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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
dividers with flexible joints, and points, semi-circles, 
pencil and penholders, rulers, etc., etc. All the pieces 
in No. 61 are finished in brass and steel; those in No. GO 
are German silver and steel. The pieces are the same in 
each, but.No. 02 is of extra beauty and workmanship. 
They are useful in making drawings, plans of buildings, 
fields, etc. They are valuable to children, to cultivate a 
taste for, and habit of observing and sketching farms, 
plotting fields, orchards, buildings, for drawing, etc. 
Such “ playthings” keep them from “ mischief,” develop 
their minds, and make them “handy." Sent by mail, 
postpaid, to any place in the United States. 
j\'os. (53, 45-4—Dawson, Warren & 
Hyde’s Gold Pens:— With Ever Pointed Pen¬ 
cils, in Extension Coin Silver Cases. Premium No. 
03 contains the best E Gold Pen, and No. 61 the best E 
Gold Pen, which is-the same style, but larger. These pens 
arc made by Messrs. Warren & Spadone, No. 4 Maiden 
Lane,N.Y., successors to Dawson, Warren & Hyde, whose 
pens obtained so wide and good a reputation that the orig¬ 
inal firm name is the Trade Mark, and is still stamped upon 
every pen made. We have known the makers and their 
goods for many years, and can recommend both to our 
readers. W. & S. are the largest manufacturers of Gold 
Pens, Silver and Gold Pencil Cases and Holders, in 
the country. State whether a stiff or limber point is 
desired, and if the Pen received does not suit the hand, 
it may be exchanged at a trifling expense for postage. 
INfos. 4J3, 645—Mercurial SBai*»mc> 
ters.—W oodruff's Patent, made by Chas. Wilder, 
Peterboro, N. H. Those are the most convenient and 
portable Mercurial Barometers made. (Send to Mr. 
Wilder for a circular giving engravings and descriptions 
of the instruments.) The peculiar form of Mercury cup 
invented by Mr. Woodruff renders these far more porta¬ 
ble than any Mercurial Barometer previously known. 
They are so easily carried that MiS Wilder guarantees 
the safe delivery of every Barometer given by us as a 
Premium, if not to be sent beyond the Rocky Mountains. 
The instruments are beautifully made, are about 3 feet 
long, and are packed and sent direct from the factory, 
with no expense save the express charges. We offer two 
forms which differ mainly in the style of case, both be¬ 
ing supplied with Thermometer and Vernier. A Barom¬ 
eter is to farmers, or others on land, what itistosail- 
ors at sea—an indicator of lee weather to be looked for. 
Many who have received this premium from us in former 
years have given us definite statements touching its 
great value to them Aside from its direct utility, the 
habit of observation and of scientific study, cultivated 
in children where a Barometer is used, is important. 
iVo.417—Uiiaclis'ye Mowing IVlachine. 
—The Buckeye Mower is so widely and favorably known 
that we need not describe it particularly. Messrs. Adri- 
ance, Platt & Co., 165 Greenwich-st., N. Y. City, will send 
any one a circular giving full description, engravings, 
etc. The experience of last year shows that many a 
farmer can easily secure this premium by a very few days’, 
or odd hours’and evenings’, canvassing for subscribers. 
A few can unite their efforts, each getting a part of the 
subscribers, and then own the machine in common.--It 
would pay a man well to canvass for this premium, and 
sell it. Ten subscribers a day for 15 days would secure 
the premium, which sells regularly for $125.—Many can, 
at town meetings, fairs, elections, and other gatherings, 
or during evenings, easily secure this premium club. 
No. @8 — CylsHiilea- Plow (Allen’s Patent). 
—We hear very good reports from those who raceivod 
this premium last year, it is named from the peculiar 
form of the mould-board. It is an Ohio invention, but 
is manufactured by the well-known firm of R. H. Allen & 
Co.. 180 & 101 Water-st., New York, to whom application 
maybe made for descriptive circulars, etc. There are 
several sizes and prices, with a greater or less number of 
attachments. The kind we offer for premiums is the 
" Two-horse size, cutting a furrow 12 to 14 inches wide, 
and 5 to S inches deep.” It is provided with wheel, and 
with a “ skim plow,” like the double “ Michigan plow.” 
No. 452>.—CoJliaas Co.’s Cast Cast- 
steel Plows.— 1 These excellent plows are made by a 
patented process, of cast-steel recast (not rolled), tem¬ 
pered and polished like a good axe. They will scour in 
the soflest soils, and are great favorites on the prairies. 
The canvasser lias his choice of eight plows named in the 
manufacturers’ circular at the same price ($25), of which 
we particularly recommend “ C, No. 3” for general use : 
“B. No. 12” for stubble only, and“E, No. 12” for turf 
only. Send, for circular, giving full particulars, to Collins 
& Co., No. 212 Water street, New York. 
