376 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
The Baok Volumes of the American Aqricultubist, 
neatly bound, can now be supplied from the commence¬ 
ment. These of themselves constitute a beautiful and 
valuable Farmer’s Lidrarv, embracing a compendium 
ol all the important agricultural articles that have ap- 
peareed during the last thirteen years. First ten volumes, 
new edition, furnished bound for $10. 
Bound volumes XI, XII and XIII (new series), $1 50 per 
volume; unbound, $1 per volume. The whole thirteen 
volumes furnished bound for $14 50. 
Agriculturist. 
New-York, TBmrsday, August 23. 
This paper is never sent where it is 
riot considered paid Jot—and is in all cases 
stopped when the subscription runs out. 
SPECIALLY INTERESTING TO ALL OUR SUB¬ 
SCRIBERS. 
For two years past we have been con¬ 
stantly importuned by great numbers of our 
subscribers, to add to this paper a “ News 
Department .” Say they, “ We like your 
Agriculturist better than any other paper, 
and can not do without it—but we also want 
news, and now we must pay for two papers, 
which w T e are not all of us able to do.” 
We have felt the force of these oft-repeat¬ 
ed requests, but have not heretofore yielded 
to them, for two reasons.: First , we wish to 
make the Agriculturist peculiarly agricultu¬ 
ral in its character; and fill its pages chiefly 
with such matter as will be of a high order, 
and adapted to binding or preserving ; and, 
Second, we have ourselves little inclination 
for devoting the amount of time and thought 
to miscellaneous reading which would he 
required of us, in order to make up what we 
consider a well-digested miscellaneous news¬ 
paper ; and we may add, as a third reason, 
that we consider the condensed column of 
items of news usually made up for religious 
and agricultural papers, as very dry and un¬ 
satisfactory, and little calculated to give 
correct and desirable views of the progress 
of the social and political world. To say a 
certain law was passed, a disaster happened, 
a battle fought, a riot occurred, a building 
was burned, &c., without the accompanying 
circumstances, is dry detail—it is the skele¬ 
ton of a body without the living organs, the 
nerves, blood, muscles and color that give it 
animation. 
These are some ol the considerations 
which have deterred us from making the 
Agriculturist a general newspaper. But we 
think we have at last hit upon a plan, which 
will furnish our readers with just what they 
desiie and need, viz : both an agricultural 
journal, of the first order, and a comprehen¬ 
sive newspaper, and that, too, at no greater 
price than is now paid for the Agriculturist 
alone. Our plan is this : 
First —The present volume closes with 
No. 104—-two weeks hence—and at that 
time we propose to increase the Agricultu¬ 
rist to 24 pages, printing it on superior paper 
to that now used, and devote its pages ex¬ 
clusively to such matters as pertain strictly 
to rural life (see new Prospectus on last 
page), and to issue it on the first of each 
month instead of weekly, and to reduce the 
price to one dollar a year-1- half its present 
rate. The size of the pages and style of the 
monthly paper will be uniform with the pres¬ 
ent weekly issue, and suitable for binding 
up with it. Several pages now devoted to 
prices current, markets, advertisements, and 
miscellaneous matters, will be omitted, and 
nearly the whole 24 pages be devoted to 
practical agriculture, gardening, stock rais¬ 
ing, domestic economy, &c. 
Second —To supply a full and complete 
newspaper, with an extensive department of 
reports upon produce and live stock markets 
and other agricultural news. We have ar¬ 
ranged with Messrs. Raymond, Harper & Co., 
to print for us weekly an extra edition of the 
N. Y. Weekly Times, one of the largest 
newspapers in the country. This we shall 
mail each week to all our present unexpired 
subscribers, together with the monthly Ag¬ 
riculturist, with no additional charge for 
the full term of their unexpired subscrip¬ 
tions. 
The Agricultural matter of the Times, em¬ 
bracing recent agricultural intelligence, am¬ 
ple and detail reports of the produce and 
live stock sales, prices, &c., is prepared by 
Mr. Judd, who has for two years past been 
the chief Editor of the Agriculturist, and 
who will still continue to conduct its pages. 
