Agriculture is the most healthful , the most useful , and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL- V._NE W YORK, JANUARY, 1846. NO. 1- 
A. B. Allen, Editor. Saxton & Miles, Publishers, 205 Broadway. 
TO SUBSCRIBERS. 
We send this number of our paper to all sub¬ 
scribers to the last volume, hoping that they may 
And it agreeable to renew their subscriptions, and 
continue with us another year. Such as do not 
wish the Agriculturist continued, will please return 
this number immediately, and unmutilated, with the 
name and Post-office address on the wrapper (not 
on the paper), when it will be stopped. Recol¬ 
lect that the subscription is cash in advance, and we 
wish expressly that none be forwarded by Post- 
office drafts, it is so troublesome to collect them. 
The money may, in all cases, be enclosed in a let¬ 
ter, and sent direct to the publishers, at their risk. 
The terms remain unaltered. Single copies, One 
Dollar; three copies for Two Dollars; eight copies 
for Five Dollars. Agricultural Societies, Clubs, 
and agents, supplied on the most liberal terms. 
The work being stereotyped, back volumes, hand¬ 
somely and uniformly bound, can at all times be 
had. These now form one of the best Encyclo¬ 
paedias on American agriculture to be found, and 
ought to be in every library. No money can be 
better spent than in devoting it to the purchase of 
this excellent work. The farmer who does not 
possess it is without his best friend. Many refuse 
to take an agricultural paper on the ground that 
they cannot afford it, when, at the same time, they 
annually spend dollars in the most useless or 
worthless things imaginable. We have often heard 
»t said, that a single article in our paper has saved 
rhe reader five or ten times its subscription price. 
How beneficial, then, must it be in the aggregate to 
the farmers of the country! England and other 
foreign countries are making rapid strides in the 
arts of the husbandman, and they owe the advan¬ 
tages of their progress mainly to their agricultural 
periodicals 
TO EXCHANGE PAPERS. 
Our exchanges will please do us the favor of 
noticing the commencement of a new volume, with 
its character and terms; and also, if convenient, 
copy these as they appear on the last page. We 
shall be obliged if editors and post-masters gene¬ 
rally, will act as agents, or get some responsible 
person to do so. Our paper does not conflict at all 
with theirs, and by exerting their influence in our 
behalf, they may greatly subserve the best interests 
of the country, and assist in ameliorating the con¬ 
dition of the farmer. By lightening his toil, and 
teaching him how to grow a larger product per 
acre, with the same capital and labor hestow r ed, 
millions are added to the productive wealth of the 
country, society is advanced, and comfort and hap¬ 
piness frequently produced, where none now exist. 
We trust that none will be found slack in their 
efforts, and that renewed exertions will be made 
by the friends of agriculture to carry this journal to 
every farmer’s door in the land. 
TO THE LEGISLAJTURE. 
At the last session of the Legislature, a bill was 
introduced and attempted to be passed in the House, 
directing every County Superintendent of Common 
Schools in the State, to subscribe for as many 
copies of the Albany Cultivator as there wrnre 
School Districts in their counties—the subscription 
and postage to be paid by the State, out of the 
SchooMund. This bill would have given upwards 
of $12,000 to a single agricultural paper! at the 
same time that there were FOUR others in the 
State equally meritorious—equaily valuable to the 
farming community—and equally deserving public 
patronage. We are of opinion.that.the Legislature 
could not pass a wiser, and more beneficial act tha^ 
such as should disseminate agricultural jpurna-. 
