AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[February, 
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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. 
GUEiT SUCCESS 
AMONG OUR 
Canvassers for Premiums. 
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■Biasas for Everybody, Isis Wife, 
64 aaad tile ISest of Mankind ” 
(yourself IiaclBided.) 
Though highly successful in past years, yet never be¬ 
fore has this Journal received such large daily accessions 
of subscribers as have poured in since last Christmas, 
For days together the mails of each 21 hours have brought 
in above 2000 subscribers, several times running up 
to over 2G00 and 2804>, and but once going so low as 
1 GOO per day. Seven days alone added 10,275 names 
to our subscription books. Our premium clerks have 
had to work long after midnight to square up their accounts 
and prepare for dispatching, the nest morning, the loads 
of Sewing Machines, Books, Back Volumes, Seeds, Cloihes- 
Wringers, Silver-ware, Melodeons, Watches, Guns, Tool- 
chests, etc., etc., including all the articles down through 
the whole table of Premiums. (See nest column). With 
a few exceptions the universal report is, that people 
were never more willing and anxious to supply them¬ 
selves with the Agriculturist, and thus the premiums 
have been secured with unusual ease by the great ma¬ 
jority of those who have begun to make up clubs. 
It may well be so, for the paper is certainly very cheap 
and very useful to every family in the land. Why, leav¬ 
ing out all the reading matter, the engravings would alone 
he worth far more than the subscription price! Every 
intelligent person will notice that these engravings are, in 
character and workmanship, superior to those published 
In any other illustrated journal in the country—superior 
even to the illustrated journals printed abroad. At least 
910,000 worth of engravings will he published in the 
Agriculturist this year alone. But these constitute only 
q small part of the value of the Agriculturist. 
Our friends everywhere may now start new pre¬ 
mium clubs, and secure valuable and very desirable articles 
in return for a few hours’ or days’ work.—In every town 
Of 500 families, at least 200 to 300 copies of this paper 
would he taken, If some persons would simply present it, 
show its advantages, and take the trouble to gather up 
and forward the subscriptions, in return for which they 
would secure valuable premiums. The exposures of 
Humbugs have saved in hundreds of towns far more 
than the cost of supplying a regular copy to every family. 
February and. March are first-rate months 
for canvassing. People are planning ahead for the work 
of the year, and they will he quite ready to secure the 
aid, the hints and suggestions afforded by the pages of 
this journal. In tens of thousands of cases, a single hint 
received from this paper has in the end proved of far 
more value than the cost of a dozen or twenty years’ sub¬ 
scription. We invite all who have obtained premiums to 
strike for another one; some have already taken tw« to 
five or more; and let those who have not tried it, make 
the experiment this winter. Our premiums are standard 
articles, and a supply can he obtained for all who will 
call for them, during two or three months to come. 
by mail or express, {at the Post- Office or express office nearest 
recipient), to any place in the United, States or Territories, 
excepting those retched 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. 
It is Easier than one 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 he 
benefited, and you will soon have names enough to secure 
the premium for your trouble.—TRY IT I.To-day. 
If from any cause one fails to get the larger pre¬ 
mium desired, the names can he used for a smaller one. 
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Table of Premiums and Terms, 
For Volume 27—(1868). 
Open to all—No Competition. 
No. Names of Premium Articles. 
1— Garden Seeds for a Family (40 kinds').% 5 00 
2— Flower Seeds for a Family (100 kinds) $5 00 
3— Nursery Stock (Any kinds desired) .$20 00 
4 — Iona Grape Vines (I ‘2 of No. I).$18 00 
5— Concord Grape Vines (100 of No. 1)...$12 00 
ft— Japan Lilies (12 Bulbs) . $0 00 
7— Serving Machine ( Grover <k Baker).. . .§55 00 
8 — Sewing Machine (ILowe Machine Co.)..$00 00 
9— Sewing Machine (Singer's Tailoring) ..$80 00 
10 —Serving Machine (Florence) .$03 00 
11— Serving Machine (Willcoxtk Gibbs) .$55 00 
l‘i—Serving Machine (Finkle & Lynn) .$60 00 
13— Serving Machine (Wheeler & TFGson)..$55 00 
14— 1 Cashing Machine (Doty's) .$14 00 
15— Clothes Wringer (Best—Universal) .$10 00 
10— Tea Set (Hart's best Silver Plated) .$50 00 
17 —Castor and Fruit Basket (do. do.) _$30 00 
18 —Ice or Water Pitcher (do. do.) _$18 00 
19 — One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. do.) _ $6 00 
20— One Dozen Table Spoons (do. do.) _$12 00 
21— One Dozen Dining Forks (do. do.) _$12 00 
22 —Tea Knives and Forks (Patterson BrosJSM 00 
23— Table Knives and Forks (do. do.) _$24 00 
Hi-Carving Knife and Fork (do. do.) _ $8 50 
25 —Musical Box (Shell Case) .$15 CO 
I ICi—Melodeon, 4-octave(G. A.Prince & Co.'s) $67 00 
27— Melodeon. o-oclave (do, do.) .$112 00 
28 —Colibri Piano (Barlow . Doehler & Co.)$450 00 
