I have received my first box of Tea, $44.25, 
and with pleasure inform you that it has given the pur¬ 
chasers a feeling of old times, as they have experienced in 
drinking Tea before the war, satisfying them the Company 
is not a “Humbug.” I send to-day my second order, $12.40. 
Please forward to me with bill tor collection. 
A. C. MESSENGER. 
Woonsocket, R. I., Feb. 4,1867. 
To the Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 and 33 Vesey-st., N Y, 
Gentlemen; I now send you my 5tli order for Teas, which 
I hope will be as good as heretofore; it is just one year since 
I sent my first order of $20, which I think was the first order 
you got from here as a club. During the year I have sent 
you upwards of $400, and I have not heard a complaint yet 
welT speaking well of yonr Teas, and are 
TeLtp T 1 T”* complimentary 
package. Inclosed yon will find $134 35 for this order. Hop¬ 
ing you will lorward as soon as possible, I remain, 
"iours respectfull.V’ JAMES WOODHOUSE. 
Direct the Teas for me, Woonsocket, R. I., by EarlExpress. 
, Geneva, N. Y'., Feb. 1867. 
Iho Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 and 33 Vesey-st., N. T. 
Gents: We have now, been receiving Tea from you about 
one year, and find, in footing up our books, we have received 
you Tea and Coffee, to the amount of $7,911.25 for this 
dTnee b confl- 
'lo-pinat-i-n and tile misrepresentations 
against j on wlncli we had to contend witli at first, are now 
Best Japan. 
Best Colons 
Best Young Hyson.S. M. Fall.... 
Best Green.Tom Gallien.., 
—.N. B. Sandford! 
Best Young Hyson.W. Harrison.. 
2 Best Imperial.S. A, Ailing... 
3 Best Japan...,. *■ 
i .S. H. Bruneli.. 
5 Best Young Hyson, “ 
? “ Hrs. Grass.. 
1 Best Oolong.Mr. Gates. 
.at 
$1.25. 
... $2.50 
1.2.5.. 
... 2.50 
1.25.. 
... 3.75 
.at 
1.25.. 
... 1.25 
.at 
1.00.. 
.. 1.00 
.at 
1.00.. 
.. 1.00 
.at 
1.25.. 
... 2.50 
.at 
1.25.. 
.. 2.50 
.at 
1.25,. 
.. 2.50 
.at 
1.2-5.. 
.. 1.25 
1.25.. 
.at 
1.25.. 
.. 2.50 
1.25.. 
.at 
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.. 6.25 
.at 
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.. 6.25 
at 
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.. 10.00 
,ut 
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.. 1.00 
$51,55 
Oxford, Chenango Co., N. Y., Feb. 21, 1867. 
To the Great American Tea Co., 31 & S3 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gents: Tlie Teas wliicli you sent me proved perfectly 
satisfactory to all concerned, please accept my thanks for the 
complimentary package. 
Yours truly, DAVY D. McGEORGE. 
1 ft. Young Hyson.M. C. Ward. 
Imperial.Jolin Lord 
French Breakfast Coffee “ 
Oolong.C. M. Hains 
Mixed. " 
Oolong.Solomon Tilorey. 
Gunpowder.John Gordon. 
Imperial. “ 
Imperial.William Doty" 
Uncolored Japan.Lewis Ketchem 
Young Hyson. “ 
Y'oung Hyson.F. T. Seelv. 
Oolong. .Samuel Kiiinew 
Green. Daniel Jacobs . 
Oolong .Chaney Hains.. 
\onng Hyson. ** 
Young Hyson .>. W. Comstock 
Imperial.Martin Bartlo... 
Oolong.McGeorge 
at $1.00. 
■at 1.25. 
.at SO. 
•at 1.00. 
at 1.00. 
i.at 1.00. 
ad l.oo. 
at 125 
.at 1.25. 
.at 1.00. 
.at 1.25. 
.at 1.25. 
• at 1,00. 
.at 1.00. 
■ at 1.00. 
.at 1,00. 
.at 1.2.5, 
.at 1.25. 
.at 1.00. 
.. $ 1.00 
.. 1.50 
.. 60 
6,00 
.. 1.00 
4.00 
.. 6.25 
!! 2.25 
.. 2.50 
.. 3.00 
.. 1.00 
4.00 
.. 2.50 
.. 2.50 
. 2.00 
$40.10 
