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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Wo. 37. — SiVoaiclii <Do»5k , s> litniie. 
Fork, and Steel. — This is a long (10 in.) thin Knife, 
with Pat. Rubber Handle, made of the best steel, and for 
use rather than ornament; and it is really pleasing to see 
how easily it slips through a joint of beef. The fork and 
steel are made to match. It would save many wry faces, 
and perhaps hard words, were it in general use. Made 
by the Meriden Cutlery Co. 
Nos. 38, 30, 40. 41.—B*ociie« E£aaives. 
—Here’s for the Boys and Girls ! — These Premiums 
are among the most pleasing and useful that we have ever 
offered. Every boy, and girl too, wants a pocket knife. 
We give them an opportunity to obtain a most valuable 
one for merely a little effort. These knives are fur¬ 
nished by the Meriden Cutlery Co., 49 Cham¬ 
bers Street, New York, whose work is equal to any 
done in this country or Europe. No. 38 is a neat, sub¬ 
stantial Knife, with three blades and buck-horn handle. 
No. 39 is a still finer article, with four blades and pearl 
handle. No. 40 is an elegant Knife, with five blades 
and shell handle. No. 41 is a Lady’s Pocket Knife, 
a beautiful article, with four blades and shell handle. 
Wo. 42.—Mailtum iaa Paa-vo I’ocltet 
Knife.—Boys, Read tliis. _^ a This is a 
most attractive as well as useful Premium, from the 
Meriden Cutlery Co., 49 Chambers Street, New 
York. It comprises, in one knife-handle, a large and'a 
small b>ade, a screw-driver, a saw, a strong hook, a nut¬ 
cracker, a brad-awl, a gimlet, a corkscrew, a pointer, a 
slim punch, tweezers, and, in addition to this, it can be 
used for various other purposes which will at once sug¬ 
gest themselves to any smart boy or man. It is a pocket¬ 
ful of tools weighing but two ounces. The knives will 
be sent anywhere in our country, post-paid. 
Wo. 43.—Very ChoiceGardeii Seeds 
and Flower Bulbs. — We have taken special pains 
to have prepared by Messrs. B. K. Bliss Sc 
Sons, 34 Barclay Street, New York, (whose seed 
establishment is ■well known as one of the best in 
the country,) a list of Seeds and Bulbs of the very \ 
choicest kinds , and the most useful varieties. Though 
some are rare (and costly), all have been tested 
and found excellent. Here is an opportunity to 
obtain a valuable assortment of seeds, as this 
premium allows yon to select from the list below any 
that may be desired, to the amount of two dollars. 
If mor-e seeds are wanted, it is only needful to secure 
two or more of the premiums,and select seeds accordingly. 
All delivered free: 1 pint New Dwarf Wax Beans. 50c. ; 
1 pkt. Beet, New Egyptian Blood Turnip, 15c.; 14 ounce of 
Perpetual Spinach, 25c.; 2 oz. of Lane’s Improved Im¬ 
perial Sugar, 25c.; 1 pkt. Early Wyman Cabbage, 25c.; 
Z 2 oz. of Marblehead Mammoth, 50e.; y 2 oz. of Improv¬ 
ed American Savoy, 25c.; (4 oz. of Improved Brunswick, 
25c.; (4 oz. of Premium Flat Dutch, 20c. ; 14 oz. of 
Improved Red Dutch, for pickling, 25c.; % lb. Carrot, 
Bliss’s Improved Long Orange, 50c.; 1 pkt. Cauliflower, 
either the Early White Erfurt, or the Early Paris, 25ei; 
14 oz. Celery, Boston Market, 25c.; 1 oz. Cucumber, finest 
for pickling, 25c.; 1 pkt. New Black Pekin Egg-Plant. 25c.; 
1 pkt. Kale, New Garnishing, 25c.; 14 oz. Lettuce, Early 
Simpson, 25c.; 1 pkt. Muskmelon, either the Hackensack, 
or Sill’s Hybrid, 15c.; 1 pkt. Onion, either the New Queen, 
or New Giant Rocca, 15c.; 1 pint Peas, Laxton’s Alpha, 
25c.; 1 pint Peas, McLean’s Little Gem 30c.; 2 oz. True 
Boston Marrow Squash, 50c.: 2oz. of Turban do., 50c.; 2 
oz. of Genuine Hubbard do., 50c.; 14 oz. of Marblehead do., 
25c.; 2 oz. Tobacco, Conn. Seed Leaf, 50c.; 1 oz. Arlington 
Tomato, 50c.; 1 pkt. Grapeshot do., 15c.; 1 Lilinm aura- 
turn, or New Gold-banded Lily, from Japan, 50c.; 1 Lili- 
um lancifolium rubrum, Japan Lily, fed, 40c.; 1 Lilium 
lancifolium album. Japan Lily, white, 40c.; 1 doz. Gladi¬ 
oluses, fine mixed varieties, $1.50 ; 1 doz. Mexican Tiger 
Flowers, $1.25 ; 1 doz. Tuberoses, Double Italian, best, 
$1.50; 1 doz. Hyacinths, double and single, in three 
colors, red, blue, and white (for fall planting), $1.50; 4 
doz. Tulips, double and single, early and late (for fall 
planting),$2.00 ; 100 Crocuses, fine varieties (forfall),$1.00. 
