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ALBANY, JANUARY, 1858. 
No. I. 
Published by Luther Tucker & Son, 
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. 
Associate Ed., J. J. THOMAS, Union Springs, N. Y. 
PRICE PIFTY CENTS A YEAR. 
The Cultivator has been published twenty-four years. 
A New Series was commenced in 1853, and the five vo¬ 
lumes for 1853, 4, 5, 6, 7, can be furnished, bound and post¬ 
paid, at $1.00 each. 
The same publishers issue "The Country Gentleman,” 
a weekly Agricultural Journal of 16 quarto pages, making 
two vols. yearly of 416 pages, at $2.00 a year. They also 
publish 
The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs 
—144 pp. 12 mo. — price 25 cents — $2.00 per dozen. This 
work was commenced in 1855, and the nos. for 1855, ’56 
and ’57, have been issued in a beautiful volume, under the 
title of “ Rural Affairs,”— containing 440 engravings of 
Houses, Barns, Out-Houses, Animals, Implements, Fruits, 
&c.—price $1.00—sent by mail post-paid. 
Tlie Twenty-fiftli VoLurne. 
The present number of The Cultivator will reach 
many who have not been familiar with it in the past, 
and a few words of introduction are therefore proper. 
Over half-a-million of the yearly volumes of this jour¬ 
nal have been subscribed for and issued to the farmers 
of the country since its establishment in 1833,—not a 
few of which are still preserved for consultation and 
reference. Enjoying thus a Popularity and Permanence 
unequalled in the annals of similar publications, it can 
also boast an unparalleled number of Correspondents, 
including in their range every section of the Union, 
and the British Provinces; and, as a consequence, it 
will be found to contain more of the real practice of 
Agriculture— more information of an available kind , 
than many periodicals of twice or four times its sub¬ 
scription price. The editors and publishers have pe¬ 
culiar facilities for placing it above competition—its 
connection with a Weekly Journal enabling them to 
expend a far greater outlay upon its contents, than its 
own large circulation alone would warrant. The vol¬ 
ume for 1857 is referred to as an example of the va¬ 
riety and value of its pages from month to month, 
while we hope the future will be an improvement even 
upon the past. Fifty Cents a year. 
For the character and scope of the Register of 
Rural Affairs, reference is made to the advertise¬ 
ment of that work on page 40. It has been uniform¬ 
ly pronounced an indispensable manual for every cul¬ 
tivator of the soil, and as no part of its contents is 
identical with those of the Cultivator, it forms a 
beautiful present to the subscribers of the latter work 
—compressing a vast amount into small compass, and 
illustrated most profusely and elegantly. Twenty-Jive 
cents a copy. 
Clubs of Subscribers for the Cultivator are 
supplied gratis with the Register, as follows: 
Price of 10 copies of both works,. $5.00 
Postage on the Register, (2 cts. a copy,).20 
$5.20 
Canada subscribers we are obliged also to charge with 
American postage on the Cultivator at the rate of 6 
cts. a copy, (60 cts. on a club of ten.) 
Premiums to Agents. 
In order to remunerate our friends in some measure 
for the assistance we receive from them—and as the 
prices of all our works are placed so low as to render 
any further reduction in the shape of commissions, ab¬ 
solutely impossible, we have for some years past offer¬ 
ed a number of prizes for competition to those engaged 
during the winter months in extending the circulation 
of our works. We have offered this year a list of pre¬ 
miums to be decided January first, but the awards of 
which this number goes to press too early for us to pub¬ 
lish. We now present another list to be decided April 
10, and open to the same competitors and subscriptions 
among which the J anuary premiums have already been 
awarded. 
1. For the largest amount of cash subscriptions to our 
Journals, at the lowest Club Rates, received at this 
office April Tenth, or previously, we will pay, 
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. 
2. For the TWO next largest amounts, each, 
TWENTY DOLLARS. 
3. For the THREE next largest amounts, each, 
FIFTEEN DOLLARS. 
4. For the FOUR next largest amounts, each, 
TEN DOLLARS. 
5. For the FIVE next largest amounts, each, 
FIVE DOLLARS. 
And that those who did not begin canvassing 
early enough for the January prizes, or who took one 
of the two lowest offered, (eiher $10 or $5) may have 
some inducement to compete more vigorously for the 
April list—should the first of the above premiums be 
taken by any one who in January received neither a 
first, second or third prize, we will make it Thirty-five 
instead of Twenty-five Dollars ; and should either sec¬ 
ond or third prize be taken under similar circumstan¬ 
ces, we will increase them each $5, (making them res¬ 
pectively $25 and $20.) 
121^* Twenty Copies Cultivator and Register 
sent by one individual, entitles him to a free copy of 
both. 
Show-bills and Prospectuses. —We shall be glad 
to supply these for general dissemination. Agents or 
others who have failed to receive them up to this time, 
or who wish further supplies, will please “make a note 
of this.” 
Post-Offices.— These and the State should always 
be specified with great care, and it is an additional pre¬ 
caution against mistakes to add the County. Clubs of 
subscribers may be sent to as many different offices as 
may be desired. 
