1868.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
209 
Last Call. 
JUNE. JUNE. 
JUNE. 
JUNE. JUNE. 
Two Halves equal One Whole One. 
Our offer of general premiums for 1868 must close on 
the last day of June, except from localities too distant to 
forward names in time to arrive hy that day.—By special 
request, we offer to receive subscriptions for the remain¬ 
ing half of this year, and count two such half-year sub¬ 
scribers as one name in any premium club list—though 
every new subscriber ought to have all the numbers of 
this year. We have subscribers at most of the 30,000 
Post-Offices in the United States and the Dominion, 
but we have sent premiums to only about 0,000 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 Agriculturist, if 
they only knew its value and cheapness. (The first five 
numbers of this year, for example, contain 204 large 
pages, over 180 engravings, and a very large amount of 
useful, practical reading matter for the Household, the 
Garden, and the Farm. The next seven numbers will be 
equally valuable or better, and yet the Agriculturist for 
the whole year is supplied 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 strong 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 each re¬ 
ceived from $500 to $1700 worth of premiums. One lady 
alone has obtained two $650 Pianosand sold them, besides 
getting a lot of other premiums- Now there are over 
24,000 Post-Offices 
still left, at most of which any enterprising person may 
get one or more valuable premium articles, (see list of 
them in the next column,) a/wl do it during this month of 
June. It will be seen by the table, that only 10 or 15 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 ” in 
April showed how and why we can give these large pre- 
23P” miums, and we now renew the invitation to all 
8^” our readers, to make the effort this month to _ig!| 
S2T 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. 
J3W But aside from the good done to others 
by introducing a journal of this character, the 
J3F" premiums appeal to one'sown direct, immediate, 
83W personal interest. The premium articles are all 
pT very good and valuable, and a few hours of 
8ST” canvassing will secure one of them without 
cost. Try it with a will and determination 
to succeed, and in nine cases out of ten you .jx ') 
will lie successful. Take a copy of the paper, 
exhibit it among neighbors and friends, in 
ZW your own neighborhood and elsewhere ( for _£Sc & 
ZS/" premium dubs need not be aU at one post- 
%Sr~ office), show what the paper is, what it is 
ZW~ worth, how cheap It is, and in a brief time the 
desired number of subscribers can be gathered, (5FH 
83F” and the premium secured. A full description _/Sz> 
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 May completed lists already begun, 
and have begun and made up new lists. June is just as 
favorable a season for thousands of others to do the 
same. We advise YOU to TRY IT. 
Old and new subscribers count in premium lists. 
As fast as subscriptions are obtained, send them 
along, that the subscribers may begin to receive the 
paper; and when all the names that can be obtained are 
forwarded, select the premium, and it will be promptly 
furnished. To save mistakes and keeping accounts, send 
with each list of names, the exact subscription money. 
Remit Post-Office money orders, or drafts or checks on 
N. Y. City; if these cannot be had, register money letters. 
rfo.)....$i8 on 
do.).... $6 00 
do.) _$12 00 
do.) _$12 00 
gag- Every name designed for a premium list must 
be so marked when sent in. (We cannot count others.) 
Table of Premiums and Terms, 
For Volume 2T—(1668). 
Open to all—No Competition. 
No. Names of Premium Articles. 
7— Sewing Machine (Grover it Baker) .$55 00 60 
8— Sewing Machine (Howe Machine Co .)..$RO 00 6' 
‘A—Sewing Machine (Singer's Tailoring )..%80 00 
10 —Sewing Machine (Florence) .$63 00 
11— Sewing Machine (Willcoxib Gibbs) .$55 00 
12— Sewing Machine (Finkle cfc Lyon) .$60 00 
13— Sewing Machine (Wheeler it Wilson).. $55 00 1 
14— Washing Machine (Doty's) .$14 00, 
15— 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 —Ice or Water Pitcher (do. 
19 —One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. 
itO-One Dozen Table Spoons (do. 
‘41—One Dozen Dining Forks (do. .. 
