PREMIUM LIST SUPPLEMENT FOR 1883-84.
1883.
1884.
THE
INDIANA FARMER
PREMIUM LIST.
Nothing Like it Ever Before Offered by
any Publishers.
Every Premium on the List Absolutely
Given Away Without Reserve.
Select What you Want and a Little Effort
on Tour Part at Canvassing
.>*. ill Secure It.
We take pleasure in presenting this onr
Nineteenth Annual Premium List to the
agents ofthe Farmer. Every article on lt
possesses merit and is of value. The agricultural implements, machinery and articles of
household use, etc., are from the leading
manufacturers of the country, and all have
an established reputation in the market.
While In our stock department are displayed
the names of the leading breeders of fine Btock
In the country. These valuable premiums
are the voluntary offerings of the friends of
the Farmer, and we cheerfully recommend
eac_ individual and firm who make these
contributions to the favorable consideration
of our readers and agents. Any information concerning any article on this list can be
obtained by writing to the persons or firms
making the offers.who will be pleased to communicate with them at any time; and we ask
it as an especial favor of those who so write
that they mention the fact that they do so in
consequence ot having seen the offer In this
premium list.
at a time as they are procured, and the papers
ean be sent to any number of postofflces in
the country without additional cost.
When names are once entered on our books
to the credit of one agent, they cannot be
transferred to another.
HOW IT WORKS.
Suppose you set out to secure our flrst premium, the Percheron Horse. It ls worth
$2000 and will pay an agent 310 per day for eight
months work, or lt will pay ten men working
together each 13 per day for three months
steady work. Or lf lt ls the threshing machine, that is worth {460, equal to five months
solid work every day at S3 per day. Or should
lt be the McCormick Binder that you wish to
secure, lt is worth 1280, equal to three months
work at $3 per day. Thuslf yon get any one
of the dozen or more higher premiums, lt will
pay you for two to six months steady work
at from 82 to $3 per day. Yet they can be obtained by a few hours work among your
neighbors at odd times when you would be doing nothing else. There are 25 to 500 families,
or more, in every township who would take
and read the Farmer if called on and shown
Its value. The agent can canvass in as many
townships as he pleases.
AGENTS WANTED.
We want a good agent in every locality in
the West where none are now at work, and lt
there is no agent near you send to us at once
for full outfit, containing everything necessary for a successful prosecution of the work.
We shall also be glad to have you send us tbe
names of your friends in other towns and
States who you think will act for us.
We send the Indiana Farmer regularly
each week to all agents during the clubbing
season, and at lt* close agents who have sent
six or more names will be placed on our list
for one year free. The names so sent will
also count in competition for all premiums.
It Pays to Work for the Indiana Parmer.
Our premium list Insures better compensation to active, energetic agents than ls offered
by any other paper, and far better than the
cash commission system. Every article on
our lUt is first-class in every respect*, and lf
an agent who secures one has no use for it, it
will command ready sale In any market at
good prices.
OCR PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION.
The agent sending In the largest list of subscribers on or before April 1,1884, at which time
our award ls made, will be entitled to first
choice of all the articles on the list. The one
tending the second largest club will be entitled to the second cholce,and so on until all
the premiums are taken. Owing to the large
number of premiums we offer, every active
agent will be entitled to a choice from this
magnificent list.
All names received are placed to the credit
ot the person sending, and the names will
count in competition for any of the premiums
on this list.  Names can be sent one sr more
OUR TERMS.
The price of the Farmer is {135 per year of
52 numbers, which amount must be remitted
us with each subscription, and no reduction
will be allowed from this amount for any
cause, no matter what the size of the club
may be. We shall expect all agents to charge
subscribers full club rates, as given above, and
any agent who offers the paper for less does
so without our knowledge or consent. We
will consider lt a personal favor, when you
hear of an agent cutting rates, to Inform us of
the fact.
and remitting money to the different publications, and also considerable In the cost. Bee
our complete list with prices elsewhere.
BEGIN NOW.
Every number of the Indiana Farmer is
complete in itself, with no "to be continued"
articles and subscriptions can begin with
any number and ran a year or longer. The
flrst agents In the field are the successful ones.
If yon only secure on an average a name a
day for a month It will bring you a premium
article worth not less than $25; for two months,
(59; for three months, *J75; for four months,
1100. This can be secured easily, without loss
ot useful time, on rainy days when active
farm work cannot be done, and at other odd
times during the winter. It you wish something large tn the way of premiums and compensation, make a thorough canvass ot your
own and surrounding territory and make
from S2 to $3 per day, as we show In another
column that an agent can easily do with a
little energy and well directed eflbrt.
THE INDIANA FARMER
will continue to be the advocate of every interest of the farmer and his family. IU various departments of agriculture, horticulture, stock, dairy, sheep and wool, veterinary,
editorial, commercial, home and youth, will
be fllled with articles, each week, from writers of well known ability and authority in
their several specialties. Coming, as these
contributions do, from every locality In the
West covered by our large circulation, the
Indiaka Farmer reflects the moat advanced
Ideas and best practice of this country in all
that relates to agriculture In Its broadest
sense. While tt keeps in the foreground the
main question with farmers—the profit of the
farm—lt by no means neglects the no less essential agents ot culture and refinement. The
true object of labor on the farm—the highest
welfare of the farmer and his family—ls kept
constantly in view, and nothing that will
help to secure this object ls neglected. For
the amount of matter published during each
year, quality of matter, and actual expense
of publishing, no agricultural paper exoeeds
the Indiana Farmer, and none that com
pares with lt in character,lnfluenceand value
is offered at so low a price.
