THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST; 



A MONTHLY PERIODICAL 



Deafgnetn to fnqprcriie tije farmer, tije planter, t&e Sstock*3Srertetv 

 ant« tijc j^ortfcultutfst 



A. B. ALLEN, Editor. 



"Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment 

 of man."— Washington. 



TERMS. 



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THREE COPIES TWO DOLLARS. 



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The American Agriculturist is now in the seventh year of its publication 

 From its commencement it took a high stand ; and has ever since been considered 

 by the press and all unbiased judges, as the LEADING PERIODICAL of its class 

 in America. It has a large and rapidly increasing circulation throughout the 

 United States, the Canadas, and other British possessions, the West Indies, and 

 South America ; and we may fearlessly assert, that it has given more reliable in 

 formation on rural subjects, and been perused with greater general satisfaction, 

 than any paper of the kind yet published. 



Th£ American Agriculturist treats of every description of domestic animals 

 and poultry ; their characteristics, breeds, the best and the worst ; their advanta- 

 ges and disadvantages ; their mode of breeding, feeding, rearing, and treatment ; 

 their uses, profits, management, &c. It also treats of all cultivated crops, inclu- 

 ding fruits, shrubbery, &c. ; the best seeds, mode of planting, cultivating, gather- 

 ing, and preparing for markets ; the general principles of vegetation and the laws 

 of vegetable life. It describes the principles of mechanics as applied to machine- 

 ry used by farmers and planters ; the best machinery and implements for agri- 

 culture, their uses and the particular superiority of some over others, and their 

 adaptedness for particular purposes, &c. 



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It also gives the latest improvements in those implements which may have been 

 made, and suggests others ; tells where they are to be found, and the benefits that 

 will follow from their use. It also specifies new objects of cultivation, and how 

 they may be better prepared for a profitable market and more general use. These 

 are a part only of the objects of this paper ; yet they, with the other subjects 

 treated, are of universal interest and general application. Nineteen-twentieths of all 

 that is to be found in it is of the same use to one part as to any other part of 

 America. Yet we find people constantly objecting that it is not printed in then- 

 particular section of country, and that it is not suited to their wants. Does it 

 make any difference where a boy acquires his education, provided it be a good 

 one and he be correctly taught 1 Where he studies his profession of divinity, 

 medicine, or even law 1 Cannot he take the principles he has acquired, and apply 

 them equally well in any part of America? Are not the blessed sunlight ol 

 heaven, the rain, the dew, the heat, and the frost, though sometimes differing in 

 degree, of equal relative effect wherever they are felt, whether within the tropics 

 or the polar circles, the eastern or western hemisphere 1 



If the question were as to a choice between a good paper printed here or there, 

 it were another matter. But throughout extensive regions this is not the case, 

 and it is either a good paper or none hi all ; and even if there were one for every 

 particular section of country, we nrgnt still urge a general circulation for our 

 own ; for no one will embrace ali that is important to be known. 