No. 44.—Automatic Family B£nit= 
ting Machine. —Here is a Premium which many 
families will be glad to obtain. These Knitting Machines 
are very easily managed, not liable to get out of order; 
they can be attached to an ordinary table and worked by 
a child. They are adapted to the production of a great 
variety of work, both of plain homespun for wearing ap¬ 
parel and elaborate crochet stitching of the most varied 
character, limited only by the skill and taste of the opera¬ 
tor. Indeed, the ingenuity and taste of ladies may be 
constantly stimulated by inventing and successfully pro¬ 
ducing new forms and styles, making it a source of 
pleasnre»as well as of profit. The following articles may 
readily be knit on these machines, in any design, form, 
color, or stitch: Stockinets, Mittens, Leggings, 
Wristlets, Gloves, Scarfs, Sashes, Capes. Drawers. Under¬ 
shirts, Skirts, Tidies, Trimmings, Tiftings. Toilet Mats, 
etc., etc. The machine offered is the No. 1 style, price 
$35. For 62 subscribers at. $1.50 each, or 192 at. $1 each, 
we will give one of the No. 3 style, price $45. Manu¬ 
factured by the New York Knitting Maclaine 
Co., 689 Broadway, New York, who will supply de¬ 
scriptive circulars upon application to them. 
No. 45.— Sccor Sew iaa”' ^Estelifl sie.— 
“A good Sewing Machine lightens the labor and pro¬ 
motes the health and happiness of those at home.” We 
offer one of the best of the leading machines, and it is one 
which has been thoroughly tested and gives entire satis¬ 
faction. While all of the high-cost machines are valu¬ 
able, each has some excellence peculiar to itself. The 
Secor machine is claimed to be as absolutely near per¬ 
fect as human genius lias yet devised, and to comprise 
the feivest number of pieces of any lock-stitch machine. 
Its tension is very simple, and no change is required in 
! passing over seams. It will sew from tissue paper to 
| leather. The tension-plates are close to the needle, and if 
■ the thread is cut from the spool, will work until the 
thread is exhausted. The needle is self-selling, short and 
straight, and as it can only be put in one way, can not be 
set wrong. All the works being above the table, they 
are easily oiled and cleaned.—These machines have 
constantly increasing sales, showing the public esti¬ 
mate of their value. One of them will prove a great 
treasure in any household—worth more than $500. The 
$500, at 7 per cent interest, would yield (less taxes) about 
$32. Most families require at least four months of steady 
hand-sewing a year, costing, if all hired, not less than 
$24 a month, board included, or $96 a year. With a 
Sewing Machine, a woman can sew more in one month 
than in four months by hand. Here is a clear saving of 
$72. But far above this—the everlasting 11 Sti tch, stitch, 
stitch,” the bending over the work, and the loss of sleep, 
have brought tens of thousands to early graves. We say 
to every man. Get your wife a Sewing Machine, even if 
you have to sell a favorite horse or an acre or two of 
land—get the Sewing Machine any way. If you can get 
one through ourpremium-list—well; butgetthe machine. 
—No charge for boxing the machines. They go safely as 
freight. Send for circulars, giving full instructions, to 
Secor Sewing Machine Co., 900 Broadway, N. Y. 