GET THEM FREE,
by raising a club for the Farmer, if possible,
but lf any agent or subscriber has not the
time or opportunity to make up a club and
get them free as premiums, we have arranged
to procure nearly all the articles offered, at
considerable reduction from market rates,and
will give our patrons the benefit of reduced
prices thus obtained. All articles are Just as
described and are sent new from the manufacturers. Many of the articles can be sent
by mall, post paid, without cost to the purchaser, as noted in the descriptions. But
where, owing to size and weight, they have
to go by freight or express we can secure extremely low rates, owing to the fact that we
have competition ot fourteen railroads and
five express companies. If you want any Information as to freight or express rates from
Indianapolis to your home on any article we
offer, write us.
SPECIMEN COPIES FREE.
We will cheerfully send specimen copies of
the paper to club agents In any quantity, and
as often as desired, to use In getting new sub.
scribers. A specimen of the paper handed
out will be of valuable assistance In getting
the parties to subscribe the second time you
see them. We do not care to waste them,
but want to send as many as can be used to
advantage. Ask for them In any quantity
wanted, on a postal card, and they will come
by next mall.
Indiana Farmer alone, and no more. That,
ls, we pay agents for getting subscriptions to
the Indiana Farmer, allowing them the advantages that we offer on other papers, and
on the premium articles in connection with
lt, to use as inducements to subscribers.
Please be very careful to give your full post-
office address every time you write. This is
very important, as, dealing as we are with
flfty thousand correspondents, lt ls Impossible for us to remember their postoffice addresses, and, as we index all our subscription
business by postofflces, we can do nothing
with a letter until we know the address of
the party writing it. Also, always state the
amount of money in your letter.
Write names plainly. We can guess and
make out other matter if indistinctly wrlt-
ten.but names of persons must be very plainly written or mistakes are liable to occur. If,
for any reason, you send us names the second
time, be very particular to state that they
were previously sent, and give date, lf possible, or we are apt to get them duplicated on
our mailing books.
FINALLY.
Commence the work at once. See every
farmer in yonr vicinity and tell him you are
getting up a club for tbe Indiana Farmer,
and lt he is not ready to subscribe at once, get
his promise and make a memorandum ot It.
Systematic, perslBtent effor*. ls what wins
large success in this and every other undertaking.
A FEW POINTED INSTRUCTIONS,
which lf all club agents and subscribers will
read carefully, will save them the trouble
of writing and us the trouble of answering a
great many questions.
No deviation will be made from our subscription terms, to any one, under any circumstances.
New subscribers and renewals of old ones
count alike tor premiums, and they need not
all be at one postoffice, but at as many different ones as desired.
Send In names as fast as you get them, In
small or large lots, and they will be accurately credited up to you for premiums.   Keep a
record of eacb list of names sent, with the
Clubbed With Other Publications. date of sending, and if from any cause papers
For the accommodation oi our many read- fail to come correctly, write us full partlcu-
ers who wish to take some other publications, lars promptly, and the mistake will be righted
we have made arrangements to furnish all  atones.
the leading papers and magazines in con- A subscription for the Indiana Farmer
nection with the Indiana FARMEB,at a great-1 with any other paper, or with any one of our
ly reduced price. This saves agents and sub-1 premium articles, counts the same In compe
scribers the trouble and expense of writing  tltlon for premiums as a subscription for the
S -IOW TO SEND iHONEY., ;>
Always give the name ok touhfostoffic_  •
every time you write to us for any purpose.
We cannot find your name on our books un*
less you do.
There are four ways by which money,
In payment for the Indiana Farmer, can
be sent by mall.at our risk,—by a Postoffice
Money Order; by a Registered Letter!
by a Bank Draft, or Postal Note.
Money Orders can be obtained at the Post-
offices of most of the large towns. For the
small amount of eight cents you can buy a
Money Order upon the Indianapolis postoffice, for the amount you wish to send us,
and we will be responsible for Its sate
arrival.
Registered Letters.—11 a Money Order
postofHee ls not within your reach, ask the
postmaster of your town to Register the
letter you wish to send us. Then, lf the letter ls lost or stolen, it can be traced. You
can send money In this way at oor risk.
Bank Drafts.—A Draft upon any city bank
we can use.it lt is made payable to the order
of tbe Indiana Farmer Co. We should
prefer Drafts upon New York, Cincinnati,
or Chicago banks. You can send money In
tbls way at our risk.
Postal Notes can be obtained for sums less
than five dollars at all Postoffice Money Order Offices. For a Postal Note, you must
pay three cents, and the Postal Note mnst
be Inclosed In your letter to ns. These
Postal Notes are payable to bearer, and
therefore are not so safb as a Money
Order.
Small Sums ot money generally reaeh ns In
an ordinary letter, but we cannot be responsible for losses unless you send In one of the
four ways mentioned above.
Silver by Mail.—Do not send over 26 cents
In sliver by mall unless you wrap it careful,
ly, and put an extra three-cent stamp on
the letter for every 50 centa In silver lt contains. Failure to observe this may cause
your letter to get lost.
Postage Stamps will be received In payment
for fractional parts of a dollar for subscriptions ot the denomination of one and two
cents. If larger denominations are sent,
they will be returned to the person who
sends them.   Address
INDIANA FARMEK CO.,
34 B. MARKET ST., INDJ.ANAPOXIS. IND.