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editor’s table. 
Hints to Correspondents. —We should feel under 
great obligations to our correspondents when they ad¬ 
dress us to observe the following rules :— 
1. Procure good pens and deep-colored ink, and then 
write in a clear plain hand—especially proper names, 
technical terms, unusual words, or those taken from 
foreign languages. If under the necessity of making 
many erasures and additions after the article is written, 
copy it. 
2. Never use a capital letter in beginning a word 
which comes in the body of a sentence, unless it is 
known to be proper. Avoid joining words together in 
writing. 
3. Never use a dash at the close of a sentence, but 
a period. Printers always follow “ copy,” and in re¬ 
vising a communication, we are obliged to go through 
the labor of erasing all improper points, and substitu¬ 
ting the proper ones. If one has not been in the habit 
of leading “proof” from the press, he had better mere¬ 
ly add the period at the end of each sentence, divide 
his communication into proper paragraphs, and leave 
the arrangement of minor matters to the judgment of 
the proof-reader, who is daily accustomed to the occu¬ 
pation, and will usually point the matter in hand more 
correctly than any one else, savd professed scholars. 
He will also correct any misspelling, or errors in gram¬ 
mar. 
4. Use the plainest and most simple words at com¬ 
mand, and above all things, avoid the learned, or hack¬ 
neyed phrases of “ modus operandi,” “ make two spears 
of grass grow where one did before,” “ your valuable 
paper,” “ your invaluable paper,” &c., &c. 
5. Introduce as much practical matter into commu¬ 
nications, as possible ; and be full, clear, and concise, 
tn relating facts. 
6. When forwarding a good communication for this 
paper, you need not pay the postage; it is only when 
gentlemen address us upon their own business that we 
require the prepayment of letters. But as postage is a 
heavy bill to us, we hope our correspondents will, when¬ 
ever possible, avail themselves of private conveyances, 
and of franking by postmasters, members of Congress, 
and ©dicers of the government. So long as the frank¬ 
ing privilege exists, it can not be better employed than 
in the cause of agriculture. Political documents are 
franked by the ion ; may we not then ask the same 
privilege for a few pounds weight of those relating to 
agriculture. All letters addressed to us as Editor, and 
sent by Express, from courtesy to the profession, go free. 
7. Always leave a place for the seal, otherwise a 
word or two important to the sense is lost, and an ed¬ 
itor’s ingenuity must be taxed to fill it up. 
By following the above rules, correspondents will 
save us a great deal of trouble, and be much more cer¬ 
tain of seeing their communications correctly printed. 
Remittances. —We wish invariably, that our subscri¬ 
bers would remit through postmasters. If they enclose 
a dollar in a letter and pay single postage, the bill is 
detected in it by the office in this city, and then we are 
charged perhaps 25 cents more; and if the bill hap¬ 
pen to be at discount, it makes it a losing business to 
send the paper for it. The aggregate of our losses in 
this way are very considerable, and we earnestly en¬ 
treat all to make use of the franking privilege hereaf¬ 
ter in their remittances, as the law allows. 
To Mechanics—Agricultural Implements. —We 
are constantly in the receipt of orders for the purchase 
of different kinds of agricultural implements, and the 
venders of these will find it much to their interest to 
forward us cuts of the same, accompanied with brief 
descriptions, and stating their prices. 
Credit Quotations. —We have been so frequently and 
so kindly noticed by the press in general, and find our 
brother editors such really clever fellows, both in the 
English and Yankee acceptation of the term, that it is 
with the greatest reluctance we ever call their atten¬ 
tion to the slight omission of occasionally not giving 
credit when quoting from us. 
“ Wintering Sheep.” The Mississippi Valley Farmer 
copies this from us into its February number without 
credit. 
“New Method ofMaking Manure.” The editor of the 
Raleigh N. C. Star makes the following cool observa¬ 
tions: “We published the following some weeks ago, 
but having been called on by several friends for copies 
of the paper containing it, which we were unable to 
furnish, we concluded to republish it, and as the ex¬ 
periment can be made with little trouble or expense, 
we hope they will give it a fair trial and report the re¬ 
sult for publication.” It then copies the whole of the 
article which was published in our paper, page 164, 
Vol. II., by permission of the author, in advance, from 
the Farmers’ Mine, without giving credit. This article 
is then copied into the Southern Cultivator, No. 4, Vol. 
II., crediting it to the Star. 
“ Superior Dutch Cheese.” The Connecticut Far¬ 
mers’ Gazette sins in its March number by not giving 
us credit for this. 
“ Foreign Agricultural News.” By way of parenthe¬ 
sis, we must say to our excellent friends of the Dollar 
Farmer, that those items copied into Feb. No., page 
127, are not all taken literally by us from the Garden¬ 
er’s Chronicle, but mostly condensed from pages of la¬ 
borious reading; we think, therefore, we ought to have 
credit for it. In addition to this, there are two little 
articles in the same number copied from us without 
credit; but when so much credit is given us in this 
paper we will say no more—’t is the printer’s imp who 
makes all this mischief, so there is an end of our grum¬ 
bling for this month. 
Assembly Report of the Committee on Agriculture .— 
This report occupies only eight pages ; but like every¬ 
thing else coming from Dr. Lee, the chairman of the 
committee on agriculture in the Assembly of New York, 
it is condensed and able. Dr. Lee has the faculty of 
saying a great deal in a few words, a quality which we 
wish was more cultivated by the politicians of our 
country. Buffalo may well be proud of its representa¬ 
tive. We see that the Assembly has paid the commit¬ 
tee the compliment of ordering ten times the usual num¬ 
ber of these reports to be printed. Dr. Lee also intro¬ 
duced, some weeks since, a bill to establish ail Agri¬ 
cultural College, but has not yet sent us a copy—we 
should be glad to receive one. We wish we had more 
room to notice his report; but a hundred things are 
already crowded out of this number of our paper which 
ought to have gone in. 
A Second Edition of the American Agriculturist .— 
Although we struck off a large edition of the first three 
numbers of the present volume of this paper, they are 
already exhausted by our greatly-increased list of sub¬ 
scribers. We hope, therefore, those recently sending 
in their names will have patience, as we shall print a 
second edition of the back numbers in a few days, im¬ 
mediately after which those recently sending in their 
names will be supplied. 
John Blount. —This celebrated horse has taken his 
stand for this season, at Mr. John Drew’s stable, near 
the Union Course, Long Island. He is said to be ail 
animal of great substance, and very compact and sym¬ 
metrical. He was foaled March, 1837, and is by Ma¬ 
rion, out of Maid of the Brook. He has been celebra¬ 
ted on the course, having once distanced Boston. His 
terms are $30 the season. 
