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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[OCTOBKU, 
habit of ofjscrvcation and of scientific study, cultivated 
in children where a Barometer is used, is important. 
No.42—ISsiclceyc Mowingr Macliisie. 
—The gratification expressed by those who received this 
premium last year, and the rec^uest of others who wish 
to get it this year, lead us to continue it on the same 
terms. The Buckeye Mower is so widely and favorably 
known throughout the country that we need not describe 
it particularly. Any one writing to the Manufacturers, 
Messrs. Adriance, Platt & Co., 165 Greenwich-st., N. Y. 
City, will receive a circular giving full description, en¬ 
gravings, etc. The experience of last year showed that 
many a farmer can easily secure this premium by a very 
few days’, or odd hours’ and evenings’, canvassing for sub¬ 
scribers. A few can unite their efforts, each getting a 
part of the subscribers, and then own the machine in 
common, if they do not each need the entire use of a mow¬ 
er.-It would pay a man well to canvass for this pre¬ 
mium, and sell it afterward. Ten subscribers a day for 
15 days would secure the premium, which sells regularly 
for $125.—Many can, at town meetings, fairs, elections, 
and other gatherings, or during the evenings, secure this 
premium club without much, if any, loss of time. 
No* 43—CyliiidLei* l®low (Allen’s Patent). 
—We hear very good reports from those who received 
this premium last year. It is named from the peculiar 
form of the mould-board. Several improvements have 
been made upon it within a year or two past. It is 
an Ohio invention, we believe, but is manufactured 
by the well known and reliable firm, R. H. Allen & Co.. 
189 & 191 Water-st., New York City, to whom applica¬ 
tion may be made for further description, etc. There are 
several sizes and prices, with a greater or less number of 
attachments. The kind we offer for premiums is the 
“ Two-norse size, cutting a furrow 12 to 14 inches wide, 
and 5 to 8 inches deep." It is also provided with wheel, 
and with a “ skim plow," that is, a smaller plow attached 
under the beam, like the double “Michigan plow.” 
No. 44—jPage’s anti 
Sprinkler.—This apparatus combines most of the 
advantages of a Hand Watering Pot, a Green-house Syr¬ 
inge, a light Force Pump, and Garden Engine. It is very 
simple in construction, light to carry, easy to operate, 
and adapted to a great variety of uses. In every house¬ 
hold it will be found most convenient for washing win¬ 
dows, or window blinds. It throws a small stream with 
considerable force about forty feet, and will be invalua¬ 
ble in case of Are, where places otherwise inaccessible 
can be easily reached. In the stable it will be valued for 
washing carriages, horses, etc. In the garden, it gives 
the readiest means for watering plants. By a very sim¬ 
ple arrangement, the stream can be instantly changed to 
drops, spray, or mist. It is manufactured by the New 
England Portable Pump Company, 11 Hanover-st., 
Boston, Mass. ’ 
No. 4.'5—Family Scales.— These scales 
combine the advantages of counter and platform scales, 
and are peculiarly adapted to household purposes. They 
weigh from one-half ounce to tivo hundred and forty 'pounds. 
They are provided with a scoop or pan for weighing flour, 
sugar, and other house stores, and also with a platform for 
heavier articles, and are, in short, just such an apparatus 
as is needed for in-door or out-door use, occupyinp- 
less than two feet square. The advantages of -such 
an apparatus will be appreciated by every housekeeper. 
In cooking, preserving, keeping the weight of the grocer,' 
butcher, etc., up to its proper mark, and in weighing 
meats, butter, and other produce sold from the farm, they 
will save much more than the cost of obtaining them as a 
premium. These scales are manufactured at the well 
known establishment of Fairbanks & Co., whose weigh¬ 
ing apparatus has for many years been ranked as the 
standard, and to wbom were awarded the highest pre¬ 
miums, two medals, at the Paris Exposition. 