29— Piano, Splendid X-oct.( Steinway <tSons)#(i~,0 00 
30— Ladies' Gold Watch (Beautiful). .$100 00 
31— Silver Watch (Valuable Time-Keeper) ..$32 50 
32— Double Barrel Gun (Cooper & Pond). .$30 Oft 
33— (Repeating Shot Gun ((Roper Ride Co.)..$60 00 
34— Spencer's Breech-loading Rifie(Tlunting)§~i5 00 
35— Tool Chest (Patterson Bros.) .$14 50 
3 Ci—Case of Mathematical Instruments .$9 00 
37— Case of Mathematical Instruments .$15 00 
38— GoldPen, Sil. Case, E,( WarrendkSpadone ) $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 & Co.) .$10 0ft 
4 (i—Building Blocks (Crandall) . $2 00 
47 — Pocket Lanterns. One Dozen .$9 00 
48— American Cyclopedia (Appleton's) .SS0 00 
49— Worcester's Great Illustrated Dictionary#)'} 00 
50 —Any Back Volume Agriculturist' 
5t —Any 
52 —Any 
57 —Any 
58 — Any 
59 — Any 
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63—Any 
C,V—Any 
G5 —Any 
GC,—Any 
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68 —Any 
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of Sub¬ 
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required 
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$1.501 $1. 
Two Back Volumes 
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XVI to XXVI 
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Back Volume Aqriculturist\ 
Two Back Volumes 
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XVI to XXVI 
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S3) $12 50 
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72— Dow / ling’s Landscape Garden'g' 
73— Cummings & Miller's Architect. 
Library (YourChoice).. 
>15 Library 
>20 Library 
>25 Library 
>30 Library 
-A $35 Library 
-A $40 Library 
81— .4 $45 Library 
82— A $50 Library 
83— A $60 Library 
84— A $75 Library 
85— A $100 Library 
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86 —A Choice of Good Books (See Terms below.) 
37 
37 
97 
90 
65 
45 
240 
270 
320 
270 
240 
270 
240 
70 
58 
225 
140 
90 
45 
65 
65 
97 
120 
50 
75 
295 
400 
1150 
1600 
400 
158 
150 
270 
275 
190 
55 
75 
35 
42 
65 
90 
450 
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58 
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48 
325 
65 
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29 
38 
47 
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68 
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86 
92 
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36 
48 
60 
71 
82 
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102 
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106 
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144 
162 
177 
192 
207 
237 
282 
360 
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. 
No charge is made for packing or boxing any article 
in our Premium List. The forty-four Premiums, viz., 
Nos. 1, 2, 6, and from 3G to 39, and from 50 to 
86 inclusive, will each be delivered FREE of all charges, 
As fast as obtained send us the names, that each 
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 ho 
sure to mark each list “ For Premiums," if it is so de¬ 
signed, that you may he properly credited in our pre¬ 
mium record hook. 
Sundries :—Specimen numbers, Show-bills, etc., fur¬ 
nished free, on application, hut sparingly, as they are 
costly_NOW, in this winter season, is the best canvas¬ 
sing period, hut three or four months can he taken to ex¬ 
tend clubs begun now... Premium Clubs may contain 
names from different post-offices, if all are sent by one 
person... .Oldand new subscribers are counted, hut part 
should he 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 hanks, 
payable to the order of the Publishers ; or in P. O. money 
orders; or in registered letters, if money must he sent. 
Full Hescriptions of tlie Premiums were 
published in October No., and also on a separate sheet, 
which will he sent free to any one desiring it. The ar¬ 
ticles named in the table are all very valuable. We can 
only spare room here for the few notes following: 
Nos. to 60 — Volumes of ll&e 
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 
he obtained in hooks 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 he 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 above Twenty Thousand 
Dollars! Those obtaining premiums for from one to ten 
volumes, can select any volumes desired, from XVI 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. 
In Nos. 61 to 71 we offer the bound volumes also. 
Nos. 74 to 85—€100© I.IMIS ASSIES. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of Hooks for 
the Farm, Garden, and Household. The per¬ 
son entitled to any one of the premiums 74 to 85, may 
select any hooks desired from the list below, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the hooks will he forward¬ 
ed, paid through to the nearest Post-Office, 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 hooks. Twenty-five or Fifty 
dollars’ worth of books on subjects pertaining to the farm 
will give the hoys new ideas, set them to thinking and 
observing, and thus enable them to make their heads 
help their hands. Any good hook will, in the end, he of 
far more value to a youth than to have an extra acre of 
land, on coming to manhood. The thinking, reasoning, 