No. 7©—Page's G B be. a at $5 ;a.siii 
Sprinkler. —A Hand Watering Pot, a Green-house Syr¬ 
inge, a light Force Pump, and Garden Engine. It is very 
simple in construction, light to carry, easy to operate, 
mid adapted to a great variety of uses—convenient for 
washing windows, or blinds, carriages, horses, watering 
plants, etc. Throws a small stream with considerable 
force about 40 feet, and will be invaluable in case of an 
incipient fire. By a very simple arrangement, the stream 
can be quickly changed to drops, spray, or mist. Manu¬ 
factured by the New England Portable Pump Company, 
11 Ilanover-st., Boston, Mass. Send for Circular. 
No. 74—Family ScuScs.— These scales, 
combining the advantages of counter and platform scales, 
are peculiarly adapted to household purposes. They 
weigh from *4 ounce to 240 lbs. They have a scoop or 
pan for weighing flour, sugar, and 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. In cooking, preserving, keeping 
the weight of the grocer, butcher, etc., and in weighing 
meats, butter, and other produce sold from the farm, they 
will save much more than the cost of obtaining them as a 
premium. These scales are manufactured by the well- 
known Fairbanks & Co., whose weighing apparatus has 
long ranked as the standard, and who received the highest 
premiums, two medals, at the Paris Exposition. 
No. 73 — CrataalsslI’s Improved 
Hi uSkiing Eilockn furnish a most attractive amuse¬ 
ment for children. They are very simple in construction, 
will stand years of children’s handling without breaking, 
and give renewed pleasure daily. Churches, Dwellings, 
Barns, Mills, Fences, Furniture, etc., in almost endless 
variety, can be built with them, and the structures re¬ 
main so firm as to be carried about. For developing the 
ingenuity and taste of children they are irnequaled. The 
Blocks are put up in neat boxes, and with each box is a 
card giving various designs of buildings. The Premium 
sets are plain. The same blocks may be had, maple 
__finished, by sending 3 more subscribers, at $1.50 each, or 
10 more, at $1 each. Send for a descriptive show-bill. 
No. 73—Sj;535tca’cas.—A very in¬ 
genious valuable Yankee invention—a complete Lan¬ 
tern, large enough to afford light for walking or other 
purposes, yet in half a minute it can be folded into a par¬ 
cel 3 by 4 inches long, and % of an inch in thickness, or 
small enough for the vest pocket, yet contain 3 little sperm 
candles, matches, etc. We have used one for years, carry-* 
ing it in the pocket on going out at night, ready for use 
at any moment. It is manufactured by the Merriam Manf’g 
Company, (Julius Ives & Co., Agents, 49 Maiden Lane, N. 
Y. City.) A dozen pack in a box 3)4 by 5)4 by 8)4 inches. 
No. 74—AmBttB-ica.zi Cyclopedia.—A p¬ 
pleton’s New.— We cannot commend this great work 
too highly. We wish it could be placed in every family 
in the country. Several were fortunate in securing it 
through our premium list last year, and we hope many 
more will do so this. Scholars at our Academies and 
Seminaries, and members of Library Associations, can 
easily unite their efforts and secure it. Young men 
should devote evenings and spare hours to canvassing 
for this magnificent and useful premium for their own 
use. (£§?“ The Cyclopedia is a ivhole Library of itself, 
consisting of sixteen very large octavo volumes, well 
bound, averaging 8 00 large two-column pages in each 
book, or in the whole, 12,804 pages ! They treat upon 
over 25,0015 different subjects. It is hardly possible to 
name any subject, any country, any person of note, in 
past or recent time, concerning which pretty full inform¬ 
ation may not be found in the Cyclopedia. It embraces 
every topic of human knowledge, alphabetically ar¬ 
ranged ftn- reference.—Is worth a year’s effort in raising 
subscribers. 
No. 75—'Tine Great SJ>ieli®ima,a*y. — 
Worcester's Large Pictorial, Unabridged Edition, 
containing 1854 three-column pages, with a multitude 
of illustrative engravings. (The work is 12 inches long, 
10 inches wide, and nearly 4 inches thick, and weighs 
about 10 lbs.!) Many of the most thoroughly educated 
men of the country consider this as far the best Diction¬ 
ary in the English Language. It gives the spelling and 
pronunciation of every word in the language with full 
explanations, and as a source of general information 
stands next to the Cyclopedia. The Dictionary can be 
called for at our Office,or be sent by express or otherwise, 
to any part of the country. We have given away hun¬ 
dreds of copies as premiums, many of them obtained by 
quite young boys and girls. It should be in every family. 
It is published by Brewer & Tilcston, Boston 
Nos. 7S to 81—Volumes of Siae 
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- 
seventh Volume comiflcte, from which we print numbers 
as needed. The price of the volumes is $1.50 each, at the 
Office, or $1.15 if sent by mail, as they must be post-paid. 
