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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Description of tiie Premiums. 
A Pull Description of all the premiums is given on 
an extra sheet, a copy of which will be sent free to every 
one desiring it. We have only room here for the following : 
[In this table are given the regular cash prices of each 
article, ami the number of subscribers required at $1.50 a year, 
to get it free, also at the lowest club rate of $t a year. For 
full descriptions of the articles see extra sheets sent free.] 
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Table of Premiums and Terms, 
For Volume 2S—(1869). 
Open to all—No Competition. 
No. Names of Premium Articles. 
1—Short-horn Bull, “ Clansman .$500 00 
li—Short-horn Bull, “Malcolm” .$500 00 
3—Ayrshire Bull, “ Werner," .$250 00 
4c—Ayrshire Bull, “Puke of Hartford "..$200 00 
5 —Ayrshire Bull, “ McKeown," .$200 00 
r 6 —Ayrshire Bull, “Malvern." .$200 00 
J 7—Ayrshire Bull, “ Du gal Grant," .$150 00 
Ayrshire Bull, “Johnny Groat," .$150 00 
9 —Ayrshire Bull, “ John Brown," .$150 00 
XO—Ayrshire Bull Calf .$80 00 
11— Ayrshire Bull Calf. .$80 00 
12— Alderney Bull, “ Wachusett." .$200 00 
1 3— Alderney Bull, “ Ascutney," .$200 00 
14— Alderney Bull, “ Ossipee,'' .$200 00 
15 —Alderney Bull, “ Alleghany ,”.$200 00 
16— Colswold Bam .$200 00 
17— Cotswold Bam .$200 00 
18— Cotswold Bam .$100 00 
19— Cotsxoold Bam .$100 00 
HO—Cotswold Ewe .$100 00 
21 — Cotsxoold Ewe .$100 00 
22— La Fleche Fowls, one Pair .$10 00 
2 3— Houdan Fowls, one Pair .$10 00 
21— Crevecoeur Fowls, one Pair .$40 00 
25 —Black Spanish Folds, one Pair. .$25 00 
HO—Brahmas, Light, one Pair .$15 00 
27 —Brahmas, Dark, one Pair .$15 00 
28— Gold Lacecl Sebright Bantams, one Pnir$15 00 
HO—Early Bose Potato, (Three lb. parcel )..%2 00 
30— - Garden Seeds for a Family (40 kinds ).. $5 00 
31— Floroer Seeds for a Family (100 kinds)... $5 00 
32— Nursery Stock, (any kinds desired) .$20 00 
33— Set of Field Croquet .$8 00 
34— Sewing Machine (Wheeler it Wilson )..$55 00 
35 — Sewing Machine ( Grover ck Baker) .$55 00 
36— Sewing Machine (Howe Machine Co .)..$60 00 
37 — Sewing Machine (Florence) .$03 00 
38— Sewing Machine (Singer’s Tailoring).. $S0 00 
39 — Sewing Machine (Willcoxd: Gibbs) .$55 00 
40— Sewing Machine (Finkle dt Lyon )... ..$00 00 
41— Washing Machine (Doty's ) —.$14 00 
42— Clothes Wringer (Best—Universal) .$10 00 
43 — Tea Set (Hart's best Silver Plated) .$50 00 
44— Castor and Fruit Basket (do. do.) — $30 00 
45 — Ice or Water Pitcher (do. do.) _$18 00 
46 — One Dozen Tea Spoons (do. do .)— $6 00 
47— One Dozen Table Spoons (do. do.) _$12 00 
48— One Dozen Dining Forks (do. do .)—$12 00 
49— Tea Knives and Forks (Patterson Arcs.) $20 00 
50— Table Knives and Forks (do. do.) — $24 00 
51— Carving Knife and Fork (do. do .)— $5 00 
S'i—Melodeon. 4-o'ctave(G. A.Prince ttCo.'s) $6? 00 
53— Melocleon, 5 -octave (do, do.) .$112 00 
54— Piano, Splendid !-oct.(Ste.inway J'Sons )$650 00 
55 —Colibri Piano (Barlow, Doehler <£ Co .,)$450 00 
56— Silver Watch (American Watch Co.) _$40 00 
57 — Ladies' FineGoldWatch(Arn.WatchCo)%m 00 
58 — Double Bbl.Gun (Cooper, Harris /7.,)$30 00 
59— Repeating Shot Gun (Roper Rifle Co .)..$60 00 
60— Tool Chest (Patterson Bros.) .$44 50 
61 —Case of Mathematical Instruments .$0 00 
63 — Case of Mathematical Instruments .$15 00 
63 —Golil Pen, Sil.Case.EJWarren&Spadone) $4 50 
64— Gold Pen and Silver Case, F, (do. do.). $5 50 
65 —Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) _$12 00 
6n—Barometer (Woodruff's Mercurial) .$18 00 
67 —Buckeye Mowing Machine. No. 2.$125 00 
6 8 —A lien's Patent Cylinder Plow, etc .$19 50 
69— Collins <6 Co.'s Cast Cast-Steel Plow _$25 00 
70— Pump and Sprinkler (Page's) . $5 00 
'll—Family Scales (Fairbanks' <St Co.) .$14 00 
72— Building Blocks (Crandall) . $2 00 
73— Pocket Lanterns, One Dozen .$9 00 
74— American Cyclopedia (Appleton's) .$80 00 
75— Worcester's Great Illustrated Dictionary%V2 00 
76— Any Back Volume Agriculturist ) 
77— Any Two Back Volumes do. 
