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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Dec. 
Premiums to Agents of the Cultivator. 
NOTES FOR THE MONTH. 
To our Agents and Correspondents. 
Having arrived at the end of another volume, we re¬ 
new the expression of our obligation to all who have con¬ 
tributed, by their efforts, to the circulation of The Cul¬ 
tivator the present year, and most respectfully solicit 
their influence in behalf of our next volume. We are 
dependant upon you, gentlemen, for our circulation. The 
annual subscription is so small, that we are compelled to 
adhere to our rule of advance payments, and consequent¬ 
ly all papers are discontinued at the end of the year. 
Whether our subscribers renew their subscriptions or not, 
depends, in a great measure, upon the fact of their being 
called on to do it, by some local agent, as no travelling 
agents can be employed on a paper published at so low a 
price. We therefore earnestly solicit your continued 
efforts, and hope you may all feel sufficient interest in 
the progress of Agricultural Improvement, to induce you 
to make the effort necessary to make your lists at least 
as large, if not larger, than the present year. 
To a large number of post-offices, we send only to a 
single subscriber. If that subscriber would himself act 
as agent, or induce his Postmaster to get up a club, he 
would very greatly oblige us, as well as benefit his neigh¬ 
bors, whom he should be instrumental in inducing to read 
The Cultivator. It will be seen that we have added 
several prizes to our Premium List, and we trust there 
will be a spirited competition. It will be noticed also, 
that the Premiums are to be paid in Cash, SilverPlate, 
or Agricultural Books or Implements, at the option 
of the agent 
Prospectuses are sent to all our Agents, and we shall 
be glad to send Prospectuses and specimen numbers, to 
all who maf be disposed to act as agents. 
To all Correspondents who have contributed to our 
pages during the current year, we tender our hearty 
thanks. They have benefitted all our readers, and the 
consciousness of the good they have thus done, will, we 
trust, stimulate them to continue their contributions. We 
have, however, hundreds of readers, who have enjoyed 
all the benefit of the labors of others, without contribu¬ 
ting at all to the fund of information brought together in 
our pages. Would that we could convince them of their 
duty to contribute their share of knowledge to the com¬ 
mon fund. We should be glad to have every one of our 
readers furnish us with rough notes of the results of their 
experience in the various branches of rural affairs. No 
one need refuse because he is not accustomed to write 
for the press, as we shall cheerfully make all the correc¬ 
tions necessary. - 
O^* Our Horticultural Department has been un¬ 
avoidably crowded out this month. We will make 
amends for it hereafter. 
K7“ Several communications are necessarily laid over, 
which will have a place in our next volume. 
South Down Sheep. —Those who wish to purchase 
this breed of sheep, are referred to the advertisement of 
Mr. Rotch, whose sheep, it is not too much to say, are 
fully equal to any in the country. 
As an inducemen to those disposed to act as Agents, the following 
Premiums will be paid in Cash, Silver Plate, or Agricultural 
Books and Implements, to those who send us the largest list of sub¬ 
scribers for The Cultivator for 1852, previous to the tenth of April 
next. 
1. To the one sending us the largest number, with the pay in ad¬ 
vance, at the club price of sixty-seven cents each, the sum of Fifty 
Dollars. 
2. To the one sending us the next largest list, the sum of Forty 
Dollars. 
3. To the one sending us the next largest list, the sum of Thity- 
Five Dollars. 
4. For the next largest list, the sum of Thirty Dollars. 
5. For the next largest list, the sum of Twenty-Five Dollars. 
6. For the next largest list, Twentv Dollars. 
7. For the next largest list, Fifteen Dollars. 
8. For the next largest list, Ten Dollars. 
9. For the next largest list, Five Dollars. 
10 To all who send us Thirty Subscribers or over, and do not re¬ 
ceive one of the above Prizes, a copy of The Horticulturist for 
one year. 
11. To all who send us Fifteen Subscribers, and do not receive one 
of the above Premiums, The Horticulturist for six months. 
Acknowledgements. —Communications have been re¬ 
ceived from T. S. Dewing, H. W. Bulkley, A. Mot, H. 
G., S. Clarke, G. W. Youngman, John t)iehl, Elizabeth 
Diehl, Prof. J. P. Norton, Dr, T. W. Harris, A Lover 
of Farming, Frank, S. B. Buckley. 
Books, Pamphlets, &c., have been received as fol¬ 
lows: Mr. Geo. R. Russell’s Address before the Nor¬ 
folk Ag. Society, at Dedham, Sept. 24, 1851, from the 
Author.-Catalogue of the Commercial Garden and 
Nursery of Parsons & Co., Flushing, L. I.-Glances 
at Europe, by Horace Greeley, from the publishers, 
De Witt & Davenport, New-York.-Patent Office 
Report, for 1850-51—Part II. Agriculture,—from Hon. 
Thomas Ewbank, Com. Patents. 
Winter Exhibition of the New-York State Ag¬ 
ricultural Society. —It will be borne in mind that this 
Society will hold in this city, an exhibition of fat ani¬ 
mals, dressed meats, seeds, dairy produce, fruits, &c., 
in connection with the Annual Meeting for the coming 
year—20th, 21st, and 22d of January next. The place 
selected for the show of live-stock, and all the articles to 
be exhibited, excepting fruits, is the yard and sheds be¬ 
longing to Gallup’s United States Hotel, corner of Wash¬ 
ington and Swan streets. About $600 have been offered 
in premiums for this occasion, and we have no doubt that 
an interesting and useful exhibition wilFbe made. The 
premiums not only refer to the best fat cattle and sheep 
to be shown alive, but also the best carcasses, (dressed,) 
of swine, Long-wooled, Middle-wooled and Cross-bred 
sheep—best turkeys, geese, ducks and fowls, including 
capons, all dressed. And in connection with the_ exhi¬ 
bition there will probably be a voluntary display of live 
poultry, of the celebrated varieties. The premiums em¬ 
brace specimens of wheat, rye', barley, oats, corn, peas, 
beans, flax seed, clover seed, timothy, and other grass 
seeds, and hops. There is not a more favorable point in 
the country, than Albany, for the collection and pur¬ 
chase of all these articles, and we believe that the butch¬ 
ers, provision-dealers, seed-dealers, &c.,from the south 
and the east, can be induced to attend this exhibition— 
and that a permanent Annual Fair of this kind may be 
established here, which may greatly conduce to the mu¬ 
tual benefit of the producer, dealer, and consumer. A 
little exertion on the part of those interested, we are con¬ 
fident would secure this result. Bills containing the pre- 