No. 4« — da-aaitlall’s Imjarov 
Building Blocks furnish a most attractive ami 
ment for children. They are very simple in construct! 
will stand years of children’s handling without breaki 
and give renewed pleasure daily. Churches, Dwellir 
Barns, Mills, Fences, Furniture, etc., in almost endl 
variety, can be built with them, and when finished 
stracture remains firm so that it can be carried ah 
without falling to pieces. For developing the ingeni 
and taste of children they arc unequaled. Havino- gi 
these blocks a practical trial in our own famihes 
are so well pleased with them that we have placed tl 
on the Premium List. The Blocks are put up in n 
boxes, each box containing 130 pieces, and a card -iv 
various designs of buildings. The sets used for 1 
Premium are plain. The same blocks may be 1 
painted red, white, and blue, by sending to us 3 more 
subscribers, at $1.50 each, or 10 more, at $1 each, than 
are required for the plain set. 
No. 47—Foclcet Famterns.—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 half 
a minute it can be folded into a parcel 3 by 4 inches long, 
and % of an 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 twelve months, car¬ 
rying it in the pocket whenever going out at night, ready 
for use at any moment. It is manufactured by the Mer- 
riam Manufacturing Company, (Julius Ives & Co., Agents, 
49 Maiden Lane, N. Y. City.) The manufacturers enable 
us to make the special offer in our Premium List, in order 
to introduce specimens of these lanterns to general use. 
A dozen pack in a box 314 hy 5*4 by 814 inches. 
No. 48—American Cyclopeclia.—A p¬ 
pleton’s New. —We can hardly commend this great 
work too highly. We wish it could be placed in every 
family in the country. Several were fortunate in secur¬ 
ing it through our premium list last year, and we hope 
many more will do so this. Scholars at our Academies 
and Seminaries, and members of Library Associations, 
can easily unite their efforts and secure this important 
work for their Libraries. Many young men ought to de¬ 
vote their evenings and spare hours to canvassing, and 
obtain this magnificent and useful work for their own 
use. 1^” The Cyclopedia is a whole Library of itself, 
consisting of sixteen very large octavo volumes, well 
bound, averaging 8 00 large two-column pages in each 
book, or in the whole, 12,804 pages ! They treat upon 
over 25,000 dift’ererit subjects. It is hardly possible to 
name any subject, any country, any person of note, in 
past or recent time, concerning which pretty full inform¬ 
ation may not be found in the Cyclopedia. It embraces 
every topic of human knowledge, alphabetically arranged 
for convenient reference.-The British Cyclopedia, 
though less comprehensive, and not coming down to 
recent dates, costs more than twice as much as our better 
American Cyclopedia. This premium is worth a year’s 
effort in raising subscribers. The lowmst price is $60. 
No. 73—Aj'claitectias’e: A New and 
Pp.actical Wokk on Ap.chitecture, containing De¬ 
signs for Street Fronts, Suburban Houses, and Cottages, 
etc., etc., giving in detail Designs and Working Drawings 
for both the exterior and interior of buildings; also a great 
variety of Details not in the Designs. It is 11 by 14 inches 
in size, and contains engravings of 382 Designs, and 
714 Dlustrations, that would separately cost Hundreda 
of Dollars. By Cummings & Miller. Sent post-paid. 
Nos.74to 85—«OOI> IAbAakIFS. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of Books for 
the Farm, Garden, and ISouseliold. The per¬ 
son entitled to any one of the premiums 74 to 85, may 
select any books desired from the list below, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the books w'ill be forward¬ 
ed, paid through to the nearest Post Oflice, or Express 
office, as we may find it most convenient to send them. 
