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VOL. I.

A Semi-Monthly Journal of Agriculture and Horticulture.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, JANUARY 1, 1845.

THE OHIO CULTIVATOR,

A SEMI-MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE, Horti-
CULTURE, DOMESTIC AND RURAL ECONOMY.

M. B. BATEHAM, EDITOR. Published on the 1st and 15th of each month. TERMS:-One dollar per year-When four or more sub scribers order together, only 75 cents each, (four copies for $3.) All payments to be made in advance, and all subscriptions to commence with the volume, as long as back POST MASTERS, and all friends of agriculture, are respectfully solicited to use their influence to obtain sub

numbers can be furnished.

scribers.

Money and subscriptions, by a regulation of the Post Master General, may always be remitted by Post Masters, to publishers, free of expense

PROSPECTUS

OF THE

OHIO CULTIVATOR,

A Semi-monthly Journal of Agriculture and Horticulture; Published at Columbus, Ohio, commencing January 1, 1845.

M. B. BATEHAM, EDITOR.

(Late Editor of the Genesee Farmer, Rochester, N. Y.) Assisted by numerous correspondents, Practical Farmers and Horticulturists, in Ohio and Western

New York.

may

NO. 1.

and rejoicing to millions in Europe, has com- handing the copy sent them to some person who
menced with rapid strides in portions of this wish to do so.
country, where light and intelligence is diffused
by agricultural publications. Will the FARMERS POST MASTERS are entitled to our sincere
OF OHIO, who ought to occupy the first rank, con- thanks for their universal kindness in forwarding
sent to remain behind the age, and not make one subscriptions &c. They will greatly oblige us by
effort to elevate their noble profession? Friends
of improvement! men of education and influ- showing this paper to such as may desire to see
ence! will you not lend your aid to this cause? it, and if any copies in their office are not called
Though you may not have a farm, or even a gar- for, they will please hand them to such persons
den to cultivate, your interests are concerned in as they think will be likely to subscribe. OB-
the promotion of agriculture. Take the Ohio
SERVE when ordering papers for subscribers to
Cultivator, then, and show it to your farming
neighbors, persuade them to read and to think, mention such as have received the first number,
as well as to labor; and you will soon have the so that we need not send it again.
satisfaction of seeing them become better farmers
and better neighbors.

The Editor deems it unnecessary to speak of

INTRODUCTORY.

AGRICULTURE, WHO ARE, OR WILL BE, PATRONS
OF THE OHIO CULTIVATOR.

his own qualifications for this enterprise. Having To THE TEN THOUSAND FARMERS AND FRIENDS OF
been, for five years past, engaged in conducting
a similar publication, which has numbered nearly
twenty thousand subscribers, and over three thou-
sand of them in Ohio, and having on several oc-
Give us a friendly shake of the, kind readers,
casions travelled through the State in various while we introduce ourself to your acquaintance
directions, to observe its agriculture, he trusts he as the Editor of the Ohio Cultivator. You have
is not a stranger to the farmers of Ohio, or un- read our "prospectus" in the preceding column?
qualified to be of service to them.-But it is not

so much upon his own judgment or abilities that-then we are already acquaintances. You have
he depends, as upon the contributions of more of course concluded to become one of our subscri-
experienced and practical writers, which (as will bers and readers ?-better still; now we are
be seen by the first number,) have been freely friends, and we hope shall remain such through
promised for the columns of the Ohio Cultivator,
and cannot fail to give it interest and value.

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the present year, not only, but that many a returning "happy new year's day," will afford us opportunities for renewing our pledges of regard.

