PREFACE. 



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The following pages contain the essence of the Boston 

 Cultivator^ which was published weekly, in newspaper form, 

 during the year 1839. 



Our original subscribers will recollect that we promised, at 

 the commencement of our paper, to furnish each one of them, 

 at the close of the year, with a bound book, containing the 

 principal portion of the permanent and most valuable articles 

 of the paper, at the same price that is usually paid for bind- 

 ing a volume of newspapers. 



We dislike the quarto form for a newspaper, for, in reading, 

 we are not always sure we put the proper parts together to 

 match ; and the expense of binding our large folio sheet would 

 be one objection to preserving the papers in that form. Anoth- 

 er serious objection would be the room the folio must occu- 

 py, and the labor of holding it while examining its contents. 



For these reasons, many of our early patrons requested us 

 not to give them a quarto sheet, and all have now an oppor- 

 tunity of securing, in convenient form, the spirit and substance 

 of the fifty-two numbers. 

 Cv^ When we commenced the publication of the Cultivator we 

 n supposed a book as large as our annual registers would be 

 ^^ of sufficient size to contain all we might wish to preserve ; but, 

 on trial, we find we are obliged to make our book much larger 