We need not enlarge upon these premiums ; every one 
knows the value of good books. Twenty-live or Fifty 
dollars worth of books on subjects pertaining to the farm 
will give the boys new ideas, set them to thinking and 
observing, and thus enable them to malce their heads 
help their hands. Any good book will, in the end, be of 
far more value to a youth than to have an extra acre of 
land, oh coming to maturity. The thinking, reasoning, 
observing man, will certainly make more off from 49 
acres, than he would off from 50 acres without the men¬ 
tal ability which reading will give him.-Our premiums 
will enable many a family to secure a larger or smaller Li¬ 
brary. This is a good opportunity for the farmers 
of a neighborhood to unite their efforts and get up an 
Agricultural Library for general use. 
No. 80—I3oolc Fu'cmisiin,— 
Any one not desiring the specific Book premiums, 74 to 85, 
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 the amount of 80 
cents for each name sent at the (ten) club price of $ 1.20 
each: or to the amount of CO cents for each name at 
$1.50. This offe)' is only for clubs of 25 or more. The 
boolcs XL'iU be sent by iimil o)' express, prepaid by us. 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS AND OTHERS. 
No. 40—Fli.e €}s*e 4 it l>ictioiisai*y,— 
WOKCESTER’S LARGE PICTORIAL, UNABRIDGED EDITION, 
containing 1854 three-column pages, wnth a multitude 
of illustrative engravings. (The work is 12 inches long, 
10 inches wide, and nearly 4 inches thick, and weighs 
about 10 lbs.!) Many of the most thoroughly educated 
men of the country consider this as far the best Diction¬ 
ary in the English Language. It gives the spelling and 
pronunciation of every wore? in the language with fall 
explanations, and as a source of general information 
stands next to the Cyclopedia. The Dictionary can be 
called for at our Oflice,or be sent by express or otherwise, 
to any part of the country. We have given away hun¬ 
dreds of copies as premiums, many of them obtained by 
quite young boys and girls. It should be in every family. 
It is published by Brewer & Tileston, Boston. 
Nos. 5® to 6 ® — Aol^tmes ol* tlie 
American Ag-i-icnltnrlst (Unbound). — These 
amount to a large and valuable Library on all matters 
pertaining to the Farm, Garden, and Household, and con¬ 
tain more varied information on these subjects than can 
be obtained in books costing three times the money. We 
have stereotype plates from the Sixteenth to the Twenty- 
fifth Volume complete, and will have Volume 26 soon 
after Dec. 1st. From these plates we print as needed 
The^ price of the volumes is $1.50 each, at the otfice, or 
$1.75 if sent by mail, as they must be post-paid. They are 
put up in clean numbers, with the Index to each volume. 
-They are profusely Illustrated, the Engravings 
used in them having alone cost about Twenty Thousand 
Dollars 1 Those obtaining premiums for from one to ten 
volumes, can select any volumes desired, from X\H to 
XXVI, inclusive. For ordinary use, the sets of numbers 
unbound will answer quite well.-Many hundreds of 
these volumes are taken every year as premiums. 
Nos. 61 to 71—ISottmtl Volnmes of 
Agriculturist.—These are the same as Nos. 50 to CO 
above, but^ are neatly bound in uniform style, and cost 
extia for binding and postage. Sent post-paid. 
