AMEEIGAN AGRIOTJLTURIST 
[ITovember, 
392 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
OP.4NGB JUDD & Co.. Publisliers. 245 Broadway, N. T. City. 
Annual Subscmption Tep.ms (always in advance): $1.50 
each for less than four copies: Four to nine copies, $Ua 
each- Ten to nineteen copies. $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, .$1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
A FEW WOR»S FOR 
EVERYBODY 
WHO WOULD LIKE TO OBTAIN 
Our Valuable Premiums. 
More tliaii $20,000 is expeuded every 
year by the Publishers in procuring the best, most relia¬ 
ble, and practical reading matter and beautiful and in¬ 
structive engravings for this paper. The cost of produc¬ 
ing the American Agriculturist is divided among so great 
a host of subscribers that it amounts to but a trifle to each 
above the cost of the white paper on which it is printed. 
Tens of tliousands of persons, old and 
young, in city and country, and in all the various trades 
and professions,—owners of farms and those who never 
have owned a foot of ground,—gardeners, fruit growers 
and others,—have not only subscribed for the first time, 
but continued to be subscribers for years thereafter, and 
remain so to-day. No better proof than this fact is need¬ 
ed of its great value. The circulation to actual subscribers 
is doubtless larger than that of any monthly journal in 
the world. * 
Every paper eoutains from 30 to 50 beau¬ 
tiful engravings, all of them by the best draughtsmen and 
engravers, and many of them very costly. Special atten¬ 
tion is called to the engravings in the volume for the pres¬ 
ent year. All who are at all familiar with the difliculty 
and expense attendant upon the production of such pic¬ 
tures will, we are sure, acknowledge that the subscribers 
to the Agriculturist receive much for a little. And 
while these engravings are in the highest style of the art, 
they are so varied in character as to interest every mem¬ 
ber of a family, even the youngest. 
A great amount of interesting and in— 
Now Look at our Premiums. 
DO YOU WANT 
A finely assorted lot of Garden 
Seeds, 40 kinds ; or a lot of Flower Seeds, 100 kinds, just 
such as your wife or daughter would select; or that most 
useful article. Page’s Patent Pump and Sprinkler, which 
combines most of the advantages of a Hand Watering 
Pot, a Green-house Syringe, a light Force Pump, and 
Garden Engine ? You can have either one of these three 
Premiums by sending to us 13 names with their subscrip¬ 
tions for one year, at $1.50 each. Eleven subscriptions 
at the same rates will secure for you a first-rate, B. Gold 
Pen, with silver case, from one of the best manufactories 
in the country; 14 subscriptions, at $1.60 each, give you 
the F. Gold Pen, which is larger, and by the same makers. 
The right hanfl column of the Table gives the num¬ 
ber of names required at the lowest club prices, ($1 a year), 
to get any of the Premiums referred to. 
DO YOU WANT 
A dozen best plated Tea Spoons, 
or Table Spoons, or Knives and Porks ? Do you want a 
set of Tea or Table Knives and Forks of Eodgers & Sons’ 
make, or an elegant Ice Pitcher, or Castor and Fruit 
Basket ? Look !lt the list and notice that for a compara¬ 
tively small amount of labor you can obtain any one or 
all of these. Many have received these Premiums, and 
others are working for them. A lady who has already 
secured a part of them writes us that she means to have 
the rest. We are all ready ; and for only 66 subscribers 
at $1.60 each, we will give one of those beautiful, extra- 
plated Tea Sets made by Lucius Hart & Co., and compris¬ 
ing six pieces, viz.: ColTee Pot, two Tea Pots, a Cream¬ 
er, Sugar, and Slop Bowl, of uniform pattern, new style 
and embossed figure work. 
DO YOU WANT 
Something which shall at once 
lessen the necessary labor of your family, and which will 
be a pleasant surprise at home when it reaches there ? 
Look over the list of first quality Sewing Machines which 
we offer as Premiums. Here, too, are the Washing Ma¬ 
chines, and the best Clothes Wringers. Many a husband 
and father has made glad hearts at home and brought 
rest to weary hands by a little effort in bringing the 
American Agriculturist to the notice of persons who 
only needed that little effort to induce them to subscribe 
for it. 