Any of our subscribers who may now 
be subscribers to the Weekly Times, or who 
do not wish to receive the Times in this 
manner, will please give us prompt notice, 
and to all such we will give a credit for the 
Agriculturist for twice the time now due 
them on subscription. 
All subscribers whose time expires now, 
or in the future, who may wish to re¬ 
new, can do so at half the former rates for 
the Agriculturist alone, or for the former 
rates for the Agriculturist and Weekly Times 
combined. That is, for the enlarged Agri¬ 
culturist— 
One copy one year.$1 00 
6 copies one year. 5 00 
10 copies one year. 8 00 
20 copies one year.15 00 
Or, for the Agriculturist monthly and the 
Times weekly, mailed regularly at our of¬ 
fice— 
One copy of both papers 1 year. .$2 00 
3 copies of both papers 1 year.. 5 00 
10 copies of both papers 1 year.. 16 00 
20 copies of both papers 1 year.. 30 00 
We make the above arrangement in full 
confidence that it will be highly pleasing to 
all our readers, for in no other way can they, 
for the same money, obtain so large an 
amount or such a variety of the first order 
of agricultural matter, in a superior style, 
and adapted to preserving in a permanent 
form, and at the same time be supplied with 
a complete general newspaper, of a high 
order and comprehensive character. 
As we shall print no larger edition of the 
Times than is required by our subscribers 
from week to week, we hope all expiring 
subscribers who wish to avail themselves of 
this arrangement, will at once renew their 
subscriptions, so as to receive the first num¬ 
ber of the Times, which will be issued on 
the 13th of September, and thereafter week¬ 
ly, and the first number of Volume XV of 
the Agriculturist, which will be mailed on 
the first day of October, and thereafter 
monthly. 
Patent Office Seeds. —The purity and 
value (?) of some of these seeds may be 
learned by referring to the last part of our 
report of the New-York Horticultural Soci¬ 
ety. 
Receipts for Saving Tomatoes for Win¬ 
ter Use. —Will our subscribers who under¬ 
stand an effectual, economical method of 
saving ripe tomatoes for cooking through 
the winter, oblige the public by communi¬ 
cating the best methods for insertion in the 
American Agriculturist. 
HICXOK’S CIDER MILL. 
We well remember when youngsters, the 
formal parade of cider making; how the 
heavy wooden nuts and the large open vat 
had to be scrubbed up after their year’s ex¬ 
posure to every kind of hen and pigeon and 
rat nuisance ; how the press alongside of 
them was associated in the general purgation; 
how the massive wooden screws had to be 
greased, a year’s accumulation of scantling 
boards and rubbish, had to be put out of the 
way to allow old Dobbin to pice his 
solemn weary rounds ; the long clean straw 
had to be provided, with all the other “pomp 
and circumstance ” waiting upon an import¬ 
ant annual foray; and all this had to be 
done whether there were two or two hun¬ 
dred barrels of cider to be made. 
All this is now done away, and in the place 
of this cumbrous paraphernalia we have a 
small machine, less than three feet by four, 
with hopper grinders, crank or pully, as de¬ 
sired, with a box to catch the juicy pulp, a 
lattice vat, follower, and iron screw, with 
which two men may grind and press more 
apples in a day than could be done with an 
equal number of hands, and old Dobbin to 
boot. And all this can be had for $40, and 
when done with for the season, it can be 
cleaned up and put away in any garret or 
cellar, and not occupy the room of more than 
4 or 5 flour barrels, instead of requiring a 
nicely covered area of 20 by 30 feet. For 
the information of those not accustomed to 
these machines, we suggest that the pulp, 
after grinding, requires to be exposed in 
shallow tubs for a few hours before pressing, 
as there is a chemical change required, 
which results from the union of the oxygen 
of the atmosphere, thus ripening it for arich- 
erjuice than would otherwise be made from 
the recently expressed fruit. 
A western Exchange says that green beans 
or snaps, green peas and roasting-ears may 
be had every day in winter at a very trifling 
amount of trouble. They are all preserved 
by being packed away in salt. The salt is 
removed before cooking by steeping in warm 
water. He had on the table a fine dish of 
snaps on last Christmas day, and used them 
afterwards through the winter as desired. 
c 
