Stacking Grain—Our Terms—To Subscribers—Ag. Journals—Reading Room.—X. Y. Ag. So. 
way, over that of placing it in barns, we 
stated under head of “ Tour in England, 5 ’ 
page 135 of our August No., to which we re¬ 
fer the reader; where it will be seen what 
a great saving would be made to this country 
by adopting it. We had three fine stacks of 
oats nearly ruined the past season, in conse¬ 
quence of being put up a little too green, in 
the usual close method *of stacking ; that is, 
with no air hole in the centre, and resting on 
a double course of rails, bringing the bottom 
entirely too near the ground. We shall take 
care to adopt the English method in future. 
By stacking their grain, our farmers will not 
be obliged to make such a rush as they do 
now to market, and glut it immediately after 
harvest, and by reference to Mr. L. F. Allen’s 
letter in this No., they will see the economy 
of feeding fresh threshed straw to cattle. 
OUR TERMS. 
O^Taking into consideration the hard times, 
and the repeated representations of agents, 
that they could do better for us, if allowed 
to remit smaller sums, with a fewer number 
of subscribers ; we have come to the con¬ 
clusion to send Three copies of our paper, for 
every Two Dollars forwarded us free of post¬ 
age / and this last can always be done, if 
our friends will but bear in remembrance, 
that they are permitted to order the work 
free in all cases, by handing the money over 
to their respective Post Masters for this 
purpose. 
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 
Id 3 We feel deeply grateful to our friends, 
for the liberal manner in which they have 
responded to our address of the past month. 
Our subscription list has increased since our 
last No. went to press, beyond our most san¬ 
guine expectations ; indeed more than dur¬ 
ing any three preceding months, and at this 
rate, we can say without the shadow of boast¬ 
ing, that it will soon be fully equal to that 
of any other agricultural paper whatever, in 
the United States. We shall endeavor to 
merit their favors by superior embellish¬ 
ments, finer type, larger paper, and a much 
more varied and extensive correspondence 
for the succeeding volume; although in all 
these matters, we think we are doing pretty 
fairly, as this No. will fully show. All we 
now want is a few more active agents. Not¬ 
withstanding the hard times, thousands 
would subscribe if we could be brought to 
their notice or personally solicited • for what 
is a dollar for such a volume as the Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist, of 384 pages, handsomely 
embellished ; forming a complete manual ah 
most within itself, of planting, farming, hor¬ 
ticulture, and stock breeding, together with 
much other varied and most interesting mat¬ 
ter 'l Any man can spare a single dollar if 
he will only think so. He does it for many 
a thing, we will venture to say, every year, 
of nothing like the value and interest to him 
or his family, that our paper would be. 
By the article above, it will be seen 
that we have reduced our terms somewhat, 
and made them extremely liberal to agents. 
Any paper copying these, and calling atten¬ 
tion to them, or inserting our Prospectus 
and forwarding us the notice, shall be en¬ 
titled to one year’s subscription, or any twelve 
Nos. of the American Agriculturist. 
ADVANTAGES OF AGRICULTURAL. JOURNALS. 
In the latter part of the sixteenth century, 
Sir Walter Raleigh had made the discovery, 
that the potatoe was a nutritious vegetable. 
He then introduced it into cultivation among 
his tenants ; but it spread slowly, and was 
not brought over to this country by emi¬ 
grants, till a company of Irish Presbyterians 
settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire; 
and it was forty years more, before this ex¬ 
cellent root had become a regular dish on the 
farmer’s table, even in New England. Now, by means 
of agricultural journals, how soon would the discovery 
of any new vegetable as valuable as the potatoe, be¬ 
come known throughout the land, and be brought into 
general cultivation? We will venture to say, if only 
a single bushel were this day in existence, five years 
hence the country would be pretty fairly stocked with 
it; so rapidly would a knowledge of its good qualities 
and the profit and advantages of cultivating it, be dis¬ 
seminated. And thus the agricultural papers of the 
present day, would be the means of accomplishing as 
mnch in five years, as was done in the olden time with¬ 
out their aid, in two centuries. And are they not now 
annually bringing about the same result, though per¬ 
haps in a less degree, than the supposed one stated 
above ? What man, then, with the least regard for the 
progress of his profession; the development of the hid¬ 
den wealth and resources of his country; or the in¬ 
creased comforts and happiness of his species, will re¬ 
fuse to subscribe for one or more agricultural papers ? 
OUR OFFICE AND READING ROOM. 
It is our intention soon, to so enlarge our office, as 
to make it an agreeable lounge and reading room, to 
such as please to favor us with a visit. They will 
find all the American agricultural publications here, 
together with those of most value from Europe, besides 
political and other journals, containing the news of 
the day. 
N. Y. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
For an account of the annual meeting of this Socie¬ 
ty, we refer the reader to page 344; the proceedings 
having come to hand so late, we could not give them 
that conspicuous place in our paper which they merited. 
