ALBANY, DECEMBER, 1846. 
“ TO IMPROVE THE SOIL AND THE MIND.” 
SERIES. 
THE CULTIVATOR 
Is "published 07 1 the first of each month, at Albany, N. Y., by 
LUTHER TUCKER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. 
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 
Seven copies for $5— Fifteen copies for $10,00—all payments 
to be made in advance, and free of postage. O 33 All subscriptions 
to commence with the volume. 
OFFICE IN NEW-YORK CITY, AT 
M. H. NEWMAN’S BOOKSTORE, No. 199 BROADWAY, 
where single numbers, or complete sets of the back volumes, can 
always be obtained. 
O 3 * “ The Cultivator” is subject to newspaper postage only. 
CLOSE OF THE VOLUME. 
In bringing 1 our labors for the year to a close, we 
would tender our numerous friends and patrons, the 
most profound thanks for the aid which they have so libe¬ 
rally extended to us. The present number closes the 
third volume of the new series of the Cultivator, (the 
thirteenth from the beginning;.) and we confidently trust 
that in our extended intercourse with the public, no 
diminution of interest has been experienced. 
Through the medium of our paper, more than six¬ 
teen thousand subscribers have had during the present 
volume, the opportunity of making each other’s ac¬ 
quaintance; and so large a number have availed them¬ 
selves of this mode of communication, that a mass of 
facts in relation to the business of agriculture has 
been accumulated, which each individual can use as his 
particular circumstances or condition may render expe¬ 
dient. We cannot doubt that a conviction of the ad¬ 
vantages arising from this interchange of ideas, to¬ 
gether with a desire to obtain useful information, will 
induce a general continuance of patronage to our work; 
and that our next volume will even receive an increased 
number of subscribers. 
Besides the hundreds of able correspondents directly 
connected with the Cultivator, our means for receiving 
intelligence of interest and value to the farmer, are very 
extensive. In addition to all the approved standard 
works on husbandry and rural economy in our posses¬ 
sion, we have, regularly, the principal European periodi¬ 
cals which are devoted to those subjects,—including 
those of Great Britain, France, and Germany; and in 
the pursuit of our grand object—the promotion of the 
happiness of our countrymen by the improvement of the 
c< soil and the mind ”—we shall avail ourselves, as we 
have heretofore done, of all these and other sources 
of knowledge. 
We have made arrangements for some improvements 
for our next volume, which cannot fail to be satisfac¬ 
tory to our readers. It will be printed on type entirely 
new and of beautiful form, procured expressly for the 
purpose. In the way of illustrations, also, we design 
giving something which we think will be highly grati¬ 
fying. Our first number will be accompanied by a 
beautiful portrait of a Galloway bull, one of the very 
best of its kind that has yet appeared. Other engrav- 
ings, pertaining to various subjects, will appear from 
time to time. In short, we are determined that the 
acknowledged standing and character of the work shall 
be suszamea ; and in saying this, we believe we offei 
all the pledge which will be required. 
We would respectfully invite the agents, and all 
friends of our work, to continue their efforts for its cir¬ 
culation. By comparing the various agricultural pub¬ 
lications, it will be seen that the quantity, (to say 
nothing of the quality,) of the matter furnished in pro¬ 
portion to the price asked, is much in favor of the Cul¬ 
tivator. When this, the liberal commissions we offer, 
and all other advantages are taken into consideration, 
we think they cannot fail to secure that share of pa¬ 
tronage to which the work, from its actual and compa¬ 
rative value, is entitled. 
{fcf^We publish this month a List of Agents, inclu¬ 
ding, so far as we could complete the list, all those who 
have done us the favor to act as Agents the present year. 
That the list is imperfect we are aware, but we hope no 
one will discontinue his efforts to promote the circula¬ 
tion of tc The Cultivator,” even if he fails to find hie 
name among the agents. We shall also gladly avail 
ourselves of the aid of any of our present subscribers, 
who feel disposed to make an effort to form clubs of 
seven or fifteen. In this way they might materially in¬ 
crease the circulation of our paper, as it is believed that 
there are but few neighborhoods where such clubs 
might not be formed by a little exertion on the part of 
any of our present subscribers. 
(i^We shall be glad to have all the agents for (( The 
Cultivator,” also receive subscriptions for “ The Hor- 
ticulturist.” The price of the Horticulturist is $3 
per year, from which a discount of 20 per cent. (60 
cents on each copy,) will be made to agents. 
§|=We send with this number prospectuses and 
showbills for next year, to all our agents, who will 
oblige us by circulating them as soon as couvenient. 
