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Enclosed I send you a list of names which I shall hold 

 myself responsible for, though I have not had an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing many of the persons. 



I wish those who are anxious to extend the circula- 

 tion of the paper, would act a little more upon my recom- 

 mendation in the November No. 1 Induce people to take 

 the paper, money or no money — I will advance the money, 

 and take my pay of subscribers in anything that grows 

 by cultivation. 



Friends of agricultural improvement, common schools 

 and common sense, be up and doing — doing good — cause 

 this paper to circulate — to be read — and those that read, 

 must, will, shall improve. And upon your death bed you 

 will remember with gratitude, the founder of this paper, 

 and I hope also with ample reason therefor, the present 

 editors, that they have been the means of not only in- 

 creasing your own happiness, but of enabling you to do so 

 much good to so many of your fellow creatures. 



Let every subscriber who is able, take two papers, one 

 to preserve and bind, and one on purpose to lend. Let 

 them also be introduced into common schools. 



Gentlemen editors and proprietors, my best wishes are 

 with you Most respectfully, 



Solon Robinson. 



Lake C. H. la., Dec. 14, 1839. 



Burning Prairies, &c. 



[Albany Cultivator, 7:33; Feb., 1840] 



[December 15, 1839] 

 Editors of Cultivator — I have just read an account 

 in the "Christian Keepsake, Philadelphia," of the "burn- 

 ing of a prairie, and a whole family that perished in the 

 conflagration," that is going the round of papers that de- 

 light in the marvellous, and which is calculated to create 



1 "A Hint to the Publisher and Friends of the Cultivator," sug- 

 gesting that the commission for securing subscribers be a postage 

 allowance. Cultivator, 6:181. 



