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THE CULTIVATOR. 
C|e Comitrji 6entlraait. 
Friends of Improvement !—The Country Gen- 
man' is pledged to you, and, entering upon a New 
Year, solicits your aid and co-operation. We are en¬ 
gaged in a common work,—with pen and plow we are 
promoting a common end ; shall we not go heart and 
hand together 1 We furnish you every week with a rich 
freight of useful information,-collected from diverse 
sources, still all tending to that one great purpose— 
Progress in Agriculture, Horticulture and Social 
Life. 
But remembering the injunction, “ Let another 
praise thee, and not thine own mouth,” we copy the 
following from the Windsor ( Vt.) Chronicle : — 
The Country Gentleman.— -This admirable paper, con¬ 
ducted and published oy Luther Tucker, Esq., of Albany, a 
tried favorite of the farmers of Vermont, has closed its first 
year .with the honor of having met every reasonable expec¬ 
tation of subscribers, and has established a character of un¬ 
surpassed excellence as an agricultural, horticultural and 
family journal, with admirably filled pages devoted to mis¬ 
cellany and general news. 
May we not hope that those who are pleased with 
us, will afford us some material token of interest in 
our prosperity. Subscribers are coming in rapidly, and 
we shall not long be able to supply the back numbers 
of the present volume. Now is the time to solicit 
friends and neighbors to make our acquaintance, and 
we promise our best exertions that no one shall regret 
having invited the Country Gentleman to his Farm 
and Fireside. 
{JJgF’Three copies will be sent for $5.00 
What Others Think of Us. —The approbation of 
those for whose interests we labor, is always gratify¬ 
ing. From the beginning, we proposed to ourselves a 
higher standard of excellence, both in our Agricultur¬ 
al and Literary Department, than was in vogne among 
papers which aim exclusively at catching the popular 
eye and ear, and we were confident that the truest and 
most lasting popularity was to be attained only by devo¬ 
ting our columns to what was really useful and im¬ 
proving. That we have rightly judged we have daily 
assurance from all parts of the country. 
One correspondent writes us—“ I cannot refrain 
from expressing to you the great satisfaction I have 
had in reading the Country Gentleman. I con¬ 
sider it the most valuable family paper for the Far¬ 
mer that I know of, ahd I cannot doubt but your list 
of subscribers will steadily, if not rapidly increase. If 
I' can influence any of my neighbors to subscribe to it, 
I oonsider I am doing them and their friends a mata- 
rial service. -- 
§3^ Will those who contemplate getting up a club 
for the Country Gentleman please to send in their 
orders early, so that we may supply the back numbers. 
It is important to commence with the volume, for every 
paper is worth preserving, and twenty-six of them 
bound make a very neat and valuable book. 
§3F° We want Agents for the Country Gentleman 
and The Cultivator in every town throughout the 
country. Post-masters and others disposed to act as 
local agents, will be supplied with terms, samples, &c., 
on application. 
Portable Cider Mills. 
In a late No. of the Country Gentleman you speak 
of a portable cider mill. If you learn anything further 
about it, let me know it> and whether it will be in New 
York for sale. Also which is the best and cheapest 
in the end for a man to buy, the one you had spoken of 
before from Penn., and now in New York for sale, or 
the one you last spoke about. We need such mills in 
our neighborhood. Yours truly, D. B. Richards. 
Will some of our correspondents who have tried the 
above, please give the results of their experience 1 
Churns. 
Mr. Tucker —As I am commencing the farming 
business, and wishing to procure a good churn, I should 
like to know what kind is the best and easiest managed, 
all things considered, for a dairy of some six or eight 
cows—where obtained, likewise the price, and by so 
doing you will confer a great favor on me. William 
Williamson. Camden , N. Y. 
We have found Kendall’s churn, consisting of a panel 
and rotary dasher, best for a small dairy, being nearly 
as simple as the common dasher churn, and working 
with far less labor. The cost of such a one as our cor¬ 
respondent desires, would be three or three and a half 
dollars. These churns are sold by Emery & Co., of 
Albany, and probably, at most other agricultural stores. 
Removing Old Paint. 
Messrs. Editors —Please inform me how to re¬ 
move paint from a brick wall. The paint was washed 
from the window sash and frame, by rains, Is there 
some chemical agent or something to 1 neutralize white 
lead and oily matter ? An Agent. Berks Co., Pa., 
When paint becomes hardened by several years’ ex¬ 
posure, it is not easily affected by any application. 
We have never had occasion for any experiments 
of the kind, but recommend, as promising decidedly 
the best, a strong and perhaps hot solution of the fresh¬ 
est caustic potash, applied with a swab. 
United States’ Ag. Society. 
The Second Annual Meeting of the United States’ 
Agricultural Society, will be held at Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., on Wednesday, February 22d r 1854. 
Among the objects of the Association are the follow- 
ing: 
The acquisition and dissemination of the best expe¬ 
rience in the Science of Agriculture ;— 
The union of the men who desire to advance to its le¬ 
gitimate rank, this most important of all human pur¬ 
suits ;—and 
The increase and extension throughout our country 
of a more cordial spirit of intercourse between the 
friends of Agriculture, by whose countenance and co¬ 
operation this Society shall be elevated to a position of 
honor and usefulness worthy of its national character. 
Business of importance will come before the meeting. 
A new election of officers is to be made, and in which 
every State and Territory is to be represented. 
Applications will be laid before the Society for the 
holding of National Exhibitions in different parts of the 
Union. 
Delegations are respectfully solicited from all the 
Agricultural Societies in the country, and the atten¬ 
dance of all Agriculturists, who may find it convenient 
to honor the occasion with their presence. 
MARSHALL P. WILDER, Pres't. 
William S. King, Rec. Sec’v 
