Agriculture is the most healthful, the most useful, and the most 
noble employment of Man.-— Washington . 
NO. XII. 
VOL n. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 15, 1843. 
A. B. Allen, Editor. Saxton & Miles, Publishers, 205 Broadway. 
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 
The present No. of the American Agriculturist 
brings our Second Volume to a close, and we trust 
in reviewing it our subscribers will feel satisfied 
that we have accomplished all that we promised 
them in our last No. of the First Volume. Of the 
Editorial department, we have nothing to say, 
farther than we wish it had been in our power to 
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has treated more fully than they ever were before 
in any similar publication; and we are only re¬ 
peating what has often been said to us, that our 
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work on the Agriculture of North America that 
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in the American Agriculturist, we are struck with 
astonishment that every farmer on the continent 
