New Series. ALBANY, DECEMBER, 1852. Vol. IX.— No. 12. 
Our Arrangements for 1853. 
These were in some degree explained in our last,* yet 
a more full development of our plans and purposes may 
not be inappropriate at this time. 
And in the first place, we desire that it should be dis¬ 
tinctly understood, that The Cultivator is to be con¬ 
tinued as heretofore, and that, notwithstanding the reduc¬ 
tion of its price to Fifty Cents, there is to be no deteri¬ 
oration in the character of the work itself. On the con¬ 
trary, we assure our readers that we shall spare no pains 
to render The Cultivator more valuable than ever.— 
We are enabled to reduce its price, in consequence of its 
connection with our proposed weekly journal, and to 
increase its value from the fact that its contents will be 
made up from the best articles which appear in the rural 
department of the weekly sheet during the month. In 
this way, we published for many years at Rochester, the 
“ Monthly Genesee Farmer,” in connection with the 
weekly Genesee Farmer, previous to our connection 
with the Cultivator in 1840, and the system worked ad¬ 
mirably—so well indeed, that its entire success led to 
the adoption of our present arrangements. Let no one, 
therefore, fear that u The Cultivator” will lose any of 
its interest, on account of its reduction in price,* but let 
all its friends renew their efforts to extend its circulation, 
with the full assurance that, while, from the amount of 
reading matter it will contain, it will be altogether the 
cheapest of our agricultural journals, it will lose nothing 
of the high character it has so long sustained. 
In establishing The Country Gentleman, we are but 
fulfilling a design we have had for some time in contem¬ 
plation. That the time has arrived for a weekly journal 
like the one we propose, we have abundant evidence in 
the increased attention now everywhere devoted to rural 
affairs—in the demand which has arisen for reliable and 
tested information on all subjects connected with rural 
improvement—in the formation and success of Agricul¬ 
tural and Horticultural Societies, and in the rapid in¬ 
crease of facts important to the cultivator of the soil, 
which all demand a more frequent medium of commu¬ 
nication with the public, than is afforded by our monthly 
journals. Beside this, and growing naturally out of the 
increased interest in agricultural subjects, there has 
sprung up a taste for rural decoration ■ and we believe 
the time has come, when, to that basis of solid improve¬ 
ment which we have so long advocated, there should be 
raised a superstructure in which beauty should combine 
with utility. Hence, in order to keep pace with the 
times, we must enlarge our scope so as to embrace all 
the topics enumerated in the prospectus, published last 
month, and which is republished on the last page of this 
paper. 
The Country Gentleman —and we have deemed this 
title a most appropriate one for a paper devoted to the 
interests and improvement of the American farmer—will 
therefore embrace in its scope all those matters which 
particularly interest the cultivator of the farm, the gar¬ 
den, and the orchard, as well as those relating to rural 
improvement and decoration generally, while its Fireside 
Department will be a new and attractive feature of the 
paper, which will afford both instruction and amuse¬ 
ment to those who feel less interest in the practical ope¬ 
rations of the farm and garden. 
The Country Gentleman will be beautifiully printed, 
handsomely illustrated, and filled w’ith choice matter, 
calculated to instruct, improve, and elevate the charac¬ 
ter and standing of our rural population; and we recom¬ 
mend it to all our farmers who wish a weekly journal 
devoted to the advancement of their interests and im¬ 
provement. 
Those who desire only a monthly journal, will find 
The Cultivator now, as it ever has been, a safe and 
invaluable aid in directing their labors to the most profi¬ 
table results. 
It may not be improper, in this place, to state that the 
publisher has no connection with any breeders of stock, 
or with any agricultural warehouse, or patent machines 
or manures—no business connection to sway him in favor 
of this or that establishment, nor any prejudices to in¬ 
duce him to swerve from what he believes will best pro¬ 
mote the interests of his subscribers. While his columns 
are alike open to all, to advertise their wares, he will be 
careful to recommend nothing which he does not fully 
believe merits the commendation which may be given it. 
Readers, our plans for the future, are before you. If 
they meet your approbation, we ask your hearty co-op¬ 
eration, to enable us to carry them into successful ef¬ 
fect. We ask you to aid us by continuing your con¬ 
tributions to our pages—by making our journals known 
to your friends—by acting, so far as you can, as Agents 
to procure subscribers to The Country Gentleman and 
The Cultivator. The latter being now reduced to 374 
cents to clubs, we hope to receive much larger lists for 
it than heretofore, as no farmer, who has any correct es¬ 
timate of the practical value of its contents, can refuse 
to become a subscriber, if property solicited. 
ECr" Specimen Nos. of both our papers, with prospec¬ 
tuses. will be sent to all who desire to act as Agents. 