22— Tea Knives and Forks (Patterson Bros.) $20 00, 
ad—Table Knives and Forks (do. do .)—$24 00 
24 —Carring Knife and Fork (do. do .)— $8 50: 
25— Musical Box (Shell Case) .$15 V' 
26 — Melodeon, Voctave(G.A.Prince ctCo.'s ).$67 0u 
27 — Melndeon. 5-octave (do, do.) .$112 00! 
28 —Colibri Piano ( Harlow, Doehler tfc Co.)$ 150 00, 
HQ—Piano, Splendid 1-0ct. ( StcirncctyASons )$650 On 
30— Ladies' Gold Watch. (Beautiful) .$100 00 
gl —Silver Watch (Valuable Time-Keeper) ..$32 50 
32 —Double Barrel Gun (Cooper <k Pond). .$30 00 
■Ad—Repeating Shot Gun (Boper Rifle Co.)..$60 00, 
34— Spencer's Breech-loading Rifle(Hunting)$55 00 
3b—Tool Chest (Patterson Bros.) .$44 50 
36— Case of Mathematical Instruments .$0 00 
37- Case of Mathematical Instruments .$15 00| 
q 8 —GoldPen, Sil. Case,E, ( Warren&Spadone) $4 50 
§9— Gold Pen and Silver Case. F.\ (do. do.). $5 50 
4.0 —Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial )....$12 00 
4I —Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) .$18 00 
4.^— Buckeye Mowing Machine, No. 2. $125 00 
4.3— Allen's Patent Cylinder Plow, etc .$20 50 
4-4 —Pump and Sprhikler (Page's).......... $5 00 
4.5— Family Scales (Fairbanks* & Co.) .$10 00 
4.6— Building Blocks (Crandall) .. $2 00 
4-7— Pocket Lanterns, One Dozen .$9 00 
4?. —American Cyclopedia (Appleton’s) .$80 00 
4.11— Worcester's Great Illustrated Dictionary$l2 00 
5<J— Any Back Volume Agriculturist 
5I —Any Tyco Back Volumes do. 
e2 —Any 
53 —Any 
Three do. 
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Four 
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Five 
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Six 
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Seven 
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Eight do. 
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Nine 
do. 
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Ten 
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XVI to XXVI 
do. 
Back 
Volume Agriculturist 
Two Back Volumes 
do. 
Three do. 
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Four 
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Five 
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Six 
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Seven 
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Eight 
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Nine 
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Ten 
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XVI to XXVI 
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56 —Any 
bJ-Any 
5 ‘J —Any 
60— Vols. 
61 — Any 
6%—Any 
63— Any 
64— Any 
65 —Any 
66 —Any 
67 —Any 
68 —Any 
69 —Any 
70— Any 
71— Vols. __ 
72— Downing's Landscape Garden'g' 
73— Cupimings & Miller's Architect. 
Library (YourChoice).. 
4'lSHO 50 
Sag*12 25 
■ss 
aS 
Choice of Good Books (See next column.) 
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 
100 
37 
58 
20 
48 
325 
65 
20 
29 
38 
47 
54 
61 
68 
74 
80 
86 
92 
24 
36 
48 
60 
71 
82 
92 
102 
110 
116 
122 
46 
60 
58 
85 
106 
125 
144 
162 
177 
192 
207 
237 
282 
360 
Every article on our list is tile best 
of Us kind, and, in all respects, what is claimed for it. 
C3P” 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 S' 
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 
manuf actory of each, by any conveyance that may be specified. 
Nos. 50 to OO — 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 
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 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 1 Those obtaining premiums for less than eleven 
volumes, can select any volumes desired, from XVI to 
XXVI, inclusive. For ordinary use, the sets of nnmbers 
unbound will answer quite well.—Many hundreds of 
these volumes are taken every year as premiums. 
ZSF“ In Nos. 61 to 71 we offer the bound volumes also. 
Nos. 7-A to @5—GOOD LIBRARIES. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of Books for 
the Farm, Garden, and Household. The per¬ 
son entitled to any one of the premiums 74 to 85, may 
select any books desired from the list below, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the books will he forward¬ 
ed, paid through to the nearest Post-Office, or Express 
office, as we may find it most convenient to send them. 
