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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[January, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Orange Judd & Co., Publishers, 245 Broadway, N. Y. City. 
Annual Subscription Terms (always in advance): $1.50 
each for less than four copies: Four to nine copies, $1.25 
each: Ten to nineteen copies, $1.20 each: Twenty copies 
and upwards, $1 each. Papers are addressed to each name. 
All 
READ THIS! 
We are this year going to give, for the subscription 
money asked, a wonderful amount of good, reliable infor¬ 
mation, beautiful and instructive engravings, pleasant 
and useful reading not only for the Farm and Garden, but 
for the Household—Ladies and Children—so that the 
paper will be desirable for all classes, in Cities and Vil¬ 
lages as well as in the country. (Mr. Judd has arrived 
home much improved in health and vigor, and will begin 
to aid us by next month, devoting his time and atten¬ 
tion mainly to the Agriculturist. The business de¬ 
partments are now so fully manned by others, that he 
will have far more time to devote to the reading columns 
of the paper than has been the case for some years past.) 
All the subscription money received, and considera¬ 
ble extra from advertising receipts, will be expended on 
the paper ; our readers will get back more than they pay. 
The subscription list is already so enormously large, 
and the expense of editing, engravings, type-setting, 
electrotyping, etc., is divided among so many, that we 
are able to give a great deal for the money. £59“ Every 
added subscriber merely requires printing paper, fold¬ 
ing, and mailing; so each addition benefits all others. 
The larger the list of readers the more valuable the 
advertising space (which Is kept limited to the last quarter 
of the paper). So after setting aside from the advertising 
receipts a portion towards getting up a good paper, 
another moderate portion for their own labor and profit, 
the Publishers devote the rest to paying those who use 
time and exertion in extending the subscription list, and 
this amounts to a very liberal sum... .Experience has 
proved that the best way of paying canvassers is to oiler 
premiums, open to all alike. - We select good articles, 
such as appear to be most generally wanted, and by buying 
them direct of the manufacturers, at first cost, and often 
by paying part in advertising, we are able to give much 
more liberal commissions for obtaining subscribers than 
we could give in money, while the articles furnished, all 
warranted first-rate , arc worth to the recipients the regu¬ 
lar market price, either for their own use, or for sale. 
Many thousands of persons in all parts of the 
country have obtained from our office, needed or desirable 
articles, with little or no money expense ; and many others 
have canvassed as a business, received the premiums, 
and sold them, thus realizing very handsome pay for their 
work. A good many persons have thus cleared $3 to 
$10 a day, and some have made more than $20 a day 1 
Our business books, if we had room, or were at 
liberty to publish names, would show wonderful results , 
obtained by many individuals during the past year. We 
could tell of Ladies, who have cleared over $1000 
each by the sale of premium articles secured from this 
Office; of Students, who have thus procured the 
means of educating themselves; of Teachers, who 
have doubled their salaries by a few evenings’ canvas¬ 
sing ; of Postmasters, or their clerks, who have done 
the same; of Churches and Schools supplied with 
musical instruments by the united efforts of a few of 
the members ; of Pastors, supplied with desirable ar¬ 
ticles by their own exertions, or those of their parishion¬ 
ers ; of multitudes of Families supplied, without cost, 
with Sewing Machines, Clothes Wringers, Washing Ma¬ 
chines, etc.; of many Gardens, planted with good vege¬ 
tables and beautiful flower seeds obtained from our pre¬ 
miums ; of dozens of excellent gold and silver 'Watch¬ 
es, sent out warranted ; of numerous Farm Shops, 
and young Mechanics, supplied with chests of the 
best Tools ; of very many tables adorned by our superb 
Tea Setts, Castors, etc.; of hundreds of first qual¬ 
ity Gold Pens; of Orchards, set with our Nursery 
Stock premium; of large numbers of superior Guns 
of different sorts; of Itaroisieters and Mathematical 
Instruments; of Mowing Machines, Plows , and the 
like, obtained for lists of subscribers ; of thousands of 
useful Books and Volumes, all sent free to our work¬ 
ing friends; of a great number of Boys and Girls, 
who are the happy owners of a good Dictionary , or other 
useful article, earned all by their own canvassing efforts. 
Plenty of all these good things remain 
for YOU, and all others desiring them, which the Pub¬ 
lishers will be happy to distribute to those who will simply 
take the little time and trouble required to collect lists of 
names. Look over what follows: See the list of articles; 
send for the full description, if you have it not; choose 
the articles most desired, and they can soon be obtained 
without money cost.—(See October Agriculturist for de¬ 
scription of articles, or send for a printed Premium 
List, which will be forwarded free to all applicants.) 
It is Easier than you would suppose, to 
get up a premium list! Hundreds have written thus, after 
a little experience. Take a copy of the paper, show what 
it is, how much it gives in a year for less than half a cent 
a day, or less than three cents a week, and few will fail 
to make so good an investment. They will thus be 
benefited, and you will soon have names enough to secure 
the premium for your trouble.—TRY IT!.To-day. 
If from any cause one fails to get the larger pre¬ 
mium desired, the names can be used for a smaller one. 
As fast as obtained send us the names, that oacli 
subscriber may begin to receive the paper, and when done 
canvassing, choose the premium, and it will be promptly 
furnished. Send the exact money with each list, and be 
sure to mark each list “ For Premiums ,” if it is so de¬ 
signed, that you may be properly credited in our pre¬ 
mium record book. 