78— Any Three do. do. do. 
79— Any Four do. do. do. 
80 —Any Five do. do. do. 
—(Each add'l Vol. at same rate) 
81 -Twelve Vols. XVI to XXVII 
82 — Any Back Volume Agriculturist 
83— Any Two Back Volumes do. 
84 —Any Three do. do. do. 
85 — Any Four do. do. do. 
86— Any Five do. do. do. 
—(Each add'l Vol. at same rate) 
87 —Twelve 
Vols. XVI to XX VII 
88—A SID 
Library ( 
Your Choice) 
89—A 
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91)—A ‘ 
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93—A 
$35 
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94—A 
$40 
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95—A ! 
$45 
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95—A 
$50 
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97-A 
$GO 
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98—A 1 
$75 
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99-A 1 
$100 
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190 
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97 
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87 
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47 
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100—A Choice of Good Books (See Terms below.) 
101 —Devon Bull “ Gen. Lyon " .$250 00 
10 i—Devon Bull” Jack" . $150 00 
103 —Devon Bull “ Bloodgood" .$125 00 
104— Devon Bull “ Pocasset" .$ 75 00 
105 —Devon Bull “ Cohasset" ..$ 50 00) 
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S Every Premium article is new and of the very best 
manufacture. No charge is made for packing or boxing 
any article in our Premium List. The thirty-two Premiums, 
Nos. 29, 30, 31, 61, 62, 63, 64, and 76 to 
100 inclusive, ivill 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 tfigt may be specified. 
No. 20.—Early Rose Potatoes.— This 
remarkable variety has awakened so much interest 
throughout the country that there is a general desire 
to get a few as a start for seed. A few hundred people 
only have been able to get them. We have, therefore, ar¬ 
ranged with Messrs. B. K. Bliss & Son to supply us with 
a quantity of the genuine article, put up in 3 lb parcels, 
to go by mail, post-paid, to any part of the country. 
They should go out before freezing weather, but when too 
late for this, we will keep them until warm enough to 
mail them in Spring. This premium can only remain 
open so long as the supply lasts. For some account of 
the Early Rose, see page 856 of Agriculturist for last 
month (October,) and Messrs. Bliss & Son’s advertise¬ 
ment in same paper. We send 3 lbs. to the canvasser 
furnishing a club of four at $1.50 each. For fourteen 
subscribers at $1.50 each, we will send four 3 lb. packages. 
No. 72 — Crandall’s Improved 
Building Blocks 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, 
Bams, 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 unequaled. 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. 
Nos. 7© to 81-Volumcs of tlae 
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 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 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 numberB 
unbound will answer quite well.—Many hundreds of 
these volumes are taken every year as premiums. 
No*. 82 to 87—SI omul Volume* of 
Agriculturist.— These are the same as Nos. 76 to 81 
above, but are neatly bound in uniform style, and cost 
extra for binding and postage. Sent post-paid. 
Nos.88to 99-GOOD LIBRARIES. 
—In these premiums, we offer a choice of Books for 
the Farm, Garden, and Houseliold. The per¬ 
son entitled to any one of the premiums 88 to 99 may 
select any books desired from the next column, to the 
amount of the premiums, and the hooks 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 worth 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 he would off from 50 acres without the men¬ 
tal ability which reading will give him.--Our premiums 
will enable many a family to secure a larger or smaller Li¬ 
brary. Let the Farmers of a neighborhood unite 
their efforts and get an agricultural Library for general use. 
No. IDO—General Book Premium.- 
Any one not desiring the specific Book premiums, 88 to 99, 
on sending any number of names above 25, may select 
Books from the next column, to the amonnt of 10 cents 
for each subscriber sent at $1 r or to the amount of 30 
cents for each name sent at the (ten) elnb price of $1.20 
each: or to the amount of 60 cents for each name at 
$1.50. This offer is only for elubs of 25 or more. The 
books will be sent by mail or express, prepaid through by us. 
191-195.-DEVON BIJEE8.— Owimg 
to the absence from home of the owner, we were nnable 
to announce these very desirable premiums last month. 
The Devon* are remarkably beautiful oattle, of a dark 
red or bright mahogany color; they are very hardy and 
active—able to pick lip a living easily. The caws give a 
medium quality of rich milk, and hold out long. The 
oxen are the best light-draft cattle in the world—am¬ 
bitious, yet cjoeilo, quick, intelligent, and tough. Devqq 
beef is of superior quality, and always quoted high in 
our beef markets. Devons come slower to maturity than 
most other breeds, hut remain much longer of full vigor 
and value.— Grade Devons out of large common cows 
make either large red oxen of great docility, quickness, 
and strength, or almost uniformly fine, good-sized cows 
and excellent milkers.We have selected the following 
animals from the celebrated herd of the Hon. Ephraim 
H. Hyde, of Stafford, Conn., viz.: one 3-year and two 
1-year old hulls, and two hull calves, all of Mr. Hyde’s 
own breeding. This herd has taken the most important 
prizes for the past two years, at least, of the New England 
Agricultural Society, and has, we are confident, no supe¬ 
rior in America. Wherever these animals go, they will 
improve the stock of the region. 
