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Notices of the Press—To Correspondents. 
York, price Five dollars per annum, payable in advance. 
Although no sportsman in the common acceptation of the 
term, we yield to none in admiration of that noble quadru¬ 
ped the horse, or affection for the friend of man, the dog, 
and love and enjoyment of all manly exercises in the 
open air. Of course with these predilections, the Re¬ 
gister has always been favorite reading with us. It is 
the only authentic record of blooded stock in the United 
States, and is especially devoted to breeding, training, 
and sports of the field. It is got up in fine style, and 
compares favorably with similar English periodicals. 
The engravings for the January No. are the Hen Roost, 
a comical affair, and that phenomenon of racers, Fash- 
ion, with her honest clever little jockey, Joe Laird, 
upon her back. She is a splendid creature, showing 
great power and substance; but as we propose to our¬ 
selves the high gratification of soon calling upon her, 
in company with Mr. Porter, at the hospitable mansion 
of her owner, Mr. Gibbons, we shall defer further talk 
upon these matters till that happy period. 
The Spirit of the Times, edited and published as 
above. Who has not cognisance of the “ Spirit ,” and a 
certain personage that embodies it—’ycleped the “ tall 
son of York.” If any one can be so ignorant, we will 
only say, that with kindred subjects to the Turf Regis¬ 
ter, it unites all sorts of sports and amusement, and 
whenever we feel dull and moody, we have only to take 
this dovm, when it is sure to take us up and drive the 
blues beyond speaking distance. Its contents are more 
light and varied than the Register, and this also is su¬ 
perbly embellished. A portrait will soon appear in it, 
of Col. Johnson, of Virginia, most truly entitled the 
“ Napoleon of the Turf,” although he here and there 
gets a Waterloo defeat, as in the memorable instances 
of Eclipse and Fashion. A portrait of Fashion also, 
will soon appear here, on a much larger scale than 
that in the Turf Register, besides other things in pro¬ 
gress, which will be announced in due time. The Spi¬ 
rit of the Times is a large folio sheet of 12 pages, 
weekly, price Ten dollars a year. 
Several of our contemporaries have made their ap¬ 
pearance in the commencement of a new volume the 
past month. We intended to have noticed them all in 
this number, but the foreign news has compelled us to 
forbear till the next. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
We have received -from Mr. Collins, of Hartford, 
Chairman of the Committee of the N. Y. State Agri¬ 
cultural Society, on cows, heifers, and calves, com¬ 
prising classes Y. YI. VII. and VIII. a manuscript 
copy of the report which was made on this subject, at 
the late annual meeting; and we must say, that it is 
one of the most valuable and searching documents of 
the kind we have eve^ read; and so completely har¬ 
monizes with our own views of the matters of which 
it treats, that we shall publish a good part of it next 
month, and other portions from time to time, as texts 
for some reforms in agricultural shows, which we pro¬ 
pose to give for the consideration of our readers here¬ 
after. 
Mr. F. W. Stillman’s letter, enclosing a sketch of Mr. 
Cones newly invented Dynamometer, having been left 
at the office of the American Institute, we did not get 
it till too late to insert in this No. of our paper. We 
have now received a letter from Mr. Cone, accom¬ 
panied with a drawing explaining the Dynamometer 
more at length, this will appear next month. We 
are not the less obliged to Mr. Stillman for his prompt 
reply to our wishes, and only regret the letter had not 
been dropped into the Post Office, we should have then 
got it the same day. E. Cornell, an Illinois Farmer? 
C. M. Gidings, John J. McCaughan, and M. W. Phil¬ 
lips, will appear in our next. We are also happy to 
say that the two first Nos. of a series of Essays on fine 
woolled sheep are at hand; and these will be continued 
monthly hereafter, till the whole subject and its bear¬ 
ings is fully discussed. The writer has great experi¬ 
ence in sheep husbandry, has traveled extensively in 
Europe, and made his own importations. We are also 
to have a series of Essays on the middle woolled and 
mutton sheep, by one who has resided in Europe some 
time, and long bred the animals about which he will 
discourse. We can promise our readers a rare treat from 
these able essays. They will be accompanied by en¬ 
gravings illustrating the subjects. Some other com¬ 
munications are under advisement. 
ID=* Notices of the Annual Fair of the Planter’s Club, 
at Hancock, Georgia, and Mr. Colman’s intended Eu¬ 
ropean Agricultural Survey were put in type, but ow¬ 
ing to miscalculation, room was not left for them. 
They will appear in our next, 
iLf 3 We wish especial notice taken of 
WHAT FOLLOWS :- 
We print on the first page of every number of our 
paper, that Postmasters are permitted E>y 
Law, to enclose money for ^Ascrip¬ 
tions, and order onr paper Free of 
Postage. And yet we are taxed more or less every 
day by orders without this precaution. The postage 
of a letter may seem a small thing to talk about, but 
suppose according to our present terms, a correspondent 
encloses two One Dollar bills in a letter, and puts it 
into the mail himself, expecting Three copies of our pa¬ 
per ; the result is, perhaps, that we are taxed 25 cents 
for the letter and 25 cents for each bill so enclosed, 
making 75 cents in all, which deducted from $2, leaves 
$1 25 to the publishers, or less than 42 cents for each 
volume of the American Agriculturist, and perhaps a 
discount on the money then at that. We beg our sub¬ 
scribers to pay attention to this, for our postage in the 
aggregate is a heavy bill. 
THE NEW WORLD AND OURSELVES. 
We have engaged to contribute from time to time 
through the present year, a series of papers to the 
above ably conducted Family Newspaper, to be called 
Agricultural Tour in England. These will not be so 
strictly confined to the subject of agriculture as the 
numbers which appear in our own columns, but, will 
take a more discursive range, and treat of all such 
matters as fell under our observation while abroad, 
which we may think likely to interest so large and gen¬ 
eral a class of readers as constitute those of the New 
World. We shall also insert a short summary weekly, 
of agricultural news, both foreign and domestic: all 
which cannot fail to give additional interest and value 
to this paper. 
The New World is now published exclusively in the 
Royal-octavo size, than which nothing can be more con 
venient for binding, or to adorn one’s library. Its con¬ 
tents are of a high moral character, and each numbei 
has a clear and well arranged digest of the news of the 
week, political, social, literary and miscellaneous—in 
eluding all matters which are of real interest, foreign 
and domestic ; and we can assure our readers, both in 
town and country, that they will find this among the 
very best family newspapers of America ; and in sub¬ 
scribing for it, they will desire little else. It is pub¬ 
lished weekly, and contains 32 pages, double columns, 
Royal octavo, in clear type, on fine paper, handsomely 
embellished with numerous engravings ; making a 