No. 40.—SSecliwiflta. 5*oi*Ssal>le E’:i isi- 
ily Sewing Machine. —This Machine is well and 
strongly made, is simple, its use being quickly learned, 
is applicable to almost all kinds of family sewing, and 
lias already been tested so thoroughly that hundreds of 
testimonials, from all quarters, have been given by tho e 
who are delighted with its work. The new Portable Ma¬ 
chine, price $20, which we now offer, comprises all the ex¬ 
cellencies of the lower priced machine first sold by the 
Beckwith Co., with many valuable improvements. Its 
size and power are increased, and its capacity tints very 
much enlarged, without impairing its portability. There 
have been added cam and eccentric movement, a balance- 
wheel, and also an oscillating needle-clamp, by which the 
length of stitch can with the greatest ease he changed to 
tile finest shade of variation without touching the needle. 
Eaclt machine is put in a neat, compact box. with hem- 
mer and guide, oil-can. with oil, thread, different-sized 
needles, etc., with full printed directions for using. We 
will sell these machines (packed in a neat, portable case, 
with handle to carry it easily) to any one who may wish 
to buy, for $20 each, delivering to any express office in 
this city, or give them as in Premium List. 
No. 47.— S>oty’s Ijbujm-ovo*! Clothes 
Washer, with the Metropolitan Balance Weight. Over 
seventy-five thousand families in the United States are 
using the Doty Washing Machine, and we believe the 
improved machine lias no superior. The “help” use it 
and like it. Send for descriptive circulars to R. C. 
Browning, 32 Cortlandt St., New York, or to Me¬ 
tropolitan Washing Maeliine Go., Middle- 
field, Ct. It goes cheaply by freight or Express. 
No. 48.—Universal Clothes Wa-iosg- 
er. —Avery useful, time-saving, strength-saving, clothes- 
saving implement, that should lie in every family. The 
wringing of clothes by hand is hard upon the hands, 
arms, and chest, and the twisting stretches and breaks 
the fibers with lever power. With the Wringing Ma¬ 
chine, the garments are passed rapidly between elastic 
rollers, which press the water ont better titan hand wring¬ 
ing, and as fast as one can pick up the articles. 
We have given thousands of these premiums, with almost 
universal satisfaction. They are made by the Metro¬ 
politan Wasliing Machine Co., Middlefieid, Ct. 
IS. C. Browning, 32 Cortlandt St., New York. 
No. 455.— Melodeoaas. — These are ex¬ 
cellent and desirable instruments, for the Home Circle, 
for small Churches, for Sunday-schools, for Day Schools, 
Academies, etc. Instrumental and Vocal Music in a school 
has a beneficial influence upon the pupils. We have seen 
the whole tone and character of a school improved by in¬ 
troducing a Melodeon.—Set the pupils to work and they 
will raise a club of subscribers for this premium. We 
offer the Melodeons made by Messrs. Geo. A. Prince 
& Co., Buffalo, N. Y., for we know them to he good. 
-Several clergymen have obtained this premium for 
themselves, their Churches, or Sunday-school rooms. 
The clubs of subscribers were quickly raised among the 
members of their parishes.-Many others can get a 
Melodeon for their home use. Send a postage-stamp to 
the makers and get their illustrated descriptive circular. 
These Melodeons will be shipped direct from the manu¬ 
factory at Buffalo. They can go safely as freight or by 
express. If an Organ should be wanted instead of a 
Melodeon, we can supply it for an increased number of 
subscribers in proportion to the value. 
No. 30.—Steanway H B iano.— Seven Oc¬ 
tave Rosewood Case, Solid Rosewood Desk, Large 
Front, Round Corners ; Overstrung Base, Full Iron 
Frame, Patent Agraffe Treble, Carved Legs, and 
Carved Lyre. —This is one of the most elegant Pre¬ 
miums ever offered ; regular and only price $650. That 
this magnificent instrument comes from the celebrated 
establishment of Messrs. Steinway & Sons, Nos. 
109 & 111 East 14th St,, N.Y., is enough to say; but it 
is due to these enterprising manufacturers to state that 
while their pianos have repeatedly received the First 
Premiums, by the award of the most competent judges 
the world can produce, at the Universal Exposition, in 
Paris they received the First Grand Gold Medal. 
