Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful , and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. VII. NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1848. NO. XII. 
A. B. Allen, Editor. C. M. Saxton, Publisher, 121 Fulton Street. 
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Another year has passed, and with this num¬ 
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