Agriculture is tlie most healthful, tlie most useful, and tlie most 
noble employment of Man..-- Washington. 
Vol. I. New-York, March, 1843. No. 12* 
A. B. Allen, and R. L. Allen, Editors. Saxton & Miles, Publishers, 205 Broadway. 
TO OUR READERS. 
In closing the First Volume of the Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist, vve cannot refrain from ex¬ 
pressing our grateful thanks to our nume¬ 
rous friends and subscribers, for the encour¬ 
agement they have given us throughout our 
arduous undertaking. It was a new and un¬ 
tried field, and if we have failed to pro¬ 
duce as abundant and benificent a crop from 
it, as others might have done under the same 
circumstances, we trust with a little more 
experience, and the able assistance of the nu¬ 
merous corresponding friends who now sur¬ 
round us, that we shall succeed better here¬ 
after, and give all that an exacting public 
may reasonably demand. For the Second 
Volume we propose the following improve¬ 
ments :— 
1st. A new and beautiful vignet. 
2d. A larger sheet, with a whiter and finer 
texture of paper. 
3d. A greater number of embellishments. 
4th. A more extensive and varied corres¬ 
pondence. 
We have also at a considerable expense, 
greatly enlarged our subscription list of 
Foreign Agricultural Periodicals, and shall 
hereafter, as in the past two months, care¬ 
fully condense their spirit and substance, into 
the largest space which can be allotted to this 
department, and thus strive to embody all that 
may promise to be of much practical utility 
to the farmer, stock-breeder, and horticul¬ 
turist. This will be attended with a la¬ 
bor of which few of our readers can have 
any conception, but our hearts are em¬ 
barked in the great and glorious cause of 
Agriculture, and our time and humble fa¬ 
culties shall be severely tasked to give it all 
the aid in our power. We look upon Agri¬ 
culture as the first of sciences, to which all 
others are but hand-maids ; and the time will 
come, and that we trust shortly, when the 
majority of this great nation will so think 
and act. Let a revolution of this kind be 
brought about, and it would soon quadruple 
the productive wealth, the comforts, the con¬ 
veniences, and refinements of the country. 
Is there any one then, in this wide land, who 
will not give his countenance and direct aid 
to Agriculture! All can do something—let 
every individual exert himself in its behalf. 
Before closing this article, we have thought 
it advisable to say, that the first nine num¬ 
bers of the work were got out under the di¬ 
rect supervision of the junior editor ; from 
January, the senior editor is wholly re¬ 
sponsible, his brother having returned to 
Buffalo, and he since making New York 
his permanent residence. Business of an 
important character requires the continu¬ 
ance of R. L. Allen in Buffalo ; and in con¬ 
sequence of this, it has become his wish to 
retire from the responsibilities of the edito¬ 
rial department, and the work in future will 
be conducted by A. B. Allen as sole editor. 
R. L. Allen will continue his contributions 
as usual, but over his own signature, and he 
trusts that his appearance as a correspond¬ 
ent, will receive the sanction of the readers 
