Dec. 
THE CDLTI VATOR. 
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The Country Gentleman for Agricultural 
Societies. —The Executive Officer of one of the most 
flourishing County Ag. Societies in this country—situ¬ 
ated in one of the best-farmed districts of Pennsylva¬ 
nia, recently wrote as follows : 
“I expect to send you more names for the Country Gen¬ 
tleman from our Society for next year, than will be 
done by any other Agricultural Society in the Uni¬ 
ted Slates. I shall address a circular on the subject 
to every member, offering him the paper at Club 
rates, for I do not know any better way to ad¬ 
vance the interests OF our Society, than to in¬ 
duce our members to read the Country Gentle¬ 
man.” 
It is proper to add that the writer of the above is not 
only well qualified to judge of that whereof he speaks, 
from his long experience in conducting the affairs of an 
Ag. Society, but also from actual observation of the 
results produced by the circulation of the Co. Gent. 
and The Cultivator. He has been in the habit of 
ordering both our journals for several years past, and 
his orders have shown a constant annual increase until 
now, as will be seen above, he is taking measures to 
multiply their number still farther, and to extend 
their influence over a wider surface. We desire to 
commend this subject to the thoughtful consideration 
of the Managers of other Societies. Our Journals are 
not local in their character. We hope, through a cir¬ 
culation constantly enlarging in every part of the 
Union, to render them more useful in, and make them 
contain a greater amount of matter practically adapted 
to every part of it, than can be obtained at the same 
prices from any other source. 
It is to the Agricultural Press that Agricultural So¬ 
cieties owe in a great measure their success—at least 
it may be said without fear of contradiction, that they 
are co-workers together in a cause which may be best 
advanced by their mutual efforts. By offering our 
Journals as Premiums, and by the means alluded to in 
the above extract, much may be accomplished. Our 
terms to Agricultural Societies are the same as those 
to Clubs of ten, viz., $1.65 per copy for the Co. Gent. 
and Register, and $1.50 per copy for the Co. Gent. 
without the Register For the Cultivator with the 
Register, 52 cents per copy; for the Cultivator 
without the Register, 38 cents per copy. Those into 
whose hands this paper comes, if not officers of Agri¬ 
cultural Societies themselves, are earnestly requested 
to suggest the subject to their friends who do occupy 
that position before the public. Specimen numbers of 
our Journals and a copy of the Annual Register will 
be sent for examination to any one applying for this 
purpose. 
Farmers Should Keep Accounts.— One of our best 
practical farmers—one who began with nothing but a 
“sound mind in a sound body,” and who has proved 
that farming can be made profitable by his own prac¬ 
tice, writ s us as follows :—“ I believe it would be an 
excellent practice if farmers would pay greater atten¬ 
tion to ascertaining more accurately the cost of their 
crops. It would be a stimulant to better cultivation 
and larger crops. No intelligent man will carry on 
any business long at a loss, and no one needs to if he 
will only count the cost as he goes along. He will 
either economize and exert himself to bring some means 
to bear upon his business to render it more productive, 
or abandon it. Farming never need be abandoned in 
this country as an unprofitable business by any one 
that knows how to do it in a proper way, but there are 
thousands that deceive themselves in the profits by not 
counting all the cost. It is, in my opinion, important 
to occasionally call their attention to these things, and 
cause them to think more, and get more into a system 
of keeping a profit and loss account with the farm.” 
St. Helena Potatoes. —I want you should accept 
a small box of potatoes from me. I raised 125 bush¬ 
els of them. I got the seed from the Island of St. 
Helena four years ago. They are good to yield and 
good to cook. I call them St. Helena, and if you know 
any better name for them please give it. Horace 
Warren. South Lansing , Tompkins Co.. N. Y. 
The box came to hand last week. The potatoes are 
excellent, and are, we are inclined to believe, identical 
with those we have received from Mr. Howatt and 
Mr. McMahon, under the name of Prince Alberts. 
Sending Strawberry Plants by Mail. — The 
plants of Wilson’s Albany Seedling strawberry which 
were mailed for me on the 28th ult, by Mr. Richard¬ 
son of your city, came safely to hand on the 3d inst., 
looking as fresh as though they had just been taken 
out of the ground. I planted them on the 4th, and 
from present appearances I do not expect to lose one 
plant, for they look vigorous and well I placed them 
alongside Peabody’s Seedling, so that I could test the 
merits of both. Thomas Pryce. La Grange , Mis¬ 
souri, Oct. 6. 
Fine South Downs for the West. —The Hon. 
John Wentworth of Chicago, has added to the ex¬ 
tensive herds and flocks on his large farm near that 
city, the two years old and yearling South Down rams, 
which received the first prizes at the late State Fair at 
Syracuse. They were purchased of Samuel Thorne 
of Thornedale, by whom they were bred. They were 
both by his celebrated imported ram “ 112,” and from 
ewes also from the flock of Jonas Webb of Babraham 
Fine Grapes. —Dr. H. II. Farley of the Union’ 
Springs Vineyard, will please accept our thanks for a 
box of excellent Isabella and Catawba grapes from 
his admirably managed grounds, of which we gave an 
account a few weeks since. We never saw grapes of 
these two varieties more thoroughly ripened, or of 
more perfect flavor—many of the berries of the Isa¬ 
bella measured full four fifths of an inch in diameter, 
although grown without any forcing process, but with 
good culture and pruning merely. 
The Information our Farmers Want. —A cor¬ 
respondent says—“Reliable and useful facts are what 
the people need, and are pleased with. If A. grows 134 
bushels of corn on one acre of ground, and only 30 
bushels on the residue of his farm, it affords no satis¬ 
faction to the common farmer, who may have been able 
to grow a few hills equally luxuriant; but when with 
such expense as any farmer may afford, you show how 
75 bushels or upwards are obtained from that land, 
which formerly grew under the common tillage only 30 
or 40 bushels upon each acre, the knowledge is inter¬ 
esting, and will have its effect upon so large a number, 
that one feels highly compensated for all experiments 
in improving and increasing crops.” 
ilJgF' Mr. M. C. Mordoff of Rochester, N. Y., has 
purchased of Mr. Samuel Thorne, Thornedale, the 
