A CONSOLIDATION OF DUEL'S CULTIVATOR AND THE GENESEE FARMER 
_ “AGRICULTURE, AT ONCE THE CA USE AND EVIDENCE OF CIVILIZATION.”_ 
Cult. Yol. VII— No. 12. ALBANY, N. Y. DECEMBER, 1840. Cult, and Far. Yol. I— No. 12. 
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WILLIS GAYLORD & LUTHER TUCKER, Editors. 
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TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 
The present number closes the Seventh Volume of the 
Cultivator, and according to our original terms, all sub¬ 
scriptions, except such as are paid in advance, will expire 
with the year. We are truly grateful to the public who 
have so liberally sustained us, and awarded such ample 
encouragement to our labors. In the company of our 
Twenty-Two Thousand Subscribers the year has passed 
pleasantly with us, and we trust that the feeling of mutual 
benefit and kindness has been fully reciprocated; and now 
that the first period of our mutual engagement is closed, 
we are unwilling to part with any of our friends, and re¬ 
spectfully ask them to renew their subscriptions and keep 
us company another year. We ask them, at the time of 
taking this paper from the office, or as soon after as prac¬ 
ticable, to authorize our agent or the postmaster to forward 
us their names for the coming year. 
The plan of the Cultivator and its character are too 
well understood to render a word of explanation necessary. 
Placed by the unanimous consent of the farming commu¬ 
nity at the head of the Agricultural Journals of this coun¬ 
try, the extent and variety of its contents, its list of con¬ 
tributors, unrivalled for numbers as well as practical and 
scientific skill, the superiority of its practical execution, 
and the number and excellence of its illustrations on every 
subject connected with agriculture, have all contributed to 
render it a favorite with all classes interested in the culti¬ 
vation of the soil. This elevated standing it will be the 
uninterrupted effort of the publishers and conductors to 
maintain; and at no time has the means of doing this 
been so ample as at the present. 
We hail it as a sign that augurs well for the prospects 
of an improved agriculture, that multiplied as the Agricul¬ 
tural Journals of our country are. each one is now receiv¬ 
ing a larger patronage than the two or three which exist¬ 
ed ten or fifteen years since did at that time. Men are 
not ashamed to inquire; they are not afraid to read; the 
charge of book farming has no terrors for them ; and the 
idea that farmers have from their birth all the knowledge 
of agriculture necessary for them, has now few advocates. 
To extend the means of knowledge ; to inculcate correct 
theory and sound practice; to furnish the reflecting with 
matter for thought, and the practical man with instruction 
immediately available, has been and will continue to be the 
great end of this periodical. 
Our thanks are particularly due to Postmasters and other 
l gentlemen, in all parts of our country, who, feeling an in- 
»terest in the success of our agriculture as the great source 
of national and individual prosperity, have kindly brought 
i our work to the notice of their friends, and otherwise in- 
i terested themselves in procuring subscribers. We respect- 
(fully ask a continuance of their kind offices in our behalf. 
I For terms, &c. see Prospectus in another column. 
Ci3“ The number of Contributors to the Cultivator, 
iduring the 7th vol. now completed, amounts to about 
lT hree Hundred, from all sections of the Union, not 
if a dozen of whom but are practical farmers. 
Gentlemen who receive our Prospectus for vol. 
8, are requested to act as Agents. 
“ To Improve the Soil and the Mind.” 
“ I know of no pursuit in which more real or important ser¬ 
vices can be rendered to any country, than by improving 
its Agriculture.”— Washington. 
“Agriculture is the Great Art which every government ought 
to protect, every proprietor of lands to practice, and every 
inquirer into nature improve.”— Dr. Johnson. 
TH E CULTSYATO R, 
A consolidation ofBuel’s Cultivator and the Genesee Farmer. 
WILLIS GAYLORD & LUTHER TUCKER, EDITORS. 
Prospectus of Vol. 8, for 1841. 
