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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[October, 
wf.y, well known as one of the most reliable and best 
dealers in his line of business, and he highly recommends 
this particular gun, and guarantees it in every respect. 
It is from one of the oldest and most favorably known 
English manufacturers. The price is not put on in fancy 
carving and plating for show, but in the gun itself. This 
Premium includes the Gun, Powder-Flask, Shot-Pouch, 
and Wad-Cutter. 
No. 54.-€has. Pratt & Co's Astral 
OH supplies a great Public Want for a Safa, Reliable 
Illuminating Oil. It is manufactured by them and packed 
only in the Guarantee Patent Cans, expressly for Family 
Use. It has more body, and an equal quantity will burn 
longer and give more light than other oils. The constant 
recurrence of explosions, fires, devastation, and death 
resulting from the use of what«is called Kerosene Oil—but 
really a mixture of Benzine, Naphtha, and other highly 
inflammable substances, the use or sale of which is an in¬ 
fringement of United States Law—has induced us to place 
this article on our premium-list as a humanitarian ay well 
as a useful act. The Board of Health of the city of New 
York have examined spores of samples of Oil obtained 
from as many different dealers in this city, and nearly ail 
have been found far below the Government standard and 
entirely unfit for use. This “ Astral Oil ” is from the 
House of Chas. Pratl Sc Co., 108 Fulton St., N. Y., 
merchants of high reputation, who will keep up the 
article to its present standard. It has been tested, and 
fully indorsed by the highest scientific authorities in the 
land. The Guarantee Cans are made of tin. and sealed sc 
that none of the oil can be removed without breaking the 
seal, thus securing safety in transportation. The can is 
inclosed in a strong wooden case, and may be returned 
for refilling cheaply. For 17 subscribers at $1.50, we will 
send a case containing 12 one-gallon Guarantee Cans of 
Oil, which may be distributed among a club. 
No. 55.—Gaboon's Broadcast Seed- 
Sower. —The Hand Seed-Sower is the one offered as 
our Premium. It sows from four to eight acres per hour, 
at a common walkinsr gait, throwing wheat and rye from 
30 to 36 feet wide; barley, 30 feet; hemp, 28 feet; oats, 23 
feet; clover, Millet and Hungarian seed, 22 feet; and 
Timothy, 18 feet. Manufactured by D. H. Goodell, 
Antrim, N. II. 
No. 50.—Comstock’s Horticultural 
Implements Combined or Separate.— 1 These 
hand implements comprise, in simple combinations, 
a Wheel Seed Sower. Wheel Cultivator and Onion Weeder. 
Wheel Rake. Wheel Scuffle Hoe, Wheel Shovel Plow, Wheel 
Strawberry Runner Cutter, Wheel Mole Plow, and Wheel 
Verge or Turf Cutter— The changes for each kind of 
work can be made in a few minutes, and every imple¬ 
ment of the combined machine works as well as if made 
specially for the purpose. The same frame, wheel, and 
handies answer for all the combinations. The price of 
the Hand Cultivator and Weeder is $9.25 (see our Pre¬ 
mium in the Table); with Seed-Sower combined $15.35, 
which we will give for 23 subscribers at $1.50 or 78 at $1. 
The following are extra attachments for the Cultivator 
and Weeder, which may be secured by sending us, in ad¬ 
dition to the above, the same number of subscriptions 
required for any other Premium of same cost: Straw¬ 
berry Cutter, $3.00; pair of Half-share Teeth, $1 00; set 
of Shovel Plows, $2.00; Mole Plow, $1.00; a Verge- 
Cutter for cutting and cleaning (he turf edges of walks 
and borders, an exceedingly valuable invention. $1.50; 
Scnffle Hoe, for scraping walks and alleys, $1.50. They 
have given so much satisfaction the five years we have 
furnished them as Premiums that we continue them on 
our Premium List. Manufactured by Comstock 
Brothers, East Hartford, Ct., who furnish descriptive 
circulars to all applicants. 
No. 57.—Family Settles;.— These scales, 
combining the advantages of counter and platform scales, 
are peculiarly adapted to household purposes. They 
weigh from % ounce to 240 lbs. They have a scoop, or 
pan, for weighing flour, sugar, or other house stores, and 
a platform for heavier articles, and are just such an appa¬ 
ratus as is needed for in-door or out-door use, occupying 
less than 2 feet square. These scales are manufactured 
by the well-known Fairbanks Sc Co., No. 311 Broad¬ 
way, New York, whose weighing apparatus has long 
ranked as the standard in all parts of the country. 
Send to them for circulars, if desired. 
No. 58.—The Great Dictionary.— 
Worcester’s Large Pictorial Unabridged Edition, 
containing 1854 three-column pages, with a mul¬ 
titude of illustrative engravings. (The work is a large 
quarto volume.) Most of the thoroughly educated men 
of the country consider this as by far the best Dic¬ 
tionary in the English Language. It gives the spelling and 
pronunciation of every word in the language with full ex¬ 
planations, and as a source of general information stands 
next to a Cyclopredia. The Dictionary can be called for 
at our office, or be sent by express or otherwise to any 
part of the country. Tt should be in every family. It is 
published by Bretver A Tilcston, Boston. 
