Agriculture is the most healthful, the most useful, and the most 
noble employment of Washington. 
Vol. I. New-York, January, 1843. lo. lO. 
A. B. Allen, and R. L. Allen, Editors. Saxton & Miles, Publishers, 205 Broadway, 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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TO OUR PATRONS. 
f In issuing the Tenth No. of the American 
Agriculturist, we cannot refrain from wish* 
ing our friends the compliments of the sea¬ 
son, and may they, one and all, live to enjoy 
many a coming merry Christmas and happy 
New Year. They will find this number 
handsomely embellished and abounding in 
valuable original matter. We could have 
easily made it entirely original , as well as 
all the preceding numbers, but have prefer¬ 
red the course of inserting occasional ex¬ 
tracts from our cotemporaries, when suited 
to our purpose and of a valuable kind. Any 
one of these, or of the excellent articles con¬ 
tributed by our correspondents, is not unfre- 
quently worth the subscription price of this 
paper. 
Our correspondence is extensive, embrac¬ 
ing not only the different States and Territo¬ 
ries of the Union, but the British Provinces, 
and foreign lands. We have taken measures 
to still further increase these entertaining and 
instructive communications, and also to add 
greatly to the embellishments of our periodi¬ 
cal. It is our intention to make the forth¬ 
coming volume fully equal, if not superior, 
in matter and embellishments, to any Agri¬ 
cultural paper in America; and although 
some may have the advantage of a longer 
standing before the public, we hope we may 
be considered equally well entitled to patron¬ 
age. Will our friends then, come forward 
to our assistance, and aid us with an efficient 
patronage, and increased exertions in our be¬ 
half'l 
If each of the subscribers we now have, 
would procure us five additional names, we 
think our subscription list would be equal to 
that of any kindred paper. It is very easy 
for one and all to do this, and then they 
would be entitled to a sixth copy gratis , and 
have the consciousness of being co-workers 
with us, in elevating and enlightening the 
agricultural class—the bulwark of the Repub¬ 
lic , and of aiding in spreading such informa¬ 
tion among it, as ranks second only to sacred 
and moral literature. 
We feel under particular obligations to the 
press for the kind things already said of us, 
and as this is a period when new subscrip¬ 
tions to agricultural periodicals frequently 
commence, we again throw ourselves upon 
its indulgence, and shall be still more in¬ 
debted by its future notices of our contin¬ 
ued publication, and whenever it is compati¬ 
ble to copy this notice, we desire greatly 
that it may be done. 
