THIRD €n Sinjtnm? tjp loil ml tfa 3®infro series. 
Yol. II. 
ALBANY, DEC., 1854. 
No. XII. 
Published by Luther Tucker, 
395 BROADWAY, ALBANY, N. Y. 
LUTHER TUCKER and JOHN J. THOMAS, Editors. 
Terms —Single copy of Cultivator,. 50 cents. 
Twenty copies Cultivator and twenty 1 *10 no 
copies Illustrated Annual Register, j ® 
AGENCY IN NEW-YORK.. —C. M. Saxton, Agricultu¬ 
ral Book Publisher, No. 152 Fulton-street, New-York, is 
Agent for The Cultivator and The Country Gentleman, 
and subscribers in that city who apply to him, can have their 
papers delivered regularly at their houses. 
A Word More to our Subscribers. 
With the present number, the current volume 
of The Cultivator is completed, making the 
second of the Third Series, and the twenty-first 
from its commencement. We furnish with it as 
usual a full and careful index to every subject 
treated, and it will, when bound, make a volume 
containing matter of a value to every farmer, far 
beyond the low price at which it is furnished, as 
well as a handsome addition to his bookshelves, 
or the table in his sitting room. But our present 
business is rather with the future than the past. 
As the annual subscription to The Cultivator 
is too small to admit of our keeping accounts 
with individual subscribers, or paying the heavy 
expenses of travelling agents from New-Bruns- 
wick to California, we are compelled to continue 
our practice of discontinuing all subscriptions at 
the end of the year; and hence it i,i that we are 
obliged year after year to make an appeal to the 
Agents and Friends of the Cultivator, 
to renew their efforts to secure the continuance 
and enlargement of our subscription lists. The 
Illustrated Annual Register, 
which we have now ready for distribution, has 
been prepared at a considerable and unusual ex¬ 
pense, as a 
New-Year?s Present to Club Subscribers, 
and we will send a copy of it, as already offered, 
to any of our friends who propose to exert them¬ 
selves to promote the circulation of the Cultiva¬ 
tor, and who will let us hear from them to that 
effect. As an inducement to greater exertion on 
the part of all who are disposed to act as agents, 
we offer 
$275 in Cash Premiums, 
as stated last month, to those who send the lar¬ 
gest amount of cash subscriptions to our Journals 
previous to the 10th of April next. 
Why may not You, Reader, 
obtain one of the Ten for yourself? The small¬ 
est would pay your subscription to this paper for 
Ten Years, and the largest count as no inconsi¬ 
derable item in the year’s receipts. 
We shall enter another volume with increased 
editorial facilities, and a renewed determination 
to devote that experience which we have been so 
long in acquiring, and every means which we can 
at present or in the future secure, to impart to 
our pages 
Additional Interest and Value. 
And we desire here to acknowledge the indebt¬ 
edness, both of ourselves and readers, to the la¬ 
bors of our associate, Mr. J. J. Thomas, of Ma¬ 
ce don. Though he has always, since our connec¬ 
tion with The Cultivator, been a contributor in a 
greater or less degree to its pages, yet for the last 
year more of his time and care have been devoted 
to them; and we are neither flattering him, nor 
indulging in any personal vainty, when we say 
that his contributions to our columns have seldom 
been equaled, as lucid, thoughtful and really prac¬ 
tical articles, in the whole range of our agricul¬ 
tural literature. We are happy to say he will 
continue to give most of his time to our Journals, 
and in doing this we shall not need to assure our 
readers of their continued interest and value. 
Nor can we close without returning our thanks 
to Correspondents, who have kept us so well 
supplied with the results of their 
Experience and Observation, 
from every part of the country. While other 
journals have sometimes suffered during the sum- 
