Agriculture is tine most liealtlxy, the most useful, and the most 
noble employment of Man,~WasMngton. 
Vol. 1. Mew York, April, 1842. Mo. 1. 
A . R. Allen, and R. L. Allen, Editors. 36 Park Row. Geo. A. Peters, Publisher* 
“THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST” 
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44 The American Agricultural Magazine.” 
A Work of the above title will be issued from this Office, as soon 
as a, sufficient number of Subscribers shall have been obtained, to 
justify commencing the publication. It will consist of sixty-four 
pages monthly, of which the American Agriculturist will constitute 
a part, embellished with one or more fine engravings in each number, 
and in the selection from the most enlightened Foreign works, and 
a more enlarged discussion of matters pertaining to American Agri¬ 
culture, than can be given in our present columns ; it is intended to 
supply a place for the general Farmer, not afforded by any periodical 
now published. 
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and will therefore be subject to newspaper post¬ 
age only, which is one cent in the State, or within 100 miles 
of its publication, and one and a half cents if over 100 
miles without the State. 
The Prospectus for the present work, on a some¬ 
what different plan, was issued in December ±ast, 
with the expectation that the first number would be 
published in January, but unavoidable circumstances 
have prevented either ®f the Editors from coming to 
this City to attend to its publication till the present 
time. 
It will hereafter be punctually issued on the first of 
every month, and should it be ascertained to be the 
wish of our Subscribers, all the numbers constituting 
the first volume, may be issued before the last of 
December ensuing, so as to commence the second 
volume with the first of January, 1843. 
It will be perceived by our terms above, that we 
intend publishing an enlarged Agricultural Journal, 
to be called “The American Agricultural Maga¬ 
zine.” Such a work has been urgently demanded by 
the more advanced and scientific Farmer and Planter, 
and will contain most of the interesting matter to be 
found in Foreign works, adapted to American soil,) 
climate, and production, with more extended and sci¬ 
entific discussion and illustration of farming stock and 
of home productions, than is suited to the general 
and popular taste. ,, 
As this will be attended with considerabe expense, 
we must wait the expression of public opinion for 
a short time, which we shall look for, accompanied 
with such substantial and convincing arguments, (viz. 
the remittance of their suscriptions,) as will enable 
us at once to commence the publication of a work 
so desirable to the Agriculturists throughout the 
country. Should the publication of this work be de¬ 
layed for a considerable time, the subscriptions for¬ 
warded will be returned, or applied to the “American 
Agriculturist,” at the option of the Subscribers. 
TO OUR READERS. 
In introducing ourselves to the public as the conduc¬ 
tors of a new Agricultural Journal, we should do 
injustice to their good sense, not to confess frankly, a 
diffidence in entering upon a career, which is in the 
extent and weight of its obligations, new, arduous, 
and responsible. 
It is but a few years since the first agricultural 
periodical issued from an American press, to flicker 
for a short period before the listless gaze of public 
apathy, and then expire for want of adequate support. 
In like manner several papers of conceded merit suc¬ 
cessively rose and sunk, until at last, from their unre¬ 
quited efforts, the spirit of our people was aroused to 
the importance of agricultural information, and the 
public mind had become awake to a partial apprecia¬ 
tion of the necessity of scientific enquiry as connected 
with the cultivation of our soil, and the general improve¬ 
ment of our farming system. In accordance with 
the public demand, several useful and well sustained 
papers have sprung into existence within the last few 
years, which from the intelligence they have imparted 
on agricultural subjects throughout the country, have 
added millions to our national wealth and prosperity, j 
We too, have come into this ample field as laborers. 
In doing so, we arrogate to ourselves no superiority of 
intellect, or higher sources of knowledge than are pos¬ 
sessed by our contemporaries and fellow Journalists. 
We seek only to enlarge the boundaries of that high or¬ 
der of intelligence, which we know the pursuits of an en¬ 
lightened system of husbandry require, and we trust 
we shall so demean ourselves in conducting ourwork 
