1868. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
169 
MAY. 
, MAY. 
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MAY. 
We may say there are many good things some persons 
may do in this month of MAY, but there is one thing that 
a great many persons may do and can do—and easily do 
it, too. There are over 30,000 Post-Offices in the United 
States and the Dominion. We have subscribers at most 
of these offices, but we have sent premiums to only about 
£000 of them as yet, though there is hardly a Post-office 
where there are not persons enough to make up a premium 
club, and persons, too, who would gladly take the Agricul¬ 
turist', if they only knewits value and cheapness. (The first 
four numbers of this year, for example, contain 104 large 
pages, over 140 engravings, and a very large amount of 
•useful, practical reading matter for the Household, the 
Garden, and the Farm. The next eight numbers will be 
equally valuable or better, and yet the Agriculturist for 
the whole year is furnished for only $1.50, or about the 
cost of the white paper it is printed on). The fact that 
■so large a number of persons have obtained premiums, 
is one proof that others can do the same thing at other 
Post-Offices. Indeed, at some larger offices men and 
women have obtained subscribers enough to get several 
premiums. Single individuals have this year received 
from $500 to $1500 worth of premiums each. One lady 
alone has obtained two $650 Pianos and sold them, besides 
getting a Jot of other premiums. Now there are over 
25,000 Post-Offices 
Etill left, at most of which any enterprising person may 
get one or more valuable premium articles, (see list of 
them in the next column,) and do it during this month of 
May. It will be seen by the table, that only 11 or 13 sub¬ 
scribers are required for several of the good articles 
offered. More than this number have been obtained at 
a multitude of the smallest post-offices in the sparsely 
settled regions of the Far West, and in the northern 
regions of New England, New York, and almost all over 
British America. Single post-offices in Nova Scotia take 
from 100 to 200 copies each. Our “Explanation” last 
month showed how and why we can give these large pre- 
miums, and we now renew the invitation to all 
our readers, to make the effort this month to 
8^- secure a premium article. Every copy of the 
paper introduced into a neighborhood will awaken 
thought and stimulate improvement, guard the people 
against humbugs, and be useful in many ways. Persons 
have told us that improvements, set a going by this 
journal, have resulted in almost doubling the value 
of real estate—thus adding scores of thousands of 
dollars to the real wealth of a single locality. It is 
indeed very natural that this should be the case. 
{gsF* ESut aside from the good done to others _|gjj 
by introducing a journal of this character, the 
premiums appeal to one'sown direct , immediate, 
personal interest. The premium articles arc all _j^ j> 
£3?” very good and valuable, and a few hours of _jSc !k 
jpg°* canvassing will secure one of them without 
jjSp" cost. Try it with a will and determination 
{g* to succeed, and in nine cases out of ten you 
will be successful. Take a copy of the paper, 
{g* exhibit it among neighbors and friends, in 
your own neighborhood and elsewhere (for 
p&7“ premium clubs need not be all at one post- 
jpg" office), show what the paper is, what it is 
|worth, how cheap it is, and in a brief time the 
puff desired number of subscribers can be gathered, 
JST” and the premium secured. A full description 
of the premiums on a separate sheet will be sent free to 
any one desiring it. Any Specimen numbers, cards and 
show bills needed, will be supplied free. A multitude of 
persons have during April completed lists already begun, 
and have begun and made up new lists. Mat is just as 
favorable a season for thousands of others to do the 
same. TRY IT. 
jjw* YVe take so much pains to procure only good 
articles in all cases, that any one securing anything from 
our premium list, saves the risk usually run of getting 
poot' or indifferent goods, when buying of unknown or 
irresponsible parties. Everything we send out as a 
premium is guaranteed to be the best of its kind and price. 
Old and new subscribers count in premium lists. 
As fast as subscriptions are obtained, send them 
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paper; and when all the names that can be obtained are 
forwarded, select the preminm, and it will be promptly 
furnished. To save mistakes and keeping accounts, send 
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Remit in Post-Office money orders, drafts or checks on 
N. Y. City; if these cannot be had, register money letters. 
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Table of Premiums and Terms, 
For Volume 27—(1868). 
Open to all—No Competition. 
