TO OUR READERS. 



Under the new Rates of Postage, this Journal will be charged, 

 those who receive it by mail, by the ounce, and by this means 

 vill amount to no more than the postage on a weekly newspaper. 

 Phe Postmaster General has made provision for transmitting 

 aoney to Editors, but we will not trouble the department with 

 'ur business. Subscribers will oblige us by transmitting their 

 ubscriptions to us by mail and we will pay the postage. 



We have been gratified with the expressions of unqualified ap- 

 robation with which the Journal has been received thus far, and 

 effort will be wanting on the part of the Editors to sustain its 

 haracter, and make it the first Agricultural Journal in this coun- 

 *y. And we would ask the efforts of our friends to add to our 

 st of subscribers. We have not yet undertaken to praise our- 

 jlves, but we might cite a large amount of recommendations, 

 ioth from individuals and from the public press. Still it is our 

 I'ish to stand upon the actual merits of the Journal, and of these 

 ar readers will judge. We think it will recommend itself to every 

 itelligent agriculturist. By that class of farmers who are already 

 )o wise to learn, we do not expect to be read. 



We are requested to notice the following errors in our lastnum- 

 it: Page 284, 18th line, and page 287, 9th line, for trimming 

 :ad thinning. 



Page 302, 23d line, for rot read root. 



Downing's " Fruits and Fruit Trees of America," was received 



late for notice. 



Some obscurity seems to exist in the explanation of the draw- 



gs on page 86. A millimeter is about 3^ of an inch. The 



visions of the attached scale represent hundredth parts of a mil- 



neter — each division, consequently, is equal to 2 jVo of an inch. 

 y applying this scale, therefore, to the drawing?, the exact degree 



fineness may be seen. 



