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THE CULTIVATOR 
Pecj. 
NIG W VOJLUmnS FOR 1849. 
THE CHJiLfI¥AT®1S, 
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF 
The Farmer, the Gardener, and ihe Fruit-Grower, 
ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS OF 
HOUSES, BARNS, FARM IMPLEMENTS, DOMES¬ 
TIC ANIMALS, PLANTS, FRUITS, &c.. &c. 
T HE CULTIVATOR will enter upon its sixteenth volume (the 
sixth cf the ‘‘ new series,”) on the 1st of January, 1849. 
For a period of fifteen years, it has enjoyed a circulation, and ex¬ 
erted an influence, not exceeded, it is believed, by any other jour¬ 
nal in the country. That its interest and usefulness have been sus¬ 
tained from year to year, we have the most abundant evidence in 
its large sales, notwithstanding the multiplicity of agricultural 
journals which have come into existence within the past few years. 
It will be our aim to render it for die future, not only worthy of 
the support of our rural population, but absolutely necessary lo all 
who would keep themselves well informed as to the progress 
agricultural improvement, both at home and abroad. Keeping 
steadily in view the great object for which The Cultivator was 
established—“ To Improve the Soil and the Mind ”—no effort 
will be spared to fill its pages with such matter as is best adapted 
to call into action the mental and physical energies of its readers, 
—to awaken inquiry as to the best and most profitable methods 
of farming, and to incite to efforts to carry them into effect. 
It will be our object to elucidate and enforce the advantages of 
an Improved System of Husbandry, by explaining the principles 
on which it is founded, and by exhibiting the practice by which it 
can be carried into successful operation—lo show the farmer that 
if lie would thrive in his business, he must adopt a Rotation of 
Crops best calculated for his soils—to convince him of the value 
of Manure, and to point out the various ways in which its amount 
may be greatly increased, and to what crops and in what manner 
different substances may be most advantageously applied—to con¬ 
vince him that instead of rendering his land poorer and his crops 
lighter from year to year, he might and ought to pursue such a 
course as would increase the fertility of his farm and ihe amount 
of its products each succeeding year, thus rendering its cultivation 
far more profitable as well as infinitely more satisfactory to an in¬ 
telligent mind. 
Particular attention will be paid to Rural Architecture, and 
numerous Designs of Farm Buildings, Gates, Fences, and Or¬ 
namental Structures, will be given—to the department allotted 
to “ The Garden and the Orchard,” which will be conducted 
by John J. Thomas, well-known as the author of the “ Fruit Cul- 
turist,” and a practical Horticulturist of great skill—to “ Domes¬ 
tic and Rural Economy,” and to the “ Diseases of Animals,” 
a subject of increasing interest to fanners 
In these labors, the Editors will be assisted by Correspondents in 
every Stale in the Union, thus adapting it to the wants of every 
section of our extensive country 
Terms.— For single copy, SI—for seven copies, $5— for fifteen 
copies, $10, and for any larger number at the same rale. All pay¬ 
ments to be made in advance. All subscriptions to commence with 
the volume, and none received for less than a j r ear. 
All letters, and especially those making inquiries, requesting 
change of direction, &c , should be post-paid. L. TUCKER. 
AND 
JOURNAL OF RURAL ART AND RURAL TASTE. 
EDITED BY A. J. DOWNING, 
Author of “ Fruits and Fruit Trees of America,” “ Landscape 
Gardening,” ‘'Cottage Residences,” See , Sec. 
T HIS work is published by the proprietor of The Cultivator,” 
at his office in Albany, to whom all orders should be sent. 
Two volumes are completed, and the third is now in course of 
publication The numbers are issued promptly on the first of the 
month, each containing 48 ( pages, and embellished with an engraved 
frontispiece, and illustrated with numerous engravings of Rural 
Cottages and Villas, Farm-Houses, Gales, Lodges, Ice-Houses, 
Vineries, Flowering Shrubs and Plants, &c., &c. 
. Terms —Three Dollars per year—Two copies for Five Dollars. 
(CP* Subscribers may commence with the volume in July, or 
with the January number. The back Vols. and back Nos. can be 
furnished. 
0“ Agents for “ The Cultivator,” will do us a favor by act¬ 
ing also as Agents for “The Horticulturist,” a work designed 
to promote rural taste and rural art, not only in the orchard and the 
garden, but in all that gives character and pleasure to a country 
residence. LUTHER TUCKER. 
