TO OUB PATRONS. 



We take this opportunity to inform our Patrons that our year is com- 

 ipleted with this number. We hope the Journal has been conducted so as 

 to satisfy the majority of our readers. We have received many flattering 

 expressions of regard for it. We shall continue it another year on the 

 same plan, and with increased efforts to make it what the farmer needs. 

 We shall be gratified if most of our present subscribers make up their 

 minds to patronize us the next year : if so, they may, if they please, 

 forward their subscriptions as early as convenient, say by the middle of 

 December. If they do not patronize the work, we shall esteem them just 

 as well. Whenever we find it is not wanted by a sufficient number to 

 support it, we shall stop it short at the close of the year ; for we have 

 something else to do than to beg for its life, and it shall not, while in our 

 hands, be suffered to taper off to the little end of a pipe stem. We seriously 

 contemplated reducing its price to two dollars, but found we could not, 

 and furnish such illustrations as the work demands. For further informa- 

 tion, we refer to the Prospectus. We would also call attention to a new 

 arrangement commencing with the present number, namely, the introduc- 

 tion of a division termed "Spirit of the Monthlies;" under which we 

 propose to make regular selections from the various agricultural periodi- 

 cals, whereby our subscribers will be furnished with much that is useful 

 and interesting, and which they could not obtain otherwise than by greatly 

 extending their subscription lists. A. J. PRIME. 



Albany, October 20, 1845. 



VOL. II. NO. II. 