The following official certificate was signed by the Presi¬ 
dent and the five members of the International Jury: 
“Paris, July 20th, 1S67. I certify that the First Gold 
Medal for American Pianos has been unanimously award¬ 
ed to Messrs. Steinway by the Jury of the International 
Exhibition. First on the List in Class X.” The Jury on 
Musical Instruments at the World’s Fair, 1873, (where 
Steinway & Sons did not exhibit their pianos), passed the 
following unanimous resolution: “It is much to be de¬ 
plored that tlie celebrated inauguratorsof the new system 
in Piano-making, Messrs. Stein way & Sons, of New York, 
to whom the entire art of Piano-making is so greatly in¬ 
debted, have not exhibited.” The world renowned Ar¬ 
tists and Composers, Dr. Franz Liszt and Anton Rubin¬ 
stein, use the Steinway pianos exclusively, and pro¬ 
nounce them the standard pianos of the world. Many 
of tlie best judges in America say the same. We also 
speak from personal knowledge, as two of our officers 
have for years each had one at home. This splendid pre¬ 
mium maybe secured by many persons. Many Ladies 
have secured this premium, and some have obtained two 
or more, and sold the extra ones, thus securing large 
salaries. Classes of young ladies at school can unite in 
canvassing, and obtain a present for a Teacher, or a Piano 
for their school-room. We shall lie glad to give this premi¬ 
um to a large number. Send to Messrs. Steinway & 
Sons, N. Y. City, for a. free circular describing it. 
No. 51.—A CSootl Watch. —The Watches 
made by the American Watch Co., Waltham, 
Mass,, have peculiarities of excellence which place 
them above all foreign rivalry. The substitution of 
machinery for hand labor has been followed not only 
by greater simplicity, but by a precision in detail, 
and accuracy and uniformity in their time-keeping 
qualities, which by the old method of manufacture are 
unattainable. A smoothness and certainty of movement 
are secured which proceed from the perfect adaptation of 
every piece to its place The extent of the Waltham 
establishment, the combination of skilled labor with ma¬ 
chinery perfect and ample, enable them to offer watches 
at tlie lowest rates. Their annual manufacture rs said 
to he double that of all other makers in this country 
combined, and much larger than the entire manu¬ 
facture of England. The mechanical improvements 
and valuable inventions of tlie last fifteen years, 
whether home or foreign in their origin, have been 
brought to their aid, and the presence of nearly 800,000 
Waltham Watches in the pockets of the people is the 
best proof of the public approval. We offer a Silver watch, 
jeweled, with chronometer balance, warranted by this 
Company as made of the best materials in the best manner, 
and in pure coin-silver “ hunting” case; weight 3 oz. 
This watch we offer as one of our Premiums, with the full¬ 
est confidence. Upon the movement of each- of these 
watches will he engraved. “Amekican Agriculturist. 
Made by the American Watch Co., Waltham, Mass.” 
No. 53.—BBreecla=losa«i!iuag- Pocket 
Rifle.— This remarkable little fire-arm weighs only 
eleven ounces, yet shoots with great accuracy and 
power from 30 to 100 yards, or more, and can be loaded 
and fired five times a minute. It can he carried in a side 
pocket, and is accompanied by an extension breech, 
so that it may he used either as a pistol or rifle. It is 
put up in a neat mahogany case, with 250 rounds of am¬ 
munition. The manufacturers are Messrs. J. Stevens 
<fc Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass., and the rifles are 
sold at retail by Mr. Edwin S. Harris, No. 177 Broad¬ 
way. £27“ Without the mahogany case, we will give 
the weapon, all complete, with 100 cartridges, packed 
in a pasteboard box, on receipt of 18 subscribers, at 
$1.50 each. 
No. 53.—Double-Barrel Oam ; or 
Fowling Piece. —These guns are tlie genuine London 
“ Twist” barrel, Patent Breech, Bar Lock, ebony ram¬ 
rod, and in all respects desirable. Their caliber and 
length of barrel vary, and may lie ordered to suit the 
kind of shooting to be done. They are furnished for this 
Premium by Mr. Edwin S. Harris, 177 Broad- 