DO YOU WANT 
Table of Dreiniums and Terms, ,,^ 2 
For Volume 27—am). p 
Open, to all—No Competition. 
Ab. Names of Premium Articles. _1 
1 —Garden Seeds for a Family (4rO kinds) 00 
ti—Floxoer Seeds for a Family (100 kinds). $5 00 
‘.i—Nursery Stock {Any kinds desired) .$20 00 
4:—Iona Grape Vines {Hi o,t No. 1)..$18 00 
Concord Grape Vines (100 ofNo.J)...$l‘i 00 
G—Japan lilies (12 Bulbs) . .$6 00 
7 —Sewing Machine (Grover A Baker) . $55 CO^ 
S—Sewing Machine {Howe Machine Co.)..$60 00; 
Q—Sewing Machine {Singer's Tailoring) ..$80 OO' 
\G—Sewing Machine {Florence) .$63 OO! 
Sewing Machine {Willcox A Gibbs) .$."5 00; 
Xti—Seioing Machine {Finkle A Lyon) .. ..$60 00' 
IZ—Sewing Alachine {Wheeler A TPi(sow)..$55 00; 
14— Washing Machine (Doty's) .$14 00 
15— Clothes Wringer {Best—Universal) .$10 00 
1G—Tea Set {Hart's best Silver Plated) .$50 00; 
17 —Castor and Fruit Basket {do. do.) _$80 00: 
IS—Ice or Water Pitcher {do. do.) — .$18 Oo; 
1 G —One Dozen Tea Spoons {do. do.) -$6 00, 
%G—One Dozen Table Spoons {do. do.) _$12 00, 
til —One Dozen Dining Forks {do. do.) — $12 00, 
32—Tea Knives and Forks (Patterson Bros.)ii-2{) 00: 
2Z—Table Knives and Forks {do. do.) -$24 OO; 
24 —Carving Knife and Fork {do. do.) _ $8 50 
%5—Musical Box {Shell Case) .$15 CO 
%G—Melodeon, Voctave{G.A.P)'inceACots).%Vi 00 
‘Z7—Melodeon. 5-octave (do, do.) .$112 00| 
%%—Golibri Piano {Harlow, Doehler A Co.)$450 00. 
HG—Piano, Splend{dl-oct.(SteinivayASons)llQ50 00! 
30— Ladie.s' Gold Watch (Beautiful) .$100 00 
31— Silver Watch (Valuable Time-Keeper) ..$32 50 
32— Double Barrel Gun {Cooper A Pond)..tlD 00 
‘33—Repeating Shot Gun (Roper Rifle Co.)..$60 00 
3A—Spencer's Breech-loading Rifle{Hunting)%55 00 
35— Tool Chest (Patterson Bros.) .$44 50 
36— Ca-se of Mathematical Instruments .$9 00 
37— Case of Mathematical Instruments .$15 00 
3S—GoldBen,Sil.Case,E,{WarrenASpadone) $4 50 
39—Cold Pen and Silver Case, F, (do. do.). $5 .50 
AG—Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) _$12 00 
A1—Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) .$18 00 
A'Z—Buckeye Moioing Machine, No. 2 .$125 00; 
43— Allen's Patent Cylinder Plow, etc .$20 50 
AA—Pump and Sprinkler (Page's) . $5 00 
A5—Family Scales {Fairbanks A Co.) .$10 00 
AG—Building Blocks (Crandall) . $2 00 
A7—Pocket Lanterns, One Dozen .$9 00 
AS—American Cyclopedia (Appleton's) .$80 00 
49— Wor cester's Great llhistrated Dictionary%\2 OOj 
5G—Any Back Volume Agriculturist) . 
51 —Any Two Back Volumes do. I ^ 
Number 
of Sub- 
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required 
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51.501 
5 %—Any Three do. 
53—Any Four do. 
5A— Any Five do. 
55—Any Six do. 
5G—Any Seven do. 
57—Any Eight do. 
58 — Any Nine do. 
59 —Any Ten do. 
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60— This. XVLtoXXVI 
61 — Any Back Volume Agrlculti 
62 — Any Tico Back Volumes 
G3—Any Three do, do. 
64 — Any Four do. do. 
65 — Any Five do. do. 
GG—Any Six do. do. 
67 —Any Seven do. do. 
G8—Any Eight do. do. 
69— Any Nine do. do. 