PREMIUMS FOR SUBSCRIBERS TO 
T® AGENTS, POSTMASTERS, &c. 
A S an inducement to greater activity on the part of those to 
whom we are already under so many obligations for their 
annual eff rts to procure subscribers to The Cultivator , the Publish¬ 
er offers the following Premiums for subscriptions to the volume 
for 1849 :— 
1. To the one who shall send us the largest number of subscri¬ 
bers to the Cultivator for 1849, with the pay in advance, at the club 
price of 67 cents each, previous to the 20ih of March next, the sum 
of FIFTY DOLLARS, to be paid in Agricultural and Horticultural 
Books, and to include a complete set of The Cultivator from its 
commencement to the end of 1847—15 vols. bound, at $18,— and 
the first and second vols. of The Horticulturist > bound, at $7. 
2. To the one sending us the next largest number, the sum of 
FORTY DOLLARS, in books, and to include jsets of The Cultiva¬ 
tor and The Horticulturist, as above. 
3 To the one sending us the next largest number, the sum of 
THIRTY DOLLARS, in books, and to include ten volumes of 
The Cultivator, bound, at $13, and the 1st and 2d volumes of The 
Horticulturist. 
4 For the next largest list, the sum of TWENTY - DOLLARS, 
in books, lo include the first four volumes of the new series of The 
Cultivator, and the 1st and 2d volumes of The Horticulturist. 
5 For the nexf largest list, TEN DOLLARS, in books. 
6 For the Five next largest lists, each the'1st and 2d volumes of 
The Horticulturist, bound, $7. 
7 For the next Ten largest lists, each, a copy of the 2d volume 
of The Horticulturist, bound, $3.50. 
8. For the Ten next largest lists, each, vols. 5 and 6 of The Cul¬ 
tivator, for 1838 and 1839, the last two edited by Judge Buel, and 
containing his Portrait. 
9. For the next Ten largest, each, a copy of Downing’s Fruits 
and Fruit Trees, or any other work to the same amount, $1.50. 
10. For the Ten next largest, each, a copy of Thomas’ Fruit 
Cuimrist—50 cents. 
0 Zr* In all cases the payments must accompany the orders for the 
papers 
0= The books, in addition to those named, to make up the seve¬ 
ral sums offered, may be selecied by the persons entitled to them. 
We shall publish a list of the best Agricultural and Horticultural 
works, will) the prices, in our January No , from which selections 
can be made. LUTHER TUCKER. 
PERUVIAN GUANO. 
IVE hundred tons of genuine Peruvian Guano, fresh from the 
Chinclie Islands, now landing from on board ship, for sale in 
lots to suit purchasers Farmers will do well to be upon their 
guard of whom they purchase Guano, as much is sold under the 
name of Peruvian, which is spurious and almost entirely worthless. 
PLOWS, Sec. —Upwards of sixty different kinds of Plows, Har¬ 
rows, Cultivators, Thrashers, Horse Powers, and Agricultural and 
Horticultural implements of great variety. 
FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS.—A complete assortment 
A Descriptive Catalogue of the above, of 100 pages, will be sent 
gratis to all who request it, post-paid. 
Apply at the Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store of 
A. B. ALLEN & CO., 
Nov. 1—2t. 189 & 191 Water street, New-York. 
F 
LARGE FOWLS—WILD TURKIES. 
I^OR SALE, several pair of very fine, large fowls—from three 
to five months old—which, when full grown, will weigh, alive, 
from eight to ten pounds each Some of them are of the Chinese 
stock mentioned in the Cultivator for 1647, page 163. Also a few 
pair of turkies, bred wholly from wild stock. They are well do¬ 
mesticated, and are very beautiful birds. 
Inquire at the Office of the Cultivator. 
JOHN MAYHER & CO., 
United States Agricultural Warehouse, 195 Front, one 
door south of Fulton Street, New-York City, 
■yUTIERE they have for sale over 200 different patterns and sizes of 
’ * Plows, of the most approved kinds, and suitable for all kinds of 
soil, together with the most extensive assortment of Agricultural 
Implements ever offered for sale in the city of New-York, which 
will be sold at lower prices than they can be purchased at any other 
establishment. Purciiasers will do well to call and examine their 
stock before purchasing elsewhere. Among the plows advertised 
will be found J. Mayher Se Co.’s celebrated and unequalled First 
Premium Eagle D. Plow, without doubt the best and cheapest plow 
to be had in the United States. 
N. B. Castings of all kinds made to order, j 
New York, Oct. 1, 1S4S— tf. 