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1 —Garden Seeds fora Family (40 kinds) $5 00 
ii—Flower Seeds for a Family (100 kinds). $5 00 
3— Nursery Stock (Any kinds desired) .$20 00 
4— Iona Grape Vines (13 of No. 1).$18 00 
H—Concord Grape Vines (100 of No. 1).. .$12 00 
O —Japan Lilies (13 Bulbs) .. $6 00 
7— Sewing Machine (Grover it Baker) -$55 00 
8— Sewing Machine (Howe Machine Co.)..$00 00 
9— Sewing Machine (Singer's Tailoring). .$60 00 
10— Seising Machine (Florence) .$63 00 
11— Sewing Machine ( Willeox <(■ Gibbs) .$55 00 
Id—Sewing Machine (Finkle <k Lyon) .$60 00 | 
13 — Sewing Machine ( Wheeler A Wilson).. $55 00 
14— Washing Machine (Doty's) .$14 00 
, 5 — Clothes Wringer (Best— Universal) .$10 00 
16— Tea Set (Hart's best Silver Plated) .$50 00 
17 — Castor and Fruit Basket (do. do.) — $30 00 
18 — Zee or Water Pitcher (do. do.) — $18 00 
19 —Cue Dozen TeaSpoons (do. do .)— $6 00 
30— One Dozen Table Spoons (do. do.) _$12 00 
31 — One Dozen Dining Forks (do. do.) — $12 00 
33 —Tea Knives and Forks (Patterson Bros.) $20 00 
33— Table Knives and Forks (do. do.)....$24 00 
34— Car ring Knife and Fork (do. do .)— $8 50 
35— Musical Box)Shell Case) .$15 (0 
36— Melodeon, i-octave(G.A.Prince ikCo.'s) $67 00 
37— Melode.on. 5 -octave (do. do.) .$112 00 : 
38 — Colibri Ida no (tlarlow, Doehler ck Co .)$450 00 
39 — Piano. Splendid 1-oct.(SleimoayitSon8)WX) 00, 
30— ladies' Gobi Watch (Beautiful) .$100 00 
31 —Silver Watch (Valuable Time-Keeper) ..$32 50 
3 d—Double Barrel Gun (Cooper dk Pond)..$30 00 
33— Repealing Shot Gun (Roper Rife Co .)..$60 00, 
34— Spencer's Breech-loading Rifle (H un tin g)$3b 00 
3 ~j—Tnol Chest (Patterson Bros.) .$44 50 
36 —Case of Mathematical Instruments .$0 00 
37 —Case of Mathematical Instruments _$15 00 
38 —GoMPen,S’l.Case,E.( WarrendkSpadone) $4 50, 
'•>9— Gold Pen and Silver Case. F. (do. do.). $5 50 
—Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) — 312 00 
Tl —Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) .$18 00 
4.3 —Buckeye Mowing Machine, No. 2. $125 00 
— Allen's Patent Cylinder Plots, etc .$20 50 
4 . 4 —Pump and Sprinkler (Page's) . $5 0(1 
4 . 0 —Family Scales (Fairbanks' dc Co.) .$10 00 
46 —Building Blocks (Crandall) . $2 00, 
4 ? — Pocket Lanterns, One Dozen .$9 00 
/iff—American Cyclopedia ( Appleton’s) .$80 00 
. ti —nvii- ceoia,.',. Great Illustrated. Dictionary^ 12 00 
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86 —A Choice of Good Books (See next page.) 
Every article on our list Is tl«e best 
of its kind, and, in all respects, what is claimed for it. 
(ESP" 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 36 to 39, and from 50 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 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. 1*0 to <>() — Volumes 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 Jiooks 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 each 
volume.-They are profusely Illustrated, the Engravings 
used in them having alone cost above Twenty Thousand 
Dollars! Those obtaining premiums for less than eleven 
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-GOOi> ILIISIftARIES. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of Books for 
the Farm, Garden, and Household. The per¬ 
son entitled to any 011 c of the premiums 74 to 85, may 
select any books desired from the list below, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the Jjooks will be forward¬ 
ed, paid through to the nearest Post-Office, or Express 
office, as we may find it most convenient to send them. 
