NEW 
« TO IMPROVE THE SOIL AND 
THE MIND.” 
SERIES. 
VOL. I. 
ALBANY, MARCH, 
18441 
No. 3. 
THE CULTIVATOR 
Is published on the first of each month , at Albany , N. 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 
monthly at 50 cents a year—Fourteen copies for $5,00—Thirty 
copies for $10. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
MONTHLY NOTICES. 
CIRCULATION OF THE CULTIVATOR. 
With the general improvement of the times, we 
;are happy to acknowledge a very handsome increase in 
the patronage of the Cultivator, over that of last year. 
The improvement in form, and general appearance of 
the work, has been received with decided and general 
approbation; and the establishment of the “Farmer’s 
Museum.” (our 50 cent paper,) has not, as was feared 
by many of our friends, had the effect to reduce the cir¬ 
culation of the Cultivator. On the contrary, the subscrip¬ 
tion to the Cultivator is now nearly 2000 more than it 
was at this time last year. For this increase, we are in¬ 
debted mainly to the liberal and spirited exertions of our 
friends. There is yet, however, much time and room 
for exertion, and we should be highly gratified if such 
of our present subscribers, as have made no exertions to 
increase our circulation, would do us the favor, so far 
to act as agents, as to make up a class of seven or fifteen 
subscribers. The liberal commission allowed, would 
amply repay any one for the effort necessary to make up 
such clubs. Many of our friends, who were anxious to 
have the Cultivator circulated in their neighborhoods, 
have adopted the plan mentioned in the following letter, 
from a gentleman in Canandaigua: 
“ In order to obviate any objection to the price of the 
subscription, I divided the $10 for fifteen copies, into fif¬ 
teen parts, and received of each subscriber his proportion 
of the $10; and in this way I soon obtained the fifteen 
subscribers, for which 1 send you herewith $10. If the 
friends of agricultural improvement generally, would 
adopt this course, I think your subscription might easily 
he doubled or trebled, as there are few neighborhoods 
where a club of seven or fifteen subscribers might not 
be obtained, with but little trouble, as in this way the 
paper and postage would cost less than a dollar.” 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
Communications have been received since our last 
from R. L. Pell, Henry Watson, C. Sawyer, J. Harland, 
L. A. Morrell, E. Rich, J. M. Johnson, L. Durand, J. 
R. , S. L. Gouverneur, Peter Ellis, J. R. Speed, K., S. 
Cassidy, S. W. Jewett, A Subscriber, A Young Farmer, 
N. Darling, Solon Robinson, J. W. Knevels, H. Weston, 
S. Whalen, J. J. T., Dutchess County, J. Holbrook, J. F. 
C., J. D. H., Old Chittenden, K. L., D., G., S. M. Spang¬ 
ler, Anthony & Morrison, C. N. Bement, A. R. McCord, 
U. Skinner, C. Rich, Richmond, S. McK., R. T. Under¬ 
hill. 
Our thanks are tendered to Benj. Guild, Esq., Secre¬ 
tary of the Massachusetts Society for the promotion of 
| Agriculture, for copies of Messrs. Dana and Foote’s Prize 
I Essays—To J. M. Sherwood, Esq., Auburn, for the Re- 
j ports on Field Crops, &c. to the Cayuga Agricultural Soci- 
I ety, which we have handed over to the State Society, to be 
! published in their Transactions—To Dr. E. Wight, Bos¬ 
ton, for the London Pictorial News, containing views of 
| the Queen's Poultry Houses, beautiful groups of the 
I Cochin-China Fowls, (noticed in our last No. p. 4?,) 
Java Bantams, &c. — (we may give these groups heieaf- 
ter)—To A. W. Dodge, Esq., Sec. of the Essex (Mass.) 
Agricultural Society, for the Transactions of that Society 
for 1843—To A. G. Sumner, Esq., Pomaria, for Mr. 
Ruffin’s first Report on the Agricultural Survey of S. Ca¬ 
rolina—To H. S. Randall, Esq., for a copy of his Re¬ 
port on the Common Schools of Cortland Co., and Com¬ 
mon School Libraries—To the Author, for Observations 
on Vegetable and Animal Physiology, by W. L. "Wight, 
M. D —To Hon. W. C. Carr, for his Address before 
the St. Louis Agricultural Society, at its last Fair—To 
Henry Watson, Esq., East Windsor, for the Memoirs 
of the Penn. Agricultural Society, for 1844, and for Hints 
for American Husbandmen, published by the same Socie 
ty in 1827. 
Several communications intended for this paper, 
are necessarily laid over till our next. We shall in all 
cases endeavor to dispose of the favors of correspondents 
as rapidly as our limits will permit. 
0° It will be impossible for us to publish the Ad¬ 
dresses, requested by our friend A. Wiltse. They 
would occupy the whole of one number. 
In answer to an inquiry, we state that Dr. Cloud’s 
address is Lockland, Macon co., Ala.—and that of M. W. 
Philips, Esq. Amsterdam, Hinds co., Miss. 
O’ The Norman horse “ Diligence,” about which Mr. 
Durand inquires, has gone back to the farm of his 
owner, E. Harris, Esq., Moorestown, N. J. We should be 
glad to receive some notice of his stock. 
Our friend, G., of Spencertown, N. Y., will per¬ 
ceive that our plan embraces the suggestions he has 
made. We have given, and shall continue to give such 
information on gardening, &c., as we trust will be satis¬ 
factory to our patrons. At the same time, we would re¬ 
spectfully thank him for his hints. 
Burning Lime.—Seth Whalen says he has “been 
told that lime for manuring purposes may be burned m 