TERMS-$1, per year-Four copies for $3. The Ohio Cultivator will aim to impart such knowledge of the principles and practice of im- The Cultivator will be issued on the first proved agriculture, as will enable farmers to in- and fifteenth of each month, commencing crease the value and productions of their lands, with January, 1845, in quarto form, (8 pages,) and obtain greater returns for their capital and making a large volume, with title Now, friends and patrons, give us your attenand index, labor. It will give descriptions of the different suitable for binding, at the end of the year. tion a moment, while we briefly define our respecbreeds of domestic animals, with remarks on their TERMS. For single subscribers, $1, but when tive duties as editor and patrons of this paper, and comparative value, their management, diseases, four or more order together, only 75 cents each; those who are unitedly engaged in a great and &c.; also, of improved agricultural implements, all payments to be made in advance, (to save aclabour saving inventions and machinery, farm counts and trouble in collecting,) and all subscrip- patriotic enterprise. The immortal WASHINGTON, buildings, fences, &c.; (frequently illustrated with tions to commence with the volume. All whose wisdom and patriotism has secured him engravings.) It will also encourage the forma- Postmasters and friends of improvement, are re- the title of the Father of his Country, said "he tion and support of Agricultural Societies through-quested to act as agents; and they will confer a out the State, notice their proceedings, and favor on the publishers, by sending orders as early afford a medium of communication, through which as possible, that they may judge what number to the friends of improvement may become known print. Address, to each other, and publish the results of theirM. B. BATEHAM & CO. Columbus, O. experiments, discoveries and plans of operation. Jan. 1, 1845. Particular pains will be taken to give the most correct reports of the markets and the crops, both of this country and England. And as the English provision trade is becoming one of great impor

Apology and Explanation.

knew of no way by which more important service could be rendered in any country than by improving its agriculture." This is the great object at which we aim-the improvement of the agriculture of this heaven favored country. It is a great and glorious work-worthy of our highest ambition-our united and untiring labors. ReadOur readers must not consider this number a ers, your claim to be Americans and patriots; and tance to the farmers of Ohio, arrangements have fair specimen of what the Ohio Cultivator is de-as such can you refuse to take some active part been made, through personal friends of the editor in England, for receiving by the steamships, the signed to be hereafter, especially in the character in this great work! While we promise faithfully latest intelligence on this subject, for each num- of its contents with reference to practical agri- to exert our best abilities as editor, will not you ber of the Cultivator. By these means, farmers culture. Being the first number of a new enter- as readers and farmers, (who are most to be benemay learn how to obtain better prices for their pro- prise, it is of course mainly occupied with articles fited,) encourage and sustain us by your co-operaductions, as well as to increase the quantity, and improve the quality thereof. of an introductory and general nature. The tion and support. We wish you to help us place As another means of promoting the interests editor has not had time to do it justice, owing to a lever under the great mass of minds composing and happiness of the rural population, the Ohio the multitude of matters relating to the publishing the farming population of this country, so that Cultivator will aim to diffuse more general taste department that have demanded his attention. the influence of our labors may tend to elevate for the pursuits and productions of HORTICULTURE -better knowledge of the value of a supply of The correspondents also, have naturally chosen and improve them. Go to your friends and neighfine fruits and vegetables for a family, and the to write congratulatory and theoretical, rather bors, and persuade them to subscribe for and read means of procuring them: and of the lasting than strictly practical articles, for the first number. the Ohio Cultivator, and they will soon begin to happiness that may result to parents and children, There will be more variety and utility hereafter. practice on the lessons of improvement it will by an increased attention to neatness and taste around our dwellings a little expense and labor devoted to making our HOMES ATTRACTIVE, and surrounding them with more of Nature's own We send this first number of the Ohio Cultivaornaments-trees, and shrubs, and flowers. Nature has evidently designed, that Ohio should tor to a large number of farmers and others, be the first and greatest agricultural State in the whose names are known to us, or furnished by Another way in which many of our readers can Union; and its farming population, already num- members of the Ohio Legislature. We hope do great service to the cause, and aid us in our bering nearly two millions, may be the most independent, prosperous, and happy, if they will only most of those to whom it is sent will approve of undertaking, is, to become correspondents and send AWAKE to their own interests. The march of im- our project and become subscribers; but those us the results of their experience and observaprovement, which has of late caused surprise who do not desire to subscribe, will oblige us by tions in farming, for the columns of the Ohio

HOW DO YOU LIKE IT!

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Cultivator. Do not imagine that because you are
a plain practical farmer, and never wrote a sen-
tence for publication in your life, that you cannot
be of service in this way. If you meet with any
facts or discoveries that you think it would be
profitable or interesting for your brother farmers
to know, you can and ought to make them known.
Write in just such language as you would use in
relating the matter to a practical farmer, and give
yourself no trouble about how it will appear in
print; we'll trim off the rough edges if necessary.
It will be seen that we are likely to have a num-
ber of valuable contributors from other States-
and some good ones are engaged in Ohio, but we
want and must have many more; say one or two
in every county if possible. There is little doubt,
but that postage on letters will be reduced to about
five cents each, during the present session of
Congress; then what a host of letters we shall
receive and write! And what a spirited and in-
teresting paper we shall be able to make!
Our Letters of Introduction--Friends and

respondents.

by any diminution of interest in your welfare; and
the consciousness that your exertions are identi-
fied with the Agricultural Improvement of the
country, induces many members of our State Soci-
ety, as well as myself, to bid you a hearty "God-
speed" on your way "westward," along with the
"star of empire."