No. 86-Gcmcral Hook Premium.— 
Any one not desiring the specific Book premiums, 74 to 85, 
on sending any number of names above 25, may select 
Books from the list below, to the amount of 10 cents 
for each subscriber sent at $1: or to the amount of 30 
cents for each name sent at the (ten) club price of $1.20 
each: or to the amount of 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 express , prepaid through by us. 
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BOOKS FOR FARMERS AND OTHERS. 
[For sale at the office of the Agricultiy'ist , or they will be 
forwarded by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. 32^“ All 
these a?'e included in our Premiums , Nos. 74 to 86, above .] 
Allen’s (L. F.) Rural Architecture.$1 £2 
Allen’s (R. L.) American Farm Book. 1 50 
Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals. 1 00 
Am. Agricultural Annual, 1867& '868, each, pa.,50c.; clo. 
Am. Horticultural Annual, 1867 & 1868,each,pa.,50c.; clo. <5 
American Bird Fancier. ... ............. 30 
American Pomology—Apples—By Dr. John A. Warder. 3 00 
American Rose Culturist. . 30 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. J 
Architecture, by Cummings & Miller...JJ2 
Architecture, Modern Am., by Cummings & Miller.... 10 00 
Barry’s Fruit Garden. 1 7o 
Bement’s Rabbit Fancier.. 3U 
Bommer’s Method of Making Manure. *5 
Boole of Evergreens CJ. Hoopes). 3 00 
Boussingault’s Rural Economy. } yO 
Breck’sN’ew Book of Flowers. J 
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory. } 50 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener. 1 oo 
Chorlton’s Grape Grower’s Guide. <5 
Cobbett’s American Gardener . 
Cole’s (S. W.) American Fruit Book. 
Cole’s Veterinarian...... 
Copeland’s Country Life. .Svo., cloth,.. 
Cotton Culture, (Lyman). 
Dadd’s (Geo. II.) Modern Morse Doctor. 
Dadd's American Cattle Doctor. 
Dana’s Muck Manual. . : — — • • 
Darwin’s Animals & Plants under Domestication,2 vol8.j o 00 
Dog and Gun (Hooper’s).paper,30c.. cloth.. 60 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening (new Edition) —.... 6 50 
Draining for Profit,and Health by G. E. Waring, Jr.. 1 50 
Eastwood on Cranberry. 75 
Elliott’s Western Fruit Grower’s Guide. i oO 
Flax Culture. . . 52 
Field's (Thomas W.) Pear Culture. j 
French’s Farm Drainage. } 92 
Fuller’s Grape Culturist, (Revised Edition). 1 o0 
Fuller’s Strawberry Culturist. 
Fuller’s Small Fruit Culturist. } g0 
Gardening for Profit, by Peter Henderson. • • • l 50 
Gregory on Sduashes.paper.. 3U 
Guenon on Milch Cows. ; .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • ■ • 
Harris’ Insects Injurious to Vegetation,clo.,$4: cl d pis. 
Harris’ Rural Animal. Bound, 8 Nos., in 2 Vols. Each 
Herbert’s Hints to Horsekcepers.. 
Hop Culture. . 
Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistry..... —.... —. 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 
Leucliar’s How to Build Hot-Houses. 1 
Miles on the Horse’s Foot.... 
Mohr on the Grape Vine. 
My Vineyard at Lakeview. 
Norton's Scientific Agriculture. 
Onion Culture. • -.•••;.' • 
Our Farm of Four Acres (bound) 60c.papei.. 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 
Peat and Its Uses, by Prof. S. W. Johnson. 
Pedder’s Land Measurer.... 
Quinby’s Mysteries of Bee Keeping (new). 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry.• • • • •. 
Randall’s Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry. 
Rivers’ Miniature Fruit Garden.. . 
Richardson oil the Dog, paper 30c....• • •• , 
Saunders’ Domestic Poultry (new), paper, 40c., bound 
Schenck’s Gardener’s Text Book. 
Stewart’s (John) Stable Book. 
Thompson's Food of Animals. 
Tobacco Culture.. • . 
Warder’s Hedges and Evergreens. 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse. 
Youatt and Martin on Cattle. 
Youatt on the Hog....... 
Youatt on Sheep. 
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