They are put up in clean numbers, with the Index to 
ewh volume. ——- They are profusely Illustrated, the 
Engravings used in them having alone cost about 
$30,000. Those obtaining premiums for less than twelve 
volumes can select any volumes desired, from XVI to 
XXVII, inclusive. For ordinary use, the sets of numbers 
unbound will answer quite well.—Many hundreds of 
these volumes are taken every year as premiums. 
Nos. 83 to 87 — BEostaid Volumes of 
Agriculturist. — These are the same as Nos. 16 to 81 
above, but are neatly bound in uniform style, and cast 
extra for binding and postage. Sent post-paid. 
Nos.88So B.ISeS£AE2SES. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of IBooks for 
the Farm, Garden, anii SSousehold. The per¬ 
son entitled to any one of the premiums 88 to 99, may 
select any books desired from the list, below, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the books will be forward¬ 
ed, paid through to the nearest Post-Office, or Express 
office, as we may find it most convenient to send them. 
$25 or $50 wortli of books pertaining to the farm 
will give the boys new ideas, set them to thinking and 
observing, and thus enable them to make their heads, 
help their hands. Any good book will, in the end, be of 
far more value to a youth than to have an extra acre of 
land, on coming to manhood. The thinking, reasoning, 
observing man, will certainly make more off from 49 
acres, than lie would off from 50 acres without the men¬ 
tal ability which reading will give him.-Onr premiums 
will enable many a famil 3 r to secure a largeror smaller Li¬ 
brary. £21?“ Let the Farmers of a neighborhood units 
tbeir efforts and get an agricultural Library for general use. 
No. !©4>—CiJeiaersil 16‘oolc S®reEssi»iiaa.- 
Any one not desiring the specific Book premiums, S3 to 89, 
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 vs. 
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BOOKS FOR FARMERS AHD OTHERS. 
[For sale at the office of the Agriculturist , or they will be 
forwarded by mail, post-paid r on receipt of price. A ll 
these areincluded in our Premiums, Nos. 83 to 100 ahove.^ 
Allen’s (L. F.) Rural Architecture. $1 no 
Allen’s (R. L.) American Farm Rook.’l no 
Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animats. l 00 
Am. Agricultural Annual, 180 ?& 868 , each, pa.,50e.r clo 75 
Am. Horticultural Annual, 186? <$aj§G8,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 
Bement’s Rabbit Fancier. 30 
Bommer’s Method of Making Manure.. 25 
Book of Evergreens (J. Hoopes).. 3 00 
Boussingault's Rural Economy.. 1 60 
Breck’sNew Book of Flowers. 1 75 
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory. 1 50 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Gardener. 1 00 
Chorlton’s Grape Grower’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 
Cotton Planter’s Manual, (Turner).. 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,2 vols. 6 Oft 
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. 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 Qulturist.. 20 
Fuller’s Small Fruit Culturist. 1 50 
Gardening for Profit, by Peter Henderson. 
Gregory on Souaslies.paper.. 
Guenon on Milch Cows. 
Harris’ Injects Injurious to Vegetation, clo..$4 : cl’d pis. 
Harris’ Rural Annual. Bound, 8 Nos., in 2 Vols. Each 
Herbert’s Hints to Ilorsekeepers... 
Hop Culture. . . 
How Crops Grow, by Prof. S. W. Johnson. 1 50 
Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistry. 1 75 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 1 50 
Leuchar’s How to Build IIot-Houses. 1 5ft 
Miles on the Horse’s Foot. .. 75 
Mohr on the Grape Vine. 1 00: 
My Vineyard at Lakeview.. 1 25 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture.. 
Onion Culture.. 
Our Farm of Four Acres (bound! 60c.paper 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture-. 
Peat and Its Uses, by Prof. S. W. Johnson. 
Pedder’s Land Measurer.. 
Percheron Horse... . 
Quinby’s Mysteries of Bee Keeping (new). 1 50 
RaiuhiU’s Sheep Husbandry. 1 50 
Randall's Fine W'ool Sheep Husbandry. 1 00 
Rivers'Miniature Fruit Garden. 1 Oft 
Richardson on the Dog, paper 80c.cloth.. 60 
Saunders’ Domestic Poultry (new), paper, 40c., bound 75 
Schenck’s Gardener’s Text Book...._ 75 
Skillful Housewife. 75 
Stewart’s (John) Stable Book. 1 50 
Thompson’s Food of Animals. 1 00 
Tim Bunker Papers .. 1 50 
Tobacco Culture. 25 
Warder’s Hedges and Evergreens. 150 
Youatt and Spooner on theTIorse. 1 50 
Youatc and Martin on Cattle. 1 50 
Youatt on the Hog.. . 1 00 
Youatt ®n Sheep.. 1 Oft 
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