Annexed you will find an official memento of
your services in this State, which it affords me
great pleasure to transmit to you in the name of
the Executive Committee of the New York State
Agricultural Society.
Yours, truly,

HENRY O'RIELLY.

[COPY.]

Albany, December, 1844.

The Executive Committee, being apprised by letter from Mr. Bateham, of his intended removal to another State, and of his consequent resignation as a member of this Society, adopted the following resolution :

Farmers first, mechanics next. They are the true nobility, the aristocracy, of this glorious country. A hard hand and brawny arms are the test, the only escutcheon and coat of arms that should be recognized or tolerated among us. They are allied to honest manly hearts, and when they, and they only, rule, the country will be safe, and the people happy and prosperous.

It is the proud province of agricultural papers to bring society round to its right direction-to place the farmer and the productive laborer in their true position, in the first ranks, and to teach them the dignity of labor, and the importance of their profession.

I enjoin it upon you, my dear sir, to spare no N. Y. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. pains to make the farmers and mechanics of Ohio stand forth in bold relief, as the firm supporters of their own true interest, and to begin at this early their suffrages who does not gain his livelihood by day to show that they regard no man worthy of some productive labor, and to spare no pains in educating their children so that they may be capable of filling any and every office in their gift.There are many bright examples all around you, and the public mind in your young State is in that state of fusion that the impression now made upon it will last through generations that will come long after you and I shall have ceased to be remembered.

Resolved, That this Committee deem it proper, on the retirement of Mr. Bateham from connexion with the State Society, in consequence of his inCor-tended location at Columbus, as Editor of an Agricultural journal at that place, to express in this manner the sense entertained of his active and useful labors among us as conductor of the "New Genesee Farmer" and otherwise, in promoting Agricultural Improvement.

As this number of the " Ohio Cultivator" is intended to be chiefly INTRODUCTORY, and will of course fall into the hands of many to whom the editor and proprietor is unknown, he trusts it will not be deemed improper for him to lay before the readers some of the testimonials he has recently received from distinguished friends of agriculture, to whom he is personally known, and who are best qualified to judge of the character of his former labors, and his qualifications for the present undertaking. The following letters will satisfy the public that this paper is no " catch penny" affair, got up merely to "raise the wind" by making large promises, and obtaining payments in advance, then discontinuing after a few months. They will also show that in its LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS, the OHIO CULTIVATOR will embrace an amount of talent, practical experience, respectability and influence which few papers of the kind can boast, and which cannot fail at once to give it a high character for talent and usefulness, and to secure for it the confidence and extensive patronage of the public.

We are aware that this sounds somewhat like boasting, and may render us liable to the charge of egotism, but when the reader has perused the following letters, we are sure he will forgive us; for with such honored veterans in the cause as J. S. Skinner, D. Thomas, H. L. Ellsworth, General Harmon, H. S. Randall, D. Lee, T. C. Peters, and a host of others, practical as well as scientific men, in Ohio and elsewhere, who avow themselves our friends and helpers, we feel that we have some RIGHT TO BOAST. With such an array of powerful aids, there cannot be the shadow of a doubt respecting the result of our enterprise-we shall, in the language of friend Skinner, "both DESERVE

In behalf of the Executive Committe,

JOHN P. BEEKMAN, Pres't.
HENRY O'RIELLY, Rec. Sec'y.

Letter from T. C. Peters,

(Late Prest of the Genesee Co. Ag. Society, and
Assistant Editor of the Genesee Farmer.)
ADVICE TO THE EDITOR AND READERS OF THE OHIO
CULTIVATOR-FOLLIES AND DUTIES OF FARM-
ERS, AND THEIR TRUE POSITION.
My Dear BATEHAM—

Your farewell note of yesterday, from the
Steamboat United States, did not reach me until
you were far off on the "dark blue" waters of our
favorite lake.

* *

The farmers must and will sustain you, and you in turn must do your duty to them without fear or favor, but with the hope and fruition of reward. I know you will make a valuable paper, and I hope it will prove successful.