No. lOl.-WcvonltiBll 14 Gem. iLyon.” 
—Calved June 25th, 1867. Sire, Devoid, out of Devonia, 
(1925.) Dam , Fairy 9, (101) by Comet 22, (162.) Grand 
Dam, Fairy 4, (99). Great Grand Dam, imported Fairy, 
bred by C. Turner. Price $250. 
No. 102.—Devon Bull “ .Usm-lso’'— 
(256). Calved May, 1865. Sire, Nero (79.) Dam, Lizzie, 
(212) by Kossuth (53.) Grand Dam, Jane, (161) by im¬ 
ported Albert (2), etc. Jack was awarded the 1st prize 
as a 2-year old by the N. E. Agricultural Society at Provi¬ 
dence last year. Price $150. 
No. 105$. — Devon Bull “ Blood, 
good.” (168)—Calved June 25th, 1867. Sire, Devoni, 
(196) out of Devonia (1295 E.) Dam, Venus, (341) by 
Kossuth, (53.) Grand Dam, Lady Dodge, (192.) Great 
Grand Dam, Lady Jane, (195) by imported Bloomfield, 
(372.) Price, $125. 
No. l©4.-Devon RuII Calf, “Po» 
casset.”— Calved August 28th, 1868. Sire, Lion, (265.) 
Dam , Fairy 9, (101.) Price, $75. 
No. 105. — Devon Bull Calf, “Co. 
liasset.”— Calved August 25th, 1868. Sire, Lion, (265.) 
Dam, Winona. Price, $50. 
BOOKS FOR FARMERS AND OTHERS. 
[For sale at the Office of the Agriculturist, or they will be 
forwarded by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price, IDS'" All 
these areincluded in our Premiums, Nos. 88 to 100 above.) 
Allen's (L. F.) Rural Architecture. 
Allen’s (It. L.) American Farm Ilook. 
Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals. 
Am. Agricultural Annual, 186 T& 1868, each, pa.,50c.- c! o’ 
Am. Horticultural Annual, 1867 & 1868,each,pa.,50c.: clu 
American Bird Fancier. 
American Pomology—Apples—By Dr. John A. Warder. 
American Rose Culturist. 
American Weeds and Useful Plants. 
Architecture, by Cummings & Miller. 
Architecture, Modern Am., by Cummings & Miller_ 
Bement’s Rabbit Fancier. . 
Bommer’s Method of Making Manure. 
Book of Evergreens (J. Hoopes).. 
Boussingault’s Rural Economy. 
Breck'sNew Book of Flowers. 
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory. 
Buist's Family Kitchen Gardener. 
Chorlton’s Grape Grower’s Guide. 
Cobbett’s American Gardener. 
Cole’s (S. W.) American Fruit Boole...... 
Cole’s Veterinarian.. . 
Copeland’s Country Life.... 8vo„ cloth,.. 
Cotton Culture, (Lyman). 
Cotton Planter's Manual, (Turner)... 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) Modern Horse Doctor. 
Dadd's American Cattle Doctor. 
Dana's Muck Manual. . 
Darwin’s Animals & Plants under Domestication,'] vols. 
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.. 
Flax Culture.. 
Field’s (Thomas W.) Pear Culture. 
French’s Farm Drainage. 
Fuller's Grape Culturist, (Revised Edition). 
Fuller’s Strawberry Culturist. 
Fuller’s Small Fruit Culturist. 
Gardening for Profit, by Peter Henderson. 
Gregory on Squashes.paper.. 
Guenon on Milch Cows. 
Harris’ Insects Injurious to Vegetation,clo..$4: el’d pis. 
Harris’ Rural Annual. Bound, 8 Nos., in 2 Vols. Eacli 
Herbert’s Hints to Horsekeepers.. 
Hop Culture. . 
How Crops Grow, by Prof. S. W. Johnson. 
Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry. 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 
Leucliar’s How to Build IIot-Houses. 
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 (hound) 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) . 
Randall's Sheep Husbandry. 
Randall’s Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry. 
Rivers’ Miniature Fruit Garden. 
Richardson on the Dog, paper 30c.cloth.. 
Saunders’ Domestic Poultry (new), paper, 40c., bound 
Sclienck’s Gardener’s Text Book. 
Skillful Housewife. 
Stewart’s (John) Stable Book. 
Thompson's Food of Animals. 
Tim Bunker Papers . 
Tobacco Culture. 
Warder’s Hedges and Evergreens. 
Touatt and Spooner on the Horse. 
Youatt and Martin on Cattle. 
Youatt on the Hog.. 
youatt pq Sheep.. ... 
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