THIRD 
Vol. VI. 
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ALBANY, DECEMBER, 1858. 
Items for Present Consideration. 
SERIES 
No. XII. 
Last month we endeavored to point out to our readers 
how, in a double sense, they were themselves the main 
spring of whatever of usefulness and interest The 
Cultivator has in times past attained, or anticipates 
in the future. 
The moral of that article will bear repetition : It is 
with more than ordinary earnestness that ice ask the 
aid of every reader in promoting the circulation of 
our next Volume. This is, 
Because the subscription list of The Cultivator 
suffered seriously during the “ hard times ” of a year 
ago. That this was owing more to the scarcity of 
change, and the trouble of picking up so small a sum 
as fifty cents from each member of a large club, is 
evidenced by the fact that the Co. Gent., a higher 
priced paper, felt the revulsion much the less injurious¬ 
ly of the two. It will need no little labor to recover 
our lost ground. 
Will our friends unite to perform that labor 7 IIow 
little exertion on your part, reader, will gather togeth¬ 
er a list of ten or twenty subscribers for 1859 ! We 
cannot believe you will find it an unprofitable task—so 
highly has the testimony afforded by long experience 
and close observation, led us to estimate the influence 
of reliable Agricultural Reading. Try the experi¬ 
ment ! 
if any one is disposed to object, “ What shall I get 
for my Fifty cents ?” we suggest the following 
Answer. —Look over the Index contained in this 
paper, showing what a book the year’s numbers have 
formed, the whole contents of which are here laid be¬ 
fore you, so that any subject can be referred to as 
easily as you can find a word in “ Webster’s Una¬ 
bridged.” Nearly Four Hundred pages compactly 
filled, requiring twelve or fifteen columns of finely 
packed type to enumerate and classify the hundreds of 
articles on the scores of subjects treated. Such a vol¬ 
ume, at book-publishers’ prices, would be cheap at 
two dollars! 
You have the reading of the numbers as issued, each 
coming fresh to you with the appointed month—carry¬ 
ing you over the farms of your own and other States, 
putting you in intercourse with the shrewdest of your 
co-laborers, and keeping you in acquaintance with all 
that is new and worthy of regard, as well as warning 
you of humbug and deception. And if you are a 
member of a club, you have only to pay the postage 
(two cents) to obtain also 
The Annual Register—W ith its full and complete 
Almanac, its hundred and odd pages of original read¬ 
ing matter, and its hundred and forty engravings. 
Is not this something for one’s Fifty Cents? You 
can get it for nothing— 
If you will lay the subject before Ten of your neigh¬ 
bors, and send their subscriptions with the necessary 
85.20 for the year. 
You can obtain two copies free, or a copy of Thomas’ 
Fruit Cultuiist , or Farm Implements , or the bound 
volume of Rural Affairs, (the Register for 1855-6-7,) 
or a bound vol. of The Cultivator for either 1853, ’54, 
’55, ’56, ’57 or ’58, by sending 810.40 for a club of 
Twenty Cultivators and Registers for 1859 
As some may be already provided with the Regis¬ 
ter for 1859, we will send Eight copies of the Culti¬ 
vator alone, for 83 a year, together with one copy of 
the Register as a Premium to the Agent; we will 
send Sixteen copies of the Cultivator one year for 86, 
with an extra copy of both the Cultivator and Reg¬ 
ister as a Premium to the Agent. 
Terms of Cultivator and Register for 18 59. 
One copy Cultivator and Register,* •• 75 cents. 
One copy Cultivator alone,. 50 cents. 
Ten copies Cultivator and Register,* 85 20 
N. B. Subscribers in the British Provinces will add 6 
cents a copy to the above terms, to cover U. S. postage 
to the lines. To them 10 copies of The Cultivator 
and Register will cost 85 80. 
We need not remind our friends of the importance 
of beginning early to make out their lists. We will 
send the Registers out to subscribers as heretofore, 
as soon as the orders are received, so that one who 
subscribes for the Cultivator for 1859, will imme¬ 
diately receive back Twenty five Cents of his money 
in the form of this valuable book. 
T3ie Coumry Gentleman. 
Subscribers to The Cultivator who would prefer a 
weekly journal, are reminded that. The Country 
Gentleman will begin its 13th vol. with 1859. The 
Cultivator is made up of a portion of its contents, 
and the Country Gentleman is referred to with con¬ 
fidence as standing at the head of our weekly Agri¬ 
cultural periodicals. It contains 16 large pages every 
week—making two yearly volumes (beginning respect¬ 
ively with January and July,) of over 400 pages each! 
furnished at the low price of 82 a year, or 82 50 when 
not paid in advance. Subscriptions commence at any 
time. 