deniiig, and Bural Architecture.—This i 
most beautiful Octavo volume, in extra binding, and v 
be an ornament to the best center table in the land 
well as he practically useful. It contains 108 fine en-r 
mgs on V ood. Steel, and Stone. It will be sent post-pa 
[For sale at the office of the Agriculturist, or tliey will be 
forwarded by rats.W,post-paid, on receipt of price, All 
these are included in our Fremiums, Nos. 74 to 86 , above.} 
Allen’s (L. F.) Rural Architecture..^o 
Allen’s (R. L.) American F.arm Book. l r,o 
American Agricultural Annu.al. 1867. paper, 50c.- cloth' Tl 
Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals. ' i oo 
American Horticnltural Annual, 1867, paper, sdc.Tcloth 75 
American Bird Fancier. ... 30 
American Pomology—Apples—By Dr. John A.'Warder. S CO 
American Rose Culturist. 30 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. . 1 75 
Arcliitecture, by Cummings & Miller. . 10 00 
Barry’s Fruit Garden. 'f"f j 75 
Benieiit’s Poulterer’s Companion.. 2 00 
Bemeut’s Rabbit Fancier. '' " 30 
Bommer’s Method of Making Manure.!.’!!’!!. 25 
Boussingault’s Rural Economy. . j 00 
Breck’sNew Book of Flowers.. 175 
Buist’a Flower Garden Directory.. 1 50 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener. 100 
Cliorlton’s Grape Grower’s Guide. 73 
Cobbett’s American Gardener . 75 
Cole’s (S. W.) American Fruit Book.. 75 
Cole’s Veterinarian. 75 
Copeland's Country Life.'ss.ob’cioth,'.'. 5 CO 
Cotton Planter’s Manual, (Turner)... 1 50 
Dadd’s (Geo. 11.) Modern Horse Doctor.. 1.50 
Dadd's American Cattle Doctor. . 1 50 
Dana's Muck Manual. .' 125 
Dog and Gnu (Hooper’s).papbi-','36c.'."cl'oth!! 60 
Downing s Landscape Gardening (new Edition)... 6 50 
Draining for Profit anti Health, by G. E. Waring, Jr 1 .50 
Eastwood on Cranberry. 7.7 
Elliott’s Western Fruit (Jrower’s Guide. 150 
Flax (Culture. 50 
Field's (Thomas W.) Pear (Culture.' 1 23 
French’s Farm Drainage. 1.50 
Fuller’s Grape Culturist, (Revised Edition).!!.!!i"/’! 1 50 
Fuller’s Strawberry Culturist. 20 
Fuller’.s Small Fruit Culturist.!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 .50 
Gardening for Profit, by Peter Henderson. '!! 1 .50 
Gregory on Snuashes.paper.. 30 
Guenon on Milch Cows. 75 
Harris’ Rural Annual. Bound, 8 Nos., in 2 Vols. Each 1 .50 
Herbert’s Hints to Horsekeepers.. 1 75 
Hop Culture. 40 
Jolinston’s Agricultural Chemistry.’.! " 17,5 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry.!’ 1 50 
Leuchar’s How to Build Hot-IIouses. 1 50 
Molir on tlie Grape Vine.!! 1 00 
My Vineyard at Lakeview.!!!!!! 1 23 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture. 7 -, 
Onion Culture. jO 
30 
1 25 
Quinby’s -Mysteries of BeeKeeplng (nkw)_!!..!!!! ” 1 30 
liandail’s Slieep Husbandry. 1 50 
Randall’s Fine Woo! Sheep Husbandry.!!" 1 '00 
Rivers’Miniature Fruit Garden.. 4 (>17 
Richardson on ttie Dog, paper 30c.cTot'h'' 60 
Sauuders’ Domestic Poultry (new), paper, 40e.', bound 75 
Schenck’s Gardener’s Text Book. 77 
Skillful Housewife .’.!!'.'.’!!. 73 
Stewart’s (John) Stable Book.!.!.!!!'!!!. 1 50 
Thompson’s Food of Animals.!. j o(i 
Tobaeco Culture.!!!’!!. -V 5 
Todd’s (S. E.) Young Farmer’s Manuiii!'.’.’.!!!!!!!!” 1 50 
W'arder’s Hedges and Evergreens. 1 .‘O 
Yonatt and Spooner on tinfllorse ".. 1 50 
Y'ouatt and Dlartln on Cattle.!..’!"’ 1 60 
Youalt on the Hog. .” j qq 
Youatt ou Sheep.!!.!!!...'.!!.,! . 1 CO 
Our Farm of Four Acres (bound) 60c.paper 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 
Peat and Its Uses, by Prof. S. W. Johnson.!' ‘ 
Pedder’s Land Measurer. 