No. 80—General 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. 
75 
30 
S 00 
SO 
60 
6 50 
1 50 
75 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS AND OTHERS. 
[For sale at the office of the Agriculturist, or they will he 
forwarded hy mail, post-paid, oil receipt of price. ZW~ All 
these are included in our Premiums, Nos. 74 to 86, above.) 
Allen’s (L. F.) Rural Architecture.'.$1 50 
Allen’s (R. L.) American Farm Book.. 1 50 
Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals. 1 00 
Am. Agricultural Annual, 1867 & 1868, each, pa.,50e.; clo. 75 
Am. Horticultural Annual, 1867 & 1868,each,pa.,50c.; clo. 
American Bird Fancier. ... . 
American Pomology—Apples—By Dr. John A. Warder. 
American Rose Culturist. 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. 1 75 
Architecture, by Cummings & Miller. 10 00 
Architecture, Modern Am., by Cummings & Miller_10 00 
Barry’s Fruit Garden. 1 75 
Bement’s Rabbit Fancier. 30 
Bommer’s Method of Making Manure. 25 
Book of Evergreens (J. Hoopes). S 00 
Boussingault's Rural Economy. 1 60 
Breck’s New Book of Flowers. 1 75 
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory. 1 50 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener. 1 00 
Chorlton’s Grape Gl ower’s Guide. 75 
Cobhett’s American Gardener. 75 
Cole’s (S. W.) American Fruit Book. 75 
Cole’s Veterinarian... . 75 
Copeland's Country Life.8vo„ cloth,.. 5 00 
Cotton Culture, (Lyman). 1 50 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) Modern Horse Doctor. 1 50 
Dadd's American Cattle Doctor. 1 50 
Dana’s Muck Manual. 1 25 
Darwin’s Animals* Plants under Domestication^ vols. 6 00 
Dog and Gun (Hooper’s).paper, 30c.. cloth.. 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening (new Edition).. 
Draining for Profit and Health by G. E. Waring, Jr . 
Eastwood on Cranberry. 
Elliott’s Western Fruit Grower’s Guide. 1 50 
Flax Culture. . 50 
Field's (Thomas W.) Pear Culture. 1 25 
French’s Farm Drainage. 1 50 
Fuller's Grape Culturist, (Revised Edition). 1 50 
Fuller’s Strawberry Culturist. 20 
Fuller’s Small Fruit Culturist. 1 50 
Gardening for Profit, hy Peter Henderson.. 1 50 
Gregory on Squashes.paper.. 30 
Guenon on Milch Cows.f. 75 
Harris’ Insects Injurious to Vegetation,clo.,$4: el’d pis. 6 00 
Harris’Rural Annual. Bound, 8 Nos., in 2 Vols. Each 150 
Herbert’s Hints to Horsekeepers. 1 75 
Hop Culture. 40 
Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistry. 1 75 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 1 50 
Leuchar’s How to Build Hot-Houses. 1 50 
Miles on the Horse’s Foot. 75 
Mohr on the Grape Vine. 1 00 
My Vineyard at Lakeview. 1 25 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture. 75 
Onion Culture. 20 
Our Farm of Four Acres (bound) 60c.paper.. 30 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 75 
Peat and Its Uses, by Prof. S. W. Johnson. 1 25 
Pedder’8 Land Measurer. 60 
Quiuby’s Mysteries of Bee Keeping (new) . 1 50 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry... 1 50 
Randall’s Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry. 1 00 
Rivers’Miniature Fruit Garden..... 1 00 
Richardson on the Dog, paper 30c.. .cloth. 60 
Saunders’Domestic Poultry (new), paper. 40c., bound 75 
Schenck’s Gardener’s Text Book. 75 
Stewart's (John) Stable Book. 1 M 
Thompson’s Food of Animals. 1 00 
Tobacco Culture.. . 2o 
Warder's Hedges and Evergreens. 1 59 
Youatt and Spooner on the HorBe. 1 50 
Yonatt and Martin on Cattle. » 50 
Youatt on the Hog. * 0Q 
Youatt on Sheep. *00 
