Agriculture is the most healthful, the most useful, and the most 
noble employment of Man.— Washington . 
VOL, ill. NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1844. NO. XII, 
A. B. Allen, Editor. Saxton & Miles, Publishers, 205 Broadway. 
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 
With this No. our Third Volume is brought to 
a close, and thus ends our editorial labors for the 
year 1844. It has been our study throughout to 
instruct and interest our readers, and how success¬ 
ful we have been in these endeavors we must 
leave for them to determine. The first number of 
Volume Fourth will be promptly issued on the 1st 
of January, 1845. 
In continuing the American Agriculturist, we 
have few new pledges to give or promises to make, 
more, than it shall be conducted, as hitherto, with 
a single eye to the interests of the Farmer, Planter, 
Stock-Breeder, and Horticulturist, and the general 
advancement of agricultural science. We trust 
that we shall continue to be favored, as heretofore, 
by the contributions of our friends; for very much 
of the interest and usefulness of any agricultural 
periodical must depend mainly upon this. To 
many among the thousands who peruse this work, 
omething new is continually developing itself, 
which would be of more or less value to the pub¬ 
lic if communicated in our columns. Let our read¬ 
ers bear in mind, that periodicals of this kind seek 
not to accomplish the selfish ends of a mere party, 
but the welfare of the whole community; and 
whatever zeal and energy is exerted in their behalf, 
must necessarily contribute to the public good. 
The Northern and Southern Calendars being 
now complete in this volume, we shall publish 
regularly in our next, a Calendar for the South¬ 
west, written expressly for this journal, by that 
eminent agriculturist, the Hon. Adam Beatty of 
Kentucky. We shall also commence a Boys’ De¬ 
partment, comprising about two pages per month, 
and if our friends will assist us in it, we shall be 
able to keep it up throughout the year, and thus ren¬ 
der the work more acceptable to our youthful read¬ 
ers. We wish some one would volunteer to make 
us a Ladies’ Department of the same amount of 
matter, for we feel totally inadequate to attempt 
anything of the kind—and yet the farmers’ wives 
and daughters ought not to be neglected. In addi¬ 
tion to the above, we shall be at greater expense 
than heretofore in illustrations of our work, de¬ 
signed expressly for it. We solicit sketches of 
anything new and useful in agriculture, which if 
not too expensive, we will get engraved and insert 
in our pages. 
With these things in prospect before our readers, 
we trust that all subscriptions to the American Agri¬ 
culturist will be promptly renewed. The terms 