7G—Any Ten do. do. 
71—Vols. XVLtoXXVL 
7%—Downing's Landscape Garden'g 
73— Cummings A Miller's Architect. 
74— -4 SIO Library {four Choice).. 
75— A S15 LAbrary do. 
76— A S20 Library do. ' 
77— A $25 Library do. 
78— A $30 Library do. 
79— A $ 3.5 Library do. 
80— A $40 Library do. 
81— A $45 Library do. 
82— A $50 Library do. 
83— A $60 Library do. 
84— A $7 5 Library do. 
85 — A $100 Library do. ..^ ., 
86 — A Choice of Good Books {See Terms bclgw.) 
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65 
45 
240 
270 
320 
270 
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240 
70 
58 
225 
140 
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1600 
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structive reading matter is provided for aii. 
Farmers And here thouisandis of hintis 
and suggestions about all kinds of farm work. 
Mechanics find much that interests them 
in the engravings and descriptions of implements and 
machinery; also in the directions for culture of their 
garden lots, if they have them. 
City Merchants find a large amount of 
valuable information for the management of their country 
places, or which at least helps to ke<^i bright in their 
minds the pleasing ideal of a beautiful place in the coun¬ 
try, to which so many are looking forward when they 
shall retire from business. 
To provide for yourself and your 
family a library of most useful Books,—the latest and 
best for the Farm, Garden, and Household;—Books which 
will do more to interest your sons and daughters in Agri¬ 
culture and Horticulture than could be done by any other 
means ? Or do you want to secure a set of the Back 
Volumes of the Agriculturist for the last eleven years, or 
any part of the set,—each volume being most valuable 
for its thousands of hints, suggestions, and items of in¬ 
formation, and for the pleasure and instruction it will 
give to your children ? Look at the 37 Premiums, No. 
50 to No. 86, and see how easily you can obtain such a 
Library. See Book List, page 421. 
DO YOU WANT 
Music in your home ? Who does 
Only good articles.—Wo are careful not 
to place upon our list anything foi' a Premium which is not 
the best, and, in all respects, what is claimed few it. All, 
therefore, ^vho secure prremiums, may he sure that they are 
not running the nsk of getting poor or indifferent goods. 
Send in the names of suhscribers as fast 
as you obtain them, not waiting to complete your list; 
and to save mistakes in accounts, send the exact subscrip¬ 
tion money with each list; and every name designed 
for a premium list, must he so marked when sent In. 
Begin Now to raise your eluhs. It is not 
necessary that all the papers of Premium Clubs should 
go to one office. Yon can get them anywhere. 
Old and New' Subscribers will be counted 
Country Merchants keep the paper in 
their stores where customers can see it, and many of them 
secure large clubs. 
Children are delighted with the sketch¬ 
es and beautiful engravings found in the Boys’ and 
Girls’ Department. 
Everybody finds something to please 
interest aiMl instruct; and by the constant and thorough 
exposure of humbugs in this paper, it is not too much to 
say that thousands of dollars have been saved to the un¬ 
wary from their being thus put upon their guard 
not? You can have it; for among our Premiums you 
will find the beautiful little Musical Boxthe Melodcon, 
for the Home Circle or for the Hall ; the Colibri Piano, 
an instrument of remarkable power and sweetness ; and 
the elegant Seven Octave, Rosewood Case, Steinway 
Piano. Which will you take ? 
DO A"OU WANT 
Any one of the Eighty-Six valu¬ 
able Premiums on our List ? Then make up your mind 
to have it. Go out among yonr friends. Sit down beside 
them and tell them what the Agricultuiist is, and show 
them a paper. We will give a specimen number to any 
one who asks for it, in order to obtain snbscrihers. 
in premium lists, but some should bo now names, as it 
is to obtain such that premiums are in part offered. The 
extra copy, usually offered to clubs of ten or twenty, will 
not be furnished when a premium is called for. 
Every Premium article is new and of the very best 
manufacture. No charge is made for packing or boxing 
any of the articles in our Premium List. The forty- 
four Premiums, Nos. 1, 2, 6, and from 36 to 39, 
and from SO to 86 inclusive, 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 Overiatid Mail.—The other articles cost the 
recipient only the freight after leaving the manufactory 
of each, by any conveyance that may be specified. 
