6 Review of the Season and Crops /or 1847. 
to gather the rich treasures of our soil — and thus add to the gene- 
ral amount of national industry and national wealth. 
And now, gentle reader, we have launched forth our frail barque, 
Cornucopia, on the ocean of Uncertainty, laden with the rich 
treasures of science, agriculture, horticulture, rural and mechanic 
arts, bound to the port of Prosperity ; trusting to the smiles and 
approbation of our friends, where we hope to find a ready cash 
market for our wares, and a quick and safe return. 
C. N. BEMENT. 
v^lbany, January, 1848. 
It is hardly necessary for us to ask indulgence, for this, our first 
number, or to remind our readers of the many difficulties we labor 
under in catering for them at first. We hope, however, in a short 
time to furnish a bill of fare to suit all palates. We shall suffer 
no chance to escape us of enriching our pages, with whatever 
may be useful and interesting to the agricultural community. 
REVIEW OF THE SEASON AND CROPS FOR 1847. 
BY WM. BACON. 
The connection of the physical sciences with the cultivation of 
the earth, is a fact so generally admitted, and by many so tho- 
roughly understood, that any remarks corroborative of its existence 
by many would be deemed superfluous, if not altogether intrusive. 
The effect of the seasons, therefore, and the state of the atmosphere 
attending them in their annual rotations, will necessarily be ad- 
mitted as matters of intimate relationship between seed-time and 
the successive periods to maturing harvests. 
But how are we to determine what the future will be with re- 
gard to its winds and storms, its frosts and floods, its dark, lower- 
ing clouds and melting sunshines, so as to regulate our move- 
ments in committing choice seed to the faithful bosom of the 
earth? Not by prying into the mysteries of the future surely, for 
