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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PUBLISHERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT! 
Agricultural Exhibition, Illinois State. 
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“ and Hort. Society, Tompkins Co ... 
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Crops in Mississippi. 
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Farmers’ high school in Penn. 
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Kansas bull story. 
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Special Notices to Subscribers, Correspondents, &c. 
Prepared Covers.— We keep constantly on hand pre¬ 
pared covers for Volumes XI, XII, XIII, and XIV, which 
will be furnished at 25 cents each. These have stamped 
sides, and gilt backs, are uniform, and can be put on by 
any book-binder, at a cost of 25 cents. They can not be 
mailed very conveniently. 
Agents’ Receipts, etc. —A number of persons in differ- 
ent parts of the country have interested themselves in 
procuring subscriptions for this paper, and we have not re¬ 
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Those more immediately connected with the Office are 
furnished with regular Office receipts, signed, and en¬ 
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when these are presented, no one need have the least 
hesitation in receiving them, as we do not give them out 
to irresponsible persons. 
When sending a subscription always state what num¬ 
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volumes neatly bound can now be furnished from the 
commencement. Price of the first ten volumes $1 25 
each, or $10 for the entire set of ten volumes. Vols. XI, 
XII, and XII, $1 50 each. Price of the thirteen volumes, 
$14 00. 
We can generally furnish back numbers. Where only 
one or two may be wanting, no charge will be made to 
regular subscribers, and all numbers lost by mail we will 
cheerfully supply. 
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nection with any business whatever which does not relate 
directly to the affairs of the paper. When practicable, we 
are glad to attend to any reasonable request made by sub¬ 
scribers. 
Subscriptions can begin with any number, but it is prefera¬ 
ble to commence the 15th of March or the 15th of September, as 
a half yearly volume of 416 pages, with a complete index, begins 
on each of those dates. 
FOUKTEEMTH VOLUME OF 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
THE LEADING WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL PAPER OF THE COUNTRY. 
The American Agriculturist, 
A weekly Periodical of 16 large quarto pages , making an annual volume of 832 pages of 
nearly double the size of those in the first ten volumes of the Agriculturist. 
N. B.—The work is divided into two semi-annual volumes of 416 pages, each volume having a 
complete index. 
It is beautifully printed with type cast expressly for it, and on the best of clear white paper, with 
wide margin, so that the numbers can be easily stitched or bound together. 
A copious Index is weekly added, which will be fully amplified at the end of each half yearl ' 
volume, for the bound work. 
COMPREHENSIVE IN ITS CHARACTER. 
Each volume will contain all matter worth recording, which transpires either at home or abroad, 
and which can serve to instruct or interest the Farmer, the Planter, the Fruit-Grower, the Gar¬ 
dener, and the Stock-Breeder ; thus making it the most complete and useful Agricultural Publica¬ 
tion of the day. 
CORRECT AND VALUABLE MARKET REPORTS. 
The Markets will be carefully reported, giving the actual transactions which take place from week 
to week, in Grain, Provisions, Cattle, &c., thus keeping our readers constantly and reliably advised as 
to their interests. During the past year the knowledge obtained from these Market Reports alone, 
has saved our readers thousands of dollars, by informing them of the best time to sell or purchase. 
SUCH A PAPER IS DEMANDED BY THE FARMING COMMUNITY. 
The Publishers confidently believe that the Agiiculturists of this country are becoming too much 
awake to the demands of their own calling, to be longer satisfied with slow monthly issues of a 
paper professedly devoted to their interests, or to trust alone to the irresponsible extracts in a “ Far¬ 
mer’s column,” so popular just now in papers chiefly devoted to business, politics, or literature , 
and they look for the united support of all tire intelligent Farmers of this country in their continued 
effort to furnish a weekly paper of high and reliable character, which shall be progressive, and at the 
same time cautious and conservative in all its teachings. 
ESSENTIALLY AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER. 
The Agriculturist will not depart from its legitimate sphere to catch popular favor, by lumbering 
up its pages with the silly, fictitious literature, and light, miscellaneous matter of the day ; it has a 
higher aim ; and a small part only of its space will be devoted to matters not immediately pertain¬ 
ing to the great business of Agriculture. The household as well as the out-door work of the farm 
will receive a due share of attention. The humbugs and nostrums afloat in the community will be 
tried by reliable scientific rules, and their worthlessness exposed. It is the aim of the publishers 
to keep this paper under the guidance of those who will make it a standard work, which shall com¬ 
municate to its readers only that which is safe and reliable. 
AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL 
The A merican Agriculturist stands upon its own merits ; and the laborious zeal and ability 
which it brings to the support of the interests of the farmer. It is untrammeled by any collateral 
business connections whatever ; nor is it the organ of any clique, or the puffing machine of any man 
or thing. Thoroughly independent in all points, its ample pages are studiously given alone to the 
support and improvement of the great Agricultural class 
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. 
The American Agriculturist is under the control and management of Mr. ORANGE JUDD? 
A. M., an experienced farmer, whose knowledge of practical chemistry, soil analysis, &c., will ena¬ 
ble him to sift ihe “scientific ” nostrums and humbugs of the day. Mr. Judd is wholly independent 
of business connections of any kind, and will take good care that no collateral interests shall, in the 
slightest degree, interfere with the truthfulness and reliability of every department of this Journal. 
Mr. A. B. Allen, one of the originators of the Amervan Agriculturist, in 1842, and for a long time 
principal editor, will still continue to aid its progress by his counsel and editorial contributions. 
Constant editorial assistance will also he given by Mr. Lewis F. Allen, an eminent practical 
farmer, stock breeder, and fruit grower; Rev. Wm. Clift, and Mr. R. G. Pardee, both widely known 
as pleasing and instructive writers on gardening and other departments of practical Agriculture, and, 
by a large number of other eminent Agricultural and Horticultural writers. 
THE CHEAPEST PAPER IN THE COUNTRY OF ITS CHARACTER. 
The American Agriculturist is supplied to regular subscribers at a cost of less than four cents a 
number, of sixteen large pages; and to large clubs lor a trifle less than three cents. Each 
number will contain suggestions for the treatment of soils, manures, crops, stock, &c., which will 
often be worth to the reader more than the cost of the paper for a year. 
SPECIMEN COPIES. 
Specimen copies will be forwarded gratis to any one sending their name and Post-office address 
to the publishers. 
TERMS, &c.—The paper will be promptly issued on Thursday of each week, and mailed to 
subscribers on the following liberal terms: 
To single Subscribers.$2 00 a year, $2 00 
“ Clubs of 3 do. 1 67 “ 5 00 
“ “ 5 do. 1 60 “ 8 00 
“ “ 10 do. 1 60 “ 16 00 
The money always to accompany the names for which the paper is ordered. 
The Postmaster, or other person sending a club of ten, will be entitled to one extra copy gratis. 
The Postmaster, or other person sending a club of twenty or more, will be presented with an 
extra copy, and also a copy of the National Magazine, Scientific American, Weekly Tribune, or 
Weekly Times, or any other paper or periodical in this City, the cost not exceeding two dollars 
per annum. 
Subscriptions may be forwarded by mail at the risk of the Publishers, if inclosed and mailed in 
the presence of the Postmaster, and the name, number and letter of the bill registered. 
ISP Communications for the paper should be addressed to the Editors ; Subscriptions, Advertise 
ments and all matters relating to the business department, should be addressed to the Publishers, 
ALLEN & CO., Wo. 189 Water-st., Ncw-York. 