In offering to the agricultural public of the United 
States, the prospectus of the Eighth Volume of the Cul¬ 
tivator, (the Second of the New Series,) we desire the 
privilege of taking our patrons and correspondents fa¬ 
miliarly and cordially by the hand, and thanking them 
most heartily for the very liberal aid and support they 
have rendered us, both by their communications and 
their subscriptions. 
The Cultivator was established to improve and ele¬ 
vate the Agriculture of the country ■ to give a proper 
tone to the morals and mind of the farmer ; to show 
him the dignity and importance of his profession ; to 
store his mind with useful knowledge, and convince him 
that while all classes are and must be more or less de¬ 
pendant on each other, he alone of the whole can make 
any near approach to independence. If there is one 
thing more than another, which in this country gives a 
man superiority over his fellow men, it is knowledge ; 
and this knowledge,—knowledge which is as essential to 
the success of the farmer as of other men,—it is the de¬ 
sign of the Cultivator to aid in imparting. 
In taking charge of the Cultivator, the Editors were 
aware of the arduous nature of the undertaking. Under 
its former conductor, this journal had already attained a 
very high character, and we might have shrunk from the 
task of sustaining the reputation it had gained, or from 
the efforts necessary to still farther elevate its standing, 
had not the assurance of aid from the ablest writers 
and the most experienced farmers of the country—aid 
which our columns will show has been and will be most 
promptly and fully rendered,—encouraged us to the un¬ 
dertaking. How far we have succeeded must be left for 
the readers of the Cultivator to determine ; but if an 
increase of subscription beyond any precedent in the 
history of Agricultural Journals of this country ; if the 
almost unanimous voicejof the public press in our favor ; 
if the multitude of private yet flattering testimonials 
we have received, added to a circulation probably tre¬ 
ble that of any other journal devoted to the agricultural 
interests, may be admitted as evidence, then we have 
certainly most abundant reason to be gratified with our 
success. 
In our efforts to render the Cultivator worthy of the 
patronage it has received, no expense or labor has been 
or will be spared. As it is every where received as the 
exponent of the condition and prospects of Agriculture in 
the United States, we intend that every subject connected 
with that great interest in any part of our country shall 
receive its due share of notice, and its proper place in 
our columns. The Cultivator will be a record of all 
improvements in the science of Husbandry; of the in¬ 
troduction of new and important varieties of seeds and 
plants ; of the respective values and adaptation of the 
several improved breeds of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and 
Swine, to the different sections of the United States; in 
short it is intended to make it a work which shall in¬ 
terest, instruct and be acceptable to all. 
In the number, variety, and excellence of the Illus¬ 
trations, the Cultivator is without a rival, either at 
home or abroad. This department will be fully sus¬ 
tained, and increased interest and attraction given by a 
greater number of figures of American Animals, select¬ 
ed from our best specimens of all kinds, native and 
imported ; by the drawings of new Implements, Agri¬ 
cultural and Mechanical; and by engravings of such 
objects as will be better understood, when given with 
such illustrations. The engravings and illustrations of 
the present volume will be nearly equal to one hundred 
in number; and the satisfaction they have given our 
patrons, will secure their continuance, notwithstanding 
the great expense they necessarily occasion us. 
The sales of the Cultivator have been so great during 
the past year, and the demand for the back volumes as 
well as the current one so constant, that we have stereo* 
typed each number; and shall be able, now and hereaP 
ter, to furnish subscribers with whole sets, or any single 
volumes they may desire. 
To our personal friends, to the friends of Agriculture, 
to those Gentlemen who have acted as our Agents, to 
Postmasters generally throughout the country,—in short 
to all those who have so generously interested them¬ 
selves in our behalf, in bringing a knowledge of our 
work to the notice of their friends, and in obtaining 
subscribers, our most heartfelt and cordial thanks are 
due. While we have endeavored to make our terms 
such as to offer an adequate inducement and reward to 
those who are disposed from pecuniary motives to inte¬ 
rest themselves in our favor, we shall still be indebted to 
all who will in any way aid us in our efforts to make the 
Cultivator more generally useful, either by increasing 
its circulation or employing their pens for its columns. 
