THE CULTIVATOR: 
A *N\onV\\\y Publication, devoted to Agriculture—eacb i\o. 16 pages. 
VOL. III. 
ALBANY, JANUARY, 1837—(67 State-street.) 
No. 11. 
PUBLISHED BY THE N. Y. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
J. BUEL, Conductor. 
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THE CULTIVATOR. 
To improve the Soil and the Mind. 
(E? STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION. 
(0° In pursuance of a resolution adopted at the last State Agricultural Con¬ 
vention, we hereby give notice, that a State Agricultural Convention will be 
held at the Capitol, in the city of Albany, on the first Thursday of February 
next, at 4 o’clock P. M. at which “ all persons are desired to attend who take 
an interest in agricultural pursuits.” 
D. S. DICKINSON, ) Secrela ,.: es 
January 1,1837. J. J. VIELE, f 
SECOND EDITION OF VOLUME I. 
BJ The applications for our first volume are so numerous that we have con¬ 
cluded to print a second edition, on the same sized pages as the present volume. 
Applications for the volume will be registered, and the copies forwarded as soon 
as the volume can be printed. Price fifty cents. 
O’ AN ADVERTISING SHEET, 
Will be issued with our February number, provided there is patronage enough 
offered to defray the expense. All advertisements designed for insertion, should 
be sent in by the 20th, and cannot be received later than the 25th of this month. 
TO THE PATRONS OF THE CULTIVATOR. 
Gentlemen :—Custom sanctions the usage of an address, at the 
opening of each year, from a publisher to his patrons. On such oc¬ 
casions, it is usual to Bepart from the particular topics commonly 
treated of in his paper, "whether they be political, scientific or agri¬ 
cultural, and to embrace the occasion offered for mutual gratulations 
and a free communion of feelings, interests and prospects. Although 
w r e speak generally to all our patrons, still we hope the remarks we 
are about to make,will, by each of them, be considered as addressed 
to himself, for, following a common pursuit, we look upon each and 
all of you as our co-laborers and friends. 
It is almost three years, since we commenced the publication of 
this paper. By putting the subscription at a very low price, we ex¬ 
pected to diffuse its circulation very extensively among our farmers. 
In a great measure we have succeeded, and now issue eighteen 
thousand copies of each number; but if there is any merit in the 
paper, and it fills the sphere of usefulness we designed for it, of which 
we have had many public and flattering testimonials, during its brief 
existence, still there is a vast void yet open, which neither our sheet 
nor any other fills, for there are thousands and thousands of farmers 
who never read upon subjects of agriculture, and whose conceit, ig¬ 
norance or prejudice are insuperable bars to their improvement. In 
our labors, the object always has been, and will continue to be, 
practically, and, as far as circumstances will warrant, scientifically 
useful. It is to pay, in imparting intelligence, gathered from many 
sources, ten fold, for the little pittance we receive from each subscri¬ 
ber. Appreciating the benefit derived from reading, in the pursuit 
of our avocation, a natural warmth of feeling for those who labor 
with us in the same cause, would induce us to wish to communicate 
to others that information from the acquisition of which we have 
derived both profit and pleasure. It is likewise pleasant, incompa¬ 
rably pleasant, to feel, that we have succeeded in our efforts, and 
to have others acknowledge that we have aided the advancement of 
agriculture amongst us. And, gentlemen, addressing you as far¬ 
mers, what shall we say, what can we do, to rouse us all to that 
igh achievement, that noble emulation, which becomes us as labo- 
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rers in the first and most useful employment conferred by the crea¬ 
tor on man 1 Each is held responsible to the community for the as¬ 
siduity and success with which he conducts his farm. Each exer¬ 
cises an influence in the welfare of society. No business can be 
nobler than ours, for we have principalities of our own ;—our farms 
are o ir domains, our houses our castles, our families our subjects, 
where we have free uncontrolled power for great good or evil. God 
will hold us responsible for a proper exercise of these important 
trusts, and we, under him, are the authors of peace or disturbance, 
of plenty or famine, of health or disease, with which the community 
may be blessed or cursed. We have simply to cultivate the facul¬ 
ties of our minds, and apply the powers of our bodies, to follow out 
His designs for the promotion of our happiness and prosperity, or, do 
nothing, and ignorance with idleness, which are always followed by 
poverty, want and disease, will soon carry us into all the horrors of 
barbarism, and debase us with the vices of demons. Industry is one 
of the greatest blessings ever imparted to man, when it enters with 
him into the arena of life, and leaves him only at its termination. 
In childhood, it opens his faculties—in youth, it fits for the labors 
and responsibilities of manhood—at mature age, it is health to his 
body—it gives peace to his mind—respectability to his name—com¬ 
fort to his family—education to his children—to society it gives a 
good member—to the poor it is bread—whilst to a nai ion it is wealth, 
respectability and power. If God did ordain that in the sweat of 
our brow, we should earn our bread, he has wisely ordered, that all 
these, and many more blessings, should flow from its exercise. It 
is industry that exalteth a nation, but idleness is the curse of a peo¬ 
ple. 
The last year has been marked by its peculiarities. Its winter 
gave us an unprecedented depth of snow—its spring was cold, and 
vegetation backward and unpromising—the heats of summer have 
only partially remedied the injury, but its autumn has been about as 
cold and wet as usual, with two or three deep snows. The effect of 
this weather on the vegetation of last season, was a diminished pro¬ 
duction of our crops. The prices, however, of all kinds of produce, 
have advanced, and what the farmer has not received in the quanti¬ 
ty of the different kinds of grain, has been made up to him in its 
price, as all his products have been more in demand, and sold higher, 
than in preceding years. Indeed, experience sanctions the remark, 
that in no one season, arc all our crops equally abundant. The 
weather suited to the winter crops, does not bring those of summer 
to the greatest perfection, and so vice versa, when the summer crops 
are good, those of winter are less so. It is the indication of Provi¬ 
dence, that we are to be thrown upon our energies, both of mind 
and body, for the attainment of prosperity; and if He gives us a 
soil admirably adapted to the supply of our wants, and a climate 
suited to it, and to the maintenance of our healths. He makes us 
the agents of our existence and support. Faithfully to discharge 
this imported duty is a great aim of our creaiion. Let us, then, 
come nobly forward, cullivate both our minds and our farms with an 
assiduity, a care and perseverance that will overcome all obstacles, 
and convert this great state into the choicest fields of agricultural 
wealth and beauty. Its products will make it the granary of the 
world, and the enterprise of our citizens will send those products to 
the remotest extremities of the habitable globe. We will then reap 
that harvest, which is always allotted to those who act well their se¬ 
veral parts in the duties of life assigned them. 
THE THIRD VOLUME 
Of the Cultivator will terminate with our next number. We state 
the fact thus early, that our subscribers, who wish to continue their 
subscriptions, may have timely opportunity to renew them before the 
commencement of the fourth volume, which will be on the first of 
March. We regret the necessity that requires us to demand the 
subscription monies in advance; but it is necessary to sustain the 
publication; and we therefore give notice, that the paper will be 
discontinued to all, after February, who shall not have paid for the 
4th volume, or until they do pay for it, except in this city and its vi¬ 
cinity. The Cultivator is sent to 2250 post-offices, from many of 
which, from the impossibility of making small remittances, there are 
