editors’ table. 
37 
(Eiritors’ &abk 
To Subscribers. —The last number of the ninth vol¬ 
ume of the Agriculturist is before you. Have we ful¬ 
filled the promise that it should equal, if not exceed in 
value, any of those previously published ? If so, then 
it is worthy of your patronage; for it contains more 
matter that is interesting to the farmer, planter, gar¬ 
dener, and mechanic—to say nothing of the thousand 
valuable household items of information—than can be 
had for the same amount of money in any other form, 
even in these days of cheap literature. 
The tenth volume we intend to make still more valu¬ 
able ; and we have, therefore, no hesitation in urging 
you to continue to read, because we know you will de¬ 
rive information, useful to you in nearly all the indus¬ 
trial pursuits of life. Is it not your duty, in doing to 
others as you would be done by, to urge your friends 
to participate in its advantages and become subscri¬ 
bers also to this paper ? Are we not fairly entitled to 
compensation for our labor? The price of a single 
subscription is nothing to you; but ten thousand are 
something to us, for it takes nearly that number to pay 
expenses. Ho agricultural paper in the United States 
expends money so freely as the Agriculturist has done 
to obtain valuable and interesting information, and fur¬ 
nish embellishments for every number of the paper. 
Of the ability of the editors to make a paper valua¬ 
ble, we need only point to their previous works. Our 
correspondents from all parts of the country are equal 
at least, to those of any other journal of the same, 
character. 
Mr. Solon Robinson, whose name is familiar to all 
our readers, has made several long and expensive jour¬ 
neys through the United States, to collect information 
exclusively for this work; and before this article reach¬ 
es our subscribers, he will be on his way to Virginia, 
North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, for the 
same purpose. To defray all these extraordinary ex¬ 
penses, we must have subscribers. If “ the laborer is 
worthy of his hiredo not only what is due from 
yourselves, but persuade your neighbors and friends 
also, not to withold from themselves, their children, and 
household, information of inestimable importance to 
them. << 
The Fair of the American Institute. —Our intended 
notice of this annual exhibition of American industry 
is crowded out by other matter. The number of visit¬ 
ors was greater this year than upon any previous one. 
We have taken pains to ascertain correctly the amount 
of money received for tickets—$21,088, which, upon 
the usual ratio of calculation for free admission, will 
give 320,000, for the number that must have visited 
the fair at Castle Garden during the three weeks it 
was open. The advantage exhibitors gain by the op¬ 
portunity of extending a knowledge of their business 
among such a vast number of persons, and perhaps, 
getting orders for goods, is undoubtedly of considerable 
importance. 
Excursion Tickets to the World’s Exhibition.— 
The house of G. W. McHenry & Co., of Philadelphia 
will issue cabin-passage certificates for the Industrial 
Exhibition to take place in London next year. The 
tickets for the excursion to Liverpool and back are to 
be furnished at the low price of $100, including every¬ 
thing but wines and liquors. The trips will commence 
with the packet ship Mary Pleasants, to sail on the 15th 
of March next. 
The American Agricultural Book Publisher.— 
C. M. Saxton, the publisher of this paper, 123 Fulton 
st., (up stairs,) is justly entitled to the honor of the 
above appellation ; for he has already published more 
agricultural works than any other man in America, and 
will greatly increase the number during the present 
year. Among those lately published, is 
Johnston’s Lectures on the general relations which 
science bears to Practical Agriculture. Price, hand¬ 
somely bound in cloth, gilt, 7 5 cts.; in paper covers for 
mailing, 50 cts. 
But the cheapest valuable agricultural work ever 
published in this country, is that entitled Lectures on 
the Applications of Chemistry and Geology to Ag¬ 
riculture ; by the same author, (Prof. Jas. F. W. Johns¬ 
ton, of England,) an octavo volume of 700 pages, for 
one dollar in paper covers, or one dollar and a quarter, 
bound. This work can be sent all over the United 
States in paper covers by mail, for about 20 cts., pos¬ 
tage. Its cheapness and great value should induce ev¬ 
ery farmer in America to obtain a copy without delay. 
Valuable Work How in Press. —Mr. Saxton is re¬ 
publishing the great work of Youatt & Martin on 
Cattle, with all the original engravings ; and an addi¬ 
tion of the most reliable veterinary information of 
England and France ; together with a treatise on milk, 
butter, cheese, and the management of the dairy; and 
many other matters of interest to stock breeders. For 
the purpose of making the work more valuable, the 
publisher has employed Mr. Stevens, well known in this 
country as an importer of cattle and scientific breeder, 
to edit the work, and adapt it to the United States. 
East-India Pumpkins, from the garden and nurser¬ 
ies of Jacob Hewes, near Leipersville, Pa. We for¬ 
warded the above as directed, except one we kept our¬ 
selves, for the purpose of testing its quality, and here 
is the Captain’s acknowledgement. 
Friend Allen:—Your note, with the present from 
friend Hewes, has been received. These pumpkins are 
old Calcutta acquaintances of mine, which I am glad to 
meet with in this country, having lost the seed, I 
brought from there, by the mice. I appreciate these, 
not alone for their good qualities, but because it is the 
first acknowledgment I have ever received from any 
of your readers that they appreciate the labors of 
Reviewer. 
The Valley, Nov. 2oth, 1850. 
P. S. I shall forward the seed of the above in due 
time, with instructions to your seedsman to give one or 
two, only, to each person who calls for garden seeds in 
the spring. This will give them a wide circulation. 
