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you stand in cash matters. On the next 
page commence your cash account. Exam¬ 
ine your pocket book, count every cent and 
charge cash with the amount, and when 
money is received, place it on the debit side, 
with the date and the wherefore of its re¬ 
ception. When money is paid out, give 
cash credit therefor, not in the ambiguous 
term of “ sundries,” but the items, with such 
explanations as will enable you to know the 
reason and amount of every expenditure. 
At the end of every month strike a balance ; 
count your cash and see that it is all right. 
By following this mode, you can tell at any 
moment what you are worth and the amount 
of your expenses, while scores of foolish 
purchases, which otherwise you would make 
without thought, will never disgrace you or 
your cash-book. H. L. R. 
Remarks. —To all our readers who are 
wondering why they do not grow rich, we 
commend the very sensible exhortation of 
our correspondent. The beginning of a new 
year is a good time to turn over a new leaf 
in our business habits, and keep matters in 
a more snug condition. It would probably 
astonish most farmers to look back over the 
year, and see how many fools’ pence have 
slipped out of their purse. Conscience will 
rarely disturb them for these things, unless 
they keep a record and review it. We know 
of many a tiller of the soil, not over rich, 
whose tobacco bills, if invested in guano and 
seed-wheat, and put into the bank of earth, 
would supply his family in flour the year 
round. This is one of the small holes in his 
pocket. Let him summon resolution, and 
begin to book his expenses, and he will soon 
find out the leaks in his ship. Let these be 
stopped, and he will not long want capital to 
make improvements upon his farm, and put 
him on the road to competence and wealth. 
Lo& of Hogs on Grand Island. —The late 
snow storm seems to have been more inju¬ 
rious in jits results on Grand Island than 
upon either shore, and a greater depth of 
snow fell there than on the main land. A 
resident upon the Island thinks it reached 
three feet upon a level! The hogs which 
were suffered to roam at will about the 
Island, having been caught in the snow, were 
generally destroyed. Several hundred prob¬ 
ably met their death in this way. The 
poor creatures, when found, were huddled 
together, as if they died inviting warmth 
from each other. In one place twenty 
were thus found in a body, all frozen stiff. 
The loss will fall severely upon the farmers. 
Buffalo Democracy. 
Venison. —It is a singular but pleasurable 
fact, that venison, fresh, fat and tender from 
the forests, is cheaper now in St. Louis than 
beef, mutton and pork. The editor of the 
Intelligencer says:—We have seen fine 
“ quarters” bought at four cents a pound re¬ 
cently ; and “ saddles” are bought by the 
dozen at eight cents. 
An “Anthracite” Locomotive has been 
running successfully upon the Boston and 
Providence Railroad during the past week, 
and has received the approbation of the cor¬ 
poration. The steam is generated entirely 
by anthracite coal, and the train is run at as 
economical and rapid a rate as with any 
other kind of fuel. 
He who learns, and makes no use of his 
learning, is a beast of burden with a load of 
books hitched to him. 
CREDENTIALS OF THE AMERICAN AGRICUL¬ 
TURIST. 
From the Scientific American. 
_The American Agriculturist is one of 
the best journals of the kind now pub¬ 
lished. 
From the Windham County Telegraph. 
_The New-York Mirror never came 
nearer the truth, than in the following short 
sentence : The American Agriculturist is a 
newspaper that no practical or scientific 
farmer can do without. Our readers all 
know our opinion of the publication, and 
many of them have for some time known 
the publication itself. Selections from it are 
by no means rarities in our agricultural col¬ 
umns. 
From the New-Brunswick Times. 
...-W r e clip the following extract from a 
notice of this excellent agricultural paper, 
from the People’s Journal for the month of 
October. Read it and subscribe : “A friend 
of ours now temporarily residing in France, 
partly in order to acquaint himself with 
French agriculture, to whom we have been 
sending a number of agricultural papers, 
writes us as follows : ‘ You may discontinue 
all the papers except the American Agricul¬ 
turist. After reading and comparing them 
all for some time, the American Agriculturist 
suits me best. It comprises the substance 
of the whole of them. I find in its pages a 
greater variety of agricultural information 
than in any one of the others.’ The above 
is the deliberate opinion of a practical man, 
and we take pleasure in adding to it our own 
endorsement.” 
From the Hartford Courant 
_The American Agriculturist is a. first- 
class journal. 
From the Repository and Whig. 
....It is one of the very best agricultural 
journals in the country. 
From the Germantown Telegraph. 
....It is a weekly, well printed on the 
best paper, and is a “ crack” implement, ful¬ 
ly able to plow its own furrow. 
From the Miners’ Journal. 
_This work is eminently worthy the 
patronage of farmers, affording ample infor¬ 
mation on all subjects in which they are in¬ 
terested. 
From the Monmouth Enquirer. 
.. ..The American Agriculturist is always 
filled with entertaining and instructive mat¬ 
ter for the farmers of our country._ 
From the New-Jersey Standard. 
_Our readers are scarcely aware of its 
value, or we should see large lists coming 
among our agricultural population. In quar¬ 
to form, on good paper, well printed, and 
ably edited, and illustrated, price only $2 a 
year, with reductions to clubs, do not let us 
hear of a member of the new Monmouth 
County Agricultural Society being without a 
copy of it. 
From the Weekly Gazette. 
_It is one of our most valuable ex¬ 
changes..... 
From the Derby Journal. 
_It is devoted,exclusively to the cul¬ 
ture of the soil, and is conducted with marked 
ability, combining scientific research with 
results of experience. 
From the New-York Observer. 
....We have great pleasure in calling at¬ 
tention to this valuable weekly. It embraces 
a large amount, and a rich and well chosen 
variety of useful information—adapted to the 
reading of every family which takes an in¬ 
terest in the natural productions of earth, of 
art, and of mind..... 
From the News and Advertiser. 
....This is an excellent agricultural pa¬ 
per..... 
From the Dollar Times. 
... .We notice that this leading agricultur¬ 
al paper has entered upon the eleventh vol¬ 
ume. It is issued weekly, each number 
containing sixteen large quarto pages, and 
furnishes a great variety ofthe earliest,most 
reliable, and practical information on all sub¬ 
jects connected with farming, planting, gard¬ 
ening, fruit growing, stock breeding, &c. 
From the Niagara Courier. 
American Agriculturist is the title of the 
best agricultural journal onour exchange list. 
There are papers among us professing to be 
devoted to agriculture, which are mere im¬ 
positions, their conductors having no knowl¬ 
edge of the subject, practical or scientific, 
and no positive talent of any kind. The 
American Agriculturist is conducted with de¬ 
cided ability. Its editors are practical farm¬ 
ers, and well understand the subject on 
which they write. It is published on a su¬ 
perior article of paper, and at the close of 
the year, will make a valuable and conve¬ 
nient volume for reference. 
From the Hartford Daily Times. 
-It is the cheapest paper of its charac¬ 
ter in the country. 
From the Ohio Democrat. 
....Farmers that are taking their own 
county paper, and feel able to do so, can not 
do better than to subscribe for the American 
Agriculturist . 
From the Connecticut Whig. 
... .If any of our readers wish to subscribe 
for a paper devoted to the farm and garden, 
we should recommend the American Ag?i- 
culturist . 
From the St. Mary’s Gazette. 
-If there is an agricultural work pub¬ 
lished in this country, that can be called truly 
American in its character, the American Ag¬ 
riculturist is the one. It is national in its 
principle, in its character, and in its sympa¬ 
thies. It is an honor to the nation, and to 
the cause in which it is engaged, and a bles¬ 
sing to every farmer who enjoys the privi¬ 
lege of reading its richly stored pages. 
From the Abingdon Virginian. 
....It is a journal entirely worthy of the 
patronage of the country. 
From the Suffolk Gazette. 
-It is overflowing with subjects inter¬ 
esting and valuable to all..... 
From the Shelby Democrat. 
-Farmers desirous of securing a relia¬ 
ble agricultural paper, in our opinion can 
not do better than to secure the American 
Agriculturist. It is filled with the choicest 
original and selected articles. 
From the Misissippi Chronicle. 
....This valuable work is neatly gotten 
up, ably conducted, and is decidedly the i 
leading agricultural paper of the country. A 
new volume has just commenced making it 
a very good time to subscribe. Every farm¬ 
er should read it...„ 
From the Farmers’ Cabinet. 
... .It is beautifully printed, ably edited, 
and worthy of a place in every farm house. 
We cheerfully recommend it to our readers 
as the best of our exchanges devoted entire¬ 
ly to agriculture..... 
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Mammoth Potato. —We were shown the 
other day a potato, ofthe yam species, which 
beats anything we have ever seen in the po¬ 
tato line. It measured 21b inches in length 
and 3Ii inches in circumference, weighing 
10 lbs. 8 ounces. It was raised on the plan¬ 
tation of Cornelius Beasley, on the Aucilla 
River. We understand the average yield 
per acre was 300 bushels. If any of our 
friends can beat this, we would like to know 
it. [Credit Lost. 
True prayer is not a human, but a celestial 
gift—the fruit of the Holy Spirit praying in 
us and with us. 
Love of children is always the indication 
of a genial nature, pure, unworn, and unself¬ 
ish heart. 
