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Agriculture is the most healthful, the most useful, and the most 
noble employment of Man.— Washington. 
VOL. m. NEW YORK, MARCH, 1844 . NO. Ell. 
A. B. Allen, Editor. 
TEN THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS. 
If our subscribers continue to flock in for a few 
months longer as rapidly as they have since the 
commencement of this volume, we shall soon 
nave the pleasure of recording on our subscription 
book, Ten Thousand names Paid in Advance for 
the Third Vglume of the American Agriculturist. 
We had fixed this as our mark in commencing the 
present year; but we had no idea of being able to 
realize the number so soon as we now have every 
reason to hope we may. This speaks well for the 
agricultural community of our country, and shows 
that the farmers of America understand their true 
interests, and are determined not to march lack- 
ward. They can not by any possibility spend a 
few dollars so advantageously as in the support of 
agricultural papers. They are their best friends— 
their best guides—their best instructers—and they 
also deserve their best support. Indeed, next to 
their moral progress, the cultivators of the soil 
owe it to themselves, to their country, and to the 
world at large, to keep up with the improvements 
and the discoveries that are continually taking place 
in the science and method of agriculture; and that 
man will find himself sadly behind the spirit of 
the age, and many a dollar poorer, who does not 
monthly, carefully read and digest at least one 
Saxton & Miles, Publishers, 205 Broadway. 
good agricultural journal. A political paper in 
this city says, and we have no doubt truly, 
that it has received Twenty Thousand additional 
subscribers to its already large list within a few 
months. Now will not the farmers of this coun¬ 
try do as much for their own profession—the one 
on which all others depend—and without which 
the world would starve, as they will for politics ? 
It is the easiest thing possible to increase the 
circulation of the American Agriculturist, and 
even get it up to 20,000 subscribers. One gentle¬ 
man sent us 28 names last month from one single 
small town in New Jersey, and he said he should 
continue soliciting till he had got 50 subscribers 
for our paper. Would that all who know us would 
go and do likewise. If every Postmaster in the 
United States, and British Provinces, would send 
us three names only, we should then have at least 
40,000 subscribers. We are perfectly satisfied by 
a decided effort on the part of our friends that this 
might be easily accomplished. What a splendid 
journal we would then give the public. But as 
soon as we record the number for which we are 
now striving, namely, Ten Thousand, we shall 
come out in a still handsomer form than we now 
present to our readers, together with more illus¬ 
trations, and if possible, devote more attention to 