I had intended to give you my notions about
some of the detail in farming, but have already
taken up so much space on another subject, that
I have not room. I will write to you, or for you,
as often as I can, and I hope to make the acquain-

tance of half the readers and all the farmers in
Ohio.

Wishing you all manner of success, even to
finding a good wife,

I am, most sincerely, Your friend,
T. C. PETERS.
DARIEN, Genesee co., N. Y., Dec. 6, 1844.
["A hit! a palpable hit," is that closing sentence
of yours, friend PETERS. We owe you one for
that, and will pay you with an invitation to our
wedding as soon as we find "all manner of suc-
cess" sufficient to warrant such a movement.-
We are young yet, remember!—ED.]

Letter from Gen. R. Harmon,
(President of the Monroe co., and Vice President of
the N. Y. State Agricultural Societies.)
WHEATLAND, Dec. 15, 1844.

Old Genesee country," especially after our names I am sorry, very sorry, that you have left the have kept company a whole year in the pleasant companionship of editors. Still I am no wise sure that I am as sorry as I might be. I shall be sure should I ever travel in that direction. Then, too, to have a good friend in an unknown country, not seeing you so often will give all the more zest to your letters, and your new paper will be a sort of exemplification of yourself-for, after all, yours to the various communications, and articles, that M. B. BATEHAM, ESQ., must be the master mind to give shape and force go to make up the whole of a good paper. Dear Sir-It was with much regret that There is not a State in the Union so well situa- I read in the last number of the Genesee Farmer ted for Agriculture in all its branches as Ohio, and the announcement that your services, which have none that should devote more to sustain its great been so valuable in the promotion of Agriculture interest, by giving a free and generous support to and Horticulture in Western New York for the Agricultural papers. One agricultural press is last ten years, are about to be transferred to anoworth as much to the people as ten political pa- ther State. I believe, however, that what is our pers, and yet there are ten, yes, twenty, political loss will be a great gain to the people of Ohio.papers to one devoted to agriculture. The conse- The fund of information that you possess cannot quences are, that hundreds of farmers are paying fail to give interest and value to the "Ohio Cultia set of fellows to keep them constantly in a fer- vator," and make it the means of great usefulness ment. A demagogue comes along and gives no- to the Farmers of the West. tice that he is going to make a political speech, I am now taking three agricultural papers, but and the whole community is in motion. Proces- I want you to send me the Ohio Cultivator, for I sions are gotten up, bearing badges, music, and am not willing that our long and pleasant acperhaps big guns and little guns are brought forth, quaintance should now terminate. I may, as and every body turns out to hear a repetition of heretofore, occasionally claim a small space in the slang and slanders they have been reading your columns. for perhaps the last year, and they go home without one particle of useful information having been imparted to them. Their passions are inflamed, and they are ready to quarrel with the first man they meet if he happens to differ from them in Dear Sir-Your letter and Prospectus, an- politics, though he may be their next neighbor.nouncing your withdrawal from this State, and Let some mountebank come along, with a cat that your proposed publication in Ohio, were received has nine tails, a horse with his tail where his head R. HARMON. with mingled sensations of regret and satisfaction should be, and he will be sure to fill his pockets P. S.-In the last number of the "Farmer" you -regret at your departure from a State which has out of the credulity and wonder of his victims.- stated that I had procured a score or more of Pauprofited by your enlightened labors, and satisfac-But let some man put up his advertisements that lar Merino sheep from Vermont. I purchased tion that a wider field for enterprise now invites he is to lecture on that first and most important from S. W. Jewett, Esq., eighty-two pure Paulars, your efforts for Agricultural Improvement. of all employments, and ten chances to one he consisting of rams, ewes and lambs. (I have sold Your withdrawal from this State is not followed will talk to empty benches. nearly 20 of the rams at about $15 each.) This

and COMMAND SUCCESS."

Letter from Henry O'Rielly, Esq, Secretary N. Y. State Agricultural Society. NEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL HALL, Albany, December, 1844.

M. B. BATEHAM, Esq.,

At a meeting of our Monroe Co. Agricultural
Society, just held at Rochester, a resolution was
unanimously adopted in commendation of your
services as an officer of the Society, editor, &c.,
and wishing you "God speed" in your new field of
labor. (The published proceedings will be sent
you.)
Respectfully yours,

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