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« TO IMPROVE THE SOIL AND THE MIND.” 
SERIES. 
VOL. I. 
ALBANY, JANUAKY, 1844. 
No. 1. 
TOE CULTIVATOR 
Is published on the first of each month, at Albany, N u Y., by 
LUTHER TUCKER, PROPRIETOR. 
WILLIS GAYLORD AND LUTHER TUCKER, EDITORS. 
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THE FARMER’S MUSEUM, 
(Each no. containing 16 pages,) 
Is made up of selections from this paper, and published 
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copies for $10. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
TO THE PATRONS OF THE CULTIVATOR AND MUSEUM. 
Custom permits us (and the permission in this case 
is in perfect consonance with our inclination,) the privi¬ 
lege of addressing, at the opening of a new year and a 
new volume, the friends and patrons of our journal. We 
wish to seat ourselves by their social fireside, and em¬ 
brace the occasion to exchange with them our cordial 
gratulations, and indulge in a free intercourse of feelings, 
interests and prospects. We wish to speak to such, as 
we consider them, as co-laborers and friends; and in ad 
dressing whom, we feel assured that our gratulations and 
kind wishes will be fully reciprocated. 
With the past, we are acquainted; the future is yet 
before us, and unknown; but you will permit us to say, 
that in looking back over our editorial career since we 
engaged in the cause of agriculture, we feel a great plea¬ 
sure in the consciousness of having, in the main, succeed¬ 
ed in our efforts, and in finding the most unquestionable 
evidence that our labors have been kindly received, and 
our efforts welcomed by those whom we have endea¬ 
vored to benefit. We have endeavored, to the best of our 
ability, to place before our thousands of readers, topics 
which would interest, which would rouse to emulation 
and effort, and guide those efforts to a successful issue. 
Relieving as we do, that every man is responsible to the 
public for the manner in which he manages the proper¬ 
ty of which a kind Providence has made him the stew¬ 
ard, we have been anxious that our farmers should un¬ 
derstand their privileges and their true position, and act 
accordingly. Every man exercises an important influ¬ 
ence in society, and he should feel that, as he wields this 
influence for good or ill, so his existence will be a bles¬ 
sing or a curse to the community. We have been anx¬ 
ious to convince all, that knowledge—knowledge of 
mankind, of himself, and in particular of his professed 
business, was essential to success in any pursuit, and that 
ignorance and successful agriculture were incompatible. 
We have endeavored to enforce the necessity of indus¬ 
try, and to show that honest labor can never be disrepu¬ 
table : On the contrary, the only honorable man is he 
who earns his own bread by honest industry in some use¬ 
ful pursuit. Industry is a blessing, not a curse. God or¬ 
dained that with the sweat of our brow we should earn 
and eat our bread, but he has wisely ordered that from 
this necessary industry shall flow our choicest blessings. 
To be satisfied of this, we have only to compare the situ¬ 
ation, intellectual, physical, and moral, of those who re¬ 
side where nature spontaneously produces all that is re¬ 
quired to support life, with that of those who in less genial 
climes are forced to labor for their bread. The former 
must always succumb to the latter; one does but vege¬ 
tate, the other lives. 
As farmers, we have abundant cause for congratulating 
each other; not that the crops of the past year have been 
excessive, but because they have been abundant and good; 
not that prices have run up to the inflated height they 
reached a few years since, but because they have greatly 
improved since that disastrous reaction, are firm, and 
generally remunerating. The resources of our noble 
country are every year more and more developing them¬ 
selves. Spreading over such a vast extent of countiy 
embracing so many varieties of soil and climate, partial 
failures of crops may indeed occur, but such a failure as 
shall seriously affect the aggregate amount, or endanger 
the bread of the nation, is scarcely possible. Providence 
seems to have placed our destinies in our own hands; on 
our faithful discharge of devolved duties, all is depend¬ 
ing. It is in the power of the farmers of this land to 
convert it into one vast garden, to make it the granary 
of the world. Let us see that while prosperity advances, 
the mind does not suffer; that while riches increase, the 
man, the immortal, is not neglected. 
With the favor with which our agricultural publica¬ 
tions have been received, we have every reason to feel 
gratified: and while we continue in good faith and unti¬ 
ring zeal to present the farmers of our country such a 
journal as their wants and the interests of agriculture d© 