NOTE THE FOLLOWING 
Sundries s—Specimen numbers, Show-bills, etc., fur¬ 
nished free, on application, but sparingly, as they are 
costly_NOW, in this winter season, is the best canvas¬ 
sing period, but three or four months can be taken to ex¬ 
tend clubs begun now... Premium Clubs may contain 
names from different post-offices, if all are sent by one 
person.... Old and new subscribers are counted, but part 
should be new subscribers... .In the Table the regular 
cash price of each article is given ; and in the next column 
the number of names required at $1.50 each ; and in the 
last column the number required at the lowest club price 
(of $1 a year, for twenty or more names.)_Any one get¬ 
ting up a club at $1 or $1.25 each, can, if preferred, add 
money enough, to bring the names into the $1.50 column. 
— Remit in drafts or checks on New-York City banks, 
payable to the order of the Publishers ; or in Post-office 
money orders ; or in registered letters, if money must be 
sent_See the Basket item about "lost letters,” etc. 
Table of Premiums and Terms, v « 
For Volume 27—(1868). °'| 
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Open to all — No Competition. £; ? 
No. Names of Premium Articles. 
1— Garden Seeds fora Family (40 hinds) $5 
ii—Flower Seeds for a Family (100 kinds). $5 
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$1.501 $1. 
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3— Nursery Stock (Any kinds desired) _ $20 00 
4 — Iona Grape Vines (12 of No. f ).$ 1 R 00 
5— Concord Grape Vines (iOO of No. I)...$12 00 
6— Japan Lilies (S3 Bulbs' .". $6 00 
7— Sewing Machine i Grover <0 Baker).. ..$55 00 
8— Seising Machine^Dowe Machine Co .)..$00 0 n ! 
9— Sewing Machine ( Singer's Tailoring) ..$80 00 
10 —Sewing Machine ( Florence) .$63 00 
11 —Sewing Machine ( Willcox <6 Gibbs) .$55 00 
12— Sewing Machine (Pinkie A Lyon) .SCO 00 
13— Sewing Machine (Wheeler A Wilson )..$55 00 
14— Washing Machine (Doty's). . $14 00 
15 —Clothes Wringer (lies/— Universal) . $10 00' 
lG—Teu Set (Dart s best Surer Plated) .$50 00 
17— Castor and Fruit Basket (do. do.) _$30 00 
18 — Ice or Water Pitcher (do. 
19 — One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. 
20— One Dozen Table Spoons (do. 
21 — One Dozen Dining Forks (do. _ 
22 —Tea Kit ires and Forks (Patterson Pros.) $20 00 
23 —Table Knives and Forks (do. do.) _$24 00 
24— Carring Knife and Fork (do. do.) _ $8 50' 
25— Musical Box'fShell Case) . $15 (0 
26— Melodeon, 4-oclave( G. A.Prince <k Co.’s). $07 00 
%7—Melnrteon. 5-octave (do. do.) .$112 00 
28 — Colibri Piano (Harlow, Doehler tk Co.)$450 00 
29— Piano, Splendid 1-oct.( Steinway dtSons) $050 00 
30— Ladies' Gold Watch (Beautiful) .$100 00] 
31— Silver Watch (Valuable Time-Keeper) ..$32 50 
32— Double Barrel Gun (Cooper it Pond)..$30 00 
33— Repeating Shot Gun (Doper Difle Co.)..$60 00 
34— Sven cer’sBreech-loading Life(Duvting )$55 00 
35— Tool Chest (Patterson Bros.) .$14 50 
36— Case of Mathematical Instruments .$9 00 
37 —Case of Mathematical Instruments .$15 00 
38—GoldPen.Sil.Case,E.(Wurren<kSpadone) $4 50 
39 —Gold Pen and Silver Case. F. (do. do.). $5 50 
40— Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) _$12 00 
41— Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial ).$18 00 
42 - Buckeye Mowing Machine. No. 2. $125 00 
43— Allen's Patent Cylinder Plow, etc .$20 50 
44— Pump and Sprinkler (Page's) . $5 00 
45— Family Scales (Fairbanks <k Co.) .$10 00 
AG—Building Blocks (Crandall) . $2 00 
47 — Pocket Lanterns , One Dozen .$9 00 
48— American Cyclopedia (Appleton's) .$80 00 
49— Worcester's Great Illustrated Dictionary$l2 00 
50— Any Back Volume Agriculturist) 
51 —Any Two Back Volumes do. 
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59 —Any 
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64 —Any 
68 —Any 
69 —Any 
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Only good articles. — We are careful not 
to place upon, our list anything for a Premium which is not 
•the best, and, in all respects , what is claimed for it. All, 
therefore, who secure premiums, may be sure, that they are 
not running the risk of getting poor or indifferent goods, 
tfsp' No charge is made for packing or boring any of the 
articles in our Premium List. The forty-four Premiums, 
Nos. 1, 2, 6, and from 36 to 39, and from 50 to 
8 6 inclusive, will each be delivered FREE of all charges, 
by mail or express, (at the Post-Office or erpi'ess office nearest 
recipient), to any place in the United States or Territories, 
excepting those reached only by the Overland Mail .— The other 
articles cost the recipient only the freight after leaving the 
manufactory of each, by any conveyance that may be specified. 
Nos. 50 to <50 — Volume* of tlie 
American Agriculturist (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 as much. We 
have stereotype plates from the Sixteenth to the Twenty- 
sixth Volume complete, from which we print numbers as 
needed. 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 put up in clean numbers, with the Index to eack 