Our gratitude is especially due to those gentlemen 
whose numerous able and varied communications have 
given such an interest and value to our paper; and we 
are confident from their well known regard to the vital 
interests of American Husbandry, that our appeal to 
them for their farther aid, will not be in vain. We in¬ 
vite communications from all. There is scarcely a sub¬ 
ject in nature that is not more or less intimately con¬ 
nected with agriculture, and may not be made subser¬ 
vient to its advancement. 
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$5—the money to be remitted in advance, free of post¬ 
age. A commission of 20 per cent will be allowed to 
Agents who obtain 25 or more subscribers, and 25 per 
cent to those who obtain 100 or more. Ail subscriptions 
to commence with a volume. 
ENGRAVINGS FOR THE CULTIVATOR. 
We are gratified at the proofs we are receiving from 
various quarters, that our efforts in procuring figures of 
American animals, from herds or stocks of the most ap¬ 
proved kinds, is duly appreciated by our subscribers. 
We are determined to spare no expense in this respect, 
and shall make the Cultivator the Herd Book of Ameri¬ 
ca. One of the greatest difficulties is the obtaining good 
drawings, spirited and life-like, for the engraver. The 
value of the portraits depend on their correctness. 
Though we may have failed in this respect in some ca¬ 
ses, we can refer with pride to the portraits from the 
pencil of our correspondent “ R.” (the respected Presi¬ 
dent of the N. Y. State Ag. Society, Francis Rotch, 
Esq.) who is without a rival in this country, and who 
has, we are inclined to think, few rivals abroad in the 
skill of perfectly delineating an animal. Of this, those 
who examine the portraits of ‘ Oneida’ and ‘Dallimore,’ 
and the ‘ Merino Ewe’ in this paper, will feel the force 
and admit the justice. But Mr. Rotch has added vastly 
to the value of his pencil sketches, as correct represen¬ 
tations of living animals, by the sound and discrimina¬ 
ting views which characterize the remarks and descrip, 
tions he has attached to them. We hope, and we are 
sure our numerous readers will concur with us, that 
he will continue the series he has commenced with 
so much skill and taste, until our pages shall be graced 
with portraits from his pencil of all the valuable breeds 
of domestic animals, so many fine specimens of which 
are to be found among his own flocks and herds. 
TENNESSEE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The second annual meeting of this efficiently constitu¬ 
ted society took place at Nashville on the 13th of Oc¬ 
tober. Quite a number of the able and spirited mem¬ 
bers of the society were present, and a number of in¬ 
teresting reports on various subjects connected with ag¬ 
riculture were made. The Hon. E. Dillahunty ad¬ 
dressed the society on the necessity of a radical reform 
in the agriculture of Tennessee; and the President, Dr. 
John Shelby, delivered the annual address before that 
body. The subject was the true principles of breeding 
domestic animals, a topic which the scientific know¬ 
ledge and research of the writer, as well as his experi¬ 
ence in this branch of rural economy, well qualified 
him to discuss. 
At one of the sessions of the society, it was upon 
motion resolved that M. Mechand of Paris ; A. B. 
Allen of Buffalo, N. Y.; Luther Tucker of Albany, N. 
Y.; John S. Skinner and Gideon B. Smith of Baltimore, 
Md.; Edmund Ruffin of Petersburg, Va.; Hon. Henry 
Clay of Kentucky; and Hon. Isaac Hill of N. H., be 
elected honorary members of the Tennessee State Agri¬ 
cultural Society.” 
We thank the society for the honor thus conferred on 
ourselves, and beg leave to assure that respectable 
body, that they have our most cordial wishes for their 
entire success in the laudable purposes contemplated in 
their organization. 