Nos. 59 to 07.—Volumes of the 
American Agriculturist (Unbound). — These 
amount to a large and valuable Library on all matters 
pertaining to the Farm, Garden, and Household, and 
contain more varied information on these subjects than 
can be obtained in books costing three times as much. 
The price of the volumes is $1.50 each, at the Office, or 
$1 .75 if sent by mail, as they must be post-paid.-They 
are profusely Illustrated, the engravings used in them 
having alone cost at least $100,000. Those obtaining 
premiums for less than eighteen volumes can select any 
volumes desired, from XVI to XXXHI inclusive. For 
ordinary use, the sets of numbers unbound will answer. 
Nos. 68 to 77.—Bound Volumes of 
the Agriculturist.— These are the same as Nos. 59 
to 67 above, but are neatly bound in uniform style, and 
cost us more for binding and postage. Sent post-paid. 
Nos. 78 to 89.—Good libraries.— 
In these premiums, we offer a choice of Books for the 
Farm, Garden, and Household. The person 
entitled to any one of the premiums 78 to 89 may select 
any books desired from the list of our books published 
monthly in the American Agriculturist, to the amount of 
the premiums, and the books will be forwarded, paid by 
Post or Express. £3P“Let the farmers of a neighborhood 
unite their efforts, and through these premiums get an 
agricultural library for general use. ZST’See Table List 
of Books in advertising columns, or send for Catalogue. 
No. 99.—General Boole Premiuin. 
—Any one sending 25 or more names, may select books 
from our list to the amount of 10 cents for each subscrib¬ 
er sent at $1; or 30 cents for each name sent, at $1.20; or 
60 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 ex¬ 
press, prepaid through, by us. See List as in No. 89. 
Now 
IS THE TIME TO MAKE AND TO 
Save Money. 
BEAD HEBE 
How To Do It. 
The Publishers of this Journal have received 
verbal and written testimonials from thou¬ 
sands of subscribers, in substance as follows: 
“ I have taken the American Agriculturist for 
many years. It has paid for itself a hundred times 
in the information it has given me.” 
“ Your paper, with its beautiful pictures and 
valuable articles, is always a welcome visitor to our 
household.” 
“ My son says that what he has learned about 
farming from the Agriculturist, will make him a 
better farmer than his father. I wish I could have 
seen it when I first began farming.” 
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without the American Agriculturist. She values 
highly the Household Department.” 
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for twelve years, and I shall never fail to have it, 
so long as lean raise $1.50 a year for such a paper.” 
“ I made more than five hundred dollars from 
practicing upon the hints in one single article in 
the American Agriculturist." 
“ How can you possibly afford so valuable a 
paper at so small a price ? ” 
Now, WHAT is the 
American 
Agriculturist? 
It is a beautifully illustrated Journal, estab¬ 
lished in 1842, for the Farm, Garden, 
and Household, including a special in¬ 
teresting and instructive Department for 
Children and Youth. 
It is a large periodical of 44 pages, well 
printed, and filled with plain, practical, reliable 
original matter, including hundreds of beautiful 
Engravings in every annual volume. 
It contains each month a Calendar of Opera¬ 
tions to be performed on the Farm, in the 
Orchard, Garden, and Dwelling, etc. 
It comprises thousands of hints and sugges¬ 
tions, in every volume, prepared by practical, 
intelligent, working men, who know what 
they write about. 
It has a Household Department, 
valuable to every Housekeeper, affording very 
many useful hints and directions calculated to 
lighten and facilitate in-door work. 
It has a Department for Children 
and Youth, prepared with special care, to 
furnish not only amusement, but also to incul¬ 
cate knowledge and sound moral principles. 
When the large expense involved in provid¬ 
ing its interesting and varied reading matter, 
and its great number of superb illustrations, is 
considered, it is the 
Cheapest Paper in the 
World. 
Its subscription price is only $1.50 a 
year ; four copies for $5; ten copies for $12; 
twenty, or more, $1 each; to which ten cents 
must be added and sent with each subscription, 
whether singly in clubs, to pre-pay postage 
for the year 1875, which must be done here, by 
the Publishers. 
BETTER YET. 
To every Subscriber for 1875, (re¬ 
ceived in October,) that is. for the whole of Vol. 
34, the Publishers will present an exquisite Chro- 
mo, as detailed below, and in addition to this, 
each subscriber, whose subscription is received 
during October, will get the remaining two 
numbers of the current year, i. e., November 
and December, without extra charge. 
As long as any of both Chromos are in stock, 
a choice will he given to new subscribers of 
either one of the two beautiful pictures 
“ Up for Repairs,” 
“ Mischief Brewing*/’ 
hut the choice must be named at the time of 
subscribing. 
The chromo selected will be delivered at 245 
Broadway//re of charge. If to go by mail, 10 
cents extra must be sent to cover cost of pack¬ 
ing and postage. For 25 cents it will 
he Mounted, Varnished, Packed, 
and sent Post-paid. 
N. B.—The Chromo will he delivered: 
At the office, Unmounted, Free. 
“ “ “ Mounted, 15 cents extra. 
Sent by Mail, Unmounted, 10 cents extra. 
“ “ “ Mounted, 25 cents extra. 